Conference 7.286::atarist

    While this mainly talks about FLIGHT the VAXstation flight simulator,
    there is often talk of other simulators.

    Thanks Stuart,
    
    I have occasionally browsed through QUEEN::FLIGHT and found a few
    notes on FSII.  However, these do tend to get lost in the VAX Flight
    Sim topics.

	I "fly" many simulators on different pieces of hardware, among them
	the Atari FSII, Microsoft/Sublogic Flight Simulator 4.0, Yeager,
	Stealth, and Falcon, _and_ FLIGHT (I'm kind of into it ;^) )

	QUEEN::FLIGHT concerns itself primarily with the Decwindows product.

	I'd be interested in discussing any or all of the above.

	/pjh

    	I'd be interested in hearing other's experience with FSII. It is
    the ONLY game type program that I have ever bought for my
    business/engineering use system. I'd expecially like to keep track of
    which scenery disks are available (is the one covering New England out
    yet?).  Has anyone ever bought the control panel with yoke, throttle,
    etc that I saw years ago?  - Chris

>    I'd expecially like to keep track of
>    which scenery disks are available (is the one covering New England out
>    yet?).  Has anyone ever bought the control panel with yoke, throttle,
>    etc that I saw years ago?  - Chris

	NE area isn't out yet, according to SubLogic. I bought a Maxx yoke
	for my PC but I couldn't find one to fit my 1040ST. If anybody 
	understands the difference and could explain the pinouts I'd be
	grateful.

	/pjh

    I have been Flying FSII for 2.5 years , I have scenery disks 7 ,
    11 and the Europe disk. I recently had a go on FSIII from Microsoft
    and Sublogic , Very good additional funtionality . The Amiga version
    of FSII has the most amasing sound effects yet.
    
    How good are the flight controls for your IBM PC ?
    
    Does anyone know or can find out when a new version of FSII for
    the ST will be available ?
    
    While flying around the UK a lot of major landmarks can be found
    , if you know anyone who is a PPL holder they will have the old
    Arial section maps that you can use to get around , how do I mean
    get around , the way I fly around the scenery disk is by the use
    of the VOR's or NDB's , and occasionaly by sight.
    
    Have you tryed flying circuits in a 12kts cross wind with turb set
    to 2 ? have a go with un-cordinated flight and using the rudder
    at the last moment.
    
    	Simon.

	looks to me like we're getting out of the scope of this conference.

	Anybody actually puts together a conference, count me in.

	p.s. .-1, the yoke is great, especially on a 25Mhz 386 with random
		  weather and traffic on. I really wish I had one for the
		  Atari. I also wish that FSII and V4.0 worked together, but
		  they don't appear to.


	/pjh

Would love to see a SUBLOGIC flight simulator notes file ....

Having understood the difference between Sublogic Flight Simulator and 
Micorsoft's flight simulator (the same for different H/W) I'm now curious
whether the version I'm running on my ATARIST *is* the latest.

I pulled down the "About" menu item and it told me I was using V1.1.
I've seen Amiga users refer to 1.7 so I wonder....

Also, not all scenery disks seem to be avalailable for the AtariST but which
ones are ?

Finally, I got hold of a book (40 adventures for the flight simulator) with
some interesting ideas to practice. Some of them require setting the plane up
at a certain position (North/East/Altitude) which is possible but also requires
setting Throttle/Flaps/Aireleons at certain values which I could find no way
of doing. Any ideas ?

Zayed

    The book you mention is the second in the authors series , the first
    is called the Flight Sim Companion , and again this book referances
    cirtain settings , in slew mode you can set the attitude of the
    aircraft in any position but this means you had to be flying that
    way or at least flying when you entered slew mode.
    
    Try positioning the control tower at the end of the runnway and
    watch yourself taking off into it , or use cross winds and yaw in
    for the landing , great stuff.
    
    Simon.
    

Hi,

I've had a 520 STFM for some while now, but have only recently seen Flight
Simulator in the "flesh" (on a colour PC), and I'm hooked.

BUT, I can't get hold of it for the ST anywhere in the UK.

Is there anyone out there, preferably in the UK (or can get it to the UK 
easily) , who would be prepared to sell me a copy of FS II (original only 
please, with original manuals etc.)? I would like to get hold of the European
scenery disk(s) as well.

Mail to CHEST::HARRIS if you want to make my day 8^).

Thanks,

Paul (who must get FS II) Harris

Paul,

I was in the UK (London) last week and came across TWO stores that were selling
FSII. Both are on Tottenham Court Road: The first is Virgin Megastore's computer
shop and the second is a computer software shop about 5 minutes furthur down
the road (I believe its called Computer Arcadia). 

I was looking for FSII Scenery Disks and picked up one from there.

Zayed

    Hi,
    
    
    I am a home FSII pilot as well and I am looking for scenery disks of
    Europe. Where can I get them and are they ......pd?
    
    Thanks for your response,
    
    Pete
    

    One of the magazines available from Smiths (U.K.) advertises scenery
    disks...I can't remember which...ST Format or ST World. They cost about
    �20.00. The Europe one is very good..Take off from Heathrow, 180� turn
    to take you down the M4 etc. Or a round trip to Paris for an eyefull of
    the tower. Well worth the money.
    ...Howard
    (Who used to fly Phantom and VC10 Flight Simulators...The real
    things!!)

    Hi,
    
    Thanks for the response. Could you please give some phone numbers in
    the UK where I can get the disks??
    
    Thanks for your responses.
    
    Pete

Is there any way to get the europe scenery disk in Germany? I had some
looks into some german magazines and no success so far :-(

Thanks,
	-Peter