The following utility called F1 View has just been mentioned on another NG. It allows you to use the mouse wheel to zoom and pan inside the Virtual cockpit and in spot/tower etc view within FS2004. If you cannot afford Active Camera, this one is free and highly...

Users of this freeware toolset may like to know that a new version is now available. The main change is an update to the magnetic variation (declination) table using the latest IGRF10 model. This table is used by the toolset in lat long (including great circle) calculations. Pilot's Assistant is...

The Microsoft Flight Simulator Team and AVSIM Online are pleased to announce the co-sponsoring of what may well be this year's largest Flight Simulation gathering! "The goal of our partnership is to provide a venue that will host an unprecedented number of Flight Sim add-on and hardware...

Hi all, Anyone get the Garmin G1000 simulator to work with CH yoke and pedals? I've tried two versions including the latest G1000 trainer I just got in the mail. I also downloaded and installed the CH Control Monitor for assigning different settings to different programs. Basically the CH Yoke...

Can anyone help? I am running FS 2004 on an XP Pc that has Dual NVIDIA 6800 XT 256Mb in SLI configuration and a Duel Core AMD 4200 processor but after around half an hour the system starts getting jerky and eventually crashes. Can anyone help on how toset up so this does not happen. Cheers Jamie

In X-plane 7.0, I have reached 240,000 ft in altitude with an F-16, and 290,000 with an SR-71. Now after 80,000 where the atmosphere is thin, apparently the jet engines with afterburner are still pushing the aircraft with the same force (no oxygen around). I wonder if this accurately shows the...

I just got a new Dell that seems to lack a gameport adapter. Obviously new controls would be good - but I'm not so hardcore or deep pockets that I wouldn't prefer some way to hold onto my existing set-up (A thrustmaster FCS & WCS & CH non-Pro Pedals). I've seen multi-port adapters that plug into...

Howdy folks; hopefully someone here can help me. Due to the terminal failure of my old win98 system i have had to upgrade to xp. But i have come up with a small prob, after loading cfs2 i am unable to locate the mission builder. No shortcuts are added to the start up list when i load cfs2...

Hi All Does anyone remember the name of the program for editing the .air files for FS98-FS2000. I don't mean the aired program but there was another one, but I cannot remember the name Thanks, Peter

Flight Simulator 2004 Setting the radios, OBSs, & bugs. Is there a magic box I can pop-up so I can just enter a value? A USB hardware device perhaps? Numeric keypad shortcuts? Anything (short of a $2000 radio stack simulator)? Sorry if this is common knowledge, I have not found it. TIA,

Anyone know why the undock window option is not active. It appears when I right click on a window, but it is that light gray font and doesn't respond to clicking on it. -- Dave Schwartz Commack, NY

Hi I need some help. I have two flat monitors on order from Dell (they were cheap via work) so I need to get a graphic card for dual monitors. I have a Dell Dimension 8200 P4 2.4 1GB Ram AGPx4 and 400FSB and I am running a GeForce 3 Ti 500 64mb. FS2004 is OK but gets a bit clonky round the...

I've been flying the 185 getting use to watching the instruments and trying to figure out the radio navigation. Any pilots out there now how it compares to flying a real 185.

On FS2K2 I have installed two controls: (1) MS Sidewinder Precision Pro (USB) joystick and, (2) CA Pro Pedals (USB). Rudder control with these two beasts fighting each other has been my main dissatisfaction with the simulator. What I want to do is to completely disable the twist control of the...

Would someone point me to a good forum that deals with Combat FS, FS2 and FS3? Thanks

I'm fishing for ideas. I want to make a low cost multiple display airport vehicle simulator to drive around an airport. Good scenery and visual presentation are more important than vehicle dynamics. My first thought is to get a sim like STI vehicle simulator and build or have them build my airport....

I'm unable to connect to any of the simflight NGs via OE. I have the FS2004 and FS2002 NGs showing with me being subscribed, however, whenever I attempt to read a message, I get an error message that says: "You don't have permission to talk. Goodbye." I have not been able to locate any...

Before I buy, I would get some idea of the reality , functionality,etc. of the simulator aspect. Goal to get back into flying/soaring after 25 yrs. I hold a private w/250 hrs SEL. Would just buying the software give me an idea of what to expect. Trying to use a little restraint. HA HA!!!! I...

Hi All, Just won a mates copy of F4 off him as he hasn't used it in a long while, disc only though as his son trashed the D-ring binder/manual. This hasn't been too much of a problem as I have figured most of the basic things out (although would be gratefull to be able to source maybe a softcopy...

Hi folks,I would like install FS2004 on my AMD machine for pratice INSTRUTMENT FLIGHT. Is it good for FS2004? Any recommendation will be appericate. AMD 1800+ ASUS A7A266E 256MB DDR333 RAM X2 ATI 9000PRO 64MB SEAGATE 40GB 7200rpm HDD -- James Mak