Formation Takeoff and Landing Demo

[Burnerski]

I had a day off an wanted to practice some formation flying with a new sortie I created. I'm pretty rusty and need more practice so give me a break on some of the flying.:music_whistling:

The AI operates on a different flight model and makes it difficult to stay in position during changes in speed or altitude, so I decided to back off to loose root during certin times while the AI was doing it's thing.

The only editing done was to clip the video at the beginning and end to reduce the length, obviously the sound was added.

The sortie is a formation takeoff with me as two in foggy weather, a little fingertip and trail enroute followed by a low vis approach and formation landing.

 

 

 

If you have the bandwidth its much better in fullscreen HD.

Edited April 27, 2010 by Burnerski

[asparagin]

I have the feeling this video is a commercial for your monitors. :smilewink:

[Vekkinho]

Nice vid, I like your setup of 3 x 24" but that song is pure Nirvana ripoff!

[Burnerski]

Nice vid, I like your setup of 3 x 24" but that song is pure Nirvana ripoff!

 

 

The song is a ripoff from a ripoff. I got it from an Anatoly Kvochur demo.

Heck I would play the real deal but Youtube is blocking most music.

[Ratcatcher]

Loved the video! I'm interested in your setup, I currently have 3x24" monitors, but in landscape. ( XF Ati 2x5870's )

 

What stand(s) do you use to arrange them in portrait? I would be interested in giving that setup a go. Do you use a custom view.lua as well?

 

For other applications do you revert to landscape and is that a bit of a chew?

 

Sorry for all the questions!

 

Cheers

[Burnerski]

Loved the video! I'm interested in your setup, I currently have 3x24" monitors, but in landscape. ( XF Ati 2x5870's )

 

What stand(s) do you use to arrange them in portrait? I would be interested in giving that setup a go. Do you use a custom view.lua as well?

 

For other applications do you revert to landscape and is that a bit of a chew?

 

Sorry for all the questions!

 

Cheers

 

No worries . I tried to do this setup on the cheap. My center monitor is a Dell 2401 and it has a mount that easily rotates from landscape to profile. The two side monitors are used Gateways I got on Ebay for $160.00 each, they had fixed mounts. So I purchased two Dell mounts off Ebay for like $7.00 bucks each. The Dell mounts are not vesa capable so I had to do a little fabrication to get them to work. I don't know the model number of the Dell mount, I just bought ones that looked like mine, you could probably get a pic of one from the Dell site. It is now pretty easy to go back to landscape. You need to take the cables loose to rotate and them and then set up the software. I can go back to landscape in about 10 minutes.

 

There are some changes in the view.lua maybe the graphics.lua but are real easy.

 

Good luck and if you have any other questions don't hesitate to ask.

[Ratcatcher]

Thanks for the reply, you may regret that last statement though :D

 

*Edit*

Ohhh I'm sooooo dumb sometimes...just realised the cheapo monitors turn into protrait as well! SORTED!

 

I've just tried a quick flight in the F15, and I like it!

 

My main problem now is trying to get the bezel management sorted, as its more obviously disjointed in portrait, as the instruments are now being spread across the 3 monitors. Your bezels seem spot on.

 

If possible could you post your lua setting? I would like to pursue this a bit to see how far I can get. But I'm liking what I see so far!

 

BTW, What fps are you getting, seemed to be running very smooth in the vid?

 

 

 

Cheers

 

No worries . I tried to do this setup on the cheap. My center monitor is a Dell 2401 and it has a mount that easily rotates from landscape to profile. The two side monitors are used Gateways I got on Ebay for $160.00 each, they had fixed mounts. So I purchased two Dell mounts off Ebay for like $7.00 bucks each. The Dell mounts are not vesa capable so I had to do a little fabrication to get them to work. I don't know the model number of the Dell mount, I just bought ones that looked like mine, you could probably get a pic of one from the Dell site. It is now pretty easy to go back to landscape. You need to take the cables loose to rotate and them and then set up the software. I can go back to landscape in about 10 minutes.

 

There are some changes in the view.lua maybe the graphics.lua but are real easy.

 

Good luck and if you have any other questions don't hesitate to ask.

Edited April 28, 2010 by Ratcatcher

[Burnerski]

You need to get bezel management setup. I'm only running one card and have heard of problems with Eyefinity and crossfire. There is a demo on Youtube somewhere that shows how to set up bezel management. You might want to check the widescreen gaming forum. Ibrin the guy that runs the site is super nice. I'm running the 10.3 drivers I think 10.4 is out now.

I get around 60 fps but I can't zoom out too much, there is a point at which it really slows down or just locks up. I think the only LUA changes I made were to allow me to zoom out further. I think it's the view Lua. You should be able to find more info by seaching the forum. When I get time I'll post my LUA settings.

[Ratcatcher]

No luck with the bezel management, I had seen the utube clip, unfortunaltey that doesn't come up for me. I have even tried taking off Crossfire but no luck. It seems others have this issue and I've added my feedback to ATI over this issue.

Strange that you have 2 differant types of monitor but still get the option?

 

I think my lua is probably ok, as I messed about with someone else's the other week. I think its the bezel thats making things not as good as it could be.

 

I'm currently running 1.4 and have already tried 1.3 but no luck.

 

Cheers