The Flight Unlimited Series

This is just update on model work for UKS. I have constructed models for The Oval (Surrey C.C. at Kennington), including the famous gas tanks and some rough models for the stands. I couldn't use the Stamford Bridge stands since they were embedded in the Chelsea model and anyway, they look totally different! I have landscaped around it (using Hans Petter's models of course) and it looks quite nice, but I haven't done the pitch - just left that as is because of FU3's problems with ground objects.Talking of this problem, here are two other recent clashes I have had with FU3:1) I built proper soccer nets (OK, simple ones!) for Chelsea, and built a grass pitch. Using ModelView…

All these questions adress to only descriptions and names of the aircrafts, not to the models (i like how the planes are modelled :), but i don't like the errors in their descriptions :( 1) May be someone knows, why DHC-2 De Havilland Canada Turbo Beaver from FU2 was renamed to Yoosun Turbo Muskrat in FU3? I haven't found real Muskrat plane in internet. And the specifications of the "Muskrat" are the same as of the Beaver... May be "Muskrat" is the name of the specific Beaver, on which the FU3-team have flown? (i mean, may be that plane was called "Muskrat" and had an engine by Yoosun, or it was manufactured by Yoosun). Still in the specs. list the engine is written …

Hi, I've finally installed FU3 under Windows XP, and unfortunately it shows an unexpected graphic problem: when I move the cursor across the panel (to access switches, etc.) it leaves a trail of marks along the moving path.http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/90981.jpgThose marks disappear as soon as I refresh the screen (switching views, etc.), but they are annoying anyway. Interestingly enough, the marks DON'T appear on the panel areas overlapping the outside 3D view.I'm using a Geforce4 Ti 4800SE with Nvidia drivers v61.77 under Windows XP Pro SP1, which gives superb performance and no problems at all with other sims such as FS2004 or GPL.Any help greatly appreciated.T…

I would like to see this aircraft for FU3, infact it

Guys,If there is any interest in a chat for the 25th please let me know by posting on this thread. I will have been to the AVSIM Conference & Exhibition the prior weekend and hopefully will have lots of fresh insite into our hobby, AVSIM top brass, & who knows what else. :)Further this will give me a forum for my war stories about flying in full motion sims. (If I don't make a total fool of myself that is. :-eek)

I have just completed a flight in the Beechjet from Boeing Field to Sanderson Field, and to be perfectly honest, I didn't particularly enjoy it. It is something that I am feeling more and more these days when using Flight Unlimited 3. Am I getting bored of it ? Am I just getting fed up with flight simulation as a whole ? I just don't know.Perhaps I need a totally new flight simulator ? I certainly would like to be able to fly over a highly accurate rendition of the UK, and this is what annoys me. The VFR Photographic scenery in MSFS keeps tempting me. The VFR Terrain package provides a high resolution terrain mesh for this scenery, and Gary Summons' magnificently detailed…

Here are some pics of my 1st sim session:http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=sho...esg_id=30&page=This was an incredible experience! I can't wait for my 747 session on Sunday morning!

Hello dear FU3 friends!as you know good things will need their time....Most time is gone away really quiet about it, last but not least because I was (and I am still!) really busy in my real job.But NOW I would like to present you the first optical impressions of my finished Concorde model! :-jumpyThe 3D-model with texturing is completely finished for the flyable version and has the BA livery first.Since the nose and gear is fully animated in the flyable version I only need to make a little modified version of it for the next AI-package update. Also I planed together with Chris Low to make a second livery in france outfit. So the AI-package will have two different concord…

Hi, Cap'nThe other day, I happily reported my new computer ran the CH controls perfectly under XP, and you asked if the levers worked in the correct direction. I said they did. I believe that may be an error. I know a thing or two about a few topics, but aircraft, flying and flight simulators haven't risen to that status yet.Without using Control Manager, when I start the program, the controls on the aircraft panel appear as throttle pulled completely out and prop and mixture are pushed completely in. That is with all the CH levers in the zero position, pulled completely toward me. As I push either the CH prop or mixture lever on the yoke away from me, the prop and mixtur…

At long last ... achieved full 6-axis plus differential toe brakes control over this program with CH Flight Sim Yoke USB and Pro Pedals USB, thanks greatly to the generous help from Pete, Jonathan, Hans, Chris, CaptRolo, Dugald, RobD and others whose contributions we consulted. That let me try every known working combination of joystick setups (and hundreds of unknown ones!), and eliminate them all on my old computer. Thus the fault lay, not in your setups, but in my computer's handling of USB, so I built a new one, recycling my existing mouse, keyboard, monitor, floppy and optical drives:Asus A7N8X-X board w/nVidia nForce 2 basic chipset, onboard 5.1 Realtec sound ($63)A…

I have put an updated version of all UKS packages into the AVSIM library. The version is in three parts:UKS_GEN04.zip - contains the day and night model databases. The new packages will not run without them. This is a large download, and unzipped is about 75 Mb - its a lot of models.UKS_PAK04.zip - contains upgraded versions of all UKS packages. These have been optimised for speed, requiring a bare field rewrite of many of them. However Andre's Isle of Wight packages have not been released as rewrites - they are his original packages (with the addition of Osborne House, and renaming of some models to avoid the redundant "1" for Seattle copies and strees for jtrees. If th…

Congrats again Andre! I think you have just made it possible for everyone to tinker with the flight physics of their favourite AI plane. I am amazed at the levels of detail in your new plane physics program.You are the 17th wonder of the world. (Don't ask who the other 16 are, but the list includes my family, my car, icecream, my mum, ...)RobD.

