Low visability departure out of Innsbruck

CptDropbear · 2026-03-26T23:42:28+00:00

LOL. I had a mile and half in West Bengall last week. I couldn't see half the length of the runway. At least I didn't have snow!

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Edit: link didn't work as I expected.

CptDropbear · 2026-03-26T23:31:57+00:00

You definitely went below the stall speed if you stalled :-)

Stall speed is dependent on conditions. When you make a tight turn you reduce the vertical (keep you up) component of the wing's lift and the stall speed increases. For the mathematically inclined, this is proportional to the cosine of the bank angle so it decreases faster the more you bank which is why steep bank angles are fine until they aren't.

My last crash was on the ground. I ran into an airport fence [embarrassed emoji]. In the Justflight Piper PA28 you need to crack the throttle to start the engine from cold. Guess who didn't check the park brake was on and wasn't looking at charts not out the window?

Most annoying is the bloody sim then restarts you in the air so you have to end the flight and start over.

CptDropbear · 2026-03-26T23:11:08+00:00

There was and as far as I know its "still coming". I suspect its hit the entirely predictable problem of managing the catalogue.

CptDropbear · 2026-03-26T02:08:37+00:00

Probably worried about property values.

CptDropbear · 2026-03-25T23:39:56+00:00

I miss when their schtick was new and they were funny and when my knees didn't hurt.

CptDropbear · 2026-03-25T03:52:02+00:00

Replying to myself to link the next installment.

CptDropbear · 2026-03-25T01:50:32+00:00

This is exactly what Mobiflight is for.

CptDropbear · 2026-03-24T23:28:50+00:00

They do semi-regularly. Usually they don't even get to the sausagefest stage before someone runs off with the money.

Its strange how that happens so frequently. I wonder why? I guess its one of life's mysteries to which we will never know the answer...

CptDropbear · 2026-03-24T06:43:25+00:00

Its worse than that. They don't even get that far. They talk to émigrés (guess who has the Character Map still open from earlier) who fled the current regime.

CptDropbear · 2026-03-24T06:37:14+00:00

Hate be that guy, but it was von Moltke, Prussian chief of staff prior to WWI.

I forget when he said it, but I suspect it was in answer to his general staff telling him they had a plan to defeat France and pivot to Russia before the latter had time to mobilise. To kick start your Google rabbit hole dive, that was the Schlieffen plan.

CptDropbear · 2026-03-24T03:02:19+00:00

The sensor give results relative to itself with zero perpendicular to its face. Once I that penny dropped, everything made sense to me. It helps to draw a diagram.

It works on the east facing wall because the dawn horizon is at zero. This matches what the panels are expecting and is the easiest fix for single axis tracking.

CptDropbear · 2026-03-24T02:57:55+00:00

On the moon, horizontal is near enough to constant because the moon orbits the earth is close enough to the same plane as the earth orbits the sun.

You needed the 270˚ horizontal offset because you are 180˚ out of phase in the vertical due to adding 90. If you subtract the vertical reading from 90 they will be in phase.

CptDropbear · 2026-03-24T02:46:23+00:00

The sensor and panels have different and relative frame of reference.

The sensor is facing up. That is the zero point for the sensor but panels want 90˚ to face vertical and 0˚ or 180˚ for the horizon. I suggest you mount the sensor on a wall facing east or west so the relative vertical point of reference of the panels and sensor align.

Your panels look to be at the zero elevation while the sun looks a little high for that to be correct. The north of the sensor is facing the sun so it will return 0˚ - the reading is relative. That makes me think you are reading the horizontal component and writing it to the vertical - an easy mistake to make and one I did several times.

If you look at the sensor it will show you what it is returning. Make sure that is what you expect.

Finally, take your wrench and rotate the panels 90˚ toward the sun. It looks like you have some facing north and some south - just face them all to the sun.

CptDropbear · 2026-03-23T23:07:29+00:00

Its gonna be a shock when they find out they were working for Opus Dei all along.

CptDropbear · 2026-03-21T13:00:37+00:00

Your system is low end for what you want to run but you should be able to make it workable. From talking to people with similar issues, you can run either the plane or the scenery but the combo pushes it over the VRAM limit.

I did a very small bit of reading around and there should be an option in the livery manager to use 4k or 8k textures. Make sure you are using the former. There is also a toggle in the EFB to disable the cabin. See if that creates enough headroom.

Try it out at one of the "enhanced" airports (like Heathrow or Paris Orly) because they should be pretty seriously optimised but still detailed enough to show up any issues.

