Mornaric
January 27th, 2013, 01:48
Hello fellow flight simmers!
I thought I would make my first post after my introduction here. If this is suited for a better section of the forum, I do apologize for not seeing it right away.
My problem, it seems after searching, is an older one. I have FSX updated with Accleration. Many of the addon planes that I use come from the usual places - here, flightsim.com and others - and way more often than not, especially if the descriptions and additional text files are read, the planes work exactly as they should. Every once in a while, I'll run across something a little older that has been converted and no matter what I do, a problem persists that takes away in some form from the enjoyment of the flight. In most cases I'm fine with that, but this time I had to ask someone else about it.
Thanks in no small part to Microsoft Flight - which is not even close to being Flight Simulator 11 - I came across the Stearman for the first time. Nice plane to fly from the start; very easy to control and reminded me of the Jenny from FS2004. Since the arcade aspects of MS Flight didn't do much for me after the initial half hour or so, I went looking for a Stearman for FSX. The first one I ran across was David Eckert's great model, modified for FSX by Mark Rooks. Downloading it, I had no trouble with installing it and getting it up and flying.
I noticed immediately upon sitting at my home runway of Joliet Regional/KJOT, that gremlins seems to have made away with part of my plane. Most of the front cockpit seems to be missing, but only in VC mode.
79790
Other than that, the plane handles wonderfully. The 2d panel works as expected, but I have always enjoyed the feel of the virtual cockpit more and so that is how I want to fly the Stearman.
I've noticed in other forums mention of this problem being caused by the way the plane was originally built. When clicking on the link that should have taken me tot he appropriate website for more detail, the webpage in question seems to have vanished. It was then that I thought about posting my dilema.
I know there are a few payware Stearmans I could fly instead. Indeed, if money wasn't as tight for me as it is now, I would be doing so. But since I need to feed myself before I feed my hobby, I'm hoping someone here at SOH may have a more viable solution.
If it helps in any way, my PC specs are as follows -
EVGA 680i MB with a Core 2 Quad Q6600
8gb DDR2
EVGA GTX570
Soundblaster X-Fi Elite Pro
Win 7 x64
Thank you for reading my question today. I look forward to any responses you may have upon this matter.
Clear skies my friends!
Mike Dovers
I thought I would make my first post after my introduction here. If this is suited for a better section of the forum, I do apologize for not seeing it right away.
My problem, it seems after searching, is an older one. I have FSX updated with Accleration. Many of the addon planes that I use come from the usual places - here, flightsim.com and others - and way more often than not, especially if the descriptions and additional text files are read, the planes work exactly as they should. Every once in a while, I'll run across something a little older that has been converted and no matter what I do, a problem persists that takes away in some form from the enjoyment of the flight. In most cases I'm fine with that, but this time I had to ask someone else about it.
Thanks in no small part to Microsoft Flight - which is not even close to being Flight Simulator 11 - I came across the Stearman for the first time. Nice plane to fly from the start; very easy to control and reminded me of the Jenny from FS2004. Since the arcade aspects of MS Flight didn't do much for me after the initial half hour or so, I went looking for a Stearman for FSX. The first one I ran across was David Eckert's great model, modified for FSX by Mark Rooks. Downloading it, I had no trouble with installing it and getting it up and flying.
I noticed immediately upon sitting at my home runway of Joliet Regional/KJOT, that gremlins seems to have made away with part of my plane. Most of the front cockpit seems to be missing, but only in VC mode.
79790
Other than that, the plane handles wonderfully. The 2d panel works as expected, but I have always enjoyed the feel of the virtual cockpit more and so that is how I want to fly the Stearman.
I've noticed in other forums mention of this problem being caused by the way the plane was originally built. When clicking on the link that should have taken me tot he appropriate website for more detail, the webpage in question seems to have vanished. It was then that I thought about posting my dilema.
I know there are a few payware Stearmans I could fly instead. Indeed, if money wasn't as tight for me as it is now, I would be doing so. But since I need to feed myself before I feed my hobby, I'm hoping someone here at SOH may have a more viable solution.
If it helps in any way, my PC specs are as follows -
EVGA 680i MB with a Core 2 Quad Q6600
8gb DDR2
EVGA GTX570
Soundblaster X-Fi Elite Pro
Win 7 x64
Thank you for reading my question today. I look forward to any responses you may have upon this matter.
Clear skies my friends!
Mike Dovers