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To: Dog Gone
I could take off using the Microsoft simulator, but I crashed every landing but one, and I still went off the runway. Don't count on me.

The beauty of MS Fsim (and I am an addict) is that you dont have to land one, the big jets pretty much land themselves. Type in the VOR freq. for the runway, set all the autopilot options, align airplane along the glide slope, and you are done.

Once you touchdown, set spoilers up, reverse thrusters and apply brakes, you should not overshoot the runway. Unless its a big plane on a small strip.

76 posted on 01/21/2007 12:02:31 AM PST by HarmlessLovableFuzzball
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To: HarmlessLovableFuzzball

I meant ILS freq, not VOR.


77 posted on 01/21/2007 12:03:58 AM PST by HarmlessLovableFuzzball
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To: HarmlessLovableFuzzball

I do all my FS flying hands on. I still have an ancient flight yoke that plugs into the gameport (Try finding one of those!).

FSX is great, but even with a killer computer, it still lags. I wish Microsoft had built in some support for dual core systems.

Have you done the 737 to Groom Lake flight yet?


79 posted on 01/21/2007 12:14:13 AM PST by Central Scrutiniser (Never Let a Theocon Near a Textbook. Teach Evolution!)
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To: HarmlessLovableFuzzball

Well, to be honest, the last time I played the simulator was in the late 1980s. The game didn't have jets and it didn't have autopilot landing capability.

Mostly what I did was take off from Midway airport in Chicago in my Cessna, or whatever, and tried to crash into the Sears Tower. I got pretty good at that...


94 posted on 01/21/2007 7:25:48 AM PST by Dog Gone
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