ttiedman

I've been receiving emails lately on a daily basis from this "Aberta Baldwin" person, who, near as I can figure, is a 79 year old woman from Georgia. She writes the following... "We've rejected every Archer II that you have ever painted because you're using fictitious reg #'s on them that belong to other aircraft. Why do you do that???????? Why do you screw them all up like that? There are many Archer II's out there to paint, why don't you just paint them instead of what you're doing?????????? Whadda waste!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hummmmmmmmmmmmm???????????? Just curious to know why? Do you need help with this?" Why yes, Aberta... I need help with this! Then she attaches photos downloaded from various aircraft sites to prove to me that my reg #'s belong to other aircraft! This poor soul is really getting upset about it! And she says "we've". I wonder who "we" is? (I hope they don't come knocking on my door to haul me away to repainters prison). Wow, Aberta... just wow!

Right now? Rob Richardson's Avro Shackleton.

Just trying to find out more about FSUIPC. These posts just led me to more confusion. No big deal, as I don't tend to think about FSUIPC that much anyway, because I have no clue as to how it works. But just thought I'd share what happened just now. I opened Avsim, saw warning about FSUIPC needing updating do to former versions being compromised. Learned from forum posts that these new updates are for both freeware and payware versions of FSUIPC. I have a freeware version from long ago, but thought what the heck, I better try to update it, just in case the FSUIPC program I have is actually doing anything to help my FSX program. Downloaded the update installer, clicked through it successfully until I got to the part that says "enter your registration key to continue". Having no key with the freeware version, I was unable to continue and had to stop right there. It appears there is no update for freeware versions after all. Oh well. Not a big surprise, but it does appear that these updates will only work for those of you using payware versions who still know their registration keys. Good luck to all!

That's all cool everybody, but for me, I find myself stressed out by the myriad of details involved in the millions of different procedures and systems for thousands of different aircraft. I guess I'm the biggest fan of ctrl+e! Daily life is stressful enough, so I sim fly to relax, and nothing relaxes me more than watching a beautiful aircraft flying through the bright blue sky with fluffy white cottonball clouds scattered here and there... whether in real life or on a computer. I would say that 99% of my sim flights are flown in spot view outside the aircraft looking at the aircraft as it climbs and decends, banks around, flaps deploying, ailerons twisting, rudders, elevators I can watch it all day and never get bored! I especially love a well-modeled thrust reverser on the heavies! GA singles, light twins, turboprops are my favorites. Mostly from the 60's and 70's era. Aerobatics from tower view with a white smoke trail turns me on also. Oh sure, now and then I'll cold and dark the old Cessna 152 and try to keep current by shooting touch and goes at Fleming Field (KSGS) as precisely as I remember doing them them in real life (by the way, the Carenado Cessna 152 and CR-1 Aeronca Champ are the only 2 payware aircraft I own after more than a decade of flying the computer) but the spot view of an aircraft in flight is my main attraction to flight sim. I can get lost in it until all the day's worries have faded away... I go into a kind of a trance watching them fly around. Scenery isn't that important to me either, as I'm watching the actual aircraft flying throughout most of the flight. I fly IFR (I Follow Roads) a lot, mostly in Minnesota/Western Wisconsin. I enjoy a nice little well modeled mom and pop country airport with lots of eye candy whenever I feel like looking at scenery, or when I'm flying a helicopter, but the big airports don't turn me on... too much hustle and bustle. They cause stress. And I'm a guy who likes to keep his hangar full. I would guess there's well over 10,000 aircraft liveries in my menu, maybe 20,000, and I like to keep them all in FSX, not in an outside file to be moved in and out of the sim. This doesn't hurt my framerates. I have a machine that is powerful enough to handle the sim with all settings maxed out and all liveries in 32 bit, but it does take several minutes for the sim to startup with all those aircraft in the menu... time spent dreaming about watching aircraft flying! Whatever works!