The FLY General Discussion Forum

I've stayed in contact with some of you in the Fly! community for the last several years (has it been that long?) so I thought I'd share my recent accomplishment. Last Friday I passed my instrument checkride! All along the way, I've used Fly!2 to work on my procedures when the weather was too poor to fly outside. My story then starts in 2000 when I anxiously awaited the original Fly!. In 2002 I started my flight training, but had to quit when I lost my job. Then in July of 2003 I got started again and got my private that November. A year ago, my flight school needed a new 172S and I had the great fortune of being able to pick up 2099J and put it on the flight line. …

FREE AERONAUTICALS SPANISH CHARTS format PDF, vectorial (High Quality)from:http://www.aena.es/csee/Satellite?cid=1078...n=1&c=Page&MO=2AIP section Aeronautical Information Publication (AIP)The Aeronautical Information Publication (AIP) is a basic aeronautical information manual. It contains permanent information and long-term changes and it is used essentially for air navigation and airport operations. It is divided into three parts:1. Generalities (GEN).This comprises five sections that contain administrative and explanatory information.2. En Route (ENR).This area is made up of seven sections that contain information regarding airspace and its usage: ATS procedu…

Hello All My Fly2 friends.Sadly I have to tell you all, I will no longer be creating for Fly2, for the near future at least. My health is getting worse day by day, and the pains in my chest and dizzyness is continueing. I wish you all the best, and those of my team mates in F2FDesign. I will continue ( I hope) with my website, as this is my obligation to NASA and the Millenium Award Commission. When I feel fit again I may continue with my (our) hobby.I was due back at NASA for December this year, but it has now been cancelled, Im devastated about this, but without my health its no good. Over the past few years I have made some of the best friends one could wish for on the…

G'day all, A couple of screen pictures of the Jabiru whilst beta testing Chris Wallace's great s3d converter for Truespace. If you haven't yet downloaded Truespace 3.2 (free) then don't procrastinate. It won't last forever. The link is in the developer forum.Cheers, Roger @YSSY

Hi,I've just uploaded the version 1.2 of DragPoder tool.It now handles correctly the date/time format of files inside POD3/2Thanks to Chris Wallace for the missing information.- roland -* ROTW member *

It finally came in. Works great in FlyII!!!!http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...ronics&n=507846

Hi, my next project:BALEAREN ISLAND SRTM (Ibiza, Majorca, ...) near to Alicante and Valencia)http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/106842.gifhttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/106843.gifhttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/106844.gifhttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/106845.gifComing soonRegards Fonchy

Hello!Some days ago I came back to Fly!2, hoping that frame rates will be better with my new Mac. I was able to render my first Sceneries with TS and VirtualPC 7 and I got my FlightSimJoke working. Unfortunately Fly crashes sometimes when I choose an airport, saying for ex: C3DModel:load-Can't open: SEDANG.SMF or C3DModel:load -Can't open: TRUCKWT.SMFHas anybody an idea what this means and what I can do?Thank you for your helpMax

Hi all,thanks to Jim McNeill of the x-plane tech mailinglist, a real-life helo pilot, I got this link to a FAA helo training manual - unbelievable what you get FOR FREE: - more than 200 pages PDF document - covers all aspects - excellent pictures, charts, graphsIf you want to know more about helo flying and how to do it right in FLY! then go get it now as long as it is available!But: ca. 10 MB to download - do it despite your slow dial-up connection!And thanks again to Jim McNeill!RegardsGeorg HeliFLYer EDDW

Hi guys and gals,I was just wondering if anyone is working on the Mooney for FLYII. There were a few guys working on it a while back but I never heard any more about it. I ran a ccross an old email that had this link: http://ftp.avsim.com/library/sendfile.php?DLID=5819I hope someone is working on it. It is one of my favorites.Thanks to all you developers who keep FLYII alive and well.God bless,Earl

Donny AKA ShalomarFly 2 ROCKS!!!Some wrapped copies of FLY FLY 2K and FLY 2 are available on ebay. Others sell as CD only meaning box was opened but there is hope for those that don't have FLY 2 but want it now that the ROTW DVD is available. It seems some online stores have a bunch of copies as these auctions seem to start one after another. To get yours search the "video games" category. I got 64 items to search thru using "FLY" as a keyword but make sure "search title and description" is unchecked or you will wind up with over three thousand! I am buying a couple myself, my original copy won't last forever.:-wave

