Kansas City (ZAP) The Hannibal Bridge, a fixture on Kansas City's riverfront thought to be missing has been found. It is now located on the grounds of Kansas City International Airport. Unfortunately, it does not span any water but is actually a bridge on a service road on the north side of the airport.When contacted, airport officials responded "It wasn't doing any good down on the riverfront! No one goes there any more. We thought it would bring in visitors like London Bridge does down in Arizona."(Note: Autogen setting on Normal. Wanted to get an overall view of KMCI to see if the terminals are round yet. Not quite but by FS2018 they just might be! :-lol)http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/36021.jpg

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LOL great stuff :)Well to us its amusing, baffling and somewhat annoying maybe.I would imagine some programmers or other people at microsoft is cringing their feet by every single post about this lol :D Shear embarressment for them it must be.

I'll take a bridge misc placed here and there since this was the first attempt of auto gen bridge that the FS team developed. Especially when the trade off was just a grey strip across water. I think there is a high percentage of bridges in there right place to account for a few missing or in there wrong place. When you think of how in less than two years they added 1000 more airports, added taxi signs at almost all airports (by hand I read somewhere), redid the entire weather engine, added an entire fleet of historical a/c, created clickable VC's for all the planes, modified a/c characteristics to be more real, added power lines, expanded the auto gen to where the earths surface is covered in objects, created an entire learning center, A GPS that offers a replica of a real GPS, took the ATC to school for better controlling, told the AI to start pushing back there planes, how to turn on there lights as needed, suggested to use non controlled airfields and recommended they start doing touch and gos every once and a while, Got cities to start lighting up the ground at night closer to how it should look, plus all the other small things...well I can take a misplaced object every once and a while let it be a bridge or auto gen object. The worlds not prefect, one day to fly into meigs field and the next you find that it has giant trenches in "X" formation down the runway. Just consider these little mishap's part of a developing, growing artificial world that probably will get corrected in 2006. Now let all the bashers who want to mention how the sim wont run with current drivers or the likes reply to this post. Sorry to those guys but the sim does run smooth with the right set up so just deal with the fact that what you have and what you think is what you should be using to fly with is off. Dont blame the program if your having problems however the developers and beta testers should be told that there are conflict problems.NP

Sheesh. :-roll I just thought it was funny. I'm not bashing the sim at all. I turned down the Autogen and the misplaced bridge went away. No BIG deal.Every new version of Flight Simulator gets better and better. I remember tweeking FS2000 until the patch came out and in FS2002 I had to wait 18 months to upgrade my PC before I could get all the sliders pushed right.I think I'll follow the post describing how to remove the autogen bridges, however. The only real problem I have with autogen is if you turn it completely off you hardly have any trees at all. Looks like the Gobi Desert. So, a misplaced bridge isn't all that big a deal -- unless, of course, it's in the middle of a runway or something. :-lol

Actually, your eyes need improvement. That is actually a pedestrian suspension bridge to handle large crowds to overlook what looks like a scenic lake just in back of it. Now if we put a dancing rock crowd on it, we can watch the animation on the bridge collapsing as it oscillates from the vibration of dancing feet and the sound waves of low flying jets on approach at a proper resonant frequency.Oh, can I get grim.

Steve! That is funny! BTW love the TWA plane you have there!! :-wave

I thought the orginal post was orginal and funny as well. Then a reply maade it seem that this is another example of how the sim just blows when it doesn't. So I posted a reply on how I feel about those who want to take a stab at other peoples work and closed with the fact that I felt there would be more post on how this sim has let certain people down. I love this new version and am proud to say it and find things like the picture provided part of the fun of flying to new fields. The fact that someone in our community feels that a developer should hold his head down in shame for being human is a low blow as far as I feel espically when you look at all the plus to a few neg's. NP

Hank, It was my first TWVA flight in over a month of tweekin' of FS9.... Just wish some enterprising TWVA Painter (guess who I'm talkin' about here) would update the paint scheme on my MD82... :( Got the FFX MD82 with Leon Seale's Paul Golding MD80 panel update working in FS9. Flies just great. I'm back flyin' the (TWVA) Line now. Still get a few stutters randomly probably due to weather updates... Not a big deal.:-wave

No problem, Nathan. I didn't read that into any of these posts but I see where you possibly could. I think that MS will put the bridge issue on the list of things to improve upon in the next version. They certainly shouldn't feel ashamed. But, you have to admit, some bridges get placed in the funniest places. This is the first I've seen in my 10-20 flights so far and since I'm originally from Kansas City, I thought it particularly funny...... :-lol:-wave

Wow touchy people around this board all of a sudden.I think you're reading too much into this thing to be honest, Nathan :)Given I might have frased it too harshly, but I do think we have seen some anomalities in this game that is quite over the top compared to the last 2 sim versions - visually that is (bridges, mountains going beserk, canyons and such).Actually im taking side with whoever programmer/people was involved i mean i for one would smack my head going DOOH if I saw something like this going thru alpha and beta testing without anybody noticing.Oh, and there is a BIG difference in my book between hanging ur head in shame, and feel embarressed about something. I think all software people will feel the kind i was referring to when bugs appear.

I think your "bridge" post was wonderful. If anyone else feels that it was not; well, that's the way it goes. I can't help but get the feeling that we have become much too over sensitive about things these days.Sure, Microsoft did a cracker jack job with FS 2004, no doubt about it but it's an imperfect world, folks. The bridge issue in FS 2004 is just one of the imperfections. Just because we can laugh about it here and point out the "warts", certainly does NOT make FS 2004 a horrrible product. Nor does posting a picture of the "wart" imply that we feel it is horrible. I wish I'd found that bridge, I would have posted it.Regards,DonaldS

No it just gets to me when someone post something light hearted, funny or amusing- it doesnt go to long til the ole lets bash MS reply pops up. After re-reading your post I see you were not doing that and stating your feelings based on how you would feel which is great. Its just that this forum seems to find post more and more about bashing than praise. I start a post about share your best flight so far with 2004 and no one replies but yet if someone starts a thread stating something neg simmers seem to come out of the wood work. I completely enjoy this new version and equally enjoy seeing that each flight and airfield can be a new experience with whats right and what might of got over looked. I also enjoy the authors take on how to make something that shouldnt be, be entertaining and enjoyable instead of something negative. As said earlier, after re-reading your post I can see that you were not trying or did bash MS but just making a general post. I didn't say anything negative but shared my feelings on how I am against MS bashing post when not needed however, it did come off alittle touchy and hope that I have not caused you to feel that I was directing animosity towards you for that was not the case. :-)NP

Oh the joy of misunderstanding eachother when its in writing. And its pretty easy to do I know :-DWater under the bridge mate (no pun intended lol) no harm done for any of us.I do enjoy this sim greatly though I have to say. In fact im not even bothered by these little twirks in the game. Once I get the sound stutters ironed out it will be all perfect for me :)

You know what folks....I think we've gotten way to sensitive on issues in general. This Instant Messanger slash email etiquite of not wanting to offend someone is just way too much sometimes. Yes, we all love everyones work..but lets face it..a bridge in the middle of KMCI (I was just up there 2 minutes ago) is funny as hell, and is an amature mistake..just like FS not allegedly calling the video cards correctly amongst other oversights....we are not slamming them...but it is somewhat funny and they deserve to be called on it...notice I didn't say flamed. So let's all get over ourselves here and relax somewhat..LOL Man, I 've been wanting to say this for a while...this post is a great excuse to..hehe.