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DVD? I've had that one on VHS since the heady days of the PSS 320 in FS8! Recreated that routing many times. Great video, thought it's too bad he didn't have the excellent EGBB by Gary Summons.

If you check the FS Dreamteam forums for the new KLAS scenery, a fellow there posted a flatten file that fixed the airport plateau. Don't know how well it would work for other airport sceneries, but it made my FSDT KLAS look almost completly normal, with just a slight upslope around the edges of the airport. This is a great scenery, BTW.

Looks like some really nice work; hopefully you'll receive permission to release it.

Rick Piper's HS.748 is a highly detailed freeware turboprop, and beautifully executed:http://www.btinternet.com/~rick.piper/index.htmDitto on any of David Maltby's classic British jets....man's an artist!

Ed, it looks like they left some FSX code in there, because that "opaque window in the rain" business was an early problem with FS9 aircraft in FSX, so we're probably seeing the opposite situation. Assume that a fix will be forthcoming from Carenado.

Well, that fix worked a treat, Ed; thank you! Nice smooth braking action now. Carenado should have you on retainer.

Now that you mention it, there is something amiss with the braking action on the Arrow. Mine taxis and rolls smoothly on takeoff and landing, but as soon as I touch the brakes, the nose starts bobbing. Carenado needs to take a look at the code in that area. Otherwise, seems like a great plane.

Although I still prefer 2D panels for airliners, with the recent advances in 3D 'pits for GA aircraft I now fly them almost exclusively from the VC. I was actually relieved that Carenado didn't provide a 2D pit with the Arrow (which I bought yesterday; very nice), because their last two releases (152 & 172) featured 2D panels that were essentially unusable due to the lack of forward visibility. VC gauges are now smooth enough and the bitmap graphics are clear enough that hard IFR in one of these planes isn't the vertigo-inducing experience it used to be.

Getting out the well-used (over-used?) credit card right now! Thanks, Carenado!

Great to hear that you're still working on the integration of the ISG FMS into the 'Mouse, Bob! Can't wait to see how it turns out.

Let me be the 45th person to vote for an FS9 Schiphol from Aerosoft. In the past year I've ordered 5 of their airport sceneries for FS9, and I'd love to get a sixth (actually, I still need to get Frankfurt, and Hamburg, and....)

FS9's days have been numbered for the 2 1/2 years since it's successor was released, and yet it's still hanging around! With no FSXI on the horizon, I would hope that aircraft developers will be smart enough to continue to develop for both platforms, but even if they choose not to, there is enough content already released out there to keep FS9 types busy for a long time to come. I see that PMDG are stopping future development for FS9, citing poor sales of their MD-11 for that platform and a high incidence of piracy for that version. I never bought it because I didn't want to have to change my operating system to run an $80 add-on, period. So, as long as new airports continue to be released for the old sim, and the odd new aircraft now and again from the likes of Carenado, Digital Aviation and Leonardo, I see no reason to ever buy FSX. Eye candy has its limits.

Yep, good for Carenado for supporting the "old" platform; I will definitely be picking this one up. The screenshots look great. Ironic how they modeled a 1977 N model, which is the least desirable 172 variant in real life due to the camshaft and lifter-eating tendencies of the O320-H2AD engine, but none of that matters in the sim, of course. Looking foward to flying this one.

I'm another FS9-only simmer with a year-old computer that will happily run any combination of FS9 add-ons well into the foreseeable future. I continue to buy newly-released sceneries and aircraft (and some oldies, too), and suspect that I'm not a minority in doing so. I respect Aerosoft's decision to develop aircraft only for FSX at this point, but I really believe that they and Level-D are missing a sizable chunk of the market with this approach. The only thing keeping me from dropping $80 on the new FS9 version of PMDG's MD-11 is the potential OOM problem, since I don't want to change OS's at this point. Otherwise, these days it's (new FS9 release = get out the credit card = hope the wife doesn't notice).

Good stuff, Ed; I recently picked up the PSS 777 and have been enjoying it a lot, both stock and merged with Posky. The stock version doesn't have that terrific panel of yours, of course....hope to see the KBOS arrival as well.

Yep, best to wait and see what happens naturally. FS is a profitable title for MS, and I doubt they'll just let it die. Regardless, as long as there are third parties making FS add-ons, the hobby will continue. I've spent $600 in the last 12 months on add-ons for FS9, a five-year-old program, and there's much more still available (don't tell the wife). And I used to be active in the Falcon 4 community, which is still carrying on 10 years after the original game was released. This is sad news for the folks who've lost their jobs, and that's all too common these days (trust me - I work in the financial services sector).

Yes, great looking mod there, Johann, and that's good news about your upcoming release as well, Bob!

Concur on the Section F8 Sabre, which is amazing. Another jet not mentioned is Thomas Nilsson's freeware SAAB Draken, very nicely rendered and challenging to fly.

Egbert, I'm also partial to 2D panels for airliners, and I don't even notice the slight stretching of the panels on my 22" monitor any longer. Like you, I was concerned about the issue before I bought my first widescreen panel, but now it's completely transparent to me. Round gauges do look slightly ovoid, but the effect is really no different than looking at them from a slight angle - no big deal. I fly the Maddog 2006, DA Fokker, RFP 742, PMDG and Tinmouse 737's in 2D mode, and don't have a noticeable problem with any of them.

I'll second Al's concern about the VSI, but otherwise, no changes! Thanks for taking this on.

Al, I've had the Maddog '06 since the weekend it was released, and it's still one of my all-time favorite rides in FS. A dream to hand-fly, systems depth that leaves you wondering when the type rating will arrive in the mail, and a great-looking 2D pit. I'm not a VC guy for airliners, so I've avoided the latest patch. The third-party Navdata converter works well for me, and I really can't complain about anything except frames-per-second performance, which is a bit heavy but still acceptable. Give it a try!

You mean that particular livery? Haven't seen one, although I'd be interested in it also. I still fly Rick's excellent 748 in the Air North scheme that came with it, which is very good, but which features blue accents instead of orange.John G.

My 1977 C-150M (basically identical panel with the '78 152) had pitot heat, but no backlit gauges. It does appear that the Carenado fuel and engine gauges are swapped when compared with my sources, but they probably modeled a Reims-built bird for European customers, which may have changed the locations from the American version.

Just picked this up - thanks for supporting FS9, Carenado! I have around 700 hours in 150's and 152's, and the visibility over the real cowling is actually very good - nothing like what the Carenado bird depicts in the 2-D pit, which feels like someone took the seats out. 3-D view, on the other hand, is fine. The real airplane is not a good choice for turbulent air - not very stable in the bumps, although I flew mine in IFR conditions on occasion. Easy to learn, but requires a certain amount of finesse to fly smoothly.John G.

The PMDG 737 is excellent; I picked up the Aerosoft boxed 737-800 a few months back (try Flightsim.com's shop, as cheap as anyone I found), and it certainly doesn't feel dated in the 2-D pit - very well designed. The external model is also good, although it doesn't feature wingflex as more modern offerings do. And don't forget the Tinmouse II 737-200, which is freeware with payware quality.John G.