The Flight Unlimited Series

If you want to enjoy FU3 more, try ReShade shaders. I am flying now in realistic skies that have bloom effect. There is an AA shader that makes the textures crisper and more alive than ever before. I have also added a vibrance shader to enhance the colors. Overall, it is like a new sim. If you need help, ask here and I will list the shaders that have transformed FU3 for me tremendously.

I came across one or two FU3 videos on YouTube today, and it has persuaded me to post this message on the FU3 forum here at AVSIM...... I really miss the days when I used FU3 (and the FU2 San Francisco scenery) exclusively. It was much more atmospheric and enjoyable than the versions of MSFS that were available at the time, even though the high resolution scenery regions were only a fraction of the size of the entire globe offered by Microsoft. Nevertheless, it simulated certain things really well, and there are a handful of items that have still not been surpassed! I am thinking here of the wonderful floatplane physics as my plane bobbed up and down in the water, wit…

Hi everyone, Can anyone remember how to move parking spots / nodes etc in FLED. I have FLED working, open a package, edit the airport and can click on the object but cant seem to move it. It looks like I can add new ones but just want to move one a few "feet" so its on the tarmac and not on the grass. This is on the UKS version that I now have working but noticed at Gatwick the parking spot seems bogged down in the grass and not in front of the hanger,.Its current location is difficult to get the plane to move. I am sure it used to be in front of the hanger. Thanks Andy

Hello everyone, As you can tell from the post title I finally got FU3_UKS up and running again. Firstly a big thank you to Robert Driscoll who very kindly sent half way around the world his copy of FU3_UKS. I added to this the files that are still available at http://lundbykrat.com/FU3/FU3.htm and away we go. The region is quite vast and I have already spent happy hours flying around my homeland. If any one is interested and like me, you have lost your version, then PM me and I will continue the community spirit by making a copy and sending it on. I will also try and set up my ftp site to see if its possible to upload / download, will let you know how that …

Hi Everyone, Ever such a long time since I have been here and good to see the forum is still going and some familiar names still appearing. So my problem, 2 or 3 computers later and I appear to have lost my version of FU3_UKS. My own fault as even though I do regular backups on my last PC change I forgot to add it to the backup and since then have also got rid of my old backup drive. Does anybody by chance know if its available anywhere as even after all this time I am starting to miss it. Thanks Andy

Hi Everyone, As per previous recent posts I rediscovered FU3 and have recently installed it along fwith Fu2 San Fran scenery on my PC. Had to do some jiggling with Cockpit designer to get the cockpits to show due to the rect problem but so far its going well. Amazing how much I can remember. I did say in other posts that I thought I had the UKS version of FU somewhere but what I thought were my backup CD copies turned out to be something completely different so I am really asking a hopeful question if anybody out there has a copy that could save it to disk or something and send it to me. I would happily pay any costs. Even a copy of the very first version would …

Hello, I just recently dusted off this great sim and I'm having a lot of fun with it! I do have a few questions: 1) Has anyone gotten the Flight Support System to work? I found version 0.8 on my old harddrive and through some hacking I got it work on Google Chrome but I still get a javascript error message when I try to click on the airport screen. 2) I cannot seem to get outer terrain scenery to work. I set the generate_outer_megatiles in my flt3.cfg file and started a new flight. I then exited, removed that from flt3.cfg and added use_loose_gtls. I downloaded PDX international but I don't see it on the outer terrain map. 3) Does anyone know of any A…

Hey guys, asked for your help a while back and got myself the 2.00 747. Great aircraft. Started playing the game again after finding FSX is absolute rubbish, I'm after the old bluebird aircraft. I remember using it years ago, I think before this sites hack. Does anyone have it? It was uncontrollable to say the least but it was a lot of fun. Thanks for any help!

Well, I don't see much happening here, but I finally reloaded FU3... Gee wizz, there was a lot of neat stuff there. Pity I lost all of my 'bandwidth' for a while Jon Point

I'm hours looking for a site that has the Flight Unlimited III available for download. :unsure: someone help me? :rolleyes: I already have a lot of time FS9 and would like to try other simulators B)

Well... hello again. I've been using my old Black Widow joystick with FU3 but since the Saitek yoke, throttle & extra throttle are now permanently fixed to the desk, using the joystick has become a bit awkward. My memory has failed completely and I can't recall what, if anything, I had to do to get the Black Widow working. I tried the yoke last night but it currently has some strange assignments: one throttle lever controls all engines, one controls pitch trim, and another controls the rudder. The yoke itself has no effect on aileron or elevator. Trawling through the forum, I see a few people in the past had difficulty getting Saitek stuff to work with FU3…

I've just sat down from a break from FU3 to play it again and I'm getting this irritating message. I have added an extra drive to my computer so I am assuming it's due to that. I've tried editing REGIONS/SEATTLE/region.cfg but this doesn't seem to make any difference.What do I need to do to fix my FU3 installation?

