Previous Thread: >>542478846A thread for all vehicle simulation games: racing sims, flight sims, train sims, submarine sims, tank sims, anything else sims which do not have enough traffic to sustain their own independent generals.>Extra attention grabbing search terms for example welcome sims/fsg/ /dcsg/ /fsxg/ /bmsg/ /shg/ /rofg/ /etsg/ /il2g/ /lfsg/ /tsg/>OP Pastebinhttps://pastebin.com/TxxE74ja>Planefag pastebin:https://rentry.co/simg>Tankfag pastebin:http://pastebin.com/EbdtnyPX>Boat- and subfag pastebinhttp://pastebin.com/JqTQWFFE>Repository of various aviation related material:https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B3EQDvufMNdeTUh4SE9WV0txa0E&usp=drive_web>Example of welcome simsFalcon BMS, DCS World, Rise of Flight, IL-2, Combat Helo, Microsoft Flight Simulator, X-Plane, Euro Truck Sim, Assetto Corsa, rFactor 2, Live for Speed, SAM Simulator, Steel Beasts Pro, Steel Armor: Blaze of War, Steel Fury: Kharkov 1942, Enemy Engaged: Comanche vs Hokum, Silent Hunter, Dangerous Waters, Train Simulator, Farming Simulator 201X, OMSI 2, DiRT: Rally, Ship Simulator, NoLimits2, Nuclear Sloption>Example of non-welcome games:Arm*, Ac* C*mbat, W*r Th*nder, W*rld of _____, The S*ms, S*m C*ty, G*at S*mulat*r
>>543113431letting /simg/ die again still beats being saved by the sims
>>543113431Thank you for your service, I saw it was dead but couldn't be arsed.Unrelated but ChatGPT does a reasonable job of making Little Navmap aircraft performance files. Send it one as an example, and then just ask it to make a file for the aircraft of your choice.
>>543119135I had tried that for a XPFlightplanner aircraft performance profile but it completely made up 90% of the values to the point that it was easier to make from scratch.
>>543120373Who's flying it?>>543123148Honestly what it provided sounded believable, if the performance is baked into the addon then I can actually check in the EFB planning bit.
>>>543066725still IL2
https://streamable.com/lery3chttps://streamable.com/d0dx39
Remember to start TrackIR before you start the game
>>543123757>Who's flying it?
Normally I would post these on /sp/ during the week between races, the joke was that I didn't have any webms of real racing footage handy so it was quicker & easier to go to my replay folder instead because a good sim should look "realistic".Because like another anon said in /ovg/ the point of making these is to showcase the game not my driving and to inspire others to try shit themselves since everyone online is a bot. Because in a good sim you should be able to see weight transfer under acceleration and braking, suspension movement, going over curbs should not be flat, the game should look dynamic. Are the tracks accurate? Is there night racing and weather things that aren't in vanilla Assetto Corsa. What types of cars do they have? You don't have to be locked into some irenting subscription that limits what you can drive, find a game that has the cars you want and just do it. Like I wish rf2 had more street cars like in Assetto Corsa.But now I got into a cycle of trying to push myself to improve each time with new recordings better than the previous ones. So I have to try and drive on the limit so I can showcase what the physics engine can do.
>tfw your gf asks what game your playinguh I'm playing Battlefield 6 babe.no it's not that ded game rfactor2 that Max Verstappen told everyone was shit and to uninstall why would I be playing that?
>>543133142Ignore Verstappen, what would he know?
That was a great flight, I actually did a really good landing and taxied really well too. I'm finding hover taxiing the hardest part of flying helicopters so far honestly, reducing the sensitivity of my collective (hotas throttle irl) has made a big difference.
>>543138670pirouettes are fun practicehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMGx-cqgoUU
>>543138670If you are able to, reducing the drag on your throttle will help a lot with using it as a collective. You need to make lots of small, quick, and precise movements with a collective.
