[DaveyJJ]

Open up the latest Google Earth build, hit CMD-Option-A and away you go. Either choose a pre-set airport or first navigate to your favourite airport zoomed in and select your location. Only two planes built still quite a cool Easter egg. Details ...

http://marco-za.blog...-simulator.html

http://earth.google....tsim/index.html (controls)

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=O7z6Yxs69rQ

David

[Huntn]

I wonder what kind of flight models these planes have and if they are joystick compatible? If this goes anywhere, it certainly won't make Austin Meyers happy although X-Plane does seem to have the market cornered on aircraft design.

[Janichsan]

Joystick compatible: yes. Flight model: probably none. This thing really flies extremly simplistic - about the same level as some of the first flight sims I played in the late 1980's.

This is definitely no competition to a real flight-sim. It's a nice addition, but the loading times are so extreme that it's not necessarily fun.

[Huntn]

So no real joystick is needed, just 6 buttons, up, down, left, right, fast, slow.

[Lord Brixton]

Huntn, on September 7th 2007, 08:04 PM, said:

So no real joystick is needed, just 6 buttons, up, down, left, right, fast, slow.

There is a 'use joystick' checkbox, but that just served to remind me that I never found any Tiger-flava drivers for my old ARES joystick.

It's a fun thing, but it's very hard to fly on the buttons

[the Battle Cat]

This doesn't work on my system. I get nothing when I press CMD-Option-A.

[Lord Brixton]

the Battle Cat, on September 8th 2007, 03:27 PM, said:

This doesn't work on my system. I get nothing when I press CMD-Option-A.

I didn't work for me first of all, then I pressed the shift key as well & that did it. Is that why he said cmd/alt A and not cmd/alt a ?

[the Battle Cat]

Lord Brixton, on September 8th 2007, 10:03 AM, said:

I didn't work for me first of all, then I pressed the shift key as well & that did it. Is that why he said cmd/alt A and not cmd/alt a ?

The first thing I tried when it didn't work was using the shift to make a capital A. It doesn't work I tell you!

[EDIT] But you know what did? I just went back in and tried using caps lock instead. Now it works. Go figure. I started flying from my position well above Earth at 6,835 miles and had a scenic plummet into the Atlantic.

[Siriusfox]

The plane will start out either on a predefined runway, or facing the direction you are currently, at your current altitude. This is a nice idea, the problem is that it is that Google Earth is so ungodly slow that it's impractical.