The Flight Unlimited Series

Hi All, v0.8 of Flight Support System is now available. It

Hello,I fly FU3 since it came out, and still finding it very beautiful.I discovered this forum only today, with other enthusiaastic people of FU3. Moreover, having a quick review at (only) the recent posts, it seems that add-on for this great sim have been developed in these years, and I didn't know anything! Only thing I have d/l is the patch some years ago.So it should be clear that this novice (me) needs a briefing about what is available to expand FU3 (aircrafts? AI? ATC? Scenery?) and possibly where to find it.Thank youEnrico

John seems to have gone missing,anyone 'seen' him.....:-wavePete

I've never checked and now after checking couldn't find any scenery for FU3 for the UK. I believe it does exist... please give me the file name(s) to download? I do have ukpack1.zip, but it does not seem to be all needed. Thanks.Pieter

Hi, I'm trying to run the DOS version of Flight Unlimited 1 under Windows Me. I have installed the patch (from Avsim), but I get a page fault after the loading screens every time I try to run the game. The exact error message is:Flight Unlimited vF2.4S has CRASHED.(Someday you will ache like I ache.)Page faultEAX: 00000000 EBX: fe000000 ECX: 3f5f8000 EDX: 00000003 TXT: 00000207ESI: 0000000e EDI: d01e0000 EBP: 847f1498 ESP: 848ebe40 DTA: 0000020fEIP: 8475726f ERR: 00000006 EFL: 00010216 EXC: 0000000e EMN: 846d583cCS: 0207 DS: 020f ES: 020f FS: 0000 GS: 02cf SS: 020fDoes anyone know what's wrong?

there must be a way that FuIII could go open source. Especially when I find those lines:From an Interview with with Constantine Hantzopoulos of Looking Glass Technologies (FU2):"They could render 1 meter per pixel imagery if they so choose. They didn't because they don't have the storage capacity for that. That's why they went with 4 meter data."Found here:http://www.vterrain.org/Games/index.htmlGenerally interesting site about simulating the world:http://www.vterrain.orgIsn't there anyone left of the LG-Crew who is/feels flattered about the love and work of this great FUIII community?

Greetings all,I have two questions that someone may be able to help me on.(1) Why does FLED not place items where I put them? I decided to place a few NDBs and also an ILS at some of the outer region airports. I have no trouble putting a localizer on the runway, lining it up correctly, and placing inner, middle and outer beacons, and in FU3 they appear to work as they are supposed to do - except that they are all located up to a mile off the runway - usually on the left side. Does not seem to matter if I use an existing addon package or create a new airport and install there. (2) Is there a way to include atis, tower sounds to an addon airport?I have had a good l…

I have just attempted a short flight in the Beechjet between Tacoma Narrows and Gray Air Force Base. In fact, I have attempted it THREE times, and I have experienced both engines shutting down on final approach.....every time. I am flying in heavy rain.Is there an explanation for this ?Chris Low.

I am interested in all of those features that you consider to be either unique to FU3, or else superior to those in other flight simulators.This is not an attempt to start a flame war. I would simply like to know why FU3 is so special, since this will form the basis of an article that I would like to pitch to a games magazine.Chris Low.

Take a look at my post in the Screenshot Forum.http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=sho...id=150855&page=

Moving objects in FU3 are not limited to a megatile, so path can be made over the full region, not so easy with FLED but with this tool you can1. delete a moving object from a set2. export a moving object to a .mgo file3. import from a .mgo file into the current set4. clone an object in the set and rename ithttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/85211.jpg5. edit object parametershttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/85212.jpg6. move the path to a new locationhttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/85213.jpg7. generate spiral path with vertical pitch... and maybe more :-) :-wave agtim

I haven't posted a lot lately, mostly because I've been busy. Here's a few thoughts. FU III may be a bit long in the tooth by now, especially when judged by modern video card capabilities and features. We don't have glare and reflections. In technical terms we don't have DTX bitmaps with layers and channels to modify a texture (eg water) during different times of the day and various weather conditions. Further, we've got polygon limits that are not needed on today's state-of-the-art computers. What we have is photo-realistic terrain and a pretty sound flight model. Then we've got a group of enthusiasts and developers and we've got addons that are still as valid today as t…

Hi,I realise there's a perl script for creating a aimodel.dat. But is there a tool that can open aimodel.dat? Open it for editing? Could one me made for both Flight 3 and JAS?Flight3 and JAS use aimodel.dat files. Thank you,JimB

Dear All,My main email isn't working properly at the moment. I am not receiving a lot of mail at all. We don't know where it goes but it doesn't 'bounce', it just doesn't get there (here). Something to do with our quarantine systems I guess :-rollAnyway, I'll be on holidays for the next week so either post it here or use the old Hotmail address ;)You can tell I'm going on holidays. A whole month without a drop of rain and I drove to the office this morning with wipers AND lights on!:-waveRegards,**************Jonathan Point**************"I'd rather be down here wishing I was up there than up there wishing I was down here"

