Hello everyone,I didn't know about FSHotSeat until I saw the announcement of the upgrade to FS9. I've flown a few hours in it and despite some shortcomings, it really fulfills some wishes I've had for a long time. I haven't purchased yet, but I am leaning that way. I do have four questions that I'd like to get user's opinions on:1) In FS2004, ATC gives step climb instructions, but the demo expects me to dial in the cruise altitude before I taxi out. How do I resolve this? Do I loose points for following ATC's instructions?2) I do a lot of flying in the default 737 - how does the checklist match up for this aircraft?3) Has anyone successfully added more SAPI 5 voices to FSHotSeat? A quick search on Google revealed a few more voice sets that are available, and the demos of those voices sounded awfully good (and they better be - they're expensive!)4) I have my MP3s in folders sorted by album name - is there any way to have FSHotSeat scan a folder AND subfolders to find MP3s, or am I stuck listening to one album at a time?Thanks in advance for any advice,Mark

have you tried FLight Deck Companion?they have their own forums here, next to the PSS forum, check it out.

Clayton,Just took a quick glance at it, and while I did like S-Combo (and admire Dave's work in general), it appears that FDC was created with the same inherent limitation as S-Combo - it's using pre-recorded voices. Therefore, if my callsign is "Midcon 113", and it doesn't have "Midcon" recorded as a phrase, I'm out of luck. Whereas FSHotSeat, using TTS, will pronounce (or at least try to) whatever callsign I have (admittedly, it won't sound as good as a prerecorded .wav file).Please let me know if I'm wrong on this. I have no doubt that FDC is a great product - it's just that the technology behind FSHotSeat is more what I was looking for.Thanks for your input,Mark

I've got FSHS and I can say it's a great program, with good support behind it. I know there have been slams of late against FSHS, but I haven't run into those problems.That being said, if you can handle the digitized MS voices, it's actually pretty good. The program configures the checklists dynamically, meaning it bases them off the capabilities of the panel you're using. This has good and bad points, as sometimes the checklist does things a little wacky, but not too bad. The best thing about FSHS for me, is the fact that when I'm at the gate, and the stewardess is making her announcement calls, she reads off the name of my airline 'Midcontinent Airlines Flight 249, with service from Seattle-Tacoma to Phoenix Sky Harbor". That is the cooles thing to me, and yes I don't think you get that from FDC. Plus, you get a DJ that'll play your .mp3's you've got on your hardrive, a copilot that announces when you're flying over geographical points of interest and will call out traffic to you.It's a pretty cool program for me, but the two drawbacks are the digitized voices, which I started to not notice any longer, and the fact that you HAVE to use the MSFS flight planner before FSHS will work. Really, that's the only true limitation, the fact that you have to use the horrible MSFS flight planner.

I bought FSHotSeat last night and it has tripled my pleasure in FS9. I was up to 6.30am last night flying a normally boring ride from Wichita, KS to Roswell, NM in a Cessna 152. FSHotSeat has simultaneously increased both the sim and game aspect of FS9.For the music I ended up making another directory and copying all my fav mp3s into that directory.Where are the other voice sets you were talking about?For the step climb I would just deny that part of the checklist with a no. I don't think it penalizes you, the cockpit resource management score is based on how well you share the workload.Speed.

sounds interestingi admit i did try it, but the syntized voices put me off,if they can improve the voices, this is gonna be a real winner.