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East bound over Papua New Guinea with the sun at my six. Beautiful weather - "Active Sky Next" on - with some storm clouds in front of me. Around thirty miles to my destination at Aiome. Autopilot on. Looking at charts, and info on the Aimoe airstrip for best approach. VOR needle started it's slow swing to line me up with runway 19. At ten miles started slow decent, flaps, gear down. Time to disengage the autopilot. Having trouble finding the autopilot panel in the dark. The Autopilot on off switch was not only hard to find but getting that index finger to land on it was another challenge. Solved the lighting problem by holding a mini flashlight with my teeth. . All this to say it would sure be great if that panel had more lights on it.

MIlton Schupe brought this plane everyone's attention years ago. From what I read it was on the design board in the late 1940's. Carenado has now introduced this new build for us. Sure right now it's version 1.0 but as with all planes this one will be tweaked. Enjoyed three flights with it today,

It's available now. Bought it and did a flight. Great plane, well done Carenado.

Sorry about the delay in response. Thank you very much.

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I have searched these forums and read the manual looking for a way to bring the RC voice into my headset without just making them the default. Any suggestions, Maybe a workaround or some other hardware or software?

Thanlk you for the info. It is installed registered and now waiting for the Christmas scenario to play out so we can dive into that manual, err book:)

thanks ronzie, I just did that. Just DL RC. and going to install.

Thank you very much Glynn. Will do .

I am thinking of picking up this program but I'm wondering if Radar Contact will pull airport data from the Program Data Scenery.cfg or just uses ICAO's from AIRAC data such as what Navigraph provides. The reason I'm asking is I my major fliying is in GQA aircraft and usually departing a lager airport with a smaller airstrip destination. Regards Ken

I have my throttle 2 on my joystick assigned to the engine torque. Moving it will raise and lower the collective.

Hi d-jones1, It's the CH control managers that i downloaded from CH Products. Deleted them, plugged in the yoke and pedals and rebooted. Win 7 found some drivers and they work fine.

Hi Richard, Thank you. I had installed the control manager and between posts I deleted it and the drivers. Rebooted, plugged in the yoke and pedal. They are now both working just fine. For some reason I thought CH had upgraded the drivers for 64 bit machines. Thanks again for the great response.

Thanks Jim, I moved it but cannot delete the original post.

Well there is a first time for everything. Got a completely rebuilt desktop for Christmas, A 64 bit machine. Loaded everything back into a fresh empty, other than the Win 7 pro OS, with no problems. Fired up FSX, all the service packs are installed, as well as the Accellerator package. The problem; everytime I reboot I loose the CH drivers for the yoke and pedal. I have to recycle them by unpluging and repluging them into the USB ports. One on the PC, the other on a 2.0 USB port. If anyone has some direction they can give me to resolve this, well it would really be appreciated. Here's my specs 3.20 Ghz Intel Core i5-3470 processor Intel Corporation DH77EB MB 16352 MB RAM NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Video Card Windows 7 Pro OS 1TB HD Cheers, Ken

Well there is a first time for everything. Got a completely rebuilt desktop for Christmas, A 64 bit machine. Loaded everything back into a fresh empty, other than the Win 7 pro OS, with no problems. Fired up FSX, all the service packs are installed, as well as the Accellerator package. The problem; everytime I reboot I loose the CH drivers for the yoke and pedal. I have to recycle them by unpluging and repluging them into the USB ports. One on the PC, the other on a 2.0 USB port. If anyone has some direction they can give me to resolve this, well it would really be appreciated. Here's my specs 3.20 Ghz Intel Core i5-3470 processor Intel Corporation DH77EB MB 16352 MB RAM NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Video Card Windows 7 Pro OS 1TB HD Cheers, Ken

Well mananaged to load FSX and fly up to a FTX fire tower out of the FTX Concrete WA scenery before leaving at 2:00pm. Flew back to Concrete and left the Nemeth MD500 running on the helipad. It's just after 9:00pm now and no OOM. other than the systems OOM ding, which started about 20 minutes into the figh but that's a far as any OOM process went. FPS set at 32 and am seeing a solid 19-23. I have AS2012 weather running as well as FSImm connected to a multiplay server. system specs: Win 7 32 bit Intel Duo Core 3.156 gh Board: Intel DGB43NB Bus clock:333megahertz 3068 mb ram Page file 1167 used 4965 mb available 1TB HD DX11 installed but set to DX9 ATI radedeon HD 5700 series Video Card FSX W SP2

Well I loaded it. Off to my sons for Thanksgiving dinner. Will fire up FSx tonight and see how it goes. If this works, well that iwll be just grand because I cannot fly in the FTX environment any more without OOM. Used to but something came along and flattened all my tires so to speak.

Painting this was fun and very challenging. I know there is a better way of getting there rather than walking around the block to get next door :wacko:

OK Ken, I have a question for you. Did you read the manual? Well err yes; sorta. OK, did you look at the settings on the menu. Well, err, some of them. OK then this is what you do. Park that Spartan and walk walk back here to the flight shack. We are going to learn how to read things pertaining to the operation of weather reporting and all the pre-flight settings you MUST do prior to firing up - Got it? Yup I got it..But it was snowing out and everything is a muddy mess, and I'm sitting off the end of the runway. Yea I know, . Do they sell hot chocolate here in Garrison ND? :huh:

Would like to know how to turn off the green weather update ribbon in AS2012 SP2. Any assistance would be appreciated.

Finally, after chasing the paint kit puzzle pieces around, it came together.

HI Francios, I do not blame you one bit. Glad to see you have made that decision. May God bless you in your profession.

Well said n4.

Bought 2012 the day it came out. Loaded it and took off into the skys of the Pacific Northwest. Looking outside my window and see several cloud layers and all. 2010 was giving me some puffy while clouds with a lot of blue sky, and that is the picture I have had; even when 2010 gave me snow; puffy white clouds with a lot of blue with a driving snowstorm. Well this morning I did my doumb thing.Opened the 2010 manual and staretd reading. Hand another inspired moment and lookied into the program. Found a Readme.txt and did just that, read those instructons. Decided to configure everything according to what I read. I now have a very beautiful FSX screen filled with what is very close to RW looking cloud cover. Reading instructions and all is really cool. Solves a lot of problems. Remember reading somehting about that - When everything else fails read the instructions; worked for me.:)