Re: [Hampshire] Anyone using FlightGear?
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 l...@beer.org.uk 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. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
[Hampshire] Anyone using FlightGear?
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. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Anyone using FlightGear?
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 l...@beer.org.uk 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. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Anyone using FlightGear?
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. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Anyone using FlightGear?
On 29 March 2012 14:59, Vic l...@beer.org.uk 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 -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Anyone using FlightGear?
Vic l...@beer.org.uk 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 $90.it also has the ability to interface with hardware. If you buy the pro license, it becomes the core of a fully FAA certified training simulator, hours on which can be used towards a pilot's license. It's is available on Linux, Windows and Mac. Cheers, Paul. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Anyone using FlightGear?
I've been using it for years. Flown a boeing from new york to london. Hardware wise it's always been quite intense. nVidia GPU's however has always surpassed it's need. I still play it sometimes today on a netbook PC. Dual core AMD w/ ATI 9000 series mobile graphics. Joystick I've used was the m$ 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 -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk mailto:Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Anyone using FlightGear?
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 -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Anyone using FlightGear?
I actually have a saitek cyborg joystick I was going to put on eBay if anyone wants it. Anton -- Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On Mar 29, 2012 3:37 PM, Dominic Rodriguez shym...@gmail.com 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 l...@beer.org.uk 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. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
