uwespeed

https://forums.x-plane.org/files/file/43586-a-new-landing-rate-display/ https://forums.x-plane.org/files/file/45734-landing-speed-plugin-xgs-reloaded/

Oh yeah ... 😉. You always get responses like this from AI, they want to ingratiate so that you feel well and use them more often. If you ask Claude several times, sooner or later, it’ll end up contradicting itself 😄. True story: I can't talk about Claude because I don't know it (in detail), but just today a colleague told me an example of his experience with AI (unfortunately I don't remember which one). He asked a question and the response felt strange to him. So he asked again, but the AI insisted that the response is correct. So, the colleague asked again with some more details. Still, AI responded in the same way as before. So the colleague, who actually knew the correct answer asked again like "Are you sure? Please think again." Finally, the AI said: "Oh ... I'm so sorry ... actually you are right and I was wrong." Other colleagues, who also have experience with AI confirmed that they (partly) have made the same experience and myself, too. So ... answers may be correct, BUT ... they can be plain wrong as well. Disclaimer: I'm not saying that Claude is completely and always wrong but ... Conclusion: AI CAN be very helpful, but it also can lead you into the wrong direction if you believe everything you read. The next steps on the internet will be that we have more and more AI generated content and one AI will use the input from other AI's and the result will be ... pure puzzle-solving based on probabilities.

<Smartass mode on>: since X-Plane 9 😛 ... ... and X-Plane 10 (with bridges 😛) In the next-next-next-gen scenery I expect drinking a beer 🍺 in that bar (at 0:33) - of course only after the flight 😄.

Now ... that's what I call (revolutionary 😛) realism, visually and physically:

As far as I remember it won't be by calculating every single light in the city (way too much computing effort), but using something like lightpollutionmap.

... but I assume not as many as x-plane.org (not affiliated with x-plane.com, i.e. LR). Loooots of freeware, be it planes, scenery (mine too, BTW 😉), plugins, ...

Or on a different scale at a different time: “How much is 5*82?” “425.” "Wrong." "No, right because the calculator gave me the result." "What do you get when you calculate it in your head?" "I'm not able to do that." "Ok, then please type it into the calculator four more times and see how often you get 425. Most probably you will get 4 times 410 as result - because you mistyped the first time, but were unable to question that." If the four additional rolls produce four different results, then you have a bigger problem, of course. 😄 P.S. Of course I know that we are deviating (a bit) from the original topic - but as long as it stays civil ...

It depends on the AI and especially the data it was trained on. The best AI algorithm can't give you the desired result, because ... I installed Stable Diffusion (for generating pictures) locally and its manual said, not literally but in essence: "If the model is trained with cat content and you ask it something about dogs - expect the unexpected" 😄 (the part about cats and dogs is actually written that way, but I rephrased the second part of the sentence a little for dramaturgical reasons). * Cat content = sweet 😻

True! Just recently I asked (for my job) a question where I wasn't 100% sure about the correct answer. (In that case not Copilot but) ChatGPT responded like "You have to check the datasheets of the respective equipment and please look also into the respective norms." Wow!!! That's something I never expected 😂. At least when the question is quite specialized and "narrow", you won't get good (and safe) answers. If you ask, e.g. "What is McDonalds?" you will probably get good answers as there is much data available about that matter. But still, some information bits can be wrong. Is that common sense? I think so ... Or should I ask ChatGPT? 😉

TheFlyingScotsman, the creator of the video from my first post, always manages to fly in interesting and spectacular weather conditions.

😂 It's like people who are constantly tweaking their car and say ‘that's where the fun is’. Would they drive it around - ‘Oh God no, the fun is in the constant optimisation’. Exactly this ...

It's some time ago, when similar discussions came up and I responded as following:

Might be ... but I'm not sure about that. Autoortho/ME first have to download the textures from the net (for first time use - cache aside?), convert them and only then can display them - I have read, around 5 minutes or longer? That's the reason why I don't use them. Ortho4XP OTOH at least is stored locally. And, I want the buildings to fit onto the orthos, thus I use also X-World. I mean, either X-World and orthos (independant which solution) OR default textures and default scenery give the 'best' result in regard to fitting to each other.

Ortho4XP and X-World. However, Ortho4XP only for some known regions, outside of them default textures. I want (primarily) fast loading times, not to waiting 'forever' 😉 for loading textures with ME and/or Autoortho.