FLY for Mac Users Forum

A post on the general forum says that Richard Harvey passed away this afternoon (3/13/03).May he rest in peace and may God bless his family.-Franklin------------------------------Franklin TesslerDP 800Fly! for Mac Co-moderator

Let's do a community test. Please try this and report if it makes a difference:1) make a back-up of the fly.ini file (path: FlyII>System) if you haven't already done so.2) open the fly.ini file with a text editor3) find the section that starts with {UI} (it's really in angle brackets but this site thinks they're html shortcuts)4) toward the bottom of the section is the line:searchPodFilesFirst=1Change the 1 to 0 if it's not already.5) save the changes in fly.ini and launch FlyIII'd be interested to hear if the patch failed when the line was already set to 0.I was answering another post regarding fly.ini edits and noted that the patch.pod file has a generic icon like ad…

Just thought I'd share a recent flight over Reno. The scenery colour is quite interesting - is this similar to what it really looks like?Thanks,Peter

Does anyone know if there is a site that gives a little briefing into the inner workings of Fly2 aircraft design? Specifically, I am looking into tweaking an aircraft's ground handling capabilities. I know that I have to adjust settings like "damping ratio" in the WHL file, but its just different enough from Fly2k that I feel a bit lost.Thanks---John R. SippyChicago, IL, USAPowerMacG4 -Dual 5001024MB RAMnVidiaGF2 - 32MB

Hello,we are about to upload the PC version (next week, I hope).Is there somebody to write Mac Dll with the PC source Dll?.We can send these sources from now.If we do not find this programmer, some devices will be replaced by TRI generic devices: less realistic!Send me a mail if you are interested by this proposition.rene:@simvol.org

Hey guys, I've got TS2 up and running, both in OSX and on VPC but I need textures. I cannot find a copy of the PC version of Fly!2 anywhere, and the old links to the original TS2 texture packages seem to be missing. Also I cannot find fly2slice if I were to find a PC version of Fly!2 I still would not be able to create any scenery. Any help would be greatly appreciated, I'll also post this in the Devlopers fourm. Keep 'em Flyin'Jesse

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Hi everyone!Does the new mac patch allow joystick usage?Thanks guys!-matt

Hello,Has any one in the Mac forum installed any of Jure Dolanec's cloud add-ons on their Mac? Any problems? Do they decrease frame rates? Thanks Mike

It's been announced that Mac gaming publisher and developer Destineer has acquired MacSoft, the company that published Fly! II on the Mac. At one point (about a year ago), Destineer had said that they were considering porting MSFS to the Mac. I haven't heard anything since, but this may start something.-Franklin------------------------------Franklin TesslerDP 800Fly! for Mac Co-moderator

Hello all! I have been away quite a while, mainly because I did not have Fly! 2 and was not really doing that much with Fly! anymore, but I finally managed to scrape together some money and finally bought a copy of Fly!2 while I was at the Apple Store in the M.O.A. this evening. I figured it would probably be worthwhile since the patch was released a few weeks ago. I bought it even though I was not expecting much preformance out of my 700Mhz iBook, under 10.2.3. Boy was I wrong! Dispite the graphics being a little on the rough side the simulation was as smooth as silk! Running in 800X600 I was getting about 15-20fps with normal scenery around IAD. I still haven't l…

Dears from AVSIM,I have just applied the new Fly II upgrade for Mac OS X.Many thanks, it is wonderful.Anyhow, I still have some questions:1.) The transparency of the GPS does not appear, only the blackbackground.2.) The Compass in the Tab Mode is not working only with the Hawker800XP Jet Airplane.3.) The Menu Bar does not hide when I press the space bar.Do you guys have any idea of how can I have this bugs solved?Many thanks,Andre HollanderBrazil

For those who don't surf the main forum very often, there is a recent post that shows how to rid your personal space of that loud ping when the GPS fires up. I tried it and it works for Macs, too.:-yellow1The link takes you to the RealSimulations site for a little .wav file that makes a MUCH more tasteful and discreet GPS tone. Just drop the .wav in your Sounds folder in the Fly! folder. You need to find the line in the fly.ini file that reads searchPodFilesFirst=1 and change the 1 to 0 before it will work. Most of us have already done so to use add-on scenery.This is the thread:http://ftp.avsim.com/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboa...rum=DCForumID14 Am I glad that old tone is gone! …

Hi everyone, I had a question that just about everyone will have an opinion on i'm sure.I live in two locations, at my (not primary) residence I have a pentium machine running Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002 and I love it. I practice navigation all the time with it. At my primary residence I have a G4, and HATE X-Plane with a passion :) I am very intrested in Fly! II. Would you say that it is similar in quality as MSFS2002? What do I mean by quality? Well, MSFS2002 has full navigational support, every airport in the country and most around the world, nice looking scenery, interactive ATC and great flight models (for external views, etc.) All the screenshots and informati…

