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Just to let those who are interested in flying in Japan know that I have uploaded three more Japanese airports, bringing the count to eight so far. The new airports are as follows:Kitakyushu Airport (RJFR) on Kyushu island.Takamatsu Airport (RJOT) on Shikoku island.Nanki-Shirahama (RJBD) in Wakayama prefecture south of Osaka on Honshu island.More airports to follow when time allows.Cheers,

I hope this water texture is acceptable. A few more cleaning up and will share this scenery.chris salviejorpll

Hello all, started working on this Virgin express repaint...here is the first pic.Cheers

It appears that the Simvol web site (Fly section) is down.Can anyone confirm this?

Hi I'm very new to FLY! II, but have played FS 2000 and before alot. It's a new experience to sit in the cockpit and have to manoeuver around the cockpit with a mouse. With a stick, a throttle and a keyboard, I wish I had five hands. I's there a way to see all the cockpit (forward view) without having to use the mouse, or does anyone have some inside tips to make this operation easier, using the mouse stick on the HOTAS. I am very greatfull to every little tip, or even a little pitty for a newbie in the FLY! II community....Sincerely!kmeliasAMB Duron 2000+, 512 MB RAM, Asus 8420 128 MB, XP, 80 GB HD, Saitek X 45 HOTAS

Hi All :-waveI have just changed my ISP & email address.So those of you who want to contact me , or change my email address here it is:[email protected] user name is still steviegeebeeAll the best my friendsStevie :-bat

Jean,You didn't include your email address and I'm experiencing problems.Drop me your email address at [email protected] Lyddy

In due time hopefully I can share this scenery but I need your suggestions as to the acceptable or appropriate water texture/color for a scenery. Here some pix of Hongkong and I marked the color of the water "A", "B", & "C". Your suggestions will be appreciated.Chris Salviejorpll

Hallo folks,Last week I finished my third repaint of the ROTW/Pa19 SuperCub.(L18c)The zip file is available at AVSIM and SIMVOL.Thanks to the great help from Jean Sabatier , Jean Baruch and Ren

Greetings, I am looking to get back into Fly!2K for IFR practice. I thought those flight models were the best for this type of "flying". I do like creating Terrascene, but how do I create Terrascene in Fly!2k? I believe Jack Fearon "pulled" his textures for Terrascene. Is there a backward compatability procedure for the textures in Fly!2? I thought I saw a "procedure" for that on Ken Salter's website but the site is down. Any help appreciated!Jason"flying the instruments"

I am going through the simvol site, as I wish to fly in Europe!I have already downloaded all of their France maps as well as the new DEX files for French airports. All is well with these.I also downloaded the French taxiways pod file and applied it.I extracted the taxiusa.pod file, removed all instances of French taxiways, and repodded it.Some airports, however, give me this:http://ftp.avsim.com/dcforum/User_files/3d85427a0c104083.jpghttp://ftp.avsim.com/dcforum/User_files/3d8542880c204dd9.jpgIs this normal? Or did I miss something?BTW, this is on a fresh machine, fresh install of XP, fresh install of Fly2, patched to 230, elevation patch applied.P3 500 MHz, GeForce 3 v…

Hello all, Here is my version of the 735 in the Swiss colors (I know that swiss doesn't own 737 but that's what got closer to there airbuses...)Hope you like it.If you have any comments, or think that something is missing, say so, because I won't pod till I get that little image icon that I never put in my other repaints...cheers

One picture is worth a thousand words.CheersHenri

Tonight (MEZ) I uploaded V1.1 of my Zmodeler tutorial. Changes are:1) Use of the material editor. You do not need to export/import your model as .bin-file to see a texture in the UV-Mapper2.) how to use Background pictures to find the right proportions of a building3.) A workaround for the error message when importing SMF-Files.Make sure, you have the newest Zmodeler from 31. Aug. 2002. There are different versions 1.06f avaiable with different dates. In the zmodeler download section you always get the newest one.Harald

