Jay Honeck
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Oct 31, 2007, 9:46 AM
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I have loaded this enhancement onto our Kiwi Flight Simulator (see it
here: http://www.alexisparkinn.com/flight_simulator.htm ) and am
generally pleased. I have found several bugs, however:
- The P-51 Mustang can lock up when you put the flaps down. The noise
of the flap motor simply loops, the flaps don't move.
- The menus have "gone fuzzy" on me a few times. The writing turns to
something that looks like Klingon, and the only fix is to exit and
restart the program. The planes still fly fine when this happens, but
it's weird.
- FSX has actually rebooted my computer on one occasion, while flying
the Mustang. It froze, I briefly saw a Blue Screen of Death
(something I haven't seen since Win98) with lots of scrolling text,
and then *foosh* -- the whole thing rebooted. I've not seen that
happen in WinXP before.
- Flights saved from Missions cannot be "seen" to fly from the "Load"
choices when you want to fly them. They CAN be seen when you're
saving another flight, in the list, but they are not listed as choices
when you want to load and fly them later. Very strange.
- Cockpits in the new planes (the FA-18 and the P-51) cannot be
undocked and moved to a second screen. You have open a New View, open
one of the virtual cockpits, and move THAT view to the second screen.
This works fine, but virtual cockpits are much more memory intensive,
which slows the sim unnecessarily.
There is much to like, however. In no particular order:
- The F/A-18 is simply awesome. Lots of fun, and it's been a big hit
with hotel guests.
- Everything runs MUCH more smoothly. Punching through a cloud at 800
knots LOOKS GOOD on a 104" projection screen -- no small
accomplishment!
- Landing/taking off from the carrier is fun and challenging.
- The Reno Air Race tutorial is very good.
Questions for the group:
- How do I find the aircraft carrier (ANY aircraft carrier?) outside
of the missions? I would like to set up and save some flights to/
from/off the carrier, but I can't find one in any of the choices!
- Is there a way to save a mission into the "saved flights" section?
- What's the best way to navigate in FSX? GPS? What's your preferred
way to fly to other airports?
Thanks,
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Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"
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