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Hi Chris, There are 2 download links that are now on the You Tube channel. One is only for FS2004 and the other is for FSX, P3D and P3Dv2. I am using FSX and all the ultralights, para motor and trikes work OK. I have been having loads of fun today playing around with this software. Enjoy.......cheers, Michael.

This gripping flight is just me, celebrating the arrival of Spring! This one runs 17 minutes...It was a LOT of fun to fly This video is full HD and should be viewed with the Quality clicked up to 1080p and the Full Screen icon at bottom right corner clicked. Thanks for looking My Video Channel is here:- http://www.youtube.com/user/petermcleland?feature=mhee There are over one hundred videos on there...Thanks for watching a video for its full length

Flightbeam Denver KDEN Released Linc: http://www.flightbeam.net/kden.html Video linc: Stunning is all I can say..

SIM720 Studios announced today the release of their latest product Santa Barbara Airport (KSBA) This is a great airport - over 80 buildings modelled, Interior perspective on the buildings (believed to be a world first), animated people, and 2 millimetre / pixel tiled texture on the taxiways and runways. All of this has been achieved without affecting the frame rate performance. Features High-res ground polygon. Photo-real layout and textures (30cm resolution). Hand placed hi-res buildings within airport boundaries. Animated People. Custom auto-gen buildings outside the airport bounda

It's good to see the contest back. I think the break did us all good and gave us a new appreciation for it. Good luck to all!

Safe Return

Touchdown at Prestwick

Ok, Here we go again, A Foggy Departure

Yes, the code and graphics are very superior to FS9 or FSX and that is out of the box...You can't add anything to it and you get good frame rates too! The lighting and shadow treatment is also very superior. As for the Game aspects...Well that video is pure simulation in "Free Flight" with no game points for anything...But, I do like to play the game side as well, mainly using the Job Boards at airports. I think I have just about all the "aerocaches" now at a total of 313 but I look at each one of the day, in case I have not already got it. I fly MS FLIGHT every day and it is my favourite Flig

That's the best way to do it, install it as you need it, except for the basics. It's amazing the amount of stuff that adds up and is never used often, it's like my garage. Have fun.

Congrats Al, know how you feel after my recent upgrade However I didn't bother reinstalling a lot of ac that I didn't fly much got airports instead. Still it must be painful when your hangers have shrunk to nothing.

Cheers- Dai.

Best wishes on a trouble free changeover Alan.

No worries, Al. What's the worst that could happen? John

Good luck Al, see you on the other side.

In my experience the support from FS2Crew is very good too. Quick and to the point answers, and seldom a support query is left without an answer. The only time I've seen a less than nice response was when a stupid b***ard asked why he couldn't get the copy he downloaded from PirateBay to work.. I'd say he had it coming

I'm, almost, going through the same process, Alan. The ship's computer, a venerable world-traveled XP machine finally threw up it's little electronic hands and expired. I made a mistake by buying a new, much higher performance, machine with win7 pro. Little did I realise that the windoze permission files have permanently and fully put the kibosh on the ship's network. The electronic charting system originates on an SD card that plugs into the cockpit display. The network allowed (under XP) this information, along with the radar display, to be duplicated and manipulated down below in the Na

Think youll like W7 Alan. I used XP for years and was apprehensive about going to W7 but its great. If memory serves the one most important thing to remember is that it best to keep it out of x86 as thats where most of the permission issues related to W7 pop up. If you have 2 HDs, put W7 on C:\ and Fs2004 on the other drive in a new folder. It works a treat for FSX so im guessing the same W7 security will affect 2004 in the same way. You'll also need to make sure that all files and folders are set to visible (uncheck the hidden files/folders tick box in Windows settings), particularly if

One of the things I liked about getting FSX was all the new things I have learned about the PC. I only knew or learned enough about computers to help my kids with them as they were growing up through school. After dealing with FSX for 10 years, I almost know about half a percent about computers now. Good luck with the new rig Alan. Have you thought about putting both FSX and fs9 on the new PC, that way you can get the best of both worlds. You can keep the older stuff and also get into some of the newer and much better stuff available today. Or even bypass FSX if you do not want to deal wi

Good observation John. Much like Star Trek movies, 1, 3 and 5 were very weak. 2, 4 and 6 were much better!

Windows seems to get it right every other time. XP and Win7 are great. Windows ME, Vista and Win8, not so much. Win9 will probably be fantastic. I think Win7 will not run anything that uses 8-bit code. Helping a friend, he has a very old payware AC for FS9 that included some RealityXP gauges. Try as we might, those gauges will simply not load in Win7 and I'm pretty sure it's because there is some 8-bit code lurking within them. As far as I know, that's the only specific problem we can put our fingers on. Scenery shouldn't be an issue. John

Welcome to the 21st century Alan!

A big step up Al and worrying too, BUT in the long run, worth it. Now my hangers are/were nowhere as large as yours but when I upgraded recently I didn't bother to reinstall ac that I rarely flew thus leaving space for airports and WX add ons. I'm glad I upgraded despite the initial reinstalling. Good luck with it.

i have little different point of view; I’m a heavy user i love XP; i kept using it till recently i was forced to upgrade my laptop windows 7 is extremely annoying for advance users and take hours to reverse the added security and gain some freedom im on win 8.1 now and cannot get used to the Win7 interface since; which now feels clunky compared to 8.1 same thing with 8.1 (win 8 was terrible) hours to unlock the system but im very happy with it now i won’t go back to 7 or 8 will gladly go back to XP though, well... not from 8.1 I’m hooked with that said win7 has some benefits over xp

I agree with Nigel, happy days ahead Alan and you will probably be able to make the jump to FSX or P3D!

Alan have no fear windows 7 is totally magic , (the same cant be said for windows 8.1 which is horrible), the graphics are much better than good old XP but as your graphics card will presumably be miles better as well your simming experience will be much better and smoother----- time to move up to FSX perhaps????

Fred was one of our founding members and one of my original reviewers. We kept loosing touch but today Fred sent me and a couple of other FS sites he frequented the following update. It just goes to show how far you can go after getting the simming bug! So thanks Fred and very best wishes for the future from all the Crew!