Hope this is the place to post this request ...A few months ago I downloaded software form the Web that offered various, what I would call, ATC real time maps that showed you on screen where planes were, and you could hear radio comms as well. But the demo was "fake". Not a flight simulator, but real time maps. This was a demo and they wanted $75 for one package, $75 for another. I hesitated and last night decided to find it. Cannot find it anywhere. My hard drive had subsequently been rebuilt. Does anyone know the software I refer to? Thanks, Robert

OK, I would like to know how to fly the Beechjet in IFR conditions....without using the autopilot. I have never flown any virtual plane in IFR conditions, so this is alien territory to me. How do I align the plane with the runway if I cannot see it ? Is this only possible with an ILS runway, or can I use another method ? The Flight Training section in FU3 provides some examples of VOR and NDB approaches for landings, but to be perfectly honest they are about as much use to a novice as a 2000 feet long runway is to a 747 pilot !Consider this the latest FU3 challenge :-)Chris Low.

I still prefer the classic and threaded view of topics as it shows me the more recent ones, who replied, etc. However and how little, it still is a wee bit of a pain to scroll past the top locked but fully expanded topics up to Staggerwing's list every time one enters the forum. Would it be possible (Tom Wunder?) to collapse those threads a bit as most people in this list rarely seems to add to them that much anymore - and the forum will mark it when something "new" appears in one of them anyway?Pieter

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Hello all,I can post, I can post - this has taken me so long!I hate when avsim change systems.....I'm back....I wish I had a camera today. I saw Angars Dakota at Kemble airfield...the mil one with the dday stripes...just on my way past.Anyway It's good to be back even if I am bouncing off a few satalites and thru firewalls and proxys and hidden on the backbone of a network...ain't life fun.So what's the latest news for q1,2 04 from the developers? Robs.

FU3 Friends, Today I copied FU-3 to my C Drive... It worked fine before I removed the D Drive (where FU-3 used to be) from the machine. I am having two problems. 1) When I finally get flying, The scenery has lost all of its detail, and there is a message on the screen which says "Insert Scenery Disc 1."and, 2) After pushing the "fly now" button, the computer hangs up when the AI-traffic reaches 98 or 99%. It completely locks, most of the time and even a Ctrl-Alt-Dlt won't reboot.Could it be looking for something on D drive which is gone?... Is there something in the program that is initialized for D drive since my original installation was on D?I have Chris Low's many…

I am still having trouble lifting the cloud base to a greater altitude during wet weather. I would like to be able to see the terrain up to around 4000 feet across the entire region, but the suggestion that I was given some time ago does not seem to work. I was told to increase the value of the "sky_RainOpticalDepthHW..." statement in the flt3.cfg file.The problem is that the altitude of the cloud base varies throughout the region. With my saved Seattle Rain weather file selected, I can see the terrain up to around 6000 feet directly above Tacoma Narrows, but this drops to less than 2000 feet as I approach Asplund Field. I would like it to be around 4000 feet across the e…

Can someone tell me if landing in wet weather results in the brakes being less effective ? I have just attempted a flight from Tacoma Narrows to Asplund Field in the rain....three times......and every time I failed to stop my Beechcraft Baron from smashing into the trees at the end of runway 34, even with the parking brake on :-eekI suppose that this is another one of those realistic aspects of Flight Unlimited 3, but I was starting to wonder whether my brake controls were working properly !Chris Low.

I recently upgraded my AMD Athlon 800/Voodoo 5 to a Dell XPS, Pentium 4 3.0 GHz/ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (128 MB).Figured that NOW I'd be able fly smoothly...But when I shift the external view around to see a plane from various angles, the engine sound (Sound Blaster Audigy 2) stutters at certain viewing angles and the prop actually does as well! It will go away if I rotate the view a bit.There seems to be about a zillion controls in the ATI driver, none of which are clear to me--a whole new vocabulary.I'd appreciate some very simple guidance on this!

Nothing special. Just four screenshots showing some pylons that will be included in my SEATTLE PYLONS package.1. Pylons snaking over the hills south east of Sequim Valley.2. Pylons marching into the distance north of Kimshan Ranch.3. More pylons....south of Shady Acres.4. Line of pylons south of McChord AFB. You can also see my Pacemaker Landing Zone airport nearby. This is a tower controlled airport that I have built, and is based on a REAL military landing facility at this location. I would love to release it, but there is a problem. The terrain has been flattened, and I don't have an easy solution for the end user. Are there any experts out there who could develop a si…

Can someone please let me know where I can get Andre Meystre's FLED Viewer ? Is it the same as the FLED Bookmark Manager ?Chris Low.