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Aerofly FS 2; SDK

Yes, absolutely. I wish to make all my planes available in AF2.

I just need to get my head around how the animations work, how to export and set them up, how their gauges work, etc.

Some of my planes have MFD/PFD screens. That has to be figured out.
 
ipacs aerofly [developer] 34 minutes ago

We will soon make our SDK public as we have now gathered enough information.

It will also be work in progress but we are sure people can already use it to add content or functionality to Aerofly. Maybe not ( YET ) like in FSX, but like we mentioned earlier, our SDK will evolve. The next major SDK step is the possibility to add custom airplanes.

We already have a few developers that seem interested, but they have to somewhat learn our way, which is eventually quicker that adding content for FSX.
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Was looking at some of your other planes. If you can get any of those puppies shoehorned into Aerofly I will pay any price. :)
 
If I was you, Bill, I'd price your Aerofly-converted planes for $50000 a copy just to hear Devon's sobbing from miles away as he makes good his promise and clicks the "Purchase" button. For each of your 20+ aircraft add-ons.
 
Well now, if I was going to spend that type of money, I would probably take my nephews advice and purchase real estate. :p

I will amend my post to say any reasonable price. Say, not above $60
 
HiFlyer said:
Well now, if I was going to spend that type of money, I would probably take my nephews advice and purchase real estate. :p
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I thought you were going to say that you would purchase a real airplane. :duck:

Cheers
Gman
 
HiFlyer said:
I wouldn't know what to do with a real plane......... :scratchch
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Seriously?
Flying a real airplane is actually easier than a flight simulator, during flights you can feel up and down and the scenery is totally realistic.

Of course, as a hobby, owning, flying, maintaining, and insuring an airplane is a bit more expensive than a flight simulator.

I recommend splitting the difference and going for an occasional adventure flight at your nearest flight school, probably about the same cost as two or three payware aircraft addons, watch for specials and coupons.

Cheers
Gman
 
Actually, while the stick and rudder part is way easier than the simulator, one thing that gets overlooked is the insane pressure of the cockpit in having to go through the checks during crucial moments of flight.
 
You know, now that I think on it realistically, I think I might be just a little afraid of small planes....... Real ones, at least. They are like amusement park rides, just before the drop, when you are clutching whatever there is to clutch, and wondering what you've gotten yourself in to. :eek:
 
Naruto-kun said:
Actually, while the stick and rudder part is way easier than the simulator, one thing that gets overlooked is the insane pressure of the cockpit in having to go through the checks during crucial moments of flight.
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That's the truth, not to mention that real life flying doesn't come with a "reset flight" option.
Then there are crosswind landings, endlessly floating down the runway in ground effect, extended downwinds and go-arounds in crowded traffic patterns, and weaving one's way over, under, around and through multiple TCA's. You would also be monitoring the radios, scanning for traffic, and keeping track of where you are at, otherwise known as "having to go through the checks during crucial moments of flight".

Back in the mid-70's when I learned to fly, there were no civilian GPS systems, we used radio navigation, so in addition to flying the aircraft and scanning the instruments, we were plotting radials out of dual VOR's on sectional charts in our laps. THAT is what I wish I would have had back in the days I was learning to fly, a flight simulator to practice radio navigation, because it is almost exactly the same as the real thing, and learning it "on the fly" while you are still learning to fly the airplane is as Naruto-kun put it, "insane pressure". In flight simulator, radio navigation is actually a lot of fun for cross country flights, although I prefer to have actual sectional charts to work with.

I have never had an in-flight emergency so I guess I have been lucky as regards the emergency procedures version of "having to go through the checks during crucial moments of flight", but I sure remember my instructor's grins as they would cut the throttle and announce that I had lost my engine, and how close the tops of the telephone poles looked as I lined up for an emergency landing on a country road just prior to my engine miraculously springing back to life. Flying on instruments under the hood was usually one of the more harrowing experiences of private pilot training as well. Practicing stalls out over the ocean was a lot of fun, the beautiful blue sky filling the window as I would pull the yoke back to my chest, the beautiful blue water filling the window as the nose dropped....as I said before, being able to feel up and down....priceless!

