Frog on Toast

Finally, passing Tacoma at sunrise.

Another one into Darrington, this time a nightime approach with cloud laying low around the mountain.

I think this is a first for me, entering this contest, but now that I'm not using stock scenery I thought I'd share. All from recent air hauler flights. Misty mountain dawn on finals into Darrington Municipal., 1S2. [edit to correct spelling because I'm a pedant]

I'm doing OK with the 185 now that I've ironed out the niggles I had with it. Wish the young didn't obscure the VSI though. I have the Quest Kodiak installed all ready to go as my next step up even though I said I didn't like glass cockpits.

Ahhh that would explain my problem then!

Arghh this is annoying! I can't trim the 185! Rudder and elevator trim both seem to work fine, but aileron trim just will not work. The aircraft always has a continuous roll to the left. no matter how much trim I add in. Getting frustrated with it now. I've tried it with other aircraft and the buttons are working fine, so I can't see what the issue with the 185 is. Checked the CoG and loading is fine, even with an off centre CoG I should still be able to trim it out anyway. Any ideas guys? Cheers, Mark

My ex girlfriend used to work for the jockey club, and it's a little known fact that no thoroughbred horse is allowed to have the same name as another. The jockey club has an office where all new names are checked against the records. An Irish breeder actually tried to name a horse this, but unfortunately someone spotted it and the name was rejected. Would have made the racing commentary bloody funny if it had gotten through!

Cheers, I'll take a look at that when I get home at the weekend. Might possibly be that my trim button has come inbound too.

Thanks for the tips guys, really liking the pnw scenery, and the 185 amphib is lovely to fly. Or it will be when I can make the trim work so that it doesn't keep trying to slowly roll to the left!

True that! Definitely something to think about moving into. I'm liking the idea of starting with an amphib though, not really played with them before.

I'm sold on the orbx pnw region, at 15 quid that's good value. The C185 looks interesting too, so I guess that's my startup. I've heard good things about Darrington muni as a starting Base too so I'll get in fsx and have a look at that when I get home next. John, I've heard good things about the pc12, but maybe I'm a philistine, cos I think it looks ugly! Csim c130 is a good call for heavy work, further down the line, I really love flying that thing!

Yeah, it's going to be awesome! Surprised the media hasn't been hyping it up though, I remember them going on about the last one for months beforehand.

Right, time to ask you all for more advice. I want to get back into regularly flying again. I have been flying around Europe in larger aircraft, but now it's time to start on career mode and with some challenges, so I'm looking for recommendations. I want to start with Bush flying, somewhere wild with interesting scenery. However money isn't limitless so I don't want to be buying oodles and oodles of stuff. Could you guys please recommend for me. A good wild area of the world possibly with interesting weather patterns. A good terrain mesh for an interesting scenery area. A couple

I have only ever been a member of one VA, and that was a long time ago, but I *think* it was FlyUK Jim. I originally joined to learn more about flying the different aircraft in FS9, but ended up joining the helicopter division and becoming an IP. I had more fun with the spinners as instead of flying routes we often flew the choppers as a group. I've thought about DC3 airways, but with my work schedule I don't think I can commit to a VA anymore.

As John suggested I've done a couple of test flights using default aircraft and airfields, and I've found that I fired up the outrage bus too soon! ProATCX works perfectly with those so I will have to rescind my earlier comments. I think personally though I'll be sticking to RC4 for a while. EDIT I've done a few more tests, and I think I've done a huge disservice to Pro ATC X. All I needed to do was change a simple setting in windows and it seems to be working perfectly with any combination of stock/addon aircraft and airfields. Like RC4 it DOES require you to hav

Comparing the two programs, right now, I prefer RC4, BUT I do think pro ATCX has the potential to be a great program, It's just not there yet. John, Good point, I can;t be sure whether I have actually tried it with all stock FSX airports and aircraft! I am however, sure that the arrival airport doesn't seem to matter whether it's stock or not. I'll give that a proper try this weekend. I think I may have to bite the bullet and register at the ProATCX forums to ask some questions, because if I can get the program running reliably then I think it may even edge out RC4.

Little bit of Threadomancy here, but I have the latest version of Pro ATCX, Version 1.4.4.2, bought just a couple of weeks ago,and frankly, I wish I hadn't! The flight planning system is great, but after that is where the problems start. It seems to me that ATC is "Throw a 6 to start" I have to stop and restart ProATCX multiple times before I can actually even contact clearance. Once I do manage to get clearance everything seems to work fine, handoffs to different controllers, right up until I contact approach. Get vectored for final, told to contact tower and.... nothing. I've checked and rec

Fly and fix is right, Just flew from Bristol EGGD to Lourdes Pyrenees LFBT in the 146, flight went perfectly...until I forgot to add power on approach and had a positive landing short of the runway. Cue a repair bill that was twice as muh as the job was worth! I think I'm going to get in the DC 3's for a while haha Cheaper to fix when they break!

Hi All, as we have some time off over christmas I decided to dust off my flight controls and give FSX another go. The good news is that my controller issues were obviously due to my old computer, as they work find with the one I built at the beginning of this year. The bad news is, after almost a year without flying, My AH company ends up badly in the red as I can't seem to stay airborne! Time to start a new company and get practicing! Maybe the BAe 146 isn't the ideal plane to fly to start with!

To get full functionality from a HOTAS it's best to program it, at least for FS. Can't help you with the saitek setup though, as I use a cougar, but usually there's a gui that should make things a bit simpler. All you'll need to hand will be a list of the key commands for FSX. To use the detents accurately you'll probably need some kind of throttlerange statement in the profile, but I don't know how to do that for saitek controllers, so I can't help,sorry.

Apologies chaps, but it looks like I'm going to have to pull out. I can't seem to get FSX to run satisfactorily at all, and I'd rather pull out now than leave you all hanging waiting for my times, or even worse, get a test time in, then be unable to complete legs.

I'm away from home at work right now Dai, I'll post the test flight as soon as I get home at the weekend.

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I'll fly the test leg next weekend, I was planning on doing it this weekend, but That bloody juddery saitek yoke annoyed me no end, so I took my cougar apart for a good clean and set that up. I'm happy to fly any leg required, and I Imagine I could get 3 in of a weekend. Anyone have any links to help me remeber how to fill out a PIREP? I haven't done one in years!

Well, I've played around with the paintkit, and it looks like I'm well out of practice! Sorry guys, I won't be able to do it. I haven't done one for years, and I need LOADS more practice.