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Dec 8^th, 2010 at 5:15pm

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Now I know why Iris is selling their FSX native F-14 for $5.00. (today only, but there will be another product every day until Christmas and everything is reduced 50%)
They intend to charge a substantial fee for ground school. Roll Eyes

It took me an hour, referring to the manual several times, to get the HUD to work and the gear to retract. Embarrassed

I think this one may be a little too realistic for me. Grin

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Thanks for looking.

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #1 - Dec 8^th, 2010 at 6:37pm

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Looks good Larry...

It would seem you folks are getting some real bargains prior to Christmas.
Wish there was a store that handled Flight Simulator add ons around here.
Even Best Buy and Future Shop does not carry that stuff here.... Tongue

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

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Reply #2 - Dec 8^th, 2010 at 7:48pm

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Welcome to the club, got everything up and running pretty quickly... except the number 2 engine..... took bloody ages to realise that the starter switch has to be pushed left to get it to go right.

Craig

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Reply #3 - Dec 9^th, 2010 at 12:37am

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Hey your $5 F-14 looks like my $30 one Cheesy

Yep was a pain in the butt for me to figure out how to get the gear up too lol.

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Reply #4 - Dec 9^th, 2010 at 2:49am

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Flying Trucker wrote on Dec 8^th, 2010 at 6:37pm:

Looks good Larry...

It would seem you folks are getting some real bargains prior to Christmas.
Wish there was a store that handled Flight Simulator add ons around here.
Even Best Buy and Future Shop does not carry that stuff here.... Tongue

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

Thanks Doug.

I'll go you one better, we don't even have a Best Buy and I've never heard of Future Shop. The closest thing here is Wally World. I get all my stuff online and so far have downloaded them all to avoid the wait on snail mail.

I have all of them backed up on a second drive, but I need to put them on disk, just in case.

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #5 - Dec 9^th, 2010 at 2:51am

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Tequila Sunrise wrote on Dec 8^th, 2010 at 7:48pm:

Welcome to the club, got everything up and running pretty quickly... except the number 2 engine..... took bloody ages to realise that the starter switch has to be pushed left to get it to go right.

Craig

With aircraft this complex, there is a lot to be said for not using cold and dark starts. Roll Eyes

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #6 - Dec 9^th, 2010 at 3:04am

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I download mine as well, then save it on two seperate hard drives. Fry's Electronics has a good selection of payware birds too though, that's where I got my Connie. Best Buy around here doesn't even have FSX available these days, and I live in Silicon Valley Roll Eyes

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Reply #7 - Dec 9^th, 2010 at 4:31am

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BigTruck wrote on Dec 9^th, 2010 at 3:04am:

I download mine as well, then save it on two seperate hard drives. Fry's Electronics has a good selection of payware birds too though, that's where I got my Connie. Best Buy around here doesn't even have FSX available these days, and I live in Silicon Valley Roll Eyes

I still want to get the Connie, but it is not first in line yet. Roll Eyes

Best Buy in Silicon Valley not having FSX reminids me of the old story about the guy telling the sales clerk another store had the same product for less but they were out. The sales clerk said, "we charge less when we are out of it too." Grin

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #8 - Dec 9^th, 2010 at 8:19am

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Goodly morning all...

Maybe this should be a separate thread (post) Larry but here goes.

Future Shop, Best Buy, WallMart and several other electronic store are less than a thirty minute drive from one of the largest airbases in Canada with at least three bug smasher fields within a hours drive to the stores.

Yet they do not carry Flight or Train Simulation items.

It don't figure after several of us have spoken to them, and they do not like you going direct to the store manager.
We always seem to speak only to a department person who will pass on the information.
It would seem the store manager is not in, in a meeting or unavailable every time we go in.

We have had this conversation many times around the Bull Shit Table at the Bugsmasher Fields and that is the consensus.

The military air base did have a flight simulator club being part of the computer club several years ago but they move folks about so much now that I am not sure the computer club is still going.

I don't bank on line so never use the computer for anything other than flight simulation or chatting on MSN to the children all over the country.

Will just have to wait until I can get to a city like Toronto to purchase Payware I guess... Roll Eyes

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

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