The FLY General Discussion Forum

As we face the first anniversary of the heinous attacks against America, I wish to once again thank our Canadian brothers and sisters for their gracious friendship that, although always strong, was so evident one year ago.I just finished watching a PBS documentary called "Stranded Yanks." It related the experiences of American travelers whose aircraft were diverted to Canadian airports when US airspace was closed.I was partly aware of this hospitality through a Canadian member of this forum who reported some of the activities in his town during the period immediately after Sept 11. He was too modest.The documentary brought home to me the incredible scale and scope of the …

Hello,Several months ago, this forum was speaking about a patch that would be released in the summer...I would like to know if some of you, have some informations concerning this patch !Thank you very much JohnSmith

Uploaded a gift for you all today.Enjoy!BradDrop in EPD/DBD format (Fly! 1/2k)http://ftp.avsim.com/library/sendfile.php?DownloadID=19646Dex formathttp://ftp.avsim.com/library/sendfile.php?DownloadID=19645Includes a very large update to the Fly! navigational databases based on the ICAO AIRAC cycle of every 28 days. Current cycle: 0209 - Effective 9.5.2002 through 10.2.2002. (6 new countries, 837 new navaids, 29545 new waypoints (yes, gps approaches)) Most records are updated, and have highly accurate LatLon values. Enjoy! (RR)

Did 235 statute miles in 2.6 hours. Went from ISZ, VES, I22, GEZ, ISZThis is about 30 miles SW of Dayton, little bumpy going thru here, just came out of Hamilton and Middletown, lot of thermals coming off the streets and rooftops. Got nice and smooth once I got over the cornfields. http://bartsflyplace.tripod.com/Dcp_0200.jpg One of my checkpoints heading up to VES. 280 Radial TO RID VOR @ 14 miles. Little town east of Eaton, Ohio, no name on the map. Dayton was to the east. http://bartsflyplace.tripod.com/Dcp_0204.jpg My first stop, VES Versailles, Ohio. 208 Radial TO RID @ 30 miles. http://bartsflyplace.tripod.com/Dcp_0206.jpg Second stop I22, this one …

Hi Pete,Remember when you said you couldn't do the new IcelandAir livery for the 747-500 because of the rudder problem? Well, now that you've started painting 757s, do you think you could whip up a 757 IcelandAir with the new livery? I would be eternally grateful! :-)Cheers, Tony

Well.. here I am ...doing my first solo after years of reading I've decided to participate and show some of my Work In Progress of some Mexican liveries....There are lots of fixes and repairs still to be done ....:-newbie Light years from Mac_Paint's great planes.. but I wanted to see some mexican liveries and I couldn't wait so....PS: I posted this on the ScreenShot Forum and they are gone, nada, kaput!... I still don't know what happened.

Under dynamic vehicles on strike. Any help on this would be helpful and a great addition on the sim!pilotsim7828aka: Jeff Akins:-wave

Next few days...Pete

As some of you know, I'm putting together a presentation to show at the AVSIM conferences this weekend. I'd like to have a few screenshots showing the "best" of Fly! (any version), and was hoping you could help me out.If you have any screenshot you feel is "jaw dropping" good and should be shown to a crowd of primarily FS2K2 fans, this is your chance! I'd love to share your screenshot with the audience. I'll pick 3-5 of the shots received for the presentation. I can't offer you anything for your trouble, just the knowledge that you made my presentation more exciting.If you have shots to share, please e-mail them (JPEG's highly preferred) to [email protected]. I need the…

Hello,I have installed SquawkBox v3.02 for Fly! III am running fly!II with last path: 230When I check that SquawkBox dll is running (CTRL-T) everything seems OK.But when I try to access SquawkBox menu window by CTRL-ALT-F10, nothing appens!Could anybody please help me?

Tonight (MEZ)I uploaded a step by step tutorial to make a custom building (look at the attachment) with zmodeler. Included are more than 60 screenshots. It covers following topics- convert a custum .-BMP texture (one is included)to .RAW and .ACT- make a building using Zmodeler and this texture- export it in .SMF-Format- make a .MLF-File- resize this building with the built-in FLY!2 Form-editorNow everybody can make his/her custom buildings;) More parts are to come- join vertices, join objects and opacity maps (or how to make a tree for Fly!2- night textures and models- low polygon modelsIf you use this tutorial and have any suggestions (or find any errors), please let me …

Hi, How is the repaint looking??I reinstalled fly yesterday, and installing only addons I need, but after putting Boston, when I wanted to teleport, Fly said I was missing tmground.tif.Where do I get that?? I have everything the readme says... so???Thanks

I have an idea for an add-on. It would be cool to have an addon that would save the configuration the airplane is in when you either close fly or switch aircraft. For example, If I leave the flaps down, next time I start fly, the flaps are already down. This would also been cool with the trim. I find myself skipping things on the check list because I know fly reset these each time fly exits. This would add a more real touch to the check list!! Any thoughts??

