FSX - whats coming?

[indy007]

edit 2:  I have no idea what a SID or STAR is, time to do some googling.

It's best to think of it as a highway system. It's the method of coming & going the controllers would prefer you to take. There's a list of "procedures" which in non-atc speak just basically means driving directions. What point to cross, how fast to cross it at, and what alt to cross it at. They have them for pretty much every airport.

Go here: http://chartfinder.vatsim.net/  punch in your airport code, and all of the charts are there in pdf.

[mensa180]

You mean like GMN4 out of KLAX? 

@ Steel:

Yes I did that mission, it was very fun.

[SFRT - Frenchy]

You can also use this real life pilot tool called fltplan.com. Registering is free. It will spit out the Wx and more importantly the  recomanded flight route that you can print out. It will give you ur nav aid, radials, distances, and even allow to print dept/arrivals/aproach charts.

[Chalenge]

Chalenge, I don't know how much fun that'd be to do ACM with the Aerosoft F-16, I tried it and it flys decently just cruising around, but once you get to racking it around it seems to fly a little odd, I'm too used to Falcon 4.0 I guess, heh.  FSX seems to behave strangely when you get into the edges of the flight envelope.

The edges dont seem to have as much problem as the game coding does with million polygon aircraft and that makes it impossible to film even one on one. 

[Fishu]

The best sources for the latest terminal charts:

USA: http://avn.faa.gov/index.asp?xml=naco/online/d_tpp
Europe (every chart per country): http://www.ead.eurocontrol.int/eadcms/eadsite/index.php.html
UK: http://www.nats-uk.ead-it.com/public/index.php.html

[moot]

Never flown jet sims.. How long does it take you regulars to start up a jet for take off?

[mensa180]

It depends if you start it up with switches or with the short cut key.  The switches could take you a little bit, the short cut key takes a couple minutes on a big jet.

Start and shutting down are easy, what is hard (and fun) is knowing what the heck ATC is talking about, reading charts properly, getting charts in advance, planning the flight, having a perfect landing.

Alright so some of those things aren't fun by most people, but call me lame; I love them.

[Golfer]

You can also use this real life pilot tool called fltplan.com. Registering is free. It will spit out the Wx and more importantly the  recomanded flight route that you can print out. It will give you ur nav aid, radials, distances, and even allow to print dept/arrivals/aproach charts.

Don't check the "File This" box if you do that.  "Learjet N12345 I don't have a flightplan for you to Midway but I do have one to Vienna Austria..." 

[Chalenge]

Never flown jet sims.. How long does it take you regulars to start up a jet for take off?

I only have two jets the one being the free SectionF8 F-86 Sabre which can be started in under one minute and the Aerosoft F-16.

The problem with the Aerosoft F-16 is that in order for a cold and dark start on the jet to work right you must (absolutely must) load the Cessna 172 first. That means load the game with the Cessna ready to go and then exit the flight and load the flight of the F-16. So even if you can start the jet in a minute its going to take several minutes to get it started. I have been flying it around the world and Im just about to land in Abu Dhabi UAE. I discovered in Micronesia that the landing light is inop and does not light the ground (they left it off intentionally). I dont know if its intentional or not but you can also refuel just be pulling the throttle back the A-A system active and the fuel door open (,aybe all you need is the fuel door open) so you could fly Mach 2 around the globe even without the AI tankers. It is easier for me to refuel off of a King Air then it is an airliner because the King Air is smoother in the air.

I ported the F-86 over to FSX (it was released for FS9) as did many many people (hey its free) with little problem and for a long long time it was my favorite jet. The F-16 has radar and thats a big deal to me because with the air refuelling you can stay in the air a very long time and it can climb to FL380 (above the weather) or higher and is very fast. I am a little disappointed in the F-16 because of all the bugs in it but at the end of the day it still works.

Commercial jets may be next for me but I also have this neat add-on called Cargo Pilot that I will play with for Christmas when the nephews are here.

[Gh0stFT]

i also fly FSX often, nice Grafix, i fly mostly offline missions (Red Bull Airrace) or just seightseeing.
Last year i discovered a small freeware tool called 'FS-Recorder' http://www.fs-recorder.net/
It allows recording and playback of flights, the recorded flights can be played back either using the
user's aircraft or as AI traffic, which allows you to fly formations with yourself.
Hey and thats what i use now, its really fun! Try it out and fly formations with any Aircraft you like
Look on Youtube for FS Recorder to see it in Action.

Imagine escorting this bird...


R
Gh0stFT

[moot]

Thanks

[Denholm]

Haven't been flying online in VATSIM a lot recently. However I enjoyed a lot of the flying in Europe. Typically ATC there comes online and it gets wild around 3:00 P.M. Central (-6:00 GMT). A lot of fun at Heathrow when you are literally fighting to get a word in edge-wise.

Two great tools for monitoring traffic and ATC are here:

VATSIM Visual Display (Sorry Firefox users, only works with Internet Explorer.)
Servinfo

[Chalenge]

I just learned yesterday that IVAO has the record for greatest number of simultaneous connections? and 100000 users? Wow!

[Denholm]

Sine you're an IVAO flier, I was curious. At what times are IVAO users online? I've checked on their website and through Servinfo a few times and never saw an active connection count above 0.

[Chalenge]

Im not sure if that even works since the new software has been implemented. Over the next few days there will be plenty of activity as the 10 year anniversary flights are launched across the globe.

Beginning fliers should keep an eye on the Academy because the shared cockpit instruction (once its 100%) will be a marvel of modern technology.

Im thinking about learning the PMDG 747 what do you think?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cLW7yn_TZE