Google earth flight simulator

[egoexpress]

Hi

Does anyone know, if the google earth simulator exports some telemetric data?

Would be nice to use it with our simulators

regards
ego

[Trevor Hale]

I know for a fact, that online Flight trackers can import the data onto Google Earth. If someone could find out the sdk to communicate with it, you could import vatsim information onto it I would imagine.

[Geremy Britton]

Yeah, i was just testing it out earlier and the scenery is great if we could encorporate the scenery from this into flight simulator this would be spectacular.

P.s for anyone who doesn't know how to get the google earth flight simulator. you need the newest google earth free download then load the earth up and simply press crtl + alt + a and you can pick from 2 aircraft.

[Tomlin]

Over at Avsim there's a software/forum called 'Tile Proxy' that allows you to fly FSX in Google Earth's terrain. Nice in some places, not so much in others.

[Geremy Britton]

Will it work with fs 2004

[Tomlin]

Not that I know of.

On another note, I certainly look forward to FS11 (and I think FSX will get much better in the next 2 years) because I think that FSX will be the test platform for FS11 and newer technologies, much like FS2000 was for 2002. But, I think FS11 will benefit from dual core being the standard, if not quad core, and 1 Gig PCIe cards will be standard has well in all likelyhood. I would like to see FS12 (if there is one) use a Google-Earth style scenery but still have a good base scenery for areas that are incomplete, or for those with slow connections, and blends AutoGen for low altitude (AGL, not MSL) up to 2500 and then start fading the autogen out. In fact, the user could determine at what altitude the scenery changed at possibly since there are inherant issues with phot terrain, such as shadows, seasons, daylight, etc.

[egoexpress]

Weird, I haven't got a notification about the replies. I should check my cp settings...

Anyway, sounds good that it would be possible in general. That it will work with FSX even better.

I know that not all regions are high resoluted. But its getting better day by day
It's a pity that most parts of the map surface (trees, houses) are flat still.

there's a software/forum called 'Tile Proxy'

I'll try to pick up some info regarding this software interface.

Thanks
ego