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azflyboy posted:Welcome to SomethingAwful, Senator Inhofe.  I meant read them on the radio. I actually do read the NOTAMs for my area when I get to work, because I’m a huge dork. I still got a healthy laugh out of this.
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azflyboy posted:Welcome to SomethingAwful, Senator Inhofe. The NavCanada NOTAM to avoid flight within the Tehran FIC has been around for years at this point and is displayed on every NOTAM request despite the fact it will, at most, affect 0.001% of Canadian air traffic and literally no Cessnas.
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MrYenko posted:I don’t read NOTAMs in real life. I’m going to work you around any airspace or hazards, but loving reading NOTAMs. The NOTAM system IRL is more broken than the FS ATC system. I more meant having dynamic things happening in the world than giving you a reading list before you start playing. I can get my NOTAM reading fix from SimBrief.
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Oct 13, 2021 22:36
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A lot of dangerous pilots in here. I'll have you know that I plot each and every one of the 1,000 200-foot cranes within 5 miles of SFO on my chart before every flight.
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Oct 13, 2021 22:55
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kemikalkadet posted:Also NOTAMs in the game and radar/flight following giving you notice of them, things like planned drone activity, temporary restricted zones etc. This is one of the spergiest things I’ve ever read.
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I didn't expect people dunking on in-game ATC, so maybe my very not-flight-sim-aware experience of it is wrong. I just want to be able to file a flight plan based on instrument plans, follow it while I computer-touch around the sky, and have a computer voice tell me, "Climb to 2-2-0-0 heading 459!" except not that but have it make sense. For me, if I file my flight plan, but no-one's saying, "Hang on! Yer flying a direct line there! NOOOO!" it seems a little strange. I will say I didn't try just turning off the in-game ATC and following the flight plan anyway. I might try it next time I get game pass. It was always FS2020's ATC telling me to climb to 11k feet on approach five miles from the runway.
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In real life you only file a flight plan so ATC knows what you’re doing so they can coordinate you with other traffic. That doesn’t exist in sims so just do whatever your heart desires.
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i was reading the atc ask/tell thread the other day and back in april last year when almost the entirety of us air traffic control shut down there was apparently some dude in a cessna doing traffic patterns on one of ohare's main runways king poo poo e: midway not ohare hobbesmaster posted:I'm listening to the MDW CTAF at https://www.liveatc.net/hlisten.php?mount=kmdw_1&icao=kmdw Sapozhnik fucked around with this message at 19:18 on Oct 14, 2021 |
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Mrenda posted:I didn't expect people dunking on in-game ATC, so maybe my very not-flight-sim-aware experience of it is wrong. I just want to be able to file a flight plan based on instrument plans, follow it while I computer-touch around the sky, and have a computer voice tell me, "Climb to 2-2-0-0 heading 459!" except not that but have it make sense. For me, if I file my flight plan, but no-one's saying, "Hang on! Yer flying a direct line there! NOOOO!" it seems a little strange. I mean if you really just want accurate ATC vectors and for someone to yell at you for deviating from them, sign up for VATSIM. It does exactly what you want. The only downside is that the crowd is kind of no-fun-allowed and they will ban you for "griefing" if you e.g. declare an in-flight emergency for fun. Someone brought it up in here before, but I think it would be a lot of fun to do some good old fashioned goonswarming on VATSIM with like 50 of us all flying 152s VFR asking for the same transition through whatever big bravo airport they've got running, one after another. It's perfectly legal! You have to provide the services if your workload permits it!! Sapozhnik posted:i was reading the atc ask/tell thread the other day and back in april last year when almost the entirety of us air traffic control shut down there was apparently some dude in a cessna doing traffic patterns on one of ohare's main runways Someone was doing it at Teterboro too iirc
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Sagebrush posted:goonswarming on VATSIM with like 50 of us all flying 152s VFR asking for the same transition through whatever big bravo airport they've got running, one after another. It's perfectly legal! You have to provide the services if your workload permits it!! yes please let's bully some hall monitors
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It's like when school's closed and you can skate down on all the rails.
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Sagebrush posted:Someone brought it up in here before, but I think it would be a lot of fun to do some good old fashioned goonswarming on VATSIM with like 50 of us all flying 152s VFR asking for the same transition through whatever big bravo airport they've got running, one after another. It's perfectly legal! You have to provide the services if your workload permits it!!
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Bentai posted:I would be game for this. Vatsim needs more VFR GA aircraft. Bonus points it you go play “I’m not touching your airspace” during a big VATSIM event. A half dozen 1200 codes on the transition fixes of each arrival would play merry hell with the controllers on there.
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Sagebrush posted:
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There’s a cross the pond event on the 30th.
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Where should we start from?
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Remember to change your tail number to something incredibly annoying to say. Hearing "Charlie Golf *sigh* Romeo India November... I hate your callsign... cleared to land runway 14" was when I knew I'd won vatsim.
