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I just did a quick flight in the default F-18 and there is no sonic boom and I notice no control jam. By that I take you mean they lock solid briefly? You'll need an addon but I'm unsure which. I have an F-14 somewhere on my PC I'll try dig that out and see if that comes with a sonic boom effect.
 
A five second google came up with this. I don't have a Flightsim account so I can't download it unfortunately :(

I've been trying to reach the magic 767mph by diving from 30000ft in this:

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I flew out of Bristol tonight in the Dash-8 towards London City. Thanks to Bristol Tower and Radar, London South and London City Tower.

I finally got a smooth landing at London City.. Yeah Me!

And for your viewing pleasure, I recorded it:


Let's not make too much critique (especially my after landing shenanigans) and enjoy the landing and the smooth frame rates around London on Vatsim...

There's was an Airbus to my one o' clock on final a GA aircraft on the tarmac and another aircraft that landing shortly after me.

When I get a bit more adept at these videos, I'll record the audio on my other PC and slice the two together..
 
So I did the RAAS PMDG update a while ago and since then I've not been able to turn my autopilot off using either the Z key or pressing the AP button on the MCP. Usually at 1000 feet I disengage to land the aircraft myself. I have to use the huge disengage button currently and that sets off a stupid alarm that I can't turn off. Up until the update I would simply hit Z twice, once to deactivate and once to stop the alarm. Anyone else having this problem?

I've also noticed since the update all of my other liveries have gone so I assume I just need to re-install those. Would have been nice if the update had let me know that, or maybe I didn't read the install notes properly....
 
Folks, can anyone please help a complete FSX newb.

What kind of addons should I get? Im going through the tutorials etc and I want to start my journey in learning how to fly on FSX. ANy graphical add ons etc?

Any advice/experience from fellow FSX players would be grateful.
 
Cavallino said:
Folks, can anyone please help a complete FSX newb.

What kind of addons should I get? Im going through the tutorials etc and I want to start my journey in learning how to fly on FSX. ANy graphical add ons etc?

Any advice/experience from fellow FSX players would be grateful.
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Good work on wanting to get into FSX.

There's a fork in the road at the moment. If you're new to FSX, it may be worth picking up Prepar3d straight away with an 'Academic' license. More developers will be supporting that product and the 'hope' is that eventually it will go 64 Bit.

As for addons, it depends on what you want to fly. For the light aircraft, the Lancair Legacy, A2A products, Twin Otter Extended, BN2 Islander.

For heavies, PMDG or iFly 737 (i have the iFly one), PMDG 777, Aerosoft Airbus, Majestic Dash-8.

It's good to get the REX Direct 4 package for textures and get yourself a weather package such as REX Weather Direct (coming soon), Opus or Active Sky Next.

As for scenery, if you want to do VFR flying, you'll need photo-scenery. For everything else, go with anything ORBX stuff.

The sky is the limit when it comes to spending.

If you have a Mic Headset, I can always go online and give you some pointers.
 
Cheers Bluetonic, that's a ton of very useful info.

Let me give you a headsup where I am at the moment.

Literally a complete amateur. Owned FSX for many years but didn't dedicate enough time to put into it. Now I want to remedy this.

I never heard of Prepar3d in all honesty, do you think I should start with that despite owning FSX?

At the moment I want to start basic and do all the tutorials, learn the ins and outs of flying, radio, navigation etc etc. I though playing vanilla FSX might be the best way to do this unless you disagree?

At this stage I don't want to spend any money on planes, just on the core engine and whatever comes with FSX, but I do want to "bring it up to speed" in the graphical department as the visuals in Vanilla FSX just look bland. Is there any recommendation in this department? Rex 4 perhaps?

Thanks for the pointers invitation, may I ask what program you guys are using to communicate?
 
Cavallino said:
Cheers Bluetonic, that's a ton of very useful info.

Let me give you a headsup where I am at the moment.

Literally a complete amateur. Owned FSX for many years but didn't dedicate enough time to put into it. Now I want to remedy this.

I never heard of Prepar3d in all honesty, do you think I should start with that despite owning FSX?

At the moment I want to start basic and do all the tutorials, learn the ins and outs of flying, radio, navigation etc etc. I though playing vanilla FSX might be the best way to do this unless you disagree?

At this stage I don't want to spend any money on planes, just on the core engine and whatever comes with FSX, but I do want to "bring it up to speed" in the graphical department as the visuals in Vanilla FSX just look bland. Is there any recommendation in this department? Rex 4 perhaps?

Thanks for the pointers invitation, may I ask what program you guys are using to communicate?
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Thanks for the info..

Start with FSX then. To quickly bring things up to speed, and if you're flying in the UK, get the appropriate ORBX package. Also, REX 4 Direct is about £20 and well worth it. However, there are free textures out there, but I've no experience of them.

We have used Mumble Voice server in the past to communicate.