Hello guys. I would appreciate some help if I may.I have never done a Fly!II skin before and I just don't know where to start with POD files and the formats used inside them, or even where the textures actually are. Could someone please point me in the direction of a good tutorial or two on skinning for Fly!II if there is some available. I searched the forums here but didn't come up with much.FYI: I want to do a Northern Territory of Australia Police Air Wing PC-12, a Royal Flying Doctor Service PC-12 and a Victorian Police Air Wing Dauphin. Fly!II is absolutely awesome in that it has 'major' remote aerodromes in the NT such as Gove a few hours flight east of Darwin Inter…

G'day guys.I need some more help. I would like to know if anyone can recommend a freeware image editor. The tutorial I was given a link for mentions FlyGraphics, but the website appears to be down, and I don't know if it is freeware or not.Thanks again!

after 2 days from the annoucement: 50 orders-----------------------------------------------------France: 37 (including 1 in New Caledonia)Italie: 3USA: 2UK, Belgium, Germany, Brazil, Portugal, Australia, Switzerland, Norway: 1 in each country-----------------------------------------------------it's a good result, but...Remember, this DVD is bi-language and works with american and europeen Fly! II original copy.Have a look at this page for details explanations about its contents:http://fly.simvol.org/articles/projets/pagesus/dvd_us.phpThanks to help us to contribute in making Fly! alive

A fun place to fly to test your skills with TS2 New textures.cheerschris_CAhttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/106379.jpghttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/106380.jpghttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/106381.jpg

I've been away from Fly! for awhile and was wondering if there was ever a fix of the wrong airplane positioning when in the map view. When I started a flight the other day the plane was shown as being positioned about 7 miles from the airport. Sorry if this has been covered before.Jim

Hi, I have was cut off from internet, my aereal microwave conection was broken , one month ago.Advantages to live in the field. jejejejeNow, I can continuy my project, It

Donny AKA ShalomarFly 2 ROCKS!!!The Cessna has very few bugs that affect usability, the most glaring deficiency in the default Cessna other than the parking brake is NO KATE RYAN IN THE BACK SEAT!!! Ahem, bugs that directly affect usability are: Aforementioned parking brake allows aircraft to move at 1500 RPM 2227 lb gross weight.I seem to remember the GPS NAV 1 slaving being a problem and I didn't use it for a long time till I checked it when compiling this list. None of the patches I installed mentioned it in the readme but it now works perfectly though it hunts a little excessively when activated in my opinion.Autopilot goes off on a tangent when APR or BC function sel…

We had announced it because it was one of our decisions during our "congress" on December, 2004 and we did it!The ROTW Fly!II DVD is available!If you're a Fly! II fan or an occasional visitor who doesn't use it a lot or not at all (how much does Fly!II CD's sleep in a drawer, near to an old good FS98, put there because disappointed by the latest version bugs and by its updating complexity ?), you're surely concerned by the fruit of 4 years'creativity by the ROTW.And in addition it's auto-loadable: you can even start a "patched" Fly! with a "new look" directly at the end of the auto-loading procedure.Finally, and it's the height of refinement, it's bilingual and may be ins…

ALICANTE 2004 FOR FS, IMPORT WITH fsimporthttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/106249.gifhttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/106250.gifRegards Fonchy

Sometime we forget that we should be flying a bit more rather than be looking for add ons....;-)tony

I tried to terrascene grand canyon using the new "red canyons" texture from the render options texture pack and i am getting this error but if I use the default fly2 texture everything is ok.help will be appreciated.chris_CAhttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/106110.jpg

Have just tried on two computers to set up a TS project for a radius of 50 miles around NZOH.After clicking the finish bar it just freezes.Anybody have any idea why?:-beerchug

I'd like to invite anybody who uses trueSpace 3.2 (or perhaps higher versions) for modelling aircraft or scenery objects to drop me a line to test out a new plug-in exporter for TRI S3D files. This plug-in works the same way as the 3DS MAX plugin that TRI supplied with Fly! II. It takes your trueSpace scene and generates a .S3D file that can be imported by either the Shape Editor or Keyframe Editor in Fly! II to generate .SMF or .ACM files for static or animated objects respectively.Thanks to Roger Mazengarb and Paul Simpson for their test efforts to date, and Even Larsen for finally squashing some persistent bugs related to part animations.I will finish off the documen…

Donny AKA ShalomarFly 2 ROCKS!!!Far be it from me to steal Rene's thunder but if you click on the Simvol link and check out the news you might get a pleasant though maybe not totally unexpected surprise.:-yellow1 :-beerchug :-wave