The winds were great for some endurance, altitude and distance test flights, light at the surface and strong unidirectional flow aloft. Got it up to 50,000 feet and was cruising in the jetstream winds.
I had to leave and didn’t want the kids destroying my flight so I locked my computer. Unfortunately Flight Simulator decides it has to be paused when the computer is locked, instead of simply running in the background. Not a problem in itself, however, the balloon envelope continues to cool as I’m guessing the code calculating that is running independently. When I returned, the balloon had cooled to the ambient outside air temp, the envelope collapsed and I was now a lawn dart in free fall with a giant orange streamer. It’s a long drop from 50,000’.
I redid the flight, but it was too late to do a full endurance run. I left the sim to run overnight with the balloon at 60,000 drifting east southeast from Arizona into Mexico, expecting to find a black screen in the morning. Miraculously the balloon self landed in a tiny forest clearing west of San Antonio, having crossed the border back into the US. No crash detected.
I’ve been spending the half term holidays flying the Apennine’s bush trip modified for a glider (asw33). Only thing I have changed besides the glider is a tweak to the weather. I’ve managed to setup some fairly limp thermals alongside an ok wind to drift the odd ridge soaring fun.
Today was from Aviosuperficie Olivola to Aviosuperficie Grumento nova.
How can you “pan” arround your aircraft inside the hangar ??? since one of the updates ( looong time ago), I haven’t been able to do that anymore, and i’d love to sometimes, while undecided which livery to choose.
In the very beginnign, i was able to do it, now not anymore
This looks more complicated than it really is! This is the method I use, maybe someone knows another quicker trick.
Go the airplane folder
Open the camera.cfg file in Notepad
You will see this:
[VIEWS]
eyepoint = 43.72074,
Change it to:
[VIEWS]
eyepoint = 13.72074,
Save the file
Start the game. Your cockpit view will be strange as you are now in a funny viewpoint - this is intentional
Using arrow keys set a wingview like this:
Bind the view to a numpad key using CTRL + numpad key of your choice
Save the camera.cfg file
Open the camera.cfg again in Notepad
Reverse the changes - change it back to eyepoint = 43.72074
Save the file
Start the game, load the plane
Press the numpad key corresponding to your wingview
Now press the arrow keys and you can go outside the plane and anywhere in the cabin
Notes
You can of course set multiple wingviews
If your main cockpit view (straight ahead) is strange AFTER you restore original values in cameras.cfg file then just use arrow keys while in cockpit and once you have it at the right place bind it to the numpad (I recommend numpad 8)
Flight from PHNL to SAN, my arrival into SAN overlapped with the event at STL and also had a CTD (my fault) as I exited at SAN, did some studying and then since fingers crossed ATC was on thought I’d hop up to SFO.
Had some trouble with the approach: Even though at the procedures page the right transition point was shown, the map tried to lead me to a different one. In the end I added the transition point manually as a waypoint.
Landed a bit rough at about 400fpm, but as the saying goes: if you can walk away from it…
Wooo that was an intense Photoshop week with the 737 and the Fenix! - Taking a break from the sim (or to be more precise from Photoshop) to celebrate the Halloween weekend with my other passion: good movies and horror games
