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BIG HEADLINE posted:That guy just did a new video on an LH 747-8i from LAX to FRA and drat is it cringey in places first class plane videos in a nutshell
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After watching Midway the other day, I got excited about planes again and visited the Fleet Air Arm museum - haven't been there since I was a kid (used to be a pretty standard birthday trip). As it happens they had an Avenger there, turns out the FAA flew them a bunch. And Jesus. Christ. They're massive. The Fairey Gannett has a rep for being huge but those things made it look fairly sensibly sized. Pretty kickass. It was opposite a Seafire, and that thing was tiny.  
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I've had that exact same feeling looking at a TBF. Or a number of other radial-engine planes of the era, I remember seeing a P-47 and P-51 startup and taxi off together and the difference in every dimension was way more significant than I thought it'd be before putting eyes on both side by side.
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Is that a Sea Vampire looking small and insignificant across from it?
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I think the pilot in a Swordfish was 3m off the deck.
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Ardeem posted:Is that a Sea Vampire looking small and insignificant across from it? That's the one, yes. Absurdly small. ^^another plane that's weirdly big, I guess they did have a crew of 3 but they're big beasts. They're pretty cool aircraft: despite being old by the start of the war, they sunk more shipping than any other plane. Apparently the Japanese studied the strike on Taranto to learn lessons for Pearl Harbour. Roblo fucked around with this message at 18:40 on Aug 17, 2020 |
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e.pilot posted:We actually didn’t go through too much precip surprisingly. Are commercial plane weather radars good enough that you can basically slip past the worst bits of any storm?
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eggyolk posted:Are commercial plane weather radars good enough that you can basically slip past the worst bits of any storm? Not really, we lucked out and there was a gap we managed to sneak through, twice. Had the gap not been there we would have had to divert to the alternate. Almost beat the front to the field but it was moving fast, so we had to turn around and find our way back through and landed on the backside.
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Roblo posted:That's the one, yes. Absurdly small. I had exactly the same reaction the first time I saw a Swordfish in the metal at the Fleet Air Arm museum - you sort of think it'll just be like a chubby Tiger Moth with a radial engine and it's actually the size of a small house and the propeller spinner is well above your head. Psion posted:I've had that exact same feeling looking at a TBF. Or a number of other radial-engine planes of the era, I remember seeing a P-47 and P-51 startup and taxi off together and the difference in every dimension was way more significant than I thought it'd be before putting eyes on both side by side. When the Eagle Squadrons converted from Spitfire MkVs to P-47s the joke in the RAF was that the pilots would be able to avoid enemy fire by running around inside the fuselage. By sheer heft and volume the Thunderbolt was huge compared to a Spitfire - the P-47D weighed nearly 3000lbs more empty than the Spit-V did at max. gross weight.
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eggyolk posted:Are commercial plane weather radars good enough that you can basically slip past the worst bits of any storm? I mean, in terms of finding a gap if it's there? Sure, the weather radar will let you know where it is. In terms of being able to penetrate any storm, no, sometimes the gap will not be there and you're hosed. Even GA weather radars can accomplish that, as can external sources like ForeFlight or XM weather if you can accept the delay.
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eggyolk posted:Are commercial plane weather radars good enough that you can basically slip past the worst bits of any storm? Depends on the radar and exactly what the weather you're trying to work around is doing. The radar on the Q400 is notoriously crap (it often fails to locate things like "a mountain range" until you cycle the power), but I've successfully used it to navigate through gaps in some fairly widespread areas of buildups. That said, that was also with the help of nexrad (to figure out the big picture situation), and I was also dealing storms in California and the Pacific Northwest, which are nowhere near what you see in the flyover states.
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Isn't it also true that the radar can find a gap for you but it can't guarantee how big the gap is once you get there?
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Onboard radar can give you a reasonably good idea how large a gap is, but due to attenuation, it's possible to see a gap (or at least smaller returns) where one doesn't exist if the radar is looking through precipitation between the antenna and the gap. You may be thinking of Nexrad, which gives a much better "big picture" image than onboard radar, but is delayed by several minutes, so absolutely sets up situations where unaware pilots could go for a gap that doesn't exist when they get there.