Hello Jon,I've tried several times to contact you via email regarding the UK scenery, did you get my messages? I never had any reply, but I see you're active now in the forum... Could you answer here or drop me a line (I still have the old address)? CheersCristian

I have just noticed that some of the runway 16R/34L edge lighting at Paine Field is not being displayed. I assumed that this was due to me simply forgetting to add sections of lighting at these locations, but a quick check in FLED confirmed that they are present. I tried deleting the relevant sections, and adding new lighting. However, the problem remains.Can anyone else confirm this when using my upgraded version of Paine Field ?I think that a small section of runway 16L/34R edge lighting suffers from the same problem.Chris Low.

I haven't been able to download anything from Avsim lately. Somehow the new library format clashes with something on my PC. Has anyone here downloaded and installed the Windows service packs? There might be an issue here.Secondly, I find that my main FU3 installation closes down in an abnormal way. If I select the Seattle region I can select any plane and any airport and fly wherever I want. However, as I exit the flight the sim exits to the desktop. Result, the flight isn't being logged and next time I launch the sim I'm always back to San Jose and a Piper. Flights in the SanFran region seem to exit the right way but it's always San Jose and a Piper as I launch another f…

Here it is.http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/89927.jpgHad to battle for clearance for this flight. Unlicenced test flights are no longer popular at this airport since a controller lost a cup of coffee down his front after being buzzed by some skylark. Anyway, here we are up and away ...http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/89928.jpgSorry about this shot - just checking that I'd parked the car where I thought I had. I hadn't. Darn. Maybe over here ... no ...http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/89929.jpgNo worries. Time to settle back and enjoy this new beast. It flies with the typical twitchy wobbles of all of these old slow machines in FU3 - hard to adjust trim to smooth flig…

IN line with Chris' flights, here are a few pics from a recent flight. Its in the old DC3 (Jon's version of Ansgar's plane), in Ansett livery (ahh, those were the days).http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/89753.jpgWhoops, I seem to have mist the river. Beautiful wather effects in this old sim.http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/89754.jpgA dome looms out of the fog .. pretty rough modelling here. Next time I'll add some more points ...http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/89755.jpgFine weather further west ...http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/89756.jpgBack home, fog's lifted.http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/89757.jpgTrain is a wee bit off track. Note lots of examples of Jon…

Hi guys and ladies (if any),Here is the situation: I fly VFR and when I try to land at Boeing field or Paine field I'm being instructed by tower to land at shorter runway every time. In this case that is runway 13L/31R at BFI and runway 16L/34R at PAE.When I fly smaller aircrafts landing is no problem but when I fly Beechjet (landing speed Vref=117 knots and runway should be at least 3154 ft long according to data I've downloaded from official Raytheon web site) it's kind a hard to stop on short runways especially at PAE. I have to burn my rubber a lot to stop before overrunning the runway. Here is the question: How come airplanes such as Citations, Learjets, Starships a…

Hello FU3 fans,Here is the description of situation:Lets say that I'm landing at TOWER CONTROLLED AIRPORT and that there is another airplane called 1st AI plane landed just seconds before me and is now clearing off the runway. I'm on final and waiting for tower to say ...CLEARED FOR LANDING RWY... 1st AI plane clears off the runway and heads on the taxiway. Tower to me: ...CLEARED FOR LANDING..., and of course I respond: ...CLEARED FOR LANDING... 2nd AI plane to tower: ...TOWER, READY FOR TAKEOFF...Tower to 2nd AI plane: ...HOLD SHORT,LANDING TRAFFIC...2nd AI plane to tower: ...HOLD SHORT...Tower to 1st AI plane: ...CONTACT GORUND ON... and here is the PROBLEM/BUG!!1st A…

Hi all,Work continuing sloooowly on Chivenor.Have started putting buildings on the airfield and some taxiway lines so it is beginning to look much better. Incidentally, Agtim's FLEDViewer is great! I managed to do something wrong and lost a building, FLED locked on it and the only way out was to delete the building's bin file. If I then put it back, FLED threw a wobbly. FLEDViewer enabled me to delete the reference from the mod file - no more problems!So, for a change, I thought I would set up the ILS which Chivenor has in real life. I have given runway 28 an ILS frequency of 108.10 (and ticked the ILS box) and given Chivenor FBO the frequencies for Approach, Ground and T…

Does everyone else suffer from those annoying lines in various cockpit views of most FU3 aircraft ? If so, have you done anything about it ? I decided to sort it out tonight, and I have eliminated them from all ten default aircraft, plus the KingAir 350, the XC47 floatplane version of the DC3, and also the latest version of the Baron 58 by Ansgar and Steve Hess.I was just curious to know if this problem still annoyed other FU3 users ?Chris Low.

What has happened to PierGlass Aviation ???I was a member for a long time and lost some interest in it when the" Roll the dice thing "took over because spent most of time creating my own flight missions.but I do miss being active . Times change and so do people . CaptRolo

I haven't been around much lately guys. Sorry for that. My mother is very ill and that has been consuming much of my thought and time. This coming Friday (Aug 13th... yes... Friday the 13th... :-eek) I will make my annual trip to Tacoma and Bob will assume the "left seat" on this forum so you guys had better behave... he... as you know... has an iron fist! ;) I only wish that the trip could be made under better circumstances. Most of my time there will undoubtedly be consumed with tending to my mom's needs. I'm not complaining... that is what sons are for and I wish I could be there for her more often. Bob FlyBert Stiles sets the standards in that department. :)I have hop…

Jon did you get my mail re DH82 flight modelCheers, QvdG(strange... can post from machine at work but not from my home machine (cookie pb)

Two screenshots from the cockpit showing the lovely VFR conditions and excellent visibility during my latest flight (from Sequim Valley to Paine Field) :-)Chris Low.PS. Here is a link to another five screenshots that I posted in the Screenshots forum:-http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=sho...id=157560&page=