Getting bored with Flight?

[mith]

Start challenging yourself! I know the jobs get a little tedious, so why don't you start using the ILS/VOR's to fly? I was fortunate enough to hook up with a nice gentleman who gave me a LOT of information about a lot of things. We took off from one airport and flew to another airport using the VOR's and ILS frequencies. It TOTALLY makes the game more challenging! Once you feel comfortable using your gauges, try lowering the visibility. Try landing at an airport with zero visibility, it's NOT easy!

Just food for thought. You can make the game as challenging as you want and it doesn't have to be boring!

Cya out there guys and gals!!!!

[EastCoastGuy]

I like practicing the ILS landings; keeps you on your toes.

I was doing one the other day in an RV-6 and noticed a suspected "crash kiddie" slowly catching up from behind. He was probably about 10 seconds behind me in the final moments. So when I touched down (in one of my softest landings ever) I immediately raised flaps, floored it and took off again, leaving him in the dust. He left the session immediately.

(I hope they come out with Alaska fairly soon, and include a decent aircraft or two with it.)

[mith]

I like practicing the ILS landings; keeps you on your toes.

I was doing one the other day in an RV-6 and noticed a suspected "crash kiddie" slowly catching up from behind. He was probably about 10 seconds behind me in the final moments. So when I touched down (in one of my softest landings ever) I immediately raised flaps, floored it and took off again, leaving him in the dust. He left the session immediately.

(I hope they come out with Alaska fairly soon, and include a decent aircraft or two with it.)

This is one advantage to hosting your own session. I get no better thrill from booting the rebels.... and I'll stop flying to make sure they don't return to the session...

Oh the power is wonderful.... hehe...

[EastCoastGuy]

This is one advantage to hosting your own session. I get no better thrill from booting the rebels.... and I'll stop flying to make sure they don't return to the session...

Oh the power is wonderful.... hehe...

I had one the other day that I booted half a dozen times -- he kept re-logging (I hope MS fixes that so a booted player stays booted for the rest of the session). Finally he promised to behave himself, so I let him stay.

Speaking of things to do when you're bored in-game, I did a walkabout to check some of the graphic detailing:

• At Hilo, there are two awnings behind the terminal building (that you can actually fly under at an altitude of 3-4 ft, btw). Underneath the awnings, you can see the exposed wood ceiling beams. And hanging lights. Only a spectacularly bored user will ever see them.
• At other terminals you can find passenger direction signs, soda machines, local maps, a pickup truck with Hawaii license plates, etc.
• Zoom in on some of the control towers. In them you'll see ATC and radar maps hanging from the ceiling. How many users will ever see that?
• On a windy day, take a close look at the trees. They sway in the breeze. (I wonder how my FPS would be without that "vital" feature?)

But the ultimate bizarre design decision... on a moonless night when you can see the stars, pick some of them on the horizon (east or west) and zoom in as far as possible (outside the aircraft). Take a close look -- the stars move. They freaking move. Seriously. The stars freaking move. One click per second. Presumably if you waited 86,400 seconds, you'd see the same star do a complete circuit of the world and return to roughly the same place.

Seriously guys? You can put no-user-will-ever-see-this detailing out there, make the trees sway in the breeze, make the stars freaking move across the sky... but you can't put a freaking cockpit in half your freaking planes?!?

[alaskancrab]

you mean the planets.. the only star that has a 24 hour cycle like that is our Sun

[EastCoastGuy]

you mean the planets.. the only star that has a 24 hour cycle like that is our Sun

Take a picture of the constellations in a given position at midnight. Take a picture from exactly the same position/angle in 24 hours, and you'll see the same constellations in roughly the same place (not accounting for the earth's 365-day orbit).

The overall point being ... how much time they spent developing valueless details like that instead of developing cockpits.

[alaskancrab]

4 out of 7 isn't bad.

[azzaro]

... how much time they spent developing valueless details like that instead of developing cockpits.

Possibly because the programming for things like star positions is readily available as a plug-in bit of code. I'm pretty sure the tree sway is only visible on, or near the ground, and only in a small area around the observer. Just thinking out loud. I still agree with you about the freaking cockpits. — Bob

[EastCoastGuy]

4 out of 7 isn't bad.

Flight's Web site says the P-40 was their penultimate warbird, suggesting that there's a final one on the way. Like someone else said, I'd forgive everything if it ends up being a P-38 Lightning with a cockpit.

Possibly beacuse the programming for things like star positions is readily available as a plug-in bit of code. I'm pretty sure the tree sway is only visible on, or near the ground, and only in a small area around the observer. Just thinking out loud. I still agree with you about the freaking cockpits. — Bob

Yeah, you're probably right. It's just seeing that detail gave me a hair-pulling out moment - which I don't need at this age.

[johnclift]

I don't know. This afternoon I took a Just Flight MD 81 from Berlin to Rome. IFR with Ground EnviornmentX and all sorts of other stuff and it was excellent. Used high altitude navigation charts. Could you do that in Microsoft Flight ? And I think my ground environment and terrain is better that Flight anyway !