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Re: hard landing airports

Postby Strategic Retreat » Wed Jul 06, 2011 3:18 pm

There was a documentary on the worlds 10 most dangerous airports, none of them in Portugal, there maybe spelling mistakes but I'll deny them :)


Just finished seen it myself (just don't ask how), and we must admit much of the difficulties of some of them, like Lindbergh field, Gibraltar, Madeira and St Marteen are such because of variables that under FS or other brand of simulators are inexistent (there are no thrill-seekers of the jetblast at any simulated St Marteen I know of), badly simulated (the crazy weather patterns of Madeira and Gibraltar is just too complex for the puny weather engines of any commercially or freely available simulator around), or unevenly rendered (the traffic in Lindbergh field can be replicated maybe a touch more accurately if one takes upon him/herself to add custom AI flights, as the default AI traffic, as usual for almost anything default, stink to nirvana, but not everyone do or has done it). [smiley=beer.gif]

As it turns out, not all the variables from the real world translate to the sim world verbatim at all, and I guess a list of the most dangerous or simply difficult places where to land on a simulator has to be slightly different than real world. :)


PS
Madeira IS Portugal territory, you know. ;D
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Re: hard landing airports

Postby milesg » Fri Jul 08, 2011 12:32 pm

Hard landing? Are you in search of difficult airports?

Simple. Just enter "dangerous" without the quotes in a whatever freeware search engine for FS and you'll be deluged.

Unless you have already some airports in mind, in which case, Google can help you more than everything else. :)
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Re: hard landing airports

Postby milesg » Fri Jul 08, 2011 12:42 pm

sorry but in simaviation under dangerous I only find airports for fx and not for 2004. I have identified some airports but Id like to now how and if i can post the pictures here so people can ID these airports. Ive already landed intenzing-hillary airport in my dc1030.tough but i landed( only me on board and very LOW fuel weight ) turning around was diffffficult...
please advise about the photographs ...thank you ;D
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Re: hard landing airports

Postby Opa » Fri Jul 08, 2011 1:21 pm

Use "Doherty's" (without the quotation marks) or Michael Doherty (the author) as the search criteria.

He created quite a few packages (60 or more if memory serves) of "Doherty's Difficult and Dangerous Approaches" for FS2004.

They will keep you busy for quite awile! Great Fun!

If not in the library here, they are available at other DL sites.

RE: Uploading pictures, there is an option on the Blue bar at the top of the forums page named "Upload Images".  Just follow the instructions.
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