>>543149850The t1600000m throttle is shit honestly, it's not smooth, maybe I should lubricate it. I've lowered the sensitivity tonnes otherwise it makes hover taxiing a nightmare, it's either too much so you go up and then fall down and smack down on the skids or not enough, you can't find the right spot.
>>543155417Why does it have wallpaper in the cockpit?
>>543150540Ah yes, that was the throttle I started flying helis with (I use a Virpil collective now). Getting some silicone grease on the rails helps a bit with the stiction feeling, but what helped the most for me was to reverse the axis so that you pull to go up, push to go down.
>>543141835Is that you? It looks hard>>543156329Reversing the axis is interesting, I'll try that out.
Hey frens, is this Gran Turismo 3?
I drove a train. Choo Choo was enjoyed
>>543168669Yeah, the gt4 version of the track toned down the color of the yellow road markings and added a spire of a dead tree to the horizon decoration at the vista beyond the turn.
Does anyone have any recommended combat sims from the 90s?
>>543200003Falcon 4
>>543200003Jane's WW2 Fighters
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>>543200003A-10 Attack!/Cuba, Hellcats Over the Pacific/Leyte Gulf, and Graphic Simulation's F/A-18 Hornet 1.0/2.0/Korea/3.0
>>543223726What about F-117A Nighthawk Stealth Fighter 2.0
PULL UP
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>>543240678What happened with that SF-260 crash, what was the cause?
>>543240802they haven't released any new info
>>543241054I thought you knew all the Italian aviation gossip and had inside info
>>543241161I didn't really ask anyone since it seemed a bit in bad taste to snoop around.
>>543241161Also, most of my inside info is drying up since 2 of my main sources have now been transfered to office jobs due to age and don't fly anymore.
>>543241568Italia has fallen....
>severe mountain wave in Scotland at the momentI might have to go gliding then
>a hospital shipmust..not...sink
>>543243297
Why didn't anyone tell me this was a thing?
>>543243297https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ECGKcl4s-kBe careful. Nothing is worth the risk.
>>543261387The weather has gone to shit so I'm heading back, great spot for ridge lift though.
>>543159778never actually flying one, just a helpful irl channel. helicopter online ground school, flyingmair, wandering pilot are good too.if you prefer sim training examples there's always casmohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w3zXr1Ja1Y
>the sub rights itself if invertedBased, I had no idea it would do this.
>>543271024Cheers I'll have a look. I'm about to fly at night, never done it in a heli, the weather is rubbish too, I'll probably die.
>>543279905This is scary lads I don't like it, the landing light reflecting off the clouds doesn't help, I might climb and see if I can get out of them.
Does anyone want to play DCS with a noob? I bought a shitty HOTUS from Best Buy and the f14 module about 2 months ago and only just beat the dogfight mission with the ai opponent. I like the idea of multiplayer in it and I also want to learn how to play RIO. Also I need friends.
>>543281198This is horrible, I'm trapped in the shadow realm with only my instruments for company
>>543285038Fuck me I don't know how but I made it, I nearly crashed a few times on the, zero visiblity, I think I was flying through thunderstorm as I was getting thrown around, and the ATC got confused and told me to descend to 100ft at one point. That was the most stressful thing I've ever done in a flightsim I think.>>543282627There are quite a few DCS players around, it's a bit dead this weekend though.
>>543273217neat
the simulation continues
>>543271024I've been watching vsTerminus for the Mi-8. I still don't understand hovering. Also landing. I'm either overpitching or getting stuck in vortex ring state, and it's frustrating the hell out of me. I think it's just a case of more practicing. I've gotten decent at nose wheel take offs and level flight but man getting up into a hover, vertical take offs, and landings are a pain in the ass.
>>543309109practicing vuichard recoveries will help with VRS. hovering is hard as fuck, all about putting the reps in until it clicks. the first couple times it all comes together feel like magic.if you're flying the hip, the best mi-8 tip i've seen is to treat it like a ww2 bomber.