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I suspect those that are even semi interested probably already know this, but the new generation MSFS is dropping imminently. Near photo realism for almost the entire planet  https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3550928&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=272#post507343946
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I think of it like the state of the visual art for big flight sims was running xplane with 300 gigs of add-in scenery that required 24 hours of GPU calculation to install plus a bunch of shaders plus a bunch of payware airports so that things would look really good at 5000-10000' AGL. Now with FS2020 things look loving amazing down to like 2000AGL and I could not be more excited. FS2020 is included with xbox game pass for PC, which if you didn't already subscribe to it is $1 for the first month. Might as well try her out.  
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slidebite posted:I suspect those that are even semi interested probably already know this, but the new generation MSFS is dropping imminently. I thought we were all from Kiribati on this forum!
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It'll be interesting to see what this does with some 3rd party developers, since they're all used to the decades old stuff running in Prepar3d. While it sounds like the new MSFS is very backwards compatible (it actually supports the ancient flight model system from the old MSFS/P3d series), it also sounds like it doesn't support many of the workarounds 3rd party developers had come up with over the years, so there's going to be a learning curve.
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Ambihelical Hexnut posted:FS2020 is included with xbox game pass for PC, which if you didn't already subscribe to it is $1 for the first month. Might as well try her out. I woke up at like 5:30 this morning to start the download and as far as I can tell MS servers are getting rocked right now, I'm only averaging ~10 Mbps and for 130 gigs that's gunna end up taking like all day. There is also no download status in game other than a progress bar at the bottom of the screen unless I'm missing something. e: I killed it and started up again and it started to do an update that looks like it's getting more reasonable speeds (500 Mbps+ at times) and there's an actual X out of Y GBs left. Plinkey fucked around with this message at 12:49 on Aug 18, 2020 |
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Ardeem posted:Is... is that Yes
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A guy in the Flightsim thread in games flew over Orlando. Looks really good... letting it download as I go back to work this afternoon. Seems to be a bit of fuckery to get it going. Zero One posted:WOW. That is my assessment so far.
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I was disappointed that “preloading” on the xbox game pass meant just preloading the 500MB launcher, please wait while we download 93GB and decompress it as we go (while playing endless loop of music that eventually will drive you mad). Just left it going after I dusted off my cheapo thrustmaster HOTAS.
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Can you fart around with a mouse and keyboard? Might be fun to fly around the airports I work.
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I haven't had a chance to play yet, and wont until later, but someone please tell me multiple monitor support actually works unlike FSX
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https://twitter.com/lazygamereviews/status/1295827351310348307 This would actually be really tempting to pick up, despite having all of two hours in FSX, if not for being about to move and having no idea when I'll be able to set up my computer again.
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Plinkey posted:I haven't had a chance to play yet, and wont until later, but someone please tell me multiple monitor support actually works unlike FSX Watching a YouTube guy named mr.young running a dual monitor test. Looks smooth
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Wingnut Ninja posted:https://twitter.com/lazygamereviews/status/1295827351310348307 except it to be bundles into stuff like game pass, for a while apparently MS is also going to offer a 3 month pass to anyone that has office 365, even through their company/school they really want this out there
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I've completely forgotten how to trim an aeroplane, so I keep going up and down and up and down.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:https://twitter.com/lazygamereviews/status/1295827351310348307 "gently caress it, that taxiway's open. Let's DO this. HARRRRRRRRISSSSSSSSSSSSSOOOOOOOOONNNNNN ~FOOOOOOOOORD~!"
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Dang it, flight sim seems to recognize my hotas but won't map any buttons to it.. Ah fuckit using an xbox controller instead 
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:I've completely forgotten how to trim an aeroplane, so I keep going up and down and up and down. https://imgur.com/Nmp5wrl.mp4
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And in answer, 1C Games is having a big "Real pilots fly combat" sale on IL-2 base games with some aggressive discounts. The base buy-in is now $7.49. And they've already got VR support.
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priznat posted:I was disappointed that “preloading” on the xbox game pass meant just preloading the 500MB launcher, please wait while we download 93GB and decompress it as we go (while playing endless loop of music that eventually will drive you mad). The first half of the download took a goddamn hour and a half, but the second half flew by. Just FYI. There's a ton of small files up front but the last chunk is just one massive package probably containing the main game engine.
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