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Shipon posted:I think I figured out a pattern as to it recording takeoffs/landings. You have to interact with the ATC for it to count. Given how awful the ATC is at actually working, that's not always a given. I'm not sure. When I'm flying the CJ4 I never interact with ATC at all and it always records my landings and maybe 20% of my takeoffs. I did my type qualification in Neofly last week in it and it showed 0 takeoffs and 2 landings: the touch-and-go and full stop. Didn't touch ATC once. E: Just did a test flight where I didn't request takeoff but did request landing and the log only counted the takeoff. Also the ATIS at the arrival airport was completely wrong, gave the wrong active runway and had the wrong wind info. 
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I despise the log with the passions of a thousand suns! Not because I'm anti-log but because the drat thing pops up and takes away all input after every flight and it sucks. No way to shut down the airplane properly without that thing popping up. And I enjoy doing a proper shutdown  With update 6 they made it even more obtrusive in VR because it will throw you into the loading screen environment with a flat projection of the cockpit, which is horribly jarring and makes it stutter like crazy while it populates the log. I know I can hit "continue" but by then I don't care anymore. It's become my single greatest annoyance with the sim, especially now that they've inexplicably made it even more obtrusive (in VR at least). This is not the sort of game where anything should take control away completely without it atleast being an option, in my opinion. Feel free to log the flight but you can just show it on the ESC menu screen when I quit the flight, or in the actual main menu where there's already a specific button to display the log. Does the log go away completely in dev mode? Or is it just that it doesn't register your flight, but still pops up? Because I would literally pay money at this point for that drat screen to go away
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SU7 is bringing supersonic physics, which I assume are integrated into the general model. Can't wait to see what funny regressions that'll create. They shouldn't even have announced the F/A-18 and said physics, because Indiafoxtecho has the F-35 done and is delaying it because of SU7 and eventually surprises. 
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Combat Pretzel posted:The F-35 done and is delaying it Incredible realism.
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Bug report: F35 turns off crossing international date line. Status: Closed, working as intended. I know these are low hanging fruit but the idea still makes me smile.
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guidoanselmi posted:Just got Il-2 on sale. Any recommendations for tutorial reads & videos for getting started? https://www.airgoons.com/w/IL-2_Beginner_Guide https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/725484620727976227/725486766286700584/The_Basics_with_Bonkers.pdf Saul Kain fucked around with this message at 03:31 on Nov 8, 2021 |
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kemikalkadet posted:I'm not sure. When I'm flying the CJ4 I never interact with ATC at all and it always records my landings and maybe 20% of my takeoffs. I did my type qualification in Neofly last week in it and it showed 0 takeoffs and 2 landings: the touch-and-go and full stop. Didn't touch ATC once. I too sometimes get no landings, or no takeoffs, or no anything, even though I've clearly both taken off and landed, sometimes more than once! I always suspected it had to do with if you 'park' off the taxi-way to count as a landing or not? Since I sometimes just slam on the parking break in the middle of the runway when doing a quick Neofly
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I need to stop buying dumb peripherals but preorders went live yesterday for the Thrustmaster TCA Yoke and... http://www.thrustmaster.com/en_US/products/tca-yoke-pack-boeing-edition
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$500 for the set seems steep considering that's the price of the honeycomb alpha and bravo together. Having an actual control column neat differentiator, but feature-wise it seems lackluster compared to Honeycomb products. Not as many switches and knobs and other such stuff. And only three axes on the quadrant? Really? Though I do like how they've taken a cue from Honeycomb and slapped an autopilot control system on there. I guess I'd care more about this if I flew more planes with column-style yokes, but somehow almost nothing I like to fly has such a control system. Dr. Video Games 0031 fucked around with this message at 23:09 on Nov 10, 2021 |
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I definitely appreciate that more vendors are incorporating spots for phones/tablets in their setups now that companion apps are such a common thing.
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I just received my new VKB stuff and initial impressions are great. It's all modular so you can pick and choose what to get and how to put it together. I went with a throttle quadrant and two button boxes and so far it seems like an awesome addition to my setup. It's got enough buttons and knobs that I no longer need to remember any of the weird DCS keybinds like shift+home, alt+', etc, plus now I've finally got a way to quickly adjust mixture/radiator in a warbird or Cessna. 
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Not gonna lie, that looks sick. But I already have enough stuff...
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 My son got a session in a big simulator for his birthday. I enjoyed my time a lot there, it was really fun.
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I just got a VR headset, and... it's a gamechanger, holy poo poo.
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PT6A posted:I just got a VR headset, and... it's a gamechanger, holy poo poo. Yeeesssssssss One of us. One of us. One of us.
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The cockpits definitely feel cramped in VR. Since I'm a sim-only admirer of planes, I have no idea how the VR scale compares to real life, but I imagine most GA plane cockpits are much smaller than they typically appear on 2D screens. That said, I've seen a couple people mention before that the VR cockpit scale might be off. Also be aware that driving high-resolution headsets is no easy task in demanding games like MSFS. I can't even hit 45fps with a 3080 Ti and Reverb G2. Dr. Video Games 0031 fucked around with this message at 16:54 on Nov 13, 2021 |
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Ya, light GA is pretty tight. I can’t generally comfortably sit next to someone in a 172 if their seat is in the same place longitudinally; our shoulders won’t fit.
