FPVSteve
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"Dark Forest Theory" ... everyone else is quiet and staying hidden because of.... something terrifying we don't know about yet.
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One interesting angle for progression into space though is the availability of materials to allow it and the shear magnitude of what it takes to get there. I might have had a chance of inventing a petrol engine and superseding the steam engine because the elements and materials required are available in abundance here on Earth and relatively easily accessible. However I'm willing to bet I would have quite a large problem constructing a warp drive from Unobtanium - and even if I could lay my hands on any of the stuff I need, I would imagine my door would be kicked in rather rapidly by government forces once they figured out what I was doing. Progression into Space then seems to be available only to a small subset of humans - the pointy end of a wedge. Let's hope they have all of our best interests at heart.
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Those random WASM crashes are worrying on a long haul aircraft - nobody wants to sit for 12+ hours only to have their landing ruined (like London Controller) if they even get that far.
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A very interesting talk on population, fossil fuel usage etc.
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Thanks for the feedback... So sectors are currently generated from the routes that people have already flown with Self-Loading Cargo - there are currently over 2,000,000 flights with about 62,000 distinct routes in the database. These are used as the foundation for the route generator at present and while they may not be 100% accurate in terms of locations and times, you do also have the ability to set up a day of sectors from scratch if you do want to fly to specific timetables (and see below for plans on this). Line Pilot is designed really to allow you to fly as and when you can rather than planning days and weeks ahead. Think of it as an ongoing "career" which you can pick up and put down when family/work allows, while still allowing you to plan your flights for the current simulator session rather than the week ahead. For instance on one Saturday you might build yourself 4 sectors if you have time whereas on another you might only have a couple of hours spare so you'd plan a single flight.. It's designed to allow casual use with ongoing progress - there's no use in planning flights from a schedule if you end up not being able to fly the flights due to time constraints and I think it fits a gap quite well. It does for me anyway. It's not really designed as a "career" mode in the traditional sense because I didn't like having to grind my way into using my expensive addons like you do with a lot of other tools - with this you can simply get cracking and enjoy what you already own. As far as Line Pilot is concerned you're already capable of flying the Fenix A320 / Ini A350 / PMDG 737 and it scores you based on how well you do then challenges you go keep it going and not get demoted to a lower rank. Having said all that there are three immediate upgrades that I'm currently working on and which will be released approx. October time: 1) More visibility of the maintenance/fleet management to make it more apparent about what is going on when there are problems and when they will be solved, plus a bit of interactivity with the fleet. 2) The ability to add your own weekly schedules per airline, and use them to generate your routes (and share with other users if you wish) so that you can use real-world schedules as opposed to ones which may not be entirely accurate. 3) The ability for each airline to operate on a custom SOP for scoring instead of the default one that is currently in place. This will allow you to set different levels of challenge depending on who you're flying for. Hope this helps 👍
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It makes MSFS lighting look more like X-Plane lighting....
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Out of curiosity which CPU/GPU combo do you have? The FSL seems to perform really well on my computer which is a i9-11900K with an 8Gb 3060Ti but I do have texture resolution turned down in MSFS 2024.Oh wow - this looks incredibly good. Seeing the comparisons side by side makes it much easier to see the changes and it's amazing what trees add to the scenes.You know, not so long ago this would have been considered an AAA addon. It's beautiful and obviously tons of effort has gone into it. Credit where credit is due, LVFR - nice work by the looks of things.The only thing I dislike about Chaseplane is how it seems to make my sim "hang" when I first go into the cockpit (presumably while it loads my profiles from the cloud since I have absolutely terrible internet here). Other than that it's superb. I only bought it because I missed the X-Plane camera system so much whenever I used MSFS. Bonus feature: a reinstall of MSFS is frustrating enough - not having to set up my camera views ever again is worth the money on its own."Dropping the kids off at the pool".I forgot to add there's www.diyfpv.com which has a "builder" where you can source all of the parts you might need to get started. Great community.I didn't post that video it was someone else :) There's honestly so many paths you can take it would be impossible to cover on a forum post but some of the best channels for learning are: https://www.youtube.com/@CurryKitten/videos https://www.youtube.com/@painless360 https://www.youtube.com/@Xjet/videos (although he is currently embroiled in arguments with his local council lol) - he has some superb older videos from explaining how FPV actually works (antennas / transmitter / receivers etc and the theory behind it) to making very cheap "backpack" style FPV systems that you can simply velcro onto an aircraft and get flying - plus making your own aircraft out of hobby foam for pennies (plus electronics of course).
