Summary: Hosted by Eric McClintock, Mark Stewart, and Brendan Farmer. Listen Here: X-Plane.com Website gets a facelift! Check it out, a lot of great and easy to find information! Rise of Flight available in box and download Rise Of Flight is the latest in a long list of PC Flight Simulators featuring air combat over the Western Front during the First World War. Together with the Battle of Britain this era is known as 'the pinnacle of aerial combat'. The best pilots from both sides met in the sky, they were matched equally with machines and conditions not favoring either party. Nothing but the pilot's skill determined the outcome. Flight Simulator fans have always appreciated the simplicity of the aircraft and weapons of this period which allowed the pilots to focus on the dog fight and not on the systems. You can find out more information here! SimFly.EU Giving Away 'Ultimate FSX Gaming PC' August is a very special month on SimFly.EU, to mark this occasion we have a fantastic ultimate FSX gaming machine to give away to one lucky member courtesy of our sponsors. We will choose the winner based on the amount of time spent using simfly services over the month of August. The PC has the following specifications: Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 3.2GHz 8MB Black Edition Memory: 8 GB High Speed DDR Hard Drive: 2 x 1 TB 7200 RPM SATA Optical Media: Blu-Ray, DVD-ROM, CD-RW Drive Display: 2 x 22" Samsung DVI Displays Graphics: Asus GeForce GTX285 648Mhz 1GB Controller: Pro Flight Yoke System #38; Pro Rudder Pedal Operating System: Microsoft Vista 64 Ultimate Edition Others: Microsoft Flight Simulator X + Acceleration Pack Others : Choice of Software from Flight1, First Class and Aerosoft This PC will play FSX at high settings, even with many addons, SimFly claims. The winner will be choosen on the 1st September 2009. You can find out all of the information here. MyTrafficX Update New AFCADs are now available for customers using MyTrafficX, complete with some custom scenery improvements. Get all of the information here! Listener Questions Great YouTube Flight School Resource As Mark and Eric know, I have flown combat flight sim in the past. I am currently a beginner venturing out for more realistic flying. One tip I have is to understand how runways are numbered. As I have started flying the hamburger flights, it is sometimes a challenge as a beginner for simple things like runway numbers. I found a series of videos on YouTube by a gentleman by the name of "georgewscott". One of those videos is a short video on how runways are numbered. It is a short #38; very easy to understand video. The link is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eAI3bQWAcw Ted Best Video Card Settings? Could you tell me or point me in the direction for information on how to adjust optimal settings on a video card for FSX? My motherboard is an AMD dual core 2 gig mem with an ATI: HD3600 series video card with 512 mem. Some info to include would be nice such as fast write on or off? antialiasing feature controlled by the card or by FSX? And so on. Thank you, Bob Lacy This looks like a great resource to get started on: http://www.highflightsimulations.com/recommended.html I also just found that trial and error is sometimes the best way to go too, since not everyone's system is exactly the same. Try tweaking individual settings to find out how each one of them affects your performance/eye candy, and then pick the best combination of them. Everyone also has different tastes too. For example Mark likes a full and smooth 20FPS with so-so visuals. But personally I like eye candy, even if I am getting a 5FPS slideshow! Helicopter Recommendations You really should check out both www.dodosim.com and www.hovercontrol.com The dodosim team create extremely accurate helicopters for FS. Their first FSX heli is a Bell 206 Jetranger. But these are not just models and paints, but full start up systems, programming that acc...
