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The easy part about simulating warbirds is that few have actually flew a Mustang or a Spitfire.Yeah you got your charts,manuals and 2nd hand pireps but there is a built in reality buffer that allows some degree of interpretation. But coming out with a realistic 172 was asking for some lively debates especially among this crowd.Few have not flown in or flew a 172. I have over 2 thousand hours in high wing Cessna aircraft a lot in 172s.I could pick it apart but all I want is a hour or 2 of suspended reality once in a while and $50 bucks is a bargain.My issues with the FM are already covered but the power needed to get moving especially on dirt/grass is off.IMO the flaps are weak but not by to much.I also noticed the pitch can be hyper sensitive so I intend to make some cfg tweeks and maybe add some deadzone.Otherwise the 172's fm is overall in the ballpark and feels right.Like any aircraft in FSX stay within its envelope and you will be ok. None of the 172s I flew in the 80s had autopilots but this one would have killed alot of students. I was experimenting with the alt hold settings and hit something causing the plane not to descend quickly but actually rotate straight down.When I grabbed the stick it then went inverted.Under ap control,inverted and pitching wildly to ground soon rise up and smacked thee. I have had this dramatic nose down under ap alt usage happen twice. Also on my only ils attempt when switching from nav to app to capture the loc and the plane turned away from the field???? Click app and it goes to nav.Something just wonky with the ap operation.

I tore my hair for a solid week with this issue. I tried End it all, various service killers.Spent countless hours researching services and all those background progs. Disabling the countless " automatic updates" that most ever program uses. Its like trying to find the needle in the haystack. I stumbled across Game Booster. Installed it and in the options you can decide what to turn off. I turned off everything I regonized including the desktop. You then click on the game you want to run and the program then shuts em all down. Solved my random full screen minumizing. Do not know what the offender was and really no longer care. Once you end the game, Game booster then opens,restarts all the programs it closed. Worth a try.

Ive been in aviation 30 years and to my damaged ears the F-111 is right up there with the B1 and Harrier as being one of the loudest. That said, I have a Bose surroud setup and imo the engine sounds need to be redone. It sounds more like you are standing in front parking it rather than in the cockpit. I was suffering from ear fatique only after a few short flights. That constant whistle was cutting right through me. With Accufeel its just as loud with the canopy opened or closed. Other quick first impressions. As with alot of aircraft with very high top speeds, in this case mach 2 plus, its intial acceleration is overdone. Must be a FSX issue as Ive seen it with other fast movers. I went full burner,rotated at 160 or so, Got the flaps up,gear up,focused in on the the hud and I was already doing almost 500 knots a 1/4 mile off the end if the runway! The AP is a pita to fumble around with even with trackir. I HATE the knobs that you press the mouse and rotate. Still do not understand the heading select that right in front. You click/turn the knob and I see no bug? The only way I can tell the heading that being selected is the mouse tooltip. However,a little off and it dissapears. Very frustrating in a moving aircraft. Flight model seems ok but I am yet to take it up high and fast. Overall its simular quality to other Justflight aircraft Ive bought. I just need to replace the sounds with my own and try to come up with a AP popup to eliminate the fumbling around.

Edit the pilot face in the .cfg from " FACE=FROWN" to " FACE= SMILE"

You guys are great and I appreciate the help. Yeah I turned off ai traffic and lowered info displayed but saw no impact on performace. I just found that gauge,renamed it and going to do a quick hop. Thanks for the texture info. Someone will eventually redo the textures so I will wait.Would not surprise me someone is doing it as we speak.

I am one of those few oddballs that really does not care so much about the external appearance. I may watch a few replays of the landing but when I fly I FLY spend my time in the cockpit and not gazing at the panel lines. Just one stutter before touchdown is worse to me than a thousand slightly blurry rivots. I would love a low res fps freindly C90. Where do I sign up?

Now that I got my night vc lights dimmed I am pretty happy with it. The question I have is this. Anyone elses system getting hit hard by the C90? I get about the same as the 2 F-15s "huds,complex displays ect" that have been released recently which isnt good. I have tried both models "rear cabin view" of the C-90 and see no difference. I see alot of complaints and whining about other things but not fps/stutters so I thought I would ask and see before I went on another tweek o thon.

Gonna try this now. Thanks. Also my directory is texture.common not textures EDIT----- Now thats what I am talking about! Looks great man. Thanks again. Jim

Ive been in sims since Microprose F19 running on a 3 grand Tandy computer at a unheard of speed of 20 mhz. 6 months later I upgraded to a amazing 25 mhz having the salesmen ask me, "What the he** are you gonna do with that power." Its been a expensive hobby but one with no ending because of both tech advances and the devotion of developers/ simmers creating better and more exciting,diverse addons. Dont let a few impatient hotheads "if the shoe fits wear it" bring you down much less run you off. I have enough addons to buy a small car and I can say Carenado are in the good guy catagory and consistantly put out great aircraft. A patch within days and yet I read very few "apologies". What I read went beyond constructive criticism but just being a jerks. Guys with high dollar rigs with all their specs listed so all can gaze. Then act like they got ripped off by Bernie Madoff on a $40 for a addon thats not perfect. Tell em to go play Call of Duty.

No photoshop so I will wait till modded textures are posted. But yes, with the rocker on, all gauges are lit but when you turn it off, the displays stay lit but the steam gauges go dark.

I am going to load FSX and do some flying after supper but IIRC I turned off the rocker since the panel floods were blinding me and some of the gauges/displays were lit while some like airspeed was darkened. Seeing some lit and other criticals like airpeed being dark confused me but no amount of knob twisting and button pressing did any good.

Keep it up guys cause I do alot of night flying. I just do not understand why the individual gauges are not all lit? At least dimming the overall brightness of the panel floods is a start and I appreciate it! Btw I would like to get my hands on that dimmed bmp and a dummys guide to installing it.

I fly vampire hours so if I can get all the guage lights lit and the panel lighting dimmed then I will be content. I also replaced the reverse sound with another. The stock sound imo sounds like gravel is being ingested by the engine. The systems junkies can fight over the other "issues".

Snowboarder..... If you have not tried its a good idea to reboot after a major patch. Now if I can get some panel light mods for my night flying I will be content. All I did after the patch was replace the reverse sounds with another pair. The stock sound like the engines are full of gravel lol.

Rossdh good idea. The accusim prog has created some wierd effects mainly just as you stated. I am not looking at it now but turn it off and /or move the stall/buffet sliders full right. The Asoft F-16 goes through a simular bounce even way above its stall speed since its not accurately set by the sliders.