JRMurray
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Thanks for the replies, guys. The package is the next on my list to buy--unless Santa is good to me this Christmas. :-)
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I haven't bought Classic Liners Vol. 2 yet, but I'm very tempted. Has anyone used any of the aircraft in vol. 2 with FSPassengers? Any problems?Cheers!Joel
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I have both:First, just to be entirely clear, the IGFLY Tu-154M is payware, while the Project Tupolev Tu-154b-2 is freeware. Both have forums devoted to the jet, but the IGFLY forum has seemingly been abandoned by the developers, as calls for support and promised upgrades have largely been ignored. The Project Tupolev support forum (separate forums in English, French, Russian, German, and Hungarian!!!) is very active, with answers to questions appearing very, very quickly.Both jets will require a lot of study of the manuals, as Russian aircraft can differ greatly from their North American and Western European counterparts. In addition, if you don't already have a good working knowledge of the Cyrillic alphabet, you'll have to learn it, as all the instruments in both jets are labelled that way (albeit both have tooltips in English).The Project Tupolev manual is quite detailed and weighs in at 165 pages. By contrast, the IGFLY manual is 21 pages, and the separate tutorial is 33 pages. In spite of the length of manuals, I found that I was up more quickly flying the IGFLY aircraft. The navigation system is not as complicated as that in the Project Tupolev aircraft, using a system that incorporates the FS2004 flight planner--some may say that this part of the simulation is "dumbed down." The Project Tupolev navigation system of the aircraft can get very complicated, due to the Russian HBY system. To be fair, there is an in-craft virtual HBY navigation assistant that can navigate the aircraft, but it is yet one more thing to learn.Overall, as far as quality is concerned, the two aircraft are close, with perhaps the Project Tupolev a little ahead. Its combination of excellent 2-D panels, lengthy manual, and greater (to my mind, anyway) overall suspension of disbelief can simply not be equalled by the IGFLY aircraft.If you want to be up and flying relatively quickly, however, go with the IGFLY Tu-154M. If you enjoy studying manuals and are a procedure nut (as I am), go with the Project Tupolev Tu-154b-2. If you really want the best of both worlds, get both.Cheers!Joel
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Let's see if I can remember ...707 BOACDC-9 Air CanadaDC-10 United (possibly ... can't remember, was 11 years old)Dash 8 HorizonEmb ??? (small, two-engined plane KSFO-KSMF United Express ? flight)737 Horizon747 United747 JALMD-80 Aero CancunA320 Air CanadaA321 Air CanadaA340 Air Canada
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Sure do! I had it for the Commodore 64 back in ' 84 or '85, I think. I spent a lot of time with the game. If I remember correctly, it had short, crude digitized responses from pilots, but of course, back then, it was the coolest thing!Memories....
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Hope I'm posting this in the right place. I guess the Russian sim forum has been deleted due to inactivity.Just had my first "real" flight in the Yak-40 after spending the last few days preparing a procedures document for myself and practising take-offs and such. I flew from Domodedovo (UUDD) to Strigino (UWGG) with real weather and under FS2004 ATC, a distance of about 224 miles, using a visual approach to Strigino.I got a lot of practice with the basic autopilot in the Yak; it's actually easier, I found, to hand-fly the plane than use the autopilot. Once the Yak is trimmed, it flies pretty well almost hands-off. I had a bit of difficulty navigating from NDB to NDB. I understand the concept, but I've just got to re-re-re-read :-) the manual to ensure I know which ADF I use for each frequency.I found landing the Yak a little challenging: you have to keep your eye on your airspeed, stick to the proper attitude, make sure you hit the mark on the flaps and gear schedules, all the while watching out for the runway. I felt as if I needed three hands.Anyway, I had a great time flying around Russia this afternoon.Cheers!Joel (now near CYNJ)
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Flying Russian Aircraft - anyone else like these?