Also, maybe join the CIX VFR club, which Picnic can tell you more about. They were a great help when I was learning what you're wanting to learn.

Also, have a look at the many wonderful YouTube FSX videos out there.

If enough people are interested, I can organise another OCUK VFR Fly-in..
 
!bluetonic! said:
Thanks for the info..

Start with FSX then. To quickly bring things up to speed, and if you're flying in the UK, get the appropriate ORBX package. Also, REX 4 Direct is about £20 and well worth it. However, there are free textures out there, but I've no experience of them.

We have used Mumble Voice server in the past to communicate.

Also, maybe join the CIX VFR club, which Picnic can tell you more about. They were a great help when I was learning what you're wanting to learn.

Also, have a look at the many wonderful YouTube FSX videos out there.

If enough people are interested, I can organise another OCUK VFR Fly-in..
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Thanks this is great.

Once Ive done the basic tutorials etc, how would you recommend I continue "flying" in FSX? I guess what Im looking for are instructions or guides about whats involved in an entire flight from preflight, to arriving at the destination gate.

Im not totally familiar with ORBX, are these additional textures? (I will take a look at their site in a sec).

And lastly, again (sorry to say) not familiar with the CIX VFR club but if Picnic could share info on that, that would be appreciated.
 
Here's a very, very brief guide:

In a nutshell, there are two types of flight that you'll initially be interested in.

VFR (visual flight rules)

IFR (instrument flight rules)

In VFR, download a copy of Plan-G.. (Tim Arnot) Connect it up to FSX. The little yellow dots are Visual Reference Points (VRP).

Around Southampton (IATA: SOU, ICAO: EGHI), you've got Romsey, Bishops Waltham, Totton and Calshot. There are your entries and exits into the Southampton Controlled Zone.

If you flew VFR from Southampton to Bristol, you'd leave by the Romsey VRP and enter Bristol probably on the Chew Valley VRP. Although it depends which way you fly.

When you enter a controlled zone, you'll need to know about Upwind, Crosswind, Downwind, Base and Final.


When flying IFR, you'll be flying along designated waypoints in the sky. A modern payware plane with a flight management computer makes this a lot easier.

Southamton to Bristol IFR is :

EGHI DCT PEPIS Y321 CPT BRI1C EGGD (information got from 'SIMSrd) Software'

EGHI = Southampton Airport
DCT = Direct
Direct to Pepis, then on airway Y321, Compton waypoint, then it's a Bristol 1 Charlie arrival. The winds will dictate whether runway 27 or runway 09 is in use.
EGGD = Bristol Airport

Have a look at NATS for other bits regarding Southampton.

http://www.nats-uk.ead-it.com/public/index.php%3Foption=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=136&Itemid=185.html

The software 'Aivlasoft EFB' [free trial available] made the IFR flying make sense to me.

There is one heck of a lot to take it, but keep at it. !:p
 
Cavallino said:
And lastly, again (sorry to say) not familiar with the CIX VFR club but if Picnic could share info on that, that would be appreciated.
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The CIX VFR Club was setup around 10 years ago to promote VFR flying on the VATSIM ATC Network. We have produced a ton of training material for VFR flying and offer VATSIM approved one-on-one training using FSX's or Prepar3d's shared cockpit feature. We're looking at an X-Plane shared cockpit system (not free) but I don't think that's available yet.

We basically only fly VFR and your aircraft must fit the CAA's GA classification, from memory that's 7500KG MTOW. We do have active groups who practice and perform airshows each year, including a Battle of Britain group.
 
bluetonic, can I ask, is P3D basically FSX ESP brough into the 2010s?

Are there tutorials and what not on P3D?

Would you recommend going for P3D Academic License? I assume its a standalone Sim?
 
Cavallino said:
bluetonic, can I ask, is P3D basically FSX ESP brough into the 2010s?

Are there tutorials and what not on P3D?

Would you recommend going for P3D Academic License? I assume its a standalone Sim?
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Your are right. :D LM bought the code and have been bug fixing and improving it for their own professional simulation and training. Hence the Academic licence as it's not an entertaining game.

Obviously, if you're training pilots professionally, all the plane companies will want a slice and there's where the licencing gets really complicated.

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Just another question if I may! I went to the ORBX website as follows:

There are some freeware, but where do I go to get some proper airports?
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You would have to buy e.g FTX England, and then you can buy the additional airports. OR you can got to UK2000 (ORBX and Photo Scenery Compatible) scenery and buy the excellent airports there OR you can get free ones from http://www.freewarescenery.com/fsx/uk.html

I use the VFR Real Scenery Volumes across most of England. And I have the
VFR Photographic Scenery Generation X for East and West Ireland with UK2000 airfields.

For info, the freeware airports are for bought land areas of ORBX. E.g buy FTX Global and you can get 'free' Europe pack 01-06.
 
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