jalexb88

Have you guys heard of Project Apollo/NASSP? Its an open-source project for Orbiter 2010, which currently has a near full implementation of the CSM instrument panels, requiring the original NASA checklists to operate. The project is based on "Virtual AGC" which is an emulation of the actual Apollo Guidance Computer, so you are basically running the actual flown guidance software within the simulation. http://nassp.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main_Page http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/

So if I understand correctly, they're charging 20$ for a quality downgrade! Alex

Could be some some sort of probability type event. You have a tail strike, then you have an x chance of getting a decompression, but not every time. Just a speculation. Alex

Yeah the issue is not limited to sim flying, I keep telling my airline to upgarde our FMS to a 64 bit OS. Alex

AC Express Alex

From a real world perspective, most of the Q400's at my airline have an empty weight above 40000. The last one I flew was at 40124. Alex

Oh the many messes Ive made in the past haha, but yeah its an incredible weather simulation to say the least. Alex

ASN is awesome. Cloud popping is virtually impossible because of the way they gradually appear over a period of a few minutes I believe. Makes for some very smooth transitions and you see the weather in the distance as it approaches, no sudden changes out of nowhere. Alex

My next sim will be Aerowinx Precision Simulator 10 (PSX) due out soon: http://www.simflight.com/2013/11/08/psx-aerowinx-747-400-final-works/ Alex

I fly the Q for a canadian operator. It is certainly a very suprising aircraft in terms of performance but make no mistake it is not a jet. She will climb really well and she is pretty fast, but you can't do both at the same time like you can do in a jet, especially up in FL's. That being said, dropping the nose to around 4-5 degrees in pitch hold as stated above can give you up to 240 knots to around 15000 while doing a good 1500 fpm. Up in the 20k's your speed will decay to 210-200. Alex

A 767 would be awesome! I would love to see a 727 or a 747-200 aswell, but as said above PMDG want to go where the money is and these older aircraft are probably not the best option from a economics point of view. With that in mind I think they should go for a CRJ-900 or EMB 190 type aircraft. No one has made a PMDG level CRJ yet and it is quite a popular aircraft so I would imagne it being very profitable. Alex

And yet apparently FSX is a dying breed. :rolleyes: Alex

I'm sorry but what is wrong with the cockpit window height that needs fixing? Alex

OMG it has a 2D panel

I'm a real Q400 F/O and I'd just like to add that the real Q is a handful to rudder trim, every pitch change, power change requires rudder trim. Aileron trim is very rarely used. The brand new aircraft we have at my airline already has paint coming off the rudder trim knob from heavy use. I can see however that it is very cumbersome to always do this in the sim. Alex