Tim_Capps

I have explored the ini builds site and I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be finding. I see dynamic lighting and various repaints, but have browsed and searched and am not finding an exclude file. This is brand new to me.

Yea or nay?

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I don't see any difference between the procedure described in Tutorial 1 and the checklist. If anyone has been able to start it, please describe where the process differs from the documentation. JF manuals are sometimes simply awful--I'm thinking of the vague DC-8 fuel management, which had to had to have been written by someone who had no idea how to work it, so pretty much left it at, "then do some stuff with with the fuel." If it doesn't start by the procedure, it shouldn't bother me, especially since it's not officially supported for v5. I have a programming bug, too, though. I hate giving up on inconsequential challenges 🙂 (By the way, the fuel system works fine in the DC-8, not that you'd know if from the manual, which is a shame.)

I'd try re-downloading it, then contacting the developer. If it's Paulo Ricardo's scenery, he's very helpful.

Thanks. I figured as much. I fly JF airplanes probably as much as any payware, but they're either heavily modded (the DC-8s) and/or have some peculiarities. I always end up thinking, "There's a good airplane somewhere in there," but I'm by no means a hater. I'm not going to beat my head against an engine start issue that's not even the pilot's responsibility. About time the rest of the crew pulled their weight in the cockpit.

Loads and flies fine in v5 for me now. Don't know what the difference is. But I can't start it by the book and there doesn't seem to be much out there. I have power, I have the fuel configured for engine 3 as directed, and I have the external air on. But when I initiate the start sequence from the engineer's table, the lights come on, but nothing turns, much less burns. I find the leap of faith required for the air disturbing. I can't see anything that is actually showing pressure like in every other jet I've ever had. The manual is not very helpful. I'm happy it works at all, and if I have to use CTL-E, then so be it, but just wondering if anyone else has had any luck. It's been British Air month with the discovery of David Maltby's fantastic BAC 1-11 and the resurrection of this old VC10 download. (So much happier with this One-Eleven compared to the--frankly--lousy Just Flight version.)

Just finished this one by Alex Stone (if that's his real name). A gripping, 100% true-to-life account of the trials and tribulations of a typical CFI at a typical flight school. Well, maybe not, but it's a short read, on Kindle Unlimited and made me laugh out loud. The reviews by outraged humor-impaired readers are even funnier.

One of the more flavorful airports is now back from Tropical Sim. It's pretty nice and seems up-to-date, with an option to add SODE jetways that's not hard to do. A perfect charter destination for your Yes L1011-500 from Lisbon if you don't mind a VOR approach. The airport itself is good enough, although there's not much in the way of added surroundings. Night lighting seems okay, although I was wondering where it was coming from in the absence of light poles. It would be nice to see some better texturing and some blades of grass, too. Having said all this picky stuff, I am very happy to have it, and you don't have to worry about me taking up space at one of the jetways. I'm parking in the old grass hut area, front and center.

The most glaring absence in my overseas route map! All roads lead to... anywhere but! I really hope this happens. We're good in Sicily (Palermo and Catania) and I really like Milano Linate by JetStream Designs (taxiing past that cemetery is just so Italian). Napoli would be nice, too (ah, I have some interesting Navy-type stories about Napoli!) but doubt Aerosoft's works. Yup, P3Dv5 will never be complete without Rome.

You can thank me. I went on a buying spree with them -- the day before the sale.

My wife took me out to the local airport where I used to fly out of nearly 20 years ago. For beer. Yup. KMDH in Southern Illinois has a brewery right in the airport whose motto is "8 Hours from Draft to Aircraft" with 14CFR 91.17 cited on the T-Shirt she bought me. They have a "$100 Hamburger" that isn't and $10 beer that is. And really, really good. So I had a few inky black porters then went out watch the SIU students practice crosswind landings. Now that's entertainment! They also have a 737-200. So, your airport probably has stuff mine doesn't, but I bet a brewery isn't one one of them 🙂

Gotacha! Thanks!

Don't know if anyone else is still flying this, but it's really not bad, especially with decent lighting. The -500's range is impressive. I also have some other odds and ends to share with other L1011 enthusiasts. PM me if interested.

Just purchased, installed, and found this error message. Deleted folder, downloaded again, same issue. Tried the MS repair tool, but no luck. Please advise.

That's the beauty of carefully ambivalent Godfather analogies!

There. Fixed. it's not about what MSFS offers or will offer than what it doesn't and never will. Nothing about the relative merits of platforms, just I'll never see the older airplanes I happen to enjoy flying in MSFS. I will be buying the iFly MAX, just like I bought their latest 737, but more to support them and have something current to mess with when the mood strikes. As for RR, his business is his business and I doesn't hurt me to give him the benefit of the doubt that whatever he said in the past was sincere and things did not work out as expected. And: "Tell Michael it was only business. I always liked him."

JustFlight usually includes a dummy weather radar screen to be replaced by third party ones. I have installed subject radar into the DC-8s and it works fine. I also just installed it into their TriStar and... it is installed, but obviously needs some tweaks to size and position. Does anyone have a good config to paste in?

I have been feeling nostalgia for my Blackberry. Better for actual, you know, communication than my iPhone.

You can fly just about anything on plausible routes of the length you mentioned, short of the really long-haul airplanes. I have to agree that the Aerosoft Airbuses are decent. They are my favorite non-classic airplanes to fly. Take your pick from 737s based on your price point, preferred period, and complexity / fidelity. Captain Sim's 737s look good and are easy to fly. They're good for jetliner basics and Mike Ray's 737 gouge is a good companion to learn it. Flight 1 / Coolsky's DC-9 series is visually dated but offers an in-sim training module and have a lively feel to them. (It comes in a pack that includes both the DC-9 and transitional glass cockpit MD-82.) I respectfully offer these simpler alternatives to suggestions about the Q400 and other complex products. If you're just learning, the Q400 is a complex turboprop that's not only a handful, but isn't going to help much with jet basics if you want to go that way later. Likewise, I'm not taking anything away from the other suggestions, which are all fine airplanes (and by many objective measures "better"). I fly and enjoy the ones I mentioned nearly every day, and hardly ever go more than three hours; often an hour or even less bopping around Colombia. Everybody is looking for different things in the hobby and suggestions are going to reflect that. If you want to immerse yourself into one airplane with maximum available fidelity, then there's that. If you want to fly a whole collection of airplanes in normal operations, or are looking for something less demanding, then there's that, too.

Happy with 5.2. Will be happy with 5.2 if I live forever along with the ageless mice @fielder Hanger Chat thread. 95% happy, anyway. Would be 100% happy if Just Flight actually released their 747. Guess it depends on what you're looking for.

Usually the best result from action by Congress.

Well, Ian, I pronounce it as it's written: av-sim. Charlie is just wrong on this one 😋

I'll be 65 in August. I was complaining to a friend about seeing the seventh phase of Shakespeare's all the world is a stage speech: "sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything". He cited Jaques Lacan and said we can sit together on a bench, two old men smoking cigarettes and condemning the world. (I would have to take up smoking.) I've lost two months flying time due to one word not allowed thing after another (including vision problems) so there is something appealing about critical observation of everything. I therefore take great pleasure in joining the OP's objection. I have forgotten what it was, though. (I did manage Leticia-Bogota and Bogota-Cartagena yesterday, though, so that felt good after the doldrums.)

I am living proof of the deleterious effect of Earth's gravity.