Hello,
I need some advice. I created a great pano of our field using my iPhone and pano feature. I stitched it manually in fotoshop and you can't even find the seam.
Anyway, so that looks great. The pano itself is awesome... The "horizon "is accurate... dead-on in fact...
The problem I'm having is adjusting the "distances", meaning for example, using google satellite, I know the road and where our cars park behind the field is 60-65 feet away from where I stand to fly in real life.
Yet when I taxi a plane out in RealFlight to where it looks like it's on the road, it says aircraft distance to "Pilot", me, is over 100 feet.
Our field is also a polo field and it's roughly 450 feet wide,
yet I can never get near the other side when it states aircraft is 450 feet away.
It's difficult to practice accurately with such distance discrepancies present.
And the inaccuracies only snow ball increase from there...
For example, in real life I "follow" the far tree line for a final to landing...
No problem... Nice and easy 300 or so foot glide to landing.
In the sim, I try or think to do the same and it ALWAYS come up WAY short,
because the perceived "tree line" is almost triple-quadruple as far away as real life...
(example 60 feet becomes 100, 100 becomes 200, and the edge of my field becomes 2000 feet plus when it's only really 500 approx...)
Also, when I goose the throttle a bit and move say, what would normally be a few feet, it (the program) says I moved like 20 feet.
So how do you adjust the size of the "world" so to speak?
I figured if I could "shrink it 30 percent or more the perceived "distances" would be closer to "real".
Even with my horizon "perfect", which it is, I cannot taxi out to the other side of my field which is only 450 away in real life.
The aircraft just keeps getting smaller and smaller to around 2500 feet and never gets to the "outside wall"...no matter where the horizon is...
I've been checking, looking, and researching these variables for days now.
No offense, but I think so far, people have been making photofields, they look great, so they fly them... and never really address or notice the "accurate/not accurate" distances in real life...
I am/was a CAD guy by trade and understand a photofield is an "illusion" rather than a truer 3d representaion.
Any help for this OCD brain would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Steve
Steve(dot)Dana(at)ymail(dot)com