Microsoft FSX Real-Life Weather

"Darkwing" theducksmail"AT"yahoo.com writes:

Oh jeez. The line between fantazy and reality just keeps getting thinner
with our expert simmer.

Try it.

Paul Tomblin writes:

How the **** would you know? You've never been in real life.

All I have to do is look up to compare.

Mxsmanic wrote in
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"Darkwing" theducksmail"AT"yahoo.com writes:

Oh jeez. The line between fantazy and reality just keeps getting
thinner with our expert simmer.

Try it.


What, blurring the line between fantasy and reality?

Most people need assistance to get to the level of skill you've achieved in
that area.



Bertie

Mxsmanic wrote in
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Paul Tomblin writes:

How the **** would you know? You've never been in real life.

All I have to do is look up to compare.




Bwawhahwhahwhahwhahwhahwhahwhahhwhahwhahwhahwhhahw hahwhahwhahwhahw !

What, MSFS simulates colons now?


Bertie

"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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"Darkwing" theducksmail"AT"yahoo.com writes:

Oh jeez. The line between fantazy and reality just keeps getting thinner
with our expert simmer.

Try it.

I already do! I've had every MSFS since the mid-80's when it was still wire
frames on my hard drive-less Tandy, but as an ACTUAL pilot it isn't
near the fun and experience that I get sitting behind the controls of an
actual airplane. I also fly RC planes but it isn't near as much fun as
flying a
real plane as well. Tomorrow I'm going overseas for business and I have to
sit in the back of a Delta flight and I'm sure that won't be as much fun as
flying the plane either.

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DW

"Darkwing" theducksmail"AT"yahoo.com wrote in
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"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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"Darkwing" theducksmail"AT"yahoo.com writes:

Oh jeez. The line between fantazy and reality just keeps getting
thinner with our expert simmer.

Try it.

I already do! I've had every MSFS since the mid-80's when it was still
wire frames on my hard drive-less Tandy, but as an ACTUAL pilot it
isn't near the fun and experience that I get sitting behind the
controls of an actual airplane. I also fly RC planes but it isn't near
as much fun as flying a
real plane as well. Tomorrow I'm going overseas for business and I
have to sit in the back of a Delta flight and I'm sure that won't be
as much fun as flying the plane either.


well, flying an RC airplane is a lot closer to flying a real airplane than
any sim I've been in.


Bertie

In a previous article, Mxsmanic said:
Paul Tomblin writes:
How the **** would you know? You've never been in real life.

All I have to do is look up to compare.

When you start to look *down* on clouds, we'll respect your opinion about
weather.

--
Paul Tomblin http://blog.xcski.com/
"Microsoft is a cross between the Borg and the Ferengi. Unfortunately,
they use Borg to do their marketing and Ferengi to do their programming."
-- Simon Slavin in asr

SockPuppet wrote in
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In article ,
says...
Neither sim is anything like a real airplane.


I don't agree that MSFS 2004 isn't "anything like a real airplane".


K


Bertie

In a previous article, SockPuppet said:
The weather stuff is okay but innacurate -- it often only gets the
weather kind of close to the airport selected.

So does Flight Service.


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"Dumbass PowarRanger Voltron is like the original PowarRanger Voltron,
except no one can agree who forms the head, so all you're left with is
five assholes." - siln

"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote:



well, flying an RC airplane is a lot closer to flying a real airplane than
any sim I've been in.

Indeed.

And it will actually *help* you learn to fly a full scale airplane, as opposed
to MSFS, which will teach you bad habits you will have to unlearn.

Most pilots who are good at both RC and full scale will tell you RC is more
difficult to learn, and knowing how to fly the big ones first isn't much help.

I was one of the club instructors back in my RC days. Occasionally we would
have a pilot show up with his pride-and-joy scale P-51 or some such he had
built, but without a minute of RC stick time. He would be referred by the
shop where he bought the kit.

Sometimes these were twenty thousand-hour guys. It was a humbling experience
for them to find out they had no shot at soloing their hot scale fighter, and
had to go back to the RC equivalent of a 150.

--
Dan
T-182T at BFM