Demonstration of astro navigation using MSFS - The Amelia Earhart flight.
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- This is a demonstration of Celestial Navigation in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 using my CelNav add-on.
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Based on the ill-fated July 2, 1937 flight by Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan, I show how to prepare, take and plot sun sights, star sights and perform the Landfall procedure.
Hoping for a dramatic change to history, I trust to actually find Howland Island.
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I used the FSX sextant to fly around the world in the Jahn/Visser C-47, too, and would love to do it again in PMDG DC-6
That’s amazing! I can’t wait to do that on MSFS with the PMDG DC-6.
Looking forward to try this utility and calculations, especially with DC-6!
Fred needs much more publicity He is to long forgotten in her stupid shadow
Wow. I'm very impressed! (back in 2001 I tried -sing only a compass, sextant and table -to find my way back to the harbour with a sailboat, which was 5 km away. I was wrong by 12 km!
Your knowledge is impressive. Fascinating as well to see your navigation, thanks for sharing this!
Fantastic video. I always wondered if the MSFS world model was good enough for celestial navigation. Thanks for sharing!
Amazing! I can't wait to try it. Incidentally I own pmdg dc-6! :)
Wow. That´s brilhant.
Check out this video I made. I wish I watched your video first, but my intentions were to do what you did. Look at where I think they crashed (2nd half of my video)
ua-cam.com/video/jnCthj5Hsf8/v-deo.html
Great job Eric! What puzzles me is if Amelia and Fred arranged aviation fuel at Howland island? Getting there would have
been heroic those days but there's also something like moving on to the next destination or return to base..
Rex, Amelia had arranged with the US government for the preparation of an improvised airfield, a communications and supply ship, and fuel. The next leg would have been to
Hawaii.
Can't wait! I used the fsx sextant on a round the world trip in FSX, been waiting for something like this for fs2020 :-)
awesome, can not wait to start learning this challenging old art of navigation
Will explained ! I’ll do the same flight in FS2020
Great video thanks. For interest both P3D and Xplane have highly accurate skies as well and a celestial nav capability has been been developed several years ago for great aircraft like the A2A Connie and DC-6. Also long rang NDB navigation has been done using weatherships for trans atlantic flights. The P3D one involves actually taking the star and sun shots using a sextant. Great fun and nice to see it come to msfs.
Thanks Eric! You are a legend for providing it for MSFS. Celestial navigation is much more fun than it seems at first :)
Just wonderful, thank you!
Very nice video Eric!
YOU did find the island 😂
Thanks for the video. Cant wait for it to release. Could you also make a video about plotting deviation lines and lops in lnm?
Close to release. I am also writing a detailed step-by-step guide using LNM. Need a few days to finish it.
Wow; this is amazing!
fascinating
Hello! Is this available for download yet?
Not yet, need some help from an experienced Python programmer to turn this into a standalone executable
@@Gcorev I wouldn't call myself experienced, but pyinstaller lets you bundle python scripts into executables.
www.pyinstaller.org/
I used it to package a lexer/parser/codeditor combination for internal VA usage.
Regarding GUI, TkInter is supported for sure, PyQT seem to be supported aswell (according to the page).
@@KJA1582 Yes I have PY installer. And works with Tkinter. The trouble is that it looses the link to SimConnect when making the executable
@@Gcorev How did you do the SimConnect interop with Python anyway?
I might just look into that for funsies, could be usefull for the VA (or some other prototyping).
@@KJA1582 Check here: pypi.org/project/SimConnect/
Did he actually sit there for 18 hours though? Or can you use time dilation to speed up the enroute portion between fixes?
I actually sat there 18 hours.... but I did some saves in between. Ultimately, something like 4 sessions. In between saves, the live weather may have changed but seemed mostly stable.
@@Gcorev I understand. Is that a limitation of this software? I read that there is absolutely no pausing but what I've read so far made no mention of speeding up time.
Is there an issue with that?
Recently downloaded but haven't been able to sit down and really get into it yet.
@@ender5817 Speeding up or accelerating seems to work fine. Not an issue for my software.
@@Gcorev that's great news. Thank you for your replies. I'm extremely thankful you were able to create a Celestia Navigation method for MSFS!
I'm all about navigation challenges. I'd like to fly to Midway using the DC6 without GPS. Just need to find the time!!!