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  1. I have found & downloaded AirEd, and opened the .air file on the DGA-15. For the most part, I could not find any info regarding the Engine RPM. I looked for Mr. Mulligan in the AvSim library, but the file isn't there; I think it's gone to ground. At this point, I'm at a loss, but I think I'll try to e-mail the creator and ask him. I'll keep you up to date.http://imgupp.com/img/1445775898.jpg
  2. Hi, My name is Harold, I have been dabling with flightsim for some time now, this is the first time I have connected with the forum. My question is that I find some of the aircraft that I have loaded, as well well as the default Beech Kingair 350 develops automatic failures (mainly electrical or system). Is there any way of counteracting this annoying occurance ?
  3. The weather here just west of Denver has been very mild. In early November I predicted that Indian Summer would last till around January 15-20. We just had a small snowstorm followed by a moderate cold snap so one could say that I was wrong. However, we're back in the sunny mid-40s so mine is a moral victory even if not 100% factually correct.

     

    I victory is a victory. Regarding the 380 reversers, put that way it makes sense. Do you think if the

    Concorde had this would it had made any difference?

     

    Raptor22

     

    PS. Just before New years I had 3 F16's fly low between my mothers house and the neighbors, they were

    low enough to read the #'s on the tails, traveling east. this was Between 10:00 and 11:00 AM.

  4. I had to purge my inbox so I've started this new PM thread ...

     

    I'll go with the design engineers' reasoning. The goal is not to get down and stopped in the shortest distance, the goal is to get down and stopped safely in a safe distance. If a reverse thrust outboard engine were to suck stuff up from the ground and, say, shatter a turbine disk, this could cause the aircraft to swerve due to asymmetric power before the crew could react.

     

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    The weather here just west of Denver has been very mild. In early November I predicted that Indian Summer would last till around January 15-20. We just had a small snowstorm followed by a moderate cold snap so one could say that I was wrong. However, we're back in the sunny mid-40s so mine is a moral victory even if not 100% factually correct.

  5. Paolo,

     

    It's not my intent to take sides when this isn't called for so thank you for the information. I was not aware of the situation. Please stay in the forum but going forward let's not insult one another. Actually, I took the arteriosclerosis remark to refer to me because I'm older than Chuck so even though you didn't intend it, you insulted me.

     

    I think this is why we should treat each other with respect. I'll have more to say about this in reply to your post. I will say that somebody told me that Nels deleted the thread in question, and now I know why. Don't fly off the handle, I'm simply going to say that I took the remark to be referring to me.

     

    Let's try to work through this. The Aircraft Customization forum needs all the expertise it can get.

  6. Rohan,

     

    I don't look for notifications unless I receive an email telling me about a private mail message, which is not very often. As result I did not see your friend request till about six hours ago. My apologies for not having responded sooner. I do value you as a friend, and I think you're going to be very successful in professional life.

  7. I'm going back to the Aircraft Customization forum where, for the most part, peace and harmony reign. A year ago I promised myself not to get involved in other parts of this site, or any of the other usual sites. While this thread has been peaceful so far, I can see the controversy from here and I want to avoid it.
  8. tellis, I know what the glory days were like. I don't need to check because I've been simming since the days of Bruce Artwick's ATP. So all along we've had both payware and freeware. While the coimponents of my favorite aircraft are mostly freeware, the fact is that these days the aircraft I acquire are almost exclusively payware. I go to the file library for gauges and utilities, and sometimes I'll download an aircraft just to get at its gauges, but for me the glory days of freeware have been replaced by the current glory days of payware.
  9. I purchase a lot of payware. However, my favorite aircraft, which is a frequent topic of discussion at the FlightSim.Com Aircraft Customization forum, is a fusion of a $10 payware aircraft with I-haven't-counted-how-many freeware aircraft and utility components -- gauges, an airframe. I would not -- could not -- have my favorite aircraft without the work of so many dedicated developers who offer their work for free to the rest of us. That said, when someone decides to give huge chunks of their life to the hobby, why should anyone expect them to work for nothing? If it weren't for the payware aspect of the hobby there are many excellent FS-related products that simply would not exist in anything but rudimentary form, if at all. Mike McCarthy
  10. Installing addon aircraft is a manual process but a simple one. Here's what to do, assuming that you've done a standard installation ... 1 - Go to the author's website, accessible via the Help menu item. 2 - On the left side, scroll down to "Model, Scenery and Other Downloads". 3 - Download the zip file of interest. 4 - Using Windows Explorer, navigate to C:\Program Files\Transcendental Technologies\PRE-FlightSEJ\models 5 - At that location create a folder, giving it the same name as the downloaded file, minus the zip extension. 6 - Copy the downloaded zip file to the new folder. 7 - Do an "extract to here". 8 - Click on the "model" menu item and then click on "load". 9 - Open the folder you just created by double-clicking on its name. 10 - Select the .3dm for the downloaded model. This will add that model to the list of models available under the "model" menu item. This sounds complicated but, trust me, it's really not, and after you do it once you'll remember the procedure.
  11. I’ve had a life-long interest in radio-controlled model aircraft (R/C) but I’ve never done anything about it in the real world other than to a) continue to read R/C magazines, and b) occasionally visit, as an observer, an R/C club based in nearby Boulder, Colorado. Nevertheless I’ve been aware of the PRE-Flight simulator of R/C aircraft for several years though I didn't buy it until yesterday, 28 July 2010. (From this point on I'll refer to PRE-Flight as PF.) What prompted me to finally act was the PF developer’s announcement of his Gee Bee Model R racer addon. You can read about it here, https://www.flightsim.com/main/notams10/pref0728.htm. This is just one in a long line of free addon simulated R/C aircraft created by the PF developer. Last night I bought the download version of the product from the Pilot Shop, https://www.fspilotshop.com/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=226&products_id=1721. In spite of minor product problems I was so delighted with it, and so convinced that other people will want to work with it, that this morning I asked webmaster Nels Anderson if we could have a forum dedicated to this unique product. He agreed, and here we are in that brand new forum. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx The product isn't perfect -- no product is -- and making it work with a joystick sometimes will take some hacking, and addon aircraft must be installed by hand (it's very easy). Those things said, if you want a program that will teach you how to fly R/C model aircraft from the simplest to the most advanced, PRE-Flight is for you. Not only does it work with joystick+keyboard, if you buy a certain expansion module from the developer you'll be able to drive PRE-Flight using actual honest-to-goodness real R/C transmitters, as long as they have USB capability. This means that PRE-Flight solves the long-standing problem of learning to fly R/C without having an unaffordable series of crashes. In the past, a beginner usually would partner with an experienced R/C flyer. Today, after using PRE-Flight for a while, you would be able to solo with confidence on your initial flight in the real world. A free PF demo is available at the developer's website, http://www.preflightsim.com/. (I have not used the demo and don't know anything about it.) The developer's own free downloadable aircraft also are available at that site. While you can purchase the base system at this site, I hope that you'll instead buy it from the FS Pilot Shop, see the link above, since this will help support FlightSim.com while also helping support the PF developer. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx All those things said about R/C, PF today goes beyond basic R/C simulation. Scenery addons are available, and a free one from the developer models a small region on the surface of [a moon of Saturn?]. Similarly, one of the free "aircraft" available is a simulation of the Apollo program Lunar Lander. Furthermore, if you like hand flying, PRE-Flight presents a challenging but fun flight simulation environment even if, like me, you have no plans to do R/C in the real world. Trust me, if you intend to land on the same "runway" you took off from, this is usually more difficult than in FS because in PRE-Flight
  12. Mike,

