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Looks like the result of a lot of good work with a very definite improvement over the default landclass/autogen! Thank you from an FSX dinosaur! Bill

Hi! As you say there are not many Irish GA aircraft repaints and there are only are only 3 that I know of for the 172. I have installed 2 Irish Aer Corps repaints on the default Cessna 172 - IAC 206 and 210 - which were freeware but I'm not sure where I found these! There is however also a repaint for EI-SAC (a Sligo Aero Club 172) available for the A2A C172 here in the Avsim library. Its for P3D but will work in FSX. Bill

Great to see freeware continuing to appear for FSX! Thank you Bill

Looking at their website (Captain Sim – Online Store), unfortunately it seems that it is only for FSX SP2 or Acceleration which is a pity as their 727 and 737 appear to be available for FSX-SE. However there is a free demo option for the 707 if you click 'More Info' so you could try it in FSX-SE and see if it works! Bill

OK, out of curiosity, I downloaded and installed the HJG 707-120 together with the panel and the American Airlines livery for that model. The external model all seems ok with no black patches on the American Airlines livery and the cockpit panel (only a 2D cockpit) is present although a couple of gauges are missing and many of those present do not function. I suspect they are relying on FS9 gauges which are just not present in FSX. If you are a huge fan of the 707, I can recommend the Captain SIm payware version - it is not perfect but so much better than the HJG version with a lovely virtual cockpit and external model. At present there is a sale on at Captain SIm (these don't usually last long) which is the time to buy as their normal prices are somewhat on the high side. Bill

Hi, I always advise anyone installing or reinstalling FSX to download the Avsim FSX Configuration guide and follow every step of the advice given in that to the letter! The advice is very sound and you should end up with a nicely functional FSX. Bill

Hi, Did you download the 707 from the HJG website? As far as I can see, the HJG 707 Base Packs do not contain any pre-installed liveries but instead you download the ones you want for the particular 707 version from the repaint list beside the Base Pack. You seem to suggest you are also missing the panel? Have you followed the precise instrucions given by HJG for installing this into FSX? Bill

Hi Eytan, I have FSX installed on my D drive and it functions very well with no problems. As Stans says, installing it to the default Program Files (x86) directory can causes issues. If you reinstall FSX to your D drive I would suggest downloading the Avsim FSX configuration guide and follow ALL the recomendations in that document step by step and you should have a smoothly functioning FSX! You are describing having lots of CTDs - do you get an 'Out of Memory' warning message before this happens? If so your CTDs could be due to issues with VAS space which is quite common with FSX. Bill

Hi Tim, One of the original Real Air team, Sean Moloney, is now part of Vertxsim and perhaps it may be worth trying to contact him through that developer to see if he could do anything to help you as the Real Air team were renowned for their helpfulness. If that fails, I think they produced a boxed edition of the SF260 for FSX. So, if you were willing to pay for it again, you might be lucky enough to find it on sale somewhere like eBay if you keep an eye out for it and, as an FSX product, I can't imagine it would be too expensive. It was a terrible pity that Real Air closed down - their products were arguably amongst the best general aviation aircraft ever produced for FSX. I still have them all on FSX and particularly fly the Duke and Turbine Duke a lot. Regards, Bill

Oh I didn't know that - thank you. Bill

I wasn't aware there was a Majestic Q300 available for FSX??? Are you referring to the Majestic Q400? Bill

Hi Ulrich, I use this scenery in FSX Accel (but not FSX-SE) and I have no problems with black areas on the apron. Unfortunately I can't offer you a solution as you have tried new downloads and reinstalling so perhaps it is something related to FSX-SE?? The only other thing I can think of is the possibility of duplicate AFCAD files from some other version of Bern that you might have installed at some stage but the only other version available is the FlyLogic payware which I assume you do not use and I don't think there are any other freeware versions of LSZB available for FSX. These things can be very irritating so I hope you can get it resolved. Bill

Some feedback would be good if only to satisfy my curiosity! Bill

I can appreciate the concern about going on 'random sites' which can be risky and, having had my computer 'infected' by a virus/trojan horse from some freeware many years ago (missed by my Norton antivirus at the time but thankfully detected by PayPal when a suspicious transaction was made on my account), I remain extremely wary about what I download and where I download it from! I can certainly think of quite a few sites which I would avoid but if you do get permission to buy some payware then you should be quite safe buying it directly from reputable vendors such as SimMarket, PC Aviator, Just Flight, Flight1 etc. I have used these for years and they have never given rise to any problems. Stay safe! Bill

That's unfortunate because there is some very nice payware Irish scenery out there for FSX. I use the Orbx FTX Ireland scenery for VFR flights which, although not photorealistic, does look very much like the Irish landscape as seen from the air and is a massive improvement on the stock scenery. I have been using FSX now for at least 15 years and, although I have been tempted to move on to some of the newer platforms, I haven't done so yet simply because of the amount of time (and money - a LOT of addons!) I have invested in FSX. There is also the fact that FSX on my system is a very stable platform and, as you say, it still remains very nice to fly! Bill