Tim Arnot

Ah yes, Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition... LOL!

I hope there are no moving parts in that room... :(

Here's to the Crazy Ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round pegs in the square holes.The ones who fly into 25,000 airports...BTW, XPX has 33,473 airports! :Whistle:if nothing else, Flight definitely shows a failure of imagination and vision, IMHO.

Send a pm to me on my forum and I'll set you up :)

Sent also.

Being new to X-Plane, I somewhat foolishly turned on real weather. I was flying the Carenado Bonanza, at around 2000ft, on a route that I've flown many times RW. The winds were around 20kts according to xp. Looking out the window at home, conditions were what I'd describe as 'a bit choppy, but flyable'. Ie, you'd be bounced around a bit and probably want to grab hold of the coming from time to time, but you'd be unlikely to hit your head on the roof. Pitch roll & yaw probably no more than 20 degrees in the warrior. The bonanza, being heavier, I'd expect less.Within seconds of turning on real weather, I'd done a wingover!What I was experiencing was turbulence severe enough to endanger the safety if the aircraft. If Laminar think that is realistic to RW, I can recommend some aviation met courses...

X-Plane doesn't have a flight planner in the same way that FS does, so it's not quote so simple. You can fly the plane with reference to the plan in PG ( just as if you were using a hand held GPS RW), but the autopilot won't follow the plan unless you manually re-enter it into whatever GPS is fitted. X-Plane does have an "fms" file which v3 will support. But it's limited somewhat to whatever planes have an appropriate fmc fitted (mostly heavies and whatever addons have been so coded, I suspect). My experience of X-Plane is still rather limited, and I'm still fumbling my way around...

v3 of Plan-G will include 'native' X-Plane support (i.e. it will use X-Plane nav data and read/write .fms plan files). Connection will still be via XUIPC, since that works really well right now.@jfail: So long as Plan-G is set to connect via FSUIPC rather than SimConnect, it should just work - there really is nothing else to set.Tim (Plan-G author)

Interesting. I had a flight around my local area (ok, England, not Scotland, but there shouldn't be significant differences) and the traffic was most definitely driving on the wrong side of the road. However, despite there being no buildings, the layout of my local field (EGTN) was pretty accurate, even with the old disused WWII taxiways. Plus the hump in the middle of the runway too! Shame e 08/26 numbers were backwards though. The general area doesn't look particularly "English" (field layouts, building styles etc), and the towns are too green - not really giving the impression of built up areas, but then neither is it the scorched earth of FSX. No doubt there will be tweaks and addons in due course, and it does seem to be a step in the right direction.

If you look at the Pilot Profile screenshot, there's an interesting entry labelled 'Times around Planet'...Now why would they have that if they wanted to keep you locked in Hawaii? (unless it's just a disguise for cumulative miles flown!)

It appears that what you have bought is a very old copy of version 1. As Andy said, Horizon do not support second-hand product. It clearly states in the EULA that the scenery cannot be transferred. I'd suggest your best course of action is to go back to the seller on ebay and ask for a refund, as they were not entitled to sell it.

Anthony Lynch's Tecnam Sierra. Single engine, LSA, so it's something you could easily fly for real. Quality knocks the socks off Carenado. Has a free demo version so you can try it first (some functions are limited)http://antsairplanes.com/sierralsa.html

Charts and weather only cover the US, which makes it of very limited utility for me. :( (mind you, we can't get iPads here anyhow, except as grey market imports!)

VATUK is very much alive and active. Lots of ATC, lots of pilots flying. And many GA & VFR flights (plus GA airport positions) too :(

The 'diary' was part of the original broadcast, at least here in the UK. I have Planet Earth, Life and Nature's Great Events on blu ray, and they are all simply gobsmacking. (in fact, they all have diaries at the end of each ep - seems to be the current BBC 'way of doing things'). Sir David Attenborough is officially a National Treasure.

I mainly fly GA VFR, and if I'm not online (Vatsim), then I don't use ATC -- default just doesn't cut the mustard, RC doesn't do VFR. VoxATC probably would, and it has a UK voice pack, but it's rather expensive.

I'd like to see an Aztec - about the only Piper I actively want.Other than that I'd like to see a decent FSX* Robin DR400* Socata TB10 Tobago* Jodel AmbassadorIn general, anything that gets Carenado out of its "yet another slightly different Piper/Cessna" comfort zone...

Also, some of us like to configure our panels, and swap gauges out for RXP units etc. For me, Carenado's 2D gauges are always a plus from this aspect (and here I get annoyed at the 3D knobs on the radio stack...)If you went to 3D gauges a la RealAir, we'd be asking you for a panel configurator to go with it (switchable HSI/DI, Nav gauges, autopilot etc -- see the RealAir Scout package as an example)

I have both, and regularly fly both, but if I had to pick only one, it'd be the Marchetti (btw it's pronounced Mar_K_etti, with a hard 'k' - FS gets it wrong). It's faster (175kts cruise vs 140), but the VC and gauges are As Smooth As, and it's very pleasing on the ear. There's something about the Carenado sound files that just grates after a while, and once you've flown a few they all seem to be very samey.

I have the opposite problem -- nothing displays on the centre monitor until the Windows logon screen appears. Before that, just the tow outer monitors, as if it was configured as a two screen setup.Every time I try to dabble with the Matrox software, things just get worse - it's very unintuitive IMHO.I still haven't managed to make it work in 1050 res, despite following all the "guaranteed" methods on the Widescreen gaming forum.I'd consider trading it all in and getting a 5870. But I'd also need to buy new screens (the Dell active adapter is not available outside the US), which makes it a very expensive proposition.

There will be an update available in a day or three -- we're just finishing up the new manual. ILS feathers, intersections, vertical route profiling and lots of other bits, bobs & fixes And a completely new web site too. Look out for the announcement. :(

Get a map. The thing about bush flying is that it tends to be in remote places where there are few if any navaids. Thus, having a map and a good idea of where you are going is pretty much essential. Don't rely on the GPS, since that takes the fun out of it (and many of the best bush strip addons don't show in the GPS anyhow)The kind of bush flying you want to do will largely influence where you want to go - be it high desert, tough mountain ridges, dense jungle, swamps, outback, tundra etc.. Simply look for those kinds of places and off you go.You can also get lots of inspiration from places like YouTube - just go there and search on Bush Flying, and see what takes your fancy. The world, as they say, is your mollusc...

I did have to reactivate once, but that was over a year ago (it was a totally painless experience - free phone call to a machine, where you just tapped in the code FS gave you, and then wrote down a new code to type into FS). I now have two copies of FSX, since I found a deal for FSX Gold that was cheaper than just Acceleration, and that lets me run two rigs across the LAN. But I've reinstalled both PCs several times, and I'me sure I've swapped serials a few times in that process, with no detrimental effect.

FSCopilot crashes the UI when you have saved a default flight that contains a flight plan. It doesn't always do it, but once it starts, I haven't found a way to stop it. (it can get such that you can't even start FSX!) There are two options at this point: rename FSCopilot.dll and then save a new default flight that doesn't have a flightplan, or edit the FSX.cfg to remove the default flight (Situation= line)

I got my PPL in 2005, just two days before my father died. So, sadly I never got the chance to fly him while he was alive. Although bizarrely I'm one of probably very few people who have flown both parents after their death, since I flew down to collect their ashes.But then I had some financial and medical problems, and I haven't flown PIC since 2007 (although I still cadge as many flights as I can, right seat), and then my medical expired, and my SEP expired. So getting them back will be expensive since it involves retaking the GFT (although not the exams). But my new year's resolution for 2010 is to get them back...