The Flight Unlimited Series

Hi guys,the talks about upcoming birds flying in FU3 (and how to make their behaviour realistic) made me think a little bit how a "bird strike challenge" could look in FU3 - here are my first ideas:* plane is randomly positioned at a couple of airports, try to take off and fly to a given destination* you might encounter by random: A cow walking on the runway forcing evasion or abort of take-off run; bird flocks rushing up (after take-off, prior to landing, or when flying below 500ft GND). If you strike those 3D objects, your plane will be damaged resulting in serious (engine out) or slight engine failure, slight wing damage (flying still possible but made harder), and wh…

Greetings all,Just ensuring I have not run out of timeCheers

Dear All,It's finally arrived :-jumpyThe DHC-6 Twin Otter has been uploaded to the library for your enjoyment, complete with 2 extra liveries! Here's some pix whilst you download:Era livery - over Westside.http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/67359.jpgLehto liveryhttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/67360.jpgD-IVER climbinghttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/67361.jpgEarly morning F3 viewhttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/67362.jpgF2 view approaching Easton Statehttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/67363.jpgEnjoy :-wave******************* Jonathan Point *******************

I don't know you if you have this problem, but in real life it maybe considered a slight drawback to your employability as a pilot. I find that when I'm up in an aircraft such as the Renegade or the Trainer, which has a very monotonous loud engine drone, I just fall asleep. The constant noise of the engine knocks me out after about half an hour. I'll be found slouched in my chair like a guy who has been the victim of a drive by shooting. My mouth will have lolled open as I slumber and I'll look like someone who's just hade a very large fly vomit on them. I'll also look at my computer screen to find that my aircraft has landed large bits of its self very messily in a field…

Dear All,The other side to the DHC-6 project is to improve AI with a new plane or two (the Dash-8 is the other one). After much mucking around, I got the model down to ~1300 polygons and 3 texture files. I replaced the UFO with it because the UFO has it's own sound and FU3 had no turboprop sounds. Besides, I'd rather have better AI than a bleedin UFO anytime ;) Only problem was spending 2 hours in FLED, editing parking spots to 'UFO'...At CVA. Look Ma, there's 2 of 'em! The AI is the 'Chinook' one.http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/60111.jpgThar she is!http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/60112.jpgSomewhere near Ranger I spied this guy.http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/601…

Moderator Tom Wunder has been suddenly called away to Washington state to tend to a personal family situation.He says he will be "out of touch for a few days to a week".I will, of course, be moderating this forum during his absence, and will be checking in here regularly. But if anything needs my attention, please feel free to contact me.[table][tr][td valign=top]http://www.avsim.com/other/usaribbon.gif[/td][td valign=center]Bob "FlyBert" StilesAVSIM Moderator[/b][/td][/tr][/table]"Don't stall on me, I have to soar!"~Richard Harvey, 1/21/2003

I have set the FSAA and AF with my ATI Radeon 9800 Pro graphics card to 6x and 16x respectively. FSAA appears to be working, but I am not convinced that AF is working correctly. The visuals in FU3 are currently inferior to 4xS FSAA and 8x AF with my old GeForce 3 Ti 200.I am using the latest Catalyst 4.3 drivers, and I am wondering if they may be the cause of the problem. I was actually using Detonator XP 30.82 drivers with the GeForce card, since these appeared to give superior visuals when compared to the later drivers.In addition, does anyone know if I can use 6xS FSAA using RivaTuner with earlier versions of the Catalyst drivers ? I was using RivaTuner with my GeForce…

I recently got a new computer and made a new install of FU3 on it - including the extra San Francisco scenery from FU2, which I also own. Note, I did not install FU2 per se - just exercised the FU3 option to pull in the scenery from the FU2 scenery disk.Now, whenever I start FU3, I get a banner asking me to insert Disk 2 of the FU2 program. Since I have the disk, I inserted the requested disk but it doesn't seem to help the situation any - the disk is not read and the banner still remains smack in the middle of my screen. FU3 seems to be responsive except for that banner. Anybody have any ideas about what I might try in order to get solve this problem?Stan V.

