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Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator

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Post by newsoul2019 »

djsumdog wrote: post #48

I started on Flight Simulator 4 way back in the day; I think on my 286. I remember when I first moved to Chicago I wanted to check out Meigs Field, the airfield you started on. It's gone now, and has a really crazy story of how it got turned into a park: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meigs_Field Looking at the previews for the new FS, I wonder if it will require an Internet connection. It seems like way too much cont…

I flew around the Bay Area a bunch of times on my Amiga in FA/18 Interceptor, in the late 1980s

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F/A-18_Interceptor

Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator

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Post by sundvor »

flyingfences wrote: post #207
foo101 wrote: post #4

The trailer link on this page is very impressive. Here is the direct link to the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReDDgFfWlS4

The game looks impressive! As an aside, how do major companies - computer graphics companies especially - still upload letterboxed videos? If I'm watching a 21:9 video on a 21:9 monitor, there shouldn't be black bars on all four sides; it should fill the screen. The entire video was shrunk down just so that the final five seconds could be a green-colored screen with a little xbox logo in the center?

So I'm not the only one here with a 21:9 (3440x1440). It's pretty frustrating!

Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator

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Post by hestefisk »

RankingMember wrote: post #137
gnrlst wrote: post #17

Story time: as a kid I would use FS to do intercontinental flights with my cousin. My (small) room would be divided in two: passenger seating, and cockpit. We would sit down at my computer and take turns flying. I would convince my little sisters to sit down in the passenger area which were two chairs behind a curtain (they for some reason found it less entertaining than we did and often decided to leave early in the…

I love this. Reminds me of the happy parts of my childhood, though my imaginary excursions were more automotive/train based (with simulated accidents which my passengers did not appreciate).

I think there was also a Train Simulator by MS? :)

Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator

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Post by hestefisk »

newsoul2019 wrote: post #211
djsumdog wrote: post #48

I started on Flight Simulator 4 way back in the day; I think on my 286. I remember when I first moved to Chicago I wanted to check out Meigs Field, the airfield you started on. It's gone now, and has a really crazy story of how it got turned into a park: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meigs_Field Looking at the previews for the new FS, I wonder if it will require an Internet connection. It seems like way too much cont…

I flew around the Bay Area a bunch of times on my Amiga in FA/18 Interceptor, in the late 1980s - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F/A-18_Interceptor

Now that was a classic game. I played it a lot on my old A1200. Walk down memory lane!

Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator

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Post by zzless »

neilv wrote: post #6

Open source community project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlightGear

Glad someone mentioned FlightGear. It is a pretty nice simulator, with pretty accurate flight models, although not too friendly to setup. Once you do though ... . I used to do IFR practice in FlightGear, first for my IFR rating, then for the ATP. Unpublished holding patterns, weird approaches (single engine partial panel NDB was an ordeal ...), I could do thirty a day, free. It really helped. I would script random weather, instrument failures and clearances (with festival, I believe it was called). Not the same as a real airplane but still a very helpful tool.

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Post by mr_toad »

dalore wrote: post #164
gnrlst wrote: post #17

Story time: as a kid I would use FS to do intercontinental flights with my cousin. My (small) room would be divided in two: passenger seating, and cockpit. We would sit down at my computer and take turns flying. I would convince my little sisters to sit down in the passenger area which were two chairs behind a curtain (they for some reason found it less entertaining than we did and often decided to leave early in the…

Kidzania in the UK has a donated giant plane for kids to pretend to be pilots and stewards. The parents sit inside as passengers and get served plastic food. It's so cute.

> get served plastic food

An authentic experience.

Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator

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Post by geofft »

iso-8859-1 wrote: post #145
pixelbath wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Flight Simulator team at Microsoft takes their work pretty seriously. I very much doubt this is prerendered; they know the cost of BSing their (very hardcore) fanbase.

When you say "Flight Simulator team", are you talking about the team that ported the subLOGIC simulator to the IBM PC?

Seems unlikely - subLOGIC themselves did that port, and Bruce Artwick continued working on Flight Simulator for Microsoft, and there was significant work on Flight Simulator, particularly with regard to realism, in the decades after the initial release of the Microsoft version.

Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator

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Post by dlgeek »

dclowd9901 wrote: post #91
eternalny1 wrote: post #42

I've been using Flight Simulator since the 80s and it was one of the driving factors that caused me to later become a commercial pilot. I used to be into the simulation side quite intensely, and I own FSX, P3D, X-Plane and hardware peripherals. However, the underlying engines on these platforms are suffering due to age. If Microsoft re-enters this market correctly (modern engine, focus on SIMULATION, 3rd-party suppor…

I like the idea of it scaling up to full simulation. I'd love for the game to teach you to fly and go through the steps of proper radio protocol, vocabulary and so on. It loooks like they might be leveraging their cloud computing to do things like map simulation and perhaps even air traffic control(!) so I'm actually pretty excited about this.

They'll probably let "proper radio protocol" be handled by 3p extensions, that's the general trend of the market. Take a look at services like https://www.pilotedge.net/ for the current gen of simulators.
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