P3D v4.1 official release date announced - Oct 10th

[scottb613 1,188]

1 hour ago, tooting said:

Come work for a huge company You'll hear this drum beating all the time when they are trying to generate sales and revenue before a sale launch 

Me and my colleagues call Mondays buzz word day as all the bosses will say "moving forward"  Or "double down" Or "Lets get proactive"  at least 20 times on a Monday.

And after sorting out pilots and cabin crew for 10+ years it's like working for the samaritans when you delay flights because the caterer only had diet coke and not full fat coke and no quavers in the crew trolley...

 

Hah - right out of Dilbert...

Regards,
Scott

[Chock 17,769]

1 hour ago, tooting said:

Me and my colleagues call Mondays buzz word day as all the bosses will say "moving forward"  Or "double down" Or "Lets get proactive"  at least 20 times on a Monday.

We used to call those buzz phrases 'w*** words', which is crude I know, but it pretty much sums them up, so there you go. We even invented a game, which we called 'w*** word bingo', for which we actually created bingo cards with those phrases on, so we could take them into boring pointless meetings and see who would win as we surreptitiously filled them in under the desk as an aid to prevent us falling asleep.

We even invented some of those phrases ourselves just to take the mickey, which we would say in meetings at inappropriate/appropriate junctures; the hilarious thing was, we'd have all those suits who were into that nonsense nodding and agreeing when we said our new ridiculous invented buzz phrases, many of which made absolutely no sense whatsoever. Those idiots would be so afraid of being out of the loop as far as buzz phrases were concerned, that rather than saying 'what the hell are you on about?' they'd simply nod and enthusiastically agree regardless of how preposterous or inappropriate our new made up buzz phases were.

And the funniest part of it all, is that we've seen some of those stupid phrases we invented actually make it into popular use and heard them being used in all seriousness by those plonkers, among them 'let's take this all the way to the thirteenth floor', 'let's test the kevlar on this baby' and 'we need clear sky thinking on this one', these, and many more, were all made up by us to take the mickey at those meetings, and I'd put money on some of you lot having heard that claptrap we invented being used at similar meetings where useless marketing staff are in attendance.

Try it yourself if you are ever at one of those stupid meetings, it's hilarious. For extra points, you can even make up stupid 'pseudo latin' quotes and throw those in there to make yourself look super intelligent, and I can guarantee nobody will have the nerve to say, 'what does that mean?' they'll all just nod sagely and pretend they understand. Or 'Vade et caca in pilleum et ipse traheatur super aures tuo' as they say.

[Nyxx 6,993]

Enjoyed that Alan, it was funny and sad but you know what I mean.

[ErichB 3,643]

1 hour ago, tooting said:

Pilots,  there more princess than jasmine in Aladdin 

Does a King not trump a princess, Pete King?

 

[fluffyflops 1,858]

2 hours ago, Nyxx said:

I agree about VR and coding Pete.

OMG at Pilots, that's sad.

If ever you get the chance to visit "h89 occ " at easyJet,  "waterside crew control " at ba or "iocc at Virgin" and ask to listen in for an hour to the calls from the crew you will be for a surprise. Its an eye opener.

We had a ground safety report filed by a training captain last month because we changed a crew hotel in one of our destinations (as the normal one was full)

The safety report was because the hotel couldn't do eggs at breakfast at 0530am 

It's heartbreaking 

[ErichB 3,643]

8 minutes ago, tooting said:

If ever you get the chance to visit "h89 occ " at easyJet,  "waterside crew control " at ba or "iocc at Virgin" and ask to listen in for an hour to the calls from the crew you will be for a surprise. Its an eye opener.

We had a ground safety report filed by a training captain last month because we changed a crew hotel in one of our destinations (as the normal one was full)

The safety report was because the hotel couldn't do eggs at breakfast at 0530am 

It's heartbreaking 

To be honest, that's not a pilot issue.  It's a management issue for allowing them to do it.    Company policy should dictate what is allowable or not. Whoever did that, was clearly having a laugh because he knew he could get away with it.

[fluffyflops 1,858]

Back to topic..

I just had a browse on their forumn. (not been on it for ages)

Maybe they should spent more time and money on the P3D forumn there's topics that have been sitting there 4 days.  

[EGLD 439]

10 hours ago, tgcbraun said:

Also very happy for the VR improvements!

what improvements though, they've provided literally nothing of substance

[captain420 3,099]

VR? Really? They should focus on optimizations and performance first. Such as the dynamic lighting, autogen popups, blurry photo textures. Perhaps VR is the future and all, but it needs to have a strong foundation first.

[warbirds 555]

32 minutes ago, captain420 said:

VR? Really? They should focus on optimizations and performance first. Such as the dynamic lighting, autogen popups, blurry photo textures. Perhaps VR is the future and all, but it needs to have a strong foundation first.

I am happy that they have the vision to see what is coming and fully support it. 

[GSalden 4,657]

Here the interview :

http://www.pcpilot.net/2017/09/27/prepar3d-v4-1-announced/

[GCBraun 2,392]

12 hours ago, EGLD said:

what improvements though, they've provided literally nothing of substance

Well VR sort of kinda works already! I have been using it since release date. The problem is that is needs some tweaks and external software to be really usable. I would take any improvements gladly, but, at the bare minimum, I expect that they will fix the cross-eyed mouse pointer and ASW/FPS issues. 

[swiesma 625]

I am not looking forward to 4.1

 

4.1 means for me: I finally have to get the FSL A320. And if the dream of the 787 comes true, this is gonna be a very hard time for my credit card. And IF the iPhone X will be available too - good night credit score :-(

[ErichB 3,643]

33 minutes ago, swiesma said:

I am not looking forward to 4.1

 

4.1 means for me: I finally have to get the FSL A320. And if the dream of the 787 comes true, this is gonna be a very hard time for my credit card. And IF the iPhone X will be available too - good night credit score :-(

And IF you have a wife/partner, God help you.  

[JoeFackel 760]

I fail to see the connection between iPhone X and Flightsimming so this can't be a problem.