     

    Just an update...

     

    I have found & downloaded AirEd, and opened the .air file on the DGA-15. For the most part, I could not find any info regarding the Engine RPM. I looked for Mr. Mulligan in the AvSim library, but the file isn't there; I think it's gone to ground. At this point, I'm at a loss, but I think I'll try to e-mail the creator and ask him. I'll keep you up to date.

     

    Tanks for your assistance,

     

    Alan

  13. You look kinda like what I thought you'd look like.
  14. xxmikexx

    Ungrateful

    It's hardly the end of the world but Phil Taylor announced early today that he would be leaving ACES studio and that tomorrow would be his last day. I was hoping that the people of the wolf packs on the various major FS-related websites might stop feeding on the entrails of living creatures long enough to pay tribute to the man who has helped so many thousands of us enjoy FSX. They could, for example, have said things like "Well, Phil, I may hate you but you surely did give me many hours of the pleasure of barking at you, and I'm grateful for that." Such is not to be. As of a few minutes ago, about twelve hours after his announcement, the number of in memoriam posts on the various FS sites was ... FlightSim.com --- 5 for, 1 against Avsim -----------16 for, 1 against Sim-Outhouse --- 24 for, 0 against SimFlight -------- 0 for, 0 against That's it. Period, end of subject. The result of his having held down an extremely demanding job, with product manager of Flight Simulator being just part of that job, and of his having voluntarily given hundreds of hours of his personal time to helping thousands of people ... ahem ... The psychic reward for having done all this product support directly by the product manager himself was a grand total of 45 "Thanks, Phil" posts. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx One of the reasons Phil and I have become fast email friends is that we each noticed that the other does not back down when the wolf packs attack, that we each defend helpless underdogs, and that we each stick to our guns when we know that one plus one equals two rather than a traditional value of three, for example. You see, forum decorum requires that even the heavy hitters, if they are to avoid being boiled in oil, say things like "Well, you're certainly entitled to your opinion. One plus one equals three is just as valid a viewpoint as any other, and it goes a long way toward explaining why you're convinced that [insert attacker technobabble here]." Dat's a fact, Jack. Those things plus our each having the habit of sticking up for underdogs when the schools of pirhana fish attack, hoping to strip their victims of flesh in public, aided and abetted by moderators who also won't tolerate anything but mediocrity. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Phil hasn't said so -- would never say so -- but he has been driven from the forums several times and now has decided to leave even the Major Leagues FS Development community -- ACES Studio -- perhaps because no amount of positive stroking at ACES can make up for the horrible way he and his (and my) kind get treated on the forums. Phil is not the first person to say "That's it, time to go do something else." I don't want to furnish a long list of names and details. Instead I'll simply cite the example of Mike Stone, a builder of low-fps airframes that run well on dinosaur computers. (to be continued)
  15. I went grocery shopping yesterday afternoon. (Call Sixty Minutes!) While I was being checked through, the bagger, a young man named Matt, stepped behind me in the line and unloaded the remaining groceries in my cart onto the checkout conveyer belt. "In all my years of grocery shopping nobody has ever done that for me before", I said to him. "Keep it up and you'll make manager." "I don't want to make manager" he said. "I'm in college to make petroleum engineer -- it pays a lot better." "Well", I said. "That's a great career. You'll never get laid off, you'll have your choice of working indoors or outside, and you'll get to travel the world if you want to." He finished bagging my order and I then headed for the door. Tim Smith, an assistant manager who I've come to know over the years, flagged me down. "Mike, I heard what you said to Matt. That was nice. Very nice." We do work for money, folks, but we work even harder for attaboys that have real meaning.
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