Hangar Chat

A couple of weeks ago a Jabiru J170 light aircraft lost power at 1100ft when flown by 18 year student pilot. The 22 year old instructor took over and they made a crash landing in a paddock. Very cool heads, watch the video from the cockpit http://youtu.be/kUZI69FSDag

à l'occasion du centenaire de la traversée de la Méditerranée en 1913 par Roland Garros, voici un modèle pour FSX téléchargeable ici: http://ms-h-garros.blogspot.fr/p/ms-h.html BON VOL ! ! ! !

Firstly, tell me what are your favourite Flight Sim airports you use in the USA? Then for you live in the USA, what are the airports you like to visit? For us Internationals we can also share where we have been. For example I have been to Denver with UA. I must say it was a more hub feel to it than somewhere like Kansas. Then, if you have photos, upload them! Inside the terminals, anything nice, large open areas or stuff. I took a lot of photos of the new Tokyo Haneda International Terminal this year but it isn't relevant to this thread. But had some Japanese decor in the food/shopping area. In Japan that is usually reserved for country towns and villages. …

Write your post - click "Post New Topic" ONCE - wait - there you go. REALLY had to get that off my chest LOL.

I'm just wondering how big or small our flight sim community is?...we can take a guess with on how many copies pmdg will sell.

Well I am in a predicament. See here's the problem. My girlfriend and I, are going to be first time parents to a baby girl in November:-) well I was talking to her this morning about how excited I was about this release and guess what she did to me!? She totally killjoyed my rant by telling me I need to save rather than buying some "stupid" airplane!!! Lol well here's the deal. I work for Delta Airlines and make pretty good money and we ( I ) have bought absolutely everything we need including over a grand on clothes. So anyway making a long story short, we argue and argue because I'm excited about spending upwards of 150 on "a stupid airplane"... Lol sorry but I just tho…

Just noticed that while I was capturing an FSRecorder playback with FRAPS my FPS dropped from the locked 30FPS that I consistently get to 19 or 20 or even less. Do others have the same experience with fraps? Is there an alternative to FRAPS that won't kill the FPS. What about MSI Afterburner. I hear that has a feature that makes a video of what's on screen? Is it better than FRAPS?

difficult to set up cameras. The OPUS camera setup is the most complicated thing I HAVE experienced with FSX software. I don't know what Im doing wrong but Ive tried on and off for 5 months to get OPUS cameras setup...cant do it. The manual is not helping. I can get the cameras setup for 1 plane but when I load another all the cameras views are misaligned. How do I setup cameras for ALL my aircraft? Would like to dump EZDOK but its so much easier to use.

What is the difference between the red and white approach indicators in the map?

Let's not speculate folks. Reports at this moment are early, sketchy and speculative. Let's not stir up more. No details are available other than that the FAA has confirmed the crash. UPDATE: Identified as Asiana Flight 214 from Inchon, South Korea to KSFO. NORMAL ROUTING: ENKAS G597 LANAT Y51 SAMON Y513 KMC GOC OTR4 TOPOS OTR4 PABBA OTR5 KALNA 4400N 16000E 4700N 17000E 4900N 18000E 4900N 17000W 4900N 16000W 4800N 15000W 4600N 14000W 4200N 13000W VESPA ENI GOLDN6

I have problem with my 747 400 each time the plane live the ground,the line on the side off the speed indicator come completely red dash from the top to the buttom .Like there is a problem with the flap.Is somebody can't tell me what could be the problem.Sorry for my poor english

I know I'm making a moutain out of a moe hill but I can't see to wrap my head around this. If putting together a flight schedule and using GMT time.. then: for example you fly from KSFO to KMML in a 772 lets say you have a 14hr flight plus 30 min.. 15 min taxi on both ends so block to block 14.5hr flight now lets say I leave at 1300Z then what time (in GMT) would it be that I get at YMML? My guess is: 2030Z the following day, yes? here is my thinking: 1300+1430 = 2730 - 2400 = 0330+(time diff of 17hrs)= 2030Z but then what would be the local times? ahhhggrrr there has got to be an easy formula

I saw these 'planes in EDDF a few times and even better in real life than the PMDG one. http://airnation.net/hangar/threads/lufthansa-cargo-starts-retiring-md-11fs.6398/

Many are gloating about Microsoft shutting down their Marketplace therefore affecting future purchases o Flight content. I must say many of us saw this coming since the release of Flight but it brought current community issues light in my mind. First of all thanks to pirates many things we use in FS after purchase is still controlled by a server that authenticates the applet everytime we use it. Gone are the days in many cases where you buy something install it and it's truly yours. The problem here is when said enterprise decides to close down most don't think of their customers and go the way of Ready For Pushback and totally give their product to existing users (should…

High Definition Stunning Flight Video This is VectorVision camera on a highly-modified Lear Jet. It's real world film - but it's what all of us WISH FOR in our simulation experience. Something that looks like RW but puts us at the virtual controls!

hi, ran across these pilots view vids of some folks doing the firefighting up by yosemite. some crazy bush flying in c-130s. (anyone know, whats the best c-130 for fsx? the capsim one?) http://blogs.kqed.org/newsfix/2013/08/26/california-air-national-guard-rim-fire-video cheers, -andy crosby

Well we know by now how it works. Once......

This changes the battlefield somewhat a lot! http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/apr/09/us-navy-laser-cannon-planes?CMP=dis_829 Any missile can be blown up with this laser. Signed, Regards Daniel

We are very pleased we had the opportunity to take an interview with Amir "Mir" Salehi, Owner and Art Director at FlightBeam Studios. Flightbeam Studios creates highly authentic airport environments for Flight Simulator platforms. They were responsible for beautiful renditions of San Fransisco (KSFO) and Phoenix (KPHX) International Airport in the USA for FS9 and FSX. Amir is a versatile artist, with advanced knowledge of 3d modeling/animation, matte painting, game production, concept art, 2d art, and video editing. He has worked on very succesful games and works/worked with major clients, such as NASA, FAA, TimeGate Studios, Activision, NAMCO and Wizards of the Coast. W…

Someone sent me this video and I thought it was very nicely done. Wanted to share it with the Avsim members. Enjoy it! http://vimeo.com/70994185

http://airfactsjournal.com/2013/08/connie-flight-from-paris-to-cairo-1951/

I have been using Active Sky for past six years and today when booting up the program I get a message indicating unable to connect Off line connected. Unable to connect any help appreciated. Kenny G.

The airplane I fly in real life (the whole class actually, Ultralight in Finland) is not allowed to spin. Yesterday it was this "airplane's day" in Sweden so I flew to an airport that offered the opportunity to experience spinning in a Bulldog that had been used by the Swedish airforce as a training aircraft. It was amazing fun! The instructor let go of the controls immediately after take off so I took us up to around 2,500 feet where I started with the maneuvers. We actually only were supposed to try entries and exits to get an appreciation for what it feels like when the spin starts. But I ended up doing fully developed spins albeit only some 5-6 rotations each time. HU…

Particularly Arizona, one is called Oatman. found it interesting, the old route 66. I thought Route 66 was between LA and Las Vegas, but it was decommissioned years ago. Anyone driven around Arizona, California and New Mexico, and seen some of these touristy places? The scenery is amazing! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oatman,_Arizona Signed Daniel PS. This is a non controversial topic and no animals were harmed in the filming of this movie....... :-)

It's about time: http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/13/us/airline-merger-antitrust-lawsuit/index.html?hpt=hp_t2 I tried to book a flight last month for next April and the prices stayed stagnate no matter how far I booked out. One used to be able to get cheaper fares the farther one booked out, not today. This merger crap needs to stop now...