Max. Altitude

Right 100,000 ft. and you can't go over the north or south poles.

What happens if you fly over the poles lol? Do you get sucked out into space?

1337_guest_number3 wrote:

What happens if you fly over the poles lol? Do you get sucked out into space?

You can't, you find your going elsewhere, try it.

I tride puting my Boeing 737 into an extremely low polar orbit (30,000ft) once. I ended up flying in circles around the north pole. 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂

RadarMan wrote:

1337_guest_number3 wrote:

What happens if you fly over the poles lol? Do you get sucked out into space?

You can't, you find your going elsewhere, try it.

It is a similar thing to when you try to move your spot fiew directly above or directly below the plane. It simply turns around. FS can not handle the north-south axis of a 3 dimensional globe. There is probably some mathematical reason for it, but I don't know it.

I am just windering if there is anyone who knows how to overcome the 100,000ft restriction so that add-ons such as the shuttle and X-15 hypersonic craft can better perform?

Thanks in advance

RadarMan wrote:

You can't, you find your going elsewhere, try it.

Yup, I tried that - took off from Auckland in default 777 and headed toward the south pole. The plane kept turning, and in the end I gave up and landed in Chile.

Another time I tried to land in the Antartic (just on a patch of ice, but luckily I turned crashes off 😂 ) and realised that, at least in FS, the Antartic appears to be at around 6000 feet above MSL. Serves me right for trying to land a 777 on ice with no ILS...