faulty Mooney tachometer in 2004

[Romflyer]

[quote]ROM:

[olderndirt]

One little taildragger you might enjoy is the Christen Eagle.

[DenisH]

Will do. Thanks for the tip.  

[DenisH]

Good day, chaps!

[DenisH]

Sorry about the happy face. I don't know how it got in the preceding message.

[Romflyer]

[quote]Good day, chaps!

[Opa]

[quote]Good day, chaps!

[DenisH]

ROM: It's the Alpah, the plane yourecommended in an earlier post. A lot of fun but quite different than the airplanes offered as defaults in HofF.  The panel isn't fixed and you use the hat buttone to scan the panel. Very interesting. I assume you've flown this. As I say, a lot of fun.  And easy to install. I still don't quite know how I did it.  lol  Thanks for the other info.  

[Romflyer]

When I asked you in my last post about using the VC.....on any of your planes press 'S' to cycle through the veiws, many planes have this option, including the Champ you loaded earlier, personally if a plane doesnt have a VC then I dont bother with it.

[DenisH]

Thanks, David. Yes, one has to get some experience with all this. The lingo, the technical aspects, etc.  A little overwhelming for an old fart. But I'm enjoying it immensely, nontheless.

[DenisH]

Rom: Unless I missed it, that tip about cycling isn't anywhere in the literature I've seen. If you can scan with your hat button, why does the lit mention that you need to fishtail while taxiing?  I'm sure this will all come to me sooner of later. Before I got into FS I bought a guide to FS2004 (by Radcliffe & Mahoor) and it's not mentioned in that. At least, in language I can understand. Once again, getting with the  jargon is one of my problems. I have had a computer since 1983 but  have always used it as a substitute typewriter. My wife handled all the hard stuff. She won't help me with FS because she thinks I shouldn't be playing "games" at my age. Now I am paying the price! lol

[Romflyer]

I tried to convince my wife that FS isnt a game..........it's a simulator  8-)...........she didnt buy it either  
virtual cockpit is the only way to go.....in my opinion  ;)
In alot of taildraggers you still need to fishtail to see over the cowling, regardless of being able to pan

[DenisH]

Your wife too, eh?  lol Yet another huge "gracias" re the VC. I just took up the Mooney using it for the first time and it is incredible. I also checked the manual I mentioned earlier and there's but a single mention of the VC  and no explanation nor illustration of what it does.  To someone unfamiliar with Flight Sim, the whole thing is "virtual"! So thanks for the guidance.  If you'll forgive A rather feeble pun, I'm learning all this from the ground up.

[Romflyer]

Did you figure out how to re-map(change) buttons on your joystick?.....for that matter which Saitek stick?

[olderndirt]

Denis
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