Tea? (Part 2)

[TheDoctor]

Bacon roll for me

 

[Archie_tect]

Gravity does that... 'the mutual attraction of two heavenly bodies drawn to each other'....
[Edit: that sounds so wrong I may have to delete it.... ]

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Ah right I see you are using a Flight Simulator of a real aircraft. The one I use is a simulator of RC aircraft and heli's and enables me to plug the transmitter I use with my RC Heli's into the usb port on my PC and control the models on screen with it. I can then practice manuvoures without having to do it on the actual thing and risk crashing. The models in the simulator are copies of the real models and programmed to act exactly the same.

With an RC Heli you start flying it with the tail towards you (tail in) and then progress to side on figure 8's (which is where I am at) then you have to master nose in, which is flying it with the nose pointing towards you. As you point out at this point most of the controls then reverse so it is just a matter of training you brain to do it automatically which is what I am working on at the moment.

Sounds good Phil. I think my pal would have practised on such a simulator too if such a thing was even a glint in the eye back in the 70's. Can you ask for ground effect conditions/gusty winds and such on the sim? Real world has these things

A student housemate of mine had MS FlightSim. But he had a short attention span and fiddled with the settings all the time, and I never saw him take off, fly and land all in the same aircraft and weather conditions.

He did prove that you can't land Concorde on Papa Westray, and ended up with it buried nose deep in the grass like an arrow.

You can land any MS flight sim plane anywhere, all you have to do is set enough head wind. I got a 747 on a carrier once.

My version of MS Flight Sim must have been an early version. I think there were about 3 aircraft types and no wind settings. I did fly underneath Tower Bridge and give Buck House an lot of buzzes Flying low and fast - it's gotta be done

 

[phil_hg_uk]

Can you ask for ground effect conditions/gusty winds and such on the sim? Real world has these things

Yes you can change any of the variables and you can even replace the flying sites with the actual site you fly at if you want.

 

[phil_hg_uk]

Does this simulated plane need an elastic band? Or to quote Speicher, am I getting old?

 

[potsy]

Does this simulated plane need an elastic band? Or to quote Speicher, am I getting old?

Would you like me to answer that one?

In from my hard 'days' work, another 100 mile week chalked up and I might be venturing out for a ride tomorrow yet too
Dinner time

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Does this simulated plane need an elastic band? Or to quote Speicher, am I getting old?

Err Rocky - we have electricity now you know

 

[coffeejo]

Dog walked. Soup for lunch.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Dog walked. Soup for lunch.

Have a good SLURP

 

[potsy]

Dog walked. Soup for lunch.

Lost that lb yet?

 

[coffeejo]

If you mean the one pound it costs to buy a big bar of Galaxy in the co-op..........................

 

[potsy]

If you mean the one pound it costs to buy a big bar of Galaxy in the co-op..........................

You'll never make it into 'our' slim club

 

[phil_hg_uk]

You'll never make it into 'our' slim club

No neither will you, I have made the door way thinner

 

[Archie_tect]

Club? Yum.

 

[coffeejo]

s'ok, I have the figure of a cake-eater. My flubbery bits may wobble but at least my taste buds are in fine working order.