iiitsh@cybaswan.UUCP (Steve Hosgood) (05/31/91)
** Sorry if this is in the wrong group, but I can't think of a better one. ** I may have found a bug in V3.00 Flight Sim (yes I know it's obsolete..). Try this experiment in V4.00 (or whatever the latest version is). I decided to try and see how high I could fly the Learjet. Flight ceiling is supposed to be 51,000 ft, but I managed to get to 110,000 (yes!) by flying an upward spiral. (Height gain in level flight is impossible after about 48,000ft because you've got the stick right back just to sustain level flight). After 100,000ft, things got pretty unstable, but I managed to hold the spiral for just a bit longer. Suddenly it all went mad. I think the tailplane must have stalled, because I suddenly found myself pointed straight up with almost no control. In the centre of the sky there seemed to be what looked like a pattern of distant letters, maybe a joke message from Microsoft about what happened to Icarus?? Anyway, I had no time to read it as I was on my way back down in the same manner as Chuck Yeager's descent at the end of "The Right Stuff". Unlike Yeager, I managed to regain some sort of control at 80,000ft (HA!!), but of course that's because the simulated Learjet hung together better than Yeager's F104 (or whatever it was). So the questions I want to ask: is it a bug in the simulator that allows me to get to 110,000ft in the first place? Or can you really climb past the regular ceiling by spiraling? The jets on the real plane should have flamed out before 110,000ft surely? And what *does* the message in the sky say?? :-) I'm considering buying Flight Sim V4. I hear you can define your own scenery. Is this true, and can you also define your own plane, and if so, how? Also, does the scenery have any vertical detail? V3.00 seems to be assuming dead flat land in every area I've looked so far. Thanks in advance. Steve | WALES: "If Wales was iiitsh@pyr.swan.ac.uk | flattened out, it would ..or in Britain, where we drive on the other side: | be bigger than England". iiitsh@uk.ac.swan.pyr | - Gren.