PhantomTweak

I imagine with a pretty strong headwind it's just barely possible. Too bad commercial/private jets don't come with tail hooks... Pat☺

That works, as long as they don't have an Aerostat. There was talk a while back of putting one on, but I don't know what, if anything, ever came of it. I know we had a couple down in the Bahamas, and there was one in Kuwait, until it got invaded. I don't know if they ever put one back up... Anyway, with an Aerostat up, I don't care how low you go, it can "see" you. I know we could "see" targets going real low-n-slow off San Diego. I am using "see" in the Radar sense... Lately, to keep it interesting, I am flying the incredible F/A-18C from over on the FSDT website. Incredible bird, the FCS and flight characteristics come as close as FSX is capable of being, and that's according to a couple of experienced real-world Naval Aviators. Or Nasal Radiators if you prefer :D It's just friggen awesome! High up over Puget Sound, heading for Whidbey... [ATTACH=CONFIG]183134[/ATTACH] a little lower, down in the Grand Canyon... [ATTACH=CONFIG]183135[/ATTACH] Have great flights to all, whatever you do! Pat☺

In general, the common wisdom is to set you FS resolution to the same as your desktop. I always do, and it seems to work fine for me! Pat☺

Personally, I've had FS9 since it came out. I loved it then, when I was running it on a P2-400 I had Dell built just for it (for about $5,000.00, as i recall). I've been transferring it from PC to PC as I upgraded, with my wife's Dell 7400 one of the best, till the HD crashed. I stuck it on my brand new Dell (yeah yeah, but they've done good by me. My wife was deep in the 7200 scandal they had, so this 1750 laptop was pretty much free, and it travels. The 7400 weighs in at a bit over 70 LBS! :D ) and it's been happily zipping along ever since. Eventually, I discovered the world of add-ons a couple years ago, whether scenery, or aircraft, or whatever, as well as the forums, and it really took off. No pun intended. I picked up FSX-SE, when it was the incredibly high price of $5.00, just to see what all the FSX fuss was over. I never did, so I still FS9 mostly. I did kinda go add-on crazy for FSX when I first got it, but it got kinda old pretty fast. Besides, this poor old laptop can't handle much in the way of add-ons anyway. Not for FSX-SE at least, altho I've never had it crash on me, I must admit. Of late, I must also admit, I've been kinda focused on this FSXBA Hornet project I'm sort-of helping out on, a little. We're making pretty long strides, too, I have to admit, and the thing is treat to fly. As near as I can tell, having studied assiduously the NATOPS, the flight characteristics, as well as hardware realism, is getting pretty darn good. I'm still trying to figure out some maneuvers, but I can land 8 times of 10 (3/10 on a carrier). For me, It's a lot of fun. I was too stupid (read foolish. Plenty brain-smart) to go to college on my parent's dime to go the officer route and fly myself, sadly, so this is the best I can do, now. So, I do! Anyway, other than that, I'm FS9 all the way, including a Hornet on it from Team FS KBT, and Dino's famous F-14D, which I love. Both slightly (ahem) modified, of course. For me, this sim is an ongoing learning experience, and I love every second of it. The details of making a decent Panel.cfg, not always very "true to reality", the "Hey, it worked!" of an aircraft.cfg, or the "so THAT'S what that does!" of an .air file, are always a bit of a thrill. So, short answer, I guess, is FS9, 85%, FSX-SE, 15%. Pat☺

You think YOU'RE happy I'm still out here.... :D I remember delivering every Green Stamp I got to my mother to paste in her books, not to mention the drawer full of books, just waiting for us to go to the Green Stamp Redemption Center. "Pat, go to the store and get us X, Y, and Z. And don't forget the Green Stamps!" All it seemed I heard after I got my liscence. Even before, once I got my 5 speed and started zooming all over, come to think... And the fantastic fountain down at Woolworths. And no, Macy's never told Gimball's! hehehehe. :p The faster the tech moves, it seems like the less it costs, for which I am certainly grateful. I think it won't be long before implantable computers are the way to go, with VR direct to the optic centers, and radio-simulated telepathy... Scary, aint it? And I will probably still be using both FS9 and FSX-SE :D :D :D Pat☺

