Why on the video does the instructor say "a good pilot always starts the right engine first". I have no Idea and am bugged by this, and I don't have the DC-3 or the cd version of the B-25!Thanks Hoping in IL that I'll recieve it tommorrow.ordered it Friday 9 A.M. [email protected]

Call me Bill, please, and I thought somebody would jump in, but since it's driving you bonkers... *:-*As explained by Russ Strine: You start the right engine first, because you can not see it well, if at all. So you must rely on your ears to tell you everything is working properly. In the short-stacked B-25, especially, once that first engine is running, you won't be able to hear much of anything below the level of an explosion. But you can just look over your left shoulder and watch number one for anything out of the ordinary.Now you know. I guess it follows that if it were the co-pilot starting the engines, he'd do it the other way around, right? The film does not say what a good copilot does! :-) Bill Rambow MAAM-SIM - Rambow, Visser, Banting, and Younghttp://www.fssupport.com/maam_sim/maamsim_logo.gif

Thanks so much, thought that might be it, or that you could not talk to your ground crew if your left engine was running. Almost same thing I guess. I wouldn't know this from flying a small Piper Seminole at my work. The engines aren't that loud and with an ANR Telex headset they are really quiet unless they are out of synch. I bet that must really be annoying in the B-25 with those powerful engines. Is it very touchy to set them synchronized. Thanks BillADAMAlso do you know the exact date when the Friday orders were shipped out?

...at this point it doesn't matter anymore. I figure the CD will get here when the CD gets here. I only ordered it because I thought it would beat the Online Delivery... However we are now less than one day away from that. Thank goodness I have money burning a hole in my pocket. I figure if I have to buy the online version just so I can play tomorrow night, then what the hell... it's for a good cause any way.Oh yeah, Bill... I did take notice of the current state of restoration the P-61 was in when I made my request, I just wanted to state interest in that particular aircraft. I would be very interested to know what your next project will be not counting the R4D.Tomorrow is pretty much going to suck waiting for either the mail to bring me my "toy" or the D/L to be released. The good news is at least my new riding chaps will be in. At least I'll look good on my V-Max!Enjoy,JohnnyKTUS