mikeperry

It did help some. What I am working towards recreating are some of the missions flown out of Attu during WWII to Shumshu Island in the Kuriles. My wife's grandfather lost his life on such a mission and I have been interested in recreating this. I can just ignore the lack of fuel of course, but I would like to be more realistic if I can. I plan to test it later today. I also need to play with the RPM and mixture settings more.

I have been flying a B-25 model for a few months now. I enjoy it and I can land on many different sorts of runways with it and not be too unrealistic. But, I would like to increase the range on it as if it had an auxiliary tank in the bomb bay. There might be several ways of doing this, but one way that occurred to me is to modify the values for the existing tanks. Here is the relevant portion of the aircraft.cfg

 

[fuel]

LeftMain=-5.400, -4.580, 0.820, 335.000, 0.000

LeftAux=-4.830, -11.900, 1.420, 152.000, 0.000

RightMain=-5.400, 4.580, 0.820, 335.000, 0.000

RightAux=-4.830, 11.900, 1.420, 152.000, 0.000

fuel_type=1.000000

number_of_tank_selectors=1

electric_pump=1

 

If I were to increase the amount of fuel available in each existing tank would that cause extraordinary issues with performance? I am thinking of changing the amounts in the main tanks from 335.00 to something like 350.00. Not a huge change perhaps, but enough to gain a bit more range for some flights. I have never tried this before and I thought I would run it past the folks here before I try it.

 

Any help is appreciated.

I see Traffic Global for sale through Flightsim.com, but is Traffic 360 available through this site as well?

One more question. Will Traffic 360 happily coexist with MAIW traffic? This may not be an issue for me if it includes military traffic from MCAS Miramar and NAS North Island.

 

Also, I found what purports to be a list of the aircraft models in Traffic 360 and looks a bit light in small GA aircraft.

 

I am not sure how big a concern this will be for me.

As far as military, no but they have said they will make add-on packs to add military.

 

I don't have Traffic Global, have Traffic 360 which DOES include GA and Military and even helicoptors.

 

This sounds more like I am looking for. One comment, and I don't know the truth of this, is that the Traffic 360 models are simplified over WOAI stuff. If this is true, does that help with framerates? The price on Traffic 360 is lower as well and that can help with the budget.

And i just found this review. It is for X-Plane, but I assume (?) that performance in FSX SE would be similar.

 

https://www.flightsim.com/vbfs/content.php?20359-Review-Just-Flight-Traffic-Global

 

I am still looking for more opinions though. Does it also include GA and military traffic?

Looking for opinions on this. Is it worth the money? Is it a one time purchase? I am not interested in any more monthly fees. How well does it work?

 

Any and all help appreciated.

In FSXSE I am having issues where multiple panels on aircraft are not showing up. The slider setting in Aircraft Tab of the Display Settings for 2D Panel Transparency is set to 0%. In some cases I see what looks like a heads up display. Any help/suggestions appreciated.

It was obviously designed to drain your bank account.

Thanks you. This will help a lot. Now if I can get all of the 2D panels to display. Anyway, I am having a great time with FSX:SE.

My primary HDD (1tb) will be filled up soon if I keep installing more Photoreal scenery and the like. I have another, larger, HDD (2tb) that I use for storage. it has lots of space on it. I realize that some installers want to install to the primary drive where FSX SE is located, but some scenery will let it be installed where I want. Will FSX SE be able to access the scenery from a second HDD?

I e mailed Scott and heard that the Sea World scenery is still a possibility. Good news.

Time for this thread to be rezzed. Was this scenery ever released?

Will do in a bit. Many thanks for the link.

This local landmark is missing. In it's place are some bizarre greenish humps next to Mission Bay. I have looked in several places on the web for some scenery that would get rid of the unsightly "humps" and add Sea World in vain. Does anyone know of a scenery add-on for this?

 

Having said that, my last flightsim experience was with FS2002 and FSX Steam edition is a massive improvement. I am really enjoying it!

Alrighty, I downloaded AIFP. installed it, and it says it can't find the required Microsoft Flight Simulator SDK. Is that a part of the Steam install or do I need to get it elsewhere?

I don't see a Traffic.bgl on my system

My knowledge on this is way out of date. Is there a program like Traffic Tools to edit the traffic?

And found this video

 

 

That answered a few of my questions.

Download went well. Good to be back in the sky. Still working on setting up things and especially trying to understand how I can make the autopilot follow a flightplan. I think I used to be able to do that in FS2002. In any case, I am having fun with it.

 

Quick question: Does anyone know of any scenery for KSEE Gillespie? It is the nearest airport to my house and what I prefer to fly out of. Thank you all again.

Thank you. Will download it later today.

ON Amazon I am told I can purchase a used copy of FSX for 80+ U.S. dollars. I can go to Steam and get a copy for less than $30 U.S. dollars. Am I missing something here? I have been away from FS for a few years and I don't have a system that can run the latest version. I am likely going to go through Steam but before I do I would like to know if there are any hidden downsides to doing so. Using Win 10 BTW