The FLY General Discussion Forum

After reading the posts here about USGS data no longer free, I went to look for my self, and I found this site. Not sure if this data is still in the format Terrascene needs, but the USGS still provides data for free. It appears though they are using a new interface (Graphical) to get it, here is the link.http://seamless.usgs.gov/website/Seamless/

Flying out of Providence, RI, weather is picked up correctly.A few minutes later, weather appears as Kzab, which has totally different weather conditions. In fact, it provides clear weather conditions.In the next round, Kbos is picked up , thus providing correct weather again.I am puzzled, since you say that FLY2, in the absence of a weather station, will retain the last one.All of this takes place in a range of less than 50 miles.tony

Your New Jersey airport series are a delight for me. Many years ago I had an ercoupe stationed in Rhode Island. I remember one day,on Christmas, dropping my wife on Long Island McArthur, and continuing on to Princeton airport, where an old friend of mine lived. The Ercoupe had no radio to speak of, so dead reckoning was the way to fly. The problem when flying west was the low sun and the smog. I remember flying and hoping that at the right moment, when looking down, I could see the airport. Sure enough, I saw the runway and quickly set up for landing.Princeton Airport was a small field with grass all around the runway.Upon touchdown, I noticed that my brakes were not doi…

Good morning.If you wish to have navigation maps, airport charts etc... for Indonesia, you can find all this high quality material here:http://www.indoavis.co.idRegardsRakhamToshiba Satellite P4 3.4 Ghz1536 DDR RAM nVidia GeForce FXWinXP Home on the road andPIV 3.4Ghz, 1536 DDR RAM, ATI Radeon 9700 WinXP PROYoke & Pedals CH Products at home

After a seven month hiatus from FlyII I just got everything installed and running on my new computer. The OS on my old computer (WinXP SP2) got ahold of something awful seven months ago and while I did save basically all my data I just never managed to get FlyII working again. My new computer is an Athlon 64 4000 with an ATI x800 256 meg card, it will run FlyII without a hitch. Thanks for keeping FlyII and the forum alive. Now to get back to working on those sectional charts I was going to do. I'll have to check and see if anyone did Hawaii yet.And BTW the ROTW Socata TBM 700 is still the best simulation available. I think ROTW's Seneca is also superior to the MSFS …

Hi guys.Its been that long since I did this I cant remember what to do... old age huh!I want to release a beta (or Unfinished version) of my Liverpool Airport EGGP.All models were made by me, but for some Biba Salsa Planes.I havent used Terramodels, and I cant remember how to create a .scf file for it.Im sitting here at my computer... blank... Nada... Nothing... Im lost?... who am I?... Who took my clothes? Were did 2005 go?... Can you help me! :-lol Steve

Hi All,Recently purchased a CH Throttle Quadrant to go with my Yoke and Pedals.Tried to create maps using the CH Control Manager for the Grumman and the DC3.All worked well to start with but now the mixture control lever on my Yoke won't work with the Grumman.The axes are set and all work when tested in the sim.Have sent an e-mail to CH Products but thought I'd ask here in case anyone has a solution other than re-installing the Grumman.:-beerchug

Hi all,I saw the discussion about those birds. Experimented a lot with BirdFlocks myself, saw them now and then, but it was hard to take a pic still.Recently I got my site up and running for good, with a new, *cool* domain name. Her you will find my old Fly II pages. Check the screenshots section, birds are there. The two pics were taken by Frank d`Hont (hope I spelled it right), and he kindly gave me the permission to use them at my site. (-: http://www.athomsen.org/index.html

Hi folks,Yesterday my first DC3 repaint has been published on Simvol.Actually it is a C-47D version.This repaint reperesents a Douglas C-47D n

Hi AllSearched the forum but couldn't find any reference to this.Having installed a new copy of Fly!2 and then installed my new ROTW DVD I get the following error when starting:Unable to open PBG file ab_panel_l.pbgAny clues please?Andrew Luck18 miles SW EGSH

Hi all,our dear friend Harald has done a great job. The production of European sceneries doesn't finally have more secret.Roads, highways, lakes, rivers and seas of Italy in SHP (from Roads & Rivers of Europe)http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/138144.jpgThe complicated streets in Venice (from Roads & Rivers of Europe)http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/138145.jpgTHANKS HARALD:-beerchug Dan

Was on a flight from LGA to SEA and around Montana did a viewing of other aircraft in the area. Around some of those planes were birds flying alone, in 2 and 3s and even big V-formations! I didn't even know FLY! had birds until I saw recently a posting about them.Hmmm... Tastes Like Chicken!

