Future update ideas and Helpful features (theoretical)

[Chelsey_Sullenberger]

Update ideas (theoretical)

• 3D Buildings snd real terrain
  -APU
  -ATC, passenger bus or gate (whatever it’s called)
  -Ground control
  -Pushback truck
  -Ranks (Trainee, First Officer, Captain, Commander…)
  -Inside cabin view
  -Realistic engine, flight and plane sound.
• Clouds and weather (cloudy, foggy, stormy, clear, scattered clouds, broken clouds)
  -Chatbox
  -Cheapter Online Pay (Instead of $80 it could maybe be $60 or $70). I know the developers need to get profits, but our money counts too.
  -Emergency or Failure section (where you can set a different kind of failures on your plane, engine failure or gear disfunction, fuel leak, with a possibility or risk chance on the section.

Hope these could get added eventually in the future. You can put your ideas in the comments! :D

-Have a safe flight!

[Captain_Cign]

Moat of these ideas are in #features how about vote for them there :)

[Chelsey_Sullenberger]

That’s a good idea. Where’s #features?

[Chelsey_Sullenberger]

Never mind. Found it xD
Thanks

[Captain_Cign]

3D Buildings

I always wanted to land and then taxi to a jetti this would be amazing if this was in it

Pushback tractor/tug

Now I know all of you ex-Nvidia engineers are to going to bombard me saying how difficult it would be to code something like this, but hear me out… What is it? Just a pushback truck, you know those weird vehicles which help push an aircraft out of the gate and align them to the required taxiway? those ones. Surprise! aircraft can’t move backwards by themselves (exceptions do exist), except if you’re in IF. How would it work? This is where it gets interesting. Currently, we have a pushback bu…

Massive Engine Sound Overhaul

I know the engine sounds have been changed recently, but they don’t sound the best neither do they sound realistic. I think it’s about time that all the planes in the sim have a engine sound overhaul. It will increase the realism in the game and there will be plenty of engine sound variation versus hearing the same sound for every plane. Depending on what engine operator each plane has, the sounds could be very unique from one another (747 with RR engines vs 747 with PW engines). I’m not so wor…

Cloud Layers

One of the coolest features that came as part of the Global update was low-level fog. It’s so cool to take off/land into, and flying over it to see hills poking out from below adds to the overall Infinite Flight experience. But why limit these cloud layers to the surface? (There probably is a good technological reason for this, but I’m not a big computer guy so I couldn’t tell you). We know that adding individual clouds would kill the frame rate because of all the particle rendering involved. B…

In Game Chat

An In Game Chatroom very general idea, which can be implemented in some different ways. 1. A general Chat for everyone in a radius of 50nm This one would be useful in case you’re looking for an escort or a partner to refuel. 2. An individual chat which shows up as an own frequency This one would be great for coordinating events, like refueling. The normal ATC is not capable of doing this. Such a chat could be implemented in vocal form or in written form. It would basically be like a „On Gua…

Emergencies in IF

So, how this would work is a random generator would produce a value, and ceartain values would do emergencies such as medical emergency, technical failure etc. and there would be a command such as “New York Departure, Cactus 1549 declaring an emergency, diverting to the Hudson River.” A way to make sure no emergencies during a long flight, there cannot be an emergency while VNAV/LNAV is on

@Chelsey_Sullenberger Want me to find more?

[Declan]

Feel free to take a look through the #features category as mentioned and the topics that have been so kindly linked above by @Captain_Cign.