TraineeAnother finding from today, regarding longer distant flights.
FSX
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Going for a joyride, flying from the North of England to Jersey in a Cessna; take off, head south then take a look at the map and zoom all the way out to see your entire route. Maps show at a glance all airports, NDBs and VORs on the route.
Can plan route all the way down via numerous VORs and NDBs.
Can accelerate time on auto-pilot to 16x to get there quicker.
X-PLANE 10
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Going for a joyride, flying from the North of England to Jersey in a Cessna;
take off, head south then take a look at the map.... can see only airports, NDBs and VORs for local area (tile on the map).
No ability to zoom out to see destination to ensure enroute correctly.
Therefore very had to file a flight plan, not knowing ICAO codes of the VORs and NDBs enroute.
Although not tried this a yet, I suspect this closer to real-world flying with reliance on paper maps and using the Garmin GPS.
Acceleration of time is limited to something like 1.3x based on speed of PC.
(I'm using Window 7 32-bit with Intel Quad Core Q8300 CPU, 4GB RAM, GeForce GTS250 with 2.3MB or graphics memory)
As aircraft progressed over next area (tile), it loaded it into memory.
By time 3rd/4th tile came into view; X-Plane informed me that I run out of memory (PC has 4GB) and as a result it would no longer render anymore textures enroute.
I abandoned the long distance flight in favour of short hops, like Jersey to Guernsey.
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