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Try to 1st "buy" them from the web site, then see if it's downloading ingame. If not (or you've got the same bug with -1cr) then DL the previews from the main GFWL application

I am quite sorry about Loki leaving like this, but not as much as I was sorry to see the abrupt and unexplained end of development for Flight. I hope he's got something interesting for him to do at least... About Soliceste and Barbarossa, what is their status towards Flight and future possible betas about bugs ? Are they able to retreive a possible forgotten livery and post it in the DLC list, like Loki have with a plane ? As for getting the last update on GFWL, I know it's there because I've got it, but I'm afraid (not sure though) one will have to delete and reinstall the core game from within the GFWL application in order to have the last published version (that is what happened to me). I had no statistic loss of any kind, just a 1.4Go DL...

Haha, this one is a funny story ! First, you must know I had to reinstall the game once, few monthes ago. As I saw some friends loosing their stats and sometimes datas, I did my reinstall WITHOUT GFWL, I just used all the saved files, and the reinstall without loosing my stats was perfect ! Till the update not showing, the only problem I had was that the GFWL app was telling me to re-download the game (no PLAY button in there). That is what I did yesterday. I just allowed GFWL to go though its natural proccess. Of course I had saved everything, and even done the update throught Steam. But the Steam overlay is (######) preventing FSWidget GMap to work on my computer... So Live did downloaded the game fully, and installed it within minutes, and I had absolutely no problem through the whole process : no data loss, no DLC missing, no stats reset. Just my AotD count was back to 163 but that's ok You see, my case is a bit out of the ordinary, but if the update is live on Live, it does not show that you have to update. Maybe try to start GFWL browser app before you start the game ? uninstall Flight and reinstall (only the main 1.7Go app) ?

My aerocache count varies from 160 to 165, depending on the day. Yesterday it was 165, this morning 160, now 163. I have not collected anything new since some time... But I've got the GFWL version of the game updated, at least

If only, all the energy lost from FSX people "bashing" Flight would have been recycled in this project...

Finding aerocaches is a fun part of the game, that is about flying. There are many ways of doing that. Aerocaches are part of the Flight experience. Loki and Soliceste are quite active to keep Flight alive yes Unfinished but still standing !

Loki, the Steam Flight community manager, has posed a very interesting news : he proposes the community to submit new aerocahes for the game. The post : https://news.microso...-cache-too.aspx Here is the important part of the information : "In order to create an Aerocache we will need the following information: Name of Aerocache Search hint (to let you use in game bing search) Hint (“On the East coast of X” ect) Real world Latitude (DMS/decimal) Real world Longitude (DMS/decimal) Altitude (meters/feet ok, please call out which you are using) Difficulty; Very Easy, Easy, Medium, Hard, Very Hard Experience point value Screenshot of place you want the Aerocache icon placed Screen shot on in game map of your location Starting Airport, which airport in flight you want to have the search start at. Once we get that info (emailing us at MSFlight@microsoft.com being the best way), I will poke at some stuff on my side and start providing lists of the Aerocaches with a schedule of when they would be running. " I hope that you have good ideas to make the new caches more fun than the one popping in front of our nose :rolleyes: !! One other thing that I did not saw here is that you can freely participate to the last Flight beta directly from your Steam client...

I know there are good engines for simming, but I don't really understand WHY the flight simming market uses theses engines only for war purposes ? There is a very big racing car community that is still pushing the boundaries of car simming to new engines (like folding tyres or real DX10/11 engines), I've also understood that simulating real-like physics, besides good graphics, is very consuming as long as the equations are not simplified enough for everyone's computer. Look at the weather reports supercomputer's size... From my point of view, the big reason why we don't see same evolution on flight simming is the way it's proposed to people. It seems the main audience is more appealed to FPS and shooting... I hope for an appealing flight simulator that would be "fun" enough to touch this public without the demagogy of shooting games, and so get the funds raised to involve even better realism AND new generation graphics !

