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- Cockpit building
by towerguy » Fri Jun 01, 2007 4:38 pm
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Wed Feb 15, 2023 9:04 pm
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A drawing I have made of ZK-CKA in all her schemes over the years. I am painting her in the 1980's James Aviation colours
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- MSFS 2020 Computer Specs
by hoki1185 » Tue Jul 14, 2020 8:09 pm
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Sun Jun 26, 2022 10:09 am
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Add-ons like AIG can put a huge performance hit on airports such as LAX, but you have to try and be sensible and tone down the settings on traffic (framerates can drop to 20-25fps at LAX). Although nice to see it in action, dealing with a busy airports with 50-100 flights all moving about (on the ground and in the sky) is a bit of a nightmare if all you want to do is fly. And, I don't want to spent 30 minutes plus, waiting to take off. Less busy airports like Auckland and Wellington don't suffer from that problem. I haven't invested in any add-on aircraft for MSFS yet (but I did have a lot of...
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- Setting up Saitek Flight Yoke and Throttles
by jastheace » Thu Jul 31, 2008 10:11 pm
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Sun Aug 12, 2012 8:35 pm
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*DO* figure out the bit about linking GUIDs to letters so you can refer to your USB devices by a letter instead of device number - it's not hard, and it will save you HOURS of frustration when (not if) your computer decides to renumber your devices because they didn't all clock in in the usual order one bootup.
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- The FS9.5 Setup
by Charl » Thu Feb 24, 2011 6:55 pm
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Fri Nov 25, 2011 7:51 am
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Aye, more than you will ever suspect, Charl. On many of the fora I subscribe to, the split is most usually distributed: 55% FSX, 45% FS9. Admittedly, that's an unscientific analysis, but we're still out there. /cool.gif style= vertical-align:middle emoid= B-) border= 0 alt= cool.gif />
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- A little 'simplified' guidance on computer upgrade please.
by Pete1800ftmin » Tue Oct 12, 2010 9:39 pm
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Wed Oct 13, 2010 11:18 pm
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Superb Screens /cool.gif style= vertical-align:middle emoid= B-) border= 0 alt= cool.gif /> Its what its about , the U2 over VLC , yip that Albatross tho , Hmm , yip have it hangered , maybe a walk to Skysim and check out my fave the Hawk /winkyy.gif style= vertical-align:middle emoid= ;) border= 0 alt= winkyy.gif /> Im just pleased people are upgrading , a few dollars and you have the world .
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- Hagstrom boards wanted
by Sonnyj » Mon Mar 06, 2023 11:12 am
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- AFS4 and Honeycomb Bravo Throttle Quad
by emfrat » Tue Dec 06, 2022 7:19 pm
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Thu Dec 22, 2022 11:35 am
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This is the Quad setup with the 'Commercial' levers, for a 4-engine jet or turboprop. Slot one is now for the speed brake and slot six has flaps movement in a range from 0° to 40° down, marked as 1°, 2°, 5°, 10°, 15° etc. The Flaps up/down switch is hidden in the pic by throttles 3 & 4. For the Concorde it is used for the droop snoot function. You can see how the levers are stepped so that they nest together. Throttle lever 1 has a TOGA button on the left.. So, if you just want to set up for a twin, remove levers 2 and 4 and bring throttle 1 across to slot three, to nest with throttle 3....
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- Flight1 ATR on FSX:SE - Awful FPS
by chickenman » Fri Feb 15, 2019 2:01 pm
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Mon Sep 19, 2022 4:51 pm
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Asobo are also doing a 600-series, guess that's what you're referring to aye CM? the race to see who will finish 1st Here's the timestamp (48:00) for the video where Hans talks about where his/their project is at..
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- Reinstalling FS2020
by dbcunnz » Sun Jun 26, 2022 4:24 pm
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Tue Jun 28, 2022 7:47 pm
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I got BigBeast II going again this morning, and it has updated to the latest Win10. Apparently the machine does not have what it needs to upgrade to Win 11 (huzzah!!). MS do have a webpage about fixing this reboot loop thing, and I had tried that without success. Last night I tried one last time - power off, unplug, hold the power button down to drain any residual current, then remove the CMOS battery. They say for 30 mins, I left it out all night, and also used a multimeter to check that the battery voltage was well up to the 3.0v mark. It was, so this morn I put the thing back together and...
