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Insurgents claimed to have shot down a British military plane north of Baghdad over the weekend, and Al-Jazeera television aired a videotape Monday showing flaming wreckage of a plane. Britain said all 10 personnel on the flight were missing and presumed dead. ... Read more...

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Some time this month, 60-year-old thrill-seeker Steve Fossett plans to climb into the small cockpit of an experimental jet aircraft and attempt to fly around the world without refuelling, without company and without sleeping. ... Read more...

The Royal Air Force C-130 Hercules crashed 40 kilometres north-west of Baghdad at 1340 GMT on Sunday, killing all 10 military personnel on board. The plane is thought to have been carrying Special Forces troops to a base in the north of the country. On Tuesday, the British Prime Minister Tony Blair...

I have MS Flight Simulator 2004. What is the best joystick to flight the Cessna 152? Thanks.

I'm wondering - maybe I should turn all these gyro realism off, as it is rather not important during FS training, not quite realistically simulated, and not very difficult, I suppose, to take care of in a real Cessna Umm. IRL, your instructor will train you to check the directional gyro with...

Flight Simulator 2004: Cessna 182 with IFR Panel Is there a way to replace the vacuum HI with the King KI 525A Indicator? TIA, a.

Hi, Is it really so hard to crash C172? On FS2002, I land with quite high vertical speed (-2 or -3), the bump and the sound is rather "hard", but the plane is OK. Of course, I have set "crash tollerance" to max. reality. I even once lande successfuly with vertical speed -5. Is that possible on a...

What are you looking for? commercial jet flying? bush turbo flying, or honining your Cessna skills? Yes go with FS2004 Century of Flight (FS9) saitex make some good joysticks. I have the Cyborg 3D. Its good as it twists swell which is sued for rudder, either get one like that or pedals and yoke if...

You might try http://www.ScienceOxygen.com/aviation204.html http://www.ScienceOxygen.com/design265.com It does not provide the answer directly . It is with a collection of links on this field for helicoptor design. You might as well just start from there...

Noticed that X-Plane is now shipping a Linux version along with their Windows version. Anyone running Linux?

I bought eDimensional 3D wired glasses to use with MS Flt Sim. I had to upgrade to Flt Sim 2004 to get smooth running I still do not get 3D and I get flicker and dark screen, "eDimensional" suggest Nvidia cards over my ATI card, so today I went to buy one, BUT... My supplier does not carry Nvidia...

Hi I need some help. I have two flat monitors on order from Dell (they were cheap via work) so I need to get a graphic card for dual monitors. I have a Dell Dimension 8200 P4 2.4 1GB Ram AGPx4 and 400FSB and I am running a GeForce 3 Ti 500 64mb. FS2004 is OK but gets a bit clonky round the...

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Maybe we could recommend unusual and different Flight Sims which can be obtained either on the net or retail. For example I am very keen on Microflight by Ilan Papini which can be found at Quality Simulations www.hangsim.com --

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The following utility called F1 View has just been mentioned on another NG. It allows you to use the mouse wheel to zoom and pan inside the Virtual cockpit and in spot/tower etc view within FS2004. If you cannot afford Active Camera, this one is free and highly...