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A few months ago @Nels_Anderson suggested he might write up a short tutorial on searching. As different website creators use different techniques, it would be useful to know things like: Are multi-word search terms defined by quotation marks, underscores or hyphens? Or do spaces count as part of the same term? (This one at least I've already discovered by trial & error). Is other punctuation treated as a space? Does a minus sign work to exclude a word? e. g. Piper -repaint Does an exclusion work in conjunction with quotation marks? e. g. Piper -"gates of dawn" Do capitalised operators work or are they treated as extra terms? e. g. Piper AND Narcizo Do they require their own delimiters? e. g. Piper -AND- Narcizo Symbols? e. g. Piper & Narcizo or Piper / Narcizo Do they work with quotation marks? e. g. "Piper Navajo" OR "Piper Cub" Which one would Piper Narcizo turn out to be? Some members probably also need an explanation of things like the difference between AND and OR. D

Tell us that's no more VA and not no more flying!

Hi Peter. I wonder what plane you downloaded, and from where. I thought I'd have a look at what is available in the library here. For Mike Stone's Clipper, I found four useful downloads: two complete aircraft and two updates. I found no problem taking off with all these variations on his B314. Dave Torkington's Dixie Clipper -- full aircraft Don Brynelsen's Island Queen -- full aircraft "Boeing 314 Clipper Upgrade" by Bob Chicilo -- replacement b314.air & aircraft.cfg "Boeing B314 Pacific Clipper NC18602" by Evan G. Butterbrodt -- another replacement aircraft.cfg *** Dave Torkington's Dixie Clipper has a clean panel with magnetos & battery, but no generators. Without altering fuel or payload, it lifts itself out of the water at around 108 kt if trimmed very slightly nose up. I think it may climb slightly better than Don Brynelsen's Island Queen which I also tried. For sound, it aliases the stock DC3 sounds so if you've deleted that aircraft, you won't hear much. The Island Queen has more informative engine gauges. It also takes off perfectly well. I do miss the semblance of a proper startup though - Ctrl+E doesn't really do it for me, and it's necessary to watch engine rpm while continuing to hold the keys down: I was misled by the manifold pressure gauges and ended up with only three engines running. On the other hand, it automatically extends full flaps when you start the engines and rises onto the step at about 85 kt. With a tad of nose-up, it takes off at about 97 kt. It has its own sounds but some of the wavs are really badly clipped, making it horrible in cruise. Third trial, having opted for the Island Queen, was to add Bob Chicilo's upgrade: a reworked b314.air file, an alternative aircraft.cfg file and some revamped effects. Copying the aircraft.cfg across (per the readme) is a mistake as it doesn't have the correct repaints listed so I pasted the relevant text into the existing aircraft.cfg. The spray & wake are much improved but the plane now needs a lot more nose up to part company with the water. All three iterations so far handle too much like the stock C172 for my liking. Even with 100% fuel though no payload, they are all very sprightly. On such a large and old aircraft I'd expect a lot more inertia but maybe I'm just getting used to that C-130... A 75° bank and still climbing just doesn't seem right. Final trial was with Evan G. Butterbrodt's alternative aircraft.cfg file. A two second glance showed vastly increased moments of inertia so I was hopeful of more realism once airborne. I didn't want to mess about with textures so same routine: copy the text & paste into the existing aircraft.cfg. It needs even more nose-up to unstick. It also has a better rate of climb. It still has a surprisingly light response to inputs but isn't nearly as neurotically twitchy. Now, if only it had a VC... For sound, in the end I opted for a set of Rolls-Royce Hercules. I don't recall where it came from - might have been Aeroplane Heaven, First Class Simulations or Wings of Power. Possibly even a library download. It's warmer, relatively gentle on the ears in the cruise... and unbelievably loud at full chat. *** My favourite combi is below but, as I wrote, all these taxi, take off and fly. Base aircraft included in Don Brynelsen's Island Queen (iqb314db.zip) Bob Chicilo's effects & improved b314.air (b314up.zip) Evan G. Butterbrodt's improved flight dynamics in aircraft.cfg (b314_02.zip) Avro Lancaster RR Hercules sounds D

