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| Thread ID: 82843 | 2007-09-10 04:27:00 | [jumps for joy]Google Earth [/jumps for joy] | wratterus (105) | PC World Chat |
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| 589748 | 2007-09-10 04:27:00 | In the latest build of Google earth (4.2.0180.1134 beta), as well as being able to look at the stars, they've put a litte easter egg in. It has a flight simulator! :lol: And a surprisingly good one too. The only airport in NZ is Wellington, but I have a feeling that that's gonna be a feature that will stick, and we'll get more around here, and everywhere else. While in Google Earth, press Ctrl+alt+a and it will ask you where you want to take off from, and which plane you want to fly. Even lets you cruise around in a F16 at Mach 2. Here (earth.google.com) is a page with all the key commands etc. |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 589749 | 2007-09-10 05:06:00 | Ok one crash, but that doesn't make me a bad pilot. Honest! | jermsie (6820) | ||
| 589750 | 2007-09-10 05:23:00 | :lol: I forgot to mention that it has built-in joystick support. That really makes things easier. I hate flying planes with a mouse or keyboard! :p | wratterus (105) | ||
| 589751 | 2007-09-10 06:23:00 | Hey thanks for that. I've always wanted to play a flight sim game. Damn Woosh, I could probably walk faster to Wellington:lol: | beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 589752 | 2007-09-10 08:50:00 | oh yay... i needed that key reference.. i was always loosing control, crashing into mountains and such :rolleyes: |
Dannz (1668) | ||
| 589753 | 2007-09-10 10:45:00 | Now if only they'd update the satellite pics for much of the country. | mmmork (6822) | ||
| 589754 | 2007-09-10 12:03:00 | Yes the pics of Hamilton are over 3 years old and there's been a heap of changes to Hammy in that time. Mind you, there's so much roading work going on, right now, they'll need to update every 6 months. | Fishb8 (484) | ||
| 589755 | 2007-09-12 00:54:00 | Well that's interesting. When I press Ctrl+Alt+A it brings up my address book. That could be handy but I would have liked to try the flight simm. | JackStraw (6573) | ||
| 589756 | 2007-09-12 00:55:00 | :lol: You had Google earth selected, and the latest version installed? | wratterus (105) | ||
| 589757 | 2007-09-12 22:47:00 | Yup. Google earth running maximised and nothing else running other than wiodows explorer. The problem is in my windoze settings I suppose. | JackStraw (6573) | ||
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