Tried the ramp start tutorial…...
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Before trying to change anything in the training scripts, you might consider another approach for learning how to ramp start. For instance there is a ramp start training program available in your .\Docs\Falcon 4 Legacy Manuals\4 - SuperPak 4 directory. In addition, you can find tons of ramp start tutorials on Youtube. Some are quite exhaustive and some others are less detailed. This one for instance is well balanced, but I dunno how close it is to the actual checklists:
They are all great.I watched another one last night and Krause’s alot also.
But I start forgetting things unless I have on hands training where it tells me as I’m doing it like the script but that script has so many test parts that you could forget (this being a sim and not real life).
Anyway I will get there.
Just finding the switches when the script tells me is like finding a needle in a haystack but I will start familiarising myself.
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I don’t know if anyone else has suggested this but have you read the BMS Dash-1 in your BMS Docs folder? It has a good description of each panel, where it is and what each switch does. Use this in conjunction with the Main Checklist (found in the BMS Docs Checklist folder) and walk yourself through the start-up routine. Pause the game whenever you’re not sure where a switch is and then look it up. Once you’ve done it a couple of times it’ll start getting faster and more familiar.
I fly on-line and when I first started I felt really pushed for time to start the jet and be ready for the Comms checks and Taxi etc when I was supposed to be. These days I find I’m double checking things because I have time to spare and feel I MUST have missed something … usually I haven’t.
It comes with repetition and the learning curve is a steep on to start, but it is so satisfying to start the jet without having to refer to printout
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I printed out the 36 page checklist but since found it doesn’t display the block that each switch is located as in LIGHTING for example.
My eyes are burning.
I just can’t do this as my eyesight isn’t up to it.
I have Keratoconus in my eyes and making out the tiny switches is giving me a massive headache.
You need amazing eyesight to be a pilot.
I’m sure if I was sitting in the real pit,it would be 100 times easier.
Squinting at a screen with the track IR stopping and then the zoom working every now and then (because of the scripted cameras) makes this unbearable.
Will write in big letters this ramp start (below) and the section where each switch is located and do a ramp start in the takeoff training mission (not ramp start).
Eyes are stuffed lol from trying the ramp start.
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I don’t know if anyone else has suggested this but have you read the BMS Dash-1 in your BMS Docs folder? It has a good description of each panel, where it is and what each switch does. Use this in conjunction with the Main Checklist (found in the BMS Docs Checklist folder) and walk yourself through the start-up routine. Pause the game whenever you’re not sure where a switch is and then look it up. Once you’ve done it a couple of times it’ll start getting faster and more familiar.
I fly on-line and when I first started I felt really pushed for time to start the jet and be ready for the Comms checks and Taxi etc when I was supposed to be. These days I find I’m double checking things because I have time to spare and feel I MUST have missed something … usually I haven’t.
It comes with repetition and the learning curve is a steep on to start, but it is so satisfying to start the jet without having to refer to printout
The consoles are there but when I printed them out,they are tiny,unreadable.
F4 has beaten me yet again.Tried but I don’t have the eyesight required and the brain cells but you can’t choose that,you get what you are given.
TY everyone for helping me.Cheers.
Back to something more workable for this brain.
Iracing at Bathurst in the Ford Falcon.
Might try some War Thunder.
Yes I know it’s for noobs and all that but for me it’s the same as F4 is for you brainiacs.
Same level.When you put in my eyesight and concentration handicap.
I get anxiety trying to play BMS then I looked in the docs folder and saw that the Ramp Start is only a tiny tip of the iceberg.
It gets even harder.
This 48 year old brain can’t handle.
I was in my 30s when F4 was released.
Never stood a chance.Maybe if there were race courses in BMS and we could have some FUN racing our jets!
Remember that word FUN?
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@smasha:
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Iracing at Bathurst in the Ford Falcon.
I was in my 30s when F4 was released.
Never stood a chance.Maybe if there were race courses in BMS and we could have some FUN racing our jets!
Remember that word FUN?
Sounds like your my time zone.
We actually have a TE called “Boat Race”
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I need speed to keep the mind going.
As in cars racing(never been into drugs).
I know the F16 goes faster but it feels like 10 kmh when you’re 30k up in the sky. -
Be not anxious. Be calm. Do not move the house because you cannot. Lift the bricks and place them one by one without hurry. Time and simple actions will move the house for you.
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Be not anxious. Be calm. Do not move the house because you cannot. Lift the bricks and place them one by one without hurry. Time and simple actions will move the house for you.
Depression controls us not us ,it.
I know you don’t understand but believe me it grips you and you can’t do anything when it wants too.
Why I don’t play drums in public anymore.
I need something to give me confidence not put me down into a darker hole like BMS does.
Well F4.
