John Hinson

I'm sorry, but that comment is not thought through. Server space costs money, and allowing people to freely upload images consumes a huge amount of it. Just use a third-party service (which covers its costs by other methods) and live with it. John

There is another, FS Meteo. It is intersting to note that many of the surviving weather engines support a huge range of FS versions, in the case of FS M from FS98/CFS2 right through to Perpar3D. It questions why some of the other weather engine developers dropped it. Personally prefer FS GRW visually, but have FS Meteo on hand for a rainy day - pun intended! With FS2004 you just don't know what might disappear tomorrow. Best regards, John

Sorry, I can't - I downloaded mine many years ago from a site that old age doesn't allow me to remember. Sorry if I wasn't clear: FS2004 mesh may be available commercially, but I don't think you will get it with road/river corrections FSX mesh is compatible with FS2004 FSX road/river adjustments are not compatible with FS2004. Hope that helps. John

The resolution is the only critical thing. It all comes from the same free source and is processed by computer software to be compatible with Flight Simulator. So equal resolutions will look the same. The only bonus you might get for commercial products is roads, rivers and lakes corrected to fit the mesh, which otherwise rather spoil the effect. This is usually based on purchased GPS data so justifies a premium price-wise. But I think the only one compatible with FS2004 is no longer available so that probably isn't a factor. John

The author is no spring chicken so one day, yes, the web site will close. But he has made every provision so that everything can continue in his absence. As you know, he has provided a free registration key so that when the day comes that the registration system ceases to work, the software can still be installed. I'm sure he will have made provision for the software to be distributed by other means too. Nevertheless, as a matter of routine I keep a safe copy of all software I download to cover all eventualities - it seems sensible to do so. But I can also confirm from past computer changes here that a backed-up copy of the fully-installed version will work fine with nothing more than the registration code re-inserted. Finally, PF3 development is not yet totally closed as the author will keep up with new versions of (or changes to) the latest MSFS as that progresses, and indeed has indicated if any significant issues arise working with earlier simulators he will look into them. Best regards, John

I can confirm that my installation is 3.86 GB. More space than that may be needed during installation whilst all the voices are "unsqueezed", but I doubt it uses the amount that is banded around. There's really no point in hanging on to PFE. PF3 is significantly more advanced and over the years has had numerous tweaks added to improve things. As its free - it certainly costs nothing to try out! John

Its not "free", it is a re-engineered commercial product. That technically makes it pirated if distributed. At the very least, users should purchase the FSX version to justify their use of it. John

PS - not sure why your message popped up as new now I look at the date! PPS - just checked and FSM is connecting at the moment.

I have both installed, but prefer the end result of FSGRW. I keep FSM for the day when nothing else is available. So I don't think you will regret the purchase. John

He did say he had . . . Another way to achieve this is the Traffic Toolbox that comes with the FS9 SDK, available here: AVSIM Library. Its a huge bunch of stuff, but you only have to install the Traffic Toolbox part. Once installed there will be a menu item in FS which will show a choice of map or listing (showing location, destination and a lot more) - double click any aircraft in that list and you will instantly be following it. I should imagine the MRAI thingy, which I have never felt I needed, works on much the same system. John

Is this the file you are installing? A Landclass file is included there. https://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?DLID=45926 Any world-wide terrain mesh should include Papua New Guinea. John

I did read your question, but I have never heard of "Texture Manager". You don't need it - DXTBMP will do the job for you nicely. I am afraid you are mistaken. It is illegal to share anybody's software, free or commercial, without their consent, because all work is copyright by default: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_aspects_of_file_sharing John

Please don't ask people to file share, it isn't legal. The link has been given above - here it is again: https://www.mwgfx.co.uk/programs/dxtbmp.htm It most definitely does work. John

Ha, ha, I have my reasons, Luis, but its not appropriate to discuss them in this topic. Thank you both for your kind comments. My "nobody else will" comment wasn't a sob story but was because I genuinely didn't think anybody really visited these days. But its there as a backup repository as well as on local disc here too, and arranged in such a way that even after my toes have curled up, everything should be archived at the Wayback Machine (archive.org) for posterity. Best to all. John

All my stuff here: https://www.adventure-unlimited.org/ Shameless self-promotion because nobody else will. 🙂 John

Bernard - these are paint schemes for his AI model, not intended to be used as the player aircraft. But there are plenty of paint schemes for the California Classic and Jens B Kristensen models to be found, for all eras, if you hunt them out. A quick count shows 59 DC-6, 42 DC-6A and 124 flyable DC-6B aircraft on my setup. Not trying to brag . . . 🙂 John

Good work, sir! I always fly VOR too* - much more interesting. John * except, ha ha, when I nod off and wake up to ATC telling me I am miles off course!

This is almost certainly the best place to start: http://www.calclassic.com/planes.html John

I am afraid I'm not good with making textures, but I have been doing a bit of poking around and can see a potential problem here as from what I can see those textures are specific for a SGA cargo model so I suspect it won't display things like cabin windows properly. Does it have to be the SGA model? I have found an Aerodesigns A300 for Egyptair which looks as if it is a passenger version: Base model: https://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?DLID=&Name=&FileName=a306americanpaintkitbasekit.zip&Author=&CatID=root Egyptair livery: https://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?DLID=&Name=&FileName=a306raerodesignsegyptair.zip&Author=&CatID=root I can't vouch for quality of the above as that type of aircraft is not my interest, but it might be of use? John

It should, Kurt. I'm not an AI Smooth user myself, but this thread at Flightsim.com suggests the correct settings to do so: https://www.flightsim.com/forums/topic/18062-ai-smooth-111/ Hoping that helps, John

It works for me, honey . . . I am on v3.999z9b, which I understand was the final version for FS2004. Traffic Zapper is certainly an option on that version. If it doesn't work for you on the default key "#" try assigning it to another, e.g. Ctrl-#. I had to do that owing to a conflict with another piece of FS software. The only other point I would make is that the Traffic Zapper feature requires the unwanted aircraft to be directly ahead of you, you can't pan about and blow aircraft out of the sky at random. Traffic Toolbox (which comes as part of the SDK) will let you remove specific aircraft on the fly (no pun intended!). John

"It worked for me, honey", as they say. 🙂 John

Curious URL above? Correct source at AVSIM: https://library.avsim.net/search.php?SearchTerm=ai_airbus_a380.zip&CatID=root&Go=Search Fruit Stand model: https://www.flightsim.com/files/file/159994-fs2004-airbus-a380-base-package/ John

Not sure on that, sometimes you can mix models by renaming the texture files - but easier to use the second link I gave. John

Try here: https://library.avsim.net/search.php?SearchTerm=tfs300.zip&CatID=root&Go=Search or here: https://www.flightsim.com/files/file/115535-fs2004-evolveai-airbus-a300b2-b4-fde/ Both easily found using a search engine. John