watermouse

I don't look at the controls. I have a Flight Yoke and Throttle and also a Joystick w/ Throttle. I don't think in a game like MSFLIGHT you would need too. However, if you tried to implement it into something like Flight Simulator X, I could see if being a potential issue. (Unless you had some sort of sensors for your hands/gloves and could turn the knobs virtually. lol. Would be fun..

I am not sure if you all are up to date on tech(Psh..of course you are, this is avsim after-all), but there is a little company coming out with a seriously out of this world Virtual Reality system that is suppose to be in consumer hands for right around 300 bucks. Do you think with the way MS FLIGHT is now, that they would ever develop the correct stuff(coding? graphics) to allow this to work? The device I am talking about is the Oculus Rift (www.oculusvr.com/) - Sorry if I cannot post links here, I am not sure, so I did. lol I would recommend watching you-tube videos if you haven't already, but I know that MS FLIGHT has support for head-tracking already, what about this? Ahh, I could die happy if they did. Also I know quite a few already developed games are already adding support for it. -watermouse

Sweet, this one looks cool. Do they have all the aerocaches for alaska in the drop down or is it just AOTD? Havent logged in since 2 weekends ago.

Ahhh, that needs the SDK? The same SDK that 3rd party devs could make aircraft? That SDK? If it is, then I retract my question as it will never happen. :(

I had the best time doing a Job in the C-46. I cant remember where it was, but the runway went out into a River. Medium sized runway. All sides had pretty high mountains but if you did it just right you could get enough speed in the C46 to get air-born. Retract Flaps, put my gear up and I was riding level with the river. After that I would follow the river to the right while gaining altitude and following the river back left. If I went to far I'd hit the mountains. Then I would get to about 2000feet and take a steep right to about 300 degrees and it would put you just high enough and just right to go between to high peaks and you were off for the job. I need to find this airport and take some video of what I just said. It was awesome. I normally fly with my pops(he is 77?) and he couldnt do it for the life of him. Finally I had to walk him through it so he wouldnt stall and sink or hit the mountain. woot

Hello guys/gals, So I have been flying a TON of jobs in Alaska. I like to visit as many of the airports as I can, some are dang hard to get into and others I would have never ever gone there. So with these jobs, it makes it a lot of fun for me and my pops to fly around on Multi-player and do jobs and explore. Anyways, I was thinking. Most games have Mission Editors I know flight is done with, but what would it take to have a mission editor? I was thinking how cool that would be to make our own missions from here to here to there, ect. That way we could maybe have a community upload or download or whatever to import new jobs into the game. This could allow us to see other airports that no one goes too and also use some of the sea bases with the Icon in Alaska to land in. Also, it would allow for heavier loads/passengers for the C46. Just a thought -- Probably wont happen, but it would make it that much funner I think. Hrrmmppffh

I always though Clandestine jobs were random. Also showing up at any airport at any given time. Could be wrong. Who knows. I really do need to get PLAN-G on my system and do a bit of flight planning.

I dont think you can, can you? Was there options for it? I never looked that far into the settings

Lol 188AHC - That was my bad. I was the one who asked JCOMM about that. Just had 1 question and that was that. No need to yell at him. Also, having this twin is awesome. Very clunky and I doubt I will fly it that much. I wish some of the Cargo missions allowed you to carry more than what you can in the Maule (but I dont think they activated that, am I right?) Anyways, More power to FLIGHT. I love it and will always until something of similar or better quality releases. I think I may finally buy the F4U - well I will wait for the next Steam Winter Sale, then I will.

Lol, Your enthusiasm in XPLANE really makes me want to purchase it. Did you have to buy any scenery packs or is it good as-is? Also, I am really big into GA airplanes, is there a lot of choices in General Aviation? After that question, this thread shall go back on topic. :P

So I was flying the C-46 yesterday and had a question or two. Whenever I turn, it seems like it does not roll quick enough. It seems even making minor corrections in this thing you have to use the rudder only because if you turn using yoke or joystick, when you turn back it is very slow and if you do not do it just right it will cause you to veer off to one side. I hope I am making sense. I know it is a big aircraft and if the mechanics of it is true, then I am A-OK with it and will learn it. It just seems that when you bank left or right, it is very very VERY heavy and you can barely even turn. So is this the way it is supposed to perform?

I am very grateful to the ongoing staff at MS that is answering questions and actually posting content, albeit text and tutorials, I am still happy they have someone over there that knows customer relations.

Meh....Nothing really new.. I wish I could be as excited as you on this one. I think the only way I can is if they do reopen development and do it right. It seems that Loki and crew almost agree with us in a sense that we had ZERO communication and interaction with them and that is a huge speculation of why they failed. I myself have bought 5-6 other flight sims, but they do not compare with flight. I would buy FSX(I have not yet) but all the addons you have to get to make it even look decent, well you are hundreds of dollars in the hole right there. If FSX had the same flying mechanics and smoothness, then I wouldnt care paying that much for it. Anyways, thank you for the post poplar

Yeah, I followed a guide in the tutorials (not one of the top ones, it was on page 2/3) and I modified it just a tad. It wanted to start out in the ocean and i decided to start at a lil dirt strip airport. Anways, I could never get the indicator to switch from: FRM to TO. I royally screwed it up. Did not work AT ALL. I think tonight I will pick an airport on one of the islands and fly to another but write everything down. I dunno, I am still a bit confused. QUESTION: With the OBS knob. I set the airport VOR and made sure it was the ACTIVE VOR (RV6A on the bottom radio(VOR1?)) The VOR dial had the CDI all the way to the left. I turned the OBS knob until that was centered and it gives me the heading(in degrees) I have to follow that heading to get to the airport, right? Also, I am still trying to set ILS, I tried too, because I want to fly INDIRECT so I can be lined up with the runway from far out instead of wingin it, flying over and circling. Yup

Sorry to ressurect this old thread, but since flights demise, I figure it should be on the front page. Also, This is the first time I have read the entire thread and you guys have made me all gitty now to try VOR and ILS. I leave work in 2 minutes and heading home to plan a VOR/ILS flight. BOOYA! Thank you to everyone who contributed in this thread. Thank you for all of your hardwork and the "dumming-down" for folk like me. (nonpilot) lol.