Hi to all of you!Maybe you already know, but I was quite amazed when I came to St. George airport yesterday for the first time: An UFO was circling above the city near the airport, and along the runway came a PPS-car. Every time it passed by a voice could be heared chanting "That's fun - yaahooo!" :-)So St. George is the second place I know where UFOs are flying around - after Area 51. So another easteregg found, and still 3 weeks to go ;-)All the best wishes,Christian

Hi everyone,I've been a solid Flight Unlimited fan ever since 'FU2' was released, it's almost criminal that it's took me till now to register to the Avsim forum to meet all you guys here.For my very first post I've enclosed 3 shots of the stunning UK scenery for FU3.There is also a slight problem I hope you may be able to help me with.. For some reason the elevation data around the addons; Southhampton & Stansted seem to be wrong. Stansted has all the buildings floating about 300 foot above the ground and Southhampton's building are about 20 feet below!!Any help or suggestions I would greatly appreciate :)Anyway I've finally joined and I look forward to a nice stay he…

The copy of FU3 that I installed on my work PC only has the default airports.....and a quick scan check indicates why I had to upgrade them. Some users may not be bothered by incorrectly aligned taxiways and meandering AI planes, but it makes me shiver just looking at the following screenshots.1. Ranger Creek.......... :-eek2. Apex Airpark........... Some of these taxiways look like they were slapped down inside five minutes.3. Coupeville NOLF....... Where is the parking area ?4. Arlington Municipal... My Beechjet is sitting OUTSIDE the parking area. Why ? :-eek5. Arlington Municipal... "AI Arrow, you are not an all terrain vehicle. Please stay on the taxiway". :-)Chris L…

Im working on seaguls and other birds as flyabls. But at my rate of progres we will not see one working for 10 yers yet, so dont holed your breth.My first problem:This seagul is parked on the ground with the brakes on, but its too high off the ground!1) In Anim8or, or Studio MAX how do I lower the small cube vhot? Bairing in mined that this model dus not hav one, "well not that I can see anyway".Simply Lowering the model, dus not lower the models point of rotation or vhot.I want to lower this model and its point of rotation as well, but how?2) How do I get the BSP.exe to use its cfg file?It seems to me that the wings of a bird could be made to flap up and douwn useing an …

Hello!here is some test flights from London City-SouthamptonThis is some real goodies from the developers of the FU3 community.When will E:A. write the new files for FU4??Take care.Lars Peter.

Steffen (and anyone else that may know),I really want to get this DHC-6 engine sound challenge thingy working properly. I notice if you attach sounds to models, they loop continuously but if attached to aircraft they don't. I know you played with the 'waiting loop' function but it's way too unpredictable as it is (in the DC3 challenge). Is there a way of just forcing complete loops? I could not set the loop accurately enough to prevent sounds overlapping or 'gapping'. I even tried different sample lengths (i.e. exactly 3000ms) but it made no difference.Is there a way to have the config so it only plays each sample once, then immediately reads the throttle setting again an…

Hi everyone,I've been a solid Flight Unlimited fan ever since 'FU2' was released, it's almost criminal that it's took me till now to register to the Avsim forum to meet all you guys here.For my very first post I've enclosed 3 shots of the stunning UK scenery for FU3.There is also a slight problem I hope you may be able to help me with.. For some reason the elevation data around the addons; Southhampton & Stansted seem to be wrong. Stansted has all the buildings floating about 300 foot above the ground and Southhampton's building are about 20 feet below!!Any help or suggestions I would greatly appreciate :)Anyway I've finally joined and I look forward to a nice stay he…

I checked the website of the company that I am purchasing my new PC from on Tuesday night, and my order details had changed from "processing order" to "awaiting dispatch". That made me think that the computer would be sent yesterday, and then delivered today. Unfortunately, it was still "awaiting dispatch" yesterday afternoon....so I phoned them. I was informed that a fault had been detected in testing, so it had to be taken back to be fixed :-fumeAnyway, I am now hoping that it will be sent today, which would mean delivery tomorrow. I certainly hope so. The prospect of a Monday delivery really doesn't appeal to me. I would simply be wandering around all weekend like a lo…

Chris,How do I get a screenshot of the Taxigraph to send you.EveryoneI am using textured taxiways because I have had to reinstate a taxiway to get FU3 to work correctly with the AI and also to allow 747's to use the airport correctly. I haven't decided on the user parking place yet but I think I have the best spot to suit all planes.As the textured taxiways are taking a long time it will be a while at my snails pace.The details I will add later but I have some eyes on some models which I'd like to use!!I am learning as I go!Also a static Concorde model would be appreciated - can you rip one out of the AI files? How? RobMaybe I'll release the odd screen shot soon!