JRMurray replied to rjsagel's topic in MS FSX | FSX-SE Forum
Hi, Ron,Like you, I've discovered Russian sims. I find them engrossing and interesting: not only do you have to learn the proper procedures--which often differ from those of North American/Western European aircraft--you have to learn Cyrillic and the metric system at the same time.I bought IGFLY's Tu-154M in June, and just today, I bought SCDS's Yak-40. The Yak-40 is proving to be especially interesting: two of the versions of the Yak-40 aircraft modelled in version 1.4 don't have VOR radios, just ADFs. Flying around Russia from NDB to NDB is ... challenging. :-)I haven't installed any payware Russian scenery, but I'm about to look around for some freeware scenery.Cheers!Joel -
WOW! Breath-taking!I've lived in Vancouver most of my life, and what can I say about the preview pictures ... they're amazing! You've truly captured the look of the city and surrounding area.A definite MUST-BUY for me!Cheers!Joel Murray
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On Thursday, I'll be flying from CYVR to CYOW on business--on an Air Canada A320--and from CYOW back to CYVR on Sunday on an A330-300.I know that it is no longer possible to request a cockpit visit while flying in the USA, but I've heard that things are a little more relaxed in Canada.Does anyone know if it's possible to visit the cockpit on a commercial airliner in Canada OR has anyone visited the cockpit while flying in Canada?Cheers!Joel
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Thanks to everyone who replied. Too bad. :-(Also, thanks to Blair for the note about the Canadian Aviation Museum. I'll have some time on Sunday, so if it's not too far from the downtown area, I'll check it out.Cheers!Joel
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Funny, thought I was the only one who did this! :-)I almost always check out my landing in Instant Replay in Spot view. I position the viewpoint to be a three-quarters view off the port wing, angled slightly above the mid-line of the aircraft.That way, I can see how smoothly I set the aircraft down and how close to the centerline of the runway I was, plus I can see goodies such as spoilers and reversers deploying.Great question, by the way!Cheers!Joel
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I'm a college professor. I teach half-time and am the co-chair of the department the other half.I've always wanted to learn to fly, but the closest I've come to it in real life is a flight in an Archer with a friend who was getting his IFR rating.I started flight simming on a Sinclair ZX in about 1983. I went from that to the Commodore 64 and bought Flight Sim when it became available. I later bought an Amiga and bought Flight Sim for the Amiga. In 1990, I bought an MS-DOS machine and, of course, Flight Sim (was it version 4? don't remember now).The rest is history. I've kept up with all the Flight Sim releases; in addition, I've bought other flight sims such as Flight Unlimited, X-Plane, and others.Cheers!Joel Murray
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Just happened to me last night.I was flying a Dreamfleet B727-200 UPSVAC flight from KDFW to KIAH, with ATC provided by Radar Contact V3 and with Ultimate Traffic providing realistic traffic at airports and in the skies. The entire flight itself was uneventful--a usual occurrence these days for me--except for the end.At KIAH, however, traffic to take off was lined up five or six deep. On my first approach, Radar Contact ATC cleared me to land, but at the last minute, there was a runway incursion and my landing was aborted. ATC vectored me to another landing, again I was cleared to land, and again, there was a landing incursion.I think the problem here was that Radar Contact is aware of traffic but can't actually control it--in this case, it can sense that traffic is on the runway, but it can't tell traffic lined up to hold until my aircraft has landed.Anyway, as I was executing the second missed approach, in trying to tune radios, set throttles, retract gear and flaps, and so on, I realized only at the last second that I was about to perform a CFIT. :-(Of course, I crashed--first time in a long time, right in the middle of KIAH.Joel Murray
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>Just so everyone knows, that site is NOT associated with>AVSIM. They stole our name.Thanks for clearing that up, Tom. I thought that the two sites WERE related.Cheers!Joel Murray
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I would appreciate your posting your Quickstart screenshots. I've been working on a text version of the steps necessary, but it's going to end up being hours before I finish...Cheers!Joel Murray
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Bought FS2004 the day it was released and ran both FS2002 and FS2004 for about two months.I took FS2002 off my system and have been running FS2004 ever since.Cheers!Joel Murray