I believe, if you got FSX for the scenery, you got the wrong Sim. I understand P3D is great for that, as is X Plane. FSX is to simulate flyinh airplanes. At lest that's how I understand it. It's not perfect at that, either, but it's pretty good, from what i can tell. No, I was never a professional pilot, just gliders and some light GA's, but flying those on FSX has been pretty close to what I recall. As for the heavy iron, No clue, but I am thoroughly enjoying the latest FSXBA FA-18C Hornet. I use a Dell 1750, made for gaming, only 2.4 GHz, 4G RAM, Radeon 3600 GFX card, getting a bit long in the tooth (do computers even have teeth??), and would you believe it, it runs FSX-SE pretty well. Been running FS9 since I upgraded to this PC ($5,000 at the time!), and that really goes for a treat. I found the trick with FSX-SE is not to demand max 3D clouds out to infinity, and ultra-high scenery settings out of it. To me, an accurate horizon and smooth operation are plenty. Oh, I do like to see the runway and lights of it clearly, not to mention the cockpit switches and gauges, of course. After all that, anything else is gravy, and this machine actually does pretty well on that too. Hardly an FSX.CFG tweak to be found, either. Just the runway lights settings you have to add in, everything else, Steam set for me. I'm sure I could get in and twiddle every setting in the CFG file and really mess things up, but why? If it aint broke, don't fix it, and one of Murphy's laws: if you mess with something long enough, you WILL break it Both rules for me to live by with FSX. Add-ons, sure, but not a lot of scenery. It's not why I got the Sim. I got it to fly planes, and THAT it does fine for me! Pat☺

Glad I could help out :D I didn't want to sound condescending, or make it too complicated for a rank tyro (Like ME!) to follow. I'm glad I could walk the fine line :) Ask me the time, I'll tell ya how to build a clock LOL! Pat☺

Easy Peasy, presuming you know the simple basics of editing a Panel.cfg file. Ready? ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS make a copy of ANY file you decide to edit BEFORE you start!!! Open the mentioned file with notepad or it's ilk. Locate the section [Window Titles] After the last entry in it, say window04=radio_stack for example, add another line, with the next number in line. In this example it would be window05=GPS. If there already IS a line with windowXX=GPS, then disregard this portion. More on this later... If you added a line then go to the section above your [vcockpit01], in this example, [window04] Add another section, similar to this: [Window02] size_mm=456,378 window_size=0.5 position=8 BACKGROUND_COLOR=0,0,0 VISIBLE=0 ident=GPS_PANEL gauge00=fs9gps!gps_500, 0,0 It may or may not be the proper size for your panel. If it is, you're done. If not, adjust the line reading size_mm=456,378, either higher numbers to make it bigger, or lower numbers to make it smaller. A little experimentation and you'l be a pro in no time. Save and done! NOW, if a GPS line already existed, as noted above, simply replace it's line gauge00=fs9gps!gps_430, 0,0 (again, just an example!) with a line reading gauge00=fs9gps!gps_500, 0,0. Save and done! Either way, you will now have a Shift+X popup window with the default FS9 GPS. Hope this is about a tad clearer than mud :D Pat☺

The saying goes "A picture is worth a thousand words" Mr. Zip "said" it a lot better than I :) Pat☺

Almost all radio stacks of any kind have an Audio control, wherewith you can tell it you want to hear Com1, COM2, ADF, NAV1 or NAV2. Some are also what you transmit on, COM1, or both, etc. Make sure the only active channel is your COM1. Sounds to me like your NAV1 is active also. The way it beeps can tell you when you pass over the outer, middle, and inner markers, NAV2 if set to the VOR can tell you what airport you're approaching...LOTS of info are available off the NAV and ADF radios. But yes, they CAN be annoying, so just turn them on and off as desired. YOURS is on... Pat☺

Wow! And only $65,000.00 too! Whatta bahgain! Still and awesome sight at a small airport :) Very very cool! Wish I could afford the Apollo capsule. What a rush to b in! Especially if you can find a real/authentic suit to wear. Too bad they were/are all custom made just for the user... Pat☺