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hey folks logged on today to renew my subscription and found the change button doesn't work went to the subscription sticky and clicked on the subscription banner to go to my subscription page and clicked the change button again and no joy please help aloha ed

if the kc-135 is an "A" model i might be able to help with the FM, I'm fiddling with a digital datcom flavour of the "A" FM parameters and am going to use the WOV stock B-52D FM as boiler plate aloha ed

change the rolling coefficient here's the number: "RollingCoefficient=0.03;was 0.10 ;was 0.01" i use to keep the f-111f from creeping @60000 lbs in full blower per the -1 as u can see the larger number seems to give the wheels more friction vice a smaller # should yield less friction force let me know if this works for u changing the thrust to a larger # or reducing the empty or maybe the moments of inertia will probably work but reduces the fidelity of the FM aloha Ed

we built a level c simulator of the mine sweeping version of the -53 it was awesome had the chin windows to see the sled, 200 degree visual dome & six DOF motion, you always flew with the stab aug system on otherwise, i was told by a former -53 test pilot, you were in test pilot mode, sorry to see such a good bird go to roost on a pole or the desert, i wonder if one the copter models we have here in the downloads could be massaged to act like a -53 hmmmm just a thought

mk2 without your support of the server(s) storing the forum content & really great models that have been the hallmark of the third wire series i wouldn't have ordered lots of books on aero & engines dynamics & performance from the internet i wouldn't have been spending the last 1.5 years tweaking on the F-111F FM with what i know so far hoping to get it as close as the Link F-111F simulator i flew whilst stationed @ RAF Lakenheath i was in panic, when the original server crashed, i guess two years ago or less i had no place to go to look for the answers to my newbie questions i'll be punching the button on the email you all sent you've done us all a great service thank you so much sincerely ed nittiskie jr virginia

I've heard about these 'toughbook' computers, if they don't work as well as the old paper T.O. books as kneepads, then i reckon they would be just as useless when you needed a prop to hold a flight control surface, gear door or panel out of the way when the actuators are removed LOL, oh does this electric T.O. keep track of the steps you've accomplished by pushing a button to confirm same, if it does that really would be a pain, just curious an old paper T.O. 48 th FMS hydrastic dude would like to know

as a former USAF blue suiter i to say to everyone out there who is or was a military man or women "thank you for your service to our country" as a famous radio announcer would say. by joining the service of our choice,we did what we thought was right at the time for us and usafmtl you gotta do what you gotta do to make it right for yourself it's a dang shame, i entered the USAF in 1976 and was trained by the the former Vietnam dudes, these guys, the SEA stories they tell were a hoot and shall always hold a special place in my heart, they taught me to maintain the aircraft as though i was going to fly in it and if all possible launch the bird to meet its TOT,now that seems to matter not anymore from what i read and hear in the print and talking heads news, i remember the phrase "family comes first" during my 9.5 years, oh i didn't think so then, not after seeing the afmpc send 15 plus year tech sgts to remotes like Korea or other marriage breaker places and it can't be any different now that we go play in the sand box. i got out after 9.5 years because the USAF ended my cushy indoor simulator maintenance job, giving first termer's the choice to go to other career fields like Space Command (that always makes me laugh) us old farts were told our new assignment is going back to our old afsc's, mine was hydraulics and i didn't want to work on the refueling booms of tankers nor be in the 47 section of a buff on a nice sunny summer day @ castle afb, my brother, stacking SAC BBs, got out after 17 years in the late 1990s only because the system turned him into a babysitter and then i go to tinker air force base in 1998 to put a sim mod in for the FTD AWACS maintenance trainers and see these pieces of paper posted on the wall throughout the duty areas called AFIs, so i ask an airmen what's up and I'm told there are no more air force regulations AFRs there are air force instructions AFIs, i quietly said to myself oh my god the USAF has gone soft and squishy on the inside as well as the out

hello all i have a number of cdrom flight manuals from www.eflightmanuals.com and every time i try to activate my license file (locklizard variant)with their server i get http:500 errors. i've tried to activate this license on three different computers and 3 different windows operating systems the last being a win2000 box open to the bots (i.e. no firewall or virus protection) and still got http:500 errors. i was told by support the problem is on my side end of story. i've gone sofar as to send their support people ethereal traps of the frame data showing the error comes back as an error on their apache server because it states so in the error message see the apache server log file. i don't get any response back from them regarding this issue. they have no problem resetting the license server when i get locked out after three attempts. i post this in the hope some of you all may have experienced similar if yet not the same type of frustration in this process. i've googled eflightmanuals and this is not an isolated case, there are some bitter folks out their over this problem. assistance, thoughts and ideas would be greatly appreciated thanks in advance