Fs9 & Vatsim

[Bluedog]

thanks for the url B17Skull, I'm off to have a look right now.

[SFRT - Frenchy]

What's the difference between IVAO and VATSIm, I thought they were the same?

I fly for a 135 charter that carries Nuclear Medecine for Cancer patients. We fly little buckets like Cessna 210s and Cessna Skymasters.

It's cool to fly knowing that you are part of saving someone's life, rather than being a bus driver.

[B17Skull12]

IVAO=europe
Vatsim= America.

the European's left vatsim and started IVAO.

[TBolt A-10]

Originally posted by SFRT - Frenchy
What's the difference between IVAO and VATSIm, I thought they were the same?

I fly for a 135 charter that carries Nuclear Medecine for Cancer patients. We fly little buckets like Cessna 210s and Cessna Skymasters.

It's cool to fly knowing that you are part of saving someone's life, rather than being a bus driver.

Frenchy,
Sounds like you've got a great gig there.

What are the minimum hours to qualify for the job?  And, does the company have an office in Los Angeles county, by chance?  

My brother would be MOST interested to know.  

[Gixer]

Originally posted by Bluedog
Gixer,

I just bought FS9 two days ago, and am utterly lost

I've never played MSFS before, except for CFS2 for about a day.

Could you please give a few details of these addons you speak of?

So far, apart from not having a single clue as to what is going on, FS9 seems great, awesome weather effects, and great map size

I would really like some advice on what to get, where to get it, what not to bother with etc, and real basic stuff like, how do I install a plane I have downloaded?.

Also, can I set up my controls so that on helicopters my throttle axis is reversed?

Thanks,
Blue

Iniitally I would just stick with all the default stuff untill your sure which type of flying you prefer as you can then work towards setting it up to best suit, VFR or Jets. There are a ton of addons most can be seen at http://www.avsim.com and read about in the forums. Allot of information there. You could spend $100's on payware but the best imho.

Best addons I've installed would be:

Payware:

Ultimate Traffic
ActiveSky 2004
MyWorld Global Landclass
FSWATER
Radar Contact V3
FSGenisis  European and US Mesh's and Landclass for the US.

Aircraft:

PMDG 1900D
PMDG 737 series
Ready For Pushback 747-200
Captain Sim 727

PMDG 737, is the least that I've used from that list as I prefer the steam gauges of the CS727 and RFP 742

Freeware:

FSW Clouds. (freeware) FSW makes a set of clouds that greatly reduce the size of the cloud textures with very little if any loss of quality. This allows more clouds to be generated with out the huge Frame Rate hits normally associated with dense clouds. A MUST HAVE if you fly in any weather other than Microsoft's default "Fair Weather" theme

FSAutoStart

GA-Traffic- Marcus Brunner Traffic generator that allows you to greatly increase the GA traffic at smaller airports. Planes will fly touch and gos, and traffic is generally better distributed amongst all the airports


Also Microsoft have announced a update for FS9 to be released in October, so I'd hold off on Landclass and Mesh addons for now incase there are changes.

As for installing different freeware aircraft, most have autoinstallers but those that don't usually just require unzipping to your FS9/Aircraft directory winzip takes care of the rest.



...-Gixer

[Fishu]

Originally