Why do I bother with a simulator?

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Why do I bother with a simulator?

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This is a drone clip taken by my friend yesterday afternoon from the Mill Dam in South Shields at 100m to a P&O cruise ship moored across the river.

The video is in 4K, captured on a mobile phone:

https://youtu.be/IRjmsPFCtjo
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What can I say George?
Very realistic water and traffic, not many tourists on board though. :hide:
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Always fancied doing RC aircraft. I remember years ago watching a thing on TV where a guy had built a little twin engined RC that looked a bit like a Short Sherpa and mounted a camera in the back to film geese in flight.

That a great bit of footage George. And I see Collingwood moored behind her. 👍
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TSR2 wrote:
22 Mar 2021, 08:41
Always fancied doing RC aircraft
I used to fly R/C helicopters about 10 years ago. The technology advances today are mind-blowing.
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Great video, George. I wonder how many of these cruise ships are going to survive the current slump. Right at the end, you can see the former site of Smith's Dock Co. yard.

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I don't think he's going to have a drone much longer if he continues to fly it like that in the UK. CAA taking very dim view of drone law infringements now.

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Nice, do you know what type of drone your friend was using?
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Paul K wrote:
22 Mar 2021, 13:03
Great video, George. I wonder how many of these cruise ships are going to survive the current slump. Right at the end, you can see the former site of Smith's Dock Co. yard.
I bet the boys in Alang India are doing a brisk business. :(

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blanston12 wrote:
22 Mar 2021, 15:41
Nice, do you know what type of drone your friend was using?
It is a DJI.

(And he does have a licence)
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Re: Why do I bother with a simulator?

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A fearless prediction I made in the Visual flight Forum, back in 2005 8) *-)

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Chris hits the nail squarely on the head - you can use the flightsim for whatever flying you like, from jump-in-and-fly to precisely procedural. The scenic detail required will vary accordingly. Personally I do a bit of everything, but mostly I like to go the scenic route in VFR.

I have managed to get a fine haze effect working, and the way things gradually appear is very like real life. Similarly, VFR Photoscenery with VFR Terrain gives an excellent impression of the real thing, and when you add even just a few autogen trees it keeps getting better.

Maybe one day, creating a flight in FS will launch one of those little unmanned spy aircraft at the same location in the real world, and then we will have perfect scenery to fly in. (Imagine all the collisions ). Until then all scenery must be representational, and I am not sure we need to model every blade of grass.

I was just looking at the one of the latest graphics cards. If you read the marketing hype it is really a wonderful cooling system with a graphics processor attached. It costs about 50% more than did the whole system it would be going into, and I would need to go to a 500w power supply so that the chip could generate enough heat to need a wonderful cooling supply. Are we all being conned?

I must confess I once modelled the internal details of a steam locomotive tender, which pleased me a lot but had little practical value; perhaps the practical value should be the deciding criterion when we ask about the amount of detail needed.
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