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by alan cottrill
27 May 2009, 19:17
Forum: Escorts and Stewards
Topic: unusual sight
Replies: 1
Views: 535

unusual sight

Hi All. While haveing my tea,i saw a bright yellow rescue helicopter,flying low over macclesfield,then started decending,disappeared behind other house on the estate,but i estimated it to be landing near one of two roads,london rd or congleton rd,bit hard to judge the distance,but it must be somethi...
by alan cottrill
26 May 2009, 16:00
Forum: Repaint Hangar
Topic: Help with olympic colours
Replies: 27
Views: 4721

Help with olympic colours

Hi All. I am trying to do some repaints on a freeware aircraft in the olympic airlines colours,of the 1970. I have got an approx colour from a photo,but this is not the best way to do it,i need to find the red/green/blue blends for all the olympic colours.both on the olympic rings and the blue strip...
by alan cottrill
04 May 2009, 14:19
Forum: The Virtual Spanner
Topic: AVSIM
Replies: 19
Views: 2820

Re: AVSIM

Hi.
I to have been having trouble with avsim`s site.
They are supposed to be slowly updating it,to improve the problem,but in my opinion it is makeing it worse,most of the time,i cant even get onto the site to bigin with.
regards alan.
by alan cottrill
16 Apr 2009, 18:30
Forum: The Virtual Spanner
Topic: event 6 & event 7
Replies: 12
Views: 2072

Re: event 6 & event 7

Hi Dave B.
When i click on the file properties,it shows the created date of dec 08,this was due to a reinstall of the fs9,not the date i purchased the product.
So in fs9 terms,it was a while ago.
regards alan.
by alan cottrill
15 Apr 2009, 20:35
Forum: The Virtual Spanner
Topic: event 6 & event 7
Replies: 12
Views: 2072

Re: event 6 & event 7

Hi Peter. I have just looked up my scenery.cfg file and the old scenery.cfg file,the entrys are different from yours,as mine are the justflight add on,also the amount of scenery i have is different from yours,but by turning it off,it seems to have done the trick for me,but this only happened after t...
by alan cottrill
15 Apr 2009, 14:55
Forum: The Virtual Spanner
Topic: event 6 & event 7
Replies: 12
Views: 2072

Re: event 6 & event 7

Hi All. I decided to start shutting down the add on scenery progs,one at a time,then do the same flight in the same aircraft,well luck was on my side,the first one i shut down was two entrys at the top of the tree,and was to do with the justflight shorham airfield and land class,fs9 did not ctd. Fli...
by alan cottrill
15 Apr 2009, 11:38
Forum: The Virtual Spanner
Topic: event 6 & event 7
Replies: 12
Views: 2072

Re: event 6 & event 7

Hi Dave B & Techy 111. Dave i am using Windows xp sp2. Techy 111 i dont know of the add on you refer to. Below is a copy of the events,these happened on two times on the same date,second event was timed at 21:07:44,both identical faults. event 6 on the 14/04/2009 14:34:35 0000: 2ad13f3f 2d92eea3...
by alan cottrill
14 Apr 2009, 21:52
Forum: The Virtual Spanner
Topic: event 6 & event 7
Replies: 12
Views: 2072

event 6 & event 7

Hi All. Since the fs9 change to the spring season, any flight from england,heading out towards the channel for europe,will cause a ctd,without any warning message. If i goto my computer\control panel\admin tools\event viewer\aplication. I click on error,right click,then select properties. I see the ...
by alan cottrill
08 Apr 2009, 20:06
Forum: CBFS Forum
Topic: Bristol Britannia from me...
Replies: 69
Views: 12151

Re: Bristol Britannia from me...

Hi Dave. The holding of the prop on start up,is quite a normal thing with the brit,reason for this,is it being a free turbine,only the hot gases turn the props,via a gear box,the proceedure,for those not in the know,is as follows. 4 men hold a prop each,the headset man waits for capt to say prop bra...
by alan cottrill
08 Apr 2009, 19:04
Forum: CBFS Forum
Topic: Bristol Britannia from me...
Replies: 69
Views: 12151

Re: Bristol Britannia from me...

Hi Sammach. The brit sqd at briz,was my first sqd posting straight from my training camp at RAF newton,I enjoyed 5 years from 1970/1975 up till the gov of the day decided to scrap them. My first encounter with them,was being told to go over to a brit doing gen`y balance eng runs,when i told the corp...