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Apr 20^th, 2012 at 5:56pm

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Hello to everyone at Simviation Forums. As a new member I will try not to look foolish. I hope I am in the right forum. I am an x employee of EASTERN AIRLINES and have been flying FSX for about a year now and just learned of Simviation website. Are there any EASTERN AIRLINE CIVIL JETS and how do you download them. You are talking to the guy who destroyed your bags....I dont know crap about computers. Thanks, RAMPRAT

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Reply #1 - Apr 20^th, 2012 at 6:01pm

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Historic Jet Group, hosted here at www.simviation.com/hjg has a ton of Eastern Airline aircraft. To install, right click on the zip file and uncompress the file. There should be a read me file that tells you where and how to install the files to FSX, in the Sim Objects folder.

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Reply #2 - Apr 20^th, 2012 at 9:40pm

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MR DAVE SIMS: I TRIED TO DOWNLOAD AN EASTERN 727-200 FROM THE HJG SITE BUT IT DIDNT WORK. LIKE I SAID I AM A COMPUTER FLUNKY WHEN IT COMES TO STUFF LIKE DOWNLOADS AND MOVING FILES FROM ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER. I DONT EVEN KNOW HOW TO FIND THE FSX FOLDER SO MAYBE I BETTER GET SOMEONE WHO KNOWS HOW TO DO THIS BEFORE I SCREW UP THE WHOLE THING. WHAT DO THEY MEAN BY CHANGING FLTSIM XX TO THE NEXT NUMBER STARTING WITH 0. DAZED AND CONFUSED!!!! Embarrassed

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Reply #3 - Apr 20^th, 2012 at 10:04pm

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This should help:

http://simviation.com/1/fsxinstall

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Reply #4 - Apr 21^st, 2012 at 9:49pm

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HI MAJOR, RAMPRAT HERE. WELL I WENT TO THAT SITE AND MADE A HARD COPY OF THE INSTRUCTIONS BUT THEY LOST ME AS SOON AS IT SAID LETS ASSUME YOU KNOW HOW TO------REALLY, I CAN DOWNLOAD A FILE BUT HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO TELL IT WHERE TO GO. IT JUST GOES INTO WHEREEVER IT PUTS ITAND FROM THEN ON FORGET IT. I MUST SOUND LIKE A TOTAL IDIOT BUT NEVER HAD TO USE COMPUTERS TO LOAD BAGS IN A PLANE AND ONLY THING I USE IT FOR KNOW IS TO FLY FSX AND GET MY EMAIL. I DONT EVEN USE A CELL PHONE!!!!! MAY BE YOU COULD SPELL IT OUT FOR ME??????

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Reply #5 - Apr 21^st, 2012 at 9:56pm

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What I usually do is create a new folder on my hard drive and name it Temp, or whatever you would like to call it. I then direct any file I download to go there, so I have a common place to store them. That is the first step to downloading an aircraft from the internet. Then you can start following the other directions on how to install the download.

Don't get frustrated, we will try to help you get the most out of your flight sim.

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Reply #6 - Apr 22^nd, 2012 at 6:16am

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Hi Ramprat,
I made a folder in "My Documents" called FSX. That's where all my FSX downloads go.
Now, you need Winzip (free) 7zip to open a zipped file.
Once you open it you could have one or more folders.
Lets make it simple.
You have downloaded a Boeing 737-800 and it went to your FSX folder that you created.
You open it and find 2 folders inside. One is Effects and the other is Simobjects.
Open the Effects folder and copy and paste those items into the "Effects" folder found in the FSX main folder.
Open the "SimObjects" and do the same. Copy and paste the 747-800 into the FSX main folder.
Look for this.
C:\program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator\Simobjects\Airplanes.
I'm not going to talk you into joining a VA, but you might consider joining Deer Valley Flying Club.
Download Teamspeak.
With Teamspeak you will find any member from DVFC will walk you through, step by step on how to install aircraft, textures, scenery and more so that you can fully enjoy FSX. And it's all free.

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Reply #7 - Apr 22^nd, 2012 at 7:05am

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Hi RAMPRAT. Before attempting to offer advice it would help to know which operating system (version of Windows) you're using. The basic principles will be the same but there are differences between Windows XP, Vista & Windows 7.

