Must get plane....    The Ill tell you!! (If I ever get round to it!)...

Hi,

Have just downloaded the Howard 500 (for fs9 though) & i've just got to say what an absolutely amazing piece of freeware kit it is.

- you won't be dissapointed!!! The cockpit is (in my opinion) almost up to M$ standard & also has some features which the default cockpits lack (you can even switch to the co-pilots seat with a simple click of a switch) & as Jamie said, the engines sound absolutely amazing (watching them start up is pure joy - brilliant).

The download file even comes with it's very own 'set up wizard' that will install the plane into fs9 for you (in about 15 seconds!!) - so even if you've never even installed a new file before, you don't need to worry about the technicalities of adding new airplanes to your program files. The download will do it all for you.

Thanks to Jamie for making me decide to download it!!!!

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Hi Jamie,

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I'll have a look at the Convair 240 - thanks. 

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lol, it's not classified, nor am I a 'cokehead' - It was just a 'play on words' for an email address (theysellcoke@msn.com), I don't think they actually do sell 'coke' at MSN & I can't believe that MSN have let me get away with what (i suppose) could be deemed to be slanderous!!!

I didn't mean it MSN - it was only a little joke. 

PS: If anybody else wants to try it, then I believe that 'theysellheroin' is also in use.

Hi Saratoga,

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Thankyou very much.

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Hi Jamie,

Your absolutely right - I totally forgot about the original question because i got caught up in the flying of the Howard 500, also I spent a lot of time emailing 'flying friends' & waxing lyrical about the virtues of the aforementioned 'beast'.

I'm not sure about the FS2002 version, but the FS9 version I am flying definately has retracting landing lights.

I also just assumed that everybody else in 'simworld' had downloaded it - don't know why, I just did.

Cheers, TSC.

Hi captjim ,
You can search  www.flightsimonline.com/howard500
and that should get you there .  You can also just search Howard 500 Project . Let us know what you think ?

thanks ,

Jamie

Hey Jamie, we've just spent the last two days telling everybody how great this plane is & going on & on & on about it - & they're all probably thinking: 'Jeez guy's - it's just a freakin' plane - get over it!!!!'

                                         (She is a bl**dy good plane though!!) 

OOOH no theysellcoke ,

This is far more than just a sim add on .  I think it is REAL !!!!!!!!   Heeee !!!!  Surely does seem that way and is worthy of all of the Hooplah in my opinion . 
My Mom keeps saying that the flight simulator is just a game , but we all know better don't we !!!   I have mentioned this before , but My Mom really got concerned when she found me at my PC with a parachute on !!!!!!!!! Reckon I do have a " problem " ??
Sounds like I am just a little kid , but am a 67 yr. old one .

Jamie

Wow a full G-suit? Guy needs a hobby. Well another hobby that is.

Ahh imagine the possibilities. You're at the local airport talking to someone in the lobby.
"So you are a pilot?"
"Oh yeah, I can't count the times I've done rolls in the Concorde right above here."

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hahahahahahahaha, well, the last time i counted it was 5 rolls above Exeter & 2 over Bournemouth.

But I didn't tell the woman that either.  

The worst bit is that they have a bar in the 'viewing deck' there, god, imagine if i'd had a drink & my brain wasn't fully in gear - I could've made a right ar$e of myself just blabbing nonsensicle flying gibberish at the poor woman:

"Yeah, whats that luv? ATC? - nah, never use 'em, they're rubbish anyway."

Goodness !  I don't know when I have enjoyed reading comments in the forum this much .  That ' theysellcoke ' is certainly articulate and the 'thoughts' at the airport are so funny .   Saratoga is hilarious , not to mention Gnome and the rest .  Really hit home when I recall in the beginning how I thought my eyes were getting bad because I had to keep turning up the brrightness on my monitor .  I had flown all night and was dawn !!!

I used to look through the forum for information , but now I use it for entertainment as well and speaking of entertainment ------
I was just attempting to record a flight in the Howard for theysellcoke so he could see that I had sort of learned to fly that big bird .  Perhaps the 20th. try ??????

Jamie