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Dune Film Update

I agree with alx, as long as it does not alter the MSFS Flight dynamics as discussed on another thread here at the SOH and takes us down to one engine + 3 shotgun shells. :costumed-smiley-034
 
OK, Mister Dorfmann ! Start pullin !!


P.S. we had that thing in FSX/P3D didn't we. Who flew it more than one time only ?.... Fantastic movie ! That is the *first* one from 1965 ! With ,James Stewart, Richard Attenborough and Hardy Krueger. The second one was totally unnecessary.
 
That's a plane I would try to fly for five minutes or so, then park deep in the hangar, never to touch it again...
That ornicopter has greater chances to fly more othen, honestly...
 
heywooood said:
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it's NOT a GAME! it's a SIMULATOR !!
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Somehow I knew that was what Kelse was saying to Andy.
 
we can have strong opinions that are different and still get along

It’s unfortunate that this optional add on made a mess of some settings and control mapping for those who just wanted to take a look at it - maybe next time MS will post an advisory to set up a controller profile rather than just impose one.
 
Love flying the ornithopter. The dive mechanic is so exciting. I like to get as high altitude as possible and nosedive. I'm all in favor of fictional sci-fi aircraft, even though I primarily fly study-level aircraft. As with any addon, don't like em, don't fly em, after all!
 
Tom Clayton said:
This is going into a meme generator later today!
As for control settings. Does anyone know if it affects saved profiles, or just the default settings?
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It looks like it creates its own profiles. When I loaded into it, my Honeycomb Alpha was using a new Ornithopter profile that didn't appear to overwrite any of my other profiles.
 
The Phoenix came with the AH C-119, if I remember correctly. I flew it a few times for sure, and it was a fun bonus.

As for the control issue, apparently quitting and restarting the sim fixes any issues the add-on caused with your existing custom profiles.
 
I've been a "hard-core" fan of the Dune series ever since reading the first book in the original series back about 50 years ago. Of all the attempts on screen with versions of the ornithopter, I think new MSFS is the first one that is even close to what Frank Herbert imagined. In the Illustrated version of the first book, the images were all okayed by Frank Herbert, and this is very close to the version he approved. My first thoughts reading the book was that it must look like a dragonfly, so this one is about as close as it gets to my imagination back then.

The whole Dune story is much longer than most think. Someone above mentioned the original series covering about 4000 years. Below is a pic of my Frank Herbert/Brian Herbert bookshelf, in chronological order. The Dune story starts with the far-left book, "Eve" and up until just recently ends at "Sandworms of Dune", just in front of the shark's nose, covering 15,000 years. The original Dune Trilogy pointed to come in the middle of the whole thing. The complete story does tie back into Earth, which is long gone before the first book, "Eve".


Arguably, Dune is probably the greatest science fiction story ever written but was almost never published. No publishing company was interested in it. Fortunately, Sterling Lanier, a friend of mine later in life and editor of the Chilton Car Repair Manuals thought it deserved a shot and had Dune published. But he also got fired from Chilton because it didn't do well at first and they thought would never fly. Guess they were a bit short sighted on that call. :)


Forest
 
FAC257 said:
I've been a "hard-core" fan of the Dune series ever since reading the first book in the original series back about 50 years ago. Of all the attempts on screen with versions of the ornithopter, I think new MSFS is the first one that is even close to what Frank Herbert imagined. In the Illustrated version of the first book, the images were all okayed by Frank Herbert, and this is very close to the version he approved. My first thoughts reading the book was that it must look like a dragonfly, so this one is about as close as it gets to my imagination back then.

The whole Dune story is much longer than most think. Someone above mentioned the original series covering about 4000 years. Below is a pic of my Frank Herbert/Brian Herbert bookshelf, in chronological order. The Dune story starts with the far-left book, "Eve" and up until just recently ends at "Sandworms of Dune", just in front of the shark's nose, covering 15,000 years. The original Dune Trilogy pointed to come in the middle of the whole thing. The complete story does tie back into Earth, which is long gone before the first book, "Eve".


Arguably, Dune is probably the greatest science fiction story ever written but was almost never published. No publishing company was interested in it. Fortunately, Sterling Lanier, a friend of mine later in life and editor of the Chilton Car Repair Manuals thought it deserved a shot and had Dune published. But he also got fired from Chilton because it didn't do well at first and they thought would never fly. Guess they were a bit short sighted on that call. :)


Forest
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Nice! I have a first edition paperback in very good condition.
 
Mario Donadon said:
Is there any way to fly in the DUNE scenario without being on a mission?
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Good question, Id like to use free flight too.

The take of is here for example (Imperial Basin), but I dont see it on the "normal" map of the World:

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Idea is nice and I like it :). Maybe the issue that I noticed mess with keymapping (it loads differnet profile).

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