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X-Plane - An Obsession For Realism
caseih writes "Popular Science is running an article on Austin Meyer, the creator of the popular X-Plane flight simulator. Although not an open source project, X-Plane has a devoted community of flight enthusiasts and developers who are striving to make it the most realistic flight simulator ever. In fact, flight characteristics are calculated in real time from aircraft design data, not static tables like MS Flight Simulator. PopSci has a neat picture showing X-Plane calculating the lift-drag vectors in real-time across an aircraft. Meyer's quest for realism in his simulations dominates the development and use of X-Plane."
You can't put "first post" achievements on a resume - surely you know this. (and if you do you'll look like an asshole, so in retrospect, go for it) As for the topic at hand, I have always loved flight sim games - played them for almost ten years now. This guy here has got da bomb setup 9 PCs, 13 monitors, one plane.
Eat recycled food - it's good for the environment, and OK for you.
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werd
First post with something meaningful to say? Your comment is both inane and pointless. Your just hoping to get modded up by a bored moderator with nothing better to do...
KARMA SLUT
much as i respect x-plane (deservedly so), i must
take this opportunity to post a hearty "fuck you"
to slashdot for just being slashdot, and useless,
and not noticing this amazing project years ago
while still keeping us abreast of every development
in buffy the assramming batfly slayer or whatever
the fuck
assholes
You probably had a good point, but I stopped reading when you used the pseudo-word, "Alot". "Alot" is NOT a word, you stupid fuckwad! Get an education, you illiterate American!
can't the whole lot of you just Shut Up? so far .. can't you all just stop? just stop!
i see ten posts from ten brainless drooling
baboons
quit talking! for fucks sake! Just Shut UP!
Inflammatory or not, the parent post has resulted in a very interesting thread which should be moderated as such, and any fuckheaded moderator who moderated it downwards WILL be meted out severe punishment in meta-moderation.
Now they dont even have to pay for the Plane training. A terrorists dream
Go back to elementary school, American.
1/3? The USA is pissing off _all_ other nations currently.
it's in my head
Huh, huh. You said seaman.
...and shitting on its own people!