>>543315763>treat it like a ww2 bomber.That's kind of what I gathered. I think what bothers me with vertical take offs is she isn't responsive until she is. No matter how light I am on the collective the second I get above light on wheels state I can't find the right anti-torque adjustments. Then I get into a hover and I'm just floating all over the place. Very sloppy. I'm slowly getting it but the trial and error has been hilarious. At least I'm not rolling over like I was when I first started. It's funny, I don't even wanna shoot shit with rockets. I just wanna do cargo hauling and being an air bus.
>I don't even wanna shoot shit with rocketsfun when you get there, in addition to being a comfy battle bus it's also a decent flying MLRS
>>543282627>Does anyone want to play DCS with a noob?I'm sorry but DCS has died in the last week for the boys. What HOT-ASS did ya get? Yeah the ol' Tomcat is a fun beast, good job with the quickstart! RIO is fun, and is where the real magic happens. Hopefully see you around soon.No spoonfeeding.
>>543317647>No matter how light I am on the collective the second I get above light on wheels state I can't find the right anti-torque adjustments. For takeout, you need to torque first, then pull collective, and for low speed maneuvers you want to basically always my moving the anti torque pedals at the same instant that you are moving the collective. It takes a while to get to know how much torque goes with how much collective, but if you are still waiting to see the nose rotate then you are always going to be behind the motion. Also you need to learn the amounts that you will need for hovering, transitional lift, and forward flight, as well as all the grey areas in between. Takes a while, but it's very satisfying when it starts to be automatic.
>>543346598*For takeoff, not takeout.
>>543346598Not him but any advice on keeping pitch whilst changing collective? I always find that it throws me off a bit how much the nose rises when increasing collective. What's the trick, just do it slowly?
For anyone on MSFS 2024, you can have your control sensitivity settings specific for each profile. >go to axis in controls, let's say throttle axis>next to that is a cog>that brings up actions settings menu>click tweak action curve>that then brings up the sensitivity settings for that specific axis>that will be saved as part of the profile>hardware settings is general and for everythingThat means you can have different sensitivity settings for each plane.
>>543367430Help this man>>543282627
>>543368685Mostly fly rotors and redfor, not much help with the Tomcat. NATO carrier ops look pretty, though.>>543282627Taking off and landing without murdering anyone is important, too. 4YA, Burning Skies, Return Pre-Contact, Greyflag, find a good noob-friendly PvE server and become a regular.Training squads like VWA or Take Flight have regular open blufor group programs if you like external structure.Finding a decent squad that isn't too sweaty or retarded is always half the challenge of any milsim.
>>543354550Yeah you have to increase collective pretty slowly in a hover, you can do it faster in transitional lift of forward flight though. Plus you just develop a feel of where the cyclic is supposed to me in certain situations, which a lot easier with a springless joystick instead of using the center trim function on a sprung joystick.
>>543337242what sim is this?
>>543367430too bad the sim never looks that good outside of trailers
>>543377912task force admiral. not sure if it's really more of a wargame with simulator systems, or a sim with wargame systems, but screenshots help bump the thread.seems sort of like a shinier pacific ww2 version of CMO.
>>543367430I wouldn't mind getting one of those little lightsabres ground crew use
>>543380097not OC, also runs at 5k with DSR
I'm going to fly VFR into clouds, FUCK the atc jannies
>>543384036for youtubers it's okay, for actual trailers it's a scam
>>543346598Interesting. I can now get it into hover and have a 50% chance of it being stable. Slow and steady, I guess. >>543382535My niece got to bring a couple of the batons from her aviation camp and we sword fought with them. It was as much fun as you'd think it would be.
Is PWS allowed here? I didn't see it on the unwelcome games on the title of this post
>>543391851Sure, it's a simulator, what's there to talk about though? I haven't played it
>>543391851If you have to ask, then you already know damn well.
