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If you have inexpensive radios, you're pretty much stuck with hand tuning; most trainers are like this, and you get used to it. After a while, you can pretty much do it by feel.There are radios that have "standby". Generally, you will know ahead of time most of the frequencies you will need, and can have the "next" one dialed into standby ahead of time.Rich---The Catholic Church is on record as being against the use of Surrogate Mothers, a rule that was definitely not in effect at the time of Christ's birth.

> Cats are about the smartest animals I ever met.Some are, some aren't. We have two. One knows how to open the refridgerator. The other has a tendency to run smack into furniture.---Cats are fun. Mine plays Hide-and-go-Puke.

There is a flight simulator that will work in native Linux: [a href=http://www.flightgear.org/]FlightGear[/a]. Haven't looked at it for a while, but it looks like it's coming along nicely.Rich---I think one of the greatest things about marriage is that as both husband and father, I can say anything I want to around the house. Of course, no one pays the least bit of attention.

Where are you getting these?? Whenever I go to the MelJet site, it says it will "Be back soon" -- nothing more.

Actually, there's usually a small "runup" area near the hold short line especially for this. Performing the checks right at the hold short line could potentially block other traffic. Transport category aircraft usually perform the checks while taxiing.---For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program.

Radar Contact has a co-pilot option that will not only take care of the radios, but will also comply with ATC instructions within certain limits.

It's just another conspiracy theory; someone claims the co-pilot had a shoe bomb, causing the momentary full rudder deflection noted by the CDR. Lots of discussion on the alt.disasters.aviation UseNet newsgroup; fun to watch as long as you don't take it seriously.These are the same people who believe the Pentagon was hit by a missile fired by a military plane on 9-11, that Israel knew in advance the WTC would be hit and that the U.S. government was responsible for the attack (possibly carried out by empty, remote-control aircraft), that American 800 (if I remember the flight number correctly) was hit by a missile, that aircraft are spraying nerve gas or biological agents into their contrails, and that there's a massive, U.S. government coverup of all of these incidents.Nothing that can't be fixed with a little Prozac and a polo mallet...Rich---New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move. -- David Letterman

Realism.

The Q-Tip blades are also supposed to increase prop efficiency.Some time ago, while I was still actively flying, an FAA inspector tagged an aircraft with Q-Tip blades as unflyable until the props were "repaired". Turns out the inspector never heard of them, and there were a lot of problems for the owner trying to get the FAA to correct the error. Lots of outcry about inadequate training for inspectors; fun to watch if you weren't directly involved, though... :-hah Rich---Please return Stewardess to upright position.

Could it be he's simulating an area without radar coverage?---Carrier Landing: the most fun you can have with your pants on.

I'm not using joystick controls for keys. I use the basic, default RC keys, but with Shift-Ctl, so they don't interfere with FS2K4 selection keys; I've thoroughly checked for conflicts.---Where there's smoke, there's toast.

I've had the problem with default aircraft. Haven't been able to track down the source.

I've had this problem myself, including it's variant: not being able to select an engine other than #1. The problem is usually with an add-on XML guage. I never found out which one, as I had to re-install before I could discover it. I only reloaded planes I use frequently, and the offending guage/panel must not have been in one of them.

Off and on I've heard of people having problems with door and engine selection. The most common example is using E+1 to select the left engine and then E+2 or E+1+2 not working (only engine 1 remains selected). A similar problem exists with door selection. I had this problem myself, and since I prefer to start engines manually, it was quite frustrating. I spent a long time trying to fix the problem. I posted here as well as a number of other FS sites and forums, used several search engines, and IRC. I tried tweaking the various .cfg files. Finally, I found the problem, and thought I'd post it here for those who've spent fruitless, frustrating hours trying to work around the problem. I honestly don't remember where I found the solution (although it was in a public forum somewhere), and I can't seem to find it again, so I can't point to the original source.The source of the problem seems to be a broken XML gauge. The only known resolution so far is to remove the offending gauge and reconfigure any aircraft which use it for a different one. I'm afraid finding the broken gauge involves trial and error. I accidentally resolved my problem by re-installing FS9, and only added third party aircraft I used. The problem apparently was in an aircraft I tried and abandoned, as it has not re-occurred, so I don't know which gauge or aircraft it was.Good luck and good hunting.Rich---You know you're drinking too much coffee when people can test theirbatteries in your ears.

Nice aircraft, no checklist (last time I looked). Anyone know where I can get one?---Carrier Landing: the most fun you can have with your pants on.

The only emergency I had happened when I was a student pilot, shortly after my first solo. Not much of an emergency, but memorable because I was so "new." Enroute between KMSN and KRFD, I lost my radio transmitter. Rockford approach and tower had me use IDENT to acknowledge clearances. Departed NORDO using light signals (never thought I'd have to do that!) and used the same procedure with Madison ATC.Unfortunately, I don't think there's any way to duplicate this in FS9. Would be interesting to be able to use light signals sometime, though, especially when flying some of the oldies.

Another question: it appears that some of the part textures overlap on the Lear 45. I've seen this using both Imagetool and DXTBmp. Any idea why?===Carrier Landing: the most fun you can have with your pants on.

Can anyone tell me what the aircraft _t1.bmp files are used for? They exist in the lear45, mooney_bravo, and schweizr texture directories.===Carrier Landing: the most fun you can have with your pants on.

I believe you also need the so-called "April Patch" for FS2002 as well. Install the base product, add the FS2002 patch, then the FS2004 patch.===Carrier Landing: the most fun you can have with your pants on.

Boeing 707ConcordeSR-71F-14 Tomcat---If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I wantto go where they went.===Carrier Landing: the most fun you can have with your pants on.

Anyone know what's going on with the website (www.ralph-tofflemire.com)? I haven't been able to get to it since last week.---Carrier Landing: the most fun you can have with your pants on.

>send me the .dat, .flt, .wxUnfortunately, I usually blow them away after the flight. However, I'll be repeating this one fairly often, and I'll save the next one. I did just upgrade to the latest build, along with an ActiveSky and FSUIPC upgrade, so maybe it won't repeat, but if it does, I'll save and send it.

Here's a wierd one for you. Default Beech Baron, KARV to KORD. Using RC V3 and ActiveSky. We are at 4000 feet and Otto is flying. We are cleared for the ILS to RWY 22L, and asked to maintain heading 190 until established. Otto gives the callback, and sets the A/P for APR, sets altitude at zero and V/S at -700 fpm. She holds this until we're below reception altitude and lose the ILS/GS signal, and probably would have crashed, though I didn't wait to see. I reloaded a previous save file, and Otto repeats her performance. I finally took the plane and flew the approach myself (FWIW, I usually fly the approach myself, I just wanted to see how Otto did with it). PMS, maybe?---Carrier Landing: the most fun you can have with your pants on.