Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!necntc!primerd!hobbiton!choinski
From: choinski@hobbiton.prime.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Another (long) F/A-18 Interceptor r
Message-ID: <31100001@hobbiton>
Date: 17 Jun 88 14:35:00 GMT
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[Halt, Evil Line Eater, and return to whence thou came!]

From <berry@stsci.UUCP>
>My other complaint is that, like JET, at some altitude (in this case about
>50000') the plane just stops going up.  I wish they had implemented an
>altitude ceiling the way it is in FSII - with the plane just kind-of
>nosing over as it reaches the ceiling.

Or better yet, as you reach the operational ceiling, have the engines
flame out.  I used another simulator that did this.  We would crank an F16
to max speed and stand her on her tail.  At about 50,000  feet the engine would
flame out and we would continue upward on sheer momentum until we finally 
slowed, stopped, and began to tumble downward.  At 50,000 feet or so you could
try to restart the engines (which usually worked).

This seems to me to be much more realistic.  Besides, we were having 
competitions to see who could get the highest (I think the best was around
65,000 feet or so).
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Burton Choinski                                             Prime Computer Inc.
   At: choinski@hobbiton.prime.com                       Framingham, Ma.  01701