Hi All,I'm planning on installing the OS10.2.3 update (from 10.2.2), and was wondering if anyone else had done it already and experienced any issues/problems with Fly2? Can't imagine what they might be, but I vaguely remember somone mentioning something.Best,Joel

Hello,I tried unsucessfully to update the original airports file,navs file...Actually, i'd like to add few airports wich does not exist in the original fly2 version, like many french airports.I tried deximport with VirtualPC but it ask me the pc version of Fly2 that i don't have, and db import doesn't work with fly2.So do you know a way to update those pod files with my mac and without fly2.exe.If not, is there anyone who can upload a recent airport file.Thanks.PACParis,FranceG3 B/W 450512MbReadon PCI 32Mb

Hello, I have noticed the urban areas of New York City, Washington DC, San Francisco and Paris France remain dark at night, while others, like Chicago, Boston, LA, and Denver lightup. Is this normal?Mike

Hello,I am running Fly II with the 240 patch on a G4 iMac, OSX 1.2.How do I make the Vector Map transparent? Checking Transparent on the menu is not working.Thanks

Hi, been awhile since I have posted. Still enjoying Fly 2K on a regular basis. I just installed a Radeon 7000 PCI card and a 500mhz G4 and get some nice results. Frame rates increased a bit, much smother on final approach, flying the How In The World Grand canyon scenery, and my Terrascene Colorado that I made.Anyone running Fly 2 with the final patch on similar setup? Like to hear your results.

Hi all - not really a newbie, I guess (previously I posted the report on Fly! 2 on Jaguar), I've just been out of the loop for a long while. I've been hooked on X-Plane 6, which I love (the ability to easily design planes and fly on Mars is really cool), but I've also been longing to get back into Fly! 2 lately. I'm installing it again (ever so slowly) and will be installing the final patch. So...what are the recommended tweaks & tips for best performance? I'm running a Power Mac G4 "Digital Audio" single-processor 533 mhz w/ 133 mhz system bus, 384 MB RAM, GeForce 2 MX, Saitek Cyborg 3D Gold USB joystick, Mac OS X v. 10.2.3. Just looking for tips & tweaks to…

Hello,I've been lurking for a year but now it is with great pride that I post here for the first time!Before the 240 patch, I used to be able to correct the throttle span of my Wingman joystick slider from an irritating 25%-75% of Throttle to 0-100% by tweaking values in the Control.txt file in the Fly folder. This was not perfect as Fly!II regularly stomped my values but it did the job.Now with the new patch, the values I enter in Control.txt are just ignored. Has any of you figured out how to fix once for all this slider issue? Is it only occuring with the Wingman joystick?Thanks a lot for any help!

Dear friends,There is an anchored post at the very top of the main Fly! forum. It's an e-mail from Tara, Richard's wife, updating the Fly! community on his struggles. After you read it, I think you'll agree that Rich isn't the only one in that family who's strong. How hard it must be for Tara to provide us with these updates.It sounds like Rich has run out of medical options. If you are so inclined, and I hope you are, please remember Richard and his family in your prayer intentions. Richard is a man of faith, and it's time for other men of faith to stand by him and his family in whatever way we can.Peace be with you,

I decided that I should make another attempt in creating scenery.I can get Terrascene to work on my TiBook, but I still need to slice with fly2slice.exe, which is not available on the Mac.So I needed the simulator for Windows. After a little struggle with the beast (I haven't used Windows for a while), I managed to get Fly!2, from my Mac install disk, to work also on Windows. :-kewl (If anyone is interested, it is not that hard to achieve)It would have been simpler to go buy a PC copy, but less fun. Now Fly!2 works on Windows, and I got fly2slice.exe from the patch, but somehow it fails at start up with a "The Program has requested Microsoft Visual C++ to terminate" of so…

Guys;As I was taking a trip down memory lane, I decided to re-partition my hard drive and add a part for classc... Consequentially, I found myself installing Fly! 2k again. Boy, is that a good sim.Anyway, as I updated my scenery again, I remembered that the Fly1 Ontario scenery needed a patch to be able to use it. As I looked through the AVSIM file library, I wasn't able to find it.Does anybody out there know where I could find it, or perhaps email it to me? Thanks a lot;

I don't know if any of you have had a chance to download this very excellent repaint yet, but I'm having a rather strange problem. This 172 is bouncing from front to rear while on the ground in external view. It's especially noticeable during run-up and taxing from within the cockpit view. Just wanted to confirm this with another Mac user to see if some ad-on I have may be causing this. Rich@KLEWBeige G3 233 MHz DT rev.1 G4 400 MHz NewerTech upgrade OS 9.2.2 /Jaguar384 MB RAM ATI Radeon Mac (PCI) Thrustmaster FCS/WCS