Don't fly with me!

[Cindy]

Hi guys,

I'm old to flight sim, new to space flight, and like that line in Apollo XIII, I'm having to learn to fly all over again! I have
absolutely no glitches with DG III, and that may or may not have to do with having put together a regular nuclear
reactor of a computer. This thing has so much horespower that its scary! I build my own machines and mama don't
build no slacker sloutch silicon  :-) .  All that said, I am having SOooo much fun with this! I'm dredging up stuff that I
learned in college and haven't used since (EE but have been doing computer security, which I don't consider as really
being engineering, for the last 13 or so years). Really making me think again! I love the way DGIII in particular lets
you do really stupid things, all according to the laws of physics and anatomy! As an example, I de-pressurized the
inside of the craft whils't sitting on the pad on Mars. Humans suffer from hypoxia fairly quickly without air pressure. I
have killed everyone on board without even leaving the ground!  I also seem to regularly hit the ground too hard
even from a 50 foot hover. When you break the landing gear, it sits on the ground in a rather forlorn manner, and it
emits terrible blackish grayish smoke, and doesn't work very well.  I have named myself Cindy "Crsh"  Klenk. Flying
with me right now in cyber space would probably not be a very good thing. Still down on the bottom floor of the
learning curve. I did find out however, that one must follow a fairly brilliant sequence to open the doors,  that being,
to pick some poor soul to do an eva, open the inside door, close the inside door, depress, then open the outside
door!  I tried to depress the entire vehicle to see if that would let me open the doors, but alas, once everyone is
dead, you can't do much!!  Thanks Dan for all of your hard work on this, and to all of the coders who are doing such a
fantastic job!

[Atom]

Yeah, I agree. Thanks Dan. The DGIII is still the best of the 'super add-ons'.

And I'll have a trip, but if you don't mind I'll keep a pressurized suit on. Space is cold and there's not much air.

[Cindy]

Yeah, well Atom, it seems that people have the desire to remove space attire inside the vehicle for some reason,
itchy scratchy space suits perhaps :-p   I have discoved though that if you use air locks, voila! no more deceased
crew! Still working on a credible hover on Mars though, amazing to me how fast the altitude allerter can run through
100-50-40-30-20----- Crash!!! Ouchy! Doing better though, this time I didn't kill my crew, only injured them per the
display, and of course the poor DG III took a licking with crunched gear, damaged RCS, etc etc. I tried to sort of
hobble/hop back to the space port, which was still in view, using the main engines and pushing through the sand,
and rocking it around, and scootching along (not to be gross but sort of like a dog doing the fanny scootchy on the
carpet) All in all, a very pitiful sight indeed. All the while polluting the Martian atmosphere, emitting clouds of
gray/black smoke.  I'm glad that Orbiter is not massively multi-player! You would not want to
see these early attempts at flight. :-)  After a good long while, (went to bed about 11, which is late for me), I decided
to unwind, and set the scenario to ISS, and just turned off the lights, and watched our big blue marble slide by
underneath me, with the strains of Bach to soothe my space addled brain.  I thought to myself, that this is the
closest that I will ever get in my lifetime, to actually being out of the Earths atmosphere. What an awesome and
humbling sight it must be, to sit aboard the STS or the ISS. Through my computer, and the wonderful Orbiter
program, at least I can get a tiny graphical nano-taste of what it must be like.  I wonder if any of the actual
astronauts know of it.  If anyone tires of listening to my sad pathetic attempts at learning to fly all over again,  I'll
cease, but I thought it might be fun for folks to read of this learning curve, and perhaps remember back to
yesteryear, when you were new to the space program :-)
Cyn

|CPU: AMD Athlon 4, 4GHz |RAM: 2 GigB |Video: nVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT OC's *2  in SLI Config|Sound: ASUS |OS:
WinXP SP2, all patches |Orbiter v.050126|DVD R/W|HD: 120 GB HD *2 in RAID Configuration|Direcway (Hughes)
Satellite up and down link ethernet connectivity|(Mama don't build no sloutch silicon  ;-)   )

[La brique volante]

Welcome aboard Cindy!




Post Edited ( 08-03-05 11:04 )

[Cindy]

Bonjour et merci!

Alas, my Francais is petite, but I try :-)  I can speak Francais very well as long as I'm in a ballet studio (I am a
dancing, engineer, neophyte Obiter Astronaut, guitar playing computer geek   :-p   )

Merci for letting me ride with you, as I learn, bumping, bouncing, burning up and crashing assorted spacecraft as I
work my way through the learning curve

Au Voir,
Cyn

[DanSteph]

Welcome aboard cindy



Dan

[La brique volante]

DanSteph wrote:
Welcome aboard cindy

Dan

Copieur!
Alors je vais aller rajouter des fleurs moi, NA!
(désolé pour le Français dans ce forum)



Post Edited ( 08-03-05 11:07 )

[andyman121]

Hehe, Sounds like a quote from FSPassengers is appropriate here:

Dear passengers, we are deeply sorry for this flight. It seems the captain is drunk, stupid, or both. Please accept our
apologies for this shaky flight.

[Me]

[Cindy]

Bon Jour! Wie Geghts? Wuddup?  :-)



Don't think I'm stupid, but may be drunk! (I did have a nice glass of Boujolais during last nights attempts <grin>  )

I managed to hobble my way into an orbit,  but sadly could not maintain control, nor get my ECC under control, so I
have alas, burned up, and over g'd, my craft.  I also seemed to lack more than a modicum of control in pitch, roll and
yaw, and as it should be according to physics, things can get out of hand quite quickly! Seems that you have to
almost anticipate what is going to happen before it does, cause by the time you start to see much of significance in
attitude, its too late, so you (or I as it were) am always behind the 8-ball.  My last folly for the evening was going
back to the launch pad, and bringing up the Apollo vehicle! I got so scared looking at the plethora of switches, I
screamed and turned the machine off for the night.  I'm now firmly convinced, that the cockpit of the Apollo vehicle
was created in direct response to the early astronauts during Mercury saying that they didn't have enough to do, and
they felt like spam in a can!  Enough buttons, switches and indicators in the Apollo capsule to keep 12 people busy!  
Its like in the old days when I used to actually design stuff, you could always tell my engineering, cause I would put
indicators all over the place!  Ahhh the good old days of engineering  :-p

BTW Dan, I went out and looked at your work on the pax program for FS2004  Magnafique!!  Fantastique!
I'll be buying a copy for when I want to fly at a somewhat lower altitude (I wonder what altitude  a B-727 flames out
at??)

Adieu,  Auf Wiedersehen, and Latah'
Cindy

[StarLost]

I'd like to say you guys crack me up ... but I read this thread late and just a couple of days after Air France committed a
rather hard landing just 60km down the road from me (Toronto). You guys put a whole new meaning to what I was reading about
the flight crew/ground control interaction.

BTW, I passed by the airport today and saw the results. "No souls lost". And they were damned lucky.

And Cindy, it's "Beaujolais" and can cause massive reflex errors while trying to fly Orbiter. Sometimes it's easier to fly
via keyboard than by joystick.