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Fun with Google Earth
On Jan 2, 3:12*pm, wrote:
On Jan 2, 12:59*pm, wrote: On Jan 2, 12:09*pm, wrote: On Jan 2, 12:00*pm, "Eisboch" wrote: wrote in message ... On Jan 2, 6:55 am, "Eisboch" wrote: Goofing around with Google Earth, it's Flight Simulator option and InfanView. http://www.eisboch.com/FS.html Eisboch The place where you mention almost buying a house, are you talking about Manomet Point? My brother lived there in a house on the bluffs next to where the lobster pound is during the Blizzard O' 78. There was quite a bit of erosion and he said he could feel the ground shake when chunks of the cliffs let go. The next day the he went outside to find the edge of the cliff a lot closer to the street in front of the house than it was the day before. The house is still there today though. I did not know about the flight sim feature even though I play with Goggle Earth at least a few times a week . Thanks for mentioning it.. I think that I need to work on my piloting skills though. I was going to try to find Otis AFB and land there but instead my plane is now scattered on a golf course somwhere near Buttermilk Bay. --------------------------------- The place we looked at was a little further south from Manomet, off of exit 2 of Rt.3. I had dreams of a mooring with our boat sitting out there, but it wasn't meant to be. The FS is pretty good, but it helps to have some basic knowledge of flying an airplane. Eisboch I've got Microsoft Flight Simulater X. It's a really fun program, especially if you have enough computing power to run everything in full scenery mode.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Hey, that was my Christmas present this year.. I have always been a fan of the Flight Simulator, used to take long flights overnight while running other programs and doing other work.. Thank God for autopilot One of my favorite flights was from JFK or Bradley to Logan, I also used to do a lot of flying around San Fran and the bay. I havn't checked yet but in my old program there was a neat "Easter Egg". If you flew out of New York and around behind the Statue of Liberty, the programmers had it as a big cardboard cutout with a stick holding it up from the back.. Did you ever catch that?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I'll go down later and fly around and check it out, I've not seen it! I'm having a hard time with the VFR flight on a 747 from Las Vegas to Area 51. I can get there okay, but finding just the right spot to park, thus ending the mission, hasn't happened yet! And I love flying the DC-3!!!- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I don't know if it's in version X but it was in my older one.. One of the versions let me land on an aircraft carrier too, can't remember which one.. |
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On Jan 2, 11:54*pm, (UglyDan®©™) wrote:
wrote On Jan 2, 3:12*pm, wrote: On Jan 2, 12:59*pm, wrote: On Jan 2, 12:09*pm, wrote: On Jan 2, 12:00*pm, "Eisboch" wrote in message ... On Jan 2, 6:55 am, "Eisboch" wrote: Goofing around with Google Earth, it's Flight Simulator option and InfanView.http://www.eisboch.com/FS.html Eisboch The place where you mention almost buying a house, are you talking about Manomet Point? My brother lived there in a house on the bluffs next to where the lobster pound is during the Blizzard O' 78. There was quite a bit of erosion and he said he could feel the ground shake when chunks of the cliffs let go. The next day the he went outside to find the edge of the cliff a lot closer to the street in front of the house than it was the day before. The house is still there today though. I did not know about the flight sim feature even though I play with Goggle Earth at least a few times a week . Thanks for mentioning it. I think that I need to work on my piloting skills though. I was going to try to find Otis AFB and land there but instead my plane is now scattered on a golf course somwhere near Buttermilk Bay. --------------------------------- The place we looked at was a little further south from Manomet, off of exit 2 of Rt.3. I had dreams of a mooring with our boat sitting out there, but it wasn't meant to be. The FS is pretty good, but it helps to have some basic knowledge of flying an airplane. Eisboch I've got Microsoft Flight Simulater X. It's a really fun program, especially if you have enough computing power to run everything in full scenery mode.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Hey, that was my Christmas present this year.. I have always been a fan of the Flight Simulator, used to take long flights overnight while running other programs and doing other work.. Thank God for autopilot One of my favorite flights was from JFK or Bradley to Logan, I also used to do a lot of flying around San Fran and the bay. I havn't checked yet but in my old program there was a neat "Easter Egg". If you flew out of New York and around behind the Statue of Liberty, the programmers had it as a big cardboard cutout with a stick holding it up from the back.. Did you ever catch that?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I'll go down later and fly around and check it out, I've not seen it! I'm having a hard time with the VFR flight on a 747 from Las Vegas to Area 51. I can get there okay, but finding just the right spot to park, thus ending the mission, hasn't happened yet! And I love flying the DC-3!!!- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I don't know if it's in version X but it was in my older one.. One of the versions let me land on an aircraft carrier too, can't remember which one.. On the X version you can find the carriers off of San Francisco, Norfolk, and Bremerton. FS9 has one in the latter. I really like the FSX, but as Loogy mentioned they are a real pig if you run the scenery full out. I started out using a joystick, but eventually switched to the CH-products Yoke and rudder pedals. Its pretty neat, but I wish I had a gaming? computer to use it on. *UD * * I bought a high powered video card and it helped a LOT. If you are doing the "missions" in X, and are doing the one where you are going from Catalina to the mainland, the engine expires. The first time, I tried to glide to land and didn't make it. Look for an aircraft carrier and land on it! |
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On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 19:57:14 GMT, (Richard
Casady) wrote: On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 08:25:28 -0800 (PST), wrote: my plane is now scattered on a golf course somwhere near Buttermilk Bay. There is a golf course in Iowa with a runway right in the middle of it. Planes have right of way. Casady This course, at the Patuxent Naval Air Station has a light which lets players know when they can tee off on the fairway adjacent to the runway. |
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