The 'Official' Screenshot & Tips thread 4 FSX enthusiasts & flight simmers.
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Pretty much what Katana mentioned, start simple, keep it simple until you feel you are ready to progress. It is probably best to start with as few addons as possible, or at least aircraft addons, scenery addons would make it look nicer if you want to do so (some excellent freeware from NL2000 & Blue Sky Scenery plus many others, plus much payware airports etc) but again, you can always worry about making it look nicer later on. Missions/tutorials that are supplied are definitely worth going through which will also allow you the chance to calibrate your joystick to your liking, as Katana said, best to keep it to small movements so keep your sensitivity high in order to do so. Also remember, the larger the aircraft the slower and the more sluggish the response hence why people often over compensate on the controls when it comes to flying larger aircraft, so best to start with smaller craft.
Once thing I can say, even with just default FSX, it is easy to get a little lost and forget which procedures to follow or which order they need to go into. It will take time and like so many things, repetition, repetition and even more repetition until it becomes habit. One of the reasons I love Flight Sim that you can enjoy it for many reasons and get into many different aspects of flying. Due to the complexities of flying an aircraft (the bigger or the more complex an aircraft is, the harder it becomes to fly) and the ability to set the realism level within the sim, you can slowly turn from a casual stick flyer to a 'as real as it gets' Captain of a modern Jet airliner/military flyer/helicopter pilot etc. Any complex sim is more like an investment in both hardware/software and most importantly, time. You may of course never actually fly an actual aircraft but the point is, you will have covered at least the very basics and probably much more in time. So, at least to me, not only are you getting some (or lots) of enjoyment out of sim flying, you are also always learning something new on your way which makes simming (not just flight simming, as I recently started doing a fair bit of TS2012 which is really enjoyable too) which makes it stand out from normal gaming.
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ringo747 - that's looking like a great add-on.
Soya - great pics.
Has Project Airbus been discussed here yet?
http://www.pairbus.com/
I've been learning with more flights in the iFly 737 with FS2Crew Voice add-on. I've trying to perfect a flight from Bristol to Jersey. 2 flights. 1 flight I was coming in too fast and didn't stop before the end of the runway. The other, I was too high on the ILS, which was my own fault. I should have trusted the FMC.
It was a little frustrating, as I had to teach Windows Speech Recognition some of the key words, but now that's done once, it should be fluid with voice recognition.
I've also picked up the freeware vasFMC which adds a FMC to any aircraft. Once loading, you can select the 'HDG' button and autopilot will follow the flight plan. Clever stuff.
Soya - great pics.
Has Project Airbus been discussed here yet?
http://www.pairbus.com/
I've been learning with more flights in the iFly 737 with FS2Crew Voice add-on. I've trying to perfect a flight from Bristol to Jersey. 2 flights. 1 flight I was coming in too fast and didn't stop before the end of the runway. The other, I was too high on the ILS, which was my own fault. I should have trusted the FMC.
It was a little frustrating, as I had to teach Windows Speech Recognition some of the key words, but now that's done once, it should be fluid with voice recognition.
I've also picked up the freeware vasFMC which adds a FMC to any aircraft. Once loading, you can select the 'HDG' button and autopilot will follow the flight plan. Clever stuff.
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Very good Robmol.
Is that the freeware Duxford Aerodrome? It looks very detailed.
Is that the freeware Duxford Aerodrome? It looks very detailed.
Yep freeware. Filename acg_iwm_duxford_fsx.zip from FlightSim.com. Comes with airshow day configuration or non airshow day.
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So..... anyone had a play with MS Flight yet?
I was going to be sneaky and D/L it at work, but it's got a small installer. And I'm wondering if it's worth even downloading, given the negative thoughts so far...
Rich
I was going to be sneaky and D/L it at work, but it's got a small installer. And I'm wondering if it's worth even downloading, given the negative thoughts so far...
Rich
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I'll get back to my 737 then.
Rich
I'm getting a bit annoyed with FSX.
Randomly after 5, 10, 20, 50, etc minutes of playing it will stop responding and crash. With a sound loop.
I've read some things online about downloading a dll and putting it in the FSX dir, running it with XP compatibility.. None worked.
Anyone experienced this and fixed it?
(I use Win7-64).
Randomly after 5, 10, 20, 50, etc minutes of playing it will stop responding and crash. With a sound loop.
I've read some things online about downloading a dll and putting it in the FSX dir, running it with XP compatibility.. None worked.
Anyone experienced this and fixed it?
(I use Win7-64).
