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[centuryseries]

No has mentioned using a sextant in FSX yet......

We're the Fakawee

 

[pilottj]

Lol yeah a sextant would be another choice. Is FS astrologically accurate? Could one navigate by the stars? I've never tried it, sounds interesting

 

[wiltzei]

Is FS astrologically accurate?

There´s a program called AutoStar.

Here´s a direct quote from AVSIM library: "AutoStar is a program that allows new features to be added to the night sky. It adds the brighter planets in the correct position for any date. Optionally it can add comets, images or user objects such as a lunar eclipse or Messier objects. The program can import the SAO star catalogue, thus allowing the number of background stars to be significantly increased."

I´ve tried using it a couple of times, but only gotten really strange objects which seem to have been painted using MS Paint to the sky...

 

[CybrSlydr]

When I flew, I'd always do a GPS course. Reason being is I flew for the scenery, sightseeing. It wasn't getting somewhere, it's what I saw on the way.

GPS is great so I'd just hit the "on" switch, change out to an exterior view or the 3D pit and I'm set.

 

[HighGround22]

Real world: FMS/GPS. Sim world: pilotage over photo real scenery...and low level.

Reminds me of a *really* nifty hoplist I've done a couple of times.

It's one of Red-Dog's magnificent collection. Starts down in southern New Mexico and it follows the rocky, vertical real estate all the way up to Alaska, hopping from one distant airfield to another.

I'd set FSX to 31 January and the weather to Winter Wonderland, and select Piglet's wonderful OV-1 Mohawk.

Fly the entire route Nap-Of-The-Earth, no higher than 100 feet, and what with the snow squalls, scud clouds, and sometimes flying almost straight up or straight down, it made for some real exciting flying.

But when you add-in navigation, well . . . it made for decidedly busy times! I'd typically wait for momentary open stretches with reasonable visibility, where I'd check my headings and distance to go, etc. Then back to big eyeballs out the windscreen.

Some of the best fun I've had, sitting-up, ay-gawd!

 

[Bone]

Reminds me of a *really* nifty hoplist I've done a couple of times.

It's one of Red-Dog's magnificent collection. Starts down in southern New Mexico and it follows the rocky, vertical real estate all the way up to Alaska, hopping from one distant airfield to another.

I'd set FSX to 31 January and the weather to Winter Wonderland, and select Piglet's wonderful OV-1 Mohawk.

Fly the entire route Nap-Of-The-Earth, no higher than 100 feet, and what with the snow squalls, scud clouds, and sometimes flying almost straight up or straight down, it made for some real exciting flying.

But when you add-in navigation, well . . . it made for decidedly busy times! I'd typically wait for momentary open stretches with reasonable visibility, where I'd check my headings and distance to go, etc. Then back to big eyeballs out the windscreen.

Some of the best fun I've had, sitting-up, ay-gawd!

I'll have to try this, sounds fun. As much as I like Piglets OV-10, I may have to do it in his A-29 Tucano.

 

[HighGround22]

. . . As much as I like Piglets OV-10, I may have to do it in his A-29 Tucano.

Yeah, it wouldn't matter since the really BEEG factor is that the aircraft has bags of power available.

All too often, you find "cumulo-granite" embedded in a snow squall. Having popped into a squall, it turns-out to be fairly large, so things are white out there for an uncomfortably long time. But then suddenly it gets kinda dark outside, so it's hard-back on the pole, full throttle and straight up!

Woo-hoo! It's a real rush, seeing a vertical chunk of mountain go whizzing-by in the murk, just a few feet away! Like I said, it was the most fun I've had sitting-up.