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***Tom Clayton*** · February 13th, 2024, 10:22

Originally Posted by Javis

Not sur about what Maho means but that DC-6 never looked better indeed ! Nice screenie, Carl !

( we are blessed aren't we.. ;-)

If I'm not mistaken, that's the Sunset Bar and Grill on the left in the background, which sits at the south end of Maho Beach, which in turn, sits just on the other side of the fence behind the end of Rwy 9 at TNCM.

**Javis** · February 13th, 2024, 11:09

Originally Posted by Tom Clayton

If I'm not mistaken, that's the Sunset Bar and Grill on the left in the background, which sits at the south end of Maho Beach, which in turn, sits just on the other side of the fence behind the end of Rwy 9 at TNCM.

Ach.... my own former Queen's airport...should i feel ashamed ?.... nah, not really... it's her grandson that's King now anyway. Like his grandfather he *does* have a pilot's licence but i believe his precious Fokker70 might be grounded due to government cut back. I don't know about the Sunset Bar and Grill, Maho Beach and other side of the fence behind Rwy 9 but i *did* know the airport is called Princess Juliana (because around that time she handed over her crown to her daughter Beatrix) on the island of Sint Maarten part of the Dutch Antilles.

Thanks Tom.

**Wing_Z** · February 13th, 2024, 16:28

**Javis** · February 13th, 2024, 18:45

No, i saw it first in "Cowboys and Aliens" !

With good old Harrison Ford and Daniel Graig. Kind of a pretty silly movie. (these big insect things stopped in the air and pulled people on board on a string to eat....how silly is that !? ...btw, seen that before too..

. )

Yes, i know it's a different breed.This mechsect is from a new 'Dune',right ? I saw 'Dune' many many years ago. I believe with a guy called 'Sting' ?.... No insect like creatures in that one, more like big earth wurms or something. I do like the design of that thing (but i'm not sure about the flight dynamics.. i mean, rotor blades going up and down ??.... Has been tried before. We all know how that went: https://youtu.be/Mm-cIUEzKr4?si=df0FTgWjMVGpv4xq LOL)

What is this anyway ? A game ? A movie ? A game *and* a movie ?

Thanks Wing_Z

**Wing_Z** · February 13th, 2024, 20:29

Heh... just a bit of silliness that came along with a whole RAFT of updates today.
I confess I have not tried the Maverick or other challenges as yet, but when I saw Dune in the cinema I knew I had to have an ornithopter!
Flying it in the sim is waay more agile than a whirlycopter.

I suspect we will see more of this type of symbiosis, as gaming blends with augmented realities blends with traditional entertainments.

***jankees*** · February 14th, 2024, 01:47

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***jmig*** · February 14th, 2024, 05:04

Originally Posted by Javis

No, i saw it first in "Cowboys and Aliens" !

With good old Harrison Ford and Daniel Graig. Kind of a pretty silly movie. (these big insect things stopped in the air and pulled people on board on a string to eat....how silly is that !? ...btw, seen that before too..

. )

Yes, i know it's a different breed.This mechsect is from a new 'Dune',right ? I saw 'Dune' many many years ago. I believe with a guy called 'Sting' ?.... No insect like creatures in that one, more like big earth wurms or something. I do like the design of that thing (but i'm not sure about the flight dynamics.. i mean, rotor blades going up and down ??.... Has been tried before. We all know how that went: https://youtu.be/Mm-cIUEzKr4?si=df0FTgWjMVGpv4xq LOL)

What is this anyway ? A game ? A movie ? A game *and* a movie ?

Thanks Wing_Z

I remember the huge worms. I read the first four books. After 4000 yrs I got tired of the series and stopped. Sort of like Martin's Lord of the Rings. I read the first two or three books. I got tired of all the people I liked getting killed, so I stopped. Never did watch the HBO series.

***jankees*** · February 14th, 2024, 10:12

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***jankees*** · February 14th, 2024, 10:49

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***Bushpounder*** · February 14th, 2024, 14:23

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**Wing_Z** · February 14th, 2024, 22:51

I am not seeing enough screens of the Dune Ornithopter, presumably the erudite members of SOH are too wise to trash their sim by installing it.
So let me share these from within my ruined sim

It is extremely agile, this bird, and can zoom, dive, and stop as if meeting a brick wall.

And, perhaps one can go for a more Dune-like look and hope your mission will succeed!

It has an astonishingly large cabin for just three people.
In fact it is overall astonishingly large.
Perhaps Ornithoptery is not quite as efficient as conventional earthly aircraft?

***Cees Donker*** · February 15th, 2024, 00:03

Originally Posted by Wing_Z

I am not seeing enough screens of the Dune Ornithopter, presumably the erudite members of SOH are too wise to trash their sim by installing it.
So let me share these from within my ruined sim

It is extremely agile, this bird, and can zoom, dive, and stop as if meeting a brick wall.

