MiteyMT

Yes, I did. If they don't treat it like a big deal, how can they expect me to? If it were up to me, it would have had a countdown timer on the website. I mean, come on! You are buying a plane! That should be exciting

Its after midnight by 7+ hours utc and 35 min pst. Where I come from, we start a search when a plane is 30 min overdue. Guess nobody else waited up...

The train tunnel is missing from Whittier, this is a shame. Can't wait to check out the Honolulu pass bridge in AK. The pipeline...oh well. But anyway, I love this sim to pieces. I recommend googling pictures of wonder lake, and then going and doing it. Also, really fun to see the plane crashes, but look in skyvector.com at the vfr reporting point 100 miles east of Fairbanks. Its really a Liberator, but it says B52 with a magenta flag. I am gonna go check. If you are bored, plan for a few of these favorite places The Don Sheldon Amphitheater, Mountain house there? A low flight from fairbanks into Totatlinika or Gold king, pop in from a valley and try to stick it. You can stop at blair lakes on the way, that is the lake that had the dead moose in it on Alaska State Troopers. Go see if the Holgate glacier is calving Wonder if they put a strip at Ultima Thule Leave the gravel bar mission, fly east into the inlet and put that cub on the helipad, you have the wind. We put three on one helipad, almost... Can you get the famous Wonder Lake photo in your screenshot library? People nail the pinks off Allison Point in Valdez, even kids. Why? What is sleeping woman? does she look right? From what direction? Will her groom ever return? Does the victor airway from Fairbanks to Talkeetna really need to be flown over 10k? Why? Hint, answer around Summit. What is so special about Eagle Summit? Why is there a 9k avoid area over the island southeast of walrus islands? What happens on the little finger sticking off the north end of it in real life? Poker flats, what is the worst that could happen? Wonder how to hunt the porcupine herd? how bad could Atigun Pass be? What goes on at Toolik lake? Do polar bears really drown because there isn't enough polar ice bridging to the shore? What time of year? Solve global warming for yourself. How hard could chilkoot pass possibly have been, and for who? Do all the people in Whittier really live in one big government hotel with a cracked foundation? Is it there? Portage glacier? The Into The Wild bus is really close to something that is important to pilots, but can't be seen with the eye. Should I land at Kantishna, is Bold similar in some way? Dave O flies people out of Fairbanks to East twin lakes and Minchumina with a Maule for fishing trips. And for a wild card, what is that cool waterfall the helicopter lands at in Jurrasic Park, and where is it? If you benefit from this, lemme know on here, I will do some more. Kick that google into gear, get excited, and check it out. The flight planner in skyvector is so easy to use, why not fly in Heavy wx all the time, there are vors everywhere

MiteyMT, of course. Flew lots in AK and HI, so not a bad tour guide if you catch me

i just want to be able to share a cockpit with my dad without getting bucked off all the time. it is very frustrating but when it works it is fantastic. I hope microsoft is thinking about flight crews. a smart friend of mine worked over a fsx flight to successfully do a hoist mission on mt. adams with the eh101. we took turns. one guy would fly while the other ran the hoist. it was awesome. however it took a lot of tries and a lot of dedication. also we got bucked off of gamespy every ten minutes as usual. cres working together to accomplish tasks in the same airframe is what most aviation is all about

wow oh wow did I enjoy that...Bravo!

A developer at WWW.FSNORTHWEST.NET is up to something very interesting! Today I crewed an EH-101 while my pilot flew me three individuals to rescue, and I called him in on the hoist and brought all three into the same helicopter, visible on both of our screens. It's cool. Here is a link with pictures. There is also a lot of work being done with liftable loads, all staged out of the Northwest. Current R&D is being done at the improved Timberline Lodge available at FSNORTHWEST. Take a look, I have been waiting for this for a long time. Things are starting to get interesting, flying advanced helicopters with crews the way they were meant to be flown! http://fsnorthwest.net/phpBB3/viewtopic.ph...=95&start=0

Thanks for replying. This was the first way that I tried it. Path was something like fsx/addonscenery/island/scenery and /texture directories. One had the bgl, the other the bmp. Activated it, no joy. I have done this successfully many times. Zipped and sent to buddy, he saw it, but it was gray because root image for the dxt1 I made was 8 bit. Anyway, he fixed the texture. I sent him the .mdl, and he tried compiling it, and once again it compiled fine. He could see either version, I could not get either version to show up. So, manually straightened out my scenery config, but still can't take this simple bgl and get it to show up, colored gray or otherwise. Very strange. Moving it to the already active addon scenery directory was a troubleshooting procedure. Hope to find an answer, because it's something we want to make available at some point.

