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Hello....

I have been attempting to install an "auto land" program for some of my planes in FS9.....Following instructions I created the needed folder, copied the required files. The next step is to "cut and paste" a line from the supplied Adobe "PDF" (file). I am unable to do so and am unable to find a tool in Adobe that allows for "cut and paste" . This, what was supposed to be a rather easy install, has become a battle of wits.. and I have fallen faaaaar behind... I no longer care IF the planes land I dodn't care if they even fly anymore!1! I have go to defeast ADOBE! Anyone? help? !

ps: with the time I have spent with this, had I manually typed "THEE" line ALL my planes would have had autoland installed weeks ago...I just wanted to see if the program worked..... now it is a battle to the end! I refuse to give in....

tnx for your time.....
Gary Duke Center, Pa...

(I use Adobe Reader 7.0) If you right click anywhere on the page you get a context menu. Select 'Allow Hand Tool to Select Text' and you should be able to select text to 'Copy and Paste'. ('Cut and Paste' was just a bad choice of phrase. You can't 'Cut' in Adobe Reader...it is not an editor. 'Copy and Paste', which he used earlier in the instructions, serves the same function for your needs.)

Dave

Be patient-it takes a second or so for the mouse icon to change from the 'hand tool' to the 'select tool'. Just hover over the text area 'till it changes and then click and drag to highlight the text.

Gary,

If it's the autoland gauge on SimV, then I'm to blame! Next to the 'hand tool' on the menu bar in Acrobat (v7 at least) is the 'select tool' which allows you select text which you can then paste using the standard Windows commands.

If it's any consolation, I've re-written the gauge to make it more realistic and am about to unleash it on unsuspecting FS public. Following Dave's past comments that the gauge just does too much and therefore doesn't mirror how real-world autoland systems work, I've rewritten it so that it now doesn't control the flaps and varying approach speeds. Setting the landing configuration is up to the pilot which is how it should be. What the gauge does do now is to calculate the touchdown speed based on the remaining fuel+pax weight, set the autopilot for this speed, land the plane, slow it up and then turn itself off. You can turn the gauge on whenever you want but it doesn't do anything until you intercept the glideslope.

One added bonus is that you can also use the gauge to set the approach speed - and then turn it off again and land manually. So it also acts as an approach speed calculator. This means that there is one autoland gauge only rather than several with different set approach speeds.

If you're interested in trialling it (or are bursting with frustration with the first version!), send me an email on the address in the download.

I'd love to play with this gauge - is it up & running?

Yeh, pretty much done. Just need to finish updating the manual - should be up on the site by next weekend.

Thank you.  I'll grab it & I assume it'll be in Gauges   8-)

I just uploaded the gauge, so you should see it soon. As a sanity check, I tested it on a plane I'd not tested it on previously (the Posky 767-400) and it worked fine.