HiFlyer said:
You know, now that I think on it realistically, I think I might be just a little afraid of small planes....... Real ones, at least. They are like amusement park rides, just before the drop, when you are clutching whatever there is to clutch, and wondering what you've gotten yourself in to
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One day while flying outside the harbor at Long Beach CA., one of my instructors told me that a properly trimmed small aircraft (which has lost its engine) is falling at about the same speed as you would be if you jumped down from your washing machine. I made the mistake of commenting that my washing machine isn't usually traveling at 100 mph and he smiled, brushed off my comment and decided to demonstrate how a properly trimmed aircraft would respond to sudden control inputs.

After having me trim the aircraft for altitude, heading, and speed he told me he wanted me to pull back on the yoke as if I was trying to initiate a power-on stall, and on his command I would let go of all controls, and put my hands in my lap. The aircraft would then begin to oscillate, and within so many oscillations eventually return to the original altitude, heading, and speed.

Your description of the amusement park ride, "clutching whatever there is to clutch, wondering what you've gotten yourself into" is a spot-on description of the situation I found myself in while observing the demonstration, the oscillations, the ships wakes below each time we oscillated down toward the ocean, and of course my instructor's maniacal grin.

To be sure, flying in a small aircraft can be scary, and as a pilot, you should be a little afraid. Fortunately, flight training provides all of the basic knowledge you need, and if you are meant to be a pilot, you will always be thinking of not just the basics, but whatever procedural safeguards you have added based on your own experience.

Go for an adventure flight, all of the up close and personal sensations of flight your body will feel, will be remembered by your brain when you are flying in the simulator.

By the way, does Aerofly 2 support radio navigation?(dual VOR receivers)

Cheers
Gman
 
Gman said:
That's the truth, not to mention that real life flying doesn't come with a "reset flight" option.
Then there are crosswind landings, endlessly floating down the runway in ground effect, extended downwinds and go-arounds in crowded traffic patterns, and weaving one's way over, under, around and through multiple TCA's. You would also be monitoring the radios, scanning for traffic, and keeping track of where you are at, otherwise known as "having to go through the checks during crucial moments of flight".

Back in the mid-70's when I learned to fly, there were no civilian GPS systems, we used radio navigation, so in addition to flying the aircraft and scanning the instruments, we were plotting radials out of dual VOR's on sectional charts in our laps. THAT is what I wish I would have had back in the days I was learning to fly, a flight simulator to practice radio navigation, because it is almost exactly the same as the real thing, and learning it "on the fly" while you are still learning to fly the airplane is as Naruto-kun put it, "insane pressure". In flight simulator, radio navigation is actually a lot of fun for cross country flights, although I prefer to have actual sectional charts to work with.

I have never had an in-flight emergency so I guess I have been lucky as regards the emergency procedures version of "having to go through the checks during crucial moments of flight", but I sure remember my instructor's grins as they would cut the throttle and announce that I had lost my engine, and how close the tops of the telephone poles looked as I lined up for an emergency landing on a country road just prior to my engine miraculously springing back to life. Flying on instruments under the hood was usually one of the more harrowing experiences of private pilot training as well. Practicing stalls out over the ocean was a lot of fun, the beautiful blue sky filling the window as I would pull the yoke back to my chest, the beautiful blue water filling the window as the nose dropped....as I said before, being able to feel up and down....priceless!



One day while flying outside the harbor at Long Beach CA., one of my instructors told me that a properly trimmed small aircraft (which has lost its engine) is falling at about the same speed as you would be if you jumped down from your washing machine. I made the mistake of commenting that my washing machine isn't usually traveling at 100 mph and he smiled, brushed off my comment and decided to demonstrate how a properly trimmed aircraft would respond to sudden control inputs.

After having me trim the aircraft for altitude, heading, and speed he told me he wanted me to pull back on the yoke as if I was trying to initiate a power-on stall, and on his command I would let go of all controls, and put my hands in my lap. The aircraft would then begin to oscillate, and within so many oscillations eventually return to the original altitude, heading, and speed.

