Syd Weedon

It's really pretty easy. I like VAFS myself, but we use it in a fairly relaxed way. We don't dispatch flights. The pilots are free to choose any flight they want. VAFS does the tracking and financial calculations as well as managing the routes, fleet and pilots. I have been flying with VAFS since version 2, now on version 5, and I find that flying without it leaves me feeling that something is missing from the flight experience.

New Hubs, September 8, 2014 We have opened two new hubs, KTIW Tacoma Narrows and KHWD Hayward Executive. KTIW sits across the Puget Sound on the Kitsap Peninsula across the water from the city of Tacoma. KTIW is our hub serving the American Pacific Northwest. This hub is under construction, and does not have active flights yet, but they will be established soon. KHWD Hayward Executive is an old fighter base which has been converted to general aviation. It is the base of our corporate jet charter operation. KHWD has 26 active flights for the Learjet 45XR. Hayward Executive airport near San Francisco to the southeast across the bay. We focus on bush and charter flying using small propeller aircraft.Our planes range from Piper Cubs to Beech King Airs. We do operate some DC-3's but we do not use large commercial jets. We have over 5000 active flights using mostly propeller-driven aircraft, ranging from Piper Cubs to the venerable DC-3. We have active hubs all over the world, including the Caribbean, Alaska, British Columbia, Papua New Guinea, Laos and Thailand, South America, Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Africa and the eastern seaboard of the United States. For more information and sign-up, send a message using the OAC Contact Form. http://ospreyaircharter.com/index.php/contact-us

We are a friendly group of virtual aviation enthusiasts who use Microsoft Flight Simulator. We have a lot of experience with virtual aviation and welcome people who are new to the hobby. We use VAFS to track our flights and manage our airline.VAFS works with Microsoft Flight Simulator, X-Plane and Prepar3D. So any of those simulators work with our system. We focus on bush and charter flying using small propeller aircraft.Our planes range from Piper Cubs to Beech King Airs. We do operate some DC-3's but we do not use larger commercial jets. For more information and sign-up, send a message using the OAC Contact Form. Osprey Air Charter Website

Sorry. I didn't see that in your original post. Never mind.

It's not what you asked, but you could spend $40 and buy Orbx FTX Blue Pacific Northwest and get a great Abbotsford, the mesh, the terrain textures and oodles of other airports all in one package.

I have seen some abnormalities with FTX and GEX such as in the Caribbean and Papua New Guinea (using PIS PNG Bush Pilot). So when I'm flying outside of the FTX world, I set my FTX Central to Default.

If you have A2A Accu-Feel you can use that to turn up the volume. Personally, I like the low volume of the B200 engine sound whether it's totally realistic or not.

Windows 7 Home Premium comes with "Live Mail" and there's even a 32-bit mail client buried deep in the install.

If you have AI installed that is FS9 format, the FSX AI will not show up in TongassX. You have to convert the FS9 to FSX and then everything shows. I had the same problem.

Orbx has better detail, better landclass, better small airports. The Orbx areas are visually stunning, especially if you fly low and slow. UTX + GEX cover much larger areas and cover places that Orbx will never do. UTX Alaska and Tropics and Caribbean are "must haves" in my opinion. If you like to fly areas outside the Orbx areas, like middle and eastern US, central Alaska and the Caribbean, you want the UTX products. They do a terrific job with the terrain and airports. In Orbx territory, like central and northern Rockies, Pacific Northwest, Pacific Fjords, you want the Orbx products. They are really in a class of their own, but far more limited in coverage than UTX and GEX

That is very cool. I'm a bit jealous. What are you using to drive the projectors?

REX is a great product, but it doesn't change scenery per se. It changes the flight environment: water, sky and clouds. It will also provide weather. The best ways to change large areas of scenery are products like the UTX landclass packages and GEX for replacement terrain textures. The FTX scenery areas are superb but they address particular regions that are smaller such as the central Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Northwest, but the detail is stunning.

It sounds like a controller calibration problem to me.

1. Yoke/stick, throttle and pedals 2. Accu-Feel 3. GEX 4. UTX (UTX Tropics and Caribbean is wonderful) 5. REXE+ (REX Essentials Plus) 6. FTX 7. TongassX 8. PNG Bush Pilot 9. Fly Tampa St. Maartens 10. FSUIPC

It is fabulous. I got it too.

I have FSX installed on C:\Program Files (x86) on a windows 7 and above computer. and I am having no problems whatsoever. It runs like a dream.

Run FSX "as administrator." And as CooIP pointed out, run your installs as administrator also.

These things vary greatly between different aircraft models in FSX. Some planes are much more realistic than others.

Very cool.

I use Orbx, UTX, and GEX products. The key to happiness for me is to switch FTX Central to "Default" when I'm flying outside the Orbx area, and switching back to FTX mode when I am in Orbx world. I noticed that outside the Orbx area, the GEX terrain textures don't look right at all if I neglect to set to Default in the FTX control panel. Otherwise they all coexist really well.

I love the Bird Dog, and their support is friendly and excellent. They'll make it right in the morning.

I like it a lot. I particularly like the FDE in it. It has a very "realistic" feel in the air. It is a very frame-rate heavy model, and it requires a muscular computer to run smoothly. If you like to make screen shots, the TC182T is a dream. As Bert pointed out, the G1000 implementation is incomplete. This will bother some people and not others, depending on how you use the G1000. I use it for the instrument read out and GPS and I don't program courses into it or load Navigraph data, so the G1000 is fine for me. If you are a highly procedural flyer and want to practice on something that is close to a RW G1000, the Flight1 T182 is said to have a G1000 which is much closer to the real deal.

"Spamming" is when you haven't asked for the stuff, don't want it, and they won't stop when you ask them to. PC Aviator doesn't qualify.

Personally, I love the Seneca II and the Cessna T210. And while it isn't on your list, the #1 favorite Carenado plane among our pilots at EVA is the Cessna 185F.

Great screen shots. Really enjoyed them. I think Lionheart has a winner on his hands.