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I don't get it
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EvilJoven posted:Remember to change your tail number to something incredibly annoying to say.
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Cojawfee posted:I don't get it It's just awkward to say. Like imagine flying a French plane with registration F-NNFN and having to say that dozens of times per flight.
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EvilJoven posted:Remember to change your tail number to something incredibly annoying to say. just have them readback the taxi instructions the MSFS ground controller spits out.
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69-DTF
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EvilJoven posted:Remember to change your tail number to something incredibly annoying to say. There is C-FRZR at my airport and I hate saying it so much whenever they're in the practice area with me. Terrible, terrible callsign.
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All-letter callsigns are just dumb as poo poo in general. The FAA has it right with max two letters and always at the end. And there are more airplanes registered in the USA than anywhere else and we still haven't run out. Idk what other countries were thinking with this five letter bullshit
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Got back from my trip to see these waiting for me. And I'm not sure when I am going to have an opportunity to open them, let alone play with them. 
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slidebite posted:Got back from my trip to see these waiting for me. You probably shouldn't stand on top of the boxes containing your new excellent flight sim gear. 
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PT6A posted:There is C-FRZR at my airport and I hate saying it so much whenever they're in the practice area with me. Terrible, terrible callsign. When I was flying IRL the only thing I didn't like about the plane I was in was it's name. C-GQPN is hard on the tongue when you're trying to do poo poo.
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I have become the guy who buys DLCs for flight sims.  The 4 seasons tree thing at https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/seasons-available-on-pc-and-xbox/456640 simMarket is loving beautiful. Flying around New England in the fall is basically everything I wanted it to be. I bought the dinky little 103 from Asobo in the MSFS marketplace. It's goofy, but if you want to fly around as fast as a car on city streets, that's your baby. The Carando planes are on sale, any of them particularly worth picking up?
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I have the seasons pack as well and I agree that it is really lovely. I just wish that it would synchronize with the date set in game instead of requiring you to move folders around to change the season, but that's a minor annoyance.
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Sagebrush posted:I have the seasons pack as well and I agree that it is really lovely. This is why you use the MSFS Addon Linker https://flightsim.to/file/1572/msfs-addons-linker Basically acts as a mod manager that lets you enable and disable mods from a simple interface.
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Bedurndurn posted:I have become the guy who buys DLCs for flight sims. I am not an add-on buyer, but I could be tempted by a small jet, preferably single engine that gets me to where I want to go 2x faster than a personal prop AC. Anything fit the bill?
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slidebite posted:That looks intriguing. T-45C or MB-339, both from Indiafoxtecho.
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The Hawk T1 by Just Flight is coming out soon and looks really good. I haven't bought any DLC planes yet but I'm probably going to pick that one up.
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Bedurndurn posted:The Carando planes are on sale, any of them particularly worth picking up? I picked up the 170B, and I’m enjoying the poo poo out of it. Big tires for life.
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Bedurndurn posted:I have become the guy who buys DLCs for flight sims. The Carenado Mooney is still broken (it no longer crashes the sim, but it's now pretty underpowered, the engine dies at idle, and Carenado will probably never fix it), but there's flightsim.to mod that fixes it. Their Arrow is generally not as good as the Flight1 models, but I think the Seneca and Seminole are supposed to be decent.
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I haven't played the Mooney since it was broken. When it was working, it was lovely. Engine sound is nice, and the mix of gauges - analogue instrument cluster, digital engine indicators, garmin gps feeding the analogue CDIs - makes it very adventurous feeling. In other words, I did not regret the purchase. And it really was stupid fast, hope it'll be fixed soon.
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slidebite posted:That looks intriguing. The Subsonex sounds right up your alley. https://secure.simmarket.com/ysim-subsonex-jsx-2-msfs.phtml
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Lord Stimperor posted:I haven't played the Mooney since it was broken. When it was working, it was lovely. Engine sound is nice, and the mix of gauges - analogue instrument cluster, digital engine indicators, garmin gps feeding the analogue CDIs - makes it very adventurous feeling. In other words, I did not regret the purchase. And it really was stupid fast, hope it'll be fixed soon. The flightsim.to mod fixes the main issues with the airplane (the engine quitting at idle, and the performance dropoff), but Carenado has historically been pretty poo poo at supporting their products (their usual model is one patch, then abandon it), and their P3d/FSX models largely got fixed by the 3rd party community, so I'd be really shocked if Carenado ever fixed the Mooney. It actually took them somewhere over a month after sim update 5 came out to patch the airplane so it wouldn't crash MSFS (every other payware developer needed maybe half that long), so Carenado are really pretty poo poo supporting their stuff.
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azflyboy posted:It actually took them somewhere over a month after sim update 5 came out to patch the airplane so it wouldn't crash MSFS (every other payware developer needed maybe half that long), so Carenado are really pretty poo poo supporting their stuff. Wolfy fucked around with this message at 05:49 on Oct 18, 2021 |
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