steven winslow

Alphabetical by ICAO code works just fine for me. I name my files like this: KBZN-Bozeman_Yellowstone_International

Jim, was the price in your cart 13.98 or 27.95? $13.98 is the half off price.

You'll probably be able to pick up the Skymaster for half price a year from now. But it is seriously worth the investment! If you have the Caravan, then you most certainly won't be disappointed with the Skymaster. Each plane is better than the last.....

If you've been holding off buying any of the older Carenado aircraft, now is the time to buy! All of their non-HD models are half price now until December 25th. Time to fill up your hangars!

Just in case, here are the links: http://www.pilotedge.net http://x-flightserver.net http://netflight.sirbryan.com/NetFlight/NetFlight.html http://www.vatsim.net

On PilotEdge, as long as you have the correct CSL files, you will be able to see a representation of the aircraft your buddies are flying regardless of whether they are flying V10, V9.7 or even FSX. NetFlight does the same thing as long as your buddies have the same aircraft that you can load into your aircraft and situations setup. On NetFlight, if you have the same livery as your friend's aircraft, you can actually see them in that livery. NetFlight does not use CSL's. X-FlightServer and VATSIM use CSL's just like PilotEdge.

TeamSpeak and VATSIM are two completely different things. You can use TeamSpeak to talk with someone who can help you set up X-Plane and XSquawkbox so you can communicate on VATSIM. When I fly online, regardless of the server, I have TeamSpeak on so I can talk to the other pilots. I am also connected to PilotEdge or VATSIM or NetFlight or X-FlightServer. TeamSpeak is not connected to VATSIM. I suggest you find someone with a Windows computer with VATSIM and TeamSpeak. Find a TeamSpeak server you can both get onto and have him/her talk you through getting you set up for VATSIM. As I said, I'd be happy to do this with you when you get your Mac. I mainly fly on PilotEdge, but I am familiar with VATSIM as well.

I can't help you with your Windows machine, but when you get your Mac, drop me a line and I can help you get it set up for VATSIM. You don't need TeamSpeak to fly on VATSIM, but it would be helpful to use TeamSpeak to talk you through setting up your computer for VATSIM.

I get the point that eye candy is more important to you. No need to be snide. As for Carenado, they have a Cherokee PA28-180 for FSX and FS2004. Their plans are to convert most of their fleet over to X-Plane. I don't know if those plans include the Cherokee.

I admit I like photorealistic textures as much as the next guy, but when it comes to flying a model that "feels" and flies like the real thing, I jump into one of Jason's Pipers. I'll be real world flying a freshly painted Cherokee this Friday morning with a friend of mine. I'll post some pics this weekend.

You mean like this? http://www.c74.net/xplane/_a_cherokee_140.html http://www.c74.net/xplane/_piper.html Jason Chandler's Piper series is probably the best payware aircraft deal in all of X-Plane. 14 planes for $14. Not bad. The textures may not be up to LES or Carenado standards, but the flight model is a good as it gets....and you can't beat the price. And they're super frame rate friendly!

I'm not saying drugs are the answer, but try taking some Benedryl or something else to make you drowsy. I've slept through some fairly long flights and it makes them a lot shorter. Now, about that fear. I find if you can take your mind off of the fact that you are being propelled through the air in a large tube, it's a lot easier to take. I've never had overwhelming fear of flying, but I have inadvertently freaked myself out a couple of times. That's when I closed my eyes, breathed deeply and slowly and thought about something else, like women playing basketball in high heels.....seriously. So, make sure you have some sort of mental picture to take you away from your fear....not necessarily the one I use, but something pleasant to take your mind off the flight. I really like Ryan's idea of taking approach and departure plates along. Might be fun to figure out which one the pilots are flying and trying to follow along.

But don't delete the peanut butter ones. I'll take those, please!

