Kevin_Cusack

Whether real world or FSX, there are lots of places where VORs and NDBs are the main form of navigation - especially for landing. The FAA/NavCanada/etc. will get around to providing GPS approaches to every airport, but that will take a few years yet. For most of us in the flightsim world we only get to fly the big iron in the sims, and we generally don't try to fly a 777 into a backcountry airport. In the real world, those of us who are pilots generally own light aircraft that aren't equipped with the latest glass panels. It depends on your flying! I will say that in the real world, the loss of GPS signal can be disorienting. I was only 20 miles back from the airport I trained at (in other words I should have the environs engraved into muscle memory!!) when I lost signal to both my portable and the panel-mount. I was being lazy and had not sett up the underlying beacons as a back-up (surely both GPSs won't go bad!) and had to start paying attention to ground references again. It took a few moments to get back in the game. Fortunately, it was a good weather day. I find I have better habits in the clouds where the magenta line is a confirmation, not a primary source. Perhaps flying in Alaska and northern Canada (parts of New Zealand and Australia?) would be different because of the sparseness of the ground-based navaids and the chances of rapidly changing weather in mountain areas. Once you have the art of flying down pat, flying with reference to VORs/NDBs can be challenging - both in the real world and in simming.

The 777 has a nice feature that will allow it to speed up the simulation rate between intersections so that the real elapsed time is a lot shorter on the long haul flights. If the PMDG 747 has the same feature, there may not be much difference in the sims -other than the fact that the 777 sim is a more recent one. The 777 is a system hog also. There is an upgrade to the 747 that may add all the bells and whistles and load the computer up. The 777 sim is great.

Can RC be used with the Fs2Crew voice software for LevelD 767?KC

I just noticed this thread about fuel planning. I am trying to get FsMeteo v8 and FsBuild 2.3.2 to work together. I realize that this is a Radar Contact forum, but I haven't found many topics on other threads that address this issue. If anyone has this combo working, let me know and we can take the disussion off this thread where it prbably doesn't belong.