New guide to Peru
A friend of mine, Rick Segreda, along with a colleague has published a new guide to Peru. If you’re headed down that way, pick it up!
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
Installing Acceleration? SP1? SP2? Land where there should be water?
The biggest confusion for folks installing FSX Acceleration (or patching to SP1 or SP2 when it comes out) is that it modifies an essential file (terrain.cfg) that can cause problems with certain addons, such as Victoria+, Vancouver+, Ultimate Terrain, Megascenery and VisualFlight UK products.
In all cases it’s easy to fix. First close FSX.
For Victoria+: Start ->(All) Programs->FSaddon->Victoria+ FSX->Repair Victoria+ FSX
For Vancouver+: Start ->(All) Programs->FSaddon->Vancouver+ FSX->Uninstall Victoria+ FSX then select “Repair”
(some version of Vancouver+ will have the Repair option like Victoria+)
When you select repair, if you get a “file not found” error, please uninstall the product and reinstall. That’ll only take a few minutes.
For other products, consult their support folks.
Monday, November 19th, 2007
And finally up on AVSIM ….
Some bad behaviour on my part has been corrected on Victoria+ for FX is now available on AVSIM:
http://library.avsim.net/download.php?DLID=112674
http://library.avsim.net/download.php?DLID=112675
So lots of choice now …
Jon
Single file download link for Victoria+
For those downunder or in Asia, or wanting a single link for the download of Victoria+, the Jay Kae and the good folks at VOZ provide this link:
http://fsfiles.org/PA/index.php?act=view&id=25
Thanks guys!
Sunday, November 18th, 2007
Friday, November 16th, 2007
Victoria+ for FSX released!
Go get it! It’s in two parts: download both, unzip to the same folder, and run VicPlus.exe. AVSIM seems to be somewhat slow in posting and Mark Avey has kindly provided a site for direct download:
http://www.flightsimx.co.uk/hosted/vicenh7a.zip
http://www.flightsimx.co.uk/hosted/vicenh7b.zip
Thanks, Mark!
Jon
Sunday, November 11th, 2007
Noël à deux
For folks in Victoria, Soundings Vocal Ensemble is teaming up with the Inspirata Women’s Choir to present an eclectic mix of both familiar and uncommon Christmas music from many traditions including Medieval, Renaissance, Appalachian, French, Danish and even some jazz. Two concerts:
Friday, 8:00 PM, December 14, 2007, The Mews, Royal Roads University, Victoria, BC
Saturday, 8:00 PM, December 15, 2007, Gordon Head United Church, 4201 Tyndall, Victoria, BC
Click here for a poster.
Friday, November 9th, 2007
Christmas gift idea: 2008 wall calendar from SimPilot
SimPilot magazine has announced it’s Flight Simulation Calendar for 2008. It features screenshots from products from Captain Sim, Carenado, Eaglesoft, Flight 1/Scenery Solutions, FS Addon (Vancouver+ and Tongass Fjords), Just Flight, Orbx, and Sim Pilot Experience. Cost is US$20 +$10 shipping and handling. I don’t know how your currency is doing but most purchasers will benefit from the low US dollar.
Saturday, November 3rd, 2007
Victoria+ for FSX update
We’ve just the released the 2nd beta version to the team. We expect this to be very close to the final version, and this will likely be the last version they get to test.
Besides many fixes, Don has added a nice version of the Coast Guard vessel “Sir Wilfred Laurier” to the Victoria Outer Harbour. We have 6 more AI Beaver repaints (I think 38 now in total) with US registration numbers, including 3 Kenmore Air. CAM3/Duncan is now included in detail. Much more detail has been added, which does impact performance. So new performance options have been added, including much better control of the users of the number of detailed objects, based on the Scenery Complexity setting.
The team will now have 10 days or so to play with this until we build the final version.
