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On 11/20/2022 at 8:09 AM, Ray Proudfoot said:

Thanks for your report Ken. I wonder what they’ve done with all the kit they never sold. They’ve definitely gone out of business. Website down. Is there a Registered Companies website in the US where you can check company details like owner etc?

The good news is all my switches and buttons are still working after 20 years and after a thorough clean the dials and knobs work fine on the MCP.

Steve at Pollypot has the original GoFlight drivers and provides great support for P3D, XP and MSFS.

They were selling spare parts on EBay. One of their vendors was selling leftover parts too. Not much left there now. 

16 hours ago, graemeb said:

I think the nearest you will get is FSWidgets: http://fswidgets.com/shop/index.php

 

Thank you

6 hours ago, chris_eve said:

Doubt you'll achieve anything like this with FS9 and an iPad … the technologies are simply too far apart.

However, there are/were "bolt-ons" for FS9, using FSUIPC if I remember correctly, that could put data like this (or similar) onto a separate monitor. As to current availability and functionality on modern hardware, I don't know. It also assumes you're using a PC with (at least) a dual monitor setup.

Good luck :)

Thanks for the reply Chris

I’m looking for software that will sync my iPad to FS9. Specifically like what airliners use now in the cockpit. Moving map of airport, flight plan route and charts. What do you recommend? 
 

thank you 

Chris,

this video and your others are very well done. thank you for sharing.

9 hours ago, Wise87 said:

Just an update, Amazon US is finally shipping my preorder yoke pack from their facility in Reno, NV and it will arrive next week via USPS. The Thrustmaster US eShop now has Yoke Pack available for shipping if anyone is looking for one. What a pain to get one. Still no word on the Throttle Quadrants. 

Our Amazon orders shipped out of the same location and same time it looks like. New Egg hasn’t shipped the quadrant yet. I’m opening up the yoke and throttle from Microcenter as we speak. 

Mine will be delivered tomorrow. Crazy how you can order from Dell or Amazon months ago with a promised ship date. Then their ship dates are pushed out a month or two later. Micro center who is a small retailer in the scope of Dell and Amazon has product. Ordered Monday Shipped Tuesday and is sitting in the FDX Ground DC an hour from my home this minute for tomorrow delivery. Great job Micro Center. 
 

I have a second quadrant that is ordered through New Egg in Nov.  They said in stock but that order still (preparing). No communication from New Egg when it will even ship now. 

Mitch, thank you. Your sceneries are awesome. Weren’t you doing KABQ at one point? 
 

I went on Microcenter’s website. They showed in stock for shippable items yesterday. Got an email that it shipped today and will be here Friday. 
 

I canceled my Dell order for it today. Their ship date changed twice and it’s into February. I still have my Amazon order that’s showing to arrive between Jan 19th-25th now. Should I keep the order and sell it or just cancel it? If I keep the order to sell. It would be for my expenses and product only. Price of yoke, freight to me. Tax I paid and freight to who buys it. 

I ordered off Dell with a 12/23 release date advertised. Last week they extended that to 1/7 release. I ordered off Amazon and they are saying it’s supposed to arrive by 1/5 at my house. Should I cancel one? Return one or sell it for what I paid for it? 

Thank you. I’ve been hoping you would release it. Merry Christmas. 

I'll believe it when I see it. Go Flight stuck me with a bad 737 yoke. Multiple times they said they would help fix it. They never did and ghosted me. I would never recommend Go-Flight. 

This yoke looks pretty good. It says it’s metal. I preordered from Dell. They have free expedited delivery and allocation for 12/23/21 shipping.  Amazon and others are showing sold out. 

1 hour ago, charliearon said:

I see we have progressed PAST Free College and now discussing the social economic conditions in the world. 🤔

Agreed.
 

There are so many ways to obtain college without financial debt. It’s available for anybody to EARN. 

2 hours ago, Chock said:

Dunno about that, if you were poor in the States in the early 1970s and couldn't afford college, you were pretty much guaranteed to get  a free 12 month trip to Vietnam.

I normally read past your long winded rants. My father is a disabled Vietnam vet. He was the oldest of 7 kids living in a 2 bedroom home. He still could have went to college but chose to do his duty. His college was paid for by the US Govt.  

18 hours ago, sightseer said:

how about not forcing people with multiple disabilities into homelessness because our gov would rather give tax breaks to billionaires than help a multiply disabled person get food and shelter.

My Dad is disabled from the Vietnam War. He’s not homeless. He has food. He has great medical care. He has a caregiver paid for by the Govt. Tell me something, if large corporations (billionaires) pay higher taxes, do they pass them off in increased costs on products that they provide us? Have you seen the rate of inflation this year? 

Non sure how a topic of free college turned into the USDOD budget and hunger. I can personally say if the USDOD didn’t exist that there would be many places on the planet hungry (natural disasters, wars, humanitarian missions). 
 

Back too free college, did anybody here go to public schools growing up? They were not free. Tax dollars go towards paying those schools. Free college, tax dollars would be paying for it. Going back to nothing in this world is free. 

18 hours ago, birdguy said:

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Thank you Noel. He did all the heavy lifting. I just gave him the roadmap to get there. Our children are the only legacy that’s going to matter in our lives. 

I could never understand why people are worried about changing things with freeware? If everybody felt that way, we’d have a very limited amount of repaints, scenery and such. I don’t think a publisher will pick it up for payware. FS9 is nearly 2 decades old. The money is in the newer sims. 

It existed then and exists now. Nothing is for free. You either pay for it or work for it. The United States Military provides free college. My son is in the Army earning E-5 pay right now. The Army pays his tuition at The Citadel. He’s a Junior at The Citadel and will be a second Lieutenant upon graduation next year. He just won The Presidents Award for academic and Military excellence. He just turned 21. 

On 8/3/2021 at 4:30 PM, paoloalr said:

Hello everybody

I'm one of the last who still fly with FS2004, I've searched a lot around to find and old patch for the "ground friction" but i can't find it anymore. It was a modification of the Sim1.Dll

Can somebody help me? With this patch I'll be able to perform a "one engine taxi"? 

Thank you!

I just pm'd you with the file i found. 

Another die hard FS9 user here. Johan Dees did the modified sim1.dll. He site is no longer available. He use to be here on Avsim often over the years. Not sure if he’s still around. I’ll look through my decades of downloads to see if I still have it later today.

A number of “private strips” were created in the 1980’s. The “Cocaine Cowboys” used them to fly Cocaine and weed up from Colombia. 

I always stay a video card model behind. I bought the 2080 TI from New Egg last August. They dropped prices to clear inventory for the 3080. I guess they didn’t anticipate the demand and raw material shortages for them. I ordered that morning and New Egg dropped the price of the 2080ti within 5 minutes of ordering. They wouldn’t honor the new price. I ended up having to message New Egg’s CEO on Linked In and I was able to get it at the lower price. Now all their 2080ti cards are over $2000. 

Thank you for the reply. I should have bought them years ago. I have FSX, P3D and MSFS. I just am stuck on FS9. I appreciate the quick response. If you change your mind about selling legacy products again, please let me know. Enjoy your day,

jeff