And, perhaps one can go for a more Dune-like look and hope your mission will succeed!

It has an astonishingly large cabin for just three people.
In fact it is overall astonishingly large.
Perhaps Ornithoptery is not quite as efficient as conventional earthly aircraft?

Not interested.

Cees

***Priller*** · February 15th, 2024, 02:07

Originally Posted by Cees Donker

Not interested.

Cees

I concur. IMHO, this is tarnishing the sim. It's a flightsim, not some sci-fi game.

Priller

**Javis** · February 15th, 2024, 02:56

The grapes are sour this morning..

Originally Posted by Priller

I concur. IMHO, this is tarnishing the sim. It's a flightsim, not some sci-fi game.

Priller

Originally Posted by Cees Donker

Not interested.

Cees

Ahh, c'mon Cees, don't be such a blunt dutchman

***Priller*** · February 15th, 2024, 03:22

Originally Posted by Javis

The grapes are sour this morning..

Greetings from Ye Olde Coot!

Priller

**Javis** · February 15th, 2024, 03:58

Originally Posted by Wing_Z

I am not seeing enough screens of the Dune Ornithopter, presumably the erudite members of SOH are too wise to trash their sim by installing it.
So let me share these from within my ruined sim

I'll give it a try, Wing_Z. Thanks. Didn't know about this thing, haven't seen MSFS for a couple days. It really looks like a dragonfly. Other than spiders i really love these amazingly beautiful insects. I bet the creator of this thing had a lot of fun working on it.

It has an astonishingly large cabin for just three people. In fact it is overall astonishingly large.

Yeah, scale intricacies are well known in flight simulation, just as well as in sci-fi. The mechsect from C&A i was refering to hauls people on board on the go to serve as diner for the crew. These guys are 3 times as big as Daniel Graig or Harrison Ford. Their insect spaceships must be the size of an average airliner you'd think. Here's one that crashed. Enough room for a couple of gnomes but that's it. (also note the nice led lighting to lively up the wings. Typical insect-like of course :

Btw, these wings flap about with immense speed just like that of the Dune bug. Maybe they confuse the air particles around them to such extend that the particles think "oh, what the hell.."

**Javis** · February 15th, 2024, 04:21

Originally Posted by Priller

Greetings from Ye Olde Coot!

Priller

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***jmig*** · February 15th, 2024, 06:31

Originally Posted by Priller

I concur. IMHO, this is tarnishing the sim. It's a flightsim, not some sci-fi game.

Priller

I just ignore "weird" things or gimmicks in MSFS. I haven't tried the Halo lander, or the Top Gun stuff, and I don't plan on trying this bug.

**Paul K** · February 15th, 2024, 07:20

Originally Posted by Priller

I concur. IMHO, this is tarnishing the sim. It's a flightsim, not some sci-fi game.

Priller

Variety is the spice of life. ; )

***Tom Clayton*** · February 15th, 2024, 07:41

Allow me to say one thing before we get back to posting screenshots...

It's a game and a simulator. If you practice procedures in a realistic reproduction of a real aircraft, then you're using it as a simulator that happens to include gaming elements in the code. If you're flying the Scrapyard Monster into Oshkosh, or zipping through the Grand Canyon as low as you can in a Pitts, then you're using it as a game that has simulator elements in the code. Bottom line is that it is what you make of it. Things like the Pelican, the Ornithopter, the Bentwing Bird from AH... These fictional elements will always be popular with the "game" side of the room and reviled by the "sim" side. That doesn't mean that one side is wrong or the other side is right. It just means that MS and Asobo produced a program that has the versatility to do more than one thing.

***Ferry_vO*** · February 15th, 2024, 07:44

And don't forget that it is also a Sandbox type game, where you can do whatever you like to do.

***jankees*** · February 15th, 2024, 08:58

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***noddy*** · February 15th, 2024, 09:07

***Sundog*** · February 15th, 2024, 09:17

Originally Posted by Wing_Z

I am not seeing enough screens of the Dune Ornithopter, presumably the erudite members of SOH are too wise to trash their sim by installing it.
So let me share these from within my ruined sim

It is extremely agile, this bird, and can zoom, dive, and stop as if meeting a brick wall.

And, perhaps one can go for a more Dune-like look and hope your mission will succeed!

It has an astonishingly large cabin for just three people.
In fact it is overall astonishingly large.
Perhaps Ornithoptery is not quite as efficient as conventional earthly aircraft?

I can't wait to fly this! I'm waiting for them to fix the issues first, though. I'm not nearly as anal retentive as the rest of the crowd.

One of the things I've always loved about flight sim is the ability to fly anything in it. If I live long enough to retire I plan to model many planes that never left the drawing board for flight sim and some "sci-fi" designs that currently only live in my head. Because, for me, Flight Sim is also about having fun and I intend to do just that.

Having said that, Jan, whose B-24 is that?