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- From: jlong@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (John Long)
- Subject: Re: Flight sim news from CGW
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.001139.10295@news.Hawaii.Edu>
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- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 00:11:39 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug15.164640.8554@newshost.lanl.gov> masten@beta.lanl.gov (David A. Masten) writes:
- >In article <16il84INNc3@agate.berkeley.edu> dbr@ocf.berkeley.edu (Daniel Rosler) writes:
- >
- >General discliamer. Yes F3 is the best. Yes, we are getting nit-picky.
- >Yes, we want it all! Yes, I sent my list to SH.
- >
- Send me a copy David? I can't find your list on my syst(em).
-
- Negative input is the stuff that makes things get better! Hell, if
- nobody complained about anything, nothing would get fixed. People
- who denounce "whiners and complainers" are usually slobs who don't
- want to hear the truth about the shitty work they do.
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- Fuck all that phoney "positive attitude" bull shit!
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- >Any true pilots out there want to commenton the model?
-
- Well, ah, I took a couple of lessons in a Cessna 150 a long time ago,
- and ... Until you can simulate gravity, you won't have a real simulation
- (contratiction in terms(?)). I mean, in a real plane, you have your
- stomach telling you one thing, your eyes telling you another, and your
- instruments telling you something else, not to mention the altitude
- making the air thin out the oxygen in your brain, and the temperature
- changes happening, etc, etc.
-
- I'd like to think (and I do) that a flight simulator "game" can be useful
- for learning to fly, especially learning how the controls coordinate with
- the instrument readings and the attitude of the plane, and I don't
- think that you would need a very accurate model for that purpose, either.
-
- But real flying involves the whole body, and I don't think so-called virtual
- reality hardware can do it. Unless you include some way of simulating
- g-forces.
-
- I know, you were asking about the accuracy of the preformance model,
- whether the rate of climb was correct, etc. Well, I promised to keep
- it a secret...
-
- Give 'em hell, David!
-
- -LongJohn
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