qqwertz

Has anyone already tried the new dead reckoning tool in Flow Pro? The description I found was not very illuminative, and I would like to learn more about what tools are provided.

Thanks,

Peter

12 minutes ago, Aglos77 said:

Thank you for all the answers 

Mainly what I am looking for is flight model as realistic as possible, things like maintenance etc are welcome but also not the main thing for me I can live without it in the end.

The flight model is important, but I would recommend looking for state preservation as well. If you know that your sloppy way of shutting the airplane down will bite you further down the road, you may pay much more attention to what you are doing. That's why I love the Comanche and the 310R, they really change the way I fly.

Blackbird Cessna 310R

On 4/25/2024 at 6:55 PM, jon b said:

Oh it’ll be very good in VR, the real aircraft had excellent all round visibility as a design criteria.

I tried it with VR this morning. I must say, it is among my least favourite airplanes in VR in its current state:

- All main gauges are blurry unless you lean forward. I tried to fix the problem playing with settings, but I was unsuccessful. That problem appears also in a some other airplanes, but is fine in, for instance, the A2A Comanche or the Blackbird Cessna 310R. I only have a Quest 2, so that may contribute to the issue, but as I said: other developers were able to create a better VR experience.

- It is a light aircraft and very twitchy. In turbulent air I got quite dizzy. I usually have no problems in VR. The only time I had similar dizziness was when I practiced helicopter landings for too long. 

Generally it is a nice model. I hope they will fix these two problems -  I imagine a change in LOD settings for main panel gauges, and an option to reduce turbulence effects in VR mode might do the trick. 

Peter

We just watched Salvation, a TV show from 2017. I think it was episode 2: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6684314/?ref_=ttep_ep2

The show is about diverting a meteor from hitting Earth. And guess what: they need an EM drive to accomplish that, and that drive uses the Casimir effect. Just what Buhler is promoting 😄

1 hour ago, Paul K said:

You could probably include A2A's Comanche in that category, but I know what you mean.

And the Blackbird Cessna 310R. 

1 hour ago, Lord Farringdon said:

The depth of this model is my view, very light with a lot of missing features, locked paint kits, generic flight model, no  documentation and no systems depth.

Thanks for this post, Terry. I was considering to buy my first CS model for MSFS, but not with a KingAir flight model. That's really a bummer.

Peter

7 minutes ago, AJZip said:

As Dave clarifies above, this will not impact on Pilot2ATC as that uses its own recognition facilities.

I understood Dave that P2ATC will use Voice Access in the future, but using its own instance of it. If that is correct, there would be a significant internal change in how P2ATC recognizes voice, but nothing will change on the outside. Maybe Dave can clarify that point.

11 hours ago, dave2013 said:

[1] It makes sense that electrical forces could accelerate a mass.

[2] I believe that the electric field distorts space, just as gravity does, and this produces an acceleration.

[1] Yes, they do. But generally forces need some source of energy to be created, and Buhler claims a new type of force that does not require an energy source. 

[2] The commonly accepted view in the physics community is that gravity is distortion of space. It corresponds to a measurable effect of space-time curvature, not the cause. The cause of curvature is energy (there is a bit more to it, but energy is the dominating source). Since electromagnetic fields contain energy, they do indeed distort space. However, the effect of is generally tiny compared to that of the rest energy E = m c² of an object of mass m.

3 hours ago, andy1252 said:

 I should still have all that stuff on my system here, as I did have the P3D and FSX package. I might see if I've still got any repaints and that sound package as well and see if any of that works.

I just saw that it works on another site: https://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php/135009-Hercules-fans-you-ain-t-gonna-believe-this?p=1334064&viewfull=1#post1334064

Bought it today and love it 🙂

I scanned through his presentation at the APEC conference (which is not a major scientific conference). He starts with solid physics, but becomes sketchy when he talks about the interesting parts. I am always a bit cautious when people found companies around an idea that has not passed peer review, and they promise big breakthroughs. There is now an entire industry around start-up companies that appeal to high-risk high-gain investors. I would count the Boom supersonic jet as one example, and that one is on much firmer ground than this propulsion idea. I personally will not invest into Buhler's company 🙂

Peter

21 minutes ago, Dave-Pilot2ATC said:

P2A creates a private instance of the Microsoft Speech Recognition engine, separate and apart from the one you can turn on and off in Windows for commands, etc.  So it is the Microsoft Speech Recognition engine, but not the one you turn on and off.  Voice Access will replace the one you can turn on and off to interact with Windows, but P2A will continue to create its own instance.

Dave

Ah, most informative. I will then wait until Voice Access will be used in P2ATC. Can't wait for this to happen, I really miss using P2ATC 🙂

Thanks for chiming in Dave. I have tried speech training excessively, both within and outside of P2ATC, to no avail. However, I might have turned on Windows speech recognition while using P2ATC. I will try it again without speech recognition.

