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Question: Are FSX lessons passable?

I have been trying to complete Private Pilot, Lesson 3: VOR Navigation for several days and atleast 10 attempts. I have read all the associated info on VOR navigation and have watched several youtube videos that walk thru the process. I have found ...

Message posted on the May 31st, 2011 - 10:32 PM ET

ATTN IMAC USERS: iMAC Frame rates and FSX

Hi all you iMac owners out there! I'm looking at buying this : Processor Intel® Core i5-760 Processor - 2.8 GHz (up to 3.3 GHz with Turbo Boost) - 2.5 GT/s DMI - 8 MB L3 Cache - Quad Core Operating System Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard RAM - 4 ...

Message posted on the May 23rd, 2011 - 2:08 PM ET

FSX Flight Planner Distance measurement

I'm getting some discrepancy between actual chart measurement and the numbers I'm getting on the FSX flight planner nav logs. Has anyone else noticed this? Thanks Dudley

Message posted on the May 20th, 2011 - 9:46 AM ET

Nice FSX Flight

I thought that I would share a recent flight that I did with FSX with everyone. I decided that I would explore some of California's Channel Islands. I took off from Fullerton Muni (KFUL) in a "borrowed" Air Combat USA Marchetti SF-260 - I ...

Message posted on the May 19th, 2011 - 11:53 PM ET

FSX Acceleration - Adice on adoption

Hi Team I purchased this some time back but have not installed it due to concerns that many add-ons might not work. Is this a genuine fear or is it just a minor thing. If I go ahead, as I have FSX SP2 installed what is the best approach to ...

Message posted on the April 23rd, 2011 - 3:34 AM ET

FSX versus Windows 7

Within a few weeks I will start with a new PC and instead of Windows XP with Windows 7 which can be installed 32 or 64. Beside that I don't no the difference I still expect that it will be diff for FSX. 32 or 64 which one? thats my question. Wim ...

Message posted on the April 9th, 2011 - 8:02 AM ET

FSX Cessna-208 Caravan

I've got a question for any of you who fly the default FSX Cessna Caravan regularly. How do you start that crazy thing without having to chase it across the airfield??? Locking the parking brakes doesn't help. Cutting the fuel mixture back to the ...

Message posted on the March 27th, 2011 - 10:35 PM ET

Scenery issue in both FS9 and FSX

Hi All, Its been a tad wet in Queensland so far this year, so I've been doing other things. What did I miss?? :-) In both FS9 and FSX, the aircraft seems to be at the centre of a circle, and, scenery wise, everything snaps into much greater ...

Message posted on the March 26th, 2011 - 5:36 PM ET

FSX looking good

Last night I was in the mood for some California twin turboprop flying in FSX so got set up at Minden-Tahoe Airport and flew the Cheyenne to San Jose Intl. Here's a view descending above an overcast layer at 15,000' ...

Message posted on the March 20th, 2011 - 8:29 PM ET

Caribbean Scenery for FSX

Strange problem here... I downloaded the North Caribbean Scenery (caribben.zip) for FSX, followed the directions for installation, including those two density tweaks, and it works great with one exception. Landing on the surface of the runway at ...

Message posted on the February 24th, 2011 - 6:40 PM ET

FSX - Spot Plane View Adjustment?

How do I adjust the distance of the Spot Plane View in FSX? The default seems awfully close. Peter Greenstein http://www.wakefieldjazz.com/

Message posted on the February 19th, 2011 - 6:09 PM ET

Repair install of FSX

Have gone through the tedious process of copying all of the NL2000 scenery back to the C: drive folders and uninstalling. Do you guys realize how long it took to download and install those regions of the Netherlands? ?? So now that FSX is ...

Message posted on the February 14th, 2011 - 9:42 AM ET

Must have addins for FSX

What are your `must haveŽ add-ins for FSX? For me it's FSG mesh, USA landclass, HiFi Sim ASE, a 6x set of external throttles, M-Panel (mostly for radio tuning) and Radar Contact. Also have X-Graphics, AISmooth, Enbseries d3d9.dll and lots of ...

Message posted on the February 12th, 2011 - 6:57 AM ET

FSX Version of Former Payware F-105 "Thud" Simviation - missing gauges

Some people are updating some of Alphasim's freeware planes for FSX. I tried the latest, a newly uploaded F-105 on Simviation.com. If anybody else tries this a/c let me know if you are missing gauges. FSPanel Studio tells me that it can't find ...

Message posted on the February 2nd, 2011 - 3:43 PM ET