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  • Flight Simulators
    currently just FSX
  • Location
    Indiana
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    rc helicopters, flight sims and race sims IE iracing
  1. having just bought the uh1 mod and starting with the cold start mission I cant get anything to work in cockpit other than views and track ir... when I put a mouse over a knob or switch that can be interacted with it changes colors and icon but when I click lmb or rmb nothing happens... so I cant even do a startup.... however, if I exit the training mission then just open a regular mission, everything in the cockpit works as it should... all I want to do today is just start the dam thing.... any ideas why I cant get the training mission to startup working? does anyone have a custom mission I can download for startup practicing and free flight? EDIT: solved, after changing to native resolution clicking the fly now button actually worked and started the mission properly, before it was just putting me in the chopper just as eye candy for some reason.... had to be something with the resolution I was running at and where the mouse was actually at vs where I thought it was at
  2. very similiar to the grob 109 but its a tail dragger not a trike... i loved that plane... total blast to fly...
  3. http://www.flyingmag.com/pilots-places/pilots-adventures-more/spitfires-buried-burma-be-excavated 20 new in the crate spitfires found buried....
  4. maybe easier but sailplanes are alot safer and can go much higher. my longest flight was 4 hours and got to 2,200 meters just from a winch launch which is only good for a few hundred feet... and boy was it cold up that high and i had to pee so bad when i landed hahahah
  5. congrats man, i learned to fly sailplanes in germany while stationed there till 92... i racked up 40+ hours with 26 of that being solo (wouldve been more but had trouble getting a medical signoff)... but our glider club was right on our base but was a german based club... i had several different instructors i rotated with so students get different methods of instruction... one of these instructors was an ex german fighter pilot and he taught me the most.... not the least which was some mild aerobatics :O) ive flown ka7, ka8, ask18, ask13 trainer, grob109, grob 103, ls4 and several others i cant even remember... we used a winch truck that had a big american v8 on the back tied to two different spools for two launches before a car would have to come retrieve the cables and pull back down to the start position.. i never thought glider flying would be fun but its a total blast and when you get in a thermal together with 2 or more other aircraft and even a eagle... your just speechless...
  6. i realize that may be cheaper and easier implemented but look at it, its blinding as hell.. and i'd be more interested in being able to reach out and adjust that vor or altimeter etc in my hand... thanks for the info though if someone has more info on using helios to control servos/stepper motors for gauge control i'd be interested...
  7. ok that clears a few things up.. does anyone have a thread link with some more info on doing gauges then with stepper motors (servos)..using helios??
  8. helios isnt hardware its software for driving monitors, not gauges as i understand it but sim meters do claim their stuff works with dcs software.. and i have seen some of their stuff in use on youtube... if they can make more gauges as others have mentioned i think its a neat product versus a flat screen fake gauge...
  9. there was a special on a few nights ago with the star terrance howard on a pbs station here and it was quite interesting... the movie nearly didnt get made... he was saying that george lucas had wanted to do this movie for a number of years and was finally ready to do it..so he fronted the money, blah blah, did the movie and in the process made a few innovations as he always does when filming... but then he took the movie to fox to have them do the distributing and advertising since he had a long relationship with fox already... they turned him down... GEORGE LUCAS!... he said what the hell for... they said with an all black cast they didnt know how to handle it and didnt think it would go over very well and said they didnt want to deal with it. So george went to all the other motion picture co's, i think in the interview he said he went to 7 other co's and they ALL turned the movie down... Terrance went on to say he was devistated and shocked especially after already fronting 50 million of his own money to do the movie... during dinner with his wife who is half african american i guess told him now you are understanding what its like being black and being turned away... and is rather ironic that back then blacks couldnt do this or that, and here we are today and having to go through this .... sooooo george said screw em i'll distribute it my self and put up another 20 million or so to do all the distribution and advertising... but as most have said cgi crap just really can never get flying just right.. thats why good movies like blue thunder thats 30 years old still are kick ass to watch cause they actually used real aircraft for 90% of the movie...in fact the only cgi in that movie was the two fighter jets. Then a rc helicopter for two scenes ... the rest was all full scale and rocks even today...
  10. not having bs myself or being familiar with the ka50 other than rc ones, can you really feel it on the real one or is it a fly by wire system like an apache?
  11. way to many choices..but thats why you research long and hard before starting.. Heres what i'd like to build someday and shouldnt be a suprise based on my avatar :smilewink: AH64-A (NOT A D MODEL)... i have many many more detailed pics of every panel, access panel, rivet, inside and out :D
  12. thanks for the links dog... may have to drive over to gadrocs and have him school me in some do's and donts since hes just in the next state over lol..
  13. heres a question for you guys... if their software can be used to translate the export file from the sim to make their mechanical gauges work... wouldnt it be possible to also make like the warning panel/lights functional as well??? just wonder how this would work if possible..would you need another gpwhiz40 or similiar board to send voltage/signal to relays or lamps etc... any thoughts or comments on how software of this type works... EDIT: think i answered my own question.. http://www.flightillusion.com/brochure_FI/bGSA-10.pdf
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