i wonder about the long term destiny of flight sims

[Krt_Bong]

Originally Posted by Strike

Listen Raaaid, I know your cause:

I fly a lot of RC planes, and I've imagined with the recent FPV (First Persion View) cameras that work a little like track IR with live-video feed, you could carry out some cool dogfights.

I've thought of the ability to fit RC planes with metal BB guns or .22 ammunition and have a go at eachother but:

RC planes are expensive already, and constantly rebuilding them would cost a lot of money and time.

Also, you would have to set up a huge indoor bullet-proof hangar to have these fights in, since noone would want to stand anywhere near an RC-dogfight that fires real ammunition. It's a reason they have "robot-fights" in cages.

RC planes are often way more unstable, quicker and manouverable, but most importantly, smaller. So hitting anything would be near-impossible.

The idea is cool, but really I'd spend my bucks on a simulator where there's always a "refly" button than the alternative of collecting your burning wreck, salvaging what you can and spend loads of hours and $$$ on repairing it, maybe to have it shot down in less than 5 minutes.

Don't you agree?

I have more bets on a "Matrix" type simulator, where you can sedate your body somehow and link your brain to a "server" where you interact much like in a dream that you can control. You could actually enter a computer-generated spitfire, start it like in real life and go flying. Feel the engine vibrate, the wind blowing and smell stuff as if you were there.
However, like nightmares, you can wake up cold and sweating with a high heartrate. So some ways, experiencing being shot down or PK'd in a world that simulates the real thing... I'm a bit sceptical to that.

Anyways, keep fantasising

Paintball maybe, live ammo never..
..for that you need to join the Air Force

[Strike]

Originally Posted by Krt_Bong

Paintball maybe, live ammo never..
..for that you need to join the Air Force

That's why I'm in the airforce

[raaaid]

i said it in the other thread most pilots are a litle crzay

myself i flew to recover from the bike adiction aftyer an accident paraglide how crazy you got to be to do that

i get the high heart beat with this game identical to the bike, and ten years later this game still makes my heart beat fast when i fight online

edit:

according my high school tests i have aptitudes to be a militar or a cop who would say it

mybe thats why i fit well in the comunity with so many real militars and wannabe militars

[White Owl]

Okay, BBs or paintball or other kinds of real projectiles could be a big problem, that's true...

How about laser tag? How hard would it be to mount that kind of system on some RC planes?

I read an article once that described people dogfighting RC planes. They attached long paper streamers to both planes, and the object of the game was to cut the other guy's streamer with your wing. That sounds like fun.

[Herbs107]

We do RC WW1 combat once a year, its expensive due to midairs and crashes. We try to cut their streamer using our props. Here are some pics...

[raaaid]

and why dont you ad it a camera so its 1st person?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlJoxh0541o

wow people who likes to fly are special pay attention to the music

edit:

oh so propellers are almost invisible after all

edit:

watching the video i was wondering:

the smaller the plane the better turner the faster for less drag

did they make any miniplane in wwii? that could have been pretty effective as a fighter

[Herbs107]

Its just to expensive, we can put small vid/cameras on the planes and get combat footage, which makes you dizzy just looking at it. FPV is to expensive to set up, and i think would make it to hard to fly. Plus in a dogfight there is usually 18 aircarft airborne at once, you need to have your wits about you, not your head buried behind a dark set of goggles..

[Tiger27]

Originally Posted by raaaid

and why dont you ad it a camera so its 1st person?

wow people who likes to fly are special pay attention to the music

edit:

oh so propellers are almost invisible after all

edit:

watching the video i was wondering:

the smaller the plane the better turner the faster for less drag

did they make any miniplane in wwii? that could have been pretty effective as a fighter

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