Surfing The Stratosphere

This is my first stab at a flightsim video for youtube, Filmed in Flight Simulator X over Reno Nevada at 50,000 feet. Squeezing all i can out of a Pentum 3.4 GHZ 1.5 Gigs DDR2 RAM and a ATI Radeon 1600Pro 256Mb check out http://www.fsdigitalpilots.com

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• fsx
• flight
• simulator
• airplane
• soaring
• glider
• flightsim
• sailplane
• sail
• surf

[bryanttillman]

I couldn't help but notice that the glider's approach to the runway was shot out of sequence. one minute its many miles away, the next instant its on final and only a couple of hundred feet off the ground...then its back again miles away and thousands of feet higher. You can't fix that?

[Scorpio9GM]

@bryanttillman yes your correct, this was mainly due to inexperience with the methods and tools that i had to use at the time.... this video is 4 years old after all..... at the time i shot it i had to do all my flying from out of cockpit for each scene.... now i could do that with FSrecorder and record the whole track and then do all the cut scenes that your so fond of. I have pondered the thought of doing a redux when MicroSoft Flight is released.

[captenkeyes]

wow evan 4 a jet u cant controll it up there

[Scorpio9GM]

WOW you didn't just say that and really believe it did you. Bob Harris took a Grob 102 sailplane too 49,009 on February 17, 1986 which was broken on August 29, 2006 by Steve Fossett when he set the world altitude record for gliders over El Calafate, Argentina at 50,722 feet.

[Scorpio9GM]

I never thought this video would cause such a debate over facts that are easily research-able, also it worries me that there are so many people that will believe anything without a little research on there own behalf..... don't take my word for it... google it.

[triton3286]

классно

[Scorpio9GM]

Благодаря приятно видеть русский здесь вы, ребята, некоторые холодные струи Су-47 выглядит очень прохладно

[lawrencedesjardins]

What i don't like about FSX is that it doesn't have realistic flight dynamics. you can't get ridgle, wave, or thermal( freeflight) lifts. And if you try to do a spin, the aircraft will spin/flip out of control

[KarriKoivusalo]

On real life flights like these the pilots wear military pressure suits. Minimum allowed oxygen partial pressure is about 140hPa, or 2psi. At 50k feet the ambient pressure is roughly 1.5psi. Thus even at 100% pure oxygen you'd still be a bit short. Spacesuits aren't needed though.

[onecheman]

@umahuma4 O2 mask.

[miguadelupe]

congratulations!

[parkeryoung]

@Scorpio9GM he just got owned

[FlyingSander]

Altitude records for open class gliders:

Absolute altitude 15460m / 50722ft on 29 August 2006 by Steve Fossett (USA) (current record)

Absolute altitude 14938m / 49009ft on 17 February 1986 by Bob Harris (USA) (old record)

Gain of height 12894m on 25 Feb 1961 by Bikle (USA)

[aceflyer89]

Would you imagine the thermals you'd get up there; you'd be surfing the moon in no time ;D (just kidding)

[kloakovalimonada]

But the pilot should be frozen as a polar bear's shit!

[zinkoffpoop]

this would never work because there is little to no air up there to provide lift.

[tomass123]

whos the song by, pritty kool