Some of those shots should be on post-cards with a sepia tint. They're beautiful. D

Continuing to tweak the workflow: my PC, monitor & photoshop are set up for weekend photography and my FS screenies look very different when I view them elsewhere. Never mind. Here's Khartoum, short final. Once all the work was done, holding the last cup of coffee of a seven cup day, breathing the cooling air, I sat on the doorstep beneath No.1, looking out over my domain and feeling at peace. Given the situation in Khartoum a month or so ago, I felt it was probably time I moved on. A hazy farewell to the Nile. Over counterpane country in Ethiopia. Some time later, I found dense fog in Somalia. Before crossing the water somewhere between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden I cleared all weather because I really wanted to see all I could of Yemen and specifically Aden. This comes about mostly through reading Alex Kimbell's Think Like a Bird, which vies with Fate is the Hunter for first place in my library, and partly because I was born in the year Britain was finally and messily booted out of South Arabia. Passage to India had ceased to be a concern many years earlier but political egos were firmly attached to their imperial delusions. Approach to Aden. Radios were not working. If Fate is the Hunter or Chickenhawk or Stranger to the Ground held your attention, see if you can find a copy of Think Like a Bird. This morning I left for Salalah under uneventful VFR, except for spending an hour playing very close to the wrinkly ground just inland. Arrival at Salalah was interesting: another 'entertaining' runway. No approach or touchdown screenie -- I had to concentrate: There is a proper runway there too, else my neighbour on the apron wouldn't have been there.

Hi. If you have some cash then this is surely the best available, though with the detail maxxed out it can be a bit heavy on the framerate. https://www.uk2000scenery.co.uk/heathrow-xtreme-1 If freeware is the way for you, I don't know. I found UK2000 airports to be good enough to justify the price. D

You star! Thank you so much. D

It's good to see the problem is sorted. Kudos to @ScottishMike for spotting the NAV/GPS setting. In your King Air video, I completely failed to notice it. Looking at your screenshots above, I guess it shows in green at top left of the PFD. I didn't see ILQQ: rather it was the morse code bleeping away in the background in the cockpit. The switches across the top of the radio stack select or silence the audio component of a nav beacon's signal. Same thing for the DME switch in the same place at the top of the stack. That red N1/N2 DME gauge (anyone know what its proper name is?) should work whenever it's turned on if you're tuned to a beacon with DME. In the stock KORD, 27L has ILS+DME while 22L has only ILS. Any one you walk away from is a good one... D

For about 20 years. Explain then why your DME is not active and your NAV1 audio says ILQQ...

Just what it says really. 30 s is simply not a long enough window. Cheers.

So, it goes like this. Your video is titled KORD 27L 110 10 (let's not dwell on 37L/R just above...) Without trying to reproduce your flight, I think I know what's gone wrong. You haven't told us if you are using an addon KORD but as far as I can see, 27L has ILS/DME 111.10, not 110.10 You have to intercept a glideslope from beneath it. The AP won't capture the GS in approach mode if your plane is too high. The warning sign is twofold: 1. your descent at 3000 fpm within afew miles and 2. there's no glideslope pip on the right side of your PFD. There are several other, more severe warning signs, too: 27L at KORD has ILS/DME. You have NAV1 selected in the red N1 /N2 gauge on the left of your panel but there's no DME distance showing. You appear to be detuned for 27L and your AP won't capture it. I don't think the AP will fly an approach on NAV2 so you have to tune NAV1 to the required ILS freq. You are aiming at 27L (the compass in your PFD shows you lined up at 275°) but your NAV1 audio is singing ILQQ. That's the ILS freq for 22L, not for your runway. 22L doesn't have DME hence the lack of numbers in the DME display. 27L should sing ITSL. You are flying a GPS plan referencing RWY27L, which is probably why your AP made the initial approach to 27L via WILLT. (As an aside, I couldn't find WILLT in my ancient database but over the other side of the airport I did find waypoints called warts, palid, swett and vains. Nice.) What is happening is that you are telling the AP to fly an approach to 22L but you are in line with 27L because of your GPS plan. You are also very much too high, possibly because of a bad altitude set in the plan for WILLT. When you get close to the threshold, the AP finally detects ILS for 22L and tries to capture it, cranking the plane around in a desperate attempt at correcting things. By that point, you are far too late for either runway. Either you are aiming at the wrong runway or you have tuned the wrong ILS. All in all, I'd say the problem is likely to be one of situational awareness

That's FS9's pitot icing. Of the four modelled types, it's the most easily recognised and the most frequent. I turn pitot heat on as a matter of course as it doesn't use extra fuel and doesn't seem to degrade performance in any other way.