I just flew the Duchess in V10.11 and it does indeed rock back and forth as previously described. I climbed a little then engaged the AP. I made a turn with the heading bug and once the plane was stabilized on course, the plane rocked gently back and forth. Here's a crappy video of what I am seeing: http://s892.beta.photobucket.com/user/winslowphoto/media/LES_Duchess_1.mp4.html and my log.txt Log.txt

I just took the Duchess up for a flight around the Gallatin Valley and did not experience any problems with the AP. I just flew with my mouse rather than hooking up my MacBook Pro to all my Saitek gear. I took off and climbed a couple thousand feet then engaged the AP. I turned the heading bug to make a few slow turns, both left and right. Everything functioned normally. I'm flying V9.7 on my 4 yr old MacBook Pro with Mountain Lion.

Usually the rudder pedals steer the tail wheel. Toe brakes definitely assist in steering a tail dragger.

Nope, there is no brake handle modeled in the C337.

I like all of Jason's aircraft. They may not be the prettiest or most detailed textures and they use the stock X-Plane instruments, but I don't think you will find any flight models as accurate as his.

If you're looking for a Gulfstream, this is a much better model: http://www.c74.net/xplane/_aj_gulfstream2_HD.html

Now that's actually pretty funny...

That may very well be true! I suppose that's the law of averages at work......more people....more arseholes. Proportionately, it's probably about the same as this place.

For argument sake, there are 126 members online at the org right now. There are 60 online here and the most online here was 224 on September 20, 2011. The most online at the org at one time was 4256 back in November of 2011. As much as you detest the org, they have a much larger customer base and they will not be going away any time soon. By and large, the customers and contributors at the org are a happy bunch, just like the happy bunch here. What I find interesting is that every single org basher has said something like this in their posts: "I knew I shouldn't do this, but I went ahead and did it at the org..." or "I said this about someone at the org..." or "I disobeyed this rule, but....." and then they come over here and complain about the repercussions and consequences. Seems to me that all the anguish and dissatisfaction is primarily self-inflicted or self-induced by simply not following the org rules or their way of doing business. The point I'm trying to make is that no matter how hard a company tries, there will always be someone who is not happy. I have the same work ethic you profess to have had when you were working. I do my darnedest to make sure my clients are happy. I do whatever it takes, but there are people in this world that you just can't please.

I totally concur, Nicola, that a business should not have angry customers, but there are some people that no matter what you do you can't make them happy. Those are the customers you should "divorce." I have been in business over 22 years and I am doing quite well, thank you. I take good care of my clients and 98.5% of them are more than satisfied with our services. But it seems that once every couple of years there is someone who has misconceptions about what we offer or about how we do business and they become unhappy. We do whatever it takes to make them happy, including refunding their investment or whatever else we can do to make them happy. As for the org, I think your conception of how many angry customers they have is a bit skewed because of your personal experiences and the other few org bashers here. If you consider the number of subscribers at the org to the number of angry forum posters over here and throw in a few more for good measure, the total angry or dissatisfied customers would be well below 5%. They say if you're not making mistakes, you're not trying hard enough. I say if you tell me you can make 100% of your clients happy 100% of the time, you're lying.

Sad that they are considered "rivals" when they should easily coexist. In most cases, I think the users of both forums take what they want from each and contribute where they feel most comfortable. In my case, I have never had a bad customer service experience at the org or X-Aviation, yet there are complaining posts in this forum expressing frustration and detailing bad experiences at both sites. I have had to wait for responses to inquiries at both sites, but nothing exorbitant. I have had to return a Saitek panel to the org that was still under warranty and received a replacement panel with basically no questions asked and no delay. I have had activation issues with some of my X-Aviation purchases and received great customer service and resolution to my problems here. What I'm getting at is that if you have an issue with a product it is easier and faster to get help when you are nice about asking and when you play by the rules and policies established by the company with whom you are doing business. When you choose to do business with a company, you do business with them the way they want, not the way you want. In my business, we have policies and procedures and certain ways we do things. At least once a month we have a client who tries to tell us how we are going to do business with them. Nope. That's not gonna work! If you want to do business with us, you will follow our way of doing business. We can't be changing the way we do things for every single exception to the rule. So, if someone came to me with a problem or issue with one of our products or services and said, "Hey, your policies suck....by the way, can you help me?" I would be a bit defensive and a lot less apt to be helpful. I would probably "divorce" that client after I took care of their problem. I have a lot more happy clients than angry and I would much rather take care of the happy ones and boot the angry ones!

Ahh....gotcha. Thanks for that, Kaphias.