First and foremost I am not posting this question to ask about
possible performance increases - I know that that subject has been
plastered all over the internet; some say that as Windows has to
decompress files the performance will suffer; others say that as the

Good practice in sim flights.
This is a RL approach.
The thing really noticeable about it is that there does not appear to be one
throttle setting change through the entire approach until after touchdown.

Take a look at this Russian monster.
http://www.mbm30.org/Mike/Largest%20Helicopter_in_the_World.htm
Any of you have this one in your hanger?
MM

I am somewhat disabled and I finally went on a very short holiday.  It was a
total disaster.  Arrived at the Sunshine Cost in a record-breaking downpour.
Noosa had 715mm in 24 hr.
Walked around (with my walking stick) in horizontal rain.  Finally found

Just purchased Captain Sim's C-130 package from Just Flight.
This is a visually stunning experience but aurally underwhelming. The
external engine sounds are a major disappointment. I live under regular
RNZAF Hercules C-130H air-traffic and am thoroughly familiar with the

I really like that PING sound that alerts passengers to fasten their
seat belts.  I'd like to use it in windows (for a while at least).
Does anybody know where I can find the .wav file?
\Samson

(Thanks to Richard Carpenter for pointing it out)
http://www.saitek.com/uk/prod/yoke.htm
Most interesting is the stainless steel shaft and "bearings", maybe they
won't get sticky.  (I wonder if they are cat hair resistant? :-)

Well, I picked a microlite, set the airport for Belfast, Northern Ireland,
and took off! The topography was spot on, I flew from Belfast, over
Ballykinler army base, over the Mourne Mountains, then up the Carlingford
Lough valley, over Newry, then onwards to Craigavon, all the ...

Don't recall seeing whether this was posted earlier this month here or not.
Check out the latest info on the DX10 udpate, or what is going to become Sp2
for FSX, as it will apparentlly include some updates to DX9 as well.
http://blogs.msdn.com/ptaylor/

I have an awful time triming. IRL the Baron is a very stable A/C. Here the
trim wheel has little effect.It atkes huge amount of trim before anything
happens.
I usually use realtr10 but here it has no effect at all. Elevator

For those that might have been waiting, noticed on Cougar World today, 64
bit drivers are out for the TM Cougar.
http://ts.thrustmaster.com/eng/index.php?pg=view_files&gid=1&fid=3&pid=50&cid=1
Don

There is to be an expansion pack for FSX, to be called the Acceleration
Expansion Pack. There is a page with an advertisement trailer, .wmv files
in a choice of 640x360 and 320x180. The trailers are here:-
http://www.fsinsider.com/downloads/Pages/AccelerationTrailer.aspx

Who has the BEST Cessna 172?  The default sux.........
TIA
Cheers'n Beers..   [_])
   Don

I was trying to stress my computer and I maxed out the autogen and flew
around NYC.  FR's were in the low teens but fluid.  I don't even display
the frame rates any more.  They don't mean a lot until you are in single
digits, at least for me.