DVA3819
Captain, B757-200
Joined on December 19 2006
"Maxima debetur puero reverentia." Southeastern United States
12 legs, 17.3 hours
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Posted onPost created on
December 20 2006 17:21 ET by Ryan Waldron
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DVA3196
Senior Captain, MD-11
OLP, COMM
Joined on June 03 2006
Online Double Century Club
50 State Club
Six Century Club
"pitchpowertrim.com" Anderson, MO
619 legs, 1,093.4 hours
292 legs,
503.1 hours online 580 legs,
1,026.5 hours ACARS 89 legs,
191.0 hours event 236 legs dispatched, 110.1
hours
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Posted onPost created on
December 20 2006 17:43 ET by Michael Brown
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DVA3819
Captain, B757-200
Joined on December 19 2006
"Maxima debetur puero reverentia." Southeastern United States
12 legs, 17.3 hours
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Posted onPost created on
December 20 2006 18:43 ET by Ryan Waldron
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Michael,
I own a copy of FS9, but it runs incredibly unstable on my computer for some reason. If I want to run it as it comes out of the box it is ok, but the second I start installing aircraft or addons to fly online it crashes on a regular basis. I also find that MSFS does a realy bad job of a lot of things in their flight modeling. X-Plane is not as pretty as FS, but it's flight modeling is top notch and I like the realism. Had FS been stable, I would have kept it around, but I don't care for my sim dumping after 2 and a half hours of a 3 hour flight half the time I also enjoy the ability to fly in linux which I run on my main machine the majority of the time.
I have no problems manualy pireping my flights. If the delta staff are interested in making a compatable ACARS system I would be glad to help. There is already an ACARS system out there for X-Plane, and I bet it would not be to hard to make it compatable with Delta's servers. It would be nice however to be able to file a pirep and select the proper sim
The other side of the argument is that if more VA's would make themselves compatable with X-Plane, they would attract more X-Plane pilots. There are a couple X-Plane VA's out there, and the pilots that fly for them are all very deticated to realistic airline flight operations. Not a bad group of people to look for joining DVA.
Ryan
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DVA3196
Senior Captain, MD-11
OLP, COMM
Joined on June 03 2006
Online Double Century Club
50 State Club
Six Century Club
"pitchpowertrim.com" Anderson, MO
619 legs, 1,093.4 hours
292 legs,
503.1 hours online 580 legs,
1,026.5 hours ACARS 89 legs,
191.0 hours event 236 legs dispatched, 110.1
hours
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Posted onPost created on
December 20 2006 19:14 ET by Michael Brown
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Your right.....from what I heard X-plane has superior flight physics. If it looked as good as MSFS, I'd drop MSFS in a heatbeat. Unfortunatley, x-plane drivers compose a small minority of the overall FS community, therefore the demand is quite low compared with MSFS. Nonetheless, perhaps you could post an 'enhancement' feature in the issue tracker. If nothing else, maybe Luke (DVA's website ADMIN) could allow for x-plane to be displayed among FS2004, FS2002, etc., when filing for PIREPs. I'm sure DVA would welcome x-planers.
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