Zorrin

Are you using the right technique to spot the aircraft? It's much much easier to spot an aircraft when you progressively scan the sky. Don't look for an aircraft, look for movement. Movement is what will give it away. You will notice this unless you are truly in a head on situation, but surely you've got him on radar or something before then? When you're picking up the RWR signals you have the rough direction. So point your aircraft slightly nose off and start scanning. Trying to spot tiny little black specks is hard. You will be more sucessful in spotting a bandit by scanning the sky and letting your eyes pick up movment. Scan in a WWWWWWWWWW shape... up down up down up down and all the while moving across. Sure as hell worked for WW2 pilots :) I'm playing on a 17" CRT running at 1280. So I don't know any bigger and cannot comment if it is actually a monitor issue rather than a technique issue.

You should find a 172 with Steam Gauges too. The way to work the Garmin G1000 is to treat it like a giant GNS430. So to understand it better learn the 430 series from the Garmin trainer. The Glass cockpit actually makes life much much easier. It's just a case of understanding how the information is presented to you, and how you can change it to give you what you want to see.

I did a google for FSX 172 cockpit and have marked it up for you. A is the OBS nob which is what you need to use to set the Runway heading. In EGMC example turn that till it says 237. B is the switch for NAV/GPS. If GPS is highlighted then the autopilot will follow the GPS waypoints when you select autopilot NAV mode. However it must be in NAV mode if you want the autopilot to follow the ILS cues! C is the active frequency which corresponds to the top VOR, or VOR 1. NAV 2 does VOR 2 which is the one below. D is the nob for frequency changing. Big one and small one to do whole and decimals. The horizontal bar on VOR 1 will give you glideslope information and the vertical one is the Localiser. The idea is they stay in the middle... It is a command instrument, as such if it the bar is above middle and to the left. You need to turn left and fly up... Make a small adjustment and wait etc etc. That help a bit?

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I don't have Acceleration so I can't help you out specifically with the F18. BUT, I've been using FS for years and also fly for real. When changing the frequencies you don't need to worry about . Personally I just use the mouse and change the frequencies that way. LORAN I've never used, nor seen in FS but then I tend not to pay that much attention to it.... I'm guessing you are using the built-in flight planner? If you are then your GPS will automatically load that flight plan. If you are flying something a little more complicated with an FMS then usually there is an option in the FMS to load the FS Flight Plan. Once you've checked the flight plan is in your FMS/GPS you need to make sure that the autopilot is looking at the GPS/FMS for its NAV instructions. Usually you will find a switch that is marked NAV/GPS. You need to make sure this is set to GPS, and then with the autopilot on you select the NAV submode. While every autopilot is different there should be a NAV mode. Now if you're using an FMS it can build you an altitude profile. But generally the altitude management is your problem if you are using GPS. You can set up the Garmin's to give you cues for vertical navigation. I'd suggest for that information you go to Garmin's website - www.garmin.com and download the GNS4xx training devices. The GNS in FS is very close to the real thing. Now forgive me if I'm teaching you to suck eggs, but with the ILS I'll start from the beginning. We'll use the ILS at Southend Airport [EGMC]. We know the frequency for the ILS there is 111.35 and the Ident is I ND. We have also found out that the runway heading for the ILS is 237. In you NAV radio you need to dial in 111.35 (again just use the nobs on the radio and a mousewheel to scroll through them. That's the easiest way and its the way it's done for real!). Make sure that it is the active frequency. Now depending on which aircraft you are in... Depends on what instruments you have. If you have only VOR receivers you need to turn the dial so it reads 237. If you are flying something a little more modern you will probabyl find that on the autopilot panel next to the heading selector (or sometimes the same button) you'll see something to set your course. Course needs to be 237. Now in the real world you listen to the NAV frequency for the morse code ident, in this case we'd be listening for IND... If you can hear it, then you're picking it up. That is all you should need to do to set up your aircraft to fly an ILS approach. Don't forget that you either need to fly a procedure in, self-position or get vectors to the ILS. If you are using the Garmin GPS on FSX you can use the Approaches in there. Just load up the approach interface and select an ILS24 approach for EGMC and then you'll get a couple of options for how you want to get there. Ideally you want to be interceptiing the localiser (the vertical bar on the HSI/VOR/FD that gives you your position relative to the centreline) by no more than 30 degrees. If you are going to use the autopilot to fly the ILS for you, generally it isn't switched to APR (approach) mode until you have intercepted the glideslope. Once you get the glideslop, you can let the autopilot fly the apporach if you so wish... Just hit the APR button, depends on the aircraft thought. I can't take screenshots because my harddrive for Games went bang and I haven't replaced it yet. But if you are still stuck and confused, PM me. And if possible include a screenshot/s of the cockpit you're using and I can highlight from there.

Have you tried it as a .wav and removing the .ogg LO will play wavs as well as oggs for sound files.

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IRCM is the infrared countermeasures system. No idea how it works, but if you're flying anywhere near IR Sams it make sense to switch it on. It also works well at spoofing Aim-9s and R60s... So best just to switch the IRCM on as soon as you're airborne, that way you won't forget!

Quick we'll have to send the Neurotically Attacking Terrorist's Order in!

Well I'll wait till it arrives before deciding what else I want from it.... So I'm completely with the I want it in my DVD drive, and nothing else. But I also want a finished product! Not one that's full of bugs, and if it takes another 12-months than so be it... -- Ready to get bashed now :)