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- RIP Titan
by cowpatz » Sun Mar 06, 2022 10:24 am
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Tue Apr 05, 2022 9:23 am
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I thought that I might extend my system life by doing a small upgrade. I replaced the dead Titan with a 1080TI card but of course the bottleneck now (and always has been I guess) is the 4770K CPU. I have looked at a i5-9700K Coffee lake CPU as it uses the same LGA 1151 socket, which I thought I could pick up relatively cheaply being an obsolete CPU. I was blown away to see that they are way more expensive than the Alder lake CPUs! Very disappointing indeed. It looks like my mini upgrade (Graphic card, CPU and RAM) may set me back a shade under $2K. It is tempting to leap into a full new...
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- MSFS 2020 addons (Q: recommended?)
by jpreou » Thu Jan 27, 2022 2:30 pm
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Fri Jan 28, 2022 6:42 am
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Thanks Michael, I will check that out. I've been away from sim for so long it is all new to me again! I did get REX WeatherForce and that seems to work ok - the builtin live weather simply wasn't working for me, and I read some work arounds but REX has always been solid, so went with that again. Cheers
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- Rudder Pedals (give away and new recommendations)
by jpreou » Sun Jan 23, 2022 10:53 am
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Tue Jan 25, 2022 2:08 pm
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Pedals gone. New pedals ordered - I *really* wanted the Crosswind pedals, but I did the maths and the difference between those and the Saitek are worth 3.6hrs real life flying - so I'm going Saitek again! Rather be in the sky those extra hours. Those Crosswinds do look bloody nice tho... :)
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- MSFS 2020 won't even start (mini-rant)
by jpreou » Thu Jan 13, 2022 7:00 pm
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Sun Jan 23, 2022 10:35 am
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Finally got this sorted; for future reference; I installed the US voice pack and set the region/locale to US - did both at the same time, so not sure which one fixed, though I suspect the voice pack.
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- Best immersive display for single HDMI output
by greaneyr » Fri Oct 29, 2021 4:41 pm
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Sat Oct 30, 2021 3:28 pm
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Wow, thanks a lot for the amazingly informative response! The ultrawide monitor would be amazing to use, however it seems that, while an XBox can drive it, it will only display a 16:9 image, with black bars at the edges. It looks like my two options are still either a projector or very large flatscreen TV. I'll have to try and get the 'immersion' factor through the display's size alone.
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- MSFS Not Loading fully
by dbcunnz » Mon Sep 06, 2021 5:38 pm
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Wed Sep 08, 2021 8:25 pm
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Agreed, what a arse of a setup I had to install xbox app before i could update. No where did it tell me i had to have xbox app installed. Going off MS quickly.
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- Saving Drafts
by emfrat » Tue Aug 31, 2021 8:02 am
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Tue Aug 31, 2021 8:02 am
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- Track IR 5
by kiwicomm » Mon Jul 05, 2021 5:03 pm
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Wed Jul 07, 2021 7:30 am
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I've read a lot of reports about the G2 being superb but a few days or weeks later just failing to get recognised and thus no longer usable and HP completely ignoring the issue. I haven't determined whether this is a 'few' users making a lot of noise, or a more widespread issue. But, like you, I had tried VR before and the resolution just wasn't there for VR flying, and I also got nausea too. But it is my plan to go VR next and I rather suspect I'll need a new PC, at the very least a new graphics card (currently 1 1080 I think - can't remember; PC is all boxed up while I move house). Glad you...
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- Combat3 Trouble Install
by deecee3 » Sat Jul 03, 2021 12:38 pm
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Sat Jul 03, 2021 12:38 pm
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- MSFS
by Naki » Fri Mar 12, 2021 6:33 pm
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Mon Mar 29, 2021 1:17 pm
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Thanks Rob. I have seen the specs, but as we know with these things, real life application can be a different story. I have a 30 Mbs plan (rural) with about a 5 to 10 Mbs up speed. Depending on local usage it can drop to 10 Mbs down or so at times. I'm just wondering how this would appear performance wise. Does MSFS limit the streamed resolution on the fly for example?
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- VR again :)
by Chairman » Sun Feb 21, 2021 4:37 pm
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Sat Mar 20, 2021 3:36 pm
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....you just need to do the one eyed squint thing to find the spot. Wow! Just like real life... ^_^
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