* R David Steele : What programs are good if you just want to game, that is fly combat missions what engage an enemy (something that X-Plane does not do)? I can't speak for X-Plane, never having looked at it. MSFS doesn't allow you to fly combat missions...

As a novice regarding FS applications, could someone give me some basic information about the following: What major improvements and changes are expected for FS2004? I understand that it will include a number of new aircraft, but will there also be improvements in the realism and flight response,...

I downloaded the video clip from the FS2004 home page and noticed that about halfway through the clip the VNAV (second button from the right, bottom)is pressed and the GPS screen goes into a full terrain contour map. Where does this come from? I don't recall the Garmin 500/530 having this...

URL:http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/07/23/flightsim_terrorism/index_np.html And just in time for another new release of MSFS. Presumably this will be a regular feature from now on? sigh -- Dave Pearson http://www.davep.org/

Popular Science has an article on Austin Meyer, author of X-Plane: http://www.popsci.com/popsci/aviation/article/0,12543,463052,00.html There are some interesting comments & leads in this /. thread, precipitated by the above...

Hi folks, I'm trying to figure out why the aircraft I've been flying (Chuck Dome's Beechcraft King Air F90) in FS2002 keeps automatically adjusting the flaps mid flight. One minute I'm happilly cruising at ~160kts with no-flaps, the next the flaps get incrementally set to full and I'm back down...

As far as I know, it doesn't show them whatever your resolution, what you could do is shift your resolution up int the graphics options and then resize and show the aux panels would be a compromise. "karel adams" wrote in...

67 FS2004 images here - http://www.pilotweb.co.uk/content/imagegallery/gallery.aspx?id=141 Enjoy.. PH2

If you or anyone you know are looking for a place to stay for AirVenture 2003, we have 3 rooms available in our house. We are interested in renting these rooms out. We are located in Fond du Lac, about 30 minutes south of the EAA grounds. I advertised in the May issue of the EAA magazine,...

Nathan wrote: The show also showed this military helicopter sim where the person wore a VR helmet and the smoothness of the system was second to none. It gave a sense of speed without any jerkiness and freedom of movement to look around like I've never seen before. It was very realistic...

Dear fellow flight sim users, I recently purchased X-Plane and had such an interesting experience that I thought I'd share (see http://home.nc.rr.com/bshankle/xplane.html). I am curious if any of you have had an experience anywhere close to mine? Sincerely, Bruce Shankle

Good grief! I've just looked at Bruce's website. That has made up my mind. MSFS it is. Thanks for sharing that, Bruce. I wish more people would speak up like this when they've been done wrong. jw

would really like to know ^__^ when Falcon 4.0 was in development, 3D acceleration was new. when Falcon 4.0 came out (late 1998 iirc) 3D cards were in their 3rd or 4th generation, but it was still pre-T&L days, before the GeForce256 (GF1), so geometry and lighting in hardware was not at the...

I think it was someone on this group wanted to know about Lago's Tornado and Fs2004. I have tested Tornado Version 1 and all aircraft and panesl work fine. Since I don't have the refuelling version can't comment, but should see no problems with it. You will just have to browse to c:\program files\...

I get frequent XP Events causing FS2002 to stop involving a Dynamic Link Library file, ntdll.dll. Details of the latest one appear below. Is there a fix for this problem? Andrew Watson E-mail: The description for Event ID ( 1000 ) in Source ( Microsoft Flight Simulator )...

I have copied Concorde from FS 2000 to FS 2002 (following the instructions giving in the www.simflight.com FAQ). Everything works fine except the views from the cockpits to either side and to the back (NumPad7/9/4/6/1/2/3). Is that normal? Alfred

Does anyone know if FS2004 will allow for a more realistically gradual failure of the attitude indicator and heading indicator? It's way too abrupt in FS2002. Thanks, Gary

http://www.pilotweb.co.uk/content/imagegallery/gallery.aspx?id=141&pg=1 Some fs2004 screen shots, about 35 at this link. Enjoy..

On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 18:01:10 -0500, wrote: Just wondering what the preferred configuration of a notebook PC should be to support the next generation of flight sims with good results. Thanks. Laptop displays in full-screen mode: The display adapters on some laptop computers...

On 18 Jul 2003 11:37:05 -0500, "Dr. Speedbyrd:" wrote: ... Aren't I the smart one!!? No. You still haven't fixed your original problem which is probably something trivial in the original .cfg file.