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Hi Hagar,

#I dont like treacle pudding by the way!!!

I guess I know the possible reason why your stated aircraft was flown out to Singapore (assuming it was about 1966) - we had a beechcraft musketeer in the club.       It crashed in the jungle on a training flight.   I remember the wreckage well in the hangar (not a pretty sight).  I trained on the old chipmunk then converted to the Cessna 150 and thence the 172.    Colours were yellow in the main with red striping.        You are right of course about the spellings (mea culpa).     You are probably right about the Belfast too.    I was stationed at RAF Changi and I remember 2 of these Belfasts came in and stayed for a short while.     Never saw a Belfast again.        I am going to modify my list because I forgot to include the Avro Anson (the first aircraft I ever flew in). Regards lawyer (Stephen)

Somebody was working on an Anson for FS 2002/4. I haven't heard anything about it in a few months though  ???

Regards,
Stratobat

To Stratobat.

Finished posting reply to Hagar and then saw your post.  Not quite used to seeing what I am looking at.   New site, new friends.    I will double check from now on.  Thanks for the information.   If you do come across the Anson later please let me know.   Regards

Hi Stephen. Sorry to hear about your sad loss.

I would be delighted to see the photos if you can dig them out some time. Those were happy days for me. The Comanche might have been privately owned by Mr Rayner himself or another member rather than a club aircraft.

Glad you found an Anson. If it's FS98 I'm not sure what the quality will be like. You still haven't mentioned which sim this is for.

Hi Hagar

Thanks for the acknowledgment of my loss.

I will dig the photos out soon as I get over this week.   I have one of the chipmunk (in part) with me sitting in the cockpit.    Was getting ready to start up!!!    I have a lot of slides but never got around to getting prints done.   I will do that gradually.

The Sim I am using at the moment is 2002.    I have ordered the 2004.   That said, I have all the sims after 95.

Hello Stephen,

It's got no interior detailing though, shouldn't be too hard to add a few chairs and an instrument panel.

Do you also fly any of the Combat Flight Simulator series?

There's also a few RAF and FAA aircraft out there for CFS 2. I think they would also work in FS 2002.

Regards,
Stratobat

To Charlie,

Thanks for the information on the Belfast.   Will check that out.      

To Stratobat (Do bats fly that high?) - only kidding.
Yes, I have both CFS & CFS 2 and fly them regularly.       I have downloaded quite a few additional for both and most will work in FS2002.  The only one I really had problems with was the Thunderbolt until I found the Blue Camoflage version which works fine.

The interesting ones were the Vulcan in CFS (which flies great) and the B17 which again flies fine.

I had a lot of help from Doug Attrell in getting some of the Falklands missions to work although I am still stuck in some of the Korea stuff.   Aircraft carriers sailing through green vegetation and airfields turning up green in and around the seas.   Oh well, you cant win them all.   I`m still learning (the hard way)

Regards all

Hagar, Doug, Grumpy

OOPS, now the penny drops.        There I am spelling out to the world how helpful Doug has been only to find out I am praising him in person.       Well, it was well intentioned Doug.     I have been missing out on these forums because I forgot my password and the webmaster had some difficulty but I managed to re-register.    I must try not however to take up people`s time or the site`s valuable space.      I will look into the Korea anomalies and try to rectify that.     Thanks to everybody for their help and I see the thread is now up to two pages so I think I had better call it a day before I get a zero doing a fly-by the house.

Hi Paulb,

Nice to meet you.   Yes, I agree, there are a nice lot of people on this site.

Honestly, I had forgotten about the old Valetta.   I was in the air force for 12 years and a lot of that time in the Middle East.    Now you mention the old crate I remember going from Aden up to Bahrain in a decrepit old Valetta full of the big brass at the time (all but myself and another `lower class`).   I remember we hit a sandstorm and we were being tossed all over the place.   The Pilot (a Flight Lieutenant) came out and said, sorry everybody, cant get any higher than 8,000 so you will have to put up with it.    We didnt have a choice did we, we couldnt get out and walk.   What was surprising was the number of `brass` that couldnt keep their sandwiches down!!!

Ought to mention that each time I try Rick P site I get the 404 error.

Everybody, my FS2004 arrived today.    Now I have to install it and see how many of my 520 other aircraft will work in it.   See you all in 2009

Hi Charlie (and everybody).   Yep, that`s what I worked it out at.    Been downloading for 3 years or so.    I am now desperate to find something I havnt got!!

Now, this may not be the best place to post this next point but as I seem to have got to know you all quite well I thought I would pick your brains on this forum.

My FS2004 (which is in Windows Explorer as FS9) is up and running.   Not quite so happy with it though.    I have cut and pasted all my 3rd party aircraft into FS2004 in one foul swoop.   There are just one or two FS5 (converted);   a fair number of FS98, 2000 and 2002.       I am now starting to try them out and finding messages coming up that the aircraft I am trying to load is incompatible and running them in FS2004 may cause FS2004 to be unstable.    Another aircraft and many many messages saying unable to load guages - that kind of thing.     Am I really making more problems for myself by using these aircraft - should I archive all these aircraft in case I want to go back to FS2002 and just download 2004 aircraft/guages for use in 2004 or can I overcome so of these problems?      One thing I noticed when trying to fly one aircraft (after ignoring the messages) was that the movement of horizon and scenery etc was very jerky (sometimes movements seem to be in spasms).    What do you guys reckon?

Hi Stephen. I missed this somehow. To add to Paul's comments I think installing everything in one go is a very bad idea. I would always recommend doing this one at a time, checking each one out in the sim before trying the next. This would obviously take forever with the sheer number of aircraft you're talking about. Not too many are likely to be compatible with FS2004 & I suspect you will end up dumping most of them anyway. You can forget the FS5, FS98 & FS2000 aircraft + some earlier FS2002 models.