I have had several relatively close encounters with AI planes today. My first flight was between Boeing Field and McChord AFB, and the first screenshot below illustrates a close encounter with a Phoenix Air Boeing 747-400 just after take-off.The second screenshot shows an Excalibur DC10 to my right, shortly after take-off from Oakland International on a flight to San Jose International. This was my second attempt at this particular flight. I had almost completed the trip previously (I was on taxiway Yankee at San Jose), when I had to stop behind an AI 747. This was stuck in direct opposition with a Learjet (which is something that I am currently trying to eliminate). Anyw…

here is just a look to the current Duxford news.Commercial aircraft collectionhttp://www.agtim.ch/fu3/images/dx1.jpga MIG-21http://www.agtim.ch/fu3/images/dx2.jpgand derived from the rear current untextured Spitfire a new set of 3 textured Spitfires.http://www.agtim.ch/fu3/images/dx3.jpgStupid question where to place Duxford ? - Yes sure at the Duxford location of cause, but for users without UKS I will create a Duxford version in the SanFran or in the Seattle region and there's the question where to place it on a free area inside the original LG regions.Any suggestions ? :-wave agtim

Dear All,Sorry for disapearing for a few days, blame the 'global village' concept whereby people believe that air travel is as quick as an email :-(Had some nice flights though ;) I'm also deeply indebted to a great guy who must remain nameless (due to security reasons...).Good morning, Sydney!http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/66767.jpgA bit of business at the end of a long day...http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/66768.jpgAh well, back to the job at hand. Thanks to all the valuable feedback from testers, you'll all have some new toys next week!Have a great weekend (Oz: Avagoodweegend) :-wave******************* Jonathan Point *******************

Jon,I have sent two e-mails to the address you sent me and both have come back saying that this was an invalid address. Today I replied to the address you sent the mail from and got this back:----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----I'll send you a AVSIM private message with my correct address.

Hi everyone,I wasn't sure what to put in the subject line, since I'm not sure of the correct term of what I'm asking about, so I'll just give an example-In FU3,after landing with a crosswind, it seems the sim correctly models that you have to keep the (upwind??) wing down while slowing down. This is just based on what I've read; I'm not a real pilot.Is there a term for this behavior? And this doesn't appear to be modeled in either the Fly! series or MSFS... right or wrong?Thanks for any insight...

This is mainly for Chris Low but if others wanna pick up the idea thats okChris,I saw you wanted to extend san fran but obtain the photo data is expensive.I have just been browzing the FS2002 scenery area and there are a number of photo areas eg spain or alaska ...list by size and they soon appear at 80Mb downloads!!! Most have elevation data too...Perhaps you should try a convert one of these areas with permission or maybe contact the authors to see if they have some good ideas on where to source data. They may be able to help out with San Fran but if not maybe you should think about one of these other area first.....I do believe Alaska has LOTs of trees :-)I don't have…

Jon,You should have received a copy of my modified Boeing Field by now. In this version, runway 13L/31R has been closed down, and all traffic is operating from the much more friendly 13R/31L (by this, I mean that it's easier to land on a 10,000 feet long by 200 feet wide runway ;-)).Please let me know if the AI planes are behaving properly. I have only made a quick check so far, since I have been busy making extensive tweaks to the taxiways and AI pathways at Boeing Field itself, and also SeaTac International.On a side note, I have recently installed FU3 on my work PC. In fact, I have done all of the "extensive tweaking" mentioned above on this machine......and I have mad…

I have found that if you try to install FU2 with Windows XP the program will not load on my computer.However if you delete FU2 and install FU3 first and then accept San Francisco area as an addon all is now acceptable to Windows XP and I get happy flying with both programs.Message is given to any readers who ditched FU2 because of original refusal of software to work.