Microsoft FSX Real-Life Weather

Mxsmanic wrote in
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SockPuppet writes:

Though I haven't
done it you can also play with various GPS devices without having to
buy them (much of those devices' functionality is recreated).

The Garmin GPS units are recreated with complete accuracy


No, they aren't.


But for actually handling the plane: stalls, unusual attitudes,
spins, wind gust corrections on landing, real emergency procedures,
etc, it does not help you (IMHO).

The weaknesses of a PC sim are the lack of motion, limited visibility,
and the differences in controls. Anything that depends on either of
these will be hard to simulate, although more elaborate sim set-ups
can mitigate some of these problems. Since there's a lot more to
flying than VFR, these limitations are not as great as they seem,
unless flying a tiny plane strictly under VFR is your only ambition.

The weather stuff is okay but innacurate -- it often only gets the
weather kind of close to the airport selected.#

If you use something like ActiveSky, the weather will be identical to
that of the real world (although obviously the individual clouds will
not have the same shape).



No, it won;'t you dozy fjukk


Bertie

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"

Jay Honeck wrote in news:1193168837.925665.294690
@z24g2000prh.googlegroups.com:

The Garmin GPS units are recreated with complete accuracy

No, they aren't.

Yes, 'fraid they are.


Right, they fail when you fly near Iraq, do they?

Bertie

The Garmin GPS units are recreated with complete accuracy

No, they aren't.

Yes, 'fraid they are.

Right, they fail when you fly near Iraq, do they?

Probably not, although I don't really know. (An existential
question: Would that be a failure when flying your virtual aircraft
near virtual Iraq, or a failure when your PC is located near *real*
Iraq?)

:-)

I do know this (and this is the best part): Garmins don't cost as much
as a nice motorcycle to own, in MSFS...

:-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder 56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay Honeck wrote in news:1193171995.958041.27240
@t8g2000prg.googlegroups.com:

The Garmin GPS units are recreated with complete accuracy

No, they aren't.

Yes, 'fraid they are.

Right, they fail when you fly near Iraq, do they?

Probably not, although I don't really know.



I do.


(An existential
question: Would that be a failure when flying your virtual aircraft
near virtual Iraq, or a failure when your PC is located near *real*
Iraq?)

You can't fly a virtual airplane.

:-)

I do know this (and this is the best part): Garmins don't cost as much
as a nice motorcycle to own, in MSFS...




Neither does an inflatible girl.



Bertie

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?

--
Dallas

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?


Probably. these guys are the ones that seem to know all that crap, though.


Bertie

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.

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"