CHAT Any other flight sim users in the house?

[Ragnarok]

I think the last flight sim I played was B-17 Bomber for the Intellivision.

 

[Millwright]

Dude, I wouldn’t leave that post up. Working on an aircraft without an A&P license is a serious crime.

Did out of state plumbing without a license

Never had a toilet crash.

 

[Ragnarok]

Don't know if you've seen this channel yet, but Airforceproud95 has a lot of fun videos covering the pilot and ATC roles for MSFS.

Airforceproud95

Flight sim YouTuber. Weird Florida man. Commercial pilot spending too much time as virtual air traffic controller. Subscribe yo

www.youtube.com

I used to watch him just for his air traffic controller videos. He's hilarious

 

[Dennis Olson]

Did out of state plumbing without a license

Never had a toilet crash.

for the most part, a crashed toilet won’t kill anyone…

 

[crossbowboy]

what device are the pictures on?

Android phone.

Fortunately for the board, my lack of tech skills has saved y'all from thousands of pictures of my cats...

 

[Dennis Olson]

You know there are detailed instructions on how to post pics in the Test Forum. Been there for years.

 

[crossbowboy]

Thanks, I'll go and learn!

 

[Jez]

Recommendations for a good PC (or Android) submarine game?

I loved Silent Service for my C-64. I did try one of the more modern Sims for an Los Angeles Attack Submarine years ago. It was fun and different. Silent Service really got me hooked on the stories of WWII submarines. I read one of the books about the USS Tang, I think it was. I remember enjoying it.

 

[Czechsix]

for the most part, a crashed toilet won’t kill anyone…

not for lack of trying

 

[GammaRat]

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The great thing about flight sims, is that they take skill.

I hate being killed by some pasty faced geek, who spent all summer in their parents basement leveling up their character..

But I have no problem with being killed by the same geek if he can outfly me.

 

[fi103r]

finally got stick rudder and throttle package have not had time to get back online and load up Warbirds
absolutly loved Chuck Yeager Air Combat on a Mac but now Warbirds looks to be what works

 

[Housecarl]

Years ago I was a very good pilot in "Confirmed Kill" aka "Aces High".. easily taking on multiple players.

My best mission was me in a Japanese zero taking on 17 assorted planes by myself. I was credited with killing 9 of them.

Never dive into someone who's intentionally flying 10 feet off the ground..

At least not without watching your altimeter.

Another time, I killed 5 pilots in P38 Lightnings in my outclassed Supermarine Spitfire. All by myself against other players.

The "critical mach" issue with the P-38 if modeled into the SIM and you're not up on it will get you every time if you go up against anything with a better one, like the Spitfire.

(They didn't get a good fix put in until the later "J" and a bunch of field retro kits to the ETO were lost when the RAF mistook a C-54 for a FW-200 and shot it down.)

 

[Imrik]

Elite Dangerous. Awesome space sim.

 

[crossbowboy]

Elite Dangerous. Awesome space sim.

The lore says you have to be a master level geek to play that one!

I like the cut of your jib, sir.



So I read the destructions for posting photos, knew all that already.
Now to learn to resize an image. Bleah...

 

[Imrik]

View: https://youtu.be/nVJjoCI6OV8?si=6uAH6YWPd3B1sWBj

RT 10:15
A little preview

 

[Czechsix]

Elite Dangerous is quite entertaining. I started to play it when it was just Elite, back on a Commodore 64. Got into the ED version for a few months, but would have needed to seriously upgrade the system to really take advantage of it. Plus add in HOTAS, head tracker, etc. It still sits in the Steam directory if I want to dl it again though. But for now, War Thunder scratches the pvp itch. Probably will be finding a head tracker though, the top tier air isn't easy.

 

[Imrik]

I play with just mouse and keyboard. Lots do. Anybody in TB that wants to play ED, let me know. I'll get you started.

 

[Czechsix]

Yep, that's how I was doing it also. But upgrading hardware specs to max makes it a completely different experience. It's a huge difference. Same with the flight sims - taking the time to do at least some kind of sim pit puts the game experience into another level. I wish I could tolerate VR, but I can't.

 

[DryCreek]

Yep, I use my flight simulator regularly.




HP Omen with 13th generation Intel i7 (i7-13700), 32 GB DDR5 RAM, 1 TB M2 SSD, RTX3060 12 GB GDDR6, 32" curved Omni (ViewSonic) main monitor, 10" generic 1080p aux monitor, Honeycomb Alpha Yoke/switch panel, FlightSimStuff Carb Heat/Throttle/Mixture with trim wheel and flaps, Logitech radio panel, Logitech/Saitek rudder pedals with Cessna-Style pedal mod, racing sim pit with monitor mount.



I use a Corsair wireless Headset/Mic setup since it was a gift, and I didn't have to dig my real headset out of my flight bag every time I needed to use it.

I have X-Plane 11 on disc, but have transitioned to X-Plane 12 (Steam) and MSFS-2020 (Steam). Not too long ago I was using MSFS-X SE. Man, times have changed. I typically fly only GA models - C152/C172 which are similar to the trainers at all of the "local" flight schools.

I just wish the flight model accuracy of XP12 could have the visual fidelity of FS 2020. That would be a perfect match. Trying to download umpty-gazillion GB of Auto-Ortho is too much to ask of my limited rural connection. I do have SimHeaven loaded, but after a recent update to XP12 things seem to be not loading correctly.

With the RTX3060 I can have decent frame rates in 1080p with mostly high settings. Sometimes it gets laggy while low and slow over Fort Worth and into DFW though. I am thinking that for a retirement gift I will be buying an AMD RX9060XT (18GB) and upgrading the monitor to at least 34" and 1440.

The RTX3060 can go into my homebuilt gaming PC to replace the aging RTX-2060 (6GB DDR6).

 

[Czechsix]

Nice rig! You don't use a head tracker with that?

 

[Dennis Olson]

Christ on a cracker!