Buffy Foster

The OP was pretty funny and I think we can all relate to it, but the 'moneymaking scam' part wasn't. Theres a lot of ppl working hard, putting their hearts into it, and making amazing things for flight sims. Some, like the "Return to Misty Moorings" group, even doing it for free out of love for flying. And tons of ppl that are happy and cheerful and ready to help ppl here. :)

Yikes, maybe look in your Event Log for hard disk errors? Sounds like one of the things that happens when a disk starts failing... 😞

I think some dependencies, like those dang VC++ libraries, would be an issue, too.

Yup: New third-party GPS integration options (Flight 1 GNS 430 and GTN 650 and RealityXP GNS 430) Check out the "Features" tab: https://a2asimulations.com/product/accu-sim-p-51d-civilian-p3dv4/

A2A have released their Accu-Sim Mustang, both Civilian and Military versions, for P3Dv4! \o/ The Accu-Sim P-51 Mustang is here finally in its P3Dv4 guise. Back in 2004, we released a P-51D for Microsoft Flight Simulator 9 that used a flight modelling process known as “Absolute Realism.” A lot of characteristics were being experienced for the first time in flight simulation. If you flew flight simulators, you were used to the old “yank and bank” as most flight simmers held the position that aircraft really didn’t spin. This was largely because, back then, developers were largely programmers, with no flying experience. Even today, while it’s getting more common, it’s still rare to find a developer who actually has even taken the controls of a real aircraft.Today, A2A has the wind at our back, with Accu-Sim helping to bring serious aviators and simulation together. However, the industry as a whole hasn’t really budged that much as people are discovering that it’s not enough to be a pilot, or even a highly experienced pilot. It takes an entirely different skill set to be able to observe, translate, and re-create the experience. It’s not being a pilot, aeronautical engineer, or even a highly skilled aircraft modeller that makes the difference. It’s the combination of “all the above” with, perhaps most importantly, a relentless drive to re-create the most believable experience possible. Even if you have never flown an aircraft before, you as a living person with an inherently deep sense of what is right or wrong in the physical world you live in. You touch things, see things, and hear things every minute of every day. So trust your instincts, because, if it doesn’t feel or sound right to you, it probably isn’t right.Also, in the real world, actions create lasting results, both good and bad. There are consequences everywhere inside of a cockpit, especially a high performance, propeller-powered, combustion driven aircraft. This is where the persistent aircraft makes all the difference. In the real world, you don’t get a fresh new aircraft every time you strap yourself into the cockpit. The aircraft is a physical machine that exists in the world. If your aircraft was pulling to the right when you parked it, it will still be pulling when you taxi to the runway the next day. When things happen in a simulated world as you expect in the real world, you start to treat it as if it is just that, real.With lasting results, wrapped inside the newest modelling and advanced material-making techniques, you will have an aircraft that you can spend not just minutes, but hours admiring.. Together, with professionally recorded sounds and physics, the end result is the sense of having a complete, real, majestic, raw, flying machine stuffed inside your computer. And we hope, you don’t just treat it like any aircraft, but rather like “your” aircraft.We hope you enjoy your new beautiful bird, and hope you learn to fly and treat her well.

If you do right-click->Extract all on that MV310R v3 file it should give you a folder with that name, and inside that folder should be the installer exe that you run. When it runs it will install the plane, the TrueGlass, and the RealLight kits. You'll prolly want to register at the MilViz forums, too, and get the v3.7 update, which is the latest.

Maybe a little bit OT? Will the MilViz King Air have this kind of engine modeling too?

Wow my Dad (who buys me my planes) got the email. And Oisin does a great job of customer support at MilViz; he got me set up on their support forums for my MilViz planes just as nice as can be. And their forums are real helpful and the ppl are real nice there, too. I think an apology is in order, too. 😠

Congraulations @Milviz! \o/ I'm still loving my Cessna 310R! 🙂

Thanks, Keven! \o/

im glad it worked! \o/

Nvidia driver 397.93 came out a couple days ago. Seems to work real nice.

I think flying is a slower and less "exciting" thing than most games, and ppl get hooked on the dopamine hits from the games. And I'd hate for flight sims to become more game-like, except maybe adding missions and achievements like FSW was adding. Those were lots of fun. Win10 and PSDv4 are super nice, I think, and easier to set up and fly in than Win7 and FSX were. And lots of ppl my age (22) still have nice PCs, there's a whole PC vs Console competition with gamers. So I don't think less ppl my age flying is cuz they dont have nice PCs. I think lots and lots of ppl in my generation are used to and maybe even dependent on an environment where everything is noisy and busy and "exciting". I noticed that in music and movies, too. 😢 There's fun younger ppl talking about and showing flight sims to younger ppl though, like The Sky Lounge, Doofer911, and Froogle. So I think there's hope still. Plus I think that ppl making nice pix and movies and even telling stories about their flights makes it interesting to more ppl too. And I think vendors making nicer installers helps too; like Orbx has their super nice installer, A2A made all new ones now and a nicer store, etc. All that helps make everything smoother and less fiddly I think. It would be interesting to see what the age ranges were like 10 or 15 years ago too. Maybe younger ppl always were a smaller share, and ppl grow into wanting to do flight sims? -Buffy

Thank you! 🙂

Looks like the AI picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue...

Thank you! 🙂

Thank you! 🙂

Nice flight and pix! 🙂

Looks real nice! 🙂

Really nice pix! 😉

Looks real nice! 🙂

Took my MilViz Cessna 310R Redux out for a casual cruise from Friday Harbor to Olympia, Washington. 🙂 Parked at Friday Harbor Airport (KFHR) by Buffy Foster, on Flickr Over the islands of Puget Sound. by Buffy Foster, on Flickr Zoom! by Buffy Foster, on Flickr Sightseeing altitude. by Buffy Foster, on Flickr Puget Sound is such a pretty place to fly! by Buffy Foster, on Flickr More Puget Sound islands. by Buffy Foster, on Flickr The Space Needle and downtown Seattle by Buffy Foster, on Flickr Approaching Seattle, Washington. by Buffy Foster, on Flickr The Space Needle by Buffy Foster, on Flickr Skyscrapers by Buffy Foster, on Flickr Flying over Boeing Field by Buffy Foster, on Flickr Short final... by Buffy Foster, on Flickr Taxiing by Buffy Foster, on Flickr

And St. Paul, too, since they're right next to each other. 🙂

A new scenery for their Balearic Islands (Mallorca, Menorca, and Ibiza) also available as an update from their previous Balearic Islands X Evolution. New in the P3D V4 version: All code (BGLs) compiled with P3D V4 SDK, using new material options and being performance optimised to the new engine All objects optimised for new shadow technology Ground layout following P3DV4 SDK High-resolution satellite images (ca. 0.5 m/px) covering the whole island Appropriate autogen and city objects Photo realistic coverage of the islands can optionally be turned off New highly detailed elevation models for the islands with a resolution of 5 m Numerous static vehicles like buses, baggage carts, etc. Animated jetways (STRG-J), SODE jetways as an option* New, optimised 3D runway lighting with activation/deactivation based on time of day and weather conditions Apron lamps with new effects and dynamic light Changed AFCAD approaches to AirDac 1804 Dynamic vehicles on airport feeder and apron (AESLite) Scenery registration following P3D V4 add-on.xml procedure Configuration tool to control some options https://www.aerosoft.com/us/flight-simulation/prepar3d/sceneries/2411/balearic-islands-professional I have the X Evolution version of this, so I'm eager to compare them! 🙂 -Buffy

Yeah prolly shouldn't have said anything. :P Keep your fire extinguisher close for a week or so now... :D