Lol. I meant mine or Baron Fritz'. I'd never ask anyone to go trawling on my behalf for posts in other forums.

Sorry -- I'm not sure which post you were replying to. All icing is modelled in FS9. The gauge intensifies the effect. The posts that state there is no structural or prop icing in FS9 are based on game-experience rather than on parameter observation. Set severe icing in the Weather menu, prevent weather from changing (you shed ice very quickly when you fly out of it), and watch power, weight, speed & stall speed while you fly. AFSD is the best utility for watching those parameters. You will have to set severe icing and fly for 20 minutes or so in the stock Cessna, much longer in a plane with a bigger power:weight ratio. D

You got there before me The original gauge/upload from which your icing.txt was taken was Charles Owen's icev10.zip. I couldn't find it either but have an archived copy. Better, there's one upload in the library that references it and, while it is an FSX gauge, it may be applicable to FS9 too. It's called FSX Icing Gauge but just searching for the original "icev10" takes you to it. The answer to the question is yes, FS9 does model prop, carb & structural icing as well as pitot icing, and you can see power drop and a/c weight increase (so air speed decrease & stall speed increase), but it's only implemented to a somewhat milk-and-water degree and is unlikely to have any effect without the intensification provided by the gauge. The best excuse for this is that FS is a game and who would buy a game where you fall out of the sky every time you hit a cold cloud? Also, because structural, carb & prop icing in FS9 depend on weather, and weather depends mostly on metars, and metars rarely mention icing, it's almost never encountered. In my experience, pitot icing happens much more frequently so that one may have a different trigger. D

There are 3 stock aurora effects files. The aurora doesn't always show: I'm not sure what the trigger might be, maybe just a probability percentage. The best chance of seeing it is above 10,000 feet, after midnight local and above 68°. In no way facetiously, is this implemented yet in MSFS?

Hi Jon. I may be well off the mark but I have a similar problem in that a couple of years ago W10 stopped allowing my MS Office to 'save as' to my desktop. Saving a file that already exists there is fine. Every other application has full access. Win 10 is just weird. And still buggy as anything. I created a second user account, admin like my normal one, and that does not restrict Office. If your account is an admin account and if you haven't already tried it, make yourself a second administrator account and see if that one allows you to modify FS files. D

Your case may be different but I think a lot of us just don't know how to use the new library search engine, myself included. Nels does have a plan for educating us when the software is complete:

That Simviation plane looked so promising. I tried it but unless there's some wizardry that I could apply, it's for FSX only: the model makes my FS9 crash.

Thanks Hans. The original Texan was quite a beast in its own right but I was hoping to find Junior, which is based on the PC-9. The newer PC-21 would be even more fun: a single prop capable of 370 kt up to FL370. Here's grandpa & junior:

Hi Roger. You may have selected 'Display files as cards in a grid'. Choose 'A traditional table view' instead. D

Just a short one while I have a cup of tea at work. I heard a couple of fast props go by (too many buildings in the way to see them but Flightradar24 is great) and am wondering... Is there a Texan ii or a Pilatus PC-9 with a convincing VC available for FS9? D

Tim, I think you have it - I must have hit some limit. The permission has reset today. I'll have to experiment one day and count how many (or how much data) I can do before being blocked.

Every file is blocked. I'm sure it's an account or connection thing. Strange that it happened in the middle of a run of downloads.

Where to start? This could take some time. Seriously though, I didn't think of that. Anyway, my profile has 'no restrictions being applied'. Perhaps I just opened too many pages in too short a time and looked like some sort of attack?