As Real As It Gets - Not

[BFMF]

Thanks mate

[visitor]

Andrew;

Go back and read my last post, I
posted it too soon, I saw your  ???
on Kimbers post and this will clear it up

X

[ysteinbuch]

As far as realistic airport ground support, I noticed that in LAX you'll see refueling trucks and baggage vehicles moving around (with sound), but frame rates are definitely affected. By the way, while I was "walking" around the runway area at LAX (using Active Camera Pro), I enjoyed seeing planes coming in for landings, but, alas, some simply disappeared right after touchdown. Go figure.

[visitor]

Ysteinbuch;

some simply disappeared right after touchdown

The one with my bags

How do you walk around with active camara?
all I can get mine to do is flyby??????????

X

[BFMF]

The reason why some aircraft disappear is because there is not enough gates to support that type of aircraft

[Lethal.Ambition]

Where can i find active camera?

[GreG]

The new Active Camera Pro is at www.avsim.com, try running a search for it.  Love it!  Especially the approach view, terrific, feels like you're really standing right on the runway, watching a 747-400 or whatever fly right over your head, the only difference between this and the real world is that in real life, you'd be blown about 100 metres back after the plane had touched down! (Anyone watched "Pushing Tin"! )  I'd personally, love to do that!!  I'm sure it feels just like flying!!!

And I can't even begin to talk about the FS2002 glitches again!!  Hell, I could write a book about them!  Hopefully most of them, all of them would be nice, will be fixed for FS2004!  I really do, I reckon that FS2002 had so many problems because M$ had a deadline to meet, when it was meant to be ready for sale, and they were behind schedule, so they just rushed the rest of it, and missed all the little glitches while testing.

Greg

[zcottovision]

I think you're all forgetting that it's a flight simulator, not an airport simulator! The airports are just fancy car parks for planes. All the good stuff happens in the air, as you'd expect from a flight simulator!

[BFMF]

All the good stuff happens in the air

If you look at some of the things Mark and Ken do, that's not always the case

[MattNW]

[quote]You guys need to take up step back about ten years. Can anyone here say "286 processor",I-new-you-could.

[hiflyphil]

Hi

Well that was a good topic - yes i'll admit flight sims have come a long way since my commodore and atari days god what great days.  And at least I can get some realism by dressing the wife in a flight attendants outfit and bringing me a cuppa now and again, and maybe a lap dance at 30,000 feet.

See you all in the skies

Phil

[codered]

FS2002 will never be as real as it gets!  Why can't people understand that!  It is a flight sim that replicates civilian flying.  For $50 you cannot expect to have the full blown real thing!  With all the addons that FS allows you to do you can make it to your liking, but it will never be real.  If you want real go to your local FBO and sign up for flight lessons and learn to fly the real thing.  I learned to fly the real thing way before I started using FS.  And when I started using the FS series I found it to be an enjoyable game.  I would never equate it to the real thing, because it is not and never will be.  Even COF will not be real.  In my opinion people should just enjoy FS for what it is and what it allows you to do.  I certainly enjoy it, and find it to be a wonderful hobby.  

[OTTOL]

Now that you mention it for $50 you are definitely getting your money's worth. I have to go to recurrent training at SimCom in Orlando annually. Their Lear simulator feels like a
bad amusement park ride, and don't even get me started on
the graffics. This simulator costs more than the real airplane
to aquire. The best I've flown so far is the A340 sim at PanAm in Miami. This has better dynamics(including a slight jolt that can be felt every time you cross an expansion joint while taxiing), but the graffics are still no better than FS. The  
Tech at Pan Am told me that this sim also costs more than the actual aircraft!  I have been told that the sim for the Canadair RJ has incredible attention to detail, including pedestrians on sidewalks as you approach the runway.