Reserve judgment on the motion cam change - need to try a variety of aircraft. Initial impression is on ground motion change needs to be dampned by about 50% - too sensitive or in other words the response is too fast. Certainly got some bumps at one runway on takeoff not noticed before as to Inflight hard to say. I think it shows up mechanical wear or the jumpy response in my joystick now as well. New stick required me thinks!

Overall I get much improved FPS probably about 50% increase so my start port had dropped back to 24 with something heavy with scripts and weather but now is back up to 60FPS. Why that has happened not sure. Cannot comment on the texture swapping - need to put the BN2 into Barra I guess. Still have not done the Carribbean from the last update!. Did pick up on another texture swapping trick which is wet surfaces. Rest of the sim runs smoothly and looks good. No model addons have done anything unusual - yet!

Dropped the only weather modifier I had which was Live Traffics metar subsitution - it did not play with the system weather setting well and so now only LR weather feed seems to be fine by me. 

Might even have a look at their new lessons and see as a former RW Instructor whether it does the job well. That is - is correct flying and operational technique along with the rules of the air being applied and in a manner that can be absorbed, understood and replicated. 

15 minutes ago, coastaldriver said:

Might even have a look at their new lessons and see as a former RW Instructor whether it does the job well. That is - is correct flying and operational technique along with the rules of the air being applied and in a manner that can be absorbed, understood and replicated. 

I would be interested to hear your perspective on the lessons. 

34 minutes ago, coastaldriver said:

Overall I get much improved FPS probably about 50% increase so my start port had dropped back to 24 with something heavy with scripts and weather but now is back up to 60FPS. Why that has happened not sure.

I know someone who will be pleased about that 😅 @Janov

I think the cam thing is good idea by the way and I will keep it ON but it raised the old control and sensitivities calibration issue for me - basically I am going to have to put together profiles for all the sim models not just try and stick with a universal set. Case in point. Learjet was very sensitive on ground but real aeroplane had weird nose wheel steering anyway, C172 was ok but braking pitch changes too fast. DC-3 or C-47 was fine on the ground and actually quite good but overly sensitive in flight particularly in the yaw plane. So looked at models with GW of 13000 lbs, 2000 lbs and 30000 pounds, tricycle and tailwheel, hard and dirt surfaces. Heavies not looked at leave that for later. 

Going to have a look at the lessons later today If I can subsitute the aircraft for say a C172 then it will probably be ok but If I cannot then they have missed the point of putting a generic lesson up to use!

Ground textures somehow seem better or increased definition. Dirt, gravel and hard runways were all ok!

did they updated LOWS  or just the city ?  

I ask because I have the DD Design version installed 

11 hours ago, JonathanC said:

I would be interested to hear your perspective on the lessons. 

There is a separate thread on the lessons now. I made a comment there but will amplify here. The crux of teaching or shall we say learning to fly is the basis that Power+Attitude=Performance - what aeroplane it is does not matter it is the same process! So getting used to flight and control manipulation is to develop the mindset, knowledge and skills to operate a machine in 3 dimensions. Those who have flown real aeroplanes will recall that there was a lot of repetition and you were constantly reminded to keep your head outside the cockpit to look at the attitudes, climbing, turning, descending, straight and level etc etc. There it and the sim part company because really the lessons are about getting used to the sim not learning to fly but getting used to applying some knowledge and techniques from RW flight to a PC based simulator. I give LR points for enthusiasm for flight and the sim but it is not a structured format that would lead to proper skill development - thats all really. 

3 hours ago, coastaldriver said:

There it and the sim part company because really the lessons are about getting used to the sim not learning to fly but getting used to applying some knowledge and techniques from RW flight to a PC based simulator.

Fair enough, that works for me. I'm not expecting real world quality that costs hundreds of $/hour from this, just learn more about flying a sim plane better, and enjoying the feeling of flight sim better. 

Thanks for your opinion, good to know that at least it's not "bad" teaching. 

Edited January 26, 20251 yr by JonathanC

Tried the motion camera yesterday with headtracking and found it okay. Adds a bit of aircraft feeedback to bumps, but nothing to write home about.

On 1/27/2025 at 3:27 AM, Bjoern said:

Tried the motion camera yesterday with headtracking and found it okay. Adds a bit of aircraft feeedback to bumps, but nothing to write home about.

Yes interesting and why not use it. I find the response is quite variable from addon to addon, heavy to light, sometimes it is in flight mode sometimes when on the ground that some bounce or new responses show up - curious. It does tinker with your on screen perception of momentum but appears to be not mass responsive which is curious given the reality of aerodynamics. In a light chop or turbulence it can make VC control manipulation troublesome but hey just watched a video of a RW 747 doing an approach into Anchorage in turbulence - same problem co pilot could not get a good handle on a speed change dial on the AP glareshield and the Captain did it! So yes it is realistic in that regard. Even a 747 can rock n roll in turbulence.

Edited January 29, 20251 yr by coastaldriver

On 1/26/2025 at 5:27 PM, Bjoern said:

Tried the motion camera yesterday with headtracking and found it okay. Adds a bit of aircraft feeedback to bumps, but nothing to write home about.

Well, in a nutshell it does what it is supposed to do. In a real plane your head will move a bit with each acceleration (x/y/z-axis). That‘s exactly what this cam is simulating. That‘s why it improved the immersion. What were your expectation of that cam?

20 hours ago, coastaldriver said:

I find the response is quite variable from addon to addon, heavy to light, sometimes it is in flight mode sometimes when on the ground that some bounce or new responses show up - curious.

On the ground, I guess bumpiness depends on the landing gear's response to the ground. If the shock absorbers are rather stiff, you're likely to get more disturbances when taxiing.

 

2 hours ago, Franz007 said:

What were your expectation of that cam?

Not much, that's why I'm neither disappointed nor overly impressed. I count that as a win for Laminar because it neither annoys me or draws me in so much that makes me forget to fly the aircraft. Just a subtle addition.

1 hour ago, Bjoern said:

On the ground, I guess bumpiness depends on the landing gear's response to the ground. If the shock absorbers are rather stiff, you're likely to get more disturbances when taxiing.

There is discussion about doing something with ground bumpiness. WED already has a roughness slot but its not implemented. I guess this camera brought that into the limelight since it really had no effect before.

On 1/25/2025 at 2:18 PM, efis007 said:

The only great cool is that it can be disabled.

I've did my first flight, using this new camera and found it a great new feature!