Been messing around in Fly!II again and am wanting to get some Terrascene scenery for Colorado and Washington state as well as some others. Read a few posts in here about the data not being with the USGS anymore. If I try to render any of these places, (including elevation), whats gonna happen? I really miss my Seattle and surrounding area's scenery... :(Also, I saw once upon a time some updated Terrascene textures, are those still around, payware/freeware?Basically, whats the status of Terrascene and Fly!II?Merry Christmas fellow Fly'ers!Dondo

If french Alps have some interest for you, look at this pic:http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/137692.jpgThis is Albertville airport built by Thierry Petris (ROTW).Downloadable on simvol as usual.

Hi All,In the Grumman AA5, the Jabiru, the Staggerwing, the Stearman, the Piper PA-28-161 it is necessary to turn the Carb Heater on by using the mouse L-click.In the Options TAB the carb heater is supposed to be turned on and off by the keyboard letter 'h', which it does not.The parking brake knob, for example, works fine.Can anyone tell me where the program is that activates a particular keystroke so I can try and correct the bug.:-hmmm

Hi everyone,I've just reinstalled Fly! II after a long absence (not my choice). The machine is new and has the following hardware:ATI Radeon X600 with 256MB3.0GHz Dual Core Intel Proc1GB MemoryI've made the appropriate render.ini changes (Vertex=0) and so forth, but I get this unusual flicker every 3 to 5 seconds. The screen clearly goes black for a fraction of a second and then carries on quite normally. Everything else seems to be working just fine. The problem is more irritating that debilitating and I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this issue and might have some suggestions on how to cure it.Also, on exit, Fly! crashes with an access violation (excep…

Hi all. I have Fly2 for many years but it's been collecting dust especially since the X-plane 7xx version and Century of Flight became available. I always liked the cockpit functionality of the default aircraft in Fly 2 among other things. I also always found it to be a bit buggy. Last time I attempted to run Fly 2 I had a terminal flashing lights problem that no settings changes would remove. This happened after my most recent general PC upgrade. At the time, it was AMD 2800xp, ATI radeon 9200 SE, and 512 meg of PC-3400. Currently, I am running the same 2800 XP with 768 meg of 3400, a 6600 GT, windows XP full service pack 2. What would I need in way of patches, u…

Wishing you all a happy and prosperous New Year.:-wave

I'm not having any luck locating the biberall.zip file needed for many of the high-res sceneries. Anyone know where I can still find a copy or that could email it to me? It's something like 8Mb, but my email acct is okay for that.Thanks,-_Ian

Hi guys,Is there anyone interested in a Original ROTW DC3 paintkit?I am doing a repaint right now and can make a paintkit alongside this project as well.Let me know.RegardsLeen de Jagerhttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/137024.jpg

http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/137202.jpgDouglas C47D flown by the french navyDouglas DC3 flown by Air FranceRegardsLeen de Jager -Painter ROTW

Screenshot Christmas-card number one http://home.planet.nl/~dejag021/shots/kerst.png

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:-wave Hi Ken, been trying to get hold of you through your email address, but keep getting an error message. I have uploaded the photoshop file to my website, but it closes soon so be quick. Website was to costly for me with my present host.Email me asp @ talktalk.net (remove the spaces between the @ )and I will send you the link.All the best my friend, Steve.

whenever i make a flightplan in the U.S.A. e.g. ksfo-klax, kpsp-klax I'm getting this mmessage (see attached file). What I'm missing here?help will be appreciated.thanks chris_CAhttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/136775.jpg