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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: CASHEW on June 09, 2014, 09:30:25 PM
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Any yall got it?
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I actually came from FSX to AH, however many years ago that was.. Almost 3 I think?
I heard GameSpy died though so it's a b@#*$ to connect to games/servers?
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I have FSX. Anything else you want to know? :)
:old:
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Got it. Not installed though. Maybe later this year I will install it again with my A2A P-51.
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I have it, almost never use it. I could never stand looking around. One of the standout things about AH for me is the view system. My experience of flying VFR is that your head is outside of the cockpit not trapped in a box with window pillars and such. Have X plane 9 and its the same, I would use clear panel or whatever its called, also the planes usually fly weird. There was one download of a 172 or something that you could do a forward slip in but....
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I also tried vatsim and that was kind of neat. A lot of the problem is the controls and the absence of realistic trim. I have a soaring simulator called condor that feels reasonable.
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Got it when it first came out!
It make a great coaster these days!
:salute
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Got it when it first came out!
It make a great coaster these days!
:salute
:D :aok
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I have it and I use it. But mostly as a gateway to VATSIM. Once you've flown with real ATC, flying offline just isn't the same.
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FSX connected to VATSIM with FSpassengers installed and random failures turned up to max.
I once flew into Heathrow and the gear wouldn't extend, declared an emergency and got her down and then the Tower controller at Heathrow messaged me saying it was his first day solo and that was the most stressful thing he'd ever done!
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FSX connected to VATSIM with FSpassengers installed and random failures turned up to max.
I once flew into Heathrow and the gear wouldn't extend, declared an emergency and got her down and then the Tower controller at Heathrow messaged me saying it was his first day solo and that was the most stressful thing he'd ever done!
Lol thats just crazy. There are people playing as live traffic controllers? :D
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Over the last several years a few folks from AH have, on occasion, done an around the world flight. Our last flight followed the path of the 1924 USAAS flight around the world. We flew the Grumman Goose as there was not a Douglas World Cruiser model available.
Yeah, FSX can be boring at times. But we had a blast along the way. Flights like that make for good times just BS'ing along the way.
The Vatsim network can be a great experience for folks who enjoy just flying. There are many organizations that offer flight in a virtual airline as well as flying with outfits that mimic real world military flight operations. The vUSN actually uses flight standards developed by the USN for their operations.
Controllers on Vatsim go thru a pretty rigorous training syllabus in order to work as controllers. There are many actual controllers/pilots who practice their craft on Vatsim.
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Over the last several years a few folks from AH have, on occasion, done an around the world flight. Our last flight followed the path of the 1924 USAAS flight around the world. We flew the Grumman Goose as there was not a Douglas World Cruiser model available.
Yeah, FSX can be boring at times. But we had a blast along the way. Flights like that make for good times just BS'ing along the way.
The Vatsim network can be a great experience for folks who enjoy just flying. There are many organizations that offer flight in a virtual airline as well as flying with outfits that mimic real world military flight operations. The vUSN actually uses flight standards developed by the USN for their operations.
Controllers on Vatsim go thru a pretty rigorous training syllabus in order to work as controllers. There are many actual controllers/pilots who practice their craft on Vatsim.
That is all correct. A friend of mine flies with a virtual USN squadron equipped with Super Hornets. I myself like to fly freestyle. More than once I've been scolded for getting too close to transonic speeds over the CONUS in the VATSIM. But then again my callsign in here is Blinder for a reason. I love flying this thing in the VATSIM world.
http://secure.simmarket.com/virtavia-tupolev-tu-22-blinder.phtml (http://secure.simmarket.com/virtavia-tupolev-tu-22-blinder.phtml)
(http://secure.simmarket.com/images/products/b/bf/4993/33553_Blinder_vc3.jpg)
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Lol thats just crazy. There are people playing as live traffic controllers? :D
I remember reading that a couple years back, and it still completely baffles me how someone could possibly find that fun. But, there are all kinds in the world I guess...
Wiley.
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I remember reading that a couple years back, and it still completely baffles me how someone could possibly find that fun. But, there are all kinds in the world I guess...
Wiley.
It must be the people who do traffic control for a job. Then they go home and relax controlling FSX :rock
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It must be the people who do traffic control for a job. Then they go home and relax controlling FSX :rock
Quite a few ATC professionals utilize the VATSIM for training purposes to enhance their real world skill and proficiency.
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Out of curiosity, what happens if someone decides to troll and steer traffic into each others. Are collisions modeled and would there be some penalty for the controller?
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Out of curiosity, what happens if someone decides to troll and steer traffic into each others. Are collisions modeled and would there be some penalty for the controller?
The VATSIM operates with strict rules and regulations for both pilots and ATC. All real world FAA directives are followed to the letter. Heck, I've had to sit and wait on a tarmac at international airports in there until the ground controllers released me to move to the taxiway. If I tried to move closed to the taxiway entrance I got yelled at and told to remain still. Sometimes it can be annoying. I have never seen or heard of a rogue controller doing what you speak of, but if one did, the VATSIM administrators would ban them for life no doubt.
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I prefer this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-sovv8WeZE
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I play Fs2004, i have, 250 AI packs, military and airline. texture and terrian packs and Recorded ATC. i love it
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The VATSIM operates with strict rules and regulations for both pilots and ATC. All real world FAA directives are followed to the letter. Heck, I've had to sit and wait on a tarmac at international airports in there until the ground controllers released me to move to the taxiway. If I tried to move closed to the taxiway entrance I got yelled at and told to remain still. Sometimes it can be annoying. I have never seen or heard of a rogue controller doing what you speak of, but if one did, the VATSIM administrators would ban them for life no doubt.
Can anyone still just take a 747 and go flying around? How is it controlled?
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Simple, you can do whatever you like but if you repeated fail to respond to ATC instruction you will find yourself disconnected from the server.
You are not allowed to advance time unless you're flying transatlantic.
You are certainly not allowed to do barrel rolls down the main runway at JFK.
I once got whinged at for straying 200 yards outside an air corridor at 30,000ft. Mind you, that was my fault for filing a flightplan rather than VFR and only realising I didn't actually have any flight charts for the area when entering the airspace. So I was guessing at the route from memory and didn't guess quite right.
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Way back when some friends and I would fly FS on a westcoast ATC server. 1 thing they offered that was fun was racing,you could do the reno race and several other curcuits. It was awhile ago so I dont recall everything but you installed their plane and picked a skin. This was done to make it fair,supossedly....
As I said it was fun for awhile and I did get bounced from the server a time or 2 for buzzing airports in choppers,but I was younger then,,,,, :rofl
:salute
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Simple, you can do whatever you like but if you repeated fail to respond to ATC instruction you will find yourself disconnected from the server.
You are not allowed to advance time unless you're flying transatlantic.
You are certainly not allowed to do barrel rolls down the main runway at JFK.
I once got whinged at for straying 200 yards outside an air corridor at 30,000ft. Mind you, that was my fault for filing a flightplan rather than VFR and only realising I didn't actually have any flight charts for the area when entering the airspace. So I was guessing at the route from memory and didn't guess quite right.
Heck! Been there. Done that! I've even gotten hollered at for violating Federal Aviation Regulation Sec. 91.117(a). Which is quite easy to do in a Tupolev Tu-22. But they don't want to hear it. :D
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"But, but, but....occifer! It's an SR-71, they fall out of the air at 260knots...."
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"But, but, but....occifer! It's an SR-71, they fall out of the air at 260knots...."
:rofl