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

I have some very exciting news! I have setup a fully functional My737Sim Flight Sim Multiplayer Server!

You can access the Multiplayer Server Website here!

This server runs FSHost and will lets FS 2002, FS 2004/FS9 and FSX to connect to it! The website will show you who is connected, a Google map showing you where they are flying and any player connected info at the bottom!

I’m also going to start having a monthly hop/race that all of you can connect to and participate in! More info on this later. For now, give the server a test spin!

On top of the multiplayer server, I’m also running a Ventrilo server so that if you wish to do voice communication while you are flying and talk to fellow pilots, you are able to do so!

If you have any recommendations please feel free to send them my way! Other then that, use the server as much as you want!

Blue Skies!

Captain Riggins

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!