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1 hour ago, flying_carpet said:

I particularly liked this one, where a quadrotor was simulated in X-Plane obtaining an all around accuracy of 92% compared to real flight tests, which is very good!

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17 hours ago, Murmur said:

I particularly liked this one, where a quadrotor was simulated in X-Plane obtaining an all around accuracy of 92% compared to real flight tests, which is very good!

WHAT???? Only 92%??? That's really bad. Universities are pretty satisfied with such low results?? Home users of (some 😉) "so called" 😄 flight simulators expect minimum 99.x% accuracy and they get it ... (NOT). At least they think, they get it, due to some (admittedly) clever marketing tricks (i.e. photogrammetry, warm scenery colors, clear view until the horizon, ..., you name it).

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On 8/2/2025 at 5:11 PM, flying_carpet said:

WHAT???? Only 92%??? That's really bad. Universities are pretty satisfied with such low results?? Home users of (some 😉) "so called" 😄 flight simulators expect minimum 99.x% accuracy and they get it ... (NOT).

I remember an incident from FSX times. A customer wanted to return his aircraft because it wasn't realistic enough. When asked for the exact reason, he stated that he had made a flight from A to B and had flown exactly the same route as a real flight (tracked on flightradar24), but had arrived 5 minutes later. SMH.

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On 8/3/2025 at 8:05 PM, uwespeed said:

I remember an incident from FSX times. A customer wanted to return his aircraft because it wasn't realistic enough. When asked for the exact reason, he stated that he had made a flight from A to B and had flown exactly the same route as a real flight (tracked on flightradar24), but had arrived 5 minutes later. SMH.

Wow, and I already felt bad refunding an aircraft because it cut my FPS in half without a chance for relief...

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13 minutes ago, Bjoern said:

Wow, and I already felt bad refunding an aircraft because it cut my FPS in half without a chance for relief...

THAT is a really good reason, but to judge a 5-minute delay as ‘indisputable’ in view of the numerous parameters that play a role in such a flight says a lot about the (non-existent) technical understanding of that mentioned guy.

My sceneries (excerpt): LPMA Madeira (XPFR), LGSR Santorini, LRBV Brasov, the city of Fürth (Germany), several libraries, ...

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