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What/Where did you fly today? - Part 5

Postby StuartC » Fri Jan 01, 2021 11:07 am

Another new year and a Fresh start for the 2021 Screenshots and videos.
Last year reached 40 pages long. How many will this one get ?

Post away.............
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Re: What/Where did you fly today? - Part 5

Postby Parnikkapore » Fri Jan 01, 2021 12:00 pm

What epoch makes this year 20201? :lol:
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Re: What/Where did you fly today? - Part 5

Postby The epic chicken » Fri Jan 01, 2021 2:39 pm

at least it didn't go to 2020 part 2 :lol:
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Re: What/Where did you fly today? - Part 5

Postby StuartC » Fri Jan 01, 2021 8:50 pm

Out and about in my local area.

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Re: What/Where did you fly today? - Part 5

Postby Octal450 » Sun Jan 10, 2021 8:41 pm

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MD-11F into EDDF. Hopefully she will land in FGAddon shortly :mrgreen:

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Re: What/Where did you fly today? - Part 5

Postby eatdirt » Mon Jan 11, 2021 12:59 am

Unkown f14b mate during a multiplayer session nearby San Francisco :)

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Re: What/Where did you fly today? - Part 5

Postby StuartC » Mon Jan 11, 2021 2:10 pm

Westland Gazelle. Leuchars, Perth, St Andrews area.

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Re: What/Where did you fly today? - Part 5

Postby The epic chicken » Mon Jan 11, 2021 2:38 pm

Imagefgfs-20210111132609 by the epic chicken the epic chicken, on Flickr

Imagefgfs-20210111132728 by the epic chicken the epic chicken, on Flickr

Imagefgfs-20210111132645 by the epic chicken the epic chicken, on Flickr

Landin' the Tupolev 144

the best supersonic airliner



(dont critise me about my costom livery. i had no idea how the program i was using worked)
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Re: What/Where did you fly today? - Part 5

Postby eatdirt » Fri Jan 15, 2021 12:45 am

Today, while debugging some AI scenario, I flew nearby KEDW, one of these days :)

"Welcome back guys!"
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Russell Casse:
All right, you alien assholes! In the words of my generation: Up Yours!

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NB: As Russel Casse correctly analyzed, this spacecraft is not the real Shuttle, it misses OMS Pods. So his assumption of being an alien invasion in disguised might have some support :)

NB2: After your many, possibly unsuccessful, attempts to fly at the same speed as the Shuttle, you are invited to appreciate the challenge (thanks Thorsten for the biblio) by reading this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuttle_Training_Aircraft

Absolutely amazing!
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Re: What/Where did you fly today? - Part 5

Postby erik » Fri Jan 15, 2021 2:39 pm

The new compositor lights animations are really nice:
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Re: What/Where did you fly today? - Part 5

Postby cv1000 » Sun Jan 17, 2021 3:27 pm

While randomly surfing the web today, I came across the "Suggested flights" page in the Flightgear Wiki (http://wiki.flightgear.org/Suggested_Flights) and decided to try some of them out. The first entry in the "North America" section pointed to Round Valley Airport (O09), CA. After flying a few miles southeast, I stumbled upon this....

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I don't exactly know what the lake in the distance and the airfield next to it are called, but this area is incredibly beautiful.
(p.s, I think the scenery files required for this area and the mountains to the north are w130n30 and w130n40 as opposed to w120n40 mentioned in the wiki page.)
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Re: What/Where did you fly today? - Part 5

Postby cv1000 » Sun Jan 17, 2021 4:35 pm

StuartC wrote in Mon Jan 11, 2021 2:10 pm:Westland Gazelle. Leuchars, Perth, St Andrews area.



Nice video. A small question though, how do you get your helicopter to hover stably immediately after takeoff? Whenever I try to do the same, my heli behaves like an angry bull in a rodeo. I try my best to maintain control with the cyclic and the foot pedals and it works to some extent on the Alouette III and the Eurocopter EC-130. The Robinson R-22, however, has made it a habit to murder my virtual Avatar whenever I try to spool up its rotors!
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Re: What/Where did you fly today? - Part 5

Postby Johan G » Sun Jan 17, 2021 7:07 pm

You have to be really subtle with the controls. And I mean really subtle. Think of it like as if you where sitting on a bull and was controlling it by the direction you pull its neck hairs.

See also these two older post of mine:
Low-level flying — It's all fun and games till someone looses an engine. (Paraphrased from a YouTube video)
Improving the Dassault Mirage F1 (Wiki, Forum, GitLab. Work in slow progress)
Some YouTube videos
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Re: What/Where did you fly today? - Part 5

Postby OO ZVY » Sun Jan 17, 2021 7:30 pm

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Re: What/Where did you fly today? - Part 5

Postby StuartC » Sun Jan 17, 2021 8:13 pm

cv1000 wrote in Sun Jan 17, 2021 4:35 pm:
StuartC wrote in Mon Jan 11, 2021 2:10 pm:Westland Gazelle. Leuchars, Perth, St Andrews area.



Nice video. A small question though, how do you get your helicopter to hover stably immediately after takeoff? Whenever I try to do the same, my heli behaves like an angry bull in a rodeo. I try my best to maintain control with the cyclic and the foot pedals and it works to some extent on the Alouette III and the Eurocopter EC-130. The Robinson R-22, however, has made it a habit to murder my virtual Avatar whenever I try to spool up its rotors!



The R22 is just an Angry Chopper, Horible in every way and in real life too.
The Alouete III doesn't behave much like the Alouette III and nether does the basic EC130 ( its actually way easier than it should be ).

Every Helicopter has a basic desire to kill you. You need to practice and tame it. Every helicopter type is different and behaves differently. Some have an SAS system to aid Stability, some do not. Practice on the difficult ones because if you master those, converting to the others will be much easier. The Reason the R22 is used in real life training is because its a little angry pig to fly. I have time on the big brother , the R66 and to give you an idea the cyclic input required to fly it amounts just to the level of movement in my wrist. There is no hauling the Cyclic all over the place, its not required. Its all very small, micro inputs. The R22 its even more sensitive to input. When it comes to pedal work then you are always going to need increasing pedal as you increase collective and produce more torque ( until you reach an airspeed where the aerodynamics of the fuselage and V stab aid in keeping it pointing where you are going ). Basic way of telling what pedal to expect to use in a hover is to watch the blades on starting ( on what ever helicopter your choose ). The Tail will try to turn in towards the retreating blade so you will require more pedal on the side with the retreating blade ( unless the FDM is completely wrong ).
Then its just down to Practice practice practice and when your done, practice some more .
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