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After trying my hands on aircraft repaints (P51 & stearman)now Im trying to build airport models since FLY2 default looks bare is there any particular tools i.e. flygraphics that i need . Is there a tutorial how to extract the default models and pod new models (Rotw tutorial on Zmodeler states that Frank Racis FLYRAWGUI is needed but it's not in the AVSIM library.Thanks.chrisrpll

I'm looking for photos of KLAX old and new ATC tower to be modeled in 3d for fly2 if yo have pix please e-mail me.chrisphilippines

Just testing, its yours for download soon. This is dedicated to my Brother Dave & his wife Heather who live nearby (ISH). ;-) Ground textures by John Wimbushhttp://mysite.freeserve.com/fly2theuk/0001.JPGView of Airport, not finishedhttp://mysite.freeserve.com/fly2theuk/0002.JPGNEC Area and Hotel with lakehttp://mysite.freeserve.com/fly2theuk/0003.JPGNearly in a glide herehttp://mysite.freeserve.com/fly2theuk/0004.JPGMany thanks to John for his textures, included in the pod.http://mysite.freeserve.com/fly2theuk/0005.JPGNew green hangars. Here I changed the textures to one of the default hangars for both night and day.http://mysite.freeserve.com/fly2theuk/0006.JPGKind r…

I'm sure this question has been asked in the past, but I haven't found a thread that answers it.Queen Beatrix Airport in Aruba (TNCA) has 1/2 of its runway in the ocean... I'd like to adjust the scenery such that this is not the case. I have Ground Type Transform 1.1, so I have at least been able to change the type of the ground so that I don't sink on takeoff =)However, it's disconcerting to be speeding down the runway, and see water on both sides! =)What are my options? I've looked into TerraScene 2.1, but it only seems to support terrain in the USA (obviously this excludes Aruba!)Thanks!- Bill Ruppel, aka MELKORRest in peace, Richard Harvey

Hy folks, How to repaint a aileron. This is the way it goes:1Start Fly and make a screenshot looking ( from the cockpit)over the west (or east) wing.2Use this screenshot BMPand make a sketch of how you want the wing to look with striping on it.In other words make this screenshot look as the repaint was already done.Later we use this BMP when we are painting the wing views ( alileron,flap and wing must match!!!!!)3Start Flygraphics and convert the flapanimation(west) . PBG to a BMP.Flygraphics will make a BMP and a TXT file.During the whole process thes files should stay together.The txt file is needed by the re-conversion to PBG.4Open this BMP in your paint-program.Edit…

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As I've been trying to make some longer flights in the Hawker, I'm having a rash of "File not found" errors that bump me out to the desktop. I've always had these, but mostly on the "FULLTEX*" files, which I "solved" by un-podding those fulltex* files into the data directories. That makes the problem go away for those files, but every once in a while I get the same error on some other file from a scenery pod. Here's an example from my GTFO.txt file:Msg: Can't load texture DATAd16716163A2C16D4.RAW: File not foundFile: texture.cpp line 1376The file is of course actually present in the POD. This happens just enough to be really annoying. The last 4 times I've tried a 30…

Tri_Brendan has just announced FLY3. I simply cannot believe it. Let's show Terminal a show of support!tony

I read the tutorial on how to add dynamic scenery. I am having a major problem. Every time I am done plotting my object's path (say a stock 747, or one of the biberall model planes, or one of the avro planes), I click to save the .pth. It seems to save it. Then I go to open the plot recorder window.......... and ABSOLUTELY NOTHING seems to happen. I can't go any further. There is no window to import the .pth, no window to play it back, etc - just ........ nothing. I can't seem to get the Path Recorder window to do anything for me. Anyone have any ideas? Also, is it possible to use the biberall models in my plottings?Thanks for the help on a sad day for all of us…

You can download FSTV dedicated to Rich here:http://ftp.avsim.com/library/sendfile.php?DLID=28052 Its a big download (20.81 MB) if you only have a 56k modem like me. Im using DAP.Kind regards Stevehttp://mysite.freeserve.com/fly2theuk/aragon.JPGSceneryhttp://ftp.avsim.com/library/search.php?Se...y2tms&Go=SearchRepaintshttp://ftp.avsim.com/library/search.php?Se...y2Air&Go=SearchOther fileshttp://ftp.avsim.com/library/search.php?Se...2Misc&Go=Search

I found this when going through my old mails. It was taken at the Fly!II release party when I flew the 407 into the TRI Parking lot. Brendan

Can any give me some help with the AP in the King Air. I can't seem to figure out the altitude interface. If I set it to a certain altitude it just keeps on climbing. Any help would be great!

