StevenM
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I really like Terramaxx. It's simple and improves the scenery. I know Xplane has its limits but there's always room for improvement
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- 100% compatibility with the TBM900. Really, somebody has to do it.
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The bump mapping is nice, especially at dusk. But I would like it to be more subtle and better integrated with the tile.
Eg. Depressed roads and heightened hedges. - Little less reddish in the fall (European falls are gray and muddy).
- A bit milder winter, more gray and brownish tints. The current mild winter is a very deep winter and the deep winter is the next ice age.
- Limit the repetition at high flight levels, without sacrificing the detail at low levels. Maybe by making use of the bump mapping at bit more.
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An option to have high density forests. I have allpilots hd forest patch installs and I think Terramaxx is overriding it. The hd forests also suppress the repetition in
areas such as Germany and Scandinavia. - Urbanmaxx TM is a hidden gem for IFR. Does it have bumpmapping? If not, it could really benefit from it.
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Do i really see rain falling from that cloud?
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Got the same problem departing EDDN on Vatsim.
Cannot engage the A/P, plane is banking left constantly. Removing FlyWithLua had no effect.Disregard. I am a tool..... forgot to put the AP switch on....
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Aha. I forgot to tell that X-Plane hanged whilst showing the TerraMaxx dialog and SkyMaxx registration dialog. I had to force quit it after a while.
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I did have some problems installing SkyMaxx Pro 4.7. Upon starting Xplane after the install I got the Gizmo registration dialog and and a Terramaxx dialog in the lower left of the screen saying something about reinstalling "default textures".
I solved the problem by temporarily disabling TerraMaxx, registering SkyMaxx and then enabling TerraMaxx again.
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Jan, maybe a stupid question, but I was wondering if a professional pilot still can be immersed in a desktop flightsim. Or to rephrase my question, with your hands-on experience on the 737 how do you perceive the model you made? As a "mini-me" of the real thing?
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51 minutes ago, tkyler said:
I Such is Jan's existence and thoroughness though, I am impressed what this guy finds. It will bode well for all of us I think!
Count your blessings when you've a tester with deep systems knowledge and a large stamina. Happy bug hunting
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2 hours ago, tkyler said:
WARNING...Geek talk.
The LNAV and VNAV calculations are deterministic, the 'performance database', is of course stochastic. The only way to get a fully deterministic implementation is to have air density and vector info predicted at every point surrounding the plane during the flight.....quite the CFD problem (and then some). For the given database input states to the routing algorithms, the output will be the same every time for the same inputs (numerical round-off notwithstanding).....as the calculations are fully based on Newton's laws.
-tkyler
Clear. Thanks for the answer.
From a physics standpoint LNAV and VNAV are indeed reasonable straight forward. Of course when you go outside the envelope everything becomes very very random. We see this in the real world also, with occasionally desastreus results.
I was more thinking about the messy "human" side. The legal/company/pilot thingie rules as "when i do this, i want to see that". In my line of work (healthcare systems) they rarely add up nice together.
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If a simulated FMC already has a lot of edge cases then the real thing probably has exponentially more situations to handle. And that in 1980's (?) embedded system tech instead of desktop systems with load of Ghz's en Mb's.
Btw. I wonder if those FMC's can be ever deterministic implemented.
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46 minutes ago, Ben Russell said:
I've been dabbling in the world of Arduino/ESP8266 and IoT.
My preferred protocol at the moment is MQTT.
Gizmo will be getting more powerful USB API options in future too so we can make sure any of our product integrations are 100% seamless.
Interesting and off topic, did you consider ZeroMQ? Since IIRC MQTT handles only messaging (very well).
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Don't worry about X-plane's native autopilot. The 737 autopilot is coded by us from scratch. Currently around 2000 lines of code and another 500 the MCP.
Since when did you dump Lua and start using Lisp?
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Not hard to do (see window shades in the Saab for an example. Same principle.), but I would have to get the travel distance of the seats to make it accurate.
I checked the interior photos i took during the trips. I haven't found one which show the travel distance clearly. I can bundle them and PM them to you if you'd like.
