One mostly uninformed opinion and ramblings

[Javis]

Haha Jan , that looks like a scene from Skyrim. Now go fly through the trees.

Hehe, yeah, that's what i mean, Spook ! Wonderful looking trees and foliage, no doubt, but who cares ! We want wonderful looking *CLOUDS* to fly through ! CLOUDS are our forests and what we're supposed to fly through ! Not TREES !!

 

[Javis]

Today I did an IFR flight in the Corvalis TT (which is superb, by the way) from Edinburgh to Aberdeen in some real-time filthy weather with occasional glimpses of snow-covered ground, and cloud graphics on Ultra.
Absolutely stunning. Okay there were a few concrete colored banks of storm clouds, but they were underneath a higher layer of cirrus and *technically* in the shade.
Now that the server issues have been sorted here in the UK, I am really loving this sim.

Thanks Tiger !

But did you get a sense of SPEED as you flew thru the clouds ?.....

 

[tiger1962]

But did you get a sense of SPEED as you flew thru the clouds ?.....

Yes I did, while flying PAST them - thru them it's just grey fog - and I did it again today in the MU2 which everyone hates, but it goes like a rocket! I was thinking of taking a video while looking out of the cockpit side windows, but I've never done it before.
I must do it next time.

 

[Cazzie]

The sim loads more every time I open it. The only problem I ran into was assigning functions to my Logitech Extreme 3D PRO Joystick. I had to end up going through every MSFS 2024 Default button function and delete the functions. Once I had done that, the joystick button assigned as I wished. I'm still waiting for much. I couldn't even get snow on the ground! It's going to be a good sim. I'm still waiting for a Developer's Kit. As usual my home airport was woefully amiss. I still prefer MSFS 2020 and still find it easier to navigate in, but I'm sure once all the kinks are worked out, MS 2024 will be just as good. I get a very good fps (50-55) the sim vs 75 in MSFS 2020. I also have animals in 2020 (not those within the sim) and that too is another immersive effect. I am not about to leave 2020, even though I like 2024 also, it just needs a lot of kinks worked out and as I said, a Developer's Kit.

Cazzie

 

[modelr]

Well, that sounds atleast hopeful, Don ! Thanks !

You know, what was so extremely beautiful and immensely immerseful (if that's a correct word..;-) during this MS Flight mission, was the actual 'getting out of the clouds and into the clear again' bit. With a sudden burst of extreme clear sunlight that also accentuated the imperfections/ scratches on the canopy glass as the perfect apotheosis of the very realistic climb through the clouds or murk if you will. And just before that the clouds would get thinner and thinner and more transparant before fading away completely.

I lost count of how many times i spoke about this particularly interesting and outstanding MS Flight experience in the various fora but literally no one, not one flightsimloving soul whatsoever reacted to it, knew what i was for heavensake talking about. Seems very much like the one and only truly and utterly spectacular event that could have ever been experienced in a Flight Simulator version has miserably failed to get attention but for only *one* dedicated flightsimmer : me..... (must say i start to believe that i might have dreamed it, that it really never happend..... ;-)

One more try then : dear flightsimmers of SOH, is there really no one here that took the chance and bought MS Flight (released Feb.2012) and played the 'mission' to take an astronomy photographer up above the cloud deck (over Hawaii) in a RV-8 (or -7) ??....... ("can't remember" won't work because *IF* you did it would've been impossible to *not* remember)

Oh well, thanks again, Don ! I'll continue to look at MSFS2024 vids for glimpses of flying thru the clouds.

Sorry Javis, I never purchased, nor tried MS Flight. I did look at it, watching the video previews, but never took the jump.

I usually stayed out of the clouds, unless I had autopilot engaged, mainly because I rarely flew an aircraft that was IMF certified. My first really hard introduction to flying in the clouds was way back in, I think it was FS9, or was it FS2000, when I was flying the "Cannibal Queen" by Bill Lyons. I remember it was the first aircraft with a working Virtual Cockpit. I was flying the route that Stephen Coonts flew in his autobiographical book "Cannibal Queen." His Stearman did not have an attitude indicator, only a VS guage and altimeter, as well as the airspeed indicator. As most of us remember from back then, weather changed suddenly, and you could be flying in perfectly clear weather, and the next instant, you were in haze/fog/cloud so thick you could barely see the nose of your plane. I crashed, of course. As I had completed about 1/3 of the trip, for some reason back then, I lost interest in completing the trip as flown. I often wanted to restart as the flightsims got better, but I never did, either because I was waiting for a better Stearman, (which we got from Golden Age Simulations,) and now Legaffe's updating to native release. Can't wait for the Super Stearman release, and hopefully someone will do the paint of the Cannibal Queen. With me being retired now, and the way I am really loving MSFS2024, because of the visuals and the flight dynamics, I do plan on recreating the flight again. I have the book setting right behind me within arms reach!

 

[jmig]

Sorry Javis, I never purchased, nor tried MS Flight. I did look at it, watching the video previews, but never took the jump.

I usually stayed out of the clouds, unless I had autopilot engaged, mainly because I rarely flew an aircraft that was IMF certified. My first really hard introduction to flying in the clouds was way back in, I think it was FS9, or was it FS2000, when I was flying the "Cannibal Queen" by Bill Lyons. I remember it was the first aircraft with a working Virtual Cockpit. I was flying the route that Stephen Coonts flew in his autobiographical book "Cannibal Queen." His Stearman did not have an attitude indicator, only a VS guage and altimeter, as well as the airspeed indicator. As most of us remember from back then, weather changed suddenly, and you could be flying in perfectly clear weather, and the next instant, you were in haze/fog/cloud so thick you could barely see the nose of your plane. I crashed, of course. As I had completed about 1/3 of the trip, for some reason back then, I lost interest in completing the trip as flown. I often wanted to restart as the flightsims got better, but I never did, either because I was waiting for a better Stearman, (which we got from Golden Age Simulations,) and now Legaffe's updating to native release. Can't wait for the Super Stearman release, and hopefully someone will do the paint of the Cannibal Queen. With me being retired now, and the way I am really loving MSFS2024, because of the visuals and the flight dynamics, I do plan on recreating the flight again. I have the book setting right behind me within arms reach!

I read the book and started the flight. However, like his son, I got bored and quit. I like the Stearmen, however, for me, it is too slow for any X-county flying.

 

[lagaffe]

@modelr,

If it is this kind of airplane that you have in mind ... perhaps if you were a very wise child, Santa will think of you

 

[modelr]

@modelr,

If it is this kind of airplane that you have in mind ... perhaps if you were a very wise child, Santa will think of you

There she is!!! My wallet is now closed to save up for Santa!!!

I know it's about a month off, but THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!

Oh, it will also be a birthday present.

 

[lagaffe]

The story behind this aircraft or the "Making of":
First, a "little precision", it's not a repaint of mine but a repaint maded by Jankees

During the project, as Jankees had repainted us for the Cannibal Queen, in return I used the different components of the project IB75A to build him a custom made AN75N1.
As this aircraft is still operated and some owners may request financial compensation for the use of "their image", we will see how it is possible to distribute the livery without putting us in a bad position:
- using a fictitious livery for this specific model (the air intake on top of the engine cover and the fuselage profiling behind the pilot) and
- making a freeware repaint that will be released separately.