The FS2004 (FS9) Forum

We all know that the the number of FS9 commercial scenery developers is dwindling. You can show your support for developers still doing FS9 airports by taking a good look at these recent airport releases: TROPICALSIM - CURAÇAO 2017 TNCC FS2004 TROPICALSIM - ANTIGUA 2017 TAPA FS9 You will get a discount if you previously purchased the earlier version. Greg

"Best" being completely subjective, of course. :( What are your favorite freeware airports?

Hi all, Ok, these have probably been bought up in other strings and i could be here all night trying to find the answers (That would de-tract from my ADE time !!! (SHOCK) ) I'm trying to find out if i can ..... - Get better taxiway lighting, the small blue ones at the adge are just too dim and the greens centre line lights look a mess at junctions - Make taxiway marking clearer, stand out more from the concrete - Flood lighting affect for aprons - How to extend an airports flat area, if you look on the "look down" view, you can clearly see an area for the airport that is different from the scenery, how do i make that bigger or add new bits?? - …

For the last installment in our "Best of" series, we come to one of my favorite categories; The Best Freeware Utilities. As a kid, I grew up in a time before personal computers existed. Back in the sixties and seventies, we had simulations of sorts, but those took far different forms than the simulations we all enjoy today. We had slot cars and model railroads, board game based statistical simulations of baseball, football, etc. The war games available would often cost upwards of $50-$100, come with hundreds of counters and could take many hours or even days to play. Some had rulebooks that would rival the size and scope of any manual PMDG (and Boeing) provide. Even…

Not being able to find a good previous thread to start with, I figured we can start the best freeware aircraft thread with a clean slate. So please add your favorite freeware rides for FS9. I'll begin with a few of my own. Airliners: Tinmouse 737-200 http://library.avsim.net/search.php?SearchTerm=tinmouse_ii_v1.30_fs9.zip&CatID=fs2004ac&Go=Search GA: Cessna 150 http://www.fs-tutorials.com/en/down_plane_C150_01.php An outstanding trainer. Maule M7-260 Great for the Bush. Piper Tri-Pacer Why? It's just plain fun!! You really can't go wrong with anything by Lynn and Bill Lyons. Last, but not least, sort of a hybrid. My default C-172SP me…

This is probably the most photorealistic DC-10 available for any sim - this is FS9. I don't think even msfs addons reach this level of detail. Its truly a lost art. Some interior shots ! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fd4PqV52BCdFmsG16c9EPex6SBndU4r6/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S1jYnx7h63udVFiQ5h-x6amhu3De3smU/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NeGN8F_CTm75qNNdAg85o7NcN7kUHs41/view?usp=sharing Surprisingly, the systems are quite well modelled allowing me to finally apply real DC-10 Captain, F/O and S/O cockpit flows based on the real FLIGHT CREW OPERATING MANUAL. The level of detail texturewise is surreal. …

Hello, after a long hiatus, I decided to fly to Portland after freshly installing Portland 2010. Before taking a flight, I slewed around to check things out, and all seemed ok. Looked nice too. Next up was an edit to the afcad file "Portland_KPDX_ADE9_PH" (located in the main Portland folders scenery folder) to tweak a couple of radius parameters to match my personal values for certain planes. The issue: whether I make one edit or many, after I save the afcad file and get into the sim, default airport scenery mixes in with the addon airport scenery. When in AFCAD and selecting KPDX, it only displays the default and addon file, and I am always selecting and ed…

This is probably the most photorealistic DC-10 available for any sim - this is FS9. Surprisingly, the systems are quite well modelled allowing me to finally apply real DC-10 Captain, F/O and S/O cockpit flows based on the real FLIGHT CREW OPERATING MANUAL. The level of detail texturewise is surreal. Here's my flight in the Diesel 10

It's great that RFP 747-200 has become freeware, I'm enjoying getting to grips with this great Classic. Like many others have found, the freeware didn't come with the Passenger and Cargo Loaders as well as the Takeoff Performance Calculator, Fuel Planner and S-Combo. I have tried some of the old links for these items but to no avail. Is there some currently live link, place or person I could bother for them? Any answer of Yes/No/You've got to be kidding would be appreciated. Cheers

Hi I have come across a weird problem in fs9 yesterday. Firstly all my saved flights did not show up when I went to Select Flight and secondly when I went to save a flight - typed in the name and hit save, up came a box saying 'Invalid name - Flight will not be saved', also no listing of my previously saved flights. anyone any ideas of whats gone wrong please? I have created a folder in the main FS9 Flights folder calling it my flights and copied all my saved flights to it from C/users etc. . . and at least I can now access them again. Can any one help? The only thing I did prior to this was to add an ai aircraft into my aircraft folder. All was w…

Noticed a shadow of a DC-8 taxiing at KTOL and determined it was a AIA_DC8_71 textured as the DC-8-71F Burlington Air Express N820BX". Checked the textures and tried the default and the 32bit ver. supplied. Both show up in DXT bmp looking OK, but in the sim just the shadow appears. New one on me...any ideas as what the problem is and solution?