I dunno about anybody else, but I still find one solid use for FU3: The Stemme. It just gives me such a satisfying soaring simulation that I have yet to replicate in any other sim. Even with FSX (finally) having thermals built into the sim, you still have to artifically place the gliders into the air. And while X-Plane does do towed take offs and glides, nobody has yet to fully replicate the Stemme. I mean, there is a highly-detailed version of it in the file libraries, but nobody has figured out how to fully simulate stopping the engine, braking it, and then tucking it inside the nosecone. It's just such a satisfying motorglider to fly in, and only FU3 seems to offer…

Hi to you all. This forum's getting a bit quiet isn't it? Here are a few pictures to celebrate my recent purchase of a DVI monitor that lets that my Nvidia card do proper scaling. That means I can look at FU3 for more than five seconds without getting a headache and crossed eyes. This one isn't very exciting - it's just the first FU3 screenie I've made for about three years, half way from Tacoma Narrows to the distressingly tiny runway at Diamond Point on a graphics test-flight. I was so chuffed to find it all works. Thanks are largely due to Jon Point and his daughter Clare for this one: This is an old pic but it amuses me. A few years ag…

Hello all, I was recently on FU3 and performed an IFR flight from Olympia (OLM) - Boeing Field (BFI). When I tuned the transponder for BFI, I had forgotton the ILS frequency to put into NAV1 (I remeber it now, 110.90) and accidently put in the Paine Field (PAE) VOR, 110.60. It is to my knowledge that VOR frequencies belong in NAV2, however this time I had put PAE's VOR into NAV1. Before now the VOR arrow on the DME and HSI gauge don't usually come alive when I put a VOR frequency into NAV1, but this time it did. BTW, I did click the NAV button on the Auto Pilot during the flight and it seemed to be tracking me towards Paine Field, although NAV2 was now tun…

I bought a 24 inch monitor yesterday. Its native resolution is 1920 x 1080. While more recent sims can be set up with a graphics resolution that will fit my screen FU III gets badly distorted. Evidently, the reason is that there are no resolution alternatives that provide widescreen proportions. So, I figured a windowed mode might do. I realize this has been discussed before (FU3 on wide screen monitor---s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d) but it doesn't hurt to look into it again. The thing is, if you buy a monitor these days you're likely to get widescreen proportions while FU III was created in the days 800 x 600. How do we go about setting up a windowed mode that will retain the corre…

The intro video for Flight Unlimited 3 does not run since I reinstalled the game post formatting the HD and reinstalling everything. Could someone kindly help resolve this issue? My PC config is:- PC: HP Compaq dx7500 Microtower RAM: Corsair 4 GB Graphics card: Zotac GeForce GTS 250 ZT-20105-10P OS: Win Vista SP2 CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E7600 Monitor: HP LE1851w Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series

Flight Unlimited 3 comes with publisher unsupported config file settings. Adding the line "EnablePlayerShadow" to the file flt3.cfg in the main game folder enables the player's aircraft's shadow in the game, which not only adds realism but also helps with landing as well (you can gauge your aircraft's height above the runway using the shadow). However, the feature randomly produces an anomaly (see file "Flight Unlimited 3 Player Shadow On" at https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=b386bbc8a1ade599&id=B386BBC8A1ADE599%21210). The anomaly can randomly appear in any direction (i.e. in the front, right, etc. views). Could someone kindly advise a solution to this issue? My …

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Dear all, Hence the title, it's been quite cold and I was wondering if you can get snow on Flight Unlimited 1, 2 or 3? I have FSX Deluxe too and it has all weather conditions but I must say that it, to me, isn't as aeronautically realistic as FU3. Graphics, I would say FSX is more realistic (no offence) but in real life, when you board as a pilot you would normally find the engines cut and the cockpit dead wouldn't you. Maybe having the engines started etc. is designed to make life easier.... Anyway, I'd be glad to hear your thoughts! Kind regards and safe flying, TiggCJ

I dusted off FU3 for the first time in years the other day and had a quick fly around. I found my copy of the Seattle update some kind soul had burnt to DVD and posted but I've just tried it and it's got a massive scratch down it. Can anyone help? The library only seems to have sea0802.zip but no sea0801.zip!

Hi everyone, New to the forum and want to announce that our new Flight Simulator for the iPhone is finally available in the app store. I've attached some screens. If you have any questions please let me know. The game is called Flight Unlimited Las Vegas

Merry Christmas and happy new year to all FU3 flier :-) Andre

Hi All, What does the green instrument do on the left of the HSI in the Beechjet? Cheers, TiggCJ

This flight was not a simulation using John Point's Dash - it was a real one :-) after boarding in Basel short after takeoff from Basel on the way to Vienna after 1:25 landing in Vienna Andre