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It might be a lensing effect in VR that makes it feel smaller since if I push my face up in the dials they feel properly sized but the regular head position makes everything feel small like a wide-angle effect. I've flown a Robin HR200 IRL and the DR400 in the sim has an identical cockpit, it feels a lot smaller in the sim but yeah they don't have a lot of room IRL.
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I’ve flown everything from 172s to wide bodies IRL, everything feels about right in VR.
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The fun one for me was a Bf 109 in IL-2: Sturmovik. I've seen more spacious literal coffins.
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VR is neat but the only sim that runs with acceptable frametimes at all times on my 5900x/3080 is IL-2. I think after another two years of patches and new hardware it will finally be ideal. The most fun cockpit I’ve experienced in VR is the F-16 in DCS. You really feel like you have the jet strapped on to you, it’s a small cockpit but you sit high and have amazing visibility with the bubble canopy.
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Yeah, I find that the GA planes have about the right scale in VR. Most people are surprised by how small a Cessna 172 is, let alone a 152, the first time they climb into one in real life, too. I think maybe people are mentally expecting it to be about as big as the inside of their car? But by the spec sheet, a 172 has less cabin volume than a Geo Metro. The fighter jets in DCS were the real surprising thing though yeah. A MiG-21 cockpit is tiny. I totally understand why fighter pilots are all little guys now -- anyone even a little taller than average will hit their head on the canopy or get their legs torn off in an ejection. Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 22:35 on Nov 13, 2021 |
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So where's the plane for us non-midgets, eh? Where's my flying equivalent of a luxury SUV?
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Mailer posted:So where's the plane for us non-midgets, eh? Where's my flying equivalent of a luxury SUV? Just buy an Airbus? Or are you some sort of poor?!?
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A Diamond Da-40 is more of a compact car. Two normal sized adults will not touch shoulders in the front or back. The seats are very car-like, as is the car type seatbelt. Not roomy by any standards but roomier than any other GA plane I’ve flow. Having been in an F-16, the ICP is basically in front of your face. It is tiny as hell to be in.
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Vahakyla posted:A Diamond Da-40 is more of a compact car. Two normal sized adults will not touch shoulders in the front or back. The seats are very car-like, as is the car type seatbelt. Ya, anything of even remotely modern design is automatically quite a bit roomier. One of the big design goals of the Cessna 177 (which was expected to replace the 172 in the late sixties, but didn’t,) was cabin width. (172=40in, PA-28=40in, 182=42in, 177=48in)
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MrYenko posted:Ya, anything of even remotely modern design is automatically quite a bit roomier. One of the big design goals of the Cessna 177 (which was expected to replace the 172 in the late sixties, but didn’t,) was cabin width. (172=40in, PA-28=40in, 182=42in, 177=48in) The 177 was the greatest plane that never really was. The best explanation I've ever seen is: Joe Christy posted:We liked that airplane, and found almost nothing to pick at. However, owners soon discovered to their horror that it didn't fly or land exactly like a strutless Skyhawk, and some heavy-handed Super-Car drivers managed to smash the Cardinal tail into the pavement on landing, knock-off a few nose-wheels, etc. (apparently, this was possible if one closed his eyes, used full back-pressure on the wheel at the flare and then sat rigidly waiting for the crashing noises to subside). Cessna accepted the blame gracefully. That was proper because, after all, they had lulled a generation of Cessna pilots into near-effortless flying with the extremely forgiving 172 series, and it probably wasn't ethical to suddenly offer, to many of those same customers, a Cessna that didn't handle exactly like a Cessna. The company therefore picked up the tab for a list of modifications that gentled the Cardinal and returned the smiles to the faces of dealers and customers It's quite poo poo that it never worked out, because everything I've heard is that it's a far better plane than the 172.
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PT6A posted:The 177 was the greatest plane that never really was. The best explanation I've ever seen is:  It doesn’t hurt that it’s loving beautiful, as well.
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Any goon that comes to Charleston will be provided a Diamond 20 or Diamond 40 ride, courtesy by me. Spare Bose A20 headset provided as complimentary service. The -20 is tight as all loving poo poo. We will be side-spooning. Bonus is that we can take off between C-17s and Hornets. Hasty edit: Offer void for goons over 235lbs or maybe a bit more if fuel is dumped Vahakyla fucked around with this message at 02:51 on Nov 16, 2021 |
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Vahakyla posted:Any goon that comes to Charleston will be provided a Diamond 20 or Diamond 40 ride, courtesy by me. Spare Bose A20 headset provided as complimentary service. The -20 is tight as all loving poo poo. We will be side-spooning. I'm there every other month my new friend. I like getting the "good" taxi on my flights where I can review the fleet.
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