Alpha 60 stuff

[Will]

So in the picture above, let me try to interpret what the middle band ("cruise phase") is saying in English:

"The minimum guaranteed failure is one pixel above zero, meaning that something is guaranteed to fail in the cruise phase, even if very minor; the max allowed total experience of failures is somewhere between undemanding and moderate, meaning that no matter what happens, you won't get anything critical or higher.  Also, the probability of minor failures is greater than the probability of worse failures."

Is that right?

Can the user vary the transparency gradient by any other method than just dragging the hemispheres apart from each other?

[Hardy Heinlin]

Right.

Can the user vary the transparency gradient by any other method than just dragging the hemispheres apart from each other?

No. I wanted to keep the controls as easy as possible.

When you set full random, slider tape full length, I think cosmetical failures should occur more often than catastrophic failures. According to real life: Many relaxed hours, days, weeks, interrupted by a few seconds of great horror.

If it were vice versa, you would get many catastrophic failures and just a few cosmetical failures. How would that work in practise? When all hell breaks loose, any cosmetical failure more or less would be just a drop in the ocean anyway.


Cheers,

|-|ardy

[Shiv Mathur]

"The minimum guaranteed failure is one pixel above zero, meaning that something is guaranteed to fail in the cruise phase..."

Right.

Guaranteed?  What about http://aerowinx.com/forum/topic.php?post=6529#post6529  ?

[Hardy Heinlin]

What about what? :-) The post was long.

[Richard McDonald Woods]

I think that you have got it spot-on, H. I am glad we shalln't be having those discussions about failures per hour again.
Well done!

[Shiv Mathur]

What about what? :-) The post was long.

I got the impression from your first post in that thread that there would be NO guarantee that a failure would definitely occur within a certain time limit.

Anyhow, since I seem to be flogging a dead horse, I quietly retire !

Cheers,
Shiv

[Hardy Heinlin]

You can set the minimum guarantee level wherever you wish.

If it's at zero, you have the guarantee that the scenario is not going to be worse than a failure-free-scenario.

In other words: If it's at zero, it could be that no failures will occur at all.

If you set it out of zero and at the same level as the "maximum allowed" level, then you have the guarantee that you get exactly that "maximum allowed" level you set.

In any case, you still don't know what kind of and how many failures will happen. When maximum and minimum are at, say, MODERATE, you may get a single engine failure and perhaps a gear problem and some other minor stuff, -- or perhaps two engine flame-outs instead, -- or maybe a dual pack failure instead ... all in all nothing that forces you to land immediately. And you have the guarantee that something like that will happen.

The more you shift the minimum guarantee slider down and away from the max slider, the lower the guarantee that you'll experience the MODERATE level (in this example). When you shift the minimum guarantee slider down, the maximum tape end gets more and more transparent, indicating that the probability of experiencing that MODERATE level is more and more unlikely.

May sound complicated -- but in practise it's just a mouse drag or two and off you go. When you have done it three times, you will have a feeling for it.


Cheers,

|-|ardy

[the mad hatter]

Mr (H)

 I just wonder in your minds eye, using the either the 747-1,2,300 version as it has an FE Station... since by nature that leads itself to a 400 Instructor Pilot Station what you think it would look like ? ie physical

Battlestar Galactica? ie screens and lots of knobs or simple touch panels

or a mix of both taking the best looking panels from the 300 ?

thanks

[Hardy Heinlin]

You want to turn a classic 747 flight engineer's steam gauge panel into an instructor's panel for your 744 simulator?

I don't watch Battlestar Galactica (I grew up with Spock and Bones), but I would say you need at least a 1000 x 800 monitor somewhere between the clocks.


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[the mad hatter]

yes sir you are correct turn the classic flight engineers steam gauge panel into the instructor station for my 744 simulator... I figured one big screen would be boring thus I thought maybe four screens and some of the classic panels added ( as I have all the 300 panels) I thought it might be nice to get them 744 brown as opposed to grey... but not sure which panels to use to be practical besides  I like to push buttons and turn knobs it just looks cool :-)

[Hardy Heinlin]

yes sir you are correct turn the classic flight engineers steam gauge panel into the instructor station for my 744 simulator... I figured one big screen would be boring thus I thought maybe four screens and some of the classic panels added ( as I have all the 300 panels) I thought it might be nice to get them 744 brown as opposed to grey... but not sure which panels to use to be practical besides  I like to push buttons and turn knobs it just looks cool :-)

On PSX's Instructor, all buttons and sliders under the "Situation" and "Model" tabs can be controlled externally via PSX's main network.

Just a note -- for your inspiration :-)


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[Hardy Heinlin]

Mad hatter,

if you're looking for a classic, nostalgic style, you can also change the font of the Instructor screens (any font in your operating system). For example, Captain Cook 18th century style:



Click on pic to enlarge. Zoom to 1:1 if it looks unsharp in your browser.


:-)

I-Iardy

[the mad hatter]

thank you Mr Hardy  .. that is really rather cool