Flight Simulator X

Bram

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+1 Simon! Maybe we should open a flight sim subforum and go airborne so now and then :D
 
couple of days ago i plugged back my logitech dual action gamepad into the pc and turn on FS-X

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shenken

  • shenken

Nicey... I just reinstalled FS2004 as FSX doesn´t perform well so far. I`ve installed ProFlightEmultor, ActiveSky and lots of other stuff. While i´m not flying online with IVAO or VATSIM anymore, i´ll catch their IFR/VFR Long Haul flights from their pages and fly them on my own. Lots of fun. I´ve seen locations in the FS 2004 world, that i´ve never seen before :)
 
heheheh
you're not the only one...although I normally go back to the place I called home :)

well I find it pretty good.
Only problem is that it might be a bit to sensitive....especially with the extra 300
so i personally have yet to set mine a bit better.
 

Warren Dawes

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I'm still with FS2004 and still have no inclination to "upgrade" to FSX.
I have so many addons for FS20004, it satisfies all my needs. The cost to upgrade my PC for FSX is not worth it, but maybe in the future if I ever get a PC capable of running it.

My controller is the Saitek X52 and it is great. You can hook it up with your Wheel pedals for rudder control if you want added realism, but the twist grip works fine for me.
 
well i was planning on buying a flight wheel and all back a couple of years ago as I used my pc more for flight sim than racing sim back then....hell i even used to have joysticks....but to tell you the truth, they were cheap so they sucked....i can go fully left, but when i turn right they just won't turn (and it didn't help with calibration reset also)
but since last year i was back in sim racing...especially on pc.....so i decided to stick with the racing wheel (but the racing wheel is damn good for also flight sim :).....only thing missing is the tilting.....i wish somebody can modify a g25 to do that lol)

maybe in the future when i'm working hard you will hear me say that i have 2 pc/cockpits.....1 for race sim....the other for flight sim :)
 
finally some sceneries, that i really want that is :), are showing (for buying) on the net for FS-X

today I bought an "updated" version of my hometown airport TNCA by Tropical Sim (which the first time they published was in 2002....damn thats looooong)

I have to say that the update is pretty good......especially updating the general aviation (south side), jet bridges and most of the buildings & roads around the airport
(now if they can just bring a small extra update of the recently extended runway....i'll be extremely happy :))

some screenies :)

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Samu Palomäki

  • Samu Palomäki

I once owned Saitek X52 Simyoke and stick. I used to play FS2004 and IL2 sturmovik. Someway my intrest to flight sims has stopped. As i red this thread i noticed that there is a huge community of online pilots that flies in networks such as VATSIM and IVAO. Most of Finnish pilots use IVAO. Pilots and most of air-traffic-controllers are real guys sitting at their officechair. This is all that i learned yesterday and now im going to buy Logitech Force 3D joystick and Flightsimulator X. Maingoal is to learn to fly and then go to IVAO network and carry passanger around Finland with little Cessna.
 
some months ago I posted these screenshots, maybe it is time to post them again :)

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but there is a bad rumour for flight simmers out there
this is not a good news :S
http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/flightblogger/2009/01/the-end-of-an-era-microsoft-fl.html
With the economy spiraling further and further into a hole, Microsoft announced yesterday it was laying of 5000 employees. We learned today, though still officially unconfirmed by Microsoft, that the cuts include the disbanding of the ACES Studio team which is responsible for Flight Simulator. It appears as though the venerable flight simulator, which has been around since 1982, is no more.

When mega businesses like Boeing or Microsoft eliminate jobs, the impact reverberates throughout the economy. The loss of 5000 Microsoft jobs is a huge blow in its own right, but the Flight Simulator community, which is truly global, will feel the loss as well. Many developers make their living creating addons for the program. The impact is far from localized.

As many of you know, I am an avid user of Flight Sim as well, having flown one version or another since 1995. In no uncertain terms, Flight Sim cultivated my love of aviation and helped me get to where I am today. I joke with my mother that all those times she was yelling at me during High School to do my homework and stop shooting ILS approaches to Kai Tai, I was really just getting job training for the future.

Microsoft Flight Simulator was an institution both personally and for the aviation community and its loss will be strongly felt.
 

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