Ahh fozzer, you havent read everything you could. The FShost people are working on a program that will allow you do exactly what your saying    Its a standalone program and will allow connection to FShost, and it seems the Sim-V server.  just need to be patient, FSX has only been out for a few days.

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Because its Microsoft, and in order to make anything work right, it takes about 3 service packs...

Forget Gamespy this is nothing but "Adware" in my opinion
... FSHost for FSX is on the way...
read all about it here
http://www.chocolatesoftware.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=9af27d85bcb06efc33da4...

cheers,

sam

I asked Russel that question...
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cheers

You always can hit the "windows" key to get temporary back to the desktop (next to your "alt" key) or you can use the
key combination alt + uhmm don´t know how that key is
called ... the key left to the "Q" key that one with two arrows on it ....to switch between running tasks.

Unfortunately this probabely will be the only way to
reconnect to a session.

I don´t know what extraordinary stupidity drove Microsoft
to skip the Multiplayer features inside FSX. 
Russel also meant that Microsoft locked the developers out
of all Multiplayer features this time.
This is why he needs to write an external client.
When joining a Multiplayer (FSHost) Session you will be
in single Player Mode and that client grabs your Data
and send them to the other players !
The advantage. You will probabely be able to see
all the animations on other players aircraft... you will be able to see smokesystems... and stuff like that.

But .. hey .. we know MS long enough. We must expect
such Bulls...hoe.. remember 640kb will be enough for the next 1000
years..

Alright i did alot of MP last night and explored the CFG a little bit.

You can change aricraft in the middle of the flight, but the host mush enable that option. You can see animations and YES smoke, i saw it for myself ysterday.  theres a few other things like shared cockpits, radios that as far as i can tell, you have to be on the same nav channel for it to work. Its pretty cool but yes, does have its downfalls. 

We had a flight of 4 extras last night in a diamond and it was smooth as silk....something that cannot be found in FS9.  It was a very enjoyable expericence!!

But, I must still practice for the SimV airshow in FS9 with the Raptor because yes, I want to make it awesome.

Rhino

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I bet FS Host will have some module that adds itself to the drop down bar like many of the FS9 modules

I posted another thread about multiplayer but have yet to get a response.    Here's what I've found.   As the host of a session, I find that the drop down menu for changing "time and season", and also to change airplanes, is no longer possible for the host.  This is in both a Gamespy session and a session through LAN connect.   Those in the session, not the host, however can go to the "launch" page and change without having to go completely out of the session.   The host however does not have that option, but must completely shut down the session to change those options.  Strange indeed.  I've checked all "advanced" options, but none have been found to eliminate this.   Anyone have any help?

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