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Goran, I'm not disagreeing at all with anything you said. I'm just saying that it boggles my mine. I'm grateful my experiences at the org and with Nicolas have been good. You're right about how I deal with my clients. It is rare that we have someone disappointed, but it does happen once or twice a year. We take care of their issues and make sure they are happy when we are done. However, there have been times that we have had to "divorce" a client and not do business with them. I've been in business 22 1/2 years and I've reached a point (long ago) that I can dictate for whom I will do work. I'm thankful for my clients and I will do whatever it takes to make them happy. I wish Nicolas could do the same.

It boggles my mind that some can have such amazingly crappy experiences and yet I have nothing but praise for the way every single one of my purchases has transpired. I bought all my Saitek gear from the org and got a screaming deal on them. I e-mailed Nicolas and even spoke to him on the phone. I bought 2 radio panels, the switch panel, the multi panel, yoke and throttle quadrant, rudder pedals and the TPM module all at the same time. Over $1000 and not a hitch. When one of the radio panels died within the warranty period I e-mailed Nicolas and he said to return it and he would replace it. Took less than 10 days for the replacement to happen. I have purchased numerous planes and sceneries and I truly can't understand why some of you have such horrible experiences. I guess I'm just lucky.

This one is pretty nice. Probably as good as you'll get for free. http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?app=downloads&showfile=5641 You'll have to update it yourself in Plane-Maker.

A simple search in the forums brings up a thread titled "G2XPL." The second post in that thread has another link, which I've included below, that takes you to another thread that also has G2XPL in the title. That thread has a link to get the download. Good luck. http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?showtopic=59170

By the way, if you had simply done a search for G2XPL in the forums over there you would have found the link to get it.

BimmerCop, Read this thread. Might shed some light on why the org mods frowned upon your post. http://forums.x-pilot.com/index.php/topic/616-g2xpl-help/

I have two radio panels, the multi panel, the switch panel, yoke and 2 throttle quadrants, rudder pedals and the TPM module. Love them all! Wouldn't want to fly without them.

Whoa! This thread certainly took an unexpected turn! I don't know if I can commit to a weekly fly-in, but I'll organize one and get things going if that's what you want. First, you guys need to do some homework. If you have not downloaded and installed the aforementioned flight servers, then do so using the links below: http://www.pilotedge.net Download the plugin and join if you want. You can try it out with a 14 day free trial or join for as little as $4.95/month....worth every penny! http://netflight.sirbryan.com/NetFlight/NetFlight.html Download the plugin and bookmark the Live Map page http://x-flightserver.net Sign up and download the plugin http://www.xsquawkbox.net Download the plugin to fly on VATSIM. Join VATSIM here: http://www.vatsim.net/about-vatsim/members/joinvatsim/ http://us.ivao.aero Create an IVAO account and download the plugin http://www.teamspeak.com/?page=downloads Download the appropriate TeamSpeak Client for your system This will make sure we all have all the options for servers and communications software. There are pros and cons to using each of these servers, but they all work for what we want to do. NetFlight is the quickest and easiest to use and is generally more reliable than X-FlightServer. NetFlight is the only server that does not use CSL's to display the other aircraft online. Make sure you have a headset! You MUST have a mic and earpones or earbuds for communication. I cannot type and fly at the same time and real world pilots don't do it to communicate so we won't either. You can get great, cheap headsets at Radio Shack. Logitech makes one for under $25. Get headsets! This first fly-in will be on PilotEdge. I want you to experience some real world ATC. I'm sure Keith will work with us to get everyone online. My plan is to fly VFR from a towered field to a non-towered field. Don't worry if you don't know what you're doing with ATC communications. I'll take care of that and you can listen in. All you'll have to do is follow the leader. Once we are airborne, there will be very little interaction with ATC and we can either use the radios in PilotEdge or use TeamSpeak to keep in touch with each other. Once I come up with a flight plan and select the aircraft, I will give you more detailed instructions. I'm planning a flight of no less than 30 minutes and no more than 2 hours. This will be a low and slow flight, but I promise you metal heads that we will do some airliners later. Along with the previous homework, be thinking about what you are going fly with a cruise speed of no greater than 160 kias. Future fly-ins can be on other servers if you choose not to subscribe to PilotEdge. We'll sample them all over the next few weeks or so. As for frequency, I think weekly is overkill. Bi-weekly is more my speed and helps build anticipation and participation and is easier to plan for. I'll take any requests or input you have, but ultimately, if you want me to plan these things, I'll do it.....and you WILL like it!!

