Re: [Hampshire] Anyone using FlightGear?

[Tim Brocklehurst]

I'll second the suggestion of X-Plane. It's a great bit of software, with the 
advantage that the flight model is sufficienty realistic to allow you to model 
your own design of aircraft (which I would suggest would be the next step in 
this project). You might like to talk to TRANSAS (Portsmouth) about how they 
do thier full-bridge simulation.

Tim B.

On Thursday 29 Mar 2012 15:46:22 Paul Stimpson wrote:
> Vic  wrote:
> >Hi All.
> >
> >I have a project to put together a sit-in flight simulator, and
> >FlightGear
> >seems to have the necessary models for my needs.
> >
> >Does anyone use it? I've tried it out on a couple of laptops, where it
> >was
> >completely unusable.
> >
> >I'm looking for some recommendations of what hardware I should buy...
> 
> I've not used Flight Gear but if you are prepared to consider a closed
> source product you might like X-Plane X.  It's supposed to be the closest
> thing to real flight there is. I have X-plane 9 for Android and its very
> good.
> 
> A home user license for X is $90.it also has the ability to interface with
> hardware.  If you buy the pro license, it becomes the core of a fully FAA
> certified training simulator, hours on which can be used towards a pilot's
> license.
> 
> It's is available on Linux, Windows and Mac.
> 
> Cheers,
> Paul.

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Re: [Hampshire] Anyone using FlightGear?

[Anton Piatek]

I actually have a saitek cyborg joystick I was going to put on eBay if
anyone wants it.

Anton
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On Mar 29, 2012 3:37 PM, "Dominic Rodriguez"  wrote:

> Vic
>
> I have used FlightGear successfully before and have experinced no problems.
>
> The joystick was a Cyborg V1 which was working okay.
>
> If you require help, I would be delighted to help you.
>
> Cheers
> Dominic
> On Mar 29, 2012 2:59 PM, "Vic"  wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi All.
>>
>> I have a project to put together a sit-in flight simulator, and FlightGear
>> seems to have the necessary models for my needs.
>>
>> Does anyone use it? I've tried it out on a couple of laptops, where it was
>> completely unusable.
>>
>> I'm looking for some recommendations of what hardware I should buy...
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Vic.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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Re: [Hampshire] Anyone using FlightGear?

[Dominic Rodriguez]

>> Excellent - what sort of machine did you use? What sort of graphics 
card?


I used a Asus K50IJ Laptop with an Intel GMA card - Sorry don't know the 
graphic card specficlay. Will get back to you on that.

I am interested in this idea of yours - Please let me know how it goes!

Cheers,
Dominic



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Re: [Hampshire] Anyone using FlightGear?

[Ian Grody]

I've been using it for years. Flown a boeing from new york to london.

Hardware wise it's always been quite intense. nVidia GPU's however has 
always surpassed it's need. I still play it sometimes today on a netbook 
PC. Dual core AMD w/ ATI 9000 series mobile graphics.  Joystick I've 
used was the m$ sidewinder from yesteryear. A friend tells me uses his 
PS3 or Xbox controller on his PC for it & works fine...


I have found issues with it though, still to this day if you use the 
mouse or keyboard as a controller, is that most aircraft jeer off left 
or right on take off.


Ian


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Re: [Hampshire] Anyone using FlightGear?

[Paul Stimpson]

Vic  wrote:

>
>Hi All.
>
>I have a project to put together a sit-in flight simulator, and
>FlightGear
>seems to have the necessary models for my needs.
>
>Does anyone use it? I've tried it out on a couple of laptops, where it
>was
>completely unusable.
>
>I'm looking for some recommendations of what hardware I should buy...
>
>

I've not used Flight Gear but if you are prepared to consider a closed source 
product you might like X-Plane X.  It's supposed to be the closest thing to 
real flight there is. I have X-plane 9 for Android and its very good. 

A home user license for X is $90.it also has the ability to interface with 
hardware.  If you buy the pro license, it becomes the core of a fully FAA 
certified training simulator, hours on which can be used towards a pilot's 
license. 

It's is available on Linux, Windows and Mac.

Cheers, 
Paul.




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Re: [Hampshire] Anyone using FlightGear?

[James Courtier-Dutton]

On 29 March 2012 14:59, Vic  wrote:
>
> Hi All.
>
> I have a project to put together a sit-in flight simulator, and FlightGear
> seems to have the necessary models for my needs.
>
> Does anyone use it? I've tried it out on a couple of laptops, where it was
> completely unusable.
>
> I'm looking for some recommendations of what hardware I should buy...
>

Do the PCs you have tried have good graphics cards?
FlightGear uses opengl

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Re: [Hampshire] Anyone using FlightGear?

[Vic]

> I have used FlightGear successfully before and have experinced no
> problems.

Excellent - what sort of machine did you use? What sort of graphics card?

Thanks!

Vic.


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Re: [Hampshire] Anyone using FlightGear?

[Dominic Rodriguez]

Vic

I have used FlightGear successfully before and have experinced no problems.

The joystick was a Cyborg V1 which was working okay.

If you require help, I would be delighted to help you.

Cheers
Dominic
On Mar 29, 2012 2:59 PM, "Vic"  wrote:

>
> Hi All.
>
> I have a project to put together a sit-in flight simulator, and FlightGear
> seems to have the necessary models for my needs.
>
> Does anyone use it? I've tried it out on a couple of laptops, where it was
> completely unusable.
>
> I'm looking for some recommendations of what hardware I should buy...
>
> Thanks!
>
> Vic.
>
>
>
>
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[Hampshire] Anyone using FlightGear?

[Vic]

Hi All.

I have a project to put together a sit-in flight simulator, and FlightGear
seems to have the necessary models for my needs.

Does anyone use it? I've tried it out on a couple of laptops, where it was
completely unusable.

I'm looking for some recommendations of what hardware I should buy...

Thanks!

Vic.




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