Hossfly68

But jp, what does it mean? I got my IFR rating but never heard that down here on the Gulf Coast. Always up late. I wake up at 5am and drive a delivery route out in the boonies all day. By the time I get home, I'm wound like a clock spring! Well, if they still had springs.

That's got to be a mnemonic, but not one I learned.. Then again, these days I'm surprised I can remember GUMPS

I fly GA VFR almost 100% and I look out the windows most of the time to check landmarks, traffic, and mostly just to look around. If the scenery on this one is as accurate as we've been shown, I'll be doing that even more. Once you get trimmed out, there's very little "flying" to be done other than minor course and altitude corrections. And this has the added benefit of being able to do some actual bush flying with animals and such moving around.... I'll be glued to the windows! Besides, my instructors always said "Get your damn head out of the instruments and look outside to see what's around that might hit you!" .. They stopped saying that when I went through Instrument training though.

IFR and VFR navigation techniques are pretty much the same up until landing. VOR or GPS navigation techniques should be learned, or will be learned actually, before you get your Private. I was IFR qualified before I gave up flying. And I could do it, I was decent at it, but I did NOT enjoy it. Flying single pilot GA IFR is work. With that being said, I have discovered (in the sim and in real life) that I used the lessons I learned in IFR to make VFR a lot easier. Even on a pure VFR day, it was easier to file an IFR plan and fly it that way with a lot of eyes watching and helping you safely get from point a to point b. In the sim, I fly low and slow VFR. It's for relaxation. I use real weather updates though so if it isn't too bad I'll open an IFR plan and finish, but if it looks like it's going to be a rough day, I'd just as soon land, save it as my default flight so I can "climb back in the plane" and start back there when the weather clears. My current aerial roadtrip ended in Ashville, NC. From there, I'll probably continue to the east coast and follow it down to Florida. Maybe a quick hop over to the Bahamas for some Virtual Conch salad and island hopping fun before working my way back home to Mobile, AL. If you fly IFR (In real or sim), just remember what my instructor told me. "An Instrument rating is nothing more than a license to practice. Don't use it to get home in a bad situation. Use it to get safe before you get into a bad situation."

What speed is your memory set to in the bios? Ie: if the memory is 3600mghz, is it set to actually run at 3600? Screen resolution in game set to actual res of screen? Just a couple thoughts I had since you said you built it yourself.

I had a flight sim on the TRS-80 color computer. I think (but am not sure) that it was the original one that became MS Flight sim. But the first sim I REALLY got into came much later. Red Baron 3D. I LOVED flying in online campaigns with that game! Flew with the Lone Wulffe squadron as LW_Hoss.

I'll go around all day in the sim. No harm, no foul, and most importantly, no money lost. When I was working on my Private, I was usually flying with 12 other Cessnas in the pattern and I was the ONLY native English speaker.... And this was in Tennessee! Uncontrolled airport, international flight school, 90 degree days, expensive avgas! Constantly on the lookout for some wannabe hotshot rookie non English speaker flying under me on final to get to the runway!

No certain answer but I had something similar when I installed a scenery for the Cayman Islands. It turned out to be some sort of glitch with the shadows... They extended up, out and over everything. Are you using DX10 and Steve's DX Fixer? Or it DX10 Preview checked by accident? Not that it may be the cause, it's just that somebody will ask and I like being the first every now and then. My answer was removing the Cayman scenery and I haven't tried it since to see if it's still there.

Windowed mode.... so simple.. like the Jitterbug. It plum evaded me. That honestly never would have occurred to me!

Well... It didn't work. Mobile bay turned into land and trees.. no water. I probably did something wrong. I'll try it again this weekend and follow instructions to the tee.

That’s exactly what I was looking for! Thanks Jethro!

I've seen the answer. I've looked for it for two days and can't find it. Can anybody point me to the right cure for water running up slopes near the shore? Seems like it had something to do with an edit to the scenery.cfg file but I didn't have the problem so I didn't pay much attention to the cure. I fly mostly out of Mobile Downtown (kbfm) and there is a small drop to the water at the edge of airport property. I have water climbing up that small cliff, and I have it in other airports near rivers and/or sea side. I'm using FSX Steam with Dx10 and Steve's fixer. I'm also using GEX and Ultimate TerrainX. It might have been happening for a while but I just noticed it the other night when I took off to the south and looked back. So no clue whether or not the addons caused it, but I don't think they did.

Welcome back! I am still trying to figure out how/why FedEx would remove your hard drive. Hope your computer and internet connection are fast though. The new sim is going to use a lot of resources from what I've seen, and the scenery will be downloaded over the net as you go.

Welcome back my fellow Southern fan! Win 10 isn't bad. I'm actually running FSX Steam on a Win 10 laptop and have no problems at all. I am planning a massive new computer sometime in the near future, but only so I can run the new sim when it comes out.

I’m a fat pilot! LoL Nope, didn’t even bother leaning it out. But I took Nyquil. That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it!

Oh yeah! I almost forgot! I took off from KIDA in both the stock 172 and the Carenado 172N. I could barely managed 500 ft per minute and never experienced the super lift.. Good looking little airport though with nice FPS. I'm perplexed. Would like to know if there's a solution found.

Nope. My super soarer's name was Emerson Ford. I think he was 89 years old back in 1995, so he probably been gone for years. We used to slope the dam in Nashville. Fun days! 25 guys sloping for hours and then hitting the Chinese buffet in mass for dinner.

Unseen thermal activity? I've hit what I've called "hat sucker" thermals before in a 172 IRL. And I used to fly RC sail planes with an 89 year old former flight instructor that swore that the Piper Tri-Pacer made an incredible thermal rider and an even better slope soarer. I always laughed when he said these things because it was a well known fact that he could slope soar a brick like it was weightless.

In real life, I'm partial to KMEM from the 1970's. Only because I grew up running around that airport and being welcomed into the Southern Airways pilot's lounge and flight prep area with my father. In the sim, I fly out of Mobile, Alabama mainly because I got my Instrument rating there and I know the area now. I really only fly the Carenado 172N but I've been exploring different little strips throughout the Bahamas in the last few months. Makes for a nice Saturday flight over, around, and back to southern Florida and a virtual Disney vacation. I'll tell you one I don't like though. In real life and in the sim, anything near KATL is a bear with all the traffic.

I think I used to use the top, right screw on the artificial horizon as a reference. I foy the Carenado 172 now and it has a small, molded in dimple type thing on the panel that works well for centerline reference.

That was it! Thanks F16J! All is as it should be. Thought I had the latest version so I didn't even expect that/

Sorry, I forgot to mention. I did. Same thing shows up.