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>If the file is not reposted, send me an email and I will send>you a copy.Thank you very much for the offer. You've disabled your profile, however, and therefore your e-mail address is unavailable.Sorry to be such a nuisance, by the way.Cheers!Joel
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>Anyone know where this file was moved to, or where I can>obtain it?Having just bought Concorde yesterday, I would like the file, too, but following the link results in a "Not Found" error.Thanks in advance,Joel Murray
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I don't have a limit, but I do think carefully about whether I'm going to purchase an add-on or not.For instance, I check out this forum and the support forum for the add-on to find out whether there are any showstopping bugs in a new release. I check AVSIM and FlightSim for reviews. I check out the add-on's web site for the manual, which I download and read carefully.One thing I will say, though: I'm less inclined to buy an add-on if I already have the same aircraft from another developer. For example, right now, I am hesitant to buy Flight1's ATR or Dreamfleet's 727 because I already have Aerosoft's ATR and CaptainSim's 727--even though, by all accounts, the former two are MUCH better than the latter.Cheers!Joel
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Just an update:Went to the shop, had a 400W power supply installed plus another fan to keep the tower cool (it was getting hot) and had another 512 meg RAM added to a total of 1 gig of RAM.Everything worked fine at the shop. In fact, they could not reproduce any BSODs. I was happy, I took my CPU home, plugged it in, and BANG: BSOD!I phoned the shop, which recommended plugging the computer into a UPS, so I went out and bought an APC 350W. Plugged everything into the UPS, and long story short: no more problems.What a weird experience! I guess the electricity from the outlet to the computer had degraded somewhat (spikes? undervoltages? overvoltages?), possibly because I have a number of things hanging off the outlet. Anyway, the UPS seems to have solved the problem...Cheers, and thanks for the suggestions,Joel Murray
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Thanks for the suggestions, everyone.Some additional info: I was getting BSODs before I changed video cards, but just less frequently. Now, I'm getting BSODs even when doing something like installing software--and it doesn't matter what I'm installing: I've had BSODs interrupt the installation of FS 2004, NVidia drivers, and others.Of course, I still have the problem with FS 2004: CTD when selecting a payware add-on aircraft.By the way, I've tried running memtest86 and haven't seen any problems with my memory yet.When I take the computer into the shop tomorrow, I'm going to ask about a more powerful power supply (mine is a 300W max, I think).Thanks again, everyone.Cheers!Joel Murray
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I've had FS9 installed since it came out last year. I've had no problems until recently even after patching it to FS9.1, and I was wondering if anyone could help. By the way, I've searched through most of the messages here and couldn't find one related to mine.The problem is that on five days ago, I had to replace my video card, as my previous one quit on me. After installing it (a Leadtek FX5700LE), I still could run FS9 without problems.However, three days later on Thursday, out of the blue, FS9 started to CTD for no apparent reason. I could start the program, but once I went to choose an aircraft to fly, it would CTD. The crashing did seem to coincide with my updating Captainsim 707, but I doubt it. The update seemed to install fine.I figured that I should uninstall FS9 and reinstall to get rid of the problem. I reinstalled and added the FS9.1 update. I could boot up the program and fly any of the default aircraft, but after installing a payware aircraft, when I went to choose the payware aircraft, I would get either a CTD or a BSOD. In fact, I'm getting more and more BSODs (which I also got, more infrequently, however, before I changed video cards.Of course, I don't have CTDs with any other program I have on the computer, including Rome: Total War or IL2:AEP. I do experience some BSODs, though, seemingly at random times or perhaps when the computer is being stressed somehow (installation of video drivers, for example).Can anyone give me a hint as to what my problem is? I can't fly any of my payware aircraft (and I have a lot). I'm taking the computer to the shop on MOnday; what should I be looking for?Thanks for any help in advance,Joel Murray
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No painting on fuselage and wings of the PMDG737-700
JRMurray replied to a topic in PMDG General Forum
I recently had exactly the same problem with all sorts of commercial add-ons, and indeed it was a problem with Windows XP and setting the priority to Cache. I changed back to a priority setting of Programs and haven't experienced the problem again.Cheers!Joel Murray
