Classic British Flight Sim

Hi Peter, Well, I suppose you think that's funny?! Five things to say: (A) I saw the terrified faces on the grasshoppers, and it was not a pretty sight. (B) The EPA will be sending a penalty notice about your smoke emissions. (C) The "roll on take off" was as good as the guy in the twin do...

G'day Pilots All, Well I spent my $12AU on it last night. There's 4Gb of download, and if you don't have Windows Net v4, you have to upgrade. I'm on ADSL2+, and the download swung between 17kbs and 1815kbs. When I left it running (after two hours) it said 9hrs to go, so be prepared for a long haul. ...

G'say again Dave, The appearance of the opening screen with all the icons depends on your display settings, found in Control Panel. Because you have a good graphics card, nvidia is assuming that you want high resolution. By reducing the pixels, you can make the icons bigger, but they'll be more bloc...

You'll get offers to update your drivers direct from nvidia. I've updated twice since installing; the latest was yesterday. V285.62 for W7.

I wouldn't bother with safe mode, Dave. Fitting it should be a piece of cake, only one screw, and the software will do the rest. With my old XP system, I was constantly experimenting with replacement sound and video cards, to the extent that I ran the box with the cover off most of the time. The new...

Just letting you know - I'm using the Nvidia 560GTX with W7, and it is very happy with FS9, also as mentioned in my request for comparisons under Xtreme FSX, FSX runs at 53 to 101 fps on default settings except fps made unlimited instead of 20.

I've found it, ICAO TE68. Thanks George, I only quoted nuggs and that particular C172 as a common reference point, so that a comparison of frames per second could be made under equal conditions. I'm trying to verify whether Xtreme FSX is as good as I think it is. I've always seen simming as a helpi...

Hi All, Installed the above, and am personally happy with it, as it tripled my frame rates. I previously quoted some negative comments, but these turned out to be about FSX Booster, so I've edited them out. (Sorry) With everything maxed, I'm getting over 40fps. As it stands, I would have to give thi...

Scary stuff, couldn't believe that they allowed it to go untended for so long! The Flight Global article and previous posts give exactly why it was allowed to go "unattended" for the period it did. Reality was, fire crews were standing there waiting the entire time, so in fact, the entire...

Obviously to trained firefighters, there's a wealth of difference between "tending" and "acting", but to mere mortals, who did not even realize that this was a test, it appeared that things were being let go, following a widespread brake or bearing overheat. The precise meaning o...