April 8, 20242 yr Share your thoughts and plans here. Me, I’m going to try to keep in the path of totality as much as possible. Don’t know if the sim will recreate totality but it does present eclipses. -B Edited April 8, 20242 yr by btacon
April 8, 20242 yr 19 minutes ago, btacon said: Share your thoughts and plans here. Me, I’m going to try to keep in the path of totality as much as possible. Don’t know if the sim will recreate totality but it does present eclipses. -B IIRC someone tried shortly ago (setting the date on today) and there was no totality, not even a glimpse of darkness. For transparency: I'm a community mentor at the BATC discord. However, I do not get paid for it in any way.
April 8, 20242 yr I shall Land at RussellVille Municipal at 18:45 Z and park up Blimey, the world map representation of the area is completely wrong Edited April 8, 20242 yr by Lonesome Cowboy Burt
April 8, 20242 yr 46 minutes ago, btacon said: Don’t know if the sim will recreate totality but it does present eclipses. -B It doesn't recreate totality. Pico Neo3 Link VR - Windows 11 64bit, Gigabyte Z590 Aorus Elite Mobo, i7-10700KF CPU, Gigabyte RX 9070 XT OC 16gb (AMD GPU), 32gig Corsair 3600mhz RAM, SSD x2 + M.2 SSD 1tb x1 Saitek X45 HOTAS - Saitek Pro Rudder Pedals - Logitech Flight Yoke - Homemade 3 Button & 8-directional Joystick Box, SNES Controller (used as a Button Box - Additional USB Numpad (used as a Button Box)
April 8, 20242 yr 15 minutes ago, MarcG said: It doesn't recreate totality. Oh, how disappointing, oh well I hope you guys who actually live over that way get clear skies, I've only experienced one total eclipse and it was awesome in a slightly creepy way...especially when all the birds stopped singing
April 8, 20242 yr Might be helpful for some: The eclipse has just started in Mazatlan on the west coast of Mexico! Kind Regards, Peter
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April 8, 20242 yr Author Thanks Antonov22 for the path map. You’re correct, very useful! -B PS. Bummer about totality
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April 8, 20242 yr In 2020 in MFS 2020: Real Solar Eclipse (14/12/2020) in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 seen from Argentina (youtube.com) Edited April 8, 20242 yr by jcomm Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
April 8, 20242 yr https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/future-eclipses/eclipse-2024/where-when/ Just flew into the correct area, as MarcG said......doesnt show totality in sim, just a sort of crescent about 2/3 - 3/4 eclipse Lots of Simmers in the area, lol Edited April 8, 20242 yr by Lonesome Cowboy Burt
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