jeroen79

What do you mean by this? What do ethics have to do with flight simulation? Hmm, how would you organize that? I'm sure that there have been wishlist-topics before. In my opinion the most important thing would be that the simulation is designed as a platform that is open to other developers who can expand the sim.

Instead of potentiometers you could use rotary encoders for the FCU. These can rotate an infinite amount while potentiometers can only rotate a fixed range.

They are victims too. Not only did they lose their son, their son also killed 150 people.

Are you talking about real life or the simulator? In real life the goal is to get from A to B in the safest and most efficient manner and automation contributes to that. Challenging the pilots' manliness is not a goal. Knowing how the automation works and keeping up with it during the flight does take skill. In the sim you can do whatever you like. If you don't like to watch the automation for 8 hours then don't fly 'long haul' or use time compression.

Just wondering, couldn't modern jets do the W/B automatically? If you install weightsensors in the landing gear then it can sense how much weight there is and how it is distributed.

Should that be an objection?If you already regularly spend time on flightsimming then it wouldn't matter if that time is spent on several flights with no relation to eachother or a big journey of many flights. Anyway, good luck with it.

It is an english document. Page 182 (of the pdf) has a desription of the PVD.

Those are PVDs, or ParaVisual Displays. The idea is that you don't 'read' them by looking at them directly but that youkeep them in your periferal vision so that you stay aware of it's movement. In the video you can see that they turn on at touchdown and start moving when the aircraft turns off the runway centerline. In good visibility the pilot can keep the aircraft on the runway centerline by observing the runway with his periferal vision (just like you keep a car on the road by looking ahead). In a low visibility situation like in the video he cannot view the runway and the PVD will act as a substitute. Go to page 182.

You mean set the altitude with the autopilot? Depending on which addon you installed it may not have an altitude setting on it's autopilot. In that case elevator(trim) and power will control altitude.

At what altitude does this happen? What airspeed and rate of climb are you trying to hold? What are the manifold pressure and RPM doing? Did you lean out the mixture as you climb? Did you try carburetor heat and pitot heat? Doe sit happen with other aircraft?

Attitude and flightpath are not the same thing. The former is where the plane is pointed, the latter is where it is going. The difference between the two is the angle of attack (AOA) and this varies with airspeed, altitude, weight, Gload and flapsetting. If you point the nose at the horizon and there is a positive AOA then the flightpath will be pointing below the horizon, ie a descent. To maintain altitude you look at the altimeter and vertical speed indicator. You can then use the attitude indicator to adjust the attitude as necessary. There is no specific attitude to fly at, whatever attitude gives you your desired flightpath is the right attitude.

To what extent do autopilot pitch modes and autothrottle modes interfere with eachother?

The fsdeveloper.com domain does not resolve to an ip address. A whois for the domain says that it's status is 'client hold'. So there something wrong with the domain registration.

I use glovepie+ppjoy to control 3 virtual axes using the G25's throttle and clutch axes. The 3 axes control rudder and toebrakes. The glovepie script sets the virtual exes depending on how much the two pedals are depressed. The rudder axis is the average of both pedals. Depress the right pedal or release the left pedal and the rudder moves right and vice versa. If both pedals are equally depressed the rudder is centered. The brakes are mapped directly to the pedal on the appropriate side but they only begin to engage when the pedals are depressed more than 50%.

The story is quite credible. Fighters have been converted to targetdrones before and now it is the F-16's turn.

Pilots can wear sunglasses.

I can see how the avionics are 'closed' systems and that the end-user cannot make changes to them but surely Boeing could? Just compile the new software package into a single firmware file and have a technician upload it to the avionics. I suppose that they also fix bugs and apply updates to meet new regulations this way.

Obviously aviation isn't simple and a change would come with paperwork, training etc. But a big part of that can be copied from the aircraft where the VSD is available and modified to suit the implementation on the 777. But why would the display hardware need to be changed? You don't need to get a new monitor when you want to run different software on your PC.

With the 777 having a glass cockpit, wouldn't it be a matter of a software update to add this?

I have a Thrustmaster T.16000M joystick that I am happy with. Other brands to look are saitek and logitech. For a yoke you can look for a Saitek or CH yoke. You may also want to get a throttle quadrant. Both CH and thrustmaster make them.

So I was wondering... We measure altitude by measuring the static airpressure which decreases as altitude increases. Nowadays all aircraft are fitted with barometric altimeters. Now temperature also decreases as altitude increases so I suppose that it would be possible to measure altitude by looking at a thermometer, right? So what I was wondering is; has this ever been done? And if it has, why did the barometric altimeter 'win'?

-Photoscenery. I use the NL2000 scenery, -Better mesh. http://simviation.com/1/fs2004terrainmesh -Plan-G for flightplanning

They also have a glove with little vibratormotors on the fingers. Another enhancement of the VR goggles ould be to add a small camera to them. That way you can not only see what goes on in the computer but also see "through" the goggles to look at your physical cockpit and controls.

You mean gloves like these? http://www.cyberglovesystems.com/products/cyberforce/photos-video

It must have been a UFO.