Hi, Does anyone have that same sight texture? I have my sight distance set to maximum but I don't know if there's more to it. As you see this square surrounding above water or land, in my case here it's water. If you also fly high altitude you will notice it. I'm wondering is there a fix for it? Or disable such thing, anything... Here's a picture... https://www.mediafire.com/view/jzkabjb6c3gqdzs/untitled.jpg/file

Hi All, I've finnished installing my new CVN65 (USS Enterprise) aircraft carrier "off Puero Rico" and have gotten the catapult launching and arrestor cable systems working as they should. But now and just as a small visible extra, I'm missing the small animated steam plume "effect" at the beginning of it's catapult rail. I have such a steam plume effect correctly positioned on my Waikato carrier and am now searching for a method to get the same plume visible on my new CVN65 carrier. I've (test-)disassembled the Waikato BGL file concerned, have tried to edit all the geographical positioning/elevation data found therein, but try as I may, nothing seems to (wa…

Trying to repaint an aircraft texture. Using DXTBMP to load the file, then sending it to paint.net. I think the problem is in paint.net... I make my changes on paint.net, I make sure any layers are merged into one before I save. Once I'm finished with paint.net, I'll select "reload after edit" on dxtbmp, which will show the edited texture. Then... I either "save as extended bitmap-888", or "DXT 1" (or 3). Then I'll drop the edited texture into my aircraft folder, only to see that no changes have been made to the original texture when I run the sim. Not sure where the problem exists... thoughts?

Hi All, I've downloaded and installed a static aircraft carrier scenery but it's flight deck is not hard, which keeps resulting in any opened flight having it's chosen aircraft sitting on the sea below the carrier's flight deck. The carrier's Afcad flight deck is at the correct elevaion and a "flatten" of any size/combination does not seem to want to work either. Ideas anyone ? Regards Hans

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Can anyone give our little buddy Deadl some help? He has recently chosen to go to Windows 10 and is having a ton of problems. Read below: "The scenery is actually quite nice. Unfortunately, I have a problem. It doesn't happen with Stuttgart, Munich, or even Frankfurt – but with the mega-airport Erfurt! Every time I load this scenery from Aerosoft, my new computer freezes. I can do whatever I want, but after a few minutes it just stops. Even without AI traffic. How about you? I think I read something about that in the AS forum a long time ago. It's no longer searchable on Google. And I don't want to contact AS about it. I don't want to tell them that I'm fly…

Good morning, I was a little disappointed with my latest purchase. It's a Virtualcol aircraft, the Jetstream31 for the eternal FS2004. It's well made, except that the cockpit instruments are not round, but oval. They are compressed and distorted. I wrote twice, but I didn't receive a reply. Probably because it's inexpensive. Does anyone have any suggestions? Can its unpleasant appearance be modified? Thanks anyway. Chiastra Andrea

Hi everyone, After a little over a year of design work, testing and more prototypes than I can count, I finally reached a point where I’m happy with the Project-X GA modules I’ve been building. The goal from the beginning was simple — create solid, realistic, plug-and-play controls inspired by General Aviation aircraft, something that actually feels right in the hand and not like a toy. Everything went through multiple revisions until it felt mechanically right and reliable. It’s been a long process but a really fun one. Just wanted to share the result with the community that inspired a lot of this project. I’d love to hear what you guys think. …

Hi All, Flying any helicopter is not really a problem for me but precision landing, e.g. on a heli pad, most certainly is, especially the pre-landing hovering part at very low altitude and the then letting it settle down exactly on the "H", mostly in forward 2D panel cockpit view mode. Has anyone been able to do this correctly and has any advice for me ? I'm using the standard flight yolk, rudder pedals and power slider, which all work correctly. Fondest regards and awaiting reactions. Hans

Good morning, everyone. I wanted to try an ILS landing at Viracopos SBKP airport in Brazil, but without the ILS chart, I was unable to land, even after several attempts. Have any of you simmers tried landing at that airport in the past? Without the altitude to intercept the glide path, how could it be done? Thank you anyway. P.S.: Is it possible to attach something to a post? For example, a photo or a drawing? (but not from URL,from my PC)

Im looking for the FS9 version of Ian Warren's NZCH scenery and since Flightsim.com is done/down, Im not finding it anywhere. Been searching for days. Anyone have that scenery that might send it to me? I have a very nice working FS9 and would really like to fly around NZ a bit. Have found quite a bit of the godzone stuff, and wish Id gotten it sooner. Very little of it remains online which is kind of sad. Its excellent stuff.

Hello, I am having major issues with FSDreamTeam on Windows 11. I believe I have followed the instructions on their website regarding FS9 and Windows 11, where I disabled the firewall, but I must be doing something wrong. After attempting to install and then trying to remove everything related to FSDreamTeam, I keep getting this message: The Product FSdreamteam - Chigago Ohare requieres Activation on this computer. Do you want to activate it now ? yes/no. If I click "yes," absolutely nothing happens. Is there anyone who has clear instructions on what I can do? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have activated it by turning of firewall but that doesn…

As I said in my presentation as newbie, I've reinstalled FS9 on my old PC for my museum. I'm president of a military airbase museum in Belgium and we have made a simulator box for childrens. For that, I'm preparing my PC with FS2004 (it's only what I can run on it, and the only one original version of FS that I have) Historically on this base, used by the belgian air force between 1946-1967, the pilots had first Gloster Metor end finally Hawker Hunter. I've buyed the model presented by Virtavia, and having the repaint for the Alphasims version with the Belgian levery, I tried to install this repaints on the Virtavia version. I had to modify some lines in …

Dedl, Several folks in another forum were giggling and discussing how you were experiencing multiple problems with your new installation of FS9 on Windows 11. Don't listen to them. While Windows 7 was always the best platform to run FS9 on, FS9 WILL RUN on Windows 11. However, you may have some issues with your payware FSX converted sceneries for FS9. Not sure why. But some tech savvy guys have stated that Win 11 is good at sniffing out all kinds of software it deems harmful or controversial. These new AI algorithms are something else. Hope you get it figured out.