Airline Mogul Forum
Non-Airline Mogul => Flight Simulators & Online Flying => Topic started by: Seattle on December 01, 2007, 03:44:59 pm
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making a new topic to talk on because someone *points fingure to Ireland* locked ours :roll:
Well I guess we can continue our topic. :)
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I don't want "look what I've got" or "mines bigger than yours".
Anyway, due to a wonderful suggestion by a friend of mine to get an add-on to work my FSUPIC is out of action and FlightSim in my opinion is useless without a connection to VATSIM. (Now theres a debate!) As a result I cannot fly. But when I eventually get it sorted over the Christmas I think I'll play around in an ATR doing Air Contractors flights for ABRVirtual (http://www.abrvirtual.com).
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I have never flown on vatism, considering I can't land...
But it is still fun to fly offline!
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I don't want "look what I've got" or "mines bigger than yours".
Anyway, due to a wonderful suggestion by a friend of mine to get an add-on to work my FSUPIC is out of action and FlightSim in my opinion is useless without a connection to VATSIM. (Now theres a debate!) As a result I cannot fly. But when I eventually get it sorted over the Christmas I think I'll play around in an ATR doing Air Contractors flights for ABRVirtual (http://www.abrvirtual.com).
Isnt Air Contractors a Nigerian Airline. Just wondering. (I know about VA's)
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They are an Irish Airline owned by the ACL Group (I believe are South African) who operate for FedEx across Europe. They just bought Europe Airpost.
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Im getting better at landing.Im flying a lot of Dunedin routes in NZ.
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http://www.vataware.com/pilot.cfm?cid=921145
It's fair to say i fly quite a bit :D
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Well after discussing my real world landings with a Commercial pilot he reminded me:
A landing is a controlled crash. So dont worry if it doesn't arrive in one piece, you just need to get better at crashing. :D (Of course this only applies to FS in real world you need to be right every time)
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http://www.vataware.com/pilot.cfm?cid=921145
It's fair to say i fly quite a bit :D
I see you visit my VACC (Yes its mine, I run it :D) aswell. Where in the name of might is VCBI? I've never heard of it.
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Sri Lanka
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:shock:
Thats alot of time..... :shock:
I wish I had more time to practice
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same :roll:
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I see you visit my VACC (Yes its mine, I run it :D) aswell. Where in the name of might is VCBI? I've never heard of it.
My neck of the woods.
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I need HELP!!! I just downloaded a A380 Qantas but don know how to get it to FSX.
Cheers, Doug
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i can take off and fly perfectly well -- problem is (especially with jets) i cant aim for the stupid runway. if my aim is good i can land the plane, but im always too far to the left or right. :oops: :roll:
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i can take off and fly perfectly well -- problem is (especially with jets) i cant aim for the stupid runway. if my aim is good i can land the plane, but im always too far to the left or right. :oops: :roll:
I dont know which version of FS you are using. I use FS9. But perhaps it helps you anyway.
First turn down realism in the menu. Switch to clear and calm weather. Let the sim show you the glidepath (I used rectangles). Use the B737 which is pretty easy to fly. Now try some landings at a specific airport. If you have framerate problems you may deactivate the AI traffic. You will notice that you will do it better each time you practice. Also it maybe useful if you position your B737 20nm away from the runway (use slew mode). Set speed at 160 KIAS deploy full flaps. Set throttle and keep your speed between 155 and 165 KIAS. Although this situation is not too realistic it will help you with your first steps.
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All this throttle stuff.....
I'll just wait to Chritsmas, till I get FSX and then do the tutorials :P
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Don't you guys use ILS? :) As long as you make sure the runway is centered in your screen (horizontally, at least, vertically center may not always be good) and vertically straight, you'll land at least slightly on it.
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Don't you guys use ILS? :) As long as you make sure the runway is centered in your screen (horizontally, at least, vertically center may not always be good) and vertically straight, you'll land at least slightly on it.