I have recently installed the what a wonderful world textures as well as UTX. I have other addons. Now, I have made a bgl that I can't see, but others can. I found my scenery.cfg file in total disarray, but even after manually matching it all up, I still cannot see the bgl, which is an island. I can however land on it. I am using the dx10 preview, but so are others who are seeing it just fine. Wonder if anyone might know why the .bmp texture can't be seen. I have placed it in the active addon scenery/texture directory. Would love to get a peak at my work, but can't see it. Is anyone else having trouble seeing textures or objects after installing these products. The texture for the object is not a default texture, but again, others are seeing it fine, and even sending me pictures of the object, but I cannot see it.

some smart dude told me, good folks on here

I had this, go into ATI Catalyst and up your mipmap quality in there, it fixed me up!

I am using this tweak on DX10, whoops. Looks like nice water to me

My buddies and I have been using FSHOST to connect and land to time synchronized AI carriers, like in this video Thanks AICARRIERS1.ZIP!!!We have been trying to figure out a way to connect via gamespy, though, and fly slingloads and hoists together in mission or free flight mode. Has anyone made an stand alone slingload that they would be willing to part with for some testing? I lack the skill to make them, but the idea is that if anyone has made one, it could be used to test this method. The hope is that if 2 people can share an aircraft including it's many systems, that maybe the sling hook and hoist would also be able to be operated by, say, a crewchief or rescue hoist operator looking down from the landing gear camera, while a pilot flies. I did this job in the military for a few years, and would love to try it online. OSD had sent me an email regarding this, but I never did find it in my mailbox, nor did I ever find the supposed default freeflight slings at egnl. Help is appreciated.

read the thread about the eh101 surging in the fsx forum, I think you will find helpful information there from some in-house experts. I use the vc, but another hero in there is using the transparent HUD looking view, and another window with the camera view looking down off the hoist. Bet it works pretty slick. I use a trackir and a top down view windowed. If you don't have a trackir, look into freetrack.org

I like this helicopter, here's a video from youtube. http://youtube.com/watch?v=5dZ2NFl_zXo

thanks, oodles, you are a ninja!

starts like this and gets worse, will try catalyst

here we go.

Here is a snapshot of my buddy snapping an arrestor cableThe second shot shows how well synced we were, two helicopters on a Frigate moving atjava script:makeRemote('dcboard.php?az=upload_files&forum=121&mesg_id=424286')Click here to choose your attachments 25 kts.

My EH-101 has a camera view down the hellhole for the sling. if I have a slingload in my scenery, and my buddy does too, and we connect via gamespy, couldn't I share the aircraft and help call him over the load. Would it pick up the object in both of our views? This would be most like the kind of sling work I am used to, also bambi bucket work and hoists. I thought I read thst OSD had found some sling loads in free flight placed at EGNL, but I went there and couldn't find any to test my theory. I am suspecting now that he placed them there in some scenery file.

By placing carriers using AICARRIERS2.ZIP and then running FSHOST client from chocolatesoftware, I friend and I were able to sync our time in freeflight, and then connect via the host, and fly patterns on the carrier with the new hornet. Also swithed to the helicopter and landed on the frigates at 25 knots. Great fun, able to watch your buddy land from the deck. Did rollons with the helicopter, too. Syncing our time via voice chat on teamspeak, and walla, freeflight multiplayer deck landings on a moving carrier. Maybe not news to some, but fun for us, also fly missions together, depending on their configuration.

Flying acceleration is fun, but I can't read my menu text anymore. Starts out ok sometimes, but then degrades as I fly to unreadable. Hard in missions, cause I have to guess what it says. Can't read ATC anymore, and can only change settings and such because I remember where they were. Freeflight, missions, everywhere. Sometimes if I don't touch them at all they last a while, but inevitably become garbled.pentium 4 hyperthreaded2 gigs ddr 2 ramATI x1950 proemachine running vista homeBTW, happened right after install of FSXA, so updated video driver by deleting old one and installing new one. Vista installed a default driver while I was tring to install catalyst. Can't stop it, but the problem was there before I messed with the driver, even though FSX never had that problem before. Vista home runs dx10, and the card is dx9, but was working great before. Anybody else. Running a repair on fsxa now with the disk to try to reconcile.