iFly 747 in Windows 7?

[microlight]

Morning all.

With the iFly 737NG imminent (http://www.ai-china.net/showtopic-3428.aspx), I thought I'd re-acquaint myself with the 747 - and found that I can't load it in W7. The readme indicates that for non-XP systems, Microsoft's GDI+ DLL has to be installed, and includes a link. I did this, but the bird still won't load - anybody else out there come across this?

[Opa]

I am curious -- what is the exact filename (a link would be good) of the aircraft in question?

I have an ifly 747-400 which is for FSX only and see no mention of the non-XP system requirement.

Is yours a version for FS2004 perhaps?

[microlight]

Hi David.

Yes, it's v1 for FS9, 'iFly 747-400 V1.0.0.0 for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004'. I re-installed Service Pack 3 and it all seems to be OK now - I'll report back later.

[microlight]

David,

It's the version 1 for FS9 on Avsim.

Ok, found out what the issue was. In my previous XP setup, I'd installed the add-on that puts a centre post in the 2D cockpit view incorporating a non-iFly compass gauge, since the original iFly file didn't include one. Installing the iFly SP3 over-wrote the panel.cfg file which removed the reference to the third party compass file - et voila.

So it was that third party compass gauge that W7 didn't like - nothing to do with that GDI+ installation which I removed, since the 744 loads fine now. I manually put the centre post back in and simply replaced the third party compass gauge with the iFly version that is installed by SP3.

[Rocket_Bird]

A freeware 737NG with all the bells and whistles!?!

[microlight]

No indication (as far as I know) about whether it'll be freeware or not, but it certainly looks tasty.