Simviation Forum - faulty Mooney tachometer in 2004

Reply #75 - May 3^rd, 2009 at 12:58pm

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ROM: Thanks for the tips. Have set aside today to see if I can master some of this. My wife says Flight Sim is worse than the Sunday NFL games. She says at least pro football has a season that ends!

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Reply #76 - May 3^rd, 2009 at 1:42pm

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RON: One massif helping of merci beaucoups for that link to the 150L. It was a snap to download since they provided an installation wizard (in French). A terrific little airplane which I immediately took up and flew from Santa Barbara to Oxnard and back. Again, many many thanks for your assistance. You mentioned you live in Washington? A son (one of five) lives in Ft. Townsend and coaches its h.s. sailing team. Sailing was my thing until back trouble limited me. Here you leave the marina and you're immediately in the channel islands channel, a batch of water that's equal to the English Channel in winter (I've sailed both). FS flying much more fun and challenging, to boot. .

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Reply #77 - May 4^th, 2009 at 11:19am

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Denis
I beleive that olderndirt is from Washington state, I am a little more North than that on Vancouver Island BC Canada.
If you enjoy flights around Socal there are plenty of scenery upgrades available for that area (Fozzer's specialty Wink

)......Did you check out the Carenado Mooney? My day to day single flyer is their C182Q.

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Reply #78 - May 4^th, 2009 at 11:35am

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...as Rom mentioned....

....

I have spent the past 10+ years daily "flying" exclusively around the whole of California...North-South...East-West...

...and collecting and installing some truly amazing, Free, add-on scenery from various Sites...

Most of my Cal Airfields are alive with various objects, many courtesy of my own Scenery Designers....LAGO FSE...Abacus' EZ-Scenery Designer, Runway 3, etc...etc...

..and my favourite "runabout"...is my trusty little Cessna 150 Aerobat...(C150 v2)... Kiss

...140 Knots with a foot to the floor!...!

Paul...G-BPLF...FS 2004...FS Navigator... The Terror of SOCAL ATC... Grin

...!

Dell Dimension 5000 BTX Tower. Win7 Home Edition, 32 Bit. Intel Pentium 4, dual 2.8 GHz. 2.5GB RAM, nVidia GF 9500GT 1GB. SATA 500GB + 80GB. Philips 17" LCD Monitor. Micronet ADSL Modem only. Saitek Cyborg Evo Force. FS 2004 + FSX. Briggs and Stratton Petrol Lawn Mower...Motor Bikes. Gas Cooker... and lots of musical instruments!.... ...!
Yamaha MO6,MM6,DX7,DX11,DX21,DX100,MK100,EMT10,PSR400,PSS780,Roland GW-8L v2,TR505,Casio MT-205,Korg CX3v2 dual manual,+ Leslie 760,M-Audio Prokeys88,KeyRig,Cubase,Keyfax4,Guitars,Orchestral,Baroque,Renaissance,Medieval Instruments.

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Reply #79 - May 4^th, 2009 at 11:56am

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Not sure if you've visited here, www.blueskyscenery.com but it's worth a look. Some really nice western US sceneries and it's freeware.

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Reply #80 - May 4^th, 2009 at 12:04pm

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Excellent selection there, Older'n... Wink

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I have many of them From Avsim and Flightsim...and of course, Simviation.. Wink

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...but...

One thing I avoid, like the Plague, is "VFR Photographic Scenery", for obvious reasons... Wink

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Paul...G-BPLF....FS 2004...but NOT a flat Photograph!.... Grin

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Reply #81 - May 4^th, 2009 at 12:13pm

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ROM
One of my favorite cross countries is SEA - YVR - YYJ and back. Been on the ground in Victoria several times - beautiful city, as is Vancouver. How does your payware C182 compare to the default version on FS9? It's a good instrument platform so I use it as my default 'create a flight' plane, having dropped the three passengers and baggage. Makes it a little more lively.

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Reply #82 - May 4^th, 2009 at 5:47pm

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The Carenado C182 (or anything by them) is not really comparable at all to the default planes, it took me quite a few years before I broke down and started trying payware aircraft.......I really spend most of my flying in a few different planes, so why not have those few the best they can be, most payware isnt that much $20-$30 and the difference is really.........huge!
Having said that........try this http://www.realairsimulations.com/list_box.php?page=downloads ; it's a great make-over of the default. Visually not much different, but the flight model is.............impressive Cool

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Reply #83 - May 4^th, 2009 at 6:48pm

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Think I'll give it a try - can't resist free. Also trying to dream up something credible to tell my bride when I spring for that SF260.

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Reply #84 - May 4^th, 2009 at 7:11pm

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Aaargh, it's on AVSIM. There goes the rest of the day

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Reply #85 - May 4^th, 2009 at 7:13pm

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olderndirt wrote on May 4^th, 2009 at 6:48pm:

Think I'll give it a try - can't resist free. Also trying to dream up something credible to tell my bride when I spring for that SF260.

good luck with that
your probably best to just intercept the visa bill that month Wink

I dont have that plane , but a buddy of mine does, and its reeeally nice....in FS9 it's only got a right seat, which I found uncomfortable, but the FSX version you can sit either left or right.

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Reply #86 - May 4^th, 2009 at 9:24pm

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No joy, so far. Right seat's fine except most of the gauges favor the left. Makes for lop-sided IFR (vertigo)

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Reply #87 - May 5^th, 2009 at 5:58am

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Gentlemen: As I tell my wife, buying a plane or a yoke & pedal system for FS is far cheaper than buying a bottle of Haig & Haig or a new Pontiac, Lord rest its soul. As most of you guys know by this time, I am a rank novice so I am concentrating learning the basics of this program rather than luxuriating in downloads and purchase of new airplanes. Although I'm deeply grateful for all the suggestions and advice you give me. I'm keeping a file of these recommendations for later use. Right now I still wrestle with both FS and the computer & its mysteries.

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Reply #88 - May 5^th, 2009 at 6:02am

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FOZZER Have you landed on Santa Cruz in the channel Island group yet? (right off Santa Barbara). A friend who flies over there in the real thing tells me the strip is uphill.

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Reply #89 - May 5^th, 2009 at 6:06am

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ROM: My parents, who were both Dubliners, retired to Vancouver but passed away shortly after they relocated there. The few times I visited my mother would take me to "tea" in some quaint hotel that might easily have been brought, stone by stone, from the Cotswalds. There was an Agatha Christy-type at every table scoffing up little rolls with mountains of clotted cream on them.

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