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Anyone flying the hurricane Irene yet? I just flew my 10th flight with A2A strat from Miami KMIA to MYNN Nassua this morning at 5:35 Eastern time with 47mph headwinds with 3700 gallons of fuel and landed with 702 gallons to spare. They had the airport under IFR closed but I had career on so I flew in anyway. Set her down with a slight crosswind from the East; no auto-pilot; the threshold came into view at 100ft. and it was my best landing. I had about 15 degrees flaps. I followed the ILS up and down all the way. But get this: No complaints, no baby crying and my log book said "Just like flying in a house", and my comments were "No one can remember my name". Go figure.

I assume you had a rather steady wind and not much in the way of turbulence?

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Can hurricanes actually look like hurricanes in FSX. At least shape-wise?

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No. FSX sucks when it comes to weather. MS spent too much time focusing on the ground and shiny fuselage to worry about the things that really matter.

Best regards,
Robin.

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Active Sky has a checkbox for Hurricane depiction. I've never flown into one, but I sort of understand that it does this through its ability to take the live data and force it into the sim via the creation of virtual, non-existant weather stations.

Hurricane depiction or not, the question that the Original Poster hasn't answered yet is wether or not he actually encountered turbulent, vomit-inducing conditions, but yet still got the comment "just like a flying house", and whether those comments were appropriately realistic. It rather looks like he just encountered some low visibility, but otherwise smooth sailing.

EDIT: This will be a good exercise for me to test out. Tonight I will play Hurricane Hunter in the Stratocruiser with some passengers on board, in career mode, and see what their evaluations end up being. It will be fun.

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Sorry; been busy flying around with the P-3 "Hurricane Hunter". Actually FSX does suck with turbulence but I was hit a few times when real weather changed directions, but it was a killer coming in when I tried to stay locked on the ILS and flew it by hand the last 1000 feet or so. It smoothed out just when I came out of the soup. I had active sky once in my past simulators. I believe it was FS 2000. Been around fellas since FS_95. That was 16 years ago. We've come a looong way since.

I've got a flight set up for 6:00 a.m. this morning from KNKT to KJFK in the A2A. They had a tornado coming toward the main gate of Camp Leguene last night. This is going to kill some people I'm afraid. We're just too naive.

I just finished my flight into KJFK under IFR instructions at 2:00 p.m. Eastern. I made a baby cry and sloppy landing comment. Actually I thought I done pretty well considering hurricane conditions.

Oh buy the way; how high is the Empire State Building? I believe I clipped the antenna.

114 degree at 42 kts here. Flew from Jacksonville, NC direct to the current known center of the storm.

Best regards,
Robin.

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I also took the Stratocruiser into the hurricane last night, like I said I was going to. Active Sky depicted the Muck and was giving some pretty strong winds, but I was quite honestly dissapointed by the turbulence it depicted. It gave 'Moderate' turbulence and for a few seconds 'Heavy' turbulence according to the Navigator as I flew pretty deep into it. Honestly, I experienced more shaking and bucking flying through run-of-the-mill thunderstorms. I don't know if that has to do with my particular Weather settings or that ASE just doesn't do a very good job. Maybe the latter...honestly never been very satisfied with that program. On the other hand, maybe that is how it is flying through a hurricane.

In any case, since my whole point had been to see the passengers' reactions to flying through this hellish weather, I didn't bother completing the flight, simply because it wasn't that all that hellish. I ended up ditching, just for fun, and watched the plane be blown indefinitely across the waves like a sailboat at about 85 knots!

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ASE can only tell FS what weather to draw. FS is the ultimate problem there.




Best regards,
Robin.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWVMcLQi ... re=related

phew....

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Klaus
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LOL at the pilot!!!!!!!! So cool.

Best regards,
Robin.

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That video is almost unreal, and love the youtube comment for 4:49 "we made it to heaven guys" hehehe, the eye certainly is beautiful.

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