Yes, I do. But in the beginning it helped me a lot to have that visual assistance. There was too much information for me to take care of - like flaps position, speed, altitude, throttle position, ATC, etc. Yeah, I could just set the autopilot to the path. But thats not what I want :D On the other hand some airports do not provide ILS. :roll: With the right a/c I am even able to take off, climbing a bit, heading back up-side-down and land completing the loop. I have seen this once in real life at LIED when the Eurofighter Typhoon was practicing for the Le Bourget airshow :D
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Really, the landing part is the only part of a flight I really enjoy :) Mostly, when I'm flying transatlantic, I just have FSNav on with a flightplan to get me over the ocean, use time acceleration and when I'm at 200nm from my destination airport, I fly it myself again. Saves me hours of doing nothing. Except when I have a FSPassengers failure, that's still the best part :lol:
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Whats FSPassenger failure? :?
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FSPassengers is an addon for FS9 that replicates airline management in a very basic way. It allows you to start an airline, buy aircraft and fly the flights yourself. You load passengers and/or cargo, make sure you have enough fuel, and the addon can replicate failures as well, such as bird strikes and rapid decompression. One of the best addons I have.
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ok. Seems interseting.
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ok. Seems interseting.
Its great fun ;)
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Especially having an engine failure on a not-so-frequently serviced King Air when you're in the middle of the Caribbean adds to the challenge :)
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Especially having an engine failure on a not-so-frequently serviced King Air when you're in the middle of the Caribbean adds to the challenge :)
Lol, yesterday I was flying a 747-400 and crashed 2 times cause the plane wouldn't go up. Finally on the 3rd time it did.
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Wouldn't go up? As in wouldn't take off?
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Yes, the jet wouldn't pull up when It should of,
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I'll give you four letters. M. T. O. W. :wink:
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Hay Orange I want you to take off from Milford Sounds with the biggest plane you have. ( this is not were I toke off)
Bet you cant take off there
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Well talk about progress. Last night I flew an Irish domestic flight, complete disaster... Two stalls and a dodgy NDB DME approach followed by dumping the plane onto the runway pretty much writing off the main undercarriage. :D Tonight, textbook flight and landing. 8)
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That's some 2600ft of runway... The biggest thing I have in my FS fleet is (I know, it's horrible) an A380...
That's not gonna work.
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Well talk about progress. Last night I flew an Irish domestic flight, complete disaster... Two stalls and a dodgy NDB DME approach followed by dumping the plane onto the runway pretty much writing off the main undercarriage. :D Tonight, textbook flight and landing. 8)
That plane must hate you.
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An ERJ cant even take off from sounds. But it looks great.
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I have tried taking off with an ERJ on a 3500ft runway and I very, very nearly made it. But if there had been real people in that house, I would have been sued.
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:lol: Try taking off with that really big russian cargo plane with 6 engines from SEA! :P I managed to jump of the ground right before the big tall buildings in downtown Seattle. 8)
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I have tried taking off with an ERJ on a 3500ft runway and I very, very nearly made it. But if there had been real people in that house, I would have been sued.
the people in that house wouldn't have sued you, unless dead people could somehow sue other dead people. :lol:
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Well the relatives would.
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what if it was a family reunion? :o
@Seattle: and to think i designed a plane with 18 engines once :shock: (it is used for space travel)
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what if it was a family reunion? :o
@Seattle: and to think i designed a plane with 18 engines once :shock: (it is used for space travel)
i designed a plane with 50 wheels and 20 engines... :P
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dude, can I download it? or did u just draw it?
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I just slightly clipped the roof. Nothing too major, although had I done that in a more advanced simulation, there would have been a part of my landing gear in someones garden :lol:
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I want to see you land on the belly. LOL :lol:
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You guys should try an approach at LOWI (takeoff in Vienna) - real weather conditions enabled. Use ATC to guide you. And dont take a small Cessna :lol: The first time I tried I thought: "Who the hell is sitting in the tower giving me such advice?" :lol:
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I want to see you land on the belly. LOL :lol:
i did that in the water once. i floated for about a minute and a half before sinking. :lol:
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Belly landings are quite easy once you've tried them a few times. On water, it's a different story.