Just for some humorPlease click on the second line attachment and watch the trailer " Bruce Almighty "Jeff

From the Dallas Morning News:HARVEY, RICHARD, age 35, of Lewisville, passed away Thursday, March 13, 2003, at his residence. He was born October 13, 1967 in Ventura, California to William G. and Neva E. Jones Harvey. He married Tara Johnson on December 30, 1989 in Sherman. Richard was a member of First Presbyterian Church in Lewisville and was a computer programmer and producer. He is survived by, his wife, Tara; daughter, Lauren Harvey of Lewisville; parents, Bill and Neva Harvey of Bella Vista, Arkansas; brother, USAF Major Jim Harvey and his family of Goldsboro, North Carolina; grandmother, Katie Hestily Jones of Colbert, Oklahoma; mother-in-law, Joy Johnson of Sherman…

Yesterday i made a small tribute to Richard and Fly!.I exposed the Fly! ponence in the I national conferenceof Flight Simulation in Spain, in front more of 80 attendants.The title was "Fly! past, present and

Re: Richard HarveyTwo years ago, I began flying in the real world after flying sims for about 15 years. FLY and MS were instrumental in saving me thousands of dollars in training as well as keeping me proficient, now that I have my instrument rating, and am about to complete my commercial and multiengine. I am now in my second year of law school and have decided that the rest of my life will be devoted to aviation. Teaching aviation law classes, working in the business of aviation, utilizing my law degree to help pilots, etc. And simming has helped me come to this realization. Particularly after getting the chance to take a 3 hour ride in Boeing's Full Motion MD-11 and MD…

Hi folks,I am paintig the Damn YankeeThis will be the cockpit-view.With moveable repainted flaps.

On March 13, 2003, I was on on the golf course pursuing my "second favorite" hobby. At the first tee, I realized that it wasn't going to be a good day... my first shot sailed right (into the water) - my second shot wasn't any better (it got wet too). The next few holes didn't provide any additional hope - I was frustrated, I was out-of-sync, and I was getting angry. On the fifth fairway, almost out of nowhere, one of the worst storms I've ever experienced rolled in. The sky was a "deep" green, lightning was crackling all around, the rain fell in big drops, and the wind was blowing at over 45 kts. (verified later by checking the MGM ASOS report). If you ever want to experi…

I'm tooling along in the Hawker, currently descending through 6000 ft, from FL310. I've been flying a while, and everything has been OK right up until the point pictured in the first screenshot below. The careful observer will note that I have about 900 lbs fuel left in the left tank (yes, I know I cut it close :) ), and mere moments prior I also had 900 lbs in the right tank. But suddenly my right tank sprang up to around 2600 lbs, which you can see in this screenshot. Yet all throughout the flight, my fuel usage was identical for boht engines (I was paying attention to it).This of course did some very bad things to the a/c's handing. At 150 KIAS, it took full ailer…

The National Airlines 757-28A repaint of PMDG's 757-200 for Fly! II has been finished and sent off to the AVSIM server. Now I'm off to watch the Australian Grand Prix, on TV.Pete

Just to let you know I have uploaded an update to the Alaskan Winter hut scenery.This was to cope with the fact that Don's new elevation scenery sealaska1.zip had covered the hut in a lot of snow :-)I've also added a couple of new situation files for both night and day 3.5nm low visibility with snow falling starts.ThanksBen

Tom,I'm not sure how AVSIM forums are stored, but, I would like to propose that AVSIM make provisions to archive, in perpetuity, all of the message threads that Rich ever participated in here on AVSIM. They could be stored in their own read-only forum here on AVSIM as a tribute to who the man was and how he believed in his work.While Rich the man now belongs to the ages, we at least have available the means to electronically preserve who he was so that future simulation hobbyists might learn about him. It's their loss they came after ours.Just a thought.

Hi everyone !Is there a possibility to download weather settings like METAR for other regions than North America (I mean Europe)?Is there any possibility to obtain randomized weather settings for Fly! II ?

Hi Tom (or even Rich?),Is there any information or correspondence from Rich that you might provide? Its been a month since the last email without hearing anything... Makes me wonder if things might have turned a corner some how. As always lately, I think of him every day.Thanks for any update possible,Elrond---Not enough bandwidth to display this signature! Don't reformat hard drive? (Y/N)

Hi folks,Yesterday we uploaded the Detroit Miss to the Simvol page.I am saying WE because this is a Dutch-Norwegian co-production.Gunnar van der Meeren (Norway) and I ( Leen from Holland) made this livery by E-mail contact.( and one phone-call)This repaint of the original P51 from ROTW is a littlebit special.We used on this repaint an technique invented by Frederic Mouflin (ROTW).Using several different TIF`s and a special prepared ACM set, it is possibleto give various parts of the plane diffrent colors an textures.The repaint shows very well at all distances ,even when it is usedby FLY as a PC controlled aircraft (without framerateproblems)We call it Multi-TIF-Hocus-Po…