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It's "over and out" that kills me.

Repeat please.... I say again, 2, 3, 0. Repeat please... For crying out loud, 2, 3, 0. Repeat please.... Hee Hee Hee!

Outside of CFS3, go to your Control Panel, then look for either a utility specific to your joystick, or else a utility called Game Controllers and check out 'Properties'. You should get a menu to configure your joystick. (Sorry SittingDuck, wasn't paying attention when I read your reply).

Thank you Aristoteles2007, I was close, but no cigar. Glad somebody was paying attention. Regards rotating the view, I think the answer is no.

Oh, and press f3 to turn off your cockpit too, other wise your padlock view won't show anything obscured by the cockpit.

Yes. If you click ' this turns on padlock view, next press TAB to select next target, and your view will be locked on to the target. Click ' again, and you're back to normal. If the target is just a dot in the distance, use [ and ] to zoom in and out. You can also click through the TAC options to focus on aircraft / vehicles etc, which saves a lot of grief looking for the target you want. There is another way, Shift f4 (I think, - I don't use it), gives you the reverse view of you relative to the target, to give the view of the target relative to you. If you want to shoot something and see the damage, you need to be pretty nimble with the fingers. I prefer the padlock view, and a few zooms [[[[. I couldn't swear it is shift f4, but no doubt someone will correct me.

I think these have already been done - for CFS2, or perhaps it was just FS2000 or something. I'm sure they exist, together with Snoopy in a little red plane.

Looks like they were playing chicken.

If you send a utility through email, a lot of anti-virus software gets upset and blocks the download because like some viruses, the utility might run before you can stop it. If you zip the file, it won't initialise itself unless you unzip it. It's a way of neutralising the threat. You can examine what you've downloaded before deciding to initialise it. That's how I think it works....

Minor issue with the .rar format, is that double clicking it opens up Real Media player (if you have it installed). It through me for a couple of times at first. No problem though, either right click and pick 'open with' an un-zip utility. In fact, there may even be an unzip option on the right click.

Don't know the thread. Wasn't this? http://www.simviation.com/lair/cfs2korea.htm

Mine looks like this.... You can edit profiles using the lower left menus...

I've just read another curiousity about flying over the WW1 trenches. While difficult to differentiate between the appearance of French and German trenches from the air, it was relatively easy to spot the British trenches because of the frequent trenches running into no-man's land towards the enemy serving as 'listening' posts. (Then again, who dug them, and who's actually in them might not be so simple to determine). All the same, it might help you get your bearings on a map, (if your TAC had been shot out).

It's the MacMillan Dictionary of the First World War, under trenches, or 'trench warfare' if I remember correctly. It was published in the 90's I think, 96 maybe? I'll need to check tonight. I'll pass on the details, (or perhaps not if it's talking out of it's Arras). Seems well enough researched on the whole to me, but I'm not very well read on WW1, - just trying to improve my learning. If you can shoot the statements down, then crack on. Delighted to learn more. I didn't mean to imply the other nations didn't dig similar trenches, but there was something in the pattern which identified a British Trench. Perhaps I should quote the book exactly. This is it... http://openlibrary.org/b/OL10554903M/Macmillan-Dictionary-of-the-First-World-War

Considering people can pay over 5 million for vintage cars, I'd say the price tag looks pretty cheap. Mind you, restored to flying condition means there will be a lot of improvements made, and it's less authentic to the original construction than a museum restoration. Even so, I still think that's a good price. If I had the money...... .......... ........ (be a long long time before I do).

Thanks Jim. That's today's 'something new' taken care of. Makes you wonder what other marvels of ingenuity have been left behind in obscurity because the right people didn't see them.