I REALLY hope someone can cr**k the code to add essential things that seems to be implemented on this little civilian sim... Does the switch of plane, to get one engine only on C-46, work on the ground too ? I have been quite "busy" these days trying the new TS2013

Okkkaaayy sorry guys (no girls ???) I was off. So first about the questions : yes the plane was harder to control, so that wxas not just a visual effect. I did take some drag from the stopped prop, and the plane had a tendancy to go in a specific way of flying between crab & looking a bit up (sorry, my technical english is quite poor...). I have some more pictures, I was so surprised ! Anout the HOW : I think I have an idea on what happened, but you (& I too) should try to replicate the situation. I was in a warbird, I think the Zero, flying, and prop rpm@80%. I went to the hangar, changed to the C-46, then I did something (but can't remember what), and bang, right engine went off totally... Keeping the altitude was harder as usual, as trying to keep direction, but I guess with some concentration I would have been able to go back to Waimea-Koala RWY... On these pics you can see the bank & pitch I had to keep in order to keep flying, but I was loosing speed quite fast.

Yo folks The other day it happened to me something out of the ordinary in Flight, AND with the C-46 : an engine failure !! I'm not very sure on how it happened, or what happened, but I was flying with friends, I popped up among them and here is what I saw : My left engine was dead. Nothing more to say

I don't really know how to share via Skydrive but here is a link Just tell me if it works

Yo I have a "little" ATI 5770 and 2 screens (one 32" 16/9 720P TV, and one 19" 4/3 screen). I use the TV set for main screen, and the 19" for the nav set. I have absolutely no fps loss when in double screen. You may have noticed that MS Fligh blacks the other screen out it you run it fullscreen. To prevent that, you'll need a script like "Full Screen" script for Autohotkey. Then you'll have to uncheck "Fullscreen" in MS Flight, place the Flight window nicely on your main screen then hit the "Win+F11" (shortcut in AutoHotkey script), and voilà you have one full screen Flight and one other screen you CAN see. Another trick I noticed : if you want to move the window like you want without Windows catching it for the edge of the screen you'll have to have screen 1 (main screen) on the left, screen 2 on the right, and with a slight shift between the 2 screens (the "fit to screen" option will go away if the screens are not aligned AND the game window is spreading even just one pixel out of the main screen). Now you just have to run you other apps on your second screen. I hope I was clear enought !

If, in the "Cameras.cfg" file, you tag an outside (like "Spot" or "Screenshots") camera "cockpit" in definition, you'll have the sounds changing to sounds from inside the cockpit, even if the cockpit was not unable from the start... Another little good thing from Flight.

And all the "database" bugs for the C-46 (some tasks are unable to start like in Puu Waa Waa ranch, easy to see just pick a task with the whale there...).

Talking about beta, it seems that Soliceste & Loki (I just presume) are working on some patched version of Flight... Seem on Steam here

I'm sorry, maybe I should post a setting that suits more the C-46 faux cockpit. I tried thiese values yesterday, maybe a bit too close still : InitialXyz= 0, 0.2, -0.4 Today I'll try it with 0. 0.15, -0.6, specific for the Commando whale. I know it's boring to have something that will work with only one plane, but not everybody uses all the VC-less planes in one row I hope :ph34r:. That means only to change these values BEFORE you start the sim, not so much harassment :lol: I don't see how you could not pass 150kts with it, full power, no flaps, good trimming and voilà I fly 170kts @3000ft levelled before you realize it ! Maybe another "mixture" bug ? I'm using auto-mixture (no quadrant) To get people to know about the plane ingame, here is a video of the real world plane that got us the civilian livery :rolleyes: About the military one I didn't checked extendly, but this video shows how SLOW this whale is turning airborne ! Those videos makes me realize how good is sound rendition in the game...

So, about the C-46 : I think even without cockpit, as it IS something else compared to all the other birds in Flight, it is a good investment if the change is not too rare for you. It is, as said above, a very demanding plane if you are just jumping out of an Icon A-5... It's heavy, slow to response on yaw and very effective if you are doing things in the right order. First thing with it I had to find the stall speed, and the bully can fly quite slow (>74kts stabilized) for its sheer size, the stall is hard and frank so beware not to drop it ! When you start getting used to flying it slow, you'll understand the beast better. It is a fun and interesting plane, very nice modelled, but I have very rarely used other models of C-46 in other simulation games, so I hope for some feedback from people having more C-46 in other softwares (or even IRL would be better !). I don't like VC less birds as I feel they are incomplete, but this one is an okay good adult toy, I don't regret the spent.

