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A few questions about Flight Sims and equipment by Dave Pearson
* R David Steele : What programs are good if you just want to game, that is fly combat missions what engage an enemy (something that X-Plane does not do)? I can't speak for X-Plane, never having looked at it. MSFS doesn't allow you to fly combat missions...
July 29th 03 09:05 AM
by Dave Pearson Go to last post
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Novice Questions, FS2002, 2004 by Jim Cate
As a novice regarding FS applications, could someone give me some basic information about the following: What major improvements and changes are expected for FS2004? I understand that it will include a number of new aircraft, but will there also be improvements in the realism and flight response,...
July 29th 03 04:02 AM
by ArtP Go to last post
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FS2004 Garmin GPS map question by Charon
I downloaded the video clip from the FS2004 home page and noticed that about halfway through the clip the VNAV (second button from the right, bottom)is pressed and the GPS screen goes into a full terrain contour map. Where does this come from? I don't recall the Garmin 500/530 having this...
July 28th 03 06:39 PM
by ArtP Go to last post
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Oh dear, someone is *still* using this tired old non-story by Dave Pearson
URL:http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/07/23/flightsim_terrorism/index_np.html And just in time for another new release of MSFS. Presumably this will be a regular feature from now on? sigh -- Dave Pearson http://www.davep.org/
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July 27th 03 09:14 AM
by John Ward Go to last post
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Heads Up: X-Plane Article by Neil Trotter
Popular Science has an article on Austin Meyer, author of X-Plane: http://www.popsci.com/popsci/aviation/article/0,12543,463052,00.html There are some interesting comments & leads in this /. thread, precipitated by the above...
July 24th 03 07:51 PM
by Neil Trotter Go to last post
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automatic flaps problem in Beechcraft KAF90 by deeknow
Hi folks, I'm trying to figure out why the aircraft I've been flying (Chuck Dome's Beechcraft King Air F90) in FS2002 keeps automatically adjusting the flaps mid flight. One minute I'm happilly cruising at ~160kts with no-flaps, the next the flaps get incrementally set to full and I'm back down...
July 24th 03 02:45 AM
by deeknow Go to last post
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FS2002: beginner's question n° 1 by Angus Lepper
As far as I know, it doesn't show them whatever your resolution, what you could do is shift your resolution up int the graphics options and then resize and show the aux panels would be a compromise. "karel adams" wrote in...
July 23rd 03 02:12 AM
by CriticalMass Go to last post
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FS2004 images by Paul H.
67 FS2004 images here - http://www.pilotweb.co.uk/content/imagegallery/gallery.aspx?id=141 Enjoy.. PH2
July 22nd 03 09:41 PM
by Paul H. Go to last post
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EAA Airventure 2003 HOUSING AVAILABLE !! by David Schultz
If you or anyone you know are looking for a place to stay for AirVenture 2003, we have 3 rooms available in our house. We are interested in renting these rooms out. We are located in Fond du Lac, about 30 minutes south of the EAA grounds. I advertised in the May issue of the EAA magazine,...
July 22nd 03 02:37 AM
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FS2004 on Discovery Wings channel (xplane) by Steve
Nathan wrote: The show also showed this military helicopter sim where the person wore a VR helmet and the smoothness of the system was second to none. It gave a sense of speed without any jerkiness and freedom of movement to look around like I've never seen before. It was very realistic...
July 21st 03 10:39 PM
by H M Go to last post
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I bought X-Plane and I want to share my experience by Bruce Shankle
Dear fellow flight sim users, I recently purchased X-Plane and had such an interesting experience that I thought I'd share (see http://home.nc.rr.com/bshankle/xplane.html). I am curious if any of you have had an experience anywhere close to mine? Sincerely, Bruce Shankle
July 21st 03 10:33 PM
by H M Go to last post
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Has Anyone had experience with X-Plane? by John Westerlage
Good grief! I've just looked at Bruce's website. That has made up my mind. MSFS it is. Thanks for sharing that, Bruce. I wish more people would speak up like this when they've been done wrong. jw
July 21st 03 10:02 PM
by H M Go to last post
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Is Falcon 5.0 in development? by Radeon350
would really like to know ^__^ when Falcon 4.0 was in development, 3D acceleration was new. when Falcon 4.0 came out (late 1998 iirc) 3D cards were in their 3rd or 4th generation, but it was still pre-T&L days, before the GeForce256 (GF1), so geometry and lighting in hardware was not at the...
July 21st 03 03:21 AM
by Gary Cooper Go to last post
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Lago Tornado and FS2004 by Paul H.
I think it was someone on this group wanted to know about Lago's Tornado and Fs2004. I have tested Tornado Version 1 and all aircraft and panesl work fine. Since I don't have the refuelling version can't comment, but should see no problems with it. You will just have to browse to c:\program files\...
July 20th 03 11:35 PM
by Paul H. Go to last post
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FS2002 - Application failure in fs2002.exe, ntdll.dll by Andrew Watson
I get frequent XP Events causing FS2002 to stop involving a Dynamic Link Library file, ntdll.dll. Details of the latest one appear below. Is there a fix for this problem? Andrew Watson E-mail: The description for Event ID ( 1000 ) in Source ( Microsoft Flight Simulator )...
July 20th 03 12:47 PM
by Andrew Watson Go to last post
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Concorde in FS2002: No lateral views by A. Bomanns
I have copied Concorde from FS 2000 to FS 2002 (following the instructions giving in the www.simflight.com FAQ). Everything works fine except the views from the cockpits to either side and to the back (NumPad7/9/4/6/1/2/3). Is that normal? Alfred
July 19th 03 11:33 AM
by A. Bomanns Go to last post
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gradual gyro failure in FS2004? by Gary L. Drescher
Does anyone know if FS2004 will allow for a more realistically gradual failure of the attitude indicator and heading indicator? It's way too abrupt in FS2002. Thanks, Gary
July 19th 03 07:07 AM
by Paul H. Go to last post
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FS2004 screen shots by Paul H.
http://www.pilotweb.co.uk/content/imagegallery/gallery.aspx?id=141&pg=1 Some fs2004 screen shots, about 35 at this link. Enjoy..
July 19th 03 06:55 AM
by Paul H. Go to last post
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Notebook PC Configuration for MSFS2004 by Paul H.
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 18:01:10 -0500, wrote: Just wondering what the preferred configuration of a notebook PC should be to support the next generation of flight sims with good results. Thanks. Laptop displays in full-screen mode: The display adapters on some laptop computers...
July 18th 03 11:21 PM
by Paul H. Go to last post
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Pan AM 747 mystery solved! by Alan White
On 18 Jul 2003 11:37:05 -0500, "Dr. Speedbyrd:" wrote: ... Aren't I the smart one!!? No. You still haven't fixed your original problem which is probably something trivial in the original .cfg file.
July 18th 03 06:29 PM
by Alan White Go to last post
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