All I can say is "WOW"! This plane is incredible! Just took my first flight from Albany, NY to Plattsburgh, NY at dusk.No issues at all so far.Thanks a lot for this great add-on.Jim

Finally a freeware classic with complex panel and systems!!The plane is gorgeous, great panel and the startup effects blew be away! I could watch this baby start up for hours:-hah Who ever programmed that effect deserves my full respect!:-sun1 Thank you for giving us this beauty! I'm drooling knowing more releases to come:-beerchug regards,Claudio

Thanks All!The panel is a derivative of the VN2.0 panel that Jan Visser and Hansjoerg Naegele did for the Mike stone Super Connie. Hansjoerg joined our team to redo that panel and reivise it to meet the needs of an airplane 10 ears earlier. He did a superb job and we are indebted to him for his efforts.Milton Shupe came on the team towards the final month or so and asked what he could do to help....Not only did he give some very pertinant advise he took on something he had never done before. Yes Milton did the smoke and flame effects for our "Star." Turned out kinda nice too!!!...:-)Actually it was kind of a nice first in many ways. It was Milton's first smoke and flame effects effort. My first aircraft model ever and for sure my first development project in FS. I think for almost everyone on the team this was a first except of course Tom Gibson....What can I say this was old hat stuff to help coordinate the air file with FSAviator but he treated it all with the enthusiasm of a first so it was a win, win all around....The excellent documentation was done by Kent Morris and Jaap de Baare was the guy who did the KLM and PAA liveries. All first there also.Thanks guys we appreciate the good words!Johndzignguy

John,I'll say it again . . . supurb! Excellent! Beautiful! and . . . it even flies nice. The best of the best of freeware! Thank you and your fine team . . .you do the FS hobby very proud.Best to you and your team.Clayton T.Dopke (Clay)Major, USAF (Retired)"Drac"Sundance Quarter Horses " . . . a horse is a horse, of course, of course . . ." Mr. Ed

John I'm intrigued by your comment reading:"Had a brief problem with the C of G being over to one side slightly. Soon fixed that with fuel management"By "fuel manangement" I assume you mean moving fuel between the four different tanks in order to balance them. How can I do that in this Connie?Cliff

John I've just discovered the Fuel Panel instructions.However I can't fathom out how to access that panel. Where is it and how do I get to it please?Cliff

>John I'm intrigued by your comment reading:>>"Had a brief problem with the C of G being over to one side>slightly. Soon fixed that with fuel management">>By "fuel manangement" I assume you mean moving fuel between>the four different tanks in order to balance them. How can I>do that in this Connie?>>CliffHi Cliff,I'm at the office, so I don't have the simulator to hand, but if I remember well, having similar quantities of fuel in the fore and aft tanks (through the FS9 menu (Aircraft/Fuel.....)) brought the CofG to the centre.

After you've selected the flight engineers panel using the simicon on the main panel, you can select the fuel managment sub-panel using the simicon on the flight engineers panel.I noticed though that the *add fuel* simicon doesn't work (at least by me) so I have to use the default system in the FS menu anyway. I pretend my virtual flight engineer is doing his job, and hope the fuel doesn't run out, lol.Hope this helps.BestGrahame (EDHL)

Approaching the end of my learning curve for your superb Connnie I cannot let more time pass without congratulating your team for producing what must surely be one of the most outstanding aircraft add-on packages yet offered for FS9. I include in that comment all commercial offerings.Aircraft that stand out above all the others are, in my opinion, the