Flight1 Skycatcher now free

**Naismith** · April 26th, 2017, 13:59

Originally Posted by MustangL2W

RealAir will be forever missed for what they did. The Duke and Turbine Duke are just such great FSX Airplanes, but I'm sure everyone here already knows that!! I still fly the Dukes a lot

As of now I am in the middle of a RTW in the normally aspirated Duke.

**ryanbatc** · April 26th, 2017, 17:01

If you can't see airports in P3D v3 see this thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/flightsim/c..._free/dgrufcg/

**napacon** · April 26th, 2017, 18:55

THE GARMIN YES ME ALSO ..HELD BACK TO GET REVIEWS I SEE NOW ITS NOT JUST ME GARMEN PROBLEM..FURTHER ITS A FRAME KILLER BEFORE I SWITCH ON?? MY FRs ARE OVER 80 GARMIN SWITCH ON?? SINGLE NUMBERS! DID D/L Twice one The auto D/lL Then From My DESK TOP..MANUEL.SAME.SAME RESULTS..... FRAME ...BELOW 8..THE GARMIN? NONOPERATIVE..WITH OUT THE GARMIN ON?? FLYS NICE GARMIN ON...NO WAY....BEGS THE QUESTION??? WHATS WRONG///CAN IT BE FIXED?? THNX!

**Flyboy208** · April 26th, 2017, 20:28

A most generous gift from Flight One ! Mike

**jschall** · April 26th, 2017, 21:16

Originally Posted by thefrog

F1_G300.gau file is the only file you need and you have it in your Gauges folder. The PFD and MFD are contained within it.

OK, so I have the gauges installed correctly.

Now, how do I turn on the Garmin PFD/MFD?

**dmaloof** · April 26th, 2017, 22:23

how do you open the key file or with what program. Can Word do it or wordpad?

***ToniJH*** · April 26th, 2017, 22:54

Originally Posted by dmaloof

how do you open the key file or with what program. Can Word do it or wordpad?

Select reinstall method in Flight1 wrapper, select the key file and give 1212 password and it should work.

***thefrog*** · April 26th, 2017, 23:17

Originally Posted by ryanbatc

If you can't see airports in P3D v3 see this thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/flightsim/c..._free/dgrufcg/

Fantastic, thanks! All works now in P3D v3.4! Including the airports database on the MFD.

**jschall** · April 27th, 2017, 02:22

Originally Posted by napacon

THE GARMIN YES ME ALSO ... I SEE NOW ITS NOT JUST ME GARMEN PROBLEM...GARMIN SWITCH ON?? ...THE GARMIN? NONOPERATIVE...WITH OUT THE GARMIN ON?? FLYS NICE GARMIN ON...NO WAY...WHATS WRONG///CAN IT BE FIXED??

@napacon:
I hope you found a solution to that problem.

May I ask, how do you turn the Garmin on and off?

**AussieMan** · April 27th, 2017, 04:13

The GARMIN works off the battery switch. Turn the battery on GARMIN comes on ..... turn battery off GARMIN off. Only works with Cold and Dark setup.

***gray eagle*** · April 27th, 2017, 04:14

Originally Posted by gray eagle

I installed it to P3D and got these error messages, did anyone else get these - is this a bug or what is the fix?

As far as I can tell the file F1dataimport.exe could not be found. Once I click the ok's then P3d will load the cessna I selected.

Can anyone that has this free cessna find under the gauges folder a file called F1DataImport.exe, I see no such file and P3d is looking for it. I installed it to a dummy folder and went looking for
it and it's not there.

I see that other P3D users here have managed to get this running with no issues.

This forum discusses same issue about the F1DataImport.exe file issue
http://www.simforums.com/forums/data...opic48690.html

***thefrog*** · April 27th, 2017, 04:49

Originally Posted by gray eagle

Can anyone that has this free cessna find under the gauges folder a file called F1DataImport.exe, I see no such file and P3d is looking for it. I installed it to a dummy folder and went looking for
it and it's not there.

I see that other P3D users here have managed to get this running with no issues.

