Star Trek

[Radopilot]

Does anyone have Captian Jean-Luc Picard's ship the USS Enterprise for FS2004 as freeware? This is the version made by the German and it is also called the Grabau. thx!

[Gary R.]

I think it's in FS-2004 miscellaneous.  I got it, the panel is very goofy, no VC, no interior renderings, tricky to install right, i deleted it.

[Radopilot]

the one you are talking about is the captain's yacht  :( the one i mean is the actually mothership. on the developer's website its the Grabau_EE_019.

Regards,
Rado

[KDSM]

ummm...isnt a spacecraft supposed to be in space? and i believe fs2004 doesnt simulate space

[Radopilot]

ummm.... i beleve i have a way of making fs look like space via time, and also ive been looking for this ship for quite a while

[Gary R.]

I think a Soveriegn Class Starship for Orbiter would be most excellent if somebody developed one.  3D bridge view with all the panels,  top speed of light x 1900 (warp 9???), and different areas of the ship like engineering, transport, holodeck, etc.  Of course, I could be wishing for a lot from that sim so early in it's developement.  Oh well, maybe in 10 more years.  Orbiter probably wouldn't even support concepts like warp drive or hyperspace or similar theory.

[GWSimulations]

I would reccomend you download the freeware Orbiter simulator.
http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/orbit.html

A good Enterprise can be found on AVSIM, for orbiter.

[Jakemaster]

I was about to say that, but be warned: orbiter is EXTREMELY difficult

[KDSM]

ummm.... i beleve i have a way of making fs look like space via time, and also ive been looking for this ship for quite a while

Well ya didnt say that  :(

[GWSimulations]

I was about to say that, but be warned: orbiter is EXTREMELY difficult

I agree. You need patience. I've been using it for about a year now, and I only managed to make my first flight from the Earth to the Moon last month, and my first interplanetary flight (Earth-Mars) yesterday!

:-/

[Gary R.]

Ah, was that interplanetary flight in real time???   of course, that's a rather silly question or the flight as yet wouldn't be completed.  I have Orbiter now but I'm not aware of the propulsion options available so obviously if you made a real time flight to Mars or wherever you were powered by more than brief burn to break orbit and gravitation slingshoting.  Of course, the fact that the dragonfly can take off like a plane, land like a plane, and actually go somewhere once in space hints at better propulsion options than currently in realworld use.  I have made the introductory dragonfly flight from the "Cape" into orbit.  It went quite well until I lost most of my atmospheric pressure and had to control with thrusters.  That's when the ride got squirrelly.  I'm curious, does that dragonfly have any sort of autopilot to help a guy fly straight and true??  I saw a link on avsim the other day  for an external a/p program for FS that also has an Orbiter version.  I may just invest the bandwidth to download it.

[Radopilot]

ive tried using orbiter efore, and its too hard to use, im only 13. it is made by grabau tech. (the german computer company).