I had a Noctua cooling fan. It worked great, but net, it cost me two PCI slots. The slot, on my EVGA MB next to the CPU is for a 2 slot GPU. The Noctua fan covered that slot, and gap, and my EVGA GPU took 2 more slots.
Where are those? I need to do that for roll but couldn't find it anywhere.
Today was a better day. I got the deadzones set and turned the graphics down to get a smoother video. Also, instead of flying in central NC, I took off from LGA, flew around the statue of liberty, up the Hudson River and landed at TEB.
The good: The controls are smoother with the sensitivity set to -45 rather than -70 and I set the dead zone to 10%. I could actually steer on the ground and it felt natural, yesterday I touched the rudder and went off the runway. The terrain was better, maybe because NYC is one of the mapped areas. I may try turning graphics back up and see.
I briefly turned the autopilot one and it worked flawlessly. Or at least far better than any autopilot in any airplane I've flow to date
VFR landing was impressive, you can actually do it. I could see this being used one day to show someone how to fly a stabilized approach prior to getting out in the plane. The flare and touchdown is still difficult because it's lacking depth perception, but up to the flare, it's pretty spot on.
The not so good: Graphics are still not there yet. What I noticed is that buildings are not drawing until I get close to them, there might be a way to increase that distance. That distance was something under 5 miles, from LGA, I could not see downtown Manhattan until I was much further down the east river. For VFR, that still doesn't work.
There was one annoying flight model issue that once the system gets an altitude trend change, it doesn't let go of it. I need to explore this more, but I don't recall my plane every reacting this way - a minor nose up trim change + minor RPM reduction pushed the VSI to +20k and then it dove to -20k within 5 seconds and seemed to stick at -20. Added power back to full and it would still dive to -20. Something isn't right.
Brakes didn't seem to work very well. Or at all. Landing at TEB, I put the brakes on and it took the entire length of the runway, a fast exit onto the taxi way, back up the taxiway and back to the approach end before I could stop. Throttle was at idle.
Overall - it doesn't feel finished. I'd give it a C- for now (an improvement) and I still have to try to hook up hardware this weekend.
If you read some of the messages below you will find out that you can get better scenery at higher resolution in XPlane and even FSX. So far it seems to be huge disappointment.
Well, I took a shot. No big download issues, but got a warning about not meeting minimum requirements. The setup defaulted to the lowest settings but I could still tell things weren't quite right, a lot of screen flashing for example. Clearly needs that graphics card (and I guess power supply) upgrade.
Even if you don't know the area! Just using a Maps app and my eyes I have flown from Vancouver BC to Northern Cali in a 172 in the sim... having done it in real life and using a map everything was there, and looks great in my opinion.
Likely to cost you how exactly? The list of companies that have my personal information is longer than I am tall. The direct cost to me because of this has been about and around $0.
I'm fascinated to know what quality Real World self respecting pilots are expected to possess and other people apparently lack that would make them not want to do something if it requires the creation of some stupid Game account.
Yes, I agree, it practcally is always the case, but this time it was supposed to have been different. I will try to the Video with the A$$obo team and some dude categorically stated this was intended for Pilots.
Have a higher I.Q.? Reading some this I wonder? Am I wrong?
I general I agree with that but I personally know some of these people and are very knowledgeable and I think we have one around here that was actually part of Beta that is now having trouble. You have a Console Game company, using thousands of hours and other's people's labor and effort was given to them, for free, and have no respect for their feedback. They are doing a job that they are not qualified to do and their only concern is to make money at any cost, bad combination.
And what was the direct cost to you because of that? Was money stolen out of your account? Were purchases made on your credit card that you ended up being responsible to pay? Like I said, tons of companies have my info. Its never cost me a single dime. Same for pretty much everyone in my family and my rather small circle of friends. If that's not the case for you, well sorry about your luck.
You are wrong. Having a pilot certificate means at some point in your life you were able to pull it together enough to pass a checkride. And that is all it means. I have known pilots that were wicked smart and I've known others that were commercial grade stupid.
At the turn this thread took
