Hirschi

As stated by a wise entity, 42 is the correct answer. Regards Hirschi

Hello One recommendation which works great at least for me. I deleted the Axis assignment of the elevator trim and instead assigned it under "Buttons" to the coolie hat "up" and "down" buttons. The adjustment is a lot more responsive and predictable now. Unfortunately, I don't get it right to work for aileron trim with "left" and "right" coolie hat. I constantly have to trim to compensate the torque without finding a stable trim set. I understand the torque effect at a single engine prop but even the default Beech Baron 58 banks a lot (in my opinion). Is that banking correct although its a double engine prop (equalization of torque)? Regards Hirschi

Sorry for the really late answer, but somehow I missed that part. Maybe I inartfully expressed myself but I meant the same as you. External limit + internal max = more fps, internal limit + external no limitation = worse fps

Vistalizator is great. Your settings inside windows remain the same (keyboard layout, clock + date setting etc). Only speech recognition and system language is set to English.

You are surely right. Loss of aircraft due to engine malfunction is not that factor for the F-16. But thats design. High engine reliability and a pretty good (for a fighter a/c) glider. But if a birdstrike occurs or a compressor stall at low altitude its always a bail out. I don't know much about the F-18 story but i'm pretty sure it's a design thing, too, but this time as a disadvantage. Maybe the loss of one engine or a certain engine hurt the avionics hard (generator, hydraulics) so it becomes unflyable. Per simple mathematics and probabilities, 2 engines are always better than one. If the chance for birdstrike on one engine is 1%, than it is for the 2nd engine at the same time 0,01%. But I never would tell that Mr. "Sully" Sullenberger and his incredible FO Jeffrey Skiles (every commentary seems to forget him). Thats the problem with statistics. We puzzled a lot over the reason for not ejecting. I don't understand what you mean with . The Martin Baker is absolutely independent of every aircraft system afaik. A forgotten pin maybe (oh I don't want to think about that). The replays of the radar showed a normal approach, not even a short one. But thats all guesswork. I don't know what happened in the aircraft. I was only shocked, that he didn't bail out because after "Pull green apple!" is "Eject!" that phrase where pilots react to in the middle of a deep sleep. Regards Hirschi

Hehe, I always feel like "dwarfs on a plane" but shift+return is my addition to the preflight checklist. Regards Hirschi

First, I was not the biggest fan of the glass cockpit as well. No real gauges and the last thing I need during flying is to fight through menus and submenus. But the longer I used and trained with it the better became the familiarization. Now I like it because everything is well arranged around your view spots and if you set it up properly, you have all the infos you need right where you expect and need them. It's a shame that Microsoft didn't implement a better G1000 into the default a/c. But I think its totally personal preference. Some like a cockpit full of analogue gauges and a 3rd seat for the navigator, other like modern "bling bling" Regards Hirschi

Thats so true. Two nozzles, two seats and two backups of every vital system was a very good idea as long as it lasted. Reminds me of my service at military radar. F-16 out of Spangdahlem (ETAD) did some TRA work and suddenly wanted a handover to ATC for RTB although the playtime left was still about 30 minutes. He didn't say the reason and we found out via ATC he was in severe trouble due to engine problems. About 10 NM on final he crashed into a field and the saddest thing, he didn't shot out (we will never know why). That fatality was caused, probably among other things, due to the lack of a 2nd engine. A well placed EMP will cause more trouble to modern fighter a/c than a bullet, i'm afraid. Regards Hirschi

I am missing the tooltip readout of the NAV1 OBS knob course. But it seems (i'm not sure) its not neccessary since the Localizer will be catched whatever course I dial in. Is my observation correct? I just flow some nice Alpine routes. Passing Mont Blanc at 13.000' enroute from Le Versoud/Grenoble (LFLG) back to Allgau (EDJA (former Memmingen Airbase ETSM)) was stunning. Next route was EDJA to Bolzano (LIPB). Amazing dive into the beautiful scenery of that valley. Backroute from LIPB to EDJA 50 pounds below MTOW. Knewing it would be hard i used almost the whole valley to the south for climbing before turning back to my course northbound over the Alps. It was really thrilling to reach my personal "MSA" of 12000'MSL. Still had to sneak between the peaks. Above 8k it was a real p.i.t.a.. 200ft/min until the speed drops to 55kt, leveling off to gain 80kt and the next "stepclimb" of 600-1000 feet It was great fun and the scenery was just great. I never thought to get so much fun with the stock C172. Regards Hirschi

They were thinking about similar stuff 20 years ago. Back then the topic was undercarriage/gear. It weighs tons of useless (besides TO/APP) mass and takes a lot of space. The idea was to mount the aircraft on a skid for takeoff and even "catch" it during landing. But the well known old story kicked in... "What if something unpredictable happens?" I would not label that idea as complete nonsense. The "What if..." can be used for every automatization but look at modern airliners... full of computers which do a great job. Military aircraft are allready a step beyond. They are aerodynamically unstable to maximize manoeuver (i bet it's misspelled ) performance. Without an assisting computer a pilot would have a very hard job to simply keep it in the air. Regards Hirschi

I am using an AMD (but the last time for sure) Phenom II too and I encountered the same problems. The cause: overheat of CPU. No need to mention, that the cooling fan never went above 50% and I used the latest BIOS with this highly sophisticated crap erm.... cooling management. "Sir, the temps raising. Should we throttle up the fan?" "Nooooo, let it burrrrn." Solution: I installed Speedfan 4.47 to take over fan management. It's a bit complicated to setup but there are very good guides in the internet. As soon as it is configured properly, you'll never encounter overheat protective shutdowns of the CPU. But be careful, it doesn't start automatically with windows or i'm too stupid to find this setting. So start it manually or put it into autostart. Regards Hirschi Edit: After running FSX with Speedfan for the first time, it was the first time I heard my CPU fan, too. They (AMD) rather let the CPU die than to cause some noise I think. I don't know.

geez, totally overheard the meters. Thanks a lot. That must not happen. Regards Hirschi

Thank you, Dave.

terrible accent (although beeing a German by myself) but his RVR minimum was 200 which doesn't fit into one of the official limits. Are there different limits possible for example company regulations or regional restrictions? Another thing but off topic... the flaps ind the vid deployed a lot faster than in the PMDG. Regards Hirschi

Or just don't use FSX ATC. If you miss the handovers every 30 sec or the laugh because you get handed off to an approach controller at FL370, request flight follow from ATC. If you want to takeoff with ATC clearance during IMC, generate a fake flightplan in FSX and cancel it as soon as you're airborne. Regards Hirschi