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Wow, that was absolutely it, wasn't it? Really cool stuff, color me impressed.http://vimeo.com/9603170

This was really violent tho, all of the sudden I was put inverted and had a total loss of control.If it is normal and intended, it gives me a lot more insight on the hazards of flying small aircraft at low altitudes!

Has anyone noticed an issue with wind on jobs?Last night I was running drugs on the big island (at least i hope that's what it is, I don't want to think about what it could be if not!) my settings were night time, clear sky. I noticed at take off there was a stiff breeze which I did not think was a property of the clear sky weather.Anyway, I take off and fly for about 30nm without issue, going around the south side of the big volcano. All of the sudden I am in a violent roll to the left, seemingly faster than the Maule can roll on its own. I gain control of the roll and the plane is stalling. It feels like I have no power, but the engine still seems to be running. The plane stalls out, and since I am skimming treetops, I have no room to recover.I don't run with the HUD on, so I don't know what the wind speed was. I exited the mission, and immediately exit the map to go back to free flying and there is no wind at all, not even the breeze that I had been flying most my job in.Anyone ever experience this?

As far as I can tell, any thing with the "eye" icon (inspect) on the checklist must be manually incremented by using the "3" key.

That is both a hilarious and depressing statement on the software industry at the same time.Pretty soon we will all need to hire lawyers to determine if we have the right to use the software licenses we purchase. :Just Kidding:

At 10% fuel on a clandestine, my co-pilot recommended I put down for fuel at an airport without a tower.Yeah, how many airports are there in the game that have fuel and no tower lady?!

I think the times assume you skip to waypoint.

Once you taxi to the runway you should be able to access the fuel screen. You might have to move forward if you are on the threshold.

What does the message at the bottom of the comments say, "Anonymous comments are disabled"?

There is a bug on their site (at least in Chrome). If you sign in, then go to a news article, you are not seen as being signed in. Click the sign in button again at the upper right and you should be automatically signed in and be able to leave a comment.

Are you talking about the 'B' button? That does a whole list of things, basically runs the engine startup checklist all in one pop.If you just turn the ignition off that should shut down the engine without running the other items on the checklist.See the engine shutdown checklist for more info.

Very cool, my boy would love those, will have to keep an eye out for something like that for his b-day.

Thanks Brian, I have been curious about the differences between the two planes in the game. Yours is the first post comparing the two planes out of hundreds of posts on the topic.Yay for relevant information! :)

1) My guess it is a teaser for things to come. And to annoy people like you and me that have all but that one. :)2) Yes.3) Steers and ... well never mind that.

Some pics I took of my trip out to the great square seamount. Fly in anyone? :)http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9768374/3.jpghttp://dl.dropbox.com/u/9768374/5.jpghttp://dl.dropbox.com/u/9768374/1.jpghttp://dl.dropbox.com/u/9768374/4.jpg

Thanks for this discussion, it is really helpful. The auto-mixture is the last "crutch" I have enabled, will probably disable it on my next flight!

That quote is really out of context, they were not asking for 3rd party support, they were asking for the source code for the game itself to be gifted to the community since MS was sunsetting it.

Oh, I thought you owned both planes, my misunderstanding there :)

Could you share your thoughts on the Mustang vs. the Zero? They seem very similar to me and I am wondering how they differ in the game.

I could see it useful if you have a topic like instruction on instrument flight or something that would attract more than the 16 people that would fit into a room.Just casual flying together, I prefer in-game chat since you can dial in a freq as a private channel.

I think this was probably something in the pipe for the launch, but since it wasn't ready they held it back a bit.

More missions in a cohesive form, like a career mission arc. I really like some of the missions (like the rescue mission) and I think there is a lot of room for more storytelling, even with minor story arcs.Maybe even story arcs tied to new planes, like the Maules set of missions, but with more story elements. I could see a bush plane in AK coming with a set of missions "inspired" by that reality TV show.If the voice over work is the limiting factor for more missions, I am fine without them :D

Will this be a deluxe version? If so my guess is that they are doing market research on which is more popular, basic vs. deluxe, Mustang vs. Zero. That is the only reason I can think of to have 2 planes out of a total of 6 be so similar.Probably not a buy for me as I don't have a lot of interest in the older planes.

I liked the system where you had to reach a level to open the jobs and missions, it worked well to space out the missions and made you explore some of the other things in Flight to progress. But the last job opens at level 9 or something? So there is very little reason for me to chase levels. I am hoping they expand the system with both more levels and missions/jobs/paints that you can only get at higher levels.

Clandestine is by far my favorite job type. Night time, no lights, staying low, running from the po! This one job type alone is worth buying the Maule for me.The XP is nice, but unless they add a reason for XP, it is kind of pointless.