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What I usually do is create a new folder on my hard drive

It's all very well saying create or make folders but a raw beginner will have no idea how to do that. We need to go right back to basics here.

First you need to know how to access the C: drive. This will depend on the OS. I'm not familiar with Vista or Win7 so no longer feel qualified to offer advice except in general terms.

My usual method of creating folders is from the right-click (right mouse button) options: New > Folder. This works in WinXP & I assume it's the same for Vista/Win7.

Then you need to direct downloads to the folder you created from your browser options. This will depend on which browser you're using. There's so many variables nowadays it's impossible to write even a basic tutorial.

It's not absolutely necessary to use 3rd party software like WinZip to extract zipfiles. Windows has its own "Compressed Folders" utility which I've used to extract zipped files for many years without a single problem.

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Reply #8 - Apr 22^nd, 2012 at 10:33pm

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Thanks Hager, you are the first person who understands me. my os is xp dell 4700 ( old!!!!!) 3.2 cpu 128 hdd 512 ram and a x300 radeon card. i will await your reply and thanks for understanding....RAMPRAT

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Reply #9 - Apr 23^rd, 2012 at 2:58am

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RAMPRAT wrote on Apr 22^nd, 2012 at 10:33pm:

Thanks Hager, you are the first person who understands me. my os is xp dell 4700 ( old!!!!!) 3.2 cpu 128 hdd 512 ram and a x300 radeon card. i will await your reply and thanks for understanding....RAMPRAT

Right. I assume you're using the Internet Explorer 8 browser.

It's a long time since I've done this. I can't promise anything but I'll have a go at walking you through it. First of all to help you understand what I'm talking about please read my Windows Basics article. http://www.simviation.com/lair/Windows%20Basics.htm

Also read my Working with Windows article & set your Folder Options like mine. http://www.simviation.com/lair/windows.htm (To open a folder double-click on the My Documents icon on your Desktop.)

Tell me when you've done that & we'll go on to the next step. We'll download & install the 757-200 package here --> http://simviation.com/1/search?submit=1&keywords=POSKY-757-200_Winglets_ver.1.1....

Click on the link & save the file to your My Documents folder. (This is the default location for downloaded files.)

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Reply #10 - Apr 26^th, 2012 at 12:52am

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hi HAGAR. on a whim i downloaded the BAHAMAS AIR 727 ( BLACK ) into a temp folder then moved it to the folder i made and then moved it to microsoft games fsx simobjects airplanes. that all the instructions said to do. i know have a folder that says 727black but no airplane. where do i go from here? when i open the folder i see a lot of sub folders-model panel sound texture aircraft.cfg etc.......what do i do with them?

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Reply #11 - Apr 26^th, 2012 at 4:32am

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RAMPRAT wrote on Apr 26^th, 2012 at 12:52am:

hi HAGAR. on a whim i downloaded the BAHAMAS AIR 727 ( BLACK ) into a temp folder then moved it to the folder i made and then moved it to microsoft games fsx simobjects airplanes. that all the instructions said to do. i know have a folder that says 727black but no airplane. where do i go from here? when i open the folder i see a lot of sub folders-model panel sound texture aircraft.cfg etc.......what do i do with them?

You're going off at a tangent. We won't get anywhere unless you follow my instructions. Please tell me when you've done what I said in my previous reply. Then we can continue.

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Reply #12 - Apr 26^th, 2012 at 9:12pm

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SORRY,BUT GOT A BRAIN STORM LAST NIGHT AND TRIED THE 727 DOWNLOAD. WHEN IT DIDNT APPEAR I REMEMBERED YOU HAVE TO EXTRACT THE FILES SO I DID AND PRESTO I KNOW HAVE A WORKING BAHAMAS AIR 727 BLACK.... I DID READ YOUR PAPERS SO IF YOU WANT I WOULD LIKE TO TRY THAT 757. GOT EVERYTHING SET I HOPE. IT LOOKS A LITTLE DIFFERANT BUT SHOULD BE OK.

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Reply #13 - Apr 27^th, 2012 at 3:33am

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It sounds like you've got the general idea of this. To save a lot of messing around I'll write a proper walk-through when I have a few minutes & post it on my Lair. I'll post the link here when it's done.