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I want to see you land on the belly. LOL :lol:
i did that in the water once. i floated for about a minute and a half before sinking. :lol:
how..... :? Plane arent made to float! :P
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i hadn't yet figured out how to turn crashing on when i did that.
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I want to see you land on the belly. LOL :lol:
i did that in the water once. i floated for about a minute and a half before sinking. :lol:
how..... :? Plane arent made to float! :P
What do you mean...
(http://www.usainvestments.lt/galery/__photo10/ba/7_1.jpg)
Tell me if Im wrong, because this does look like a plane floating on water
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hey -- is that Cornfield gettin his boots wet down there?
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:lol:
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soooooo... hes on old fat guy?
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soooooo... hes on old fat guy?
Watch it...
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soooooo... hes on old fat guy?
Watch it...
People defend others when it hits them hardest. :twisted:
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Or when they have some idea of ethics, giz, you should know that :wink:
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soooooo... hes on old fat guy?
Watch it...
People defend others when it hits them hardest. :twisted:
I have a 30'' waist, currently just over 9 stone and I am 6ft 2''. You'll find I'm underweight and quite thin. ;)
Edited to correct shocking grammar.
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:shock:
Lank, Stephen!
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:shock:
Lank, Stephen!
My sister is convinced when I turn sideways I disappear. :lol:
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:shock:
Lank, Stephen!
My sister is convinced when I turn sideways I disappear. :lol:
:lol: Same with me. They say if I would stand in front of a barcode they wont see me.
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I like flying in Ireland when Stephen is on Ireland Center. Me uneducated.
I have a 30'' waist, currently just over 9 stone and I am 6ft 2''. You'll find I'm underweight and quite thin. ;)
Seeing as we're here..
I have a 30.5" waist, currently weigh in at 12 stone and I am 5ft 10". Im not fat.
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Seeing as we're here..
I have a 30.5" waist, currently weigh in at 12 stone and I am 5ft 10". Im not fat.
Unless you went on a stretching rack and ate about 10 tubs of 100% fat since last December I cant see that being true... Then again I could be wrong!
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Grand, Bring scales to the next fly in :D
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Grand, Bring scales to the next fly in :D
I wont be going to the UK for a while. Unless we plan an AM meet up in the states for the Summer time...
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Here is the way you should land guy.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=OaGOyPmKFsU&feature=related
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Seeing as we're here..
I have a 30.5" waist, currently weigh in at 12 stone and I am 5ft 10". Im not fat.
Unless you went on a stretching rack and ate about 10 tubs of 100% fat since last December I cant see that being true... Then again I could be wrong!
Could someone explain what "stone" means.
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Weight measurement
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1 stone=How many pounds? :?
I've never heard stone before, is it new? :P
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what version of ms flightsim does this run on?
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I'd say it goes back as far as FS2002. Check the Squawbox Software website (www.squawkbox.ca)
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FSPassengers is an addon for FS9 that replicates airline management in a very basic way. It allows you to start an airline, buy aircraft and fly the flights yourself. You load passengers and/or cargo, make sure you have enough fuel, and the addon can replicate failures as well, such as bird strikes and rapid decompression. One of the best addons I have.
Will it work for other FSs? (FSX, I mean)
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1 stone=How many pounds? :?
I've never heard stone before, is it new? :P
No, its not new. 1 stone is 14 pounds.
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FSPassengers is an addon for FS9 that replicates airline management in a very basic way. It allows you to start an airline, buy aircraft and fly the flights yourself. You load passengers and/or cargo, make sure you have enough fuel, and the addon can replicate failures as well, such as bird strikes and rapid decompression. One of the best addons I have.
Will it work for other FSs? (FSX, I mean)
i hope it is, that would be great to have