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Watch your flight again: flight replay
Every flight is recorded. Watch it back from the report card, with a Director that cuts to the checkerboard, the turn and the touchdown.
Every flight is now recorded. When it ends, press Watch replay on the report card and see it again from outside: the run down the IGS, the checkerboard, the right turn over Kowloon City and the touchdown, or the moment it all went wrong.
The Director
The replay starts on the Director. It cuts every five to seven seconds between a chase camera, a fixed camera beside the flight path that pans as you fly past, the cockpit and, near the airport, the tower. At the big moments it uses set-piece shots instead.
- Lift-off: a low camera beside the runway (free flight).
- Checkerboard: a fly-by as you reach the turn.
- Turn over Kowloon City: a side-on chase that shows the bank.
- Touchdown: a camera at runway level beside the touchdown point, with your touchdown rate on screen.
- Crash: a wide shot of where it ended.
The replay bar
Play or pause, drag along the timeline, or tap one of the diamond markers to jump to a highlight. The speed button steps through 0.5×, 1×, 2× and 4×. The camera menu switches from the Director to Chase, Cockpit or Tower, and you can drag to orbit or look around just as in flight. Altitude and airspeed are shown top right.
Keys: Space play/pause, ← → back or forward 5 seconds, C change camera, Esc back to the report card.
How it works
Only your own aircraft is recorded: position, attitude, gear, flaps and thrust, ten times a second. A four-minute approach is a few hundred kilobytes in memory. Everything else in the world (the other airliners, the helicopters, the ships, the ground vehicles) already runs as a function of sim time, so setting the clock back is enough to put them where they were. If you rewind during a flight, the recording is cut back too, so the replay is the flight you finally flew.
Next: the highlights reel
This is the first step. Next, at the end of each flight the sim will cut a 30 to 60 second highlights reel from the recording and save it as a video, wide for YouTube and upright for Reels and Shorts, ready to download or share.
而家每次飛行都會錄低。飛完之後，喺成績表撳重溫飛行，就可以由機外再睇一次：沿住 IGS 飛落嚟、格仔山、喺九龍城上空右轉同著陸，或者出事嗰一刻。
導演鏡頭
重播一開始用導演鏡頭。佢每五至七秒切換一次：追蹤鏡頭、航道旁邊一部固定鏡頭（你飛過嗰陣會跟住轉）、駕駛艙，近機場仲有塔台。到咗重要時刻，就換上特別鏡頭。
- 離地：跑道旁邊嘅低角度鏡頭（自由飛行）。
- 格仔山：飛到轉彎點時嘅掠過鏡頭。
- 九龍城上空轉彎：側面追蹤，睇到飛機傾側。
- 著陸：著陸點旁邊、同跑道一樣高嘅鏡頭，畫面會顯示接地速率。
- 墜毀：出事地點嘅遠景。
重播控制列
可以播放或者暫停、喺時間線上拖動，或者撳菱形標記跳去精彩片段。速度掣可以揀 0.5×、1×、2× 同 4×。鏡頭選單可以由導演鏡頭轉去追蹤、駕駛艙或者塔台，同飛行時一樣可以拖動畫面環迴或者四圍睇。右上角顯示高度同空速。
按鍵：Space 播放／暫停，← → 後退或者前進 5 秒，C 轉鏡頭，Esc 返去成績表。
點樣做到
只係錄低你自己架飛機：位置、姿態、起落架、襟翼同推力，每秒十次。四分鐘嘅進場喺記憶體入面只係幾百 KB。其他嘢（其他客機、直升機、船、地勤車）本身已經跟住模擬時間行，所以只要將時鐘撥返轉頭，佢哋就會返去原本嘅位置。如果你飛行途中倒帶，錄影都會跟住剪返，所以重播一定係你最後飛嗰次。
下一步：精華片段
呢個係第一步。之後每次飛完，模擬器會由錄影剪出 30 至 60 秒嘅精華片段，存做影片：橫向畀 YouTube，直向畀 Reels 同 Shorts，可以直接下載或者分享。
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