CertifiedSimPilot

joined 1 year ago
 

https://my.vatsim.net/events/2-years-on-trip-to-wolf-s-fang-runway Can recommend this one next time. Although you should definitely look into programming a custom waypoint before you try to land. Spotting the runway is hard in the middle of nowhere.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is this added to the base game, or do you need to do some tricks to get this to work?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I think I boot up the simulator too sporadically to join a VA, I've read multiple VA's that require you to fly at least once a month. Plus it feels a bit limiting in a way? Not being in a VA allows you to fly where ATC is on Vatsim and wherever in the world you want.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Probably yeah. Shame, hope they release it eventually

 
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Can't wait for this one! Extra performance is very welcome. And the extra variants are definitely nice to have too!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wow, this looks scary...

Is the full video of which the picture was taken available somewhere? I've tried looking for it but I can't find anything

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I've seen a video about this plane by Tom Scott years ago. But I only recently learned this is an A310. Learned so by browsing the liveries of the IniBuilds A310 for MSFS, and there it was! It's a very cool variant for sure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

They seem interesting. Aircraft accidents always make for engaging stories somehow, added them to my list! I'll see if I like em, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think I listened to an episode of that one yeah. From what I remember they were explaining basic stuff, and I got annoyed listening by it hahah

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Had one go-around, but the landing was good for the weather I'd say. I was kinda surprised, the performance calculation showed me stopping at the end of the runway, but I stopped one holding point before the last one even! (G4 instead of G5)

Anyways Volanta showed it as a -335 fpm / 1.07G, so I'm happy

 

Weather at the time:
METAR EHAM 050855Z 26029G41KT 8000 -RA FEW018 SCT023 13/12 Q1002 TEMPO 4000 RA

Thanks to the Vatsim ATC at Schiphol for making the landing even more exciting!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You may copied the URL of the page instead of the image URL.
Be sure to right click the image, and copy the image URL, instead of the URL of the webpage. So in case of Imgur, the URL should look like i.imgur.com , instead of imgur.com

 

I'm looking for podcasts on Spotify to listen to, which are aviation related.
Finding podcasts is always difficult though, and using mouth to mouth recommendations seems to work best, so I would love to hear some suggestions from this community!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Good to know that posting from Volanta servers works flawlessly! Great way to reduce storage on the lemmyfly servers I'd say

 
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Update for @[email protected] and @[email protected]:

Falling into the sun is a bit time comsuming and finnicky. Try to keep your speed low when you approach the surface, and keep time warp to the lowest you can bear.

The surface is at around -30 km. It looks like this:

Descending further... Long trip. As you approach the core your speed will pick up rapidly. When you're at the core, you'll get slingshotted out of the core at a ludicrous speed, in my case 22248.0 km/s. Interstellar travel before it's implemented?Anyways quite satisfying flying out of the sun's core at a fraction of the speed of light. Can recommend!

... (picture soon, it won't upload)

 

Still an enjoyable flight. Can't wait for more long haulers in MSFS!

 

AMD Chill limits your FPS basically. You can enable it in Adrenalin.

Wish it could go lower than 30, but it's a quick way to toggle between 60+ fps and 30. Will definitely be using it when I arrive in the cruise phase from now on.

 

As it was just a science experiment, infinite fuel has been used...

But in the end I achieved this tight orbit!

I tried to land on the sun as well for the fun of it. The surface at 0 m is not solid. Currently debating if I wanna wait the 30 minutes it takes to get to the centre of the sun.

 

From Reddit:

TL;DR

  • Thin client, less to download, faster loading times, helps keep min specs low

  • All new physics and aerodynamics engine with much more control for aircraft developers to define aircraft surfaces/geometry to make full use of the flight dynamics.

  • Fully simulated hot air balloon physics.

  • Massive performance improvements, multi-threaded

  • Backwards-compatible (community folder still there)

  • Updated systems (electrical, pneumatic, fuel and hydraulic)

  • Failure, wear and tear system

  • Payload and passenger system overhaul

  • Deeper and wider avionics packages

  • Enhanced tree diversity

  • Improved cliffs

  • 3rd tessellated ground materials

  • Improved ground details - Screenshot

  • Full seasons

  • Aurora borealis, tornados, improved storms

  • Animals herds and migration

  • World live ship traffic

  • Accurate live traffic + more real liveries

  • Improved vehicle traffic

It's looking pretty good, hope the transition from FS2020 to FS2024 will be a smooth one!

 

Hi all,

Recently took the beautiful AN-225 onto Vatsim for the first time. Mostly on Unicom so it wasn't all that interesting. I would love to take it onto the network more often, but I'm a bit anxious to do so, because it requires extra care from the controllers. And if they have to give extra care to me, I should definitely know how to handle her properly.

So I was wondering if anyone here has experience flying the beast on Vatsim, and how controllers handle it.
This includes things like the 2 min warmup before / while lining up from the manual.

Also, my main gripe with flying this seriously is that I never really know where to park it... If anyone has suggestions on that regard, I'll take any and all tips.

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