Microsoft FSX Real-Life Weather

On Oct 24, 11:14 pm, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Mxsmanic wrote :

Nomen Nescio writes:

And you still can't fly a plane.

Since I've never tried to fly a real plane, it's impossible to know
whether I could fly one or not.

No it isn't.



I soloed in 10 hours.

That's okay; it's not a race.

You're not even watching the race on TV, fjukkwit.



At the time, the plane and instructor totaled $18/hr.

I wasn't around in World War II.

That would have been in the seventies, not WW2, fjukkwit.

In 1962 the rate per hour solo (NZ pounds) was 3 Pound 10 shillings in
a C150
When I did my PPL (in 1967) the rate was $10(NZ) per hour solo and $12
dual in a C150.

On Oct 25, 4:50 am, Judah wrote:
Dallas wrote in news:mj9lmsgk3rmb
:

On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:43:03 +0000 (UTC), Bertie the Bunyip wrote:

Neither does an inflatible girl.

Can you get an inflatable girl in MSFS?

You mean MX's wife, Sally?

MX says she's got all the same buttons as my wife. But her buttons aren't
nearly as fun as my wife's.

and mixedups vinyl Vera can't play with any buttons .
A sad and lonely loser with a puncture kit lest his love goes down on
him :-)

On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:39:34 -0700, george wrote:

A sad and lonely loser with a puncture kit lest his love goes down on
him :-)

There goes another keyboard.

:-)
--
Dallas

Dallas wrote:
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:39:34 -0700, george wrote:

A sad and lonely loser with a puncture kit lest his love goes down on
him :-)

There goes another keyboard.



Not to worry, Mx don't do sex, he'd rather sim! Said so HIMSELF!!!

Sorry Jay, you obviously don't use the Garmin sim for approaches. It is
pathetic how bad it is. My FSX with SP1 flying the GPS 30 into IOW (your
airport) does the following. By the way I have visited your hotel and seen
Kiwi, it is nice.

Distance showing in the main NAV screen has no decimal point showing only
whole numbers, No indication of the CDI scaling to verify the proper
approach modes are active, cannot go direct to a flight plan fix either in a
regular flight plan or part of an approach without manually typing it in and
losing the rest of the flight plan or approach functionality.

And here is a very serious error. The TO/FROM flag doesn't switch in
Holding or SUSP mode. When flying past the missed approach fix it doesn't
switch into SUSP and flip the TO/FROM to FROM, it sequences directly to a
waypoint called 1500 which happens to be the initial missed approach
altitude for that approach.

You can't customize the fields on the pages, etc, etc.. It is a poor
excuse for the real thing.

Ron A.


"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
oups.com...
The Garmin GPS units are recreated with complete accuracy

No, they aren't.

Yes, 'fraid they are.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder 56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Sorry Jay, you obviously don't use the Garmin sim for approaches. It is
pathetic how bad it is. My FSX with SP1 flying the GPS 30 into IOW (your
airport) does the following. By the way I have visited your hotel and seen
Kiwi, it is nice.

Distance showing in the main NAV screen has no decimal point showing only
whole numbers, No indication of the CDI scaling to verify the proper
approach modes are active, cannot go direct to a flight plan fix either in a
regular flight plan or part of an approach without manually typing it in and
losing the rest of the flight plan or approach functionality.

And here is a very serious error. The TO/FROM flag doesn't switch in
Holding or SUSP mode. When flying past the missed approach fix it doesn't
switch into SUSP and flip the TO/FROM to FROM, it sequences directly to a
waypoint called 1500 which happens to be the initial missed approach
altitude for that approach.

You can't customize the fields on the pages, etc, etc.. It is a poor
excuse for the real thing.

Ron A.


"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
oups.com...
The Garmin GPS units are recreated with complete accuracy

No, they aren't.

Yes, 'fraid they are.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder 56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

I don't think they're talking about the "stock" FS Garmin unit (which
does not do a lot of things the real unit does), but the Reality-XP
style integrated GNS430/530 trainer which is as real as a sim GNS can
get since it's based on the downloadable unit trainer at Garmin's
website.

On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:19:51 GMT, "Ron A." wrote:

Sorry Jay, you obviously don't use the Garmin sim for approaches. It is
pathetic how bad it is. My FSX with SP1 flying the GPS 30 into IOW (your
airport) does the following. By the way I have visited your hotel and seen
Kiwi, it is nice.

Distance showing in the main NAV screen has no decimal point showing only
whole numbers, No indication of the CDI scaling to verify the proper
approach modes are active, cannot go direct to a flight plan fix either in a
regular flight plan or part of an approach without manually typing it in and
losing the rest of the flight plan or approach functionality.

And here is a very serious error. The TO/FROM flag doesn't switch in
Holding or SUSP mode. When flying past the missed approach fix it doesn't
switch into SUSP and flip the TO/FROM to FROM, it sequences directly to a
waypoint called 1500 which happens to be the initial missed approach
altitude for that approach.

You can't customize the fields on the pages, etc, etc.. It is a poor
excuse for the real thing.

Ron A.


"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
roups.com...
The Garmin GPS units are recreated with complete accuracy

No, they aren't.

Yes, 'fraid they are.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder 56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

You can't customize the fields on the pages, etc, etc.. It is a poor
excuse for the real thing.

Interesting. This is *not* what other pilots have told me. (I don't
have a Garmin 430/530 in the panel, so can only parrot what others
have told me...)

I've heard that the Garmin 430 in the AOPA Cherokee Six is close to
perfect. Have you seen this version? (It's a freely downloadable
aircraft, but I think it only works in FS2004.)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Yeah Jay... what's up with that?...
I think you're using fuzz math.

Mx says: 720 hours in 11 months.
720/24 = 30 days... not 4.3 months

So Mx only spends 1/11th of his time on earth Flight Simulating.

Sorry, I was figuring this based on a standard 8-hour work day.
720 hours is 90 work days. Figure working 5 days per week, that's
actually 18 weeks, or 4.3 months.

However you slice it, it's a lot of time spent sitting in front of a
sim.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

The same goes for all those people that truly have nothing
better to do with their time that to follow around another usenet
poster, replying to EVERY single post with juvenile insults. Because
the two aren't too far apart in the dumb-ness factor.

Beats being a perambulating navigation hazard

Bertie, you clearly have much to offer here. Obsessive MX-bashing
isn't proving anything except that you have WAY too much time on your
hands...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"