Friday 2010-12-17 Dev. update and Discussion

[Redwan]

Originally Posted by Sutts

I wish you lot would stop referring to SoW as a simple game...it's not. It's a simulation of a very important piece of history (certainly to us British).

BoB is just a game and not a simulator (in a real flight simulator, the complexity of dynamics would make BoB look like a mario bros on PS1 ...

Difference between a game and a flight simulator:

Real Flight Simulator – How Realistic Is It?

http://www.realflightsimulator.net/

- So just how realistic is a real flight simulator? Here are 5 examples of how the lines between a real flight simulator and a real aircraft have become blurred thanks to modern computer software technology:
- The flight instrument panel in a typical flight simulator program is programmed to look and operate exactly like the instrumentation panel in the flight simulation’s real world aircraft counterpart. Every button, every dial, every knob, every instrument looks, behaves, and responds exactly the same way as its real world counterpart does.
- The simulated aircraft’s control surfaces can be manipulated in exactly the same way that a real aircraft’s control surfaces can be manipulated by using the control yoke, wing flaps, rudder pedals, throttle, and trim controls.
- The aircraft in a real flight simulator responds to simulated weather phenomena such as winds, precipitation, temperature variations, and icing, in exactly the same way that its real life aircraft counterpart would.
- In a real flight simulator, the aircraft is also programmed to respond to and be subject to external and internal forces, such as weight and balance considerations, center of gravity, and G-forces.
- Anything that could damage the aircraft in real life can also “damage” the virtual aircraft in a real flight simulator.
- The computer software engineering technology behind the development of simulation programs has evolved, and continues to evolve, over the years to become more and more real. Flight simulator technology is widely used as a means to supplement real-world flight training.