First impressions of flight

Mxsmanic wrote in
:

Dave Doe writes:

Real life? You do know what "simulator" means don't you?

In a good simulation, you forget that it's simulation until it's over.

Good grief, you're a compleat idiot, arten't you?


Bertie

In article ,
says...
Dave Doe writes:

Real life? You do know what "simulator" means don't you?

In a good simulation, you forget that it's simulation until it's over.

And so by your definition that's real life.

My theory's confirmed, thank you.

--
Duncan

Dave Doe writes:

And so by your definition that's real life.

No, by my definition, it's a good simulation.

--
Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.

Mxsmanic wrote in
:

Dave Doe writes:
Real life? You do know what "simulator" means don't you?

In a good simulation, you forget that it's simulation until it's over.

I recall MANY years ago talking with a programmer from NASA, who had worked
on the original moon landing simulations. All this ran in real-time, i.e.
a two week launch to landing really took two weeks. He said after a while
it would get to seem so real, that when the lunar lander finally touched
down (all simulated, of course) everyone in the control room would break
into wild cheers and start looking for the champagne bottles. G

-----------------------------------------------
James M. Knox
TriSoft ph 512-385-0316
1300 Koenig Lane West fax 512-371-5716
Suite 200
Austin, Tx 78756
-----------------------------------------------

On Mar 31, 2:36 am, "James M. Knox" wrote:
Mxsmanic wrote :

Dave Doe writes:
Real life? You do know what "simulator" means don't you?

In a good simulation, you forget that it's simulation until it's over.

I recall MANY years ago talking with a programmer from NASA, who had worked
on the original moon landing simulations. All this ran in real-time, i.e.
a two week launch to landing really took two weeks. He said after a while
it would get to seem so real, that when the lunar lander finally touched
down (all simulated, of course) everyone in the control room would break
into wild cheers and start looking for the champagne bottles. G

Hopefully, simulation should be accepted and cheaper than real flying
hours.
At the moment, it may be more expensive to do simulation than flying
for real.

If they can reduce the cost of getting PPL license to less than 10%,
it will just cost more than 3 times getting a car license. It will
truly make the flying car a reality.

Malaysia already promote one house one plane. I surely love to see
that day.

Actually hardware cost-wise, it is already affordable. Only
certifications and trainings that are unclear and expensive.





-----------------------------------------------
James M. Knox
TriSoft ph 512-385-0316
1300 Koenig Lane West fax512-371-5716
Suite 200
Austin, Tx 78756
-----------------------------------------------

On Mar 30, 11:36 am, "James M. Knox" wrote:

I recall MANY years ago talking with a programmer from NASA, who had worked
on the originalmoonlandingsimulations. All this ran in real-time, i.e.
a two week launch tolandingreally took two weeks. He said after a while
it would get to seem so real, that when the lunar lander finally touched
down (all simulated, of course) everyone in the control room would break
into wild cheers and start looking for the champagne bottles. G

There were no such manned moon landings. How much proof of your
having been snookered would you like?
-
Brad Guth

On 29 Mar 2007 00:35:53 -0700, "Ir. Hj. Othman bin Hj. Ahmad"
wrote:

On Mar 29, 11:16 am, "Peter Dohm" wrote:
I couldn't find the "pause" button.

The frame rate was really good, and all the autogen was turned on.

I also liked the multi-screen 3-d effect, and the true-motion... :-)

I heard from a PC salesman that a pilot spent more than RM18,000 for
PC and peripherals,

I don't know what that works out to in USD, but if you go whole hog on
a PC/sim that can be used for training (with an instructor present)
you can easily hit twice the cost of getting the license.

just to be able to play MSFS. This price is more than of the RM30,000
required to get PPL
on a cesna 172P at our local flying club.

My two main computers, one of which is state-of-the-art, or was two
months ago (now it's just an also ran) could easily pass the cost of
getting the license. OTOH they get used for a lot more than flight
simming.

Hmmm...Just ran the cost of the hard drives I'm using through the
calculator. Those drives cost me more than it did the get the license
and I'm not even including any other accessories.


Perhaps he is so addicted to the multi-scren 3-d effect and true
motion that he had to get similar effects all the time.

I don't find much of a 3-D effect with multiple screens.


I also heard from him that these people who play MSFS are also Boeing
737 commercial pilots. The salesman guessed that probably the pilots
would like to experience aerobatic flights, such as flying inverted
which will not be allowed on real commercial planes.

Hey, now... I have a copy of a video of a 707 doing a roll with a
whole load of photographers and press on board.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com