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Reply #14 - Apr 27^th, 2012 at 4:00am

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Hagar wrote on Apr 27^th, 2012 at 3:33am:

It sounds like you've got the general idea of this. To save a lot of messing around I'll write a proper walk-through when I have a few minutes & post it on my Lair. I'll post the link here when it's done.

When you’re done I could adapt it for Windows 7 for you.

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Reply #15 - Apr 27^th, 2012 at 7:00pm

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HI HAGAR. I READ AND FOLLOWED YOUR INSTRUCTIONS NAMED MY FOLDER MYPLANES. WORKS FOR ME. 727 WAS EASY JUST DOWNLOAD FILE EXTRECT INTO MYPLANES AND COPY INTO SIMOBJECTS\ AIRPLANES AND PRESTO... DID THE FSR 737 REPAINT TODAY THAT REALLY WAS A BREEZE IT DID ALL THE WORK FOR YOU. PUT EVERYTHING RIGHT WHERE IT WAS SUPPOSED TO GO. NOW HAVE A WHOLE FLEET OF 737-800s. LOOKED AT THE 757 YOU TALKED ABOUT. LOOKS KIND OF TOUGH. WILL DEFINATELY NEED HELP WITH THAT ONE. ONE PLANE THREE DIFFERANT PAINT JOBS ETC.

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Reply #16 - Apr 28^th, 2012 at 6:06am

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RAMPRAT wrote on Apr 27^th, 2012 at 7:00pm:

HI HAGAR. I READ AND FOLLOWED YOUR INSTRUCTIONS NAMED MY FOLDER MYPLANES. WORKS FOR ME. 727 WAS EASY JUST DOWNLOAD FILE EXTRECT INTO MYPLANES AND COPY INTO SIMOBJECTS\ AIRPLANES AND PRESTO... DID THE FSR 737 REPAINT TODAY THAT REALLY WAS A BREEZE IT DID ALL THE WORK FOR YOU. PUT EVERYTHING RIGHT WHERE IT WAS SUPPOSED TO GO. NOW HAVE A WHOLE FLEET OF 737-800s. LOOKED AT THE 757 YOU TALKED ABOUT. LOOKS KIND OF TOUGH. WILL DEFINATELY NEED HELP WITH THAT ONE. ONE PLANE THREE DIFFERANT PAINT JOBS ETC.

You obviously understand the basic principle of all this so there's no need for a full tutorial.

Installing the 757 should be straightforward enough. After extracting POSKY-757-200_Winglets_ver.1.1.zip to your MYPLANES folder, open the folder named POSKY-757-200_Winglets_ver.1.1. This is what it looks like.

Paste the folder named

OSX_B757-200_Winglets

into your FSX\SimObjects\Airplanes folder.

Open the folder named

Copy to EFFECTS

. Select all the files inside it & paste them into your FSX\Effects folder.

In the same way paste the contents of the

Copy to MAIN GAUGES

&

Copy to MAIN SOUND as is

folders into their respective folders in your main FSX directory. I strongly recommend you Don't overwrite files/folders if prompted.

That's all there is to it. The 757 should be listed under Project Opensky on the FSX selection menu.

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Reply #17 - Apr 28^th, 2012 at 10:55pm

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THANKS. I WILL GIVE IT A SHOT AND LET YOU KNOW.

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Reply #18 - Apr 29^th, 2012 at 10:58am

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HAGAR- SUCCESS, SORT OF....DID EVERYTHING JUST LIKE YOU SAID. NOW HAVE 3 NICE 757 PLANES ON FSX ONLY A COUPLE OF PROBLEMS, LIGHTS ON PLANES ARENT WORKING RIGHT. THEY SHOW UP AS COLORED SQUARES. THEY ALL WORK BUT, AND THERE ISNT ANY ENGINE SOUND. HAVE SOUND FOR FLAPS LOWERING AND RAISEING HAVE CALL OUTS FOR HEIGHT BUT NO ENGINES. I KNOW THE 757 IS QUITE BUT NOT THAT QUITE.... WHERE DID I SCREW UP? LOOKED IN THE SOUND FOLDER AND SOUND AS IS FILES WHERE IN THERE. RAMPRAT

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Reply #19 - Apr 29^th, 2012 at 11:30am

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For the nav lights make sure you pasted all 19 files from the

Copy to EFFECTS

folder to FSX\Effects. Posky aircraft are usually very graphics intensive. Perhaps that's why your lights are not displaying properly.