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I understand that it isn’t something you “just get over” like that. BMS is easy to put a person in a frustrated “over your head” state even without a predisposition. With predisposition it must be much harder. I don’t have skill in handling training with stronger disposition. My advice is more ordinary.
I wish I could give you my seat at my computer because it is unfair to try to learn the F-16 without a good working technical setup. Having to learn how to configure the software at the same time as learning aviation skills is the most cruel. Technical first is boring and complex. Aviation first is frustrating without technical support. The only way for sanity is mixed advancing technical and aviation together in manageable stages. Like music you cannot learn an instrument all the way and your first time playing is a rock concert. You learn a little, you play a little. Your first song won’t sound good but it doesn’t matter. What is important is finding what you do know and expanding is a little at a time. Every day five things you’re good at and one thing you aren’t.
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Be at peace my son and take drugs.
:uham:
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@smasha:
I’m sure if I was sitting in the real pit,it would be 100 times easier.
Actually not the case. Unless that is you are trying to fly on a 15 inch monitor. Even when I was only using a single 25 inch monitor the look is about right to the real thing.
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Actually not the case. Unless that is you are trying to fly on a 15 inch monitor. Even when I was only using a single 25 inch monitor the look is about right to the real thing.
I have keratoconus in my eyes and my left had a detached retina.
My eyes aint the best.
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Actually not the case.
I 100% confirm.
In the real airplane, things are TOTALY diferent, and even if you know perfectly by heart your procedures, lesson and checklists, as soon as you have your ass tighten in the seat, you instentaneously loose 20% of you capacity … close the canopy and you loose another 30% …
Trust me, it is way easier in front of your screen on your deskchair -
Sounds like your my time zone.
We actually have a TE called “Boat Race”
I dunno about that Boat race…
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Try this web site to get a picture of the control panel that you can expand to be as big as you want http://www.xflight.de/pe_org_doc.htm Unfortunately it doesn’t have each panels name but you should get the gist.
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Way over my brain’s capacity this sim Tiffy.
Had a bout of clinical depression yesty after getting the F4 blues again.
Best for my health if I stay away.
I’ll never be able to learn this sim.
I couldn’t back in the days when f4 was patched by the 1.08 patch.
My mind just doesn’t have the capacity to learn and remember things.
I think that’s why I drum all the time.
Not because I want to play in a band,because it is a great way of stopping depression.
Playing in a band is a sure fire way of getting depression because everyone has their own motivations.
Once I have a clear mind,which might be when I die,then I will be able to tackle Mount Eerest.
Anyway,Flight simming isn’t a thing that is good for a mind that spins like a top.
I need fast movement to counterractthe fast movement of my mind,the anxiety.Flight simming is designed for someone with the most relaxed and stable mind of all.
Explains why I’m a drummer and not a guitarist as guitar playing involves more sitting down and studying and being patient.
When your mind is spinning ,that concept goes out the window.
When I drum,I set the metronome at a slow tempo and just play quarter strokes and that is a good way of getting the anxiety out.
LOL ,this post turning into a musical lesson.
P.S. I will probably give the Spitfire a go in IL@ CLOD.
That is the greatest plane in the history of air combat and it looks so cool with the eliptical wings.Plus I don’t need to be patient and lose it.
With that plane in the sim,getting off the ground is an achievement.
The F16 is too easy but all the controls are too hard lol.I want the feel of the physics in my hands ,that feel of movement.
Maybe get a fan and blow that on me.
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Best of luck in your future endeavors Smasha. Have a good one mate.
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I 100% confirm.
In the real airplane, things are TOTALY diferent, and even if you know perfectly by heart your procedures, lesson and checklists, as soon as you have your ass tighten in the seat, you instentaneously loose 20% of you capacity … close the canopy and you loose another 30% …
Trust me, it is way easier in front of your screen on your deskchairDoubt that very much.
So you are a pilot DEE-Jay.
No wonder you know how to play this.
I reckon that is what you need to get any semblance of enjoyment out of BMS.
Signup to the airforce.How much does that cost?:D
You’re cheating!:p
Mate if I spent a fortune doing the REAL training,I could get good at it with proper instructors.
and you helped make BMS yes?
So you know the sim inside out.
So how many on here are actual real life pilots (cheats)?
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Best of luck in your future endeavors Smasha. Have a good one mate.
If any time you want to teach me ,give me a holler on teamspeak.
P.S. I’m just starting to realise that most of the people on here that can fly BMS are real life pilots so I don’t feel so bad now because they have had the million dollar training.
Just did my 5km walk (head spinning like a top again).
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The only thing i’m flying in real life is the desk in my office. I even haven’t a higher school degree, so you can feel bad again, mate
It was all learning and doing for years and still much left to learn
Edit: BTW, played drums for a few years myself, IMO harder to learn than BMS