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Reply #15 - Apr 27^th, 2003 at 11:37am

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I once did the same thing, but it was the autopilot that was left on and I just couldn't figure why the aircraft wouldn't respong to the controlls Embarrassed

It took a couple system restarts before I finally figured it out. Boy did I feel stupid!

I'm glad I'm not alone. I usually knock the auto pilot on when I toggle the Shift + Z information.

Will

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Reply #16 - Apr 27^th, 2003 at 3:55pm

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Thanks for the booking here in Harare mate!!

Let me know when you're coming so that I can come out and fetch you! I might just be doing a PPL exam at the airport the day you arrive!

Greg

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Reply #17 - Apr 27^th, 2003 at 4:05pm

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Thanks for the booking here in Harare mate!!

Let me know when you're coming so that I can come out and fetch you! I might just be doing a PPL exam at the airport the day you arrive!

Greg

You're very welcome!

In the course of putting the pre-booked stuff on the map, I did a bit of calculating. North West USA is going to be fun. I can get about 6 destinations visited in one leg there! LOL

However Pitcairn Islands is going to be a doody. I'm either going to have to head out from Chile and come back again, or do a Pacific tour and take in Hawaii at the same time - which will be lot of mileage. Either way, I'll be seeing a lot of water!

Incidentally there's no airport on Pitcairn Island. I know it's very small and not having seen it in FS2002, (no telling me please!), I'm unsure whether I could actually land on it if I wanted to. It depends on the terrain of course as well as the size. It's questions like that that keep it interesting when I'm covering hundreds of miles of ocean though.

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Reply #18 - Apr 27^th, 2003 at 4:11pm

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Matt - I'm gonna make you come with me!

It's 2,794nm almost due South from Guardiamarina Zanatu to Vostok/Ross Island (AAVK) which is the most Southern of the new add-on stations as modelled.

That's at least 2 legs each way and what am I going to have to look at while I'm flying it? Ice. LOTS and LOTS of Ice!!!

You can fly it - I'll be sleeping on the back seats. Grin

You are gonna have a long wait for me to catch up then. I'm almost on the other side of the planet right now in Choibalsan Mongolia.

You might have more than ice to look at. I tried starting a flight from one of the bases in that add on pack and was surprised to see that MS modeled the Aurora Australis (Southern Lights).

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Reply #19 - Apr 27^th, 2003 at 11:52pm

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Atleast the Northern & Southern Lights are modeled into the simulator so theres something to look at when there's no scenery Wink

btw, you should install a cd player into the cockpit, that will give you something to do on those long boring flights Wink

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Reply #20 - Apr 28^th, 2003 at 2:09am

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you should install a cd player into the cockpit, that will give you something to do on those long boring flights Wink

I actually have quite a good one, but the problem is I've no room to put it on the panel LOL.

However, I'm currently working on a new(ish) way of displaying additional windows for the B-52 panel. If I can get it to work as I want it to, I'll apply it to the Baron and be able to extend the Baron panel in any direction I like.

Nothing's certain at this stage though, and if i do manage it, it will be after I've returned from Antarctica so it looks like I'm stuck with the Southern lights for entertainment for now LOL.

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Reply #21 - Apr 28^th, 2003 at 2:13am

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I actually have quite a good one, but the problem is I've no room to put it on the panel LOL.

However, I'm currently working on a new(ish) way of displaying additional windows for the B-52 panel. If I can get it to work as I want it to, I'll apply it to the Baron and be able to extend the Baron panel in any direction I like.

Out of curiosity, which CD Player Gauge are you using?

What's the 'new' way of displaying additional windows in a panel? I'm curious because I have a few panels that the window slots 1-9 are all filled up!

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Reply #22 - Apr 28^th, 2003 at 2:28am

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Out of curiosity, which CD Player Gauge are you using?

What's the 'new' way of displaying additional windows in a panel? I'm curious because I have a few panels that the window slots 1-9 are all filled up!

I'll have to find the gauge again. I don't have it loaded in at the moment.

If you've ever seen Fly!, which I had at one time, that's the basis for the system. Although I've always thought the panels in Fly!! were much better than FS2002, the flaw (for me) lay in the fact that most of the views didn't give you any external view, meaning you constantly had to hop back to the front view to avoid crashing lol.

If I get the basic mechanics of the movement to work properly, I'm hoping to overcome that by moving half a screen in each direction rather than a full one.

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Reply #23 - Apr 28^th, 2003 at 2:44am

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Now you lost me, cuz i've never used FLY! before Embarrassed

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Reply #24 - Apr 28^th, 2003 at 2:55am

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Now you lost me, cuz i've never used FLY! before Embarrassed

I'll see if I can get it to work first, but if I can, the real benefit lies in being able to gain a lot more surface area for the gauges to go on, allowing for greater detail. Vacant space will cease to be a problem. It's really only a different way of doing what a lot of panels currently do already, but I'm just hoping to use it with slightly different visual results than normal in terms of the views.

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Reply #25 - Apr 28^th, 2003 at 2:58am

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I can't wait to see the results!

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Reply #26 - Apr 28^th, 2003 at 1:01pm

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Great Pics Tipster!
I am headed that too (eventually) so I will be closely monitoring your trip Grin

One thing though...if your flaps were down and you were trying to get to cruising speed, would you not have got a warning of some sort to tell you that the flaps were down? Something similar to when you drop the landing gear and your speed is too fast??????

Just wonderin'

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Reply #27 - Apr 28^th, 2003 at 1:30pm

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Tipster, could you put your web-site link in your posts about the trip updates? I enjoy reading the posts and then want to go directly to the site, but didn't have it book marked and then I have to go find it each time. Thanks. Great trip and good write up/pics of the trip. Has been interesting to read and keep up with. One of these days when I have a little more FS experience and learn to do screen shots, I may try it. Thanks again for sharing the trip and all of your knowledge here at simviation.

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Reply #28 - Apr 28^th, 2003 at 1:34pm

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Jerry, click on the banner in Tipster's signature. It will take you directly to his RTW site Wink

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Reply #29 - Apr 28^th, 2003 at 4:29pm

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One thing though...if your flaps were down and you were trying to get to cruising speed, would you not have got a warning of some sort to tell you that the flaps were down? Something similar to when you drop the landing gear and your speed is too fast??????
Just wonderin'

Nothing built in to do that (I don't think Baron designers didn't expected their planes to be flown by idiots like me Grin

) but it wouldn't be difficult to code an annunciator warning light for it.

Despite my best intentions, I've been sidetracked into coding up some upgraded gauges for my Baron at the moment. I've just replaced the fuel computer and bank angle gauges with ones that a) work as they should and b) match the Garmin stack colour coding. A guy called Chris Reed very kindly helped me out by doing the XML syntax for the logic I provided.

I might perhaps add that annunciator - just in case I get lazy again LOL. I had an idea for another one I wanted but it's escaped me now. I've got to remember to write these things down... Roll Eyes

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Tipster, could you put your web-site link in your posts about the trip updates? I enjoy reading the posts and then want to go directly to the site, but didn't have it book marked and then I have to go find it each time. Thanks. Great trip and good write up/pics of the trip. Has been interesting to read and keep up with. One of these days when I have a little more FS experience and learn to do screen shots, I may try it. Thanks again for sharing the trip and all of your knowledge here at simviation.

Andrew has kindly covered the link issue I think.

Thanks for the kind remarks - much appreciated!

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