Flyboy

I set the one field to horizon sharpening (I think it's called) and it seemed to take away the washed out horizon and distortions.

I’m going to order these lenses for my G2 tomorrow after my eye appt. Looks like they are on special sale this weekend too. Did you get it with the blue light and anti glare filters?

I went through it thoroughly and gained at least 10 fps for both IL2 and DCS (I'm getting around 45 fps pretty steady now). But..........msfs I am now only getting about 15-17 fps. I don't know what went wrong and will need more time to go back through the settings. I even reinstalled the Oct graphics driver he suggested (he said the newer updates were crap). I even tried a lot of the in game settings lower than he has and I have a similar system.

There is a part later where he talks about changing some settings in the msfs UserCfg file. In the video he doesn't have the Steam version so if you have Steam you have to go to user>username>appdata> roaming> microsoft flight sim to find the file he is talking about.

Hawg just reported he’s never had msfs run so smoothly after following this.

For my job I actually use trifocals as I found that worked best for me (couldn’t tolerate progressives). Top is for distance, middle for the instrument panel and bottom for my jepp charts and reading the paper (well, my Kindle books anyway 😅)

I did recently learn through contact with HP support that the VR focal length is set for 1.5 meters. Getting ready to get a new prescription and want something specifically for my VR. From what I’ve found online I think the Oculus is set for the same.

Hawg sent me this vid and said it really helped his performance in both msfs and DCS. I started following it and got some improvements also.

ztecpc.com They specialize in gaming rigs, located in Oregon and have a great warranty program. Were very helpful on the phone helping me personalize what I wanted based on my needs.

I’m on my second MSI gaming laptop and MSI has been the best gaming laptops I’ve ever owned (this is my sixth). I recommend zTech computers as they did a great job helping me set it up including a clean windows install and extra heat sinks.

I gained about 10 fps by updating Open XR Toolkit

I noticed that too, especially when putting any kind of load on the wings.

I would love to do that

Love that game

Here's some more footage of airplanes flying. Sadly this must have been the next day after we were there as the winds were pretty bad on Saturday. Check out how they are hand spinning the props to start them!

Someone took a video of this (probably flew the day after we were there). It is a full scale replica of a Santos Dumont Demoiselle airplane. This was the first airplane bought by and flown by Rolland Garros (WW1's "first fighter pilot") around 1909, with which he taught himself how to fly and used in for air races and traveling "flying circus" shows across Europe and America prior to WW1. The original used wing warping for roll control, but on the RC version there are two very small servo ailerons in the upper wing that you can just barely make out. It's amazing how these early pioneers of aviation put their lives at severe risk in these early days. Many died horribly and Garros himself crashed several times but survived. There were no seat belts early on because the early aviators thought it was better to be thrown clear of the crash so they wouldn't be burned in the fire. However, the risk of no seat belt was coming to a sudden and being thrown into the spinning propeller! Garros later was the first to try the machine gun that was synchronized to shoot through the propeller which he successfully used to shoot down enemy airplanes. Shortly after developing, (weeks or a month?) he had engine problems and had to land behind enemy lines. He tried to set fire to the airplane but the German soldiers put it out and they captured the technology. He spent nearly three years as a POW before escaping. When he got back he insisted on rejoining his combat unit (imagine how the airplanes, technology and flying had drastically changed in those three years!). After only a few weeks he was shot down and killed about a month before the end of the war.

That Demoiselle (third to last pic) was actually a full sized RC airplane. The Demoiselle was the first airplane bought by Rolland Garros and the one he learned to fly in (1909). I just read a biography on him called “The First Fighter Pilot” and highly recommend. A lot of history on the events leading up to the war including the early pre war flying days. The last pic was a guy who makes and sells authentic WW1 flight controls for home PC sims. The D7 that has Julie on the top wing was significantly larger than the other D7’s that were there. I couldn’t find the pilot or staff to ask about it. Seemed unusually large.

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Very fun time today. Lots of planes and even more RC planes. Winds were a little strong and mostly crosswind so a lot of the pilots were hesitant to take their birds up. A few flew around the pattern in the morning but mostly RC airplanes in the afternoon. Got to talk to a couple of the pilots also.

Schedule of activities and airplanes now up. We are going Friday and will post pics. https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Upcoming/WWI-Dawn-Patrol/

There was a guy at CVG a couple years ago that was in a hurry and didn’t wait for a longer interphone cord, then tripped and got run over by 747 nose tire during pushback. Lost both his legs but survived.

Or someone taking off with the gear pins still in. Has happened at my company and other airlines before.

I’m pretty sure I signed up and should be able to make it at least the first two Saturday’s with the third a maybe.

I should be able to do the first two saturdays with the third one 50/50. Is this similar to the Bloody April with the cold engines and 15 min timeout when killed?