I have uploaded all of the revised NY scenery. There is now one shared pod containing just shared models. All the scenery files and location specific models are defined by scf coverage, in neat folders for your scenery folder.I thinned all of it out a bit, utilized more distance hiding, and reduced the texture memory needed for Ozzie Dave's city clusters. The scenery is adjusted to line up (generally) with terrascened areas, so if you have generic ground textures things may look a little astray. Maybe you won't even notice.Vin Scimone created some fantastic bridges for New York City. Thanks.More extraneous models and non night models are mostly all "Complex" now. This mea…

Found this waiting to be finished in my paint hanger. I'll work on this this weekend.Pete

I had the great pleasure and privlege of meeting Rich and many other simmers at this year's conference in Tahoe. The whole experience was much more emotional than I expected, especially when Tom presented Rich with this award. I'm really glad I was there to witness it and I'm sure I'll rememeber it for the rest of my life. Inspirational is the best word I can think of to describe it. Rich, you are truly a class-act guy and I feel very lucky to have worked with you and met you in person. See you at the next conference!http://www.avsim.com/hangar/fly/wild/conf/rich-award.jpgRich's talk was great. I hope Rich can share his presentation with everyone because he presente…

Good Morning,I am proud to present the first screenshots from the Island Texel/Netherlands. The biggest Island of Netherlands in North-Sea with its airport EHTX is missing in FlyII, soI made it from sat-images. At this time there is only the landscape image, no models or scenery. A DEX File with EHTX is in the package.But see by yourself, even without models I hope it is a fun to fly around the shore.I will upload the POD-File and additional Infos and Pictures in a few days.Greetings, Michael from Bonn/Germany.D_Mick - [email protected]

Anyone know why my Hawker jet will not load properly? It either crashes before loading, or loads with a wierd looking string of alpha-numeric characters across the glare shield, - & THEN crashes a few moments later. Here is the error message I get from my fly gfto.txt file:Msg: Runtime execption code c0000005 (EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION) at address 005D71D3File: WINRUN.CPP line 165Time: Sun Sep 15 16:29:30 2002errno = 2 (No such file or directory)As usual - only in Fly2 does this kind of stuff happen. This HAS to be the most unstable sim ever invented. I spend more time trying to fix the sim each week than I do flying around.sincerely,Chris Catalano

I'll be there on Saturday. I couldn't get a ticket for the Saturday night dinner (sold out) but I will be at the conference & exhibition during the day. It would be nice to see some Fly! faces!Todd

Hello,No, I am not organizing this. I am saying this because I am unable to fly with this guy myself, due to problems with my copy of Fly!.He's having a flight from MOB to PNS to MOB right now at this very moment, using METAR weather.Details and IP here:http://flightboards.4gigs.com/cgi-bin/board.pl?section=flyClick on the link that says "Active flight - click to join" and you will see the IP in the upper left corner. Then simply start Fly! and join the flight. More help is available here if you need it:http://flightboards.4gigs.com/help/boards.shtml#joinHe will probably be on for a couple of hours. Hope you will have fun together. :)Regards,Dave

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Hello forumJust more teasing on the 707.Overhead panel in night and take off testing.Jeanhttp://www.pixup.com/pub/fly/OP707.jpghttp://www.pixup.com/pub/fly/TO707.jpg

Hi....I am looking to buy a copy of Fly 2 from anywhere in Canada. Looking for any asistnace I can get. ThanksRichard (Victoria, BC)

Hi i tried to add night textures to the SFO terrascene area but it doesn't seem to take effect in the scenery. I CHECKED the following check boxes in the render window : USGS, GENERATE NIGHT TEXTURE, SLICE WITH FLY EDIT, 1 IMAGE PER GLOBE . When I checked the output folder in TS2 the night texture is there. Did I miss any step in the process. Any suggestion pls.Thank you.chris salviejorpll