Got my R4D! WooHoo - Just one comment...

Ok, at 30 inches and 2055 RPM, she flies 1 kt faster than the manual says... JUST KIDDING!Awesome work. The B-25 and the DC-3 put all the planes that come with FS2004 to absolute shame. Great stuff. I particularly like the left-right mouse button, and the mouse scroll-wheel control of the radio freqs. Great idea. I had a hard time figuring out how to taxi the beast -- I don't have "real" rudder pedals, or "real" differential throttles. I found the F11/F12 key for differential brakes work fine for taxing, but not before I ended up in the tall grass... (lesson learned: read the manual.)Speaking of which: The HTM manual says that the "start-up" flights default with the engines off, but that the master switch and the mags are set to ON and BOTH, respectively, and that there is just no way around it, because it's a Microsoft FS thing. But when I started the DC-3 start-up mission, the mags were both OFF, as was the master switch! (which I like, BTW. I want to click ALL the swicthes...)Now, I noticed this was true with the B-25 as well. The BT "engines off" flight at MAAM also defaults the mags to BOTH and the master switch to ON. I saved the mission, then edited the .FLT file and set the mags for both engines to OFF by setting the "LeftMagneto" and "RightMagneto" parameters to "False" for each engine. This set the mags to OFF, snd automatically set the master switch to OFF as well, which is what I wanted.Isn't that interesting? Maybe not, but I thought I would share it with all you board people here. :)PRB