I would suggest that there is somewhere a real copy of a setting, so that people could use a model, like this (obviously mine, but I'm sure there are better settings, and it may vary from one VCless plane to another so you have to find a "middle position" that suits all your VCless planes...) : [CameraDefinition.013] Title = $Screenshot View Description = My personnal camera setting for those cockpitless warbirds. Origin = Cockpit MomentumEffect = Yes SnapPbhAdjust = Swivel SnapPbhReturn = False PanPbhAdjust = Swivel PanPbhReturn = False Track = None ShowAxis = Yes AllowZoom = TRUE InitialZoom = 0.8 InitialXyz= 0, 0.2, -0.3 SmoothZoomTime = 2.0 ZoomPanScalar = 1.0 ShowWeather = Yes XyzAdjust = TRUE ShowLensFlare=TRUE Category = Cockpit PitchPanRate=30 HeadingPanRate=65 PanAcceleratorTime= 3.0 ClipMode = Spot UseSimVelocity = TRUE CycleHidden=No XYZRate=0.75

As explained before in other topics about Flight's state, there has been absolutely NO CHANGE in the game's state, so no, there are no more missions or tasks ingame. There are no specific missions for the C-46 so far, I wonder if Loki is brave enough to get a look in the tasks creation kit and would be able to apply some changes to this part of the game ? Maybe (surely) it's not his work... Or maybe some former dev. let some trail on how to do this ? But that is A WHOLE LOT OF SPECULATION !...

And the military livery : About the cockpit position, I have made some months ago modifications in my own config. that may interact with what has been done. The default camera is still far ahead the plane I believe...

Curtiss C-46 is the last and least DLC from Flight team that was finished before the announce of Flight's demise. As the whole Flight team is disbanded, Soliceste & Loki, community managers, have been able to get this very last (and also the bigger !) plane DLC for Flight out of the pipes. The plane is already released on Live market and within the game DLC market (means Live too). You may notice that the price is reduced if you instabuy from ingame (560 points) rather than from the website (640 points). There is the US store link I wasn't able to see it in the Steam Flight DLC list. There is no checklist nor detailed cockpit view for this plane. Flaps (3 notches) and trim are functional for me. Some pictures I took : More pictures from the military livery later ! Statistics from within the game (sry, in FR units) : 65 seats, 8165kgs max payload, 5300l max fuel, 14700kg gross weight, lenght 23m, widht 33m, cruise speed 370km/h, VNE 437km/h, 2797kms max autonomy, 442m for landing, 686m for take-off, 6.3m/s climb speed, 8412m practical ceiling, 202km/h max finesse with 10.0:1

Yet another cockpitless was in the tube ready for launch ?? Is it still a big surprise to me, that Flight management was just about themselves , not about players or community ? No. Communication with the team has been severed by management long time ago, after the second cockpitless thing... So why you all people seems all surprised with this ? It is cool to see the C-46 coming to Flight, even cooler that Sol & Loki were able to get this last piece out of the coffin, it's fair to thank them for having been so far the ONLY listenning people we could have on this bad story. I'll buy it with the points I have left. About the camera change for the cockpit, Loki should get a look at what we did with the cameras here, I'll look for the link of the post for him

It is possible to met the cops (and evade !) with the CC too ("Forces de l'ordre" is the nice word for Cops in french...) The mission was really intense, I was off course but still met the police RV-6 quite far from destination (it was a very short trip). As I was clearly over the ocean, no other options that going VERY low : I did some waterski @30kts and the RV-6 started eventually to aim elsewhere. After I could see it in front of me I resumed my flight more normally (means in the air). The police RV-6 was hovering above my destination, but I had no problem landing and getting the points B)

What I find brand new for me in Flight Vs FSX, is that I now have people like friends (even females !), family or absolute no-gaming-type persons that would be in the "back seat" just enjoying that subtle "I'm there" feeling along with me. Sometimes they even would enjoy do co-pilots ! I know it's very personal, but being able to share good moments like I can have in Flight with others is very important for me, even if I still flew most of the 350+ hours of Flight alone in my flat... This does definitely not happen with FSX, even my most geek friends don't want to loose their time looking at me moving my joystick & head (TrackIR) in front of pixels :D But then I switch to Flight and people are just looking, enjoying the feeling & scenery...