Hangar Chat

With a bit more time than usual on my hands these days, I recently decided to read the documentation that came with the Quality Wings BAe146/Avro RJ. I should point out that I bought this aircraft many years ago but I don't think I ever bothered giving anything other than a cursory glance at the various manuals supplied with it and indeed I was able to fly it to my satisfaction for many hours using the knowledge I had previously gained learning to fly other jetliners. Indeed, even the FMC is quite intuitive to use for anyone with a working knowledge of FMC systems particularly that used in Boeings. On reading through the main users manual (there are also Quick Start …

This one is really effecting the economy!

Hi guys, Probably my first post here, though I've been a member for quite a while now. I was wondering these days what is the long term trend for online flight simulation... For the experienced flight simmers, do you believe that traffic is increasing, decreasing or relatively stable in the long run? I remember playing on IVAO in the past and the amount of flights/controllers was higher than what I am seeing nowadays, is my perception correct?

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I've just discovered this great guy who can do me a rental really cheap! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=As5gkhgBrlY ...and I recently completed a distance learning qualification of his course so I'm good to go! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAoOpOuc2Ms 😄😄

So reality imitates flight sim, now with autoland. I guess FAA gave some sort of type cert for it in the Piper M600/SLS. Found a PR blurb on yt and the video actually looked like it was taken from flight sim. What it's claimed to do: "Autoland, as executed in the Halo system, can be initiated by an occupant of the airplane—typically a passenger—so its interface was designed to be transparent and straightforward to non-pilots. Once the passenger presses the activation button (a guarded installation on the instrument panel), the system calculates through a wide range of performance, operational, and weather data and criteria to conclude the nearest safe airpo…

I have a problem with one part of the world. LIVERPOOL, England! I purchased Digital Design's Liverpool when it came out for P3d4 and I recently purchased UK2000 Liverpool as well. Here's what happens and I'm totally perplexed by it: It doesn't matter which Liverpool I install ..... it works right after I install it, but it disappears 1 or 2 days afterwards. It's still in my P3d Scenery Library, but the scenery reverts back to default Liverpool after about 24 hours. I have installed this scenery no less than 20 times, and it still disappears. When I used Digital Design Liverpool in P3d4, it did the exact same thing. Now in version5, UK 2000 is doing the…

New version will include the B-24 Liberator as well as the B-17 Flying Fortress. 🙂 Have to say, the gallery pics of the Fortress look very promising: https://www.microprose.com/games/the-mighty-eighth

Has anybody heard any news regarding the well being of John?

I was watching this and thinking that MSFS 2020 is coming along none too soon: Graphics technology is advancing so rapidly, and sims were falling so far behind, that probably sometime in the fairly immediate future, the gap might have become insurmountable........

Guy must have been texting? My word that was close! Very close!

THIS! Noel's post in another thread prompted me to post this up for a discussion non-covid or MSFS. 😎 I totally agree Noel, with the shovelfuls of sarcasm in that sentence. You become familiar with the control layout in your car, muscle memory takes you to the control you need to alter. What's more, because it's a physical contact your hand doesn't get jarred off the control by bumps in the road which is what happens to a fingertip on a smooth touchscreen... all too often on the potholed highways of the UK 😄 There's a reason some switches in aircraft instrument panels and on HOTAS controls have different shapes and feel different so the human can keep their eye…

And then there were two. Queue jokes about bus scheduling... https://fselite.net/news/dc-designs-announces-concorde/

Aeroplane Heaven have announced this morning they are developing Concorde for P3Dv4.5, v5 and Microsoft Flight Simulator. I have no experience of their products. Do they produce quality aircraft given Concorde is one of the most complex aircraft ever developed.

Hey guys and gals, Just curious, how many flight sim hours does everyone have? I don't know overall, I've been flight simming back to MS98, but since I bought P3D about a year ago I have a total of just over 100 hours.

Area 88 is a manga and anime series where mercenary pilots are sent to fight in a fictional middle east setting. Each pilot brings his own plane or is provided with one... 😎 The aircraft are nicely drawn and it (the anime) is a great bit of escapism with a slight nod to reality; Crusader folding its wingtips to fly through a gap and a Harrier VIFFing.. (F-8 Crusaders have taken off with tips folded and vectoring in forward flight is a real Harrier manoeuvre). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_88 This real company with its mixed fleet of fighter aircraft just struck me as quite similar, in terms of the varied fleet makeup, but without any of the far-fetched shen…

For those of you who preferred Airbuses before they started forgetting to put a proper steering wheel in them, JF's A300 B4-200 for P3D has some new screenshots up on the website's product page. Hopefully it will be a worthy successor to the Simcheck one, which is sorely missed from P3D. https://www.justflight.com/product/a300b4-200

This short documentary was just released. It's a fascinating look at the role Argentina played in the continued development of the "Last Jet Fighter..."

Hello i saw there is one day left for the Ultimate Ground Crew X sale which is currently discounted to 50%. I have GSX and GSX level 2. But i would like to immerse myself more during the push back and with the ground crew. At it's current state and keeping in mind the sale. Is Ultimate Ground Crew X worth it? Thanks

I have flown both, but not extensively enough to know if there are any major noticeable differences. They seem very similar to me in terms of operating and flying. I wanted to know from anyone here who has flown both and has extensive knowledge in both models to tell me if there's any major differences. I'm not talking about visual differences but more from a flying and operating perspective on how you would fly the plane and the computer systems, etc. Is one more difficult to learn and fly than the other or do you think they are almost the same?

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Stumbled onto these yesterday, very exciting news for fans of b17, gunship, falcon, M1 and other classics. Also a new ww2 combat sim warbirds 2020 has been announced. https://twitter.com/micro_prose?lang=en Their new website shows more Apache and f16 teasers too plus talk of whole world combat simulation. https://www.microprose.com/ Rumours in various forums that they might be using outerra. Chris

Thought you all might find this interesting -- A321 freighter conversion has been done: https://www.aircargonews.net/freighters-world/more-conversion-work-confirmed-for-a321p2f-cargo-modification/ I wonder how it compares in capacity to the B757 freighter.