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Ladder from the Saloon to the Interior Helm at Night

I use Traffic X for all my AI flights, Eddie. After I install an add-on aircraft into Flight Simulator X, I go to the Traffic X Traffic Control Centre's "Fleet Database" screen and click on the "Update Aircraft from CFGs" button. After doing that, the add-on aircraft is available on the "Aircraft" drop-down menu on the "Flight Plan" screen. The "Flight Plan" screen is the screen that appears after selecting "Add new" from the menu that comes up after clicking the right mouse button on the "Flight Plans" screen. In other words, to get to the "Flight Plan" screen, you first have to go to the "Fl

Yeah, I only use AI models for AI flights if I don't have the model or livery available in a full-blown user aircraft. Just for the record, all aircraft in both screenshots are full-blown models, and the aircraft on final in the first screenshot is completing an AI flight. I guess I would have really impressed if I had told everyone the aircraft landing in the second screenshot was the user aircraft. (Alas, nobody would have believed either of the forground aircraft were AI models, and it is the taxiing aircraft that is the user aircraft). Dan

HOLD POSITION - C130 ON FINAL PARKED - TAXIING - LANDING

Great entry! Congratulations! Dan

You caught my attention with the very first screenshot! I think I see something that you did that makes that takeoff from KLAX look so realistic. Since it's a setting change that FSX users often neglect, since it's a change that can be easily implemented, and since making the change can significantly increase realism for any FSX user who has a good graphics card, I will mention it here: Reduce the visibility setting for the weather at a flight's airport. Doing so at LAX makes perfectly good sense. In addition to experiencing visibility reductions from a thick layer of marine air on many morni

I have posted the below screenshots, before, at Mutley's Hangar. I am posting them again because each screenshot turned out to be accompanied by a remarkable coincidence. SITUATIONAL AWARENESS Only a few days after posting this screenshot, a commercial aircraft overflew its intended destination airport in Minnesota and wound up over Wisconsin before the crew noticed the mistake. Suddenly, everyone was talking about "situational awareness." RELIEF FLIGHT This screenshot of a United Nations aircraft taking off after having delivered relief supplies is noteworthy because of the huge catastrop

Okay, Mutley. Here are a couple more screenshots of the Grob. Development of the real Grob ceased when investor enthusiasm waned after a tragic crash of a prototype. One unusual capabilty of the aircraft's design was its ability to use grass (and even sand) runways. The fuselage was all carbon fiber. The screenshots show the second incarnation of the Grob SPn for FSX. The current version fixes the rudder to eliminate the fishtailing that was present in the original version. However, there is still some porpoising present while under manual control. Nevertheless, the freeware model is a very

Grob SPn at Munich

DC-2 AT BARAJAS IN MADRID I kid you not, Dodgy-Alan. I took this screenshot before I saw yours. I guess we're on the same wavelength, since we both liked the idea of showing only a single engine running. At least they were different (though closely related) aircraft.

Congratulations, Simi! Enjoy your prize! If you fly such demanding approaches often, a spare aircraft could come in handy!

A lot of people (myself included) experience the FSX freezing problem. The problem occurs only on long flights. The problem has been experienced on many different combinations of hardware, and the problem does not seem to relate to any particular version of Windows. Some FSX users have reported that the problem can be related to clicking on the FSX menu bar, but users have reported, too, that the problem can be related to right-clicking to access the pop-up menu. I can do without the pop-up menu, but I have difficulty doing without being able to click the menu bar at the top of the screen. Su

Beautiful, Soya!

The question is not "water or Coke?" As Oskar Schindler said, "It's all in the presentation." See . I rest my case...of Coke.Dan

I just completed my own modifications to Admiral David L. McDonald Field at Mayport Naval Station, in Florida, using scenery objects from various sources. Before taking screenshots, I decided to turn "light bloom" on. Light bloom definitely makes a difference. Dan TAKEOFF BEFORE SUNRISE BEHIND THE HANGARS MAIN HANGAR AT SUNRISE

Buy the woman a new purse! Her current purse is providing a reversed artificial horizon!

TOO LOW AT PENSACOLA TOO CLOSE AT JACKSONVILLE TOO MUCH TRAFFIC AT GRANTLEY ADAMS

Happy holidays, everybody!

HIDDEN HISTORY The ugliest thing about this piece of history is that it remains largely unnoticed, in FSX, at Edwards Air Force Base. When she flew, she was beautiful!

If Mutley could enter his avatar, we'd all lose! (I love your pilot, though).

Congratulations, dodgy-alan! I'm looking forward to seeing additional screenshots from you in the coming months. Sorry I'm so late in congratulating you. Part of the Internet seems to be bogged down, today. It took around 15 tries for me to get this message to you from the States!

Situational Awareness

I could understand the possibility of this happening if you had been in the cockpit of a Saab. Where's a pushback vehicle when you need one? Don't be surprised if, instead, they send a tow truck. I've heard that anything with a Rolls-Royce engine ends up in that parking lot. These things have been happening since the days of the first Ford Tri-Motors.

In addition to the Saab 340 in the screenshot below, there are several other true FSX-compatible aircraft available for free download at http://www.simviation.com/fsnd/Downloads.htm. By "true FSX-compatible," I mean the aircraft have been compiled with the FSX SDK w/SP2, and .dds textures have been used for DirectX 10 compatibility.

Thanks, John...both for your quick reply to my questions and, once again, for your superb screenshots! Dan