jetblast

Yes, I got 97% correct on my written exam. And yes, im not lying that im a Commercial pilot with an I/R rating. And its an insult to even suggest that im telling fibs about my qualifications, I spent $60,000 to obtain my PPL, I/R and CPL , and alot of work and studying, so dont even go there. Im going by experience, like I said, id like for a pilot on this forum to tell me how the plane (piper or Cessna )reacts when they extend the flaps. Because I can tell by many of the answers on here that you are going by what you read in a book and not what you actually experienced as a REAL pilot in a REAL plane.

Thank you for your intelligent response, and not getting angry with me...lol and because it was so detailed and to the point I will mark as ''Solved'' (Best Answer)

''So, yes, a reaction to just the movement of the flaps is a bit unlikely. Just as well really or we'd all end up on our noses whenever we tested flaps on the ground.'' Not sure if your joking or not.... But ill tell you this, while coming into approach for landing or practicing stalls with flaps down, when the flaps are extended, I have to push pretty hard down on the yoke to get the nose to come down, and that was with the plane trimmed correctly . Hope you can appreciate that im just telling you this from my own experience flying 800 hours. If there is a pilot who has flown in a Piper warrior or Cessna 172 and has not had this experience id love to hear from you on here

Why are you getting so fluster over my criticism of fs2004? Im just trying to find a solution to an issue that would make my fs2004 experience more realistic.When you fly in real world situations you try to find almost the exact environment in fs. I guess if I had praised fs2004 I wouldn't be receiving any replies. But I start telling armchair simmers wanna be real pilots what its like to be in a real cockpit, and I get hell to pay for, typical...

Newton's law does have a factor, this is why heavy aircraft extend the flaps on takeoff, increase wing size and for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, increase wing extensions (flaps) produces more lift, iv studied hundreds of hours and have 800 hours as a commercial pilot, no pilot knows everything of course, but what im saying is that fs 2004 got this wrong, in general there should be more of a pitch up attitude when the flaps are extended. Warp D Im interested in what type of License and hours you currently have in aircraft. I dont like confrontation, im not trying to be funny, its just I take aviation including fs very seriously , I have alot of passion for it

All I know is from real world experience, when I flew the C172, and the Piper Seneca, when the flaps are extended the plane will rise , this is a FACT, this is because you are increasing the size of the wing, and as the flaps extend they also curve downwards, Newtons law of motion, Third law: When one body exerts a force on a second body, the second body simultaneously exerts a force equal in magnitude and opposite in direction on the first body. Thanks Dave,

Iv been using 0.70 zoom of late and yes I do like to use add-on aircraft, I would like to know what add-on aircraft incorporate the ballooning motion after flap extension. Do you have a download link to a specific aircraft?

Having flown in real world situations I can tell you that the altitude perception in fs2004 is not realistic or accurate When ATC takes me down to 2,000 feet it looks more like im at 500 feet, only until you get up-to a higher altitude can you really not notice the difference, is there anyway in the cfg file to adjust the level to a more accurate perception? Also, there is an error in fs2004, when flying aircraft and you extend the flaps, the motion of the plane is to sink, this is not accurate, when extending the flaps the plane should start to climb at first as you push the yoke down to counter act this. Once again, is there a way to adjust this in the cfg file? Thanks again, look forward to any suggestions

Been playing around with different settings, so far 4x AA and 12x AF seems to work the best,60% of the shimmering is gone, however I have to get rid of detailed clouds :( in order to save my frame rates. Even then there is an ever so slight jerkiness going on, if I could just squeeze abit more ram power into the game it would be just were id like it to be with the hardware I have. Is there a program that upon starting fs 2004 automatically shuts down some services you dont really need on Vista, then upon exiting fs restarts them? I remember hearing about a program like that but forgot what is was called.

The shimmering is gone now, but my frame rate is like 5 :( very choppy Is there any setting that will reduce the shimmering without taking away all my frame rates?

So I downloaded this fs time time program some years ago, worked really well to make fs darker, I now have windows vista and tried downloading it a few days ago without success, does anyone know the download link for fs night time (visa compatible) Thanks.

Hi, Im a real world Commerical pilot who likes to use fs 2004 , Im happy with the look of fs 2004 except for a ''shimmering'' im getting on buildings and landscape. Below are my pc specs. Windows Vista Business 64-bit SP2 AMD Athlon 64 3800+ Orleans 64MB NVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE (Dell) 2.00GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 267MHz Next are my video card settings, and fs 2004 settings (for my video card settings global settings are set as the same as program settings) Look forward to your replies on what settings to use on Nvidia Inspector for my specs and current setup. Thank you