This forum discusses same issue about the F1DataImport.exe file issue
http://www.simforums.com/forums/data...opic48690.html

If you follow the guide in the link in #27, that should do the trick. I did and it's all working now in P3D v3.4.

***gray eagle*** · April 27th, 2017, 04:53

Originally Posted by thefrog

If you follow the guide in the link in #27, that should do the trick. I did and it's all working now in P3D v3.4.

I did a reinstall and found that file, it's all working now just fine. Thanks.

**AussieMan** · April 27th, 2017, 05:28

Originally Posted by gray eagle

Can anyone that has this free cessna find under the gauges folder a file called F1DataImport.exe, I see no such file and P3d is looking for it. I installed it to a dummy folder and went looking for
it and it's not there.

I see that other P3D users here have managed to get this running with no issues.

This forum discusses same issue about the F1DataImport.exe file issue
http://www.simforums.com/forums/data...opic48690.html

From those screenshots mate your problem lies in the path you show there. On your P:\ drive when you are doing the install delete the Program Files(x86) from the path and try the installation and see if that works.

***gray eagle*** · April 27th, 2017, 05:56

Originally Posted by AussieMan

On your P:\ drive when you are doing the install delete the Program Files(x86) from the path and try the installation and see if that works.

From what I understand :https://www.howtogeek.com/129178/why...es-x86-folder/
Can't do that mate look at the path were P3D is installed, P3d currently is a 32 bit program therefore it uses the (X86) folder just like FSX does or any 32 bit program for that matter.
P:\Program Files (x86)\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v3 <<<<< The file structure includes (X86) where all P3d addons go including airplanes.

At any rate, the installer asks for the Flight Sim to put it on i.e FSX/P3d and installs to the flight sim you tell it to.

Bottom line, I reinstalled it and it's all ducky now.

**b24_witchcraft** · April 27th, 2017, 08:01

Originally Posted by gray eagle

I installed it to P3D and got these error messages, did anyone else get these - is this a bug or what is the fix?

As far as I can tell the file F1dataimport.exe could not be found. Once I click the ok's then P3d will load the cessna I selected.

Got the same message with the FSX version. I downloaded the c162 again today and reinstalled it with no problems or error messages at all.

Thanks Flight1 and MilViz for your latest free offerings!

**sbp** · April 27th, 2017, 08:30

20 years ago I stopped buying products from Flight 1 because of their inane downloading hoop jumping. Trying to down load their Skycatcher brings back all of those memories. The downloader will not accept the 1212 file number.

sbp

**nomad13** · April 27th, 2017, 09:37

I have a fairly modest computer, how is this plane on frame rate?

***blanston12*** · April 27th, 2017, 09:41

Originally Posted by nomad13

I have a fairly modest computer, how is this plane on frame rate?

To
be honest, I have a fairly modest 5 year old computer running P3d and when I brought in the 162 I did not see any significant impact on frame rates compared to other payware aircraft.

**ryapad** · April 27th, 2017, 11:24

Originally Posted by nomad13

I have a fairly modest computer, how is this plane on frame rate?

I have a super low end computer (2GHZ, Intel Graphics, 8 gigabytes RAM) and did not notice a performance hit at 25 fps locked.

***thefrog*** · April 27th, 2017, 11:31

Originally Posted by nomad13

I have a fairly modest computer, how is this plane on frame rate?

There's only one way to find out for certain!

**jschall** · April 27th, 2017, 11:33

Originally Posted by jschall

May I ask, how do you turn the Garmin on and off?

I got my answer over on the SimForum:

"The 162 is not compatible with the FSX Steam Edition. No plans at this time to make it FSX SE compatible. I would suggest looking into getting the FSX boxed version or submit for a refund."

**Naismith** · April 27th, 2017, 13:34

Odd thing is, I'm running FSXSE right now and this F1 Cessna and it's all going very smoothly

**narah** · April 27th, 2017, 14:06

Great product which i have simply never noticed. However this is the only aircraft where my FSX refuses to shut down and requires to be closed with the task manager. Any idea what might cause this ?? Best regards, Thomas