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I have a basic install done now....with SP1 and SP2. The Sidewinder is working, not 100% but I'll look at that over the next few days. I think I'm going to stick with this install for now, just a basic setup, and I'll go through the flying school lessons and get back in the hang of it all. I can upgrade the scenery, aircraft, software and hardware as I need to.

So thanks for the help....I'm starting right at the very beginning, so I have a long way to go....

RJ

realjumper wrote:

QUOTE (realjumper @ May 15 2013,12:39 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I'm going to stick with this install for now, just a basic setup, and I'll go through the flying school lessons and get back in the hang of it all

Good luck with your mission , the good thing is you have plenty of impressive freewares to add to before the need to buy paywares only to test your system out but keeping everything simple is this for example the default Goose given a makeover - http://aussiex.org/forum/index.php?/files/...e-hd-redux-120/

Ian Warren wrote:

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ May 15 2013,9:14 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Good luck with your mission , the good thing is you have plenty of impressive freewares to add to before the need to buy paywares only to test your system out but keeping everything simple is this for example the default Goose given a makeover - http://aussiex.org/forum/index.php?/files/...e-hd-redux-120/

That's a nice looking Goose.....I have to stop myself from playing with those things for now....I have to be patient and fly my microlight to start with

realjumper wrote:

QUOTE (realjumper @ May 15 2013,10:44 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

That's a nice looking Goose.....I have to stop myself from playing with those things for now....I have to be patient and fly my microlight to start with

RJ .... you'll be flying an F-16 in no time

Rj please keep us updated, would really like to help you once you get going in multiplier and the likes.

I'm about 1/3 of the way through the basic tutorials.....behaving myself and not skipping ahead hee hee hee. I haven't browsed over the various tutorials, but I look forward to IFR when it comes.....

IFR for RJ .. when you get there .. don't worry if they send you off the meandering track .. think the built in ATC cant figure out were they want ya then when you approach the airport there is someone directly in front ya

Id just jump in the deep end .... hells can't kill ya ..... or can it

Ian Warren wrote:

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ May 20 2013,10:27 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

IFR for RJ .. when you get there .. don't worry if they send you off the meandering track .. think the built in ATC cant figure out were they want ya then when you approach the airport there is someone directly in front ya

Id just jump in the deep end .... hells can't kill ya ..... or can it

So far so good on the missions, but I'm not really learning what I want to learn....soooo....I have gone back to the C172 and I'm learning the VOR navigation technique which is more interesting to me. I'm sure you all know this already, but there's a great resource for charts and airport info at: http://skyvector.com/ , it's very useful.

So that's me for a while, until I figure this navigation out. Mind you, I did like flying the Beaver.....it brought back memories of making many skydives from a DH Beaver, although not with floats.......

realjumper wrote:

QUOTE (realjumper @ May 21 2013,7:59 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

So that's me for a while, until I figure this navigation out. Mind you, I did like flying the Beaver.....it brought back memories of making many skydives from a DH Beaver, although not with floats.......

That is the only other best choice , think the Goose and the Beaver would be the only defaults i'd ever use

Ian Warren wrote:

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ May 21 2013,7:19 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

That is the only other best choice , think the Goose and the Beaver would be the only defaults i'd ever use

I recall a group of us skydivers making the first jump of the day, and in the Beaver was also 2 tandems. During the stationary run up in the morning, the Beaver coughed and spat at close to full power, so the pilot let it idle for a while and repeated the run up. The cough and spit was still there, so we took a C206 and a C182 instead. Later the Beaver was back in commission after the pilot had heated and dyed the damp from the magneto's with his wife's hair dryer.....hee hee hee.....loved that aircraft.

Arr the tricks of the trade .. anda wife's blow dryer , who da thought

I made a night flight from Palmy to Wellington last night in the 172, and all went well. Today I went from Palmy to Napier but I landed about 100 meters too soon.....doh! Both flights were VOR......the weather was clear, but I'm happy with the progress so far. One question popped into my mind......when I arrive in the vicinity if the airport, I do the tradition downwind, base, final approach pattern, and I land.....lol.....I never ask anyone if I can land, or which runway is in use....I just land!!

Am I supposed to contact the tower?...and if so, how?

realjumper wrote:

QUOTE (realjumper @ May 22 2013,7:36 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Am I supposed to contact the tower?...and if so, how?

RJ , just simply press the button above your TAB key , all the options pop up there .. you can contact any tower from 30 miles out .

Ian Warren wrote:

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ May 22 2013,6:40 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

RJ , just simply press the button above your TAB key , all the options pop up there .. you can contact any tower from 30 miles out .

Ahhh thank you. I thought that I'd better stop gate crashing the airport in case they call in the airforce to sort me out....oh wait....what airforce?

realjumper wrote:

QUOTE (realjumper @ May 22 2013,7:48 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

....oh wait....what airforce?

Shssss , most members would say ... jeezzzz sake don't whind Ian up on that subject .... BUT ! have you not seen one of our new airforce helicopters - faster than your 172... open the rear door, a cable is run out ... out pops member slips down the cable to the top off your wing ..clutching it slips in under the rear wing a opens your passenger door ....... and for what ... to tunes your radio in .. once done jumps out again (course parachute equipped) .... you then can say .... WHO WAS THAT GUY


Maybe i should write a story book ready for a action movie and the rights to it

Ian Warren wrote:

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ May 22 2013,7:05 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Shssss , most members would say ... jeezzzz sake don't whind Ian up on that subject .... BUT ! have you not seen one of our new airforce helicopters - faster than your 172... open the rear door, a cable is run out ... out pops member slips down the cable to the top off your wing ..clutching it slips in under the rear wing a opens your passenger door ....... and for what ... to tunes your radio in .. once done jumps out again (course parachute equipped) .... you then can say .... WHO WAS THAT GUY


Maybe i should write a story book ready for a action movie and the rights to it

Hmmm....I know a bit about clambering around outside a 172 in flight......mister airforce radio tuner will have to really, really watch out for that spinny thing at the front.....

realjumper wrote:

QUOTE (realjumper @ May 22 2013,8:18 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Hmmm....I know a bit about clambering around outside a 172 in flight......mister airforce radio tuner will have to really, really watch out for that spinny thing at the front.....

That's were you get all that movie talk ..... action ... then Cut! ...

Ian Warren wrote:

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ May 22 2013,7:23 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

That's were you get all that movie talk ..... action ... then Cut! ...

Last time someone said 'Cut' around the airforce.....the airforce vanished...

Where did they go were did who gooooo

Yay.....night flight from Hamilton to Wanganui to Palmy....WITH radio calls...AND permission to land

Landings still leave a bit to be desired....hmmmm