We've done fly-ins at my VA and it really is not that difficult to organize. Here are the steps we use: 1. Assign a fly-in leader 2. Leader chooses departure and arrival airports and plans the route 3. Leader chooses aircraft type to be flown 4. Leader chooses date and time for the fly-in 5. Leader chooses server to be used (Vatsim, PilotEdge, NetFlight, X-FlightServer, IVAO) 6. Leader advertises and promotes the fly-in on appropriate forums 7. Leader makes any adjustments to scheduling, server or aircraft to be flown as needed, based on pilot feedback in the forums We have our own TeamSpeak server that we use for pilot to pilot communications regardless of the server we are flying on. DigitalThemePark has an amazing TeamSpeak server. No matter what, I recommend using TeamSpeak for air to air radio. Cameron has said he is not interested in an "official" X-Pilot fly-in and I understand that. He didn't say you can't promote a fly-in here. Just go for it. Plan it. Promote it. Fly it. Simple and fun!

For now, the smoke is only the default X-Plane smoke. They're working on SASL based smoke generation, but it is not ready yet. It will be in the future, but for now, the smoke switch in the cockpit toggles the smoke on and off just like hitting the 'x' key in V9.7. Custom smoke is being worked on, which will include colored smoke. Dan was not too happy with Alabeo for the smoke description in the product info, but it is coming. I don't think the lack of custom smoke right now takes anything away from the Waco experience. She's a sweet ride!

Nope. Not even close. Cameron is much more clever. He's probably cuter, too.

As promised, here are some screenies. Flying V9.7 with pixel shaders off. Still looks pretty good...with good frame rates:

The sounds are similar to the newer HD models. They use SASL and have the 3D effect that Carenado is implementing. This baby has a deep, throaty sound. Makes it fun to fly. I admit I need to do a bunch of pattern work to hone my tail dragger landing skills. She's a fun one, though.

Yes you can. You just need to program a button to "load flight plan" and you're good to go. It will load a flight plan into the GNS430. Just go to the joystick and equipment menu>advanced>FMS (I think) and set a button to "load flight plan."

For US charts I use either AOPA's site or AirNav http://www.aopa.org/airports/ Not sure if you have to be a member of AOPA to use this link, but it's worth the $35 a year to support General Aviation. http://www.airnav.com

Holy cow!! Just took her up for a spin! What a fun plane! Think I'll jump onto PE and do a short cross country with her. The sounds are fun, too. I don't think you would be disappointed, Ryan. I'll post some screenies later.

They are not your typical GA planes and they are harder to fly. Yes, you can overdo it everywhere if you aren't paying attention to what you are doing. The sounds are every bit as good as the Caravan and Skymaster. You would not be disappointed. And if you were, Alabeo has a money back guarantee. At the bottom of this page, http://www.alabeo.com/index.php , it says the following: Satisfaction policy We would like our customer have enjoyable experience since the moment of thepurchase until they are flying our products. If you are not satisfied with theproduct we will refund your money immediately.

Yep, $19.95 isn't bad for what you get.

I've got the Pitts and the SU-26 and they are a blast to fly. This one looks promising, too. They're a bit of a handful to fly, but they're fun once you get a grip on them.

Alabeo just released the Waco YMF5 for X-Plane! Check it out at: http://www.alabeo.com

I don't remember what the daily limit is, but yes, there is a limit. Something like 24 downloads per 24 hours. But it appears tramkp888 has indeed been booted. Can't look up his profile.

I've gotten that screen when I've downloaded the max number of files per 24 hour period you can download. I've seen it a few times other than that, but I emptied my cache and then it worked. Could just be a glitch.

PilotEdge already has weekly fly-ins incorporating the Digital Theme Park Team Speak server. Here's a link to the PilotEdge forum and post regarding this week's fly-in: http://forums.pilotedge.net/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=2381

Andrzej, Here are a couple of links to some information that might shed a little more light on use of TCS: http://www.pprune.org/tech-log/10462-control-wheel-steering.html http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/tech_ops/read.main/201248/ And this quote from this link: http://www.aopa.org/pilot/features/2002/pattern0204.html "Depending on the autopilot, there are other modes to learn. Control wheel steering (CWS), sometimes called touch control steering (TCS), lets you momentarily disengage the autopilot and hand-fly. You might use it while you fly around a buildup or make a big heading change. The feature is most often activated by depressing a button on the control yoke. The autopilot's disengaged as long as you hold the button down; release it, and the airplane returns to autopilot control." Hope this helps!

Woo hoo! I'm not a huge heavy metal guy, but Jack's 727's are available now! She's about as sweet a tubeliner as they come. Looks like you can get them at the org. The malware attack evidently hasn't borked the store.