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Looks good.
Been awhile since I was inside a Citation, but I remember the seats also slide sideways towards the aisle.
Would be a nifty touch but I guess right down to the bottom of the 'nice to have, never implement' list.
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I bought some models this year, some were good but on hindsight i didn't have the time to delve into them (FF757, JAR330).
Some seemed great but where, in my opinion, a bit meh (EMB110 and the RWDesigns DHC6).
Last summer i bought the Beaver from Soulmade. It is nice and well crafted but my personal plane of the year is the Aerobask Epic1000.
I got it with the bonus points of the orgstore, not expecting much of it but it really was a pleasant surprise.
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Yes, it is used to monitor all the pressure, temperature, and air flow values under various conditions while developing the bleed air system. This will not be part of the aircraft as delivered to customers. We just wanted to let you know what we were working and the depth of the simulation that we are creating.
Cool. You used the same setup during the development of the Saab or is it something you thought would be very handy purely for the Citation?
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Yes, I saw it, it's very interesting. Off topic, do you use it as an interactive chart during the testing & developing of the systems?
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Avsim is not the fastest with reviewing
But it's (imho) still the best simulated turboprop for X-Plane, so congratulations!
And regarding the Citation, throw us a bone now and then. Personally I find the process of building is as interesting as the product itself.
Best wishes for 2016.
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I flew gliders when i was between 14-19 years old (I'm 47now). I still remember vividly the ASK-13 and K-8 and some strange motor-glider were the inside was decorated with a wallpaper with a flower pattern. Could be the ASK-16.
After that study and girls where more important... But the itch never went away.
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The -200 variant is AFAIK not on the X-Plane market yet. It's a different beast than Classic which is a different plane than NG.
Personally I AM looking forward to it and I'm not going to buy the NG. I'd buy Classic if there were no "Prehistoric" (AKA -200 or -100) available. Of course I'm a minority - but I just don't want a simulation of a flying computer. X-Plane (even with yoke and pedals) is not a real life (where I would like to have every automation possible - even at my "boring" work (software developer) I automate as much as I can - to prevent as much errors as possible), X-Plane is something what I have for an entertainment and I find more entertaining to have steam gauges, "hardware" E6B and printed maps rather than fancy iPads in front of me. I just hope that I am not the single potential buyer of the plane.
Hear, hear. I'm exactly in the position. Developer with a softspot for old analog stuff. Even have an E6B.
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IMHO the UN-learning and learning of aviation related things makes this hobby such fun. We're not shackled bij real world limits to go and explore the why and how of aviation technology and history.
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Goran, completely OT but your remark about "room" together with Citation reminded me of a trip i made a few years back.
Before that then I believed private jets were luxury vehicles for the happy few. To my surprise they're cramped tubes with little legroom, even less headroom, retro instruments and pilots with no taste.
Arb. Always nice when people have a real passion.
btw. I'm not on the pictures.
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It was my second flight with the Saab and with X-Plane after two years. A bit early to see a pattern.
The plugins: Airtrack,Gizmo,Pilotview. No extra hardware for the instruments.
Airtrack was not connected to an iPad, and the iPad was not active. But I'm not ruling this one out as a possible cause.
The flight: Very simple actually. After takeoff I took the 251deg radial to TRA(114.3) on Nav1 from there 174deg from TRA until the crossing on 151deg to SAR(111.3 or something) on Nav2.
Enroute to SAR i tried to tune the Nav1 to 111.5 which resulted in the fluke. As you mentioned, it could well be a bad hairday for the radio, but also a rounding error (float->int) somewhere.
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Back in the saddle after two years and on my way from St.Gallen to Lugano. Things certainly have improved a tiny bit since 9.70.
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Hi,
On approach to Lugano I wanted to tune nav1 to the ILS on 111.5. Strange thing was, I could only tune nav1 to 111.49 to 111.54. Nav2 was fine. Something i missed?
Any Terramaxx News?
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You're right. I forgot about that.
Nice sceneries btw.