Does Anyone Know if This Exists?

[Ragtopjohnny]

Hey all - I have an idea here for all developers, or if anyone knows if anything like this exists all ready, but when I fly FS2004, I like it to be as real as possible.

One feature I noticed is highly unrealistic is the "Time Zones". For example, say you do a flight from New York to Los Angeles, and Leave New York say at 7pm - when you arrive in Los Angeles, it would be at least 3 pm in the afternoon, so naturally, it would be daylight at that point, not dark like it is in your time zone when you depart. So my question is this:

Is there any Utillity out there that corrects this, am I missing something with the set up menu, or is this something some one out there can develop? I'd gladly beta test it for you.

Appreciate anyone's knowledge out there on this - that would be a huge step of added realism. I noticed that Last night, when I did a flight to Denver, I started from Rhode Island at 7:30. It was just after Dusk in Denver, so it may be implicated all ready. Just wondering what everyone else's experience is with this....

http://www.flightsim.com/vbfs/Attachments/up1/79570.jpg

[shermank]

go to the library and search for Dennis Thompson's World Time Zones v3.0.

sherm

[DK8290]

"say you do a flight from New York to Los Angeles, and Leave New York say at 7pm - when you arrive in Los Angeles, it would be at least 3 pm in the afternoon,"

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Wouldn't a direct flight from New York to California probably be 5 or 6 hours (just guessing ... I haven't got a clue ... depends on the plane of course). It would probably be the same time or 1 to 3 hours later by the time you got to Los Angeles

CA = 3 hours behind New York
lets say flight takes 6 hours

you leave New York at 7pm and arrive at Los Angeles at 10 pm local time


again , my times are examples and no doubt off.

[bdenni]

Here is a real time flight from JFK to LAX:

Flight: AA245
New York (JFK) Los Angeles (LAX)
Depart 10:00 am Arrive 12:40 pm

2468 mi (3972 km) Duration: 5hr 40mn

[Ragtopjohnny]

Sherm -

sorry for the late response, thanks! I musn't have subscribed to this one like I thought....

John

[Dijon76]

What you want is FS RealTime
http://www.3dsoftworks.net/main_2.asp