Bubblehead wrote on Dec 22
nd, 2006 at 5:47pm:
Gypsy: I've already copied both gauge folders to the aircraft panel and also to the FSX gauge folder but still no joy. I did not copy the files directly like I did in FS9. I will be willing to load the files directly into the aircraft panel folder but I'm hesitant to copy it to the FSX gauge folder since it will be very difficult to determine which belongs to what.
On a different note. I was curious about the two pictures (USS Dewey and the Super Connie). If you were an airdale, what were you doing in a skimmer ship? I was aboard sewer pipes until making WO then went amphibs.
Bubblehead
Hummm...putting bot those folders containg the XML gauges INTACT into the pabnel folder SHOULD
have worked just fine. That's the method I choose to use in FSX...to keep gauges ( cab files, folders, etc )
that are for a specific aircraft in that aircrafts panel folder.
Your panel folder should look like this:
You don't need to have the Gauges.zip file there. That's just where I left
it after I unziped the contents into the panel folder.
As to the "black shoe - brown shoe" thing, I was an ET aboard the Dewey in the
early 60's. Elmo Zumwalt was my skipper. Great times and a wonderful ship!
I then went on the ET "B" school on Treasure Island for a year and then
stayed on there for 3 more years as an instructor. As my shore duty tour
was ending, there was a request for "volunteers" ( ET's ) for a "special program".
No details other than "you will be attending civilian factory schools" ( GREAT, I get
to wear civies ) "you will be flying" ( GREAT again...flight pay, more $$$ ) and
" you will get hazardous duty pay" ( Even MORE money! ). So I volunteered
Wound up going to some schools back in PA then to Oax River to what was then
OASU and later became VX-8 and then VXN-8.
The reason they needed ET's was that the mission involved flying around in 'Nam
transmitting TV from the Connies...one channel for the GI's and another channel
for the Vietnamese. We flew every night and was on the air about 3 hours AIR.
The planes had commercial radio and TV broadcast equipment on board and
since the airdale AT's were used to only swapping boxes in and out, we ET's
were trained to actually troubleshoot and repair our equipment
I also flew as a crew member on our "radio plane", a Connie equiped with commercial
radio transmitter gear. Every night we'd "go north" over the South China Sea
and precisely the time the NVN station would go off the air, we'd come on. Same freq.
Ran tapes provided by the South Vietnamese government
These same sort of missions are now carried out by the Air National Guard flying
C-130 "Commando Solo" aircraft.
So, thus the seemingly confliting pictures
Paul ( ETR1, USN (AC) July '59 - Dec '67 )
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