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A correction to what I said (I haven't touched FSX in a while) I used to use the Jepp data that was closest to the RXP 430/530 database contained at the time.

Maybe I'm missing something but I've always been mystified by the folks that want, current, real nav data. From what I think I know, the FSX "world" is several years old w.r.t. airport/navaid/etc. locations -- wouldn't you want navdata that is matched to FSX's airport/navaid data? Yes, it won't be "real" as compared to Today but it will work fine with the static world that FSX captured however many years ago it was released. I used to run the Jepp moving map app on a 2nd PC and always used the navdata version that was closest to what FSX contains... Please 'splain it to me Lucy; I must be (as I said) missing something. cheers, Dave B.

I have perused the DCS site re: the "World beta" and see nothing at all about it -- I looked at the blog, News, and the store. Nada. cheers, Dave.

Yes, I kinda figured that the site redesign is pretty much a done deal. More than anything I was annoyed by the condescending response that the OP got. BTW my biggest beef with the New Look is the 2-column arrangement of news.... Dave.

Wow. What a presumptuous and egotistical reply to what I regard as a very valid comment about the New Look. Frankly, I hate the New Look. "Just saying"... I've been an almost daily visitor to avsim for somewhere around 10 years, and I've never had a problem with the home page organization. I've bided my time, thinking I might get used to the new look. Well, your antagonistic reply to the OP prompted me to weigh in. I Don't Like It. To me it seems like a change for the sake of making a change. In my "real world" job I'm involved in my company's web site presence, so I know a little bit about this stuff. A site redesign should have some kind of value-add to the visitor and frankly, I don't see any benefit. In contrast, my eye moves around the home page a lot more than it used to and that's A BAD THING. Avsim has been my go-to site for flight sim news but to be honest, I'm starting to look for an alternative. (Sorry Tom -- you've been doing an awesome job all these years but someone has lost the key to the place.) Dave B. San Jose, CA

Observation: this thread is a classic indication of why some folks are so bullish on Flight -- it's bringing new folks that might never've touched the traditional MS-FS products to the fold. That can only be a good thing for flight simulation and perhaps real world aviation. The latter can use all the help it can get for various reasons, and who knows how many Flight jockeys will get a hankering to try out the real thing.I have been a bit mystified thus far by how much effort Avsim has been putting into their Flight coverage -- perhaps this kind of new interest is why. I might be a bit slow on the uptake...Now, I'm off to fly "my" Aerosoft OV-10 Bronco in FSX, thank you very much :Nerd: . Here's hoping that someday such wonderful third-party add-ons will be a possibility in the new sim.Dave B.

I must confess that I'm suprised that "flight model" is not in your priorities list -- why is that?Just curious. As a (somewhat lapsed) IRL pilot I'm surprised that that would not be near the top of your list. Or maybe you've just given up, like I have on the helicopter modeling in FSX 8^) .cheers,Dave B.

Negative. It's a "spoonerism" of my first and last name, bestowed on me by another Dave B. that I worked with, long before I'd ever seen that movie.right then,Dave.

Nice!Some notes about the airports on the Big Island. Many of the purple airports are or were ag-use-only grass strips, and from what I can tell from some extensive Google Earthing of all of these a few years ago, most of them aren't used anymore. The number of airports that you can actually land at in real life is quite small: Kona, Upolu, Waimea, and Hilo (to my knowledge anyway). Bradshaw is of course mil-only.I visited the Honoka'a airstrip by bicycle a couple years ago. It wasn't usable... I also looked for the Mountain View strip one time by car and couldn't find it, but I have to admit I didn't try very hard as my wife was with me and there was shopping to be done 8^) .aloha,Dave.

Give Red Water Cafe a try next time you're in Waimea. Not nearly as spendy and very, very good. I think it's run by the folks that used to run Fukushima's in Kona, and in fact when they first took over the building in Waimea it was called that.Dave B.

Right after I posted my op-ed above, I talked to the guy that tuned my new system for FSX. He's surprisingly bullish about Flight and as a result I'm going to give it another look, and maybe buy the rest of the islands.I also learned that the Maule has an autopilot -- since I didn't see any key/controller assignments for an AP I assumed that Flight wouldn't be supporting such nonsense but I'm starting to think that maybe the assignments lists are dynamic depending on which aircraft is loaded.That all said, I'm still underwhelmed by the scenery things I mentioned. Hopefully there will be aftermarket scenery that will address this for at least some areas.to Noah: point noted about using landmarks to find aerocaches... Maybe I underestimated this sim, but honestly the fact that it's hosted out of the same e-commerce thingy as X-Box titles didn't start me out with warm fuzzies 8^) .Dave.

I hate to jump onto the naysayer pickup truck, but I spent a couple hours in Flight yesterday, and although I'll probably spend a little time in it here and there because I really like the Icon A5 airplane, I'm not impressed overall.My initial impression was pretty good; I started at Kona Airport, and it's a reasonably accurate depiction of the buildings and even the rental car lots to the east of the airport are depicted. But, I was anxious to see how they did with Kamuela/Waimea up to the north, as I am very familiar with that town. I was trying not to get my hopes up, but nevertheless was disappointed to see basic landclass and what I'm assuming to be Autogen buildings (many of which are far larger than anything found there IRL). It's not pretty at all at low level, with nonsensical roads and rough transitions from "town" to "country".Then I moved over to Hilo, thinking that maybe they'd given a shot at depicting the historic waterfront part of the town reasonably well... Nope, more landclass/autogen. Bummmmer.My last flight was out of the Bradshaw AAF base, on Saddle Road between the two big volcanos. I was thinking I'd pop up to the observatories on Mauna Kea to see what they did there, but the A5 will barely get off the ground at (what I believe to be) about 6000' MSL. So it seems they've retained the modeling of altitude pretty well. But at that point I decided to bail on Flight and move over to FSX with my wonderful new Aerosoft OV-10 Bronco -- man I love that plane but that's another story.Anyway, although it's called The Big Island for a reason, it's not that big from an FS scenery standpoint, and I was expecting more accurate (photoreal?) content and more accurate buildings. It's because of this that I don't expect I'll be buying the rest of the islands. (In comparison, the MegasceneryX Oahu product for FSX is much nicer to look at and fly around...)Speaking of buying addons, I really dislike the new Nickle and Dime To Death way this works. If airplanes were five bucks that would be one thing, but $15 for the Maule? Nah.cheers to all,Dave B.

There is a way: you'll need to install FSX on your laptop and install both RXP and the planes you want to fly on it. Then you can use the multiplayer shared cockpit thingy to enable the RXP gauge to track your flight.I have verified this, in the last couple days in fact since I just built a new FSX machine and have my old P4 box sitting next to it, networked; the latter has FSX and various RXP products installed. What I haven't yet verified is if you can enter a flight plan on the 2nd machine and have the 1st machine follow it... I shall have to try that real soon.cheers,Dave.

Santa: please bring me a resurrection of the FS product line, by "somebody". This is the first time I've been here (at Avsim's forums) in a long time. I used to check it daily but since MS Kilt It I have lost my FS muse.Is it just me?BTW before posting this I tried to go to The Hangar per a pinned post here but that link is dead. (update: found it, but... well, someone asked about my FS xmas list....)cheers,Dave B.