I have just purchased and have been flying the Flight 1 Conquest. I find it hard to believe this ac would not have a DME receiver at all!! JamesJ

Click on the HSI or VOR 2 gauge. It will show up there.Pesi

the stock 1999/2000 172's i fly don't have it eitheri use the factory-installed kln89b for distance informationmaybe it's a trend...:)

Though I appreciate their including a DME through the HSI gauge, I would have really liked to see a DME in the stack. It's very unlikely that any 441's flying without GPS lack the DME for IFR flying.

Other than the DME issue, how do you like the aircraft?Are the frame rates good?Happy Simming!Scott :-)ATP/CFII - KCOS

There are plenty of third party radios. Ya might try adding the DMEfrom the default stack in FS9?EJ

Including the DME indicator would have meant a major change away from the panel layout. As this was modelled after the real thing, Flight1 didn't want to do that (the DME indicator is probably somewhere off to the side hidden away).Everything is of course a compromise.Install the RXP Apollo and you have a DME on its stack :)

One thing Dreamfleet does that I wish others would also do is include a Hobbs meter. I really like to see the time I build on specific airplanes. :-)Eric

Flight Simulator already does that for you Eric.Go to your Documents and Settings|(your name)|Application Data| Microsoft|FS9| Aircraft and open up the State.cfg for the related aircraft.Bet ya didnt know that did ya' :(Jim Rhoads

Wow! no, I didnt know this. Now if I could just read it on a HOBBS METER inside my C-441 I'd be ever so delighted... :-)On a 3rd party basis, this would be cool to have a utility that would read these state.cfg files and provide metrics.(thanks Jim I really did not know this tidbit!)Eric

Eric, It's kind of cool actually. Every aircraft you have flown in fs has a folder in there and inside the folder it shows the time, I have a LOT of folders and not much time in many of them!Hornit

I doubt the real 441 has a Hobbs meter. Those are used by rental agencies to determine the amount of airtime on the aircraft you rented.441 would not be rented out by the hour so don't need that.

Something funny happened this weekend related to "Hobbs meters"...my wife rented a carpet cleaner so that we could shampoo the carpets in our home. Im cleaning away with that darn thing and I look on the top of it...and it has a HOBBS Meter! just like in an airplane!My wife says.."There...now you can log the hours!" Eric

It may or may not have a Hobbs. Many 135 charter operations quote a flight based on estimated flight time, and then bill out based on the Hobbs. A number of companies use Hobbs time to track total hours in the aircraft in addition to tach hours. I have also seen Hobbs counters installed on larger aircraft flying 121 (airline) routes.The 421 I have flown has a Hobbs. The 1963 Skylane I fly has none. Its pretty random.

>I doubt the real 441 has a Hobbs meter. Those are used by>rental agencies to determine the amount of airtime on the>aircraft you rented.>441 would not be rented out by the hour so don't need that.I thought ALL airplanes had hobbs meters to track engine hours - you know for the 100 hour overhaul ??