"John Ward"
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jrmward@tpg.com.au
Posted on:
Nov 18, 2007, 7:30 PM
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Hi John,
Well, I have FSX, and Acceleration, installed, and running without any
problems, but I haven't really run it much - I'm reserving that for when
I've finished building a new PC (STILL waiting on delivery of a graphics
card, sheesh).
So I'll only comment re FS9.
TrackIR is the best thing since sliced bread, but, of course, it only
makes the situation pretty real, to my non-real-life pilot mind, in the 3D
cockpit.
That leaves a problem for me, since a couple of my favourite aircraft
only have 2D cockpits...
I'm running a Dell 30" widescreen monitor, so I have a pretty reasonable
field of view, and I still have a Dell 24" widescreen, which I could run
along with the other one, but it would take one helluva PC to run them both,
even though that would give me extra view options.
So, in my opinion, Simming will never be the same as real-life flying,
re the views, and we just have to "get used to it". 
At the moment, I think Bobbie (C6, or Copter6) has about the best setup
possible, with today's hardware, as he actually gets to experience/feel some
real/three-dimensional/seat of the pants movement......
Regards,
John Ward
"John Rivers" <first10@btinternet.com> wrote in message
news:964b4ca5-c391-4f52-9b36-5b5306e84229@p69g2000hsa.googlegroups.com...
> hello
>
> all the flight sims i know share a common problem
>
> the view controls do not mimic the head movements of a real pilot
>
> combined with the typical computer monitor small rectangle makes
> flying sims very awkward
>
> it seems to me that pilots are mostly interested in looking at the
> horizon
>
> and when they want to look up that is "world up" not "plane up"
>
> so that looking left and right should follow the horizon
> looking ahead should look at the horizon in the direction the plane is
> pointing
> looking up and down should cause the view to rotate around the current
> views x axis to the worlds up vector
> combining this with a simple lock view toggle
> whilst you are looking at something - say the reference point on an
> airfield
> you hit the lock view button
> the software projects the current view vector to the first object of
> interest (could be a cloud another plane etc.)
> and then keeps the view locked on to that
> if during lock view it is not physically possible to see the target
> the view slides back to over the nose and then swings back to the
> target when possible
> toggling the lock view switches to the "over the nose" view
>
> i have been looking for a FSX CONDOR XPLANE ELITE FS2004 add on which
> might provide something similar
>
> but have not found anything
>
> does anybody else see the need for this ?
>
> john
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