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In putting in the coordinates listed on the webpage, I wouldn't call it much of an airport, maybe a flat place for an airplane to land. Try putting this coordinate ( 18.3283 -64.7475 ) into Google Maps and see what it shows :)

My first flight simulator like this was the subLogic one back in the middle 1980's. I also 'flew' many of the Microprose combat aircraft games back in the day. Although, nothing will beat my days in the US Navy when I got to fly the F-14 simulator at NAS (now MCAS) Miramar and the S-3 Viking simulator at NAS North Island, while I was getting qualified to be a engine turn qualified mechanic on those airplanes :)

point.1= 1.000, 86.420, 0.000, -16.220, 1181.100, 0.000, 1.942, 60.000, 0.430, 2.500, 0.624, 10.500, 10.500, 0.000, 0.000, 0.000

 

Adjust the 0.430 on this line, this is actually the nose landing gear, make is something like 1.000 or greater

I'm not an ex-F14 RIO, but I was an ex-F-14 engine mechanic and did work on the 14 for 8 years. To get out of the backseat, you'd back your way out, using one leg to step on the little drop down step, then your other leg to step over to the top rung of the ladder next to the step. It was a bear to get in and out of the plane, for sure.

 

BTW, I was stationed at Miramar when VF-111 painted this CAG bird up with the "Miss Molly" markings. Caught everyone's eye when it would taxi for takeoff and taxi back to Hangar 3 when she returned. A real beauty paint job for sure!!!!

Sadly, there are going to be those that do that, no matter the sim. I haven't used MSFS myself, I'm sticking with my FSX because it's been very stable for me, and I'm still able to make changes and add planes. And I don't plan on going to it, because of the way I like to fly in FSX, mainly IFR, up above where the eagles fly!!! So, I don't need to see all the buildings and look for my house in the sim kind of thing.

 

But, that doesn't mean that I'm going to bash MSFS. It is a work in progress, not like in the old days when you got a program, it was a complete program, with the occasional patch to fix issues as they pop up. I think I heard someone say that this is going to be a 20+ year project, which means alot of updates, patches, so on. It's not going to be for everyone, for sure.

Must be someone looking at how calendars came about, something about them upset them, and are now looking to cancel them :)

Doubt there's any scenery for these island, as they don't have any active airfields on them. Have to slew your way to the coordiantes of the islands to see if those even exist in FS. I know from doing research about old army airfields that Baker Islands had a 5000+ ft strip on it, but after the war, it was abandoned.

 

Might even try that when I get home from work, I'm curious about this myself :)

Well, looking into this further, I don't they are active anymore. I checked into one of the pilots that's listed as flown recently, and his last flight was 400 days ago. I used to be a part of them, but left for one reason or another, so I'm not sure. But, from their website, it doesn't look like it

May have been a good landing, but the contact points for the engines might be off enough that when the plane touched down, it triggered the contact points, thus the fires on the engines. Used to see that sometimes when I flew on FS9 with the Posky planes too.

AIG stuff was made for FSX, so it's a roll of the dice if it will work with the new Flight Sim. Check on their forums to see what they say

Windows 11 has been working just fine for me. I think it's a little more stable than Windows 10 was, and aside for the minor differences between 10 and 11, I really like it so far. I have learned over the years to not put things where Windows wants to put them, such as Program Files, or even placing things in your personal profiles, mainly because of permission issues. And because of doing things that way, it has limited any permission issues I've had. And all my programs have run fine. Only issue I've had up to now with FSX:SE is that my QualityWings BAe-146 doesn't run on it. IN fact it crashes the sim whenever I select it. No other aircraft thus far has done that. But, not something that will frustrate me about the new setup, something I will work through, or around. I've been in IT over 25 years, and just another fun challenge for me to figure out!!!

You know, now that you've said something, Asobo will actually listen and make a change to ruin everything you just said :)

Upgraded my computer to Windows 11 last week and had alot of issues loading the box version. I ended up buying the Steam Version and it's working fine. Had some issues with ActiveSky connecting and running with the Steam version, but downloaded the beta patch for it and now it's working fine too. Some learning curves to get it working, but have finished 2 flights in it now, and it's working fine.

The settings on AI aircraft are drastically different than the flyable ones. Usually, the weights done match the actual aircraft, the fuel is less, and the MOI are usually WAY off. They do look pretty when you fly past one in the air, or see one taxiing or parked at an airport. But flying one of them is a monster!!!

This aircraft was originally an AI aircraft, thus the work needed to get it to where it was user friendly. Since we still don't have a quality A350 for FSX yet (and if we ever will), the team from FSP did some work on their AI A350 package to get it for users to fly. I know I put in a ton of work to get mine to fly right, and I'm still messing it with it

When dealing with freeware aircraft, remember it's usually one person that's doing all the work to put something like this together. Chances are, freeware aircraft aren't going to be uber-detailed. If your looking for something like that, you might want to look at QualityWings for there 787. I'm sure they would have all the doors working that you're looking for.

Well, after seeing a thing called Farming Simulator, I wouldn't have been surprised there would have been something like that!!!

It's got a lot of "holes" in the coding of the program!!!

Nothing more fun than flying the beast pretty much manually. Having to control the speed, rate of climb, and programming the INS. Give you a new respect for the pilots that flew this bird back in the day!!!

Maybe he's flying the 727 as it was designed back in the days before GPS? I know I do!!

I wouldn't be surprised if Captain Sim actually updates their C-130 to MSFS. I just hope that when (and if) they do, they actually update it so that the J has the glass flight deck and not still use the analog flight deck. But, I still enjoy the analog flight deck anyways when I fly her

Best way I've found is to select certain points on the flight plan, find those coordinates, and then program them into the INS. You won't be flying the flight plan exactly, but looking for points that have a major turn in them will get you somewhere close to that flight plan from SimBrief. It would be pretty close to flying VOR to VOR, you just won't have all those waypoints in between

If the wind at the airport was out of the southwest, then the ATC will select runway 24. If no wind, then it will select the runway that has ILS, so if Rwy 24 has ILS and Rwy 6 doesn't, chances are it will select 24 over 6. If neither of the above, it will send you to the nearest starting point, so it you are closer to 24 then 6, it will send you to 24. This is also a problem in other versions of Flight Simulation as well

Don't think the Level D aircraft are compatible with MSFS since they were made around FS2004. Do your controls work with the default airplanes in MSFS?

The Viking and the Tracker are two different airplane. The Tracker is the old S-2, prop driven model for ASW, the S-3 is the Viking. Dino never made a Tracker, only the Viking