I can't think why you have no sound. The 757 includes a full sound package. Look in the Sound folder of your 757. If you installed it correctly it should contain over 70 WAV files.

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Reply #20 - Apr 29^th, 2012 at 11:01pm

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HAGAR-I JUST HAD MY SON UPGRADE MY DELL 4700 TO THE FOLLOWING SPECS: 3.2 CPU PENTIUM 4( FACTORY ) ADDED 2GB OF RAM FOR TTL OF 2.5GB A NEW ATI RADEON HD6450 2GB GRAPHICS CARD 5.1 SOUND CARD AND FACTORY 160 HDD. WOW!!!!!!! NO MORE LAGS. THE SOUND DID COME IN AND THE LIGHTS ARE BETTER BUT IF YOU LOOK AT THE PLANE FROM STRAIGHT ON THE LIGHTS ARE FINE( ITS THE STROBES ON THE END OF THE WINGS ) BUT IT YOU VIEW FROM SAY 30 DEGREES TO 90 DEGREES YOU GET THE FLASHING WHITE SQUARES. I CAN LIVE WITH IT UNLESS YOU CAN THINK OF A SOLUTION.....

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Reply #21 - Apr 30^th, 2012 at 3:18am

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Hi RAMPRAT. Glad the update worked out. For the lights problem you could try reducing the scenery complexity from FSX Settings. You might not want to do that. If you're happy I would leave well alone.

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Reply #22 - Apr 30^th, 2012 at 12:04pm

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HAGAR-JUST FOR KICKS I MAXED OUT THE SETTINGS AFTER WE UPGRADED. ALL SLIDERS TO THE RIGHT. WORKED GREAT FOR ABOUT 45 MINUTES THEN FROZE UP. WAS FLYINF 747-400. JUST WANTED TO SEE IF IT COULD HANDLE IT. BACKED OFF ONE CLICK ON THE SCENERY SETTINGS AND NOW WILL RUN ALL DAY WITH NO PROBLEMS. SOME VERY SLIGHT HESITATION AS YOU MAKE YOUR APPROCH, GUESS ITS BECAUSE ITS TRYING TO DRAW EVERYTHING BACK IN AGAIN BUT DOESNT LEAVE YOU HANGING LIKE BEFORE. DID HELP LIGHTS SOMEWHAT BUT STILL HAVE SMALL WHITE SQUARES NOW ON 757. AM GOING TO LOOK FOR A BIGGER PSU NOW.

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Reply #23 - Apr 30^th, 2012 at 6:47pm

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Interesting. Did you try reducing those settings a bit more? I'm not qualified to offer advice on hardware but I think you would need a very powerful computer to run FSX with the display settings maxed out.

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Reply #24 - Apr 30^th, 2012 at 9:57pm

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HAGAR, LEFT THE SCENERY SETTINGS ALONE. MY WATER SETTING IS HIGH 1X NICE EFFECTS WAVES COME ON SHORE NO FISH JUMPING OUT OF THE WATER AND NO BIRDS BUT GOOD ENOUGH. YES YOU WOULD NEED HIGH END DIGITAL STORM OR STEALTH MACHINE TO REALLY GET FULL EFFECT. I AM LOOKING AT DIGITAL STORM MARUADER LEVEL 4 FOR 1299.00. FITS MY BUDGET. PLUS I HAVE MONEY TO GET NICE 23-24 INCH HD LED MONITOR. HAVE AIRLINERS AT 60%, PRIVATE AIRCRAFT AT 30% AND AIRPORT VEHICELS AT 100% CARS 55% SHIPS AT 40% AND PLEASURE BOATS AT 40% WEATHER IS MAXED OUT.

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Reply #25 - May 1^st, 2012 at 8:19am

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Why not try this RAMPRAT
http://www.venetubo.com/fsx.html

I got a system to run all max, but i dont do it. I use my eyes to see whats best, and all at mega high is not always that good Wink

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