jmbiii

Does the C337 work in P3Dv5? Exterior looks fine, interior is see through. Is there a fix?

Thanks, Andy. It's been d/l almost 400 times. Looks like you are the only one who made the flight with it. My home field. Cheers

kcho_-_charlottesville-albemarle.zip and kcho_beta_addendum.zip

Just wondering . . . did anyone use my KCHO scenery ?

A few more. Transiting the Sault Ste. Marie waterway. Was getting dark so landed and swapped A/C for yacht. I found one problem, but I believe it's only my system. There is an elevation difference in the water between USA and Canada. I think it's because I have Ultimate Terrain USA installed and do not have UT Canada. The stock AI pleasure and fishing boats do a real neat jump when they cross it. The yacht almost sank, but with power and bilge pumps I saved it. LOL Hendrik, I have not seen any bugs in the Beta package; so far, so good ! Am sailing south to Lake Michigan.

A few pix of ships. Off California coast - Long Beach, San Fran. Lake Superior - leaving Duluth harbour.

Hey Henrik, I thought I'd let you know I'm still pursuing drawings/plans for the US Coast Guard "Bay Class" icebreakers. If/when I get them I'll send them to you for some future update to the Great Lakes traffic. Joe

Great, I'm glad it worked for you. :Applause:

Did you have problems on the ground on Norfolk ? Haven't heard about any continuing flights. Prepositioning 1604 to Adak.

Kiwi; TheOwls Nest has a prop fixer that has worked for me. It fixes all HTAI prop planes and some others too. (http://www.owlsnest.eu/maiw.php) Some others you just have to do one at a time. Hope this helps

For what it's worth, I've just uploaded a zip to the library that contains a basic terminal and firehouse for KCHO. I was pushed for time when I uploaded the airport originally and didn't think I would get the buildings done in time for the flight.

Luke: i'll be following along. Sounds like a neat idea. I will have two USCG C-130s in the air from both ends of the Hawaii - Dutch Harbor leg of your flight. One from Barbers Point headed north along your route, and one from Kodiak headed south. If you run into difficulties just give a call on Guard 121.5. We are 'Semper Paratus'. jmbiii (USCG Ret.)

Okay, I've just uploaded the BETA KCHO scenery to the library. It should be available shortly. I admit there is quite a bit to be desired . . . it's certainly not anywhere as good as what some of the good freeware scenery artists produce, but it'll give you someplace to land better than the generic FSX depiction. Runway 3 would be the choice if you pass over Tom's house coming from KRIC.

I'd love to be able to visit south of the equator to see those fly. And celebrate ANZAC day !

What a great collection!

Trucker; I won't be able to join the flight, however I have been working on photo real scenery and AFCAD for KCHO on and off for a few months. As CHO was Tom's and my 'home' airport, I had written Tom about it shortlty before he made his condition known. I had hoped to finish it before . . . Now only the tower/fire station are missing and night textures for the terminal. I will put together what I have and upload it as a very Beta/WIP prior to the flight so you all will have a place to land. Jmbiii

My sincerest condolences. Living so close by, I always meant to cross the hill and meet him.

@KL791 - As per the Great Lakes, may I suggest adding the US Coast Guard 140 foot Bay-class Icebreaking Tugs. There are six of them. One model would do as they are all very similar. Just the bow number is different. All are the "black hull" Cutters that keep the shipping lanes open in the Great Lakes in the winter. WTGB 101 Katmai Bay WTGB 102 Bristol Bay WTGB 103 Mobile Bay WTGB 104 Biscayne Bay WTGB 105 Neah Bay WTGB 106 Morro Bay I may be accused as a bit biased towards them as I served on the Morro Bay for a while. I'm very familiar with AIBTC . If the model would appear, I could do the 'float plans'. Scroll down on this site for basic info on the Cutters. http://www.uscg.mil/d9/units.asp

There should be more 'Opa's'. Signed: A. Lurker

Oh you kids. 1943

Today is my 70th. Like the original poster, THibben, said, when I started FS the lines on the screen were green ! Then the big jump to magenta, cyan, and red ! Keep going all you "oldies" ! Gotta go. The autopilot on my Duke is calling - time to get set up for the approach into CHO.

Here's a good one. I have double rotating beacons at the stock airports. Both towers are visible in daytime and green-white beacons at night. They are usually about 200 - 400 feet apart. I've searched the forums and have not found any thing on this subject. Has anyone had this before ? Does anyone have a remedy ?

I'm convinced on getting OPUS. Don't have REX or AS2012. Was going to try HDEV2 for the textures, however the sky textures cause FSX to lockup and quit. Does anyone have a suggestion on how to remedy this? JB

Flight simming since early eighties. Must have been FS 2 or 3. FSX on a high end machine nowadays. I'll be 70 in a couple of months. Divide my time between Flight simming, my BMW moto and the d**m lawnmower.

Joe; I hate to admit this, but I'm stupid. I read your answer. I verified that the light map alphas were correct. Black - white in proper places, greyscale, etc. All the technicals were proper. I had printed out your reply and it was lying on the desk in front of me while I watched for the hundredth time the EMB-120's taxi out at night. I read the first line. "I just checked mine and they are working as expected." Thought - well I haven't touched the textures in the other planes and they are working for him, why not mine ? Then as I read down the page again two words suddenly jumped out. " . . . landing lights . . .". Where were the landing lights ? You know, if there is no little red check mark in the box beside "Landing Lights" on the "Options- Aircraft" selection screen, the landing lights will not be on ? And if the landing lights are not on, guess what ? The windows will be dark ! ! Don't know when or why that selection had been unmarked. Aw well . . . . . live and learn. Many thanks for you reply and help. I hope others reading this and will gain something from my travails. Thanks again. Joe