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Offline alert5

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« on: February 01, 2006, 01:02:46 PM »
Does anyone here play flight sims? Do you play or do you fly flight sims  :lol:

Anyone 'flying' Flight Sim or any of the military sims do the rounds?
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« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2006, 07:29:04 PM »
I use Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 every now and then, and I'm planning on getting X-plane one of these days.



I've seen the screenshots from Flight Simulator X, due to be released near christmas, and they are amazing.  I'll try to post them if I can find them again.
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Offline Chris G

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« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2006, 08:32:14 PM »
The last time i had a go on a simulator it was Flight Unlimited which was cool.
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« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2006, 07:34:27 PM »
I think I have Flight Sim 2000 knocking around. Think the reason I don't play it is that my computer just isn't up to spec :(

I can remember playing a flight sim called F-19 way back in the days of Windows 3.11 and it had to be run from DOS :) Basic vector graphics but I still had many hours of fun with it :)



There was one realised for the Amiga 1200 many years ago and I wish it was released for the PC - Tornado. This was a brilliant sim with just about every weapon then available for the Tornado modelled.
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Offline alert5

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« Reply #4 on: February 04, 2006, 07:41:22 PM »
Found some images of Flight Sim X and it does look cool



http://www.planet.nl/planet/show/id=75057/contentid=670503/sc=7bb552



Anything I've read about this sim suggests that current PCs will have to be upgraded to even run it :(
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« Reply #5 on: January 04, 2007, 02:27:01 PM »
Lock on modern air combat
Jet fighter V   littel boring though and others to but never played MS line up.
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« Reply #6 on: January 08, 2007, 03:11:44 PM »
I like flight Sims, preferably flight simulator X, however it takes a huge bite out of your hard drive, 15 gigs... anyway, the quality is brilliant. It is worth it!

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« Reply #7 on: January 09, 2007, 10:56:23 AM »
Haven't played a flight sim in years. The last I played was FS2000 & Total Air War. Did watch a show about flight sim fans and the lengths they went to get as much realism into the sim. One guy even had a flight sim setup in a container at Dublin docks complete with a £20,000 parabolic mirror that the images were projected onto.
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« Reply #8 on: January 09, 2007, 12:29:44 PM »
Yip, i wuld use them now and again.. i dont go over board with the effects however i would like the best performance, however the higher the performance is set, the lower the game play is... i would prefer to fly boeing type planes or the cessenas from time to time. i would usually go and download the actual weather from their website as well.
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Re: Flight Sims
« Reply #9 on: January 09, 2007, 12:37:49 PM »
More a blow-em up, shoot-em down person  ;D
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« Reply #10 on: January 13, 2007, 12:03:05 AM »
My perfect take off would consist of the following:

- set flaps to 5 (this is depending on runway length and weather)
- set autothrottle
- all lights, de-ice, pitot heat etc should be on
- your flight plan should have been loaded etc (incl. heading and altitude)
- Set the brakes to "RTO"
- get confirmation from control tower
- slowly increase speed to roughly 40 knots
- when this is reached increase speed to full power
- depending on runway length raise the nose of the plane to an angle of 10 degrees at 134 knots
- roughly on your ascend (1100) raise landing gear
- retract flaps to 1
- keep speed below 250 kias
 
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