shockwave
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I couldn't record the entire flight in real time because it would take several hours from departure to landing if I did it by the book, so I just recorded the approach & landing portion of the flight.
This is the first time I ever tried to record and make an up loadable video, so you will have to forgive me if it seems a bit rough. There is a lot of switching between views because to get Fraps to record it properly, I had to run the flight on a single monitor where normally it's displayed across 3 but I mentioned before Fraps would not record it that way.
This was a flight from Atlanta Hartsfield to Tampa International in a Boeing 737 using Microsoft's Flight SimulatorX. I also use a program called "Flight Sim Pro" which is actually more realistic by a hair than Flight SimX, however both these games are focused more on the realistic aspects of flying than they are graphics, so while the graphics may not be that impressive compared to the games most of us normally play the realism in both these games is as realistic as you get short of flying in a training simulator or flying the actual plane itself.
You can play these games with a standard joy stick but to get the most out of them you're looking at investing $300 to $500 in peripherals not counting the games themselves and the additional cost of monitors if you want to be able to display it across multiple monitors like I do.
To get the optimal flight experience when playing these games, I recommend using the "Saitek X52 Pro Flight Stick" combined with the "Saitek Pro Flight Rudder Pedals" and the "Saitek PC Pro Flight Multi Panel" I also suggest using 3- 27"monitors so that you can get a panoramic view which makes it feel more like you're in the cockpit.
I am not sure why I choose to make a video of this other than I wanted to give it a try and this was the only thing I could think of. I don't play with the flight simulator stuff that often because to do it properly and by the book you're looking at a minimum time commitment of roughly 2 hours even to do just a short flight.
Don't worry I won't boar the hell out of you guys by posting a bunch of videos of me flying, like I said before, I just wanted to try making one myself to see how it came out and this was the only thing I could think of recording.
* Note The beeping sound you hear is the Nav radio receiving data from the ILS localizer at the airport.
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This is the first time I ever tried to record and make an up loadable video, so you will have to forgive me if it seems a bit rough. There is a lot of switching between views because to get Fraps to record it properly, I had to run the flight on a single monitor where normally it's displayed across 3 but I mentioned before Fraps would not record it that way.
This was a flight from Atlanta Hartsfield to Tampa International in a Boeing 737 using Microsoft's Flight SimulatorX. I also use a program called "Flight Sim Pro" which is actually more realistic by a hair than Flight SimX, however both these games are focused more on the realistic aspects of flying than they are graphics, so while the graphics may not be that impressive compared to the games most of us normally play the realism in both these games is as realistic as you get short of flying in a training simulator or flying the actual plane itself.
You can play these games with a standard joy stick but to get the most out of them you're looking at investing $300 to $500 in peripherals not counting the games themselves and the additional cost of monitors if you want to be able to display it across multiple monitors like I do.
To get the optimal flight experience when playing these games, I recommend using the "Saitek X52 Pro Flight Stick" combined with the "Saitek Pro Flight Rudder Pedals" and the "Saitek PC Pro Flight Multi Panel" I also suggest using 3- 27"monitors so that you can get a panoramic view which makes it feel more like you're in the cockpit.
I am not sure why I choose to make a video of this other than I wanted to give it a try and this was the only thing I could think of. I don't play with the flight simulator stuff that often because to do it properly and by the book you're looking at a minimum time commitment of roughly 2 hours even to do just a short flight.
Don't worry I won't boar the hell out of you guys by posting a bunch of videos of me flying, like I said before, I just wanted to try making one myself to see how it came out and this was the only thing I could think of recording.
* Note The beeping sound you hear is the Nav radio receiving data from the ILS localizer at the airport.
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