Kasper 14 Posted July 22, 2015 Report Share Posted July 22, 2015 Do you know the sinking sensation when your external backup drives failes just when you fire it up to recover the data from your main system that just went kaboom? Well that happened to me early this year. There I was with no main (game) system and no working backup. I have my work data on triple backup and then the most important stuff is also encrypted in the cloud - so quadruple backup really. The pictures and films from my kids triple back-up. My personal simming stuff: double backup, or not enough .. I did save all the information I needed for my payware in the cloud so I have been able to gather most of my simming software and I finally had some time to get it on a system - so I am finally back and made my first flight in months yesterday. The thing I miss most are the airplane manuals I downloaded from everywhere. Some payware, some freeware. I really did lose them and I really miss those. I had all the needed information to pass qualification on propliners from the DC-3 to the B377. Training manuals, pilot manuals, technical manuals, you name it I sourced it. I literally spend years gathering that information. Anyway if anyone can point me to some of the information I would be very gratefull. For the DC3 I already gathered a lot, but for other propliners I am struggeling to come up with usefull information. Once again I hope to become a much more active member now I have a working FS system. Blue skies Kasper 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
donnybalonny 46 Posted July 22, 2015 Report Share Posted July 22, 2015 Ohhhh, not to good. Unfortunately I cant help you but wish you good luck with your quest. And welcome back But i will allow myself to ask, now that you are back if you are still considering making a Virtual airline for Propliners and bushplanes. I can remember that you had some interesting ideas. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kasper 14 Posted July 22, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2015 The VA will receive a kick start although the planned training for type rating will take a hit, as will the available planes since I lost all my repaints in the process. But I hope to start operations somewhere in August (this year). Nice that you remembered I was working on the VA! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
wain 879 Posted July 22, 2015 Report Share Posted July 22, 2015 I feel for you Kasper. Had a HD failure a few years back and had not backed up our payroll properly...9 months had to be manually input nightmare.... Bope you get it sorted and can resource your manuals... Best of luck Wayne Quote Link to post Share on other sites
needles 1,004 Posted July 22, 2015 Report Share Posted July 22, 2015 Kasper who? Glad you are back Kasper, I hope your system starts to behave itself from now on. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
brett 2,224 Posted July 22, 2015 Report Share Posted July 22, 2015 Ugg, I would rather lose my birth certificate than my sim stuff, I feel for you Kasper. Glad to see you up and running and back here at the hangar, hope the family is doing well. Finding all those lost manuals is the worst as there is no one stop shopping that I have found. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dodgy-alan 1,587 Posted July 22, 2015 Report Share Posted July 22, 2015 Glad you're back Kasper, I know what it feels like to lose stuff though, I replaced my entire PC set up a while ago and It's taken me ages to get stuff back that I had. Thankfully a lot of the FGS stuff had been saved to an external hard drive so was able to recover a lot of it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Andrew Godden 922 Posted July 24, 2015 Report Share Posted July 24, 2015 Kasper, Good to hear from you again, even if it is under such heavy weather as losing your fs system and data. If I ever lost my flight sim system, my problem would be trying to find where I backed up all my stuff too. Cheers Andrew Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kasper 14 Posted July 24, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2015 Thanks guys, Update on the manuals front: I rediscovered two good free sources: http://learnandfly.com/airplane-flight-training/ and http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/index.php Now the search is on for the rest of the materials. Kasper 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mutley 4,438 Posted July 25, 2015 Report Share Posted July 25, 2015 Hi Kasper, good to see you back mate, sorry to hear of your data problems. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hlminx 301 Posted July 26, 2015 Report Share Posted July 26, 2015 Welcome back Kasper ! So sorry to hear of all the problems...I remember that sinking feeling too (note to self to do another Image backup today!) Great find with the learn to fly link Hope you find the rest of the manuals you are looking for Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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