Although gliders only work rudimentarily at the moment, gravity seems to work fine in MSFS
Yesterday I was hiking in the mountains and saw a ramp that was mainly used by paragliders and my companion said, that it would be an awesome starting point for a wingsuit.
So I got to thinking it should be possible to create a wingssuit for MSFS. I mean jumping down a wall in in Italy, Norway, Yosemite, Rio de Janeiro or Switzerland would be great. And it’s completely different from sailplanes or switching off the engine in an aircraft.
Nice, but not new idea - prototype already made. For such small aircraft it really hard to reach stability - it can fly like a leaf, or like a brick. Other problems - chute simulation/animation is must have, body interaction with ground, camera acts wild when “aircraft” stands vertically and so on.
Jetwing currently in development, maybe most of the issues will be solved and we will be able to proceed to wingsuit. But hang glider is higher in the list though.
What a rush it would be to shoot down the side of a mountain in VR! I’d take a prototype which wasnt that accurately modelled just for the buzz factor
Yeah chute is only one issue… how to do the controls ? for this wingsuit you’ll need a different flight model, no rudder, no flaps.. but you’ll need accurate aeleron, very subtle moves.. independent wings, left and right elevator.. And.. it would be handy, if there was someupward airflow underways.
When I was a kid and climbed in Yosemite a big deal was skiing off El Cap (Totally Illegal) and parachuting to the ground. A guy I knew did it and said the hardest part was the skis flew above his head and had to get them off before he hit the ground… 3000’ drop… i guess modeling might have helped
There are different types of human flight besides the one you mention in this topic: then there is the oldest and most traditional one which is the DELTA GLIDING, today they even install an electric motor to make it fly… then we have the motorized parachutes paragliding which is a parachute with the motor then we have the jettpack windjetpack and other types of jetpaks in the arms then we have the jetman we also have the flyboard and then we also have the flight of the bicycle with wings we still have the famous 007 jetpack or there is even the airbike.. in short, human flight is vast and complex in these videos there are some examples:
Yeah that one isn’t real either. They are quite well done fakes especially considering it is made 13 years ago, you need to look twice to see it. But fake nonetheless.
There is no website or internet address where all the places from where he jumps with the wingsuit and the technical routes they take in flight are shown on a map
