AFG BAe 146/Avro RJ our next project!

[tonymadge]

Agreed Garry build for what you use, I just hate this fs9 is old hat stuff, I am lucky I have both they both work on my PC but I rarely use FSX because FS9 does more than FSX does ..well for me anyway.

FSNav doesn't work in FSX but that's not MS's fault

Yes it was their fault... I read that they did something in the code that stopped FSNAV using certain things within FSX not sure of the nuts and bolts,
There seems to be no other prog that does the same job.
If I have one big gripe about FSX is cost... most developers are going payware and many cant afford it..I cant justify spending £20 on an add-on plane that quite frankly I could get for FS9, but you pays your money and takes your chioce. I doubt if I will go to FSXi as FS9 will see me through until I retire from FS

I have never seen on forums anything before like the FS9 V FSX debates. Just goes to show all that glitters is not gold!!!

[SkippyBing]

FSNav doesn't work in FSX but that's not MS's fault

Yes it was their fault... I read that they did something in the code that stopped FSNAV using certain things within FSX not sure of the nuts and bolts

Maybe, but it's not MS job to make sure all the third party applications that worked for previous versions of their programs work for future ones, otherwise they'd end up releasing the same code every few years and rely on Moore's Law to let them increase texture detail etc. With the SimConnect feature in FSX you can do pretty much anything, including just using it to render pretty images while another program runs with the flight model side of things. This does to some extent raise the question of why no one has produced a comparable product for FSX, actually if someone can explain to me what FSNav did that isn't already in FSX I'll try and figure out what's involved*.

*I'm a programming Pygmy so I'm not saying anything'll get done!

[Kokoro]

quick question, where is the APU intake on a 146?

[Rick Piper]

Hi Kokoro

the APU exhaust is on the right rear fuselage and i think the inlet is on the left rear fuselage.
basically fitted at the base of the tail.

Regards
Rick

[ianhind]

OFFTOPIC

Well off the original topic anyway, but if I don't reply here SkippyBing might miss the reply.

FSNav is widely rumoured to be based on the GPL licensed software Nav - source code is here: http://router.consequential.org:8080/nav/

FSNav added the F9 key to call it up as a module within FS9, and expanded to show additional information and knew how to read the FS9 navaid database. Anyone want to start a new thread to add anything else?

So away you go :o

[Kokoro]

thanks for the reply Rick.

Yeah, there is a hole on the left side. It doesnt seem big enough to be the APU intake, but with a lack of other obvious intakes it has to be it.

Some 146 pictures seem to show a small tail bumper like strake too, some dont have it. The RAF ones do, but they have those pods on the back that might contact the ground if that strake wasn't there.

[SkippyBing]

Ta Ian,

By the way did anyone ever buy the military cargo version of the 146, and is there and FS model of it?

(see what I did there!)

[Garry Russell]

Hi Skippy

The 146STA was never built

A prototype was painted in cammo and had a few false bit added to it for the Paris Air Show

As to FS...........I hope not

Garry

[Rick Piper]

Hi Kokoro

the Royal Flight 146 has Chaff launchers as far as i know which might be what the strake thing is that you saw

the APU inlet is the upper of the 2 larger round holes.
the lower is the cabin conditioning outlet from memory

Regards
Rick

[iainp93]

Skippy

I accept everyone's opinion on FSX but mine happens to be that it feels more like a game than FS9

What I'm trying to stress is that all the new eye candy of FSX drains your system's resources :-(

It's lost the basic meaning of what a flight simulator is all about. Simulating flight

It's dificult to explain

Cheers

Iain