Must haves!

Having been out of simming for a good couple of years (I took up the
real thing!), I'm wondering what are the must haves. I see there is
Ultimate traffic and My Traffic. Any real difference between the two?
What is required nowadays for online flying etc. Any other add-ons
that you just wouldn't be without? All suggestions/comments welcomed

regards
Graham

On Tue, 04 May 2004 10:52:58 +0100, Graham
wrote:

Having been out of simming for a good couple of years (I took up the
real thing!), I'm wondering what are the must haves. I see there is
Ultimate traffic and My Traffic. Any real difference between the two?
What is required nowadays for online flying etc. Any other add-ons
that you just wouldn't be without? All suggestions/comments welcomed

regards
Graham

Well the Blue Sphere rplacement textuers and one of the water texture
hacks would make things look nicer. Some higher resolution meshes
would make things more interesting too

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Senior 1st Officer
Livewire Airlines
http://www.livewireairlines.com/

jafar wrote:
On Tue, 04 May 2004 10:52:58 +0100, Graham
wrote:


Having been out of simming for a good couple of years (I took up the
real thing!), I'm wondering what are the must haves. I see there is
Ultimate traffic and My Traffic. Any real difference between the two?
What is required nowadays for online flying etc. Any other add-ons
that you just wouldn't be without? All suggestions/comments welcomed

regards
Graham


Well the Blue Sphere rplacement textuers and one of the water texture
hacks would make things look nicer. Some higher resolution meshes
would make things more interesting too

Correct, and Ultimate Traffic and some weather engine; the built-in
FS2004 weather does a reasonable job but I prefer ActiveSky from
http://www.hifisim.com/

I'm not entirely sure but the difference between MyTraffic and Ultimate
Traffic is that the latter one is based on real (dec 2003) airline
schedules and MyTraffic uses it's own intelligent patterns. I use UT and
it may seem the logical choice. Be warned though that 'real' traffic can
not be handled by the AI ATC of FS2004 so pile-ups emerge, both for
take-off as for landings, which is not very realistic. It may be that
MyTraffic gives a more realistic impression, but I haven't tried it.

Ursa..


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I have Ultimate Traffic and it's pretty cool. However, since I have daylight
savings here in California I'm suffering from the programming problem in FS9
where it doesn't know how to compensate for it. So flights that are suppose
to be taking off at 10 don't actually take off until 11. Also, I'm not sure
if this is an Ultimate Traffic problem or not, but all the strobes on the
planes landing at night are in sync meaning they all blink at the exact same
time. That looks really hokey.

I've actually been looking at getting My Traffic because the planes
supposedly have correct places to park, such as Fed Ex will park in a Fed Ex
place and United Airlines will park in their places at an airport. Ultimate
Traffic's default is all planes park whereever there's room.

"Graham" wrote in message
...
Having been out of simming for a good couple of years (I took up the
real thing!), I'm wondering what are the must haves. I see there is
Ultimate traffic and My Traffic. Any real difference between the two?
What is required nowadays for online flying etc. Any other add-ons
that you just wouldn't be without? All suggestions/comments welcomed

regards
Graham

On Tue, 11 May 2004 02:15:59 GMT, "nathantw"
wrote:

I've actually been looking at getting My Traffic because the planes
supposedly have correct places to park, such as Fed Ex will park in a Fed Ex
place and United Airlines will park in their places at an airport. Ultimate
Traffic's default is all planes park whereever there's room.

Get ADCAD (found at avsim.com).

This is a utility that will, among a lot of other very useful things,
enable you to allocate parking spaces to specific airlines.

--
Alan White
Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow.
Overlooking Loch Goil and Loch Long in Argyll, Scotland.
http://tinyurl.com/55v3

Get ADCAD (found at avsim.com).

....should read 'AFCAD'.

(I *must* not post before breakfast).

(Posted *during* breakfast).

--
Alan White
Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow.
Overlooking Loch Goil and Loch Long in Argyll, Scotland.
http://tinyurl.com/55v3

Hi Alan,

Grilled Kippers?

Regards,
John
"Alan White" wrote in message
...
Get ADCAD (found at avsim.com).

...should read 'AFCAD'.

(I *must* not post before breakfast).

(Posted *during* breakfast).

--
Alan White
Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow.
Overlooking Loch Goil and Loch Long in Argyll, Scotland.
http://tinyurl.com/55v3

On Wed, 12 May 2004 07:31:37 +1000, "John Ward"
wrote:

Grilled Kippers?

1 10mg Losec for my gastric reflux.
1 cod liver oil capsule to lubricate my aging sixty-six and eleven
twelfth year old joints and to stop my brain decaying. (There is
evidence that this doesn't work).
1 vitamin B12 pill which Lesley says compensates for the lack of meat
in my diet. (She's a vegetarian which means that I either cook for
myself or become one as well. Your guess!)
A bowl of muesli with buttermilk.
A banana.
A glass of fresh orange juice.

For lunch, a light snack, usually something on toast.

For dinner, whatever magnificent vegetarian concoction Lesley has
invented. When I say magnificent I'm not joking.

For pre-bed, a cup of tea and as many chocolate biscuits as I can cram
down before being caught.

I'm allowed meat at Christmas and when I get an overpowering craving
for it, usually every six months or so and it's for sausages.

Just to further satisfy your curiosity, there's a picture of us on the
title page of our web site (URL in sig below).

HTH :-)

--
Alan White
Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow.
Overlooking Loch Goil and Loch Long in Argyll, Scotland.
http://tinyurl.com/55v3

Alan White schrieb:

On Wed, 12 May 2004 07:31:37 +1000, "John Ward"
wrote:

Grilled Kippers?

1 10mg Losec for my gastric reflux.
1 cod liver oil capsule to lubricate my aging sixty-six and eleven
twelfth year old joints and to stop my brain decaying. (There is
evidence that this doesn't work).
1 vitamin B12 pill which Lesley says compensates for the lack of meat
in my diet. (She's a vegetarian which means that I either cook for
myself or become one as well. Your guess!)
A bowl of muesli with buttermilk.
A banana.
A glass of fresh orange juice.

For lunch, a light snack, usually something on toast.

For dinner, whatever magnificent vegetarian concoction Lesley has
invented. When I say magnificent I'm not joking.

For pre-bed, a cup of tea and as many chocolate biscuits as I can cram
down before being caught.

I'm allowed meat at Christmas and when I get an overpowering craving
for it, usually every six months or so and it's for sausages.

Just to further satisfy your curiosity, there's a picture of us on the
title page of our web site (URL in sig below).

HTH :-)

You should try this new FAT FLUSH diet, as much meat and salad as you
can eat, no carbohydrates, no coffee, no alcohol. It works.
T.

--
Alan White
Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow.
Overlooking Loch Goil and Loch Long in Argyll, Scotland.
http://tinyurl.com/55v3

I thoroughly recommend the Modified Atkins diet which I follow.
It consists of eating anything I like...