Classic British Flight Sim

The season we've all been waiting for has arrived!

FSPilotshop are showing multiple sales from a number of developers and Earthsimulations have a 30% sale on all downloads this week. Get em while they're cheap

ATB
DaveB

Anyone bought anything yet or are you all spending your money on P3Dv2?

Bagged a copy of the ND/Milvis UH-1 for a tenner (half price)

ATB
DaveB

Got myself Earth Sims IoM looking forward to pootling in and out of EGNS... (it took hours to download but luckily I've got unlimited broadband... 24G!!! )

Good one John

As it happens.. I asked Darren a few days ago if we'd see a boxed version of the IoM as I'm on 10gb bandwidth. He said yes and he's going to send me a note when it's available. From what he said, I reckon it'll be before Christmas too Wonder if it'll be at 30% discount though?

Post some screenies if you can mate
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DaveB

Here's a few - I've got some texture problems at Douglas & missing buildings at Jurby & Andreas to solve by the look of it but otherwise nice....

See what you mean John but otherwise.. it looks great. You have fair FR's too

Tks for posting those
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DaveB

Yes, not too bad. Flying was OK. Looks like my missing buildings have something to do with FTX compatibility - forgot to swicth FTX to default before installing this. There seems to be a fix....

Ah yes.. FTX has to be switched to default before loading new sceneries doesn't it. Hope the fix works for you

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DaveB

In for a penny e t c

Not only have I nabbed the ND/Milvis UH-1 (which I have to say I adore despite a complete and utter lack of UK paints).. I've just got this little baby too..



OK.. the RN livery is fictional but doesn't it look a complete blast I love it, I love it, I LOVE IT! It's the Cera Sim Bell 222 (about 30% knocked off in the fspilotshop sale) an it's reet sweet I've liked the look of it for ages and decided to read the reviews. When the likes of Jordan Moore say it's the best payware model available, one has to be a little impressed so I went hunting for paints and found 3 I like.. the RN jobbie, one for Pan Am and G-NOIR.. all by jeansy.. erstwhile Milvis artiste You can't just jump in and fly.. well you can but you don't get far Hydraulics have to be turned on as well as the inverters. Oh.. the blades have a pitch lock on too which has to be released. I sat admiring the model having just flown out to Ark Royal IV (and back) and noticed the rotor blades rocking in the wind. Lovely touch. Perhaps I should have locked them

The UH-1 has had me frustrated all day. I wanted to get rid of the US markings and couldn't understand why the shading on my paint was different to the rest. Some 4hrs later having tried just about everything possible, I realised when I copied the cfg entry, I didn't change the texture folder name. No WONDER it wasn't displaying correctly Dimwit! Spurred on by my success.. I bought the Bell

I know helicopters aren't everyones bag but I fly them in FSX all the time. Now I'm moving to FSX.. I see you're all bu99ering off to P3DV2. Well be like that

That's me done now. £30 spent over the 2 models and that's enough for someone who's skint You watch.. Darren from ES will send me a dit now to say the IoM is available on dvd

ATB
DaveB

Hi John
Did you d/l the patch? Maybe it was already in your version.
I bought it at pre-release, [and full price ! ] and there were texture problems in the north; fixed by the patch.
Everything else was fine, and yes, the fps have been very acceptable.
Don't forget to check the manual for suggested display settings.
Also see post under REX 1/2 price topic, this MAY help IoM as well?