Peter

Ah, good. That speech recognition never understood me (even when I spoke very clearly, and very simple sentences) and is the single reason why I don't use P2ATC anymore. My hope would be that P2ATC will use something else soon.

Yep, that's very much personal preference. I personally would say that MSFS Premium is good enough for most purposes. Add a few freeware airports, the free FBW A320, and perhaps some payware airports that you really like, and you're good to go.

If you want good ATC, you should look into Vatsim, PilotEdge, SayIntentions, or BeyondATC (not available yet). I you want good charts, you should get a Navigraph subscription. And if you want outstanding aircraft, you should get payware airplanes from A2A, Fenix, PMDG, Milviz/Blackbird, and some other companies. But, unlike P3D, you do not have to invest first in weather, scenery, and payware aircraft to make the sim pretty and interesting.

Peter

We had almost perfect weather in New Brunswick. Only a single cloud, and guess where that cloud moved only seconds after totality started. Luckily, the cloud was not very thick, so we could still see corona and flares. Plus, we could see rainbow colours in that cloud shortly before and after totality. We couldn't see any stars near the Sun, though. It was a great experience. 

Peter

We will go to New Brunswick, forecast is perfect: clear and warm (+11C). We will bring a wide-view telescope with an attached camera to take high-precision photos. Plus binoculars and glasses.

Peter

13 minutes ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

Back in 1973 I took all the eclipse photos on slides. I had two SLR 35mm cameras - one for the partial phase and another loaded with High-Speed Ektachrome for totality.

This was the eclipse that Concorde flew and stayed in the moon's shadow for around 74 minutes. On the Monte Umbe we experienced over 6 minutes.

 

Amazing. Great job, Ray. And what a cool story, I didn't know about the Concorde chasing an eclipse. For everyone who is as word not allowed of it as I was, here is a web page on this flight: https://airwaysmag.com/concorde-chased-solar-eclipse/

35 minutes ago, Christopher Low said:

Wow, that needs to be a precise experiment! If I remember correctly, the bending of light by the Sun's gravity is around 0.8 arc second.

Correct. We'll need a good camera and telescope for that, but in the worst case we will end up with nice photos of the corona 🙂. We are still working on the details, but we have some reasonably good telescopes.

I've seen the March 2015 partial eclipse as well in Germany. And the eclipse of August 2017, but only in my hometown in Nova Scotia, i.e., for away from the path of totality. We made a big party and invited people to watch the silhouette of the Moon, it was really nice. But it was only about 5-10% coverage, you couldn't notice any change in daylight. The one in 2015 was much more memorable. 

I have witnessed a total solar eclipse in 1999 in Germany, but it was cloudy. I turned dark for 2 minutes, that was it. We have plans to go to New Brunswick for the upcoming eclipse, but only if the weather forecast is fine. We may try to take an image of the Sun through a telescope and see if we can verify the bending of light rays by the Sun  ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddington_experiment ). Unfortunately, we only have a 25% chance for the sky to be clear in early April there 😐.

Peter

21 minutes ago, bobcat999 said:

$@St Mawgan  He reviewed it because it was sent to him, but as he says in the video, he doesn't really like military jets in the sim; he doesn't see the point of them, so he isn't too enthusiastic.

I am actually in the same boat. I hardly fly military jets at all, but this one has grown on me because of its beauty. Also, it might be fun to develop some training missions for it. Think of a river run like in Top Gun Maverick. As I mentioned before, maneuvers and loop-the-loops in VR are absolutely stunning, gives you even more appreciation for what fighter pilots accomplish.

It is a really beautiful plane (I am on the beta team) and fun to fly. I enjoy it especially in VR, it can make you dizzy to fly over a hill at low altitude with 450 Kts. It is a Shrike product, they do not aim for system depth, and this will for sure be reflected in the price (which I don't know yet). However, as the video shows, you can start from cold and dark and you have some systems to play with.

Like fighter jets in general, you need to be careful with the throttle on approach and not drop velocity too much, otherwise it will take too much time for the engine to develop power again to get out of stall conditions. I really enjoy flying the F86 for fun and tend to use outside view much more than with other planes, simply because it is such a gorgeous model.

Peter

Such an elegant plane.

4 hours ago, Noel said:

[1]  I was an avid user of FSCaptain and so hoped they would get here some day but I think that agenda seems to have stopped to really isn't going to make it.  

[2] Have you taken a deep look into Self Loading Cargo?

[1] There may be some news from Travis about FSCaptain in the next 1-3 months.

[2] Yes, I tested it. It is good, but not exactly what I want. I don't care too much about unruly passengers, and when it comes to flight analysis, I prefer Newsky over SLC. What I miss most about FSC is the flexibility. I could set up my own airline and tell it which airports I want to fly to; I could have several airlines; it was just about piloting, not management of admin staff or flight attendants needed. A Pilot's Life, Newsky, On Air, Neofly are all good programs, but they all have at least one feature that ruins the experience for me.