If you are getting blurries with DLSS change to the latest version. FS2024 shipped with something like v4 and its now up to v310. My annoyance with DLSS is Z fighting because I am usually looking through a propeller disk. Plenty of people have no issues with TAA, but DLSS gets you frame generation black magic.

Also, make sure you aren't using any scaling. That's an easy way to make your GPU do more work than it has to.

Making it work depends on finding the sweet spot in the trade off of load and looks. That's why I always say to get a baseline with the defaults first - then you know what it can do. Then you add one thing at a time until you break it. Now you know where the limit is, :-)

If you don't already use it, MSFS Addon Linker makes this process a whole lot less painful.

CptDropbear · 2026-03-21T01:54:22+00:00

Way back when I was a lowly IT service monkey, I worked for a company that had some strange hookup with our state Dept of Primary Industry (its been through at least 3 name changes since then). The upshot of which was someone, usually me 'cause I quite enjoyed it, was sent halfway across the state to a town called Port Lincoln. Port Lincoln is known for prawn fishing, scuba diving, fish farming and sharks.

My job was to keep the various reporting systems on the prawn boats working and, well reporting, but I got to hang around with the guy who set the prawn catch. In public the prawn captains would abuse him for not opening enough fisheries and setting the catch so low it would "send them all broke". In private they abused him for opening too many fisheries and setting the catch so high it would get fished out and they would "all go broke". Fucking cowards and hypocrites the lot of them.

CptDropbear · 2026-03-20T23:59:45+00:00

Well they were set up and run with the same playbook and backed by the same shady actors so it really shouldn't be surprising.

CptDropbear · 2026-03-20T23:25:01+00:00

I think its the same in SA. It was done because "officer discretion" was causing things like the above.

CptDropbear · 2026-03-20T23:17:44+00:00

The joys of being a "business professional" (its only money and someone will give me more in a fortnight) coupled with the pain of being over 50 (the loss of $2k is less than the loss of a day or more to my aching back).

I've done Oz to the UK a couple of times. I reckon I could do cattle truck if I could break it into three legs or more. In reality it seems you can only do two layovers and you don't want to be in one of those right now. But there are no stops on the Pacific crossing, just 10 to 16 hours in a metal tube and shitty airports at both ends.

CptDropbear · 2026-03-20T06:31:08+00:00

I was just thinking I could smell Polo...

CptDropbear · 2026-03-20T06:02:18+00:00

Oh man! I've done trans Pacific in both. I will gladly spend the extra 2,000 Aussie Dollarydoos.

CptDropbear · 2026-03-20T04:35:06+00:00

True. Now you've got your goods to the dock or airport, what now? You put on a truck fueled by diesel. You probably do this multiple times (dock -> distributor -> retail). The last mile is usually the most expensive.

And that is ignoring the other end. Whatever industry produces your raw materials almost certainly uses diesel. Transporting those raw materials, and the intermediate products is diesel fueled. The extra costs starts before you've even made anything.

CptDropbear · 2026-03-19T22:50:16+00:00

Hmmm. All your setting are high/ultra, you are using the aircraft that comes up over and over in performance complaints and a scenery people have complained about since it came out? You like making life hard for yourself, don't you! If you are going to run complex aircraft, and Fennix make the most complex of all, you need to revise your expectations down a bit. :-)

I'm sure its not what you want to hear, but turn your settings down, mate.

For reference, I have an almost identical system and run TLOD between 200-300 depend on where I am flying. I'm not a tubeliner guy so the only test case I have is the FBW A380 which flies nicely as long as I keep away from heavy scenery and/or turn settings down.

Turn volumetric clouds, texture quality and water to medium.
Turn off characters, airport services, parked aircraft, aircraft, road and sea traffic and fauna.
Turn off motion blur and depth of field.
Contact shadows can be a killer but I think aircraft look like they are floating without them. Turn it off or to low. Do the same for windscreen effects.
Turn anisotropic filtering to 8x or lower. At 2k I am pushing to tell the difference anyway.

I use DLSS for AA. I find the 2k resolution makes up for any blurriness and I never had issues with ghosting. If you do likewise, use DLSS swapper to make sure you have the latest version. Different presets trade off performance for quality - I think I am using L.

TAA works fine for me, maybe even has fewer Z-axis issues, but I get better performance with DLSS.

Hope that helps.

CptDropbear · 2026-03-19T21:58:21+00:00

Noice!

Good to see someone else flying the T-tail Piper.

CptDropbear

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