>>543386908>below 0C>cloudsI definitely flew through icing conditions on that flight but it didn't matter because a nuke went off.
Long time no simming. Landed in Murmansk but X-Plane didn't take a screenshot for whatever reason. I come back to simming like every 2 months and every time I've forgotten a bunch of information. I'm stuck in a limbo skills/knowledge-wise.
>>543402647The answer is to fly more, or maybe stick to simpler planes, the king air isn't easy.
>>543403470I can still handle the King Air decently, last time I flew I was getting used to the Citation X. But yeah, one ladder at a time...
Second flight for me tonight.
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>>543412374You could walk that distance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDvyqllk-8A
>>543412374Tay tay?
Based flight simmers
>>543423794>nav gauges aren't dead and providing useful data
>reading up on COIN aircraft after the thread the other day>reading up on the AU-23 Peacemaker>it had a 20mm tri barrel gatling gun on the sideIt was a fucking mini C-47 That's really funny. Bring it back. Fuck the Tucano and Air Tractor. This is what we need.
>>543473273they'll come back, the future is low-cost UAV versions of everything. still waiting for a good sim B-26K
>page ten
Good morning.
>>543489738Cruising.
>>543490224RNAV STAR soon. Then RNAV approach. I wonder does the X-Plane 12 default ATC give NDB/VOR/DME approaches anymore? Older versions did.
>>543457959love gauges, ate garminslop, simple as
Descending.>>543491829I'd love to fly without GPS. Have to look around for some free custom X-Plane planes with only steam gauges. I've been flying with just the default planes so far.
>>543492061GPS has its uses I just prefer navigating with VORs, NDBs and even just visual because it's more fun. There's nothing stopping you just not sending your flight plan to it, I like using them just as maps even if I am using VORs.
Approach stabilized, landing clearance received.>>543492235Sure, but it's probably more immersive to fly a plane in which you can't rely on GPS at all, no matter what. I feel like the Garmin unit is a cheat code just because it shows a crude map for you. I like it, but I'd also like to fly without any modern instruments at all. I like NDB and VOR approaches but I've never really navigated en-route with them.
>>543494106You'd definitely have paper maps back in the day when you flying with no gps or anything else so allowing yourself to use a map of some description is probably okay, but it is fun not using anything.
>>543494106Approach chart for this flight.>>543494254Yeah it'd be actually cool to print a physical map for VFR. I like to simulate realism so I'd definitely use a map, just not GPS or any kind of pointer which shows where I'm at.
>>543494617And yeah I flew to a joint civil-military airport so I didn't bother avoiding restricted airspaces. X-Plane ATC doesn't simulate clearances for these either so idk.
>>543494617Little navmap is good as you can turn off the plane and the line and just have it as a map. The 24 EFB is good too but I don't think you can turn those off in it..
>>543495418Little Navmap is awesome indeed, I use it as you probably already saw from that screenshot above. I don't know much about physical aviation maps but from the few pictures I recall seeing they were pretty full of interesting details and especially all VOR/NDB stations were clearly shown and airways too which I guess often have crossroads at these radio navaid stations. Lots of assumptions on my part, my point just is that such official physical maps are quite different from how Little Navmap looks, I assume.
>>543495702I'm not very good with approach plates because I don't do IFR much, it's something I need to practice. Printing everything out does sound fun.
>>543495857IFR is fun, from my limited experience it's all about being ahead the plane and the arrival/approach plan. I can do a RNAV GPS arrival and approach pretty chill, no stress, ILS too is quite easy but VOR, VOR/DME and especially NDB require much more work so it's not so easy to keep ahead the plane without extensive practice, at least for me. SID's can be tricky sometimes too, and STAR's, especially if they rely on VOR or NDB's and minimum route noise restrictions because you're flying above houses. But yeah I'm just an amateur still at this stuff, only like 100 hours of flying in X-plane.
Is msfs 2024 good yet?
