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Hehe I remember this movie it was funny to me. Bit I fear that it was no comedy... :lol:

Hello, I'm just thinking about how to create a good joystick support (even for HOTAS systems) for Orbiter and I think I found a solution how this could be managed in a good way, but therefore an API support is required or someone needs to create a new common library etc. The problem in...

There would be a twitch soon in DCSW 2.0 (in 4 minutes): http://www.twitch.tv/wagmatt

To me it sounds like a division by zero... Did you open the retro / hover doors? Maybe it cannot calculate the time because the maximum thrust is 0 if the doors are closed?

For those who are intrested: Here are some code shreds for some different integrators in Java: Comments are as far as I understood without guarentee :-) These are the different methods I investigated: 1. Euler Method: Simple, not precise but fast (Not Symplectic?) But it seems there is another...

I just find out that the biggest German airlines want to establish the "2-Person-Rule" as it is already established in the US. I think this is a good idea BUT it is even a new risk because one more person has access to the cockpit. I don't know what the higher risk is: Extended suicide by the...

Just read that there is an "emergency code" to open the door. Maybe the second pilot forgot the code or the mechanism to open the door from outside was defect... It's an interesting article in german about that topic from 5/2014...

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/26/world/europe/germanwings-airbus-crash.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=photo-spot-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0 They made a mistake after 9/11: There MUST be a rule if they have doors which can not be opened from outside, then...

I just investigated a bit myself and I discovered some facts to check my own theory...: - The nuclear power plants Creys-Malville and Bugey were targets of some illegal UAV observations (Nobody knows who controlled them) ~ October 2014 - The accident happened "near" this power plants - A...

You forgot Enceladus! I also started thinking regarding a Saturn mission... In the last week, I read in the news that there could be live conditions in an ocean under the ice tank of Enceladus. Fountains may blow the frozen microorganisms into space :) So the spaceship just needs to collect...

I just need an Idea how I can create an alogrithm to calculate "average position and speed" of a n-body system, to subtract this values from each body. So the system should be the same, but without any "Offset" for position and speed to the "global frame". I think I need to calculate the...

Hi Astro SG Wise, DCS can ne seen as a Lock On successor. In the Flaming Cliffs 3 module are the most airplanes from Lock On, but the simulation of this modules is not so detailed as for other modules. For example, the A10C (not A) has the most switches clickable. A flyable Helicopter is the...

They reduced the Mig21-bis once more to $25. Got it :thumbup:

Hey I just noticed that (after the last DSC update?) it is worth to try out the good old SU-27 from FC! There is a complete new cockpit look: - Pilot is now animated in cockpit - New MFD look - New Flight Modell (awesome!) - etc. :tiphat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni1HnPO-UWE

[Ironic on with Ukrainian accent]: Why it is a war crime to use manipulated transponder codes if the separatists only use shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles? [Ironic off] If this theory is true, both sides (The Russians and the Ukrainians) did war crimes in this conflict. Russian Tanks with...

Ok I didn't know this... But it should be easy for a fighter pilot to set the same transponder code as a civil plane nearby if he know the flight time and route of this plane isn't it? If yes, the SAM crew has no proof that the locked target is realy a civil plane even if they know the...

I think the points are good explained: - It could be a decision within second if they die or be alive (shoot or don't shoot) for the guys who are at the BUK - Additionaly, the time they can activate their radar is very short (They say maximum 40seconds) or they are localized and the enemy can...

I just saw good internet documentation from "Spiegel" and they say the Russian military had shoot down MH17. The points: -There was a Russian BUK in the battle area which was controlled by the separatists when MH17 was shoot down - They reconstructed the complete route of the BUK from Russia...

Even the shadow of the smoketrail is at "zero-level" by flying bellow zero (e.g. at Mars). Same for shadows of buildings (As already reported). (Tested with r10)

I think Orbiter is just to complicate = to realistic for the mainstream. Creating a spaceship in Orbiter is more like creating and designing a real spaceship (from the point of engineering). You even have to design the cockpit, create the software of the spaceship etc. In Kerbal it's more like...