Your description of the amusement park ride, "clutching whatever there is to clutch, wondering what you've gotten yourself into" is a spot-on description of the situation I found myself in while observing the demonstration, the oscillations, the ships wakes below each time we oscillated down toward the ocean, and of course my instructor's maniacal grin.

To be sure, flying in a small aircraft can be scary, and as a pilot, you should be a little afraid. Fortunately, flight training provides all of the basic knowledge you need, and if you are meant to be a pilot, you will always be thinking of not just the basics, but whatever procedural safeguards you have added based on your own experience.

Go for an adventure flight, all of the up close and personal sensations of flight your body will feel, will be remembered by your brain when you are flying in the simulator.
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My somewhat lazy attitude in the simulator almost killed me on my second flight at the local flight school. The aircraft we fly is the UrbanAir Samba XL. Long narrow wings, short fuselage, small tail. Not exactly an aircraft you want to spin. SA aerobatics pilot Glen Dell tried spinning ours from 14000 feet. They say he barely managed to avoid scraping tree tops. It also enters a spin rather easily when stalled. So they never allow the stall to actually develop in training. They just simulate it by allowing the speed to drop to a certain point well before stall and then you have to demonstrate proper recovery.

I was on downwind and I was still referring to the checks from the list (didn't have them completely memorized). Instead of asking my instructor what was the downwind flap setting, I figured I would drop full flaps to save myself some time, and carried on with the rest of the checks. I had barely gone past the next 2 when the airspeed was at 30 kts. Suffice to say, all thoughts of checks and radio calls vanished since my instructor had me carry on the flight all the way to landing. I was so nervous I could hardly stay on any heading. Lesson learned. Rather be busy all the way till short final with checks when those checks protect you from getting into a dangerous part of the flight envelope.
 
Naruto-kun said:
My somewhat lazy attitude in the simulator almost killed me on my second flight at the local flight school. The aircraft we fly is the UrbanAir Samba XL. Long narrow wings, short fuselage, small tail. Not exactly an aircraft you want to spin. SA aerobatics pilot Glen Dell tried spinning ours from 14000 feet. They say he barely managed to avoid scraping tree tops. It also enters a spin rather easily when stalled. So they never allow the stall to actually develop in training. They just simulate it by allowing the speed to drop to a certain point well before stall and then you have to demonstrate proper recovery.
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Ha! Good times eh?
I wish I had been in a trainer that they wouldn't allow full stalls. On the other hand, if I had simply acted as if I enjoyed practicing stalls, perhaps my instructor wouldn't have found them quite as amusing to put me through.

My trainer was a Piper Cherokee, and once the stall occurred there was no wondering as to whether you had stalled or not. :)

Thanks for sharing.

Cheers
Gman
 
That was actually the fun part for me....I decided to do my stall training on the Cherokee at the school so I was allowed to let them fully develop. It wasn't nearly all that bad to me (I guess my stomach was made for flying) but my instructor had difficulty getting me to actually let the stall truly happen, as I would almost automatically execute recovery the moment the buzzer went off thanks to the sim.
 
Naruto-kun said:
That was actually the fun part for me....I decided to do my stall training on the Cherokee at the school so I was allowed to let them fully develop. It wasn't nearly all that bad to me (I guess my stomach was made for flying) but my instructor had difficulty getting me to actually let the stall truly happen, as I would almost automatically execute recovery the moment the buzzer went off thanks to the sim.
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If personal computers had been around back then, maybe stalls would have been another aspect of real world flight that I could have gotten familiar with in a flight simulator besides radio navigation. I eventually got used to the stalls, at first I think when they bothered me it was a combination of the oddity of the situation, the height (usually above the ocean), and the fact that I was 16 years old at the time. My home base airport had trees at one end of the runway and power lines at the other end, so fairly steep take-offs and landings were the norm, and it was good a idea to be comfortable at low speeds on landing, and to expedite safely gaining the altitude to clear obstacles on take-off. As my instructor used to say: "Stall practice is your friend".

Ha ha ha, nice that you got your stall experience in the Cherokee, that nose really drops in the power-on stall huh? Good times!

Cheers
Gman
 
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