>>543497378if you're thinking of getting it I would suggest waiting until SU4 is released probably next month, or join the beta if you get it now, as it's currently in a good state with it. It was a shitshow early on but I don't have any issues with it now.
>>543497928Also in terms of is it better than 2020, then the answer is definitely yes. I wasn't sure initially if it would be as apart from career mode it was just lots of smaller changes, but the game feels a lot better, the planes fly better, the performance is a lot better, it looks better and the efb is fucking great. I haven't used career mode so can't comment, that's where most of the bugs were.
>>543497928>>543498826hmm... I might jump the gun on that update. I felt the call of the skies recently and watching msfs 2020 install several hundred gigs hurts.
>>54349988124 is fuck all.
>>543499881ornithopter and ease of piracy are the only real advantages, but needing a 500 gig install sort of negates any positives it has over 2024
>>543500075Sold
Remember to start TrackIR after you've closed the game
real life is more complex than we can simulate.
>>543508314You fucker
>>543508606real life isn't real
The body of former freelance lawnmower Keith Higgs was found earlier this morning, reportedly in an advanced stage of decomposition. First impressions are that the 67 year old, born in Invercargill, suffered a massive heart attack more than 3 weeks before his discovery.According to the witness (a neighbor conducting a wellness check), Higgs was found slumped over his desk still clutching his HOTAS; on his computer was a still-running copy of IL2 1946, with the image of a crash landed Spitfire Mk.Vb burned into the monitor. Two empty bottles of Dewar's White Label scotch were found next to the body. Coroner's theory suggests he suffered the heart attack while en route and did his darnedest to get his plane home, before succumbing. The plane appeared to have no damage other than a prop strike on the initial landing.Higgs often frequented the controversial imageboard 4chan, engaging in its flight simulator related 'threads', notably "/simg/". He had been banned several times in the past for repeated signature use, and he also had a history of racist and other offensive language, often targeting the Maori and Chinese.He had previously served four years in the Royal New Zealand Dental Corps, before being discharged for repeated sexual harassment of female staff. Higgs always maintained his innocence, but ultimately it took a toll on his marriage, resulting in divorce. He spent the rest of his years as a near-recluse, his son Tim being his only outside contact, often playing flight simulators together, until Tim moved to Palmerston North in 2023. Both he and Keith's estranged wife Sue declined to comment.
>>543508606>He thinks "real life" isn't just another simulation
>>543513772RIP (rest in planes)
>>543513772>it's real
The Falcon 50 in development looks sexy I have to say.
slept on seaplanes for too long
>>543520487>get to land whever you wantFor me it's flying in Canada or Alaska, lakes everywhere and you can land anywhere you want, it's special.
>>543523101find a river mouth in darkest africa and follow it as far as you can, surprisingly kino
>>543527519This is mental, I love it.
>>543527519kek
topkek, sorry dragon
>>543527519>Range 1,000,000 NM
>>543529901kek it has fuel in the efb but doesn't seem to deplete it. I've killed the dragon now.
>>543530675rip
>>543528272https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW6tHnnKvlU
Apparently Aeroflot uses Simbrief for its flights
Through the power of trim and a strong will, I have achieved hover. Then I flew around and went for a short landing, almost had it, over pitched, then crashed. At least I made it past the transition into hover stage but got caught in a VRS. Tried to nose down and cyclic right but I was too low. Baby steps.
Tonight's flight. Things went pretty well but I got distracted by flight director after FAF so ~1500 feet above ground my approach stability wasn't the best so I had to go steeper than the usual glide slope which would probably be a go-around IRL?
>>543534387Jesus christ.
>>543538960>which would probably be a go-around IRL?probably
>>543550265Who rescues the rescue plane when it crashes?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmG61tlc1To
>>543551346a rescue plane, duh
Just chillin' at the back while cruising.
>>543557453It's dark and cold outside.
>>543551346the rescue helicopter
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>>543513772Rest easy, Keith.
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