Most Realistic flight modeling

Which Flight Sim has the most Realistic flight modeling?

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warchild said:
Falcon 4.0..
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Still the best, but those visuals produce some serious eye cancer by now.



Bone said:
I've read the transcripts from the Pinnacle flight, they would have melted the engines even if they had stopped at FL380. They crashed because they were acting like idiots, if I may borrow from your lexicon.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinnacle_Airlines_Flight_3701

I was facepalming all through the article.

And don't you need years to take a -200 up that high?
 
1.) No, if it's cold it doesn't take too long to get up there...but a CRJ 100/200 takes very long to get to any level above 200 anyway ;)
2.) My apologies to Pam; after reading the wikipedia article I have to admit...they really were idiots.
3.) If they would have kept the correct speed the engines would neither have melted nor flamed out, not even at FL410.
 
The trick to climbing a CRJ-200 is to climb it FAST (as in airspeed FAST), and make constant adjustments in vertical speed. You really have to manage the energy, and it is a PITA, no doubt.

On a side note, a friend of mine who flys a Lear 60 just sent me a PFD pic he recently took. FL500.

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I prefer FL400 with at least one flight attendant and a coffeemaker vs FL500 without.... :icon_lol:
Yep, the engines need lots of air going through. Fortunately we got new wipers installed back then, because with the old ones you couldn't get faster than 270kts without becoming deaf...Honestly you couldn't even hear the TCAS anymore and ATC not only once asked if we have a window open!!
 
sg38 said:
I prefer FL400 with at least one flight attendant and a coffeemaker vs FL500 without.... :icon_lol:
Yep, the engines need lots of air going through. Fortunately we got new wipers installed back then, because with the old ones you couldn't get faster than 270kts without becoming deaf...Honestly you couldn't even hear the TCAS anymore and ATC not only once asked if we have a window open!!
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Sounds like you're a -200 driver for Tyrolean (aka AUA Regional). How's the job and - more importantly - how can I join? :icon_lol:
 
sg38 said:
... Yep, the engines need lots of air going through. Fortunately we got new wipers installed back then, because with the old ones you couldn't get faster than 270kts without becoming deaf...Honestly you couldn't even hear the TCAS anymore and ATC not only once asked if we have a window open!!
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Ok, stupid question time? Wipers? Wind shield wipers?
 
PRB said:
Ok, stupid question time? Wipers? Wind shield wipers?
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Hey PRB, go to the Newshawks forum and look at my JetCamVideo thread. You can get a good look at the wipers. And the old style wipers were very loud...but not as loud as when the ground crew unplugs their headsets and forgets to close the external com panel. It howls like a flippin banshee! I had that happen to me yesterday for the umpteenth time.

Oops, way OT!
 
Bone said:
Hey PRB, go to the Newshawks forum and look at my JetCamVideo thread. You can get a good look at the wipers. And the old style wipers were very loud...but not as loud as when the ground crew unplugs their headsets and forgets to close the external com panel. It howls like a flippin banshee! I had that happen to me yesterday for the umpteenth time.

Oops, way OT!
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Watched video. Cool video, btw... But, I didn't see the wipers. I swear I feel like the target of a practical joke right now. Is "wipers" some sort of pilot-slang for "engines"? I just never heard that one before... It does seem unusually loud up there on the flight deck, more so than in the back where I usually sit. Is that engine noise or ... wipers? Rgr, sorry for the OT, but I won't sleep tonight if I don't get to the bottom of this... :icon_lol:
 
They're windshield wipers. They are on each side of the center post that is between the two windshields, parallell to the post.


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PRB said:
Is "wipers" some sort of pilot-slang for "engines"? I just never heard that one before...
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Hilarious :applause:

If it isn't slang maybe we can start a new trend to make it so.

Hey! Does anyone know if there are any good twin wiper planes being released soon?
 
anthony31 said:
Hilarious :applause:

If it isn't slang maybe we can start a new trend to make it so.

Hey! Does anyone know if there are any good twin wiper planes being released soon?
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LOL. I'm starting to gather by putting the bits and pieces together here that the wipers, because they are stuck out in the wind, make a lot of noise at cruising speed. That they account for so much noise is very surprising to me. That's not something I would have figured out without seeing it, or in this case, hearing it.
 
Bjoern said:
Still the best, but those visuals produce some serious eye cancer by now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinnacle_Airlines_Flight_3701

I was facepalming all through the article.

And don't you need years to take a -200 up that high?
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After reading the article I realized I did the same thing in Rise of Flight with a newport seeing how high it could go.... except I was drunk and distracted watching Survivor on TV at the same time. :kilroy:
 
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