Well a couple of folk mention things which worked for them. No fix as such. Very odd that Vanilla CFS3 runs fine, but everything else fails. It sounds like your add-ons are referring to settings taken from a previous CFS3 installation which is in some way critically different from a vanilla install. I suspect this might be a registry issue, but I'm less clear how to fix it. A registry checker might not find the error because the vanilla CFS3 might be 'correct' if you follow me. Have you tried backing up your addons to a safe place on your directory, then reinstalling a fresh default version of whichever add-on you want to try first using your vanilla CFS3? If a vanilla add-on, installed with a vanilla CFS3 doesn't work, then I don't know what else to try. If it does work, try your backed up version again. Re-installing the add-on might have overwritten the glitch in the registry. Sounds dubious, but this did work for me once, when I had problems with a dysfunctional 'D-Day' version of CFS3. It was heavily modded so I didn't want to lose it. Once the fresh vanilla version worked, I renamed my modded version back to it's original location and it then worked perfectly.

Ever wondered (like me) why the SE5, being a later design, still had it's Lewis mounted above the wing? Well, apparently the Lewis machine gun was not compatible with interruptor mechanism which allowed other machine guns to fire through the propellor. Couldn't be done. Apologies if that's old news for you fellas, but myself for one no longer wonders why my SE5 has it's Lewis where it is....

Ye Olde Worlde 'Schrage musik'. Nothing wrong with the principle. As I recall reading, I think the German WW2 nightfighters were using Schrage musik for months before the Allied Bombers worked out what was shooting them down without warning. Even when hit, many crews simply never saw their attacker. You might also be aware that some of the CFS3 nightfighters have Schrage Music built in to them, and even have a dedicated sight to fire through. Aiming IS very tough, but it gives you a tremendous insight into how it really worked. (-For those who don't know, Schrage Musik was an upward firing cannon designed to shred the belly of a bomber flying overhead).

Tried here? http://www.vistax64.com/gaming/168174-combat-flight-simulator-3-vista-problem.html

I was told as a kid to try learning something new every day. Reckon today's covered. Cheers Panama Red.

Google the error codes, and see if it rings any bells. I typed in your c0000005 error and it linked me to this.... "Why Do 0xc0000005 Errors Happen?There's actually a number of reasons why these annoying little errors happen, but the most common, is caused when new programs are installed over all old ones and the old ones are not completely uninstalled 100%, causing registry pile ups. Another reason, is damage that's been done by malware/spyware/adware programs, attaching themselves to your PC and wrecking havoc, deleting crucial files from your PC". There was a 'fix' utility, but I wouldn't want to recommend something I haven't tried myself. Google will take you the same place anyway.

Happy to be corrected Panama Red. My original source wasn't Wiki, but the MacMillan Dictionary of the First World War. Wiki just confirmed what I'd read. I know Wiki has some very doubtful sources, but so has any number of sites on the web. To be honest, if browsing the web, I find the best search doesn't begin with Wikepedia, but a general image search on your given topic. This often finds much better links, though it still pays to be dubious. I'm now intigued why the forward firing interrupter mechanism seems so obscure, and why it remained more common to fix the Lewis above the wing. Perhaps the RFC wasn't impressed with their experimental types, and preferred the simpler configuration. Perhaps it didn't work very well.

Wiki special quote (not my original source) - The open bolt firing cycle of the Lewis machine gun prevented it from being synchonized to fire directly forward through the propeller arc of a single engined-fighter, and only the British Airco D.H.2 and Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.8 pusher fighters could readily use the Lewis as direct forward-firing armament early in World War I. and... the Lewis was first fitted on two early production examples of the Bristol Scout C aircraft by Lanoe Hawker in the summer of 1915, mounted on the port side and firing forwards and outwards at a 30º angle to avoid the propeller arc, and later on French Nieuport 11 and British S.E.5a aircraft, above the top wing in a Foster mount, which was outside of the propeller's arc, I have another source saying the same thing, but written in a book I'd need to transcribe. (Dictionary of WW1). Essentially says the same thing that the Lewis mechanism was not compatible. You might well be right Panama, but I'm just passing along what I've read.

Special mention for Jasta 11 groundcrew, the Flying Circus. The nickname was partly due to the garish colour schemes, but the other aspect was the requirement for the squadron to be able to transport itself lock stock and barrel to a new location and quickly get itself operational again. This 'baggage train' was also a contributing factor behind the Flying Circus nickname. I imagine that entailed a lot of extra work, and no doubt a lot of equipment on permanent stand by, at a semi portable condition. Being Jasta 11 off course, I suspect they weren't short of willing volunteers.