Mental Notes » Uncategorized http://stephan.acidcats.nl/blog from the trenches of software development Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:44:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Gorgeous – Google Earth adds flight sim http://stephan.acidcats.nl/blog/2007/09/02/gorgeous-google-earth-adds-flight-sim/ http://stephan.acidcats.nl/blog/2007/09/02/gorgeous-google-earth-adds-flight-sim/#comments Sun, 02 Sep 2007 18:40:25 +0000 stephan http://stephan.acidcats.nl/blog/2007/09/02/gorgeous-google-earth-adds-flight-sim/ The one we (flight sim enthusiasts) have been waiting for: Google Earth 4.2 incorporates a flight simulator.
Google Earth Flight Simulator

On the plus side:

  •  physics pretty good
  • most realistic scenery available :D
  • always blue skies :P
  • amazing experience of the landscape
  • easily controllable with the mouse & keyboard

On the minus side:

  •  no sound
  • have to pause on a regular basis to allow imagery to be updated
  • the occasional crash (as in, program crash!)
  • well visible that height info & textures don’t always align
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