A stronger Euroharmony

[EHM-2190 ROCHA]

We are pilots that are making a lot of flights , but we are not a team, everyone works for himself, have yours programs, yours planes, and the bases planes some of them are not in good shape for secure flights.
Now i will explain my reality; For having planes in good shape and a security acceptable, i had to adquire some payware and with a mix of engines, models and a lot of crashes, i learn a lot, but alone.I know that i din t ask for help, but were not present that althernaty or better rules.

Fist of all i love the company, i am not with this speech saying anything else than proposing something new , if is acceptable by our leaders.

Now what i propose; We could change our experiences, our programs, our planes modified, and ....
As an example, we can add ILS, lights and more to any rwys of any airport, everybody knows this?

What our dears friends pilots and leaders say about this!

The discussion is open, and count always with me!

My best regards to all

[EHM-0948 Bruno]

Hi,

It's always positive to have pilots that want to share their experiences with others.

Personally, I don't feel any kind of problem in sharing that kind of experience and I would even encourage those actions.

So, feel free if you would like to share your ideas, and if others would like to also share them. The Forum is exactly for that. So, if you guys want to follow Rocha's idea please be free to do so, except to share payware software!

[EHM-2198 Didimo]

Personally while I have had some problems with a few of the planes, I have not been so far in need to buy any a/c. I will in the near future but just because I need that extra level of realism to couple to the hardware gadgets I have acquired so far (pedals, yoke, throttle, EFIS, MCP PRO).

True, everybody is for himself to some extent but we share the same virtual skies, it is not like flying offline with boring AI planes. There are however missions but these are (like in all VAs) individual oriented. Would be nice to have missions that require a collaborative effort such as delivering cargo to some point that is then picked up by another pilot in the team and so forth. Perhaps some sort of cargo/pax competition. Nice huh? however, this sort of thing requires re-programming the system which is not as simple.

As for crashes (I suppose you mean a/c crashes and not simulator/pc crashes), while they are unpleasant -especially if you are doing ProPilot- they have IMHO the added advantage that you get the opportunity to see if you can handle an emergency. In this case I think the nicest thing is if you can share your "emergency" with the rest, you read how others would have handled it, what you did right or wrong, etc.

I have had my share of in-flight emergencies (both with and without EHM aircraft) and I find that the adrenaline rush I get (yes, even in the virtual world!) makes it more realistic. Even better is the satisfaction of knowing you handled the emergency as gracefully as possible. Best of all, you are glad that you have not experienced it in a real flight :-)

[EHM-2029 Sotiris]

Hello Domingos,

first of all I apologise in case I did not understand you perfectly as my english can sometimes be not so good.
Allow me to answer your points from my personal point of view:

I cannot understand what you mean that to "have a security acceptable plane" we must buy payware etc. All airplanes are perfectly safe as long as they do not exhibit failures (FS controlled) and as long as we know how to fly them.

For sure we all experience several crashes esp. when we are learning a 'new' plane. And surely learning a type requires a lot of time, studying, practice and attention. This is what differentiates FS from other games. The simulation is a lot more accurate and pilots need to be careful.

Regarding adding ILS to any runway.
- For a start I did not know that this was possible without a scenery update for all airports.
- In real life not all airports have ILS and if we added ILS everywhere it would eliminate on part of the realism
- Personally, I veyr much enjoy challenging manual approaches never liked just hitting the autopilots and watch the plane land itself.

Of course, there logical steps in this progression.
We must first start with something simple, learn the basics well.
Then use your trusted plane to do the more difficult situations (approaches, weather, manouevres)
Only then go to a bigger more complex plane.

If you follow this with the appropriate level of attention and patience I'm sure that you'd make an excellent pilot mastering even the most difficult situations.
And of course, this forum is here to answer questions, share knowledge and support each other. Feel free to ask anything and if you search the forum a little, you will probably find answers to most questions.

All the best mate,

[EHM-2097 Andrei]

Hi,

While I completely agree with Sotiris about some good reasons NOT to add an ILS to a runway, I realize that in some cases this is necessary. So here are some advices about how to do this:

The easier way to do this is using the excellent AFCAD2 utility available on major flight sim download sites, which lets you (re)design a whole airport (except of course the graphic design of buildings etc.). Among other options, it allows to control which runways have ILS on which frequency, slope etc.

The other option (aka the hard way) is to use the BGLCOMP utility, which converts an XML file (specifying a NAVAID, in this case) into a BGL scenery file you should then add to your scenery folders.

The catch with this second option is that BGLCOMP is "relatively" provided by Microsoft. That is, in theory it is an official MS SDK but since the site was reorganized for FSX I have no longer  found any SDK there. However, I think there are flight sim sites that "semi-officially" host these SDK.

Hope this helps

Andrei

[EHM-2198 Didimo]

I don't see what "we" have to do with adding ILS and lights as a group, did I misunderstood anything?

Personally I am against altering the navigational facilities of any default airport unless it is to reflect the facilities of real life. For example, I once added lights (within my limits of scenery design) to Chitre airport (Panama) because the default has no lights when in real life the lights are turned on when the pilot tunes in to a specific frequency. I prefer to keep them as real as they are in real life. Sure, it would be nice to have ILS on all the runways but it is best when you learn to do both precision and non-precision landings.