Wonderful simulator

[Andrea1]

Hi Dear Friends,
My name is Andrea Buono and I've been one of the first, here in Italy, in 1998 to buy the old B744 PS1 (then updated at 1.3 version), Naturally I've also bought the B744 PSX when it was born...
In the recent years anyway I've been focused mainly on B737-800 (Pmdg and Ifly) and I've logged about 85 hours in the "big" sim : A "fixed base B738 trainer", and now a, brand-new (1,5 years old) "full-motion B738 sim" (not-certified) in a big simulator center near Bergamo-Orio (LIME) airport (unfortunately, being that area the most devasted here by that pandemic covid 19 I couls log only 4 hours in the "full motion sim".
Few time ago, having seen on youtube all that B744 "farewell flights" (unfortunately the pandemic has grounded also the "Queen of the sky" I began a little nostalgic of the B744 and I've started again to simfly my B744 PSX, this time taking the advantage to use xplane scenery generator( good default scenery, smooth on frames, good georeferenced i.e. the rwys altitude is correct, and there are also sloped rwys as the real ones) by using xview(in the past I was unable to install the scenery but a friend of mine, expert in IT, explained me I have just to change the IP address with the "universal" 127.0.0.1 to make it working).
Wow what a wonderful simulator PSX is! aerodynamics effects perfectly simulated ! (i.e. roll and yaw moments when an engine has failed: with fsx and P3d4 those effects are so weak that during a "before V1 cut takeoff" I could drink a cup of tea before applying rudder and I'd still find the plane on the runway...)
the possibilities of training and "refreshing" about the B744 are infintite here!
I'have to study hard the b744 again!
So I want to thanks again Hardy for having made this wonderful simulator!
I think that all arts have their genius: i.e. Leonardo da Vinci for painting and engineering, Dante Alighieri for poetry and Hardy Heinlin for flight simulation...
In not expert in IT languages but I can hardly image how many lines of code are necessary to make a so complex software working!
Best Regards
Andrea Buono - Como I

[emerydc8]

I haven't counted all classes, but the sum of characters is circa 13 million, and the average line is circa 40 characters long (comments excluded). So I guess it's about 300,000 lines. Approximately half of it belongs to the FMC model. The real (legacy) FMC has about 100,000 lines, if I recall correctly.


Regards,

|-|ardy

I agree: PSX is an incredible work of art.

Jon

[Hardy Heinlin]

Thank you guys, for the kind words.

Andrea, if you put me on the same shelf side by side with those famous Italians, then for consistency I'll rename myself to Heinlino :-)

Too high for me :-)


Best wishes,

|-|ardy

[cagarini]

Heinelo or Heinelino in Portuguese :-)

And yes, PSX is wonderful in many aspects.

Even from the pov of investment, given the superiority of PSX as a 744 flight simulator / CBT / Professional tool, PSX actually a unique "bargain".

A computer of the old days - like my old i5 2500 - runs psx SUPERBLY ! (  I'm privileged to be totally uninterested in using PSX with an external scenery generator - at most I'm more than satisfied with something like the recently released AEROMAP... )

My problem, and that's --> my <-- problem, is the lack of time to really dedicate to use PSX to it's best, and to spend time studying the 744. Most of the time I load it and make a circuit around LPPT, or an airport with bad weather reported. I've made probably 5 full flights since September 2014 :-/

Big Big KUDOS to HH :-)

[Andrea1]

Heinlino sounds good! :-).

Lisbon what a beautiful city ! I've been there twice and I hope to return soon in that city!

Also my 3,5 years old HP "Omen" series desktop computer based on i7-6700 k (4 GHz) processors (8 processors I think), 16 Gb RAM and NVIDIA video card works like a beauty with aerowinx and xview/xplane 11.52: cockpit frame remains steady at 72-73fps and scenery fps are usually from 48 to 80
Ciao
Andrea Buono

[cagarini]

Lisbon what a beautiful city ! I've been there twice and I hope to return soon in that city!

Ciao
Andrea Buono

Thx !

Let me know if you ever stop by again ! :-)

[Andrea1]

"Thx !

Let me know if you ever stop by again ! :-)
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Sure, I don't think it'll happen in a short time but I'm going to come again there..you know, I've finished my "Pastais de Belem"...
Thank you very much (Muito Obrigado) jcomm (sorry I can't remember you name)
The same if you come in Como or Lake Como..
Ciao
Andrea Buono
P.S. in the meantime I've found a good reading to share my spare time: my old "744 precision simulator transition training" by Joerg Loehning that I had downloaded and printed from the "old PS 1.3 forum" many years ago...