In case you're not aware, it is possible to edit or add flight plans for
the artifical intelligence (AI) aircraft in FS2004. I'm no expert in
this, but there is a tutorial here :

http://aimadeeasy.com/index.html

Fascinating! I didn't know that was an option. Now, if I could only
convince Mary to let me spend all day tweaking the Kiwi, I'd be able to
get that done! For some reason, she keeps expecting me to actually
*do* something around here...

;-)

You may find you can re-create your arrival scenario quite accurately.
BTW, I'm _very_ jealous of your simulator rig.

Well, it's here for all to use, pretty much whenever you'd like! I
just forced my Fox TV ad sales rep to fly into OSH a few minutes ago --
she'd never been in a small plane before, and had NO idea what to do,
but she got fairly close to the runway with a little prompting -- and
I've let all sorts of guests take 'er for a spin.

I don't know about them, but *I'm* having a blast with it! I love
watching their eyes when the subwoofer (which I've now mounted to the
frame of the Kiwi) kicks in, or when I show them how to raise/lower
their seat electrically!

Today I downloaded the AOPA airplanes (the '05 Sweepstakes Commander
112 and the '06 Sweepstakes Cherokee Six), and "flew" them around a
bit. They are fantastically detailed, but they're pushing my computer
a bit hard. Things got a bit jerky around OSH, so I may have to set
the detail down some with those planes.

Both planes are free for members to download from AOPA.org, BTW.

On a side note, whilst I understand the antipathy aimed at mxsmanic in
this newsgroup because of his general attitude, I'm sure that there are
many lurkers such as me who actually benefit greatly for the responses
to his seemingly inane questions. I am unable to fly for real for a
variety of personal reasons and so have to content myself with the
simulator, and many of the questions he asks are ones that have also
ocurred to me. You may think they are more appropriate to a simulator
newsgroup, but I'd much rather come here to see how things are done for
real.

I have no problem with MXSMANIC myself, and have been somewhat appalled
at the behavior of some of my fellow pilots as they tried to force him
"off-group". I don't understand why anyone would ever treat a poster
that way -- hell, if you don't like a guy, don't look at his posts!
But, that's Usenet. (I always assume they were abused children, and
move on... :-)

And some of his topics have been quite interesting, honestly.

*resumes lurker pose*

Thanks for dropping in!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"