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[Macman45]

I'm Going To Order The Full KIt

Oh yes, but most of these commercial addons simulate their own failures and don't use the standard FSX systems. That Concorde uses its own entire programming and systems.

It has some pretty hairy and scary failures. The one that gets me occasionally and freaks me out is the engine surge when throttling back the engines at high speed (Mach 2.0). If you do it very quickly, the engines make these huge banging noises. The real thing apparently did it as well. The solution is to throttle back more carefully. But when you've got the sound coming through a big speaker system - it scares the heck out of you.

I've had engine failures/surge as well. I haven't got Concorde loaded at the moment, but it has a large amount of failures that can be set. Even hot starts on the engines. THe engine failures are influenced by the way you operate the plane and the engines.




I don't use the included manuals - I have the Air France flight manuals instead which I can sort of understand even though they are written in French. I have British Airways manuals as well, but I prefer the Air France ones. I also have a very good French book on supersonic aerodynamics that was good reading and very relevant to Concorde.

Crusader: Unbelievable! That is very impressive - respect indeed!



Haha - 27" Led Cinema Display here and a Mac Pro. Normally for work, but it does some secondary duty sometimes (but not often).

Just browsing, but As I posted above, I don't bootcamp, so xplane will be my choice of software Yes I had that engine surge on landing....REALLY scary, because I couldnt knock power back quickly enough. Re-flew and cut that engine set E2 to 85% of N1.. Hard to handle but got it on the ground...Maybe we should have a non-photo section in games for this kind of stuff?

 

[jake.f]

If you want to have a go at the real short haul stuff try using a Cessna Caravan for shorter trips at lower levels, say for example Sydney - Wollongong at something <10000', that's always a good way to pass time.
I'm making it my goal to fly a Caravan one day in real life... Never going to happen

 

[sacha89]

fsx on macbook pro

hey,

I am about to buy this macbook pro 2011

MacBook Pro 2.0GHz quad-core Intel i7
15.4-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit glossy widescreen display, 1440-by-900 resolution
4GB (2 x 2GB) of 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM
500GB Serial ATA @ 5400 rpm
8x double-layer SuperDrive (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
Intel HD Graphics 3000 and AMD Radeon HD 6490M

do you think it is going to run weel fsx?

 

[kolax]

hey,

I am about to buy this macbook pro 2011

MacBook Pro 2.0GHz quad-core Intel i7
15.4-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit glossy widescreen display, 1440-by-900 resolution
4GB (2 x 2GB) of 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM
500GB Serial ATA @ 5400 rpm
8x double-layer SuperDrive (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
Intel HD Graphics 3000 and AMD Radeon HD 6490M

do you think it is going to run weel fsx?

Yep. Same as mine, and runs FS9 with everything on max smoothly. FSX, have to turn some of the candy down a little, but runs smoothly enough.

 

[wordoflife]

Such a cool thread! I used to play FS2004 and FSX all the time. I didn't really know how to do anything. I could only take the plane up from the runway. I didn't know where I was going or how to land it, but it was still a lot of fun.

I have to start playing this again. What software are you using?

 

[kolax]

Such a cool thread! I used to play FS2004 and FSX all the time. I didn't really know how to do anything. I could only take the plane up from the runway. I didn't know where I was going or how to land it, but it was still a lot of fun.

I have to start playing this again. What software are you using?

What you mean what software? FS9 and FSX, like you mentioned already in your post!

 

[avro707]

hey,

I am about to buy this macbook pro 2011

MacBook Pro 2.0GHz quad-core Intel i7
15.4-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit glossy widescreen display, 1440-by-900 resolution
4GB (2 x 2GB) of 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM
500GB Serial ATA @ 5400 rpm
8x double-layer SuperDrive (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
Intel HD Graphics 3000 and AMD Radeon HD 6490M

do you think it is going to run weel fsx?

I think it will run okay - you may need to turn down the graphics settings a bit. FSX likes high clock speeds. The HDD I'm a little concerned about, a 7200rpm one would be better.

wordoflife: The following software, and I'll provide links to it all to save you searching:

Microsoft FSX Acceleration (you can buy it anywhere)
Windows 7 64 bit Ultimate (you can buy it anywhere)
HifiSim Active Sky Evolution (http://www.hifitechinc.com/)
Pete Dowson's FSUIPC 4.7: (http://www.schiratti.com/dowson.html)
PMDG B737 NGX (http://www.precisionmanuals.com/)
PMDG B747-400X and expansion packs (http://www.precisionmanuals.com/)
PMDG MD-11 (http://www.precisionmanuals.com/)
FSLabs Concorde (http://www.flightsimlabs.com/)

I've also got a lot of FullTerrain X scenery (http://fullterrain.com/), and the Hong Kong Kai-Tak is from FlyTampa! (another commercial addon). I have no affiliations to any of those.

You could spend a small fortune on those addons.

Landing and navigation is pretty easy with practice. Practice landings at somewhere like Kai-tak and you'll get pretty good at it very quickly:

http://www.swiremariners.com/kt13.html

At the bottom of this page are the approach plates:
http://jemauvais.livejournal.com/612640.html?thread=2492960

IGS13 is an enjoyable challenge. I'll do some more flying later today.

 

[Messy]

So I clicked on the link using my HP Touchpad and didn't maximise the images, I sat back in my sofa and thought "god damn... these guys all have planes, how in the hell do all these people own planes".

 

[dmr727]

The reason for such cold temperature is, if I'm not mistaken due to the extremes of the equatorial tropopause, as opposed to the polar tropopause.

Yep. The height of the tropopause is greatest at the equator. Since the temperature lapse rate only occurs within the tropopause, there's more altitude available at the equator for the temps to drop. I've taken planes over the Blue Spruce routes, and especially up in the mid 40s, performance really suffers since the ISA deviation is crazy high. It's not nearly as bad on the tracks, fortunately.

 

[soulreaver99]

Does this count? Been playing Tie Fighter again

 

[avro707]

That one is old.

This is my current flight - that is just outside of Melbourne airport. There are rumours that the plane might soon be real too.

Edit: Scratch that rumour, the whole airline has just shutdown.

 

[Love]

I have a few great screenies from FSX running on Boot Camp, I'll try to dig them up.

 

[Samuriajackon]

Image

Does this count? Been playing Tie Fighter again

YES! Where did you get the game?

 

[soulreaver99]

It's an old dos / windows 3.1 game. Probably the best game Lucas arts ever made. I still get an adrenile rush out of it

 

[avro707]

Landed in Melbourne after flying from Sydney:

The route was:

YSSY DEENA4WOL/16R H65 RAZZI Q29 TANTA RUMIE NABBA BULLA TAREX Q29 DCT LIZZI5A/27 YMML

Sydney, using DEENA4 standard instrument departure from runway 16 right with Wollongong transition, following H65 airway to RAZZI waypoint, then Q29 to TANTA, and so on, then LIZZI5A standard terminal arrival into runway 27 at Melbourne.

The Ansett Sydney 2000 Olympics colour scheme is something I painted up on this plane, even though it's fictional on a B747-8i. It was real on a B747-312 Ansett briefly leased from Singapore Airlines however. I often paint up planes quite a bit.

And this is a B737-800 out of Melbourne going to Sydney:

YMML DOSEL7/27 Y59 RIVET RIVET9/34L YSSY

Apologies for all the fingerprints and dust on the displays. The plane is PMDG's B737 NGX addon (includes B737-800 and B737-900). It's probably the finest addon available for FSX - extreme detail in graphics, systems, sound, well, pretty much everything.

That's all for the moment.