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How often do you fly as a developer?

Unlike many of the other responses I've seen on here, I actually 'fly' in sim almost daily. It's usually on an online ATC server with other people, but I also find myself shooting a lot of IMC approaches so that I can pretty much already know how to fly the approaches when I get to my instrument training in real life.
 
Better slew around in an airport than flying :D

saw an airplane landing and takeoff is more fun.
 
xbuddy said:
Better slew around in an airport than flying :D

saw an airplane landing and takeoff is more fun.
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Thats why I think having a 'walk around' side of FS would be awesome. To be able to walk around an airport, watch the planes and vehicles do there thing would be pretty cool......




Bill
 
Every time I make a scenery, Mission or Flight I always Fly to test it...How can a developer make something for FSX or FS9 and not test it himself besides giving it to others too????:confused::confused::confused::confused:...I don´t get it, how else does the developer know he or she made an add on that others will like or abhor!!!! if it was made for a Flight Sim???.....:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:........If you "slew" all over the place its not the same I think....Oh well, each one with its madness, have fun.----I like to check Google Maps and when I find a place that is interesting for a Mission, Flight or Scenery I Fly around it looking for whatever hits me as a nice area for the adventure...yes I fly quite a bit in FSX and Prepar3D....deleted Flight after three days when it bored the hell out of me. I also fly X-Plane in order to get me really mad!!! and I have found that it is fun to fly with GEFS Online -.
 
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solid said:
Every time I make a scenery, Mission or Flight I always Fly to test it...How can a developer make something for FSX or FS9 and not test it himself besides giving it to others too????:confused::confused::confused::confused:...I don´t get it, how else does the developer know he or she made an add on that others will like or abhor!!!! if it was made for a Flight Sim???.....:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:........If you "slew" all over the place its not the same I think....Oh well, each one with its madness, have fun.
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But if you're flying to test your own addon it's still part of the development process. I meant meant flying for your own enjoyment!
 
I almost never fly for fun in FSX/FS9 or Flight. But doing models in Gamx, doing texture in Photoshope and see how it is in FSX and FS9 are fun enough for me.
Seeing your good models and textures in Flight sim is rewarding to your hobby. The point is which is more rewarding to you. It is up to you.
If the answer is flying, why don't go back and fly more.
To me modelling is more rewarding, I'll stay here where I am.
 
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The best part modelling of gmax is, you dont have to render it to see the result.

Export, place a bgl, and slew around. If you finish your work just test some takeoff and landing once a time, not enjoy the flight like pro do. :D

other, see a screenshot from other developers of what they show for inspiration.
 
Devinci said:
But if you're flying to test your own addon it's still part of the development process. I meant meant flying for your own enjoyment!
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Oh..OK...Yes, I do fly FSX just to enjoy myself. I like to fly around the Amazon and other rivers as well as mountains in open cockpit planes. I also fly my 737, I have a cockpit, in IFR flights all over, sometimes flying two or three hours in it. I use two outside monitors (going to three) and an instrument monitor in a LAN system.....
 
I would have to say I try to take equal time to do both... I highly enjoy flying AND developing, so when I fly I get a hankerin for development and modeling (fiddling, morelike), and when I am developing, I cant wait to finish it and fly!!!!

schizophrenia, I think is the term... :D
 
I'd say that I got into designing things for FS the way most people probably do. We want to fly enough to buy a simulator (even if we fly IRL), we buy the sim and start flying. Then we get tired of default airports and buy a few, perhaps, or we get tired of the default aircraft and feel the same desire to buy addon planes. After a while we settle into an idea of what else is missing that isn't available - developers neglect a region of the world for airports, or don't make a payware Grumman AA5/Cherokee 140/Robin DR400 etc etc that we learned to fly in. We get frustrated especially when we realise that the addon will never be made unless...

And the rest is history.

We either develop a taste for making addons, or our desperate need to see variety in the sim keeps us developing even if we would rather be flying. I'm in the latter category. I make AI planes because they're not available and I want them now! :D If someone came along tomorrow and released a better one, I'd use theirs in a flash. Until then, I have different shapes in my sky that do the job for me even if they're not perfect.

A friend of mine from years back wanted semi-random flight plans and developed a script that swapped flightplans week-by-week so that an AI An-225 wasn't at Zurich every Thursday. I think he hoped I'd code the flightplan generator for him, because creating and validating all that data is a pain. So I guess we all have different frustrations about what we see the sim as lacking, and some of us get so gee'd up about it that we do something about it in our own professional or amateur ways.

Somewhere in that process, a few people will decide that development is actually more interesting, so flightsim really just bootstrapped an interest in, say, 3D modelling.

I actually want to fly more than develop, so my present process involves flying my AI Falcon 2000 between London and Paris (various airports) while I'm doing Gmax things. That way, when my head begins to ache at Gmax's obtuseness, I can decouple the AP and commence my descent into Le Bourget and get some downtime.

I should also say that I have a list of GA planes I intend to make. It'll be interesting to see how I feel when I reach the end of that list.
 
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