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I have these but, as you say, they are certainly not study level and in fact they now live in my 'inactive aircraft hangar'. To be fair they are good value and nice enough visually but if you are used to flying even semi-study level aircraft you would probably find these a little frustrating. The Simcheck A300 is in quite a different league with the basic product including a simulation of a functioning INS and the FMC expansion pack comes with a pretty reasonable replication of the A300 FMC, which incidentally is nothing like the FMCs used by subsequent Airbus airliners from the A320 onwards and anyone familiar with Boeing FMCs would feel quite at home with it fairly quickly. Just a shame it is not still available. Bill

I think I had a TI-59 back in the day although I never used it for navigation calculations so my post is a little off topic. I am one of those simmers who often enjoys flying vintage aircraft using just the VOR/DME and NDB instead of the GPS for more of a challenge during IFR navigation and basically to keep myself busy rather than letting the FMS/GPS have all the fun. Occasionally when flying VFR I even revert back to the truly prehistoric E6B circular hand held 'computer' (basically a sort of slide rule) for dead reckoning navigation calculations taking into account wind speeds etc. When I learned to fly in the real world (over 50 years ago!) the E6B was an essential navigational tool together with a good chart as the early aircraft which I flew (Champion Citabria, MS-880B Rallye and a basic Cessna 150) had no radio navigation aids whatsoever. Later on when I moved on to larger Cessnas and a Piper Aztec, I had the luxury of VORs and NDBs but by the time the GPS came about I was no longer doing any flying so I never had the luxury of using this in the real world. Navigating without the aid of a GPS can be good fun and a nice challenge sometimes and I would recommend it to anyone who has got a little tired of sitting there watching the FMS/GPS do most of the flying! Bill

Have had this for years and it is a great utility! Highly recommended! Bill

Hi, You are correct, it was an Aerosoft product but I think it was developed by Simcheck who as far as I know were a Belgian group. I have it together with its FMC expansion pack and the end result is a really good and very immersive aircraft from a systems viewpoint. It comes with good documentation and a configurator for the aircraft and I would recommend it if you can find it. I actually purchased it many years ago from the Flight Sim Pilot Shop (now defunct) and subsequently bought the FMC expansion from Simmarket but unfortunately neither Aerosoft nor Simmarket seem to have it available for purchase any more so I have no idea where you can get it. However I seem to remember it was also available as a boxed product when it first came out so that might be worth trying to see if you could find that somewhere. Bill

Hi, Those screenshots look really good! I mainly fly fixed-wing types but every so often I go through a phase of helicopter flying when I find scenery that encourages me and I think yours might just tempt me to do some more when it is released! Bill

Hi Lee, As FSX is now very old, I suspect there may not be many people on this forum who are experienced scenery designers as most will have moved on to more modern flightsim platforms like P3D and MSFS. The only solution if you really want to create new static objects for FSX may be to learn how to do so yourself and, although I personally have no experience of it, from what I read, I gather it can be quite enjoyable once you get through the learning curve! If you do decide to go down that pathway then I would suggest that the FSX Scenery Design forum here on Avsim would be a good place to start. Bill

Hi, I don't fly the CS 727 very much but, having added Ernie Alston's Integrated Simavionics mod to it earlier this year, I carried out a few test flights and noticed that the ACE payload tool wasn't saving to the aircraft so like you I had to enter some figures manually. I thought that this perhaps had something to do with the fact that I am a dinosaur still running on Win7 and I didn't bother looking into it as it's not an aircraft I use frequently. Not much help for you but you're not the only one experiencing this problem for whatever reason! Bill

Very impressive! Well done Bridget! Bill

Hi, Very strange that they are still marketing the FS9 version but not FSX! I've searched the few remaining vendors that I know of but cannot find it anywhere so it looks like their products are only sold through Simmarket. That is unfortunate as it is a nice airport addon (although a little out of date now). Bill

Don't worry Bart, some of us dinos are not extinct yet!! Cheers, Bill

Hi, I use CH Pro yoke and rudders so I can’t specifically advise you on your Saitek/Bravo system, but if you really want to set up your hardware configuration to reflect the Cessna 441 controls as accurately as possible, I can recommend the payware version of John Dowson’s FSUIPC (FSUIPC 4 is the version for FSX I think). Using FSUIPC to calibrate the controls does come with a little bit of a learning curve but it has a good manual and in addition there are some helpful You Tube videos available on the subject. If you are very keen on configuring your hardware as close to reality as possible for the 441, it is well worth the effort and indeed multiple configurations can be created with FSUIPC for as many different aircraft as you want. Hope this might help, Bill

Hi, I have this scenery installed in FSX and there are no firehouses or water towers on RW16/34 or indeed on any other runways (I just checked as it has been a long time since I flew in there I and may have used one of the other runways). When something like this happens it can sometimes be due to a duplicate AFCAD file left over from another addon for the same airport. Have you ever installed any freeware versions of RKSI in the past? Occasionally however it can be due to a scenery addon unrelated to the particular airport with the problem and this can be a more difficult issue to solve as it may not even be a nearby airport! It might be worth doing a search of your main FSX folder for RKSI or Incheon to see if you can find anything that seems to be situated outside your Overland RKSI folder. Bill

Although I own the Majestic Q400, I have the Pilot version and not the Pro version which is the one with the toggle sound feature you mention so it is not something I have come across. However one way to possibly identify what file is getting modified would be to copy your Majestic Q400 sound.cfg file then apply the feature that you mention and make a copy of the sound.cfg after it has been applied. You could then compare the two cfgs and see what parameters, if any, have changed. This might give you some clue as to which parameters you might need to play about with to rectify the issue but I am not experienced enough with sound files to say what you should do so I certainly can't advise you on this! Maybe someone with more knowledge of FSX sound physics who might read this thread could advise you on that. The one bit of advice that I would give you is to ALWAYS make sure you keep a backup copy of any files you modify so that you can easily restore them if everything goes belly up! Bill

I can understand your frustration and reluctance to reinstalling FSX, but I don't think GSX modifies water textures or indeed the sun, however I may be wrong in this assumption and am open to correction on this by someone with more knowledge of the product! Could I ask how did you remove GSX? Bill

Hi. Clearly it seems to be affecting multiple aircraft so have you installed anything that might have modified some of the FSX cockpit sound parameters? Bill