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  1. Personally, I like FS2004 as it was the first MSFS flight simulator that allowed developers to do just about anything to make it even better. I'd go so far as to say there was much more enthusiasm for it then as well. I'm sure it sold a lot of super fast computers at that time as well. FS Navigator is an incredible add-on to make your flying experiences so much more enjoyable and it has always been free. https://en.freedownloadmanager.org/Windows-PC/FSNavigator.html RADAR CONTACT is also another great add-on, which is much more realistic that the stock ATC that it comes with. https://www.simflight.com/2019/01/22/radar-contact-v4-3-at-no-charge/ For anyone interested in both flying and navigation, these 2 adds will give you about all you need. They're both functional vs other add-ons that are most eye candy.
  2. Thanks, Pat I've been away longer than I thought. Kudos to ALL the developers who leave these programs running on servers. I'll play with it and perhaps donate to the person anyway. I did know Pete Dawson let his go for free.
  3. I just downloaded FSrealWX for a 30 day free trial. I checked my WU map and saw the wx was pretty bad in Fairbanks, AL and made a few instruments approaches, visibility was less than 1 mile and had a good time. I took off from Fairbanks last night and am flying to KPIT, a 16-hour flight in the Lockheed/L10E/Modern AP. It was a nice full moon night, the Cumulonimbus? (I'm no expert) clouds were topped at up to about 10,000 feet. I'm 2 hours out of PIT and the weather is clear other than some scattered stratus clouds. So far I like it and have been reading some pros and cons here.
  4. Thanks Michael I like your idea of storm chasing! I could get into flying typhoons, hurricanes and cyclones and even weather fronts as you've described here. Excellent idea and documentation! The Ford Trimotor is a great aircraft and would be perfect equipped with the sextant! Now that flight would take some time...My record, way back in the day, was a real time re-enactment Of Amelia Earhart's last attempted flight from Lae to Howland Island...it took about 24 hours...back in my FS2K days.
  5. Interesting, this thread was started 3/ 1/2 years ago and the original poster has never responded. Getting back to the subject on hand on what might interest the readers here, I though I'd add my non-cents worth. I have to admit, before posting here I went through and read most and scanned all of the posts, and found it to be extremely interesting reading what others interests are in flight simulation. The reason I went through it first was that I didn't want to be redundant and post something that's already been covered. There are literally as many things to keep your interest in FS as the imagination can come up with. Everyone is different. My experience was as follows. 1. When I started flying FS 2000 I went through all the adventures and took all the lessons. That kept me busy for a number of years. Then FS2002 came out and repeated what I'd done in FS2K. 2. As the years went by I enjoyed flying everything large, heavy, and as high tech as possible. I wanted to be as accurate as possible....as real as it could get as they say. I probably haven't spent more than $100 dollars all told on add-on, but did purchase some programs like RADAR CONTACT, FSCaptain, and FSFlying School, which I found somewhat interesting. 3 Eventually I've found recreating historical flights, flying vintage aircraft, and the various means of navigation from just following Road Atlas maps flying to early airmail routes, including flying the the beacons. I just completed a flight recently by following the Union Pacific Railroad from Chicago to Portland, OR using only default scenery. That was not as easy as it sounds. There are so many spurs that are dead ends, which went to coal mining towns especially from Denver, to Salt Lake City and on to Cheyenne, WY where it got very confusing at times. It's quite interesting flying through the Rocky Mountains there as well. I know that country well. I was raised in SW Wyoming and went to the UW in Laramie. When I was young I delivered the Denver Post, which would come in every morning on the old milk train. We called it that as it stopped at every whistle stop along the way....well mostly. :) There were times however when they didn't have any (important reason) to stop, that they'd just toss my newspaper bundles out of the baggage car while the train was still rolling. If the bundle wires came loose or broken I could be picking up papers strung for as far as 50 yards along the station's asphalt apron.:mad: You can imagine, on Sundays when I'd have maybe 10 or 12 bundles including the stuffer adds...approximately 300 newspapers. I was the only game in town. The other big paper was the Salt Lake Tribune sold by my competitor.:( Of course I might since I'm on the subject that when I was very young 8-12 I started out delivering the local weekly newspaper, which we affectionately called the weekly wipe. :) Also, If you decide to fly it, the old beacon Airmail route goes through the mountains east of Cheyenne as well. Flying it at night in a DH-4 is a real challenge. You have to really appreciate those pilots during those days. My son, who just a couple of years ago was driving out through that country in a U-Haul pulling their car, had to turn around on I80 and go back to Laramie and spend the night. They got caught in one of those heavy mountain prairie wind storms. They said 18 wheelers were turnover on their sides and that was enough for them. Can you imagine flying an airplane that you could push across the tarmac by yourself and by hand in that type of environment? :pilot: Lastly, I've noticed no one so far has mentioned flying using sextant navigation. The sextant for FSX is available and I just recently got it loaded up in the DC-3 in FSX. I plan on spending a good amount of hours flying it as well. I spent a long time flying the Amelia Earhart routes, including her original flight from Oakland to Honolulu, which ended up as disaster after she destroyed her Electra when she blew a tire and ground looped it in Honolulu. The actual flight from Oakland to Honolulu is available to the public at the Purdue University as part of the George Putnam papers, who was also Amelia's husband. Although Fred Noonan was her navigator the flight was actually planned and drawn up by Clarence S. Williams. You can still see Fred's notes that he wrote on the plan during the actual flight. http://earchives.lib.purdue.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/earhart/id/3714 I've noticed many here like to recreate historic flights...these are some you can spend many hours recreating and flying. My latest addition to FSX.
  6. Since I had my guess without a test flight and was wrong, I'm going to say the angle of attack AOAI being over .2 would be in the red no most indicators.

     

    That's all of my guesses. :)

     

    I don'[t want to spoil it for anyone else if I'm right.

  7. alexm,

     

    No I haven't tried flying in formation with the Beaver in the Midwest Fly-in but I will. I'm guessing there's something to see that I've missed. Thanks for the hint! Also, thanks for the heads up on there being several outcomes. I got a kick out of Old guy. He doesn't like it much when you fly through his barn, but likes it when you fly through others barns. :)

     

    I've been re-flying most of that mission and even looking closer for other events! :)

     

    In Tutorial 1, First Takeoff, I thought for sure I'd see the Space Shuttle at Edwards Airforce Base in one of the hangers or loaded on top of one of the 747's. Perhaps in one version it will. I did get one more dialog from the copilot there however.

     

    Who knows, but we're having fun with this thread. I'd be willing to guess there are many people re-flying missions after reading it. :) We have a host of people looking for the waterfalls in the Hawaiian Checkout.

     

    With this computer, I have a tough time flying with the sliders set to high, but I manage to get beautiful blue water and white caps in the ocean. The glass Garmin G1000 is taxing the FPS quite a bit. I did manage to learn the G1000, and to fly the helicopters, soars planes, and the Extra pretty well from the missions. The helicopters took many hours. :)

     

    IC you're a great help with the newbies, which is nice of you. Stay in touch.

  8. In your post re: Midwest Fly-in, I assume you are referring to the amphibian plane. Have you tried flying in formation with it?
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