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Personally, I think that's bull. While upgrading never hurts (well, rarely), I have system worse than that, and I can still run it with pretty good details. I have to settle for about 15 fps, but that's perfectly flyable/playable. Here's my rig: P4 1.7 GHz 384 Mb PC133 RAM Nvidia Vanta 16 Mb You'll have to sacrifice some details for fps, but with some tweaking, you'll be able to run the game fine. And it'll still look great. I wouldn't worry bout it much ;) well all I can say is the guy who does the skin work for our NEMAI package has a system similar to this and when he added this package it dropped him to single digits in Framerates. What are you sliders at, do you have Autogen and AI on? Those are the frame rate killers and I don't believe you can get the water effects from a GF3.

most panels have the ILS that you can add in. Find the approach course of the runway you are landing at. With the ILS entered your needle will let you know when you are on the flight path or left or right of center. check out this tutorial http://63.217.28.218/$files/1misc/ILSTUTORIAL.zip It will also give you the distance. But pattern work is the best, VFR with the Tower for 1/2 hour or so.

you will probably have to tone your details down. A GF3 is alttle lite for this game especially with a processor under 2 gig.

I put 3-4 folders in my aircraft directory named 1,2,3 & 4. When you download direct it to these folders using folder names. Then just cut and paste everything into the folders that show. It's quick and easy http://www.simviation.com/fsdhelp.htm this is a good tutorial link

Here are some more pics of the AI taxing out and me following for a 2 ship search over Boston Harbor. 2 more units on standby if needed Tower view holding short of actice departing F-15's from Otis both cleared for take off lead up, me following Searching the coast called back to base taxing to parking

make sure SC drivers as up to date maybe?

plus there are different approaches. I listen to tankers do TnG's all day. You have ILS, VOR, GPS. Sometimes they stay in the pattern and squak 1200 as a VFR flight and sometimes they'll have IFR flights and work with departure to set vector them on the approaches. They also do a low approach to one end and then circle and T&G or land on the other. I think alot of time's atleast for the tankers is to make sure they also get their flying hours in and also burn up fuel to land. We get the A-10's from Barnes in here some times. The flight can't be more than 1/2 hour in the air but they'll stay over of a time and get credit for 2 flights.

weathered and realistic are what I perfer :D

Westover AFRB is very busy Barnes A-10 taxing at Dusk Bradley Unit 2 ship of F-15's from Otis doing TnG's heading up to Burlington for some approaches to the north of me are 2 F-15's and to the far right is a C-5 in the pattern. Busy times just going through install testing, the only payware plane is the A-10 from Alpha Sim($8) which is worth it IMO

You will have to download the main files first as NEMAI1 is are reskins of other AC. The A-10's are Payware, not sure if Mike is going to do KO's A-10 as it has problems as start up. with my NEMAI4, which is the traffic and such, there are 3 scenery files that need to be downloaded first. It gives the ANG hangers at Bangor and Burlington and the USCG at Otis. Then you can just put my traffic_nemai4.bgl in the directory listed and the AI traffic will be added. But you will have to install the AC as NEMAI 1's readme points out.

I believe everything except the B-1 & B-2 will be payware. Their current project is the F-15 with A-E versions. They are totally redoing the B-1 for 2004.

package is now available at AVSIM and Flightsim.com

how about next week in FS9/FD3? I finally got my upgrade and our package is ready for release so I'll have some time :D

did you update your drivers with the new card? I've read this fix on another forum and it fixed the issues

being a civilian sim MS didn't bother with any of the military airports or AI traffic. Me, only flying military planes gets awefully bored flying Military airport to Military airport with no traffic or parked planes so I looked into this. for 2002 I just used everyone else's work but this year I was out to learn this by myself. With all the reskins of the Viper and Eagle it's much better to fly into Langley or Otis and see the proper tail codes B) It's all about emersion

thanks, it's AFCAD and TTools. TTools gives you the AI flights while AFCAD just gives you extra parking.

F-15C by Kimitaka Nishida f15j3044.zip this new GMAX upload at AVSIM now has a VC, all the other skins will still work on this model

Ctrl + S will give you the same view. what type of controler are you using for MS? I have a Saitek X-45 and it works very nice. The separate speed controler really helps. I have a X-35 with Software for sale if your interested?

trust me Chief, once you start messing around with it it's very simple. http://www.jetdoc.com/HLP/helptt2_1.html that site above is an awesome bible. First you will need TTools http://www.simviation.com/fs2004utilities1.htm AFCAD is there as well but unless you plan to edit you won't need it. once you have TTools installed into a folder in FS9 directory hit the compile button. This will give you 3 text files. Aircraft, airports and flight plans and a traffic bgl. These are the default flights and what I have done for all my AI packs is created a military BGL by renaming my text files to Military_airports, Military_aircraft and Military_Flightplans. What this does is keep all the military AI flights separate so you never mess up the default bgl. In all my zips I give you the aircraft, airport data and flight plans to add to the new texts. Once you add them to the 3 new files you hit decompile and it gets loaded to MS. The biggest pain is downloading the aircraft but alot of what I use for AI I'm already flying and just rename AI_F-16, take the panel out and rename the title and UI Manufacturer stock title=F-15C Eagle ui_manufacturer=Boeing (McDonnell Douglas) AI files renamed title=F-15C Eagle AI ui_manufacturer=Military AI the panel gives the biggest frame rate hit so it really helps this way. All the flight plans are in ZULU time Give that site a read over, download Ttools and dive into 1 package and give it a try. ;) You can always PM me if you get stuck Sorry, the afcad files only add parking. You can make it plane specfic or even unit specific. Take Mountain Home AFB, the have 3 units stationed there. The F-16's are the 389th FS, the F-15C's are the 390th and the F-15E's are the 391st. I have my afcad parking set up to keep them parking in the same area When you download these bgls they go into your FS9/addonscenery/scenery folder. That automatically loads them upon start up, if you don't add the airport data to your airport.txt file then it won't recongize the added parking. MS left all the parking out of the military airports. What Afcad does is allows creators to add Military Fighters, Cargo, GA:Small, Medium, Large or Gate: Small, Medium & Large More info here http://afcad.projectai.com/faq.html and in the AFCAD readme which is very good. But if you're only interested in flying them you really don't need to learn to much on this end. Only if they are coded as you need the following information in your aircraft.cfg atc_parking_codes=A10, F15C, F15E, F-16 atc_parking_types=MIL_COMBAT OR CARGO and C5, C17, C141 again, it just takes alittle reading, then it's all repeditive so it sinks in. I can't figure out so much other stuff like tweaking AI's and light files but this was easy to learn B)

nice, glad to see this getting some use ;)

here is a nice repaint of Rey's EA-6B found it on Flightsim.com

VC's are part of the model and can't be added after the fact. I guess the VC is alot of extra work so this is why modelers don't include them. Really sucks as it also cuts down on frame rates

http://www.simviation.com/lair/fs2k2errors.htm this page should help you

Cheif, that NASTEX zip isn't opening for me?

see that link above the first pic ;)