Dear James:Can't find your email address in any readme files. Long time no speak! Quick question - where do you get those AWESOME "jetways" for your Terramodel work (ie - Atlanta, Cleveland, etc). Also, where do those really cool darker colored orange Southwest planes come from (the only ones I have are much lighter & not as nice). Finally, where do you get the great (older) Delta planes from?Thank a million for the info. I wish my Terramodel stuff could look as nice as yours! :-)Sincerely,Chris Catalano

Thanks very much to Leen de Jager for his beautiful repaintof ROTW`s PA19 Super Cub!I was just downloading it from the ROTW site http://fly.simvol.org/and took it for a short spin around Iraklion (Greek islands)Thanks for your work,Cheers :-beerchug Rodger

Good morning everyone:Whenever I attempt to fly to, through or around the New York City area, I receive the following error and crash to the desktop."Can't load texture DATAD2031597917A54.RAW: file not foundFile: Texture.cppLine 1376"My attempt at correcting the problem has failed. I deleted all of the NYC files and reinstalled Scott's NYC_v1DA file, making sure all instructions were followed. Nothing seems to eliminate the error. Any Ideas would be greatly appriciated! Thanks in advance for any help!Curtis

Hello everybody,I am working on the same project than Brad_B to update database from NIMA/DAFIF data ;)Presently at ROTW we are testing this work on Fly! and Fly!II. In a few day you'll be able to download COMM, ILS, NAVAID, WAYPOINT and ATSROUTE/GRAPH. These work could be done with a new version of VolEdit. But COMM and ILS need short works before to be used by VolEdit.Any other project : YES of course.Ren

I just noticed that the TS2 roads looked a LOT better on Johnny`s computer than mine. He has a GF3 grapics card, and I have a GF4Ti4600.After some thinking I enabeled the Fly II High Detail textures. The roads were suddenly fine, but the rest of the scenery got very blocky, no matter what I tried with Texel Alignment and by experimenting with the graphics options in Fly II. Is there a known problem with High Detail texures and choosing "More than 32MB" in the Fly II graphics options?Anyone experiencing this problem, any solutions? Or must I leave High Detail textures and go back to those VERY ugly roads?Btw, the blockiness shows in both default and TS scenery.First pic wi…

Hi folks,This afternoon I was laying on my back looking at the cloudsdrifting by.I fell asleep and had a nice dream.I was a bird flying, high over Rotterdam and suddenly I hearda quarted of humming, tiny, engines.I looked over my shoulder and there they were.Four little birds out of the past ,having a nice trip on asunny Saturday afternoon.Please share this dream with me?GreetsLeen de JagerEHRD:-lol

Hallo people,yesterday I bought myself the Citabria/Decathlon of RealAir.After the installation I started Fly and the loading screnn was there.But then by appr. 100% I got an ERROR-message:" Runtime execption code 000005 (EXEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION) at address005370A4File: WINRUN.CPPLine:165 "What is that ?Please help me!Thanks

Good morning all:I have downloaded Tony Crider's WindsAloft program from the AVSIM Library and onto my machine as directed in the Readme.txt file and nothing happens! Nothing shows up when pressing Alt-F6! What am I doing wrong? I unzipped to a temp file and copied the unzipped contents to my Fly!IIsystemmodulesPC folder.Am I to assume (#####-u-me) that when the instructions state "copy WindsAloft.DLL" to that folder, only that file is to be copied and not the other files, (not including the readme.txt and Avsim.diz files)? Help!! Thank you in advance for any help that is offered.Curtis

Hi all, Here is another screen shot. It'll be finished soon, need to get the text to look nicer.Last night I wanted to fly from Paris Orly (then tried Charles De Gaule) to Geneva with the Easyjet 737, but kept on getting these errors...Msg: Unable to load aircraft model : Southwestshad.acmFile: AMODEL.CPP line 226Time: Sun Sep 08 18:58:12 2002errno = 2 (No such file or directory)I know what this one is, but the others???----------------------------------------------------------------Msg: Unable to open model: H1LFLA.BINFile: MODEL.C line 246Time: Sun Sep 08 19:00:29 2002errno = 2 (No such file or directory)----------------------------------------------------------------Ms…

What type of import programs are there to use to import z3d models used by z-modeller, and how do you import them thet fly can read? pilotsim7828aka: Jeff Akins:-hmmm

Because Rob Young and crew (RealAir Simulations) who did so well with airplanes for FLY/FLYII have created a sensational one for FS2002. The Marchetti SF 260. They have definately upped the bar in both virtual cockpits and flight dynamics. Very nicely working spins and sensational slips to landings. The reviews have been great on this one, which is really great because it was their first payware release into the world of MSFS which seems to have it's own well known and respected payware specialists. I do believe they'll get credit where it's due with this one!!L.Adamson

I was one one of the original beta team and have not flown FlyII for a while. I just recently constructed a 2.4Ghx system with a Geforce 4 TI4600. As I had hoped, FlyII was essentially fluid at the highest settings in the sim.However, after flying one time the second attempt to start the sim resulted in the subsystm.cpp, line 254, "Subsystem not registered" error. I have read all the posts, and deleted the hst and default files. I was eventually able to get back in but it appears that rather consistently, this error is generated on the next startup.I would appreciate any insight into this error that anyone may have. I never saw this error during the extensive beta te…