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With difficulty if my experience with PMDG 747X is anything to go bye. The modern PMDG store I found focused purely on MSFS2020/2024 products. AVSIM had some liveries the other main source Flightsim.com is temporarily (?) off-line. The original liveries came with their own installer programe the liveries I ended up downloading required manual installation and minor editing of the aircraft.cfg details of which are normally given in the Readme file. Good Hunting.

Returned to FSX-SE for some "Olden But Golden" flightsimming but was irritated by my TrackIr 5 6DOF putting my head through the sides and back of the cockpit at the slightest twitch of the head. Setting up a custom profile with roll, x, y, z, trueview all unchecked unfortunately didn't work. It turns out , for my setup at least, FSX-SE was only using the default profile. Now I load up the TrackIr, temporarily uncheck the above settings (it won't let you make permanent changes to the default), then start up FSX. Hey Presto. I'm no longer falling through the sides of the cockpit and the 2DOF (pitch, yaw) is more than adequate for the basic virtual cockpits. This maybe my problem and mine alone .... but if it's yours this may help. Cheers and Blue Skies Tim

Well AVSIM's screen shot policy maybe stuck in the 1980's. If X-plane's Customer Responsiveness / Services is indicative of the 21st Century .... I'm all in ! Great news. Roll on 12.5. Cheers Tim

XPD-18212 Thanks for that. See what the X-plane team make of it and how easy or not it is to implement. Cheers Tim

Thanks for the response (and yes you understand my requirement exactly.) Unless I'm missing something (high probabilty) then it seems rather weird. Xplane is such an excellent training aid with the potential to randomly or predictably fail a single switch, spark plug etc. To have to "Heath Robinson" a solution for a random in time and side engine failure in a twin just seems ..... well weird ! Cheers Tim

Flying the Baron B58 and learning about asymmetric flight. How can you set up a random engine to fail ? In the failures menu you can set up failure for engine 1 or 2 triggered by a variety of parameters. But then you know in advance which engine is going to fail. Do you have to set up both engines to fail at some point over say a time period and just hope both don't fail in short succession ? Cheers Tim

The Stropopause: The prequel to the menopause due to initial instability in oestrogen / progestogen levels marked by excessive ...... . Now who am I to remark; never having had to deal with a massively varying hormonal environment for half my life or losing 50 ml of blood every four weeks (I start blubbing after a pinprick.) Kudos to the fairer sex.

Such sentiments make you a completely inappropriate candidate for modern day air crew training ! 🙂

Thanks for the additional inmformation. Cheers Tim

Forgot to ask ! Does it work in X-plane 12 ? Cheers Tim

Thanks Costaldriver/bendyflyer. (I think I understand the origin of the first moniker, the second one ...eeerrhh slightly worrying.) Always appreciate criticism and validation from the "Been There, Seen That, Got the T-shirt" brigade; coupled with a zero level of monetisation or conflict of interest. So your positive experience of the simulator in its' present state and Manky's Dash 8 actually means something real in an ocean of fake. Also good to see a still thriving Freeware community in x-plane able, through the skills of hardcore flight simmers, to design test and produce quality addons. Downloading Manky's Dash 8. Blue Skies ..... or not ! Cheers Tim

Hi Jcomm, Not x-plane related but would still value your opinion on Aces of Thunder; in particular the quality of the flight model, ballistics model and damage model. Cheers Tim

Looking forward to round 2. Which hopefully will be better than the second test is shaping out to be, at least from an Englishman's perspective.

Another recommending the JF BAe 146, a great value deal. Interesting market / flight profile niche coupled with 70's era "you have to get off your word not allowed to operate/monitor" systems. If you can't afford a C-17 Globemaster then fly around in it's "Love Child."

I'd like to add my congratulations to the above posters with that of the Moderator for an illuminating discussion on a potentially contentious subject. In thinking why the discourse represents such a statistical outlier in on-line behaviour I think I've hit on the reason. The Forum is a virtual form of the UK Light Aviation Association whose president / chief officer noted in a recent interview that there were more over 80's members than there were under 40's. Thanks for the interesting Sunday morning read. Cheers Tim