NoahBryant

To those of you who enjoy Shade:I purchased it when it was announced and do like it. I cannot though, for the life of me, understand the user interface. I have no idea how to set it up, what to change or how to change it. One of my dusk colors makes the sky a neon pink that looks so bad, it's turned into a deal breaker for me and I won't use shade anymore. I know the application is good but I don't see why it has to be so difficult to use.Can someone please help me set up a good looking set of textures? I don't care about fine tuning them, I just want to have a nice big set loaded and forget about it.Yes I read the manual and it hasn't helped me get rid of Pinky.

The answer to that is...FSX...Or X-Plane 13 or flying lessons... whatver is available in the 8+ years it will be before she's at a point she can understand all the stuff you're talking about. Flight WILL improve. There is absolutely no question about it. Will it improve to the point where a simmer such as yourself will enjoy it? I doubt it, but all simmers aren't like you. Flight isn't a, "loss." Taking away FSX would be a loss. Flight is just something different. For some it's a gain, but if I understand the english language, a loss is when you lose something you had. You have FSX and will continue to enjoy it. The same could be said about X-Plane even. :)Here are my thoughts about Flight itself.What it does, it does very well. If you wander over to the ORBX forum you will see all kinds of people who enjoying flying low and slow over smaller, well designed areas in GA planes. A person who likes that will love flight. Well...when there are more areas and planes to choose from they will.If you like to fly PMDG planes on VATSIM from continent to continet then obviously, Flight is not for you. So don't get it. When a company comes out with a product that I'm not interested in because it doesn't offer somehting that I think I would enjoy, I don't start screaming bloody murder about it. I simply just don't buy it and get on with the things I do enjoy.Personally, I like Flight when I take it for what it is. Sometimes I want a break from hours of writing monotanous computer code but I'm not in the mood to fly a "real" flight such as with VATSIM/flight planning etc. Then I will load up Flight and do some silly mission or whatever, just to relax, maybe even with drink in hand.

When you load up at an airport, FS loads all the scenery and textures you need. But as you take off and fly, it has to read the data for the area coming up, obtain the scenery textures, process them, then send them to your video card.Do you by any chance have a slow hard drive? Like less than 7200 RPM? You could also try a disk defrag too, that may help a little.Also, try turning autogen completely off and see if that helps you any.

Like many of you, I consider myself a hard core simmer. I love everything about FSX coupled with the great add-ons that we all love. I have been enjoying flight simulation for more of my life than I haven't.Flight simulation led me to VATSIM which was a whole new world for me. I began to learn far more about navigation than then simply following VOR to VOR like I had been until then. I learned about the FARs, communication, procedure, everything. I ate it all up and craved more.Once my starvation for learning grew again I became a VATSIM controller, challenging myself in new ways. I learned the rules associated with pushing tin, even more about navigation and quickly worked my way up and, just like in all other aspects of my life, I knew I had to teach.I started teaching VATSIM controllers my passion and passing things on to them, I believe that a person can never truly know something until they teach it to others.I then became a real world private pilot. Using all the things I had learned to this point and applying it to the real thing. Coupled with the great instruction from my flight instructor I quickly progressed through my flight training, even teaching him a thing or two that he didn't know.Unfortunately, I had no one to share my passion with. The only friends I had were all from work - and none remotely cared about flying and the concept of flight simulation or VATSIM was more lost on them than simulating growing shrubs. I once mentioned what I do to someone I was ridiculed and actually got made fun of for it for months.My wife is wonderful, but she practically has to be sedated to go on an airliner let alone a Cessna, and has nearly the same feelings about simulation but at least she loves me for my quirky passion. Ditto family, I'm an only child and no one else in family would be remotely interested. My career path took me instantly away from friends I went to school with as well.But....I do have a child.My little girl loves planes and thinks of me like what I'm sure any five year old would think of a daddy that can fly a plane. She has all the airplane books she can find, toy airplanes, and even a little Co-Pilot shirt that sadly doesn't fit anymore.When I use FS, she would run and put on her copilot shirt, grab my David Clarks and sit next to me, pretending in the way only children can. I would fly my airliner and point out what button to press in the on-screen cockpit. She would press the control, while I time the mouse click just right for her to think she did it. Eventually she got so good that I could say, "Gear down", and she would know which lever to pull while I stealthily hit the G key.This was when she was 3-4 years old. Now she's 5 and into Hannah Montana, iCarly and whatever else she can come up with. She's too old for the press-the-screen game and the too-small Co-Pilot shirt is hidden away somewhere where it won't be thrown away. Ever.About a month and a half ago, I was invited, along with practically everyone, to "beta test" MS Flight. Not expecting much, I loaded it up and got about what I expected. The visuals were great, performance great. Sounds and flight dynamics were as best as I could tell, but I daresay I've yet to fly a bi-plane.I got coins, flew that mission where you have to get that little plane-car thing up to the astronomical telescopes and quickly lost interest.But then I was given something that I never expected. My little girl wanted to see what I was playing and came over to check it out. I told her it was another flying game and we were flying around Hawaii. She likes Hawaii and asked to play too. She started flying but this time, she actually got it. She didnt just turn the yoke expecting it to work like a car anymore. She got used to banked turns. I taught her about using the throttle to accelerate and slow down, I taught her about taking off and landing.Pretty soon she could do it herself. She knew when to rotate by looking at the airspeed, she knew to retract the gear once she was in the air. She knew not to let the airspeed drop or else it would stall. She learned about landing. She learned that If I told her to descend, she simply reduced power instead of just pushing the yoke down.It was wonderful.Now we regularly play Flight, and look forward to the full version which I am downloading now. I can't say I know how long her interest will last but anyone that has kids knows it can stop in a heartbeat. You better believe I'm going to let it ride as long as I can.No you know why you will never her me utter a word against Flight.Thanks for reading.

Chris - Good video. I really look forward to watching these. I consider myself in the group of people that will probably buy it when it's finished. The quality of work is top notch. Have you put any consideration into selling them individually?Even knowing that I would spend far more money on them individually than purchasing the whole package at once, I would still start buying them today and watching them.I think you have yourself a fairly large group of people who are reluctant to purchase anything until it is done. The worry though is depending on when these sections are available completely, a lot of people may have lost interest in the NG by then. Just a friendly suggestion/request - if you offered that I'd start buying them immediately.

You will also see RNAV or GPS approaches in general aviation into smaller airports or at pilots request. The larger airports (those with Towers and bigger) will typically default to ILS just because it's more likely that a plane will be ILS capable then it will be GPS capable.

Jim has posted some very good recommendations. In a nutshell, you're going to have to start with your settings almost as low as possible and see if it looks okay. There's a good chance even then it won't look good. You're computer is, without a doubt, the problem though. FSX is very CPU dependent, meaning even if you were able to put the best possible video card on your computer right now(which isn't technically possible) it would still not perform much better.

What happens if you pause the flight right there and wait maybe a minute or so? Does it ever get better? To me, it appears to be clearly "the blurries," but even with an older system like yours, I would expect for the detail to fill in eventually if you sit there paused.It's showing the correct textures there, just the very un-detailed version of them.

It had noting to do with agreeing with anything or not it all came down to respect and common sense. Flight became the, "politics," of our community where some people were viewing their own opinion as absolute fact and they got it on their head that anyone who disagreed with them needed to be set straight. Just like you see with many political movements on either side of issues, you get some groups who do the same thing or they completely distort small facts to mean whatever they want them to mean, which was also happening in the flight forum.The same thing happened with xplane vs FS but luckily that's seemed to have died away.

I like this and have been using the up buttons since I saw them, I'm also glad the down button works now too. I really hope we start seeing fewer posts that simply say +1. Especially when someone quotes 8 paragraphs and 4 screenshots to say it, lol. I think it will also help to point out the trolls to people. I hate when you take the time to respond to someone asking a question only to find out they are simply a troll or have an ax to grind.

I agree but there licensing and copyright issues to think about. I've always thought that an iPad version of the manuals and checklists would be really cool but even PMDG themselves couldn't do it without paying Boeing a lot of money. There's a reason those manuals are expensive and it ain't just the paper.In fact, wouldn't it be awesome if the PMDG developed the 777 EFB as a tablet app?

The plane "creates" it's own glide slope based on the nav data it receives so there is a GS to follow, just not the same kind as with an ILS.And again - try to get out of the frame of find about thinking about vertical speed in an approach - it doesn't tell you anything important unless it says something like -2000 which means you're in a bad spot, lol. Watch your speed always and your altimeter/nav instruments/heading etc until you can see the airport. Once you see the airport your eyes are your navigation and you just need to maintain the correct airspeed.Let's say you were a bit high - then you would need a slightly higher descent rate to line back up with the GS. Well the VS gauge isn't telling you this it's your eyeballs/altimeter/GS. What your VS winds up being is inconsequential.Also you're pitching for speed and using throttle for altitude so if you're slightly high, you're not pushing the nose down but you're slightly decreasing the throttle. This will (assuming you're trimmed) cause the plane to descend slightly faster to maintain the correct speed. Once you're approaching the correct altitude slowly add a little more power for the opposite effect.