I just wanted to say a special THANK YOU to JD, designer of the long lasting Radar Contact!

I bought Radar Contact several years ago, and recently got in touch with JD who helped me get it upgraded so I can use in the sim again!

If’ you have ever wanted to use one of the best ATC add-on’s for flight sim, definitely check out Radar Contact!!

My hat is off to repainters and designers. Microsoft does NOT make this easy to do! This basic livery, a simple repaint, took a while to figure out how to properly do.

FSX uses .dds files, so you have DDS Converter 2, and DTXBmp. Photoshop is a necessity. You may use Abacus’ Repaint V2 maybe. Some people use bitmaps for their textures.

Holy cow, lots of info there! I’ll get better with time, and age. For now, my simple repaint! (I’ll make this available soon in the downloads section if anyone wants it)

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So seems Microsoft has been internally developing the title “Microsoft Flight” after canning Aces. What is interesting here is they have dropped “Simulator” from the title.

Did this happen because in order to move the code to their game studio and can aces, they had to change the title? Or does it mean that this is a “reworked” game, focusing less on simulator and more on just flying around?

This title is LIVE enabled, which makes me believe it’s a online multiplayer shoot em up. Good for dog fighting. Bad for simulation.

We’ll have to wait and see. For now, here’s a teaser video. Which, to me, looks more of a cinematic than actual gameplay.

More at http://www.microsoft.com/games/flight

Come fly on the My737Sim Flight Sim Multiplayer Server!

Visit the MP Server’s website below for all the information.

http://mp.my737sim.com

Blue Skies!

Capt. Riggins

Just wanted to send a thanks  to Clause at http://twitter.com/claus1974 for the recent kind words from them! Thanks guys! #awsomesupercoolniceguy

Was going through some PC parts and found 3 Antec Red Light Tubes that I had bought a several years ago for a PC case mod I had done. Perfect for the sim! So I mounted them and awsome, these work great! They connect via USB so I just have them in a USB  Hub. I’ll figure out how to toggle them on and off at some point. For now I can just unplug that hub. (Note, the camera doesn’t pick up as much light as you can actually see with your eyes)

A few things to figure out but overall I was very pleased with my first Cold and Dark startup test using the new Sim-Avionics!