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I didn't do the migrate at all. I just double clicked the installation executable and when it asked for the FSX directory, I just pointed it to the Prepar3D directory and it installed and works fine.

I know you were looking specifically for the CRJ but a similar aircraft is the Feelthere ERJ-135 and ERJ-145. I can confirm that those work in the latest P3D. I had a nice flight with the 145 last night and it has a nice FMS that is Navigraph updateable.

I use this to plan fuel amounts for the RJ85. Select the RJ85 in the dropdown, enter in your departure and arrival icao and it gives you normal fuel amount plus reserve amounts. http://fuelplanner.com/

I am a pilot who flies mostly 182's out of both Palo Alto and San Carlos airports. I use BlueSkyScenery scenery and FSGenesis mesh for all of California except what the original Megascenery X Southern California covers. While it is somewhat flat surrounding the immediate airport, you get used to it and I am not around the immediate airport for very long in FSX and the rest of the bay area is pretty hilly which looks good in photo scenery. This is what I used when practicing for my pilots license 6 years ago and I used the great Real Air Citabria as that is the plane I learned in, in the real world. The other advantage to the photoreal scenery becomes very apparent when you start doing your cross country flights. You can fly to the places you are going to in the real world and get a feel for the layout. The central valley from 6,000 feet looks pretty darn flat in the real world as well. Just another example of how I practiced with Photoscenery. It is common on your training flights in the bay area to head out to the coast on a nice day and do your practice maneuvers there. From Palo Alto we would do what is called a left Dumbarten departure which involved flying 10 degrees right from runway heading to the Dumbarten bridge. Once reaching the 92 freeway we turn left to point toward the hills and because of the airspace restrictions, you need to stay under 2,000 feet until your wings are level with Stanford Stadium. Then you start a climb to 3,500 to pass over the hills. Once to the coast we would often fly down to Pigeon Point Light house and use that as our ground reference for performing turns around a point. Yes it is a flat representation in photo scenery but that matters not as it is a focal point for your reference maneuver. Also, there are a couple nice fields around that area that we used for engine out practice. Those are all depicted in photo scenery so you can use them as well in the flight simulator.

The SimXperience seat is cheaper and does the same thing. Heck, the whole stage 1 motion simulator is a similar price to the chair mentioned in this thread. Check out http://simxperience.com/Home.aspx as their motion simulation products are pretty popular in the racing simulation world and they can be used for flight simulation as well.

I have never understood pre-hype. I was at the movies the other day and they showed a preview for a movie coming out December 2013. That is a year away! Why waste my time with a preview for a movie a year away? For developers, I have the same question. Unless a customer is paying a subscription fee where the stipulation is that there will be regular updates and new products then what good comes from telling me about a new plane that has no timeline for release? Am I going to rush online to donate money to the project? No. Am I more likely to buy it in a year or more when it comes out? No. If it is something I am interested in, am I likely to want to know more specifics on when it is going to be released? Yes.

I believe these are downloading the latest metars and tafs for an airport. The metars generally change once an hour at an airport, the taf's even less frequently. So trying to download new weather every minute wont actually do anything unless the metar just roled over to a new one. And even then you typically have gradual changes in metar data and not extreme changes unless you are in the midst of a storm at which point a SPECI would be issued. At my local airport that I fly out of, the metar information is updated once every hour at around 45 minutes past the hour.

This is a great idea. Good find. I am often wanting to practice my instrument flying in the simulator but tend to stick to a handful of airports that I am familiar with. This will allow me to spread my wings a bit more and practice in IMC at other places in the country without having to manually muck with the weather myself. The only problem though is sometimes, even with ASX, the IMC conditions in the real world do not translate to a great visual depiction of those conditions in FSX.

I have tried Megascenery Earth California as I live and fly here in the real world all the time. I was not that impressed. The original Megascenery Southern California is great as all the tiles were hand manipulated and included auto gen and night effects, etc. The Megascenery Earth variety is nowhere near that quality and the tiles can be really washed out or have major color transitions on them Right now I use Blue Sky Scenery Photo scenery for the areas I fly mostly. Their California photo scenery can be found here.... http://www.blueskyscenery.com/CA.html It is free so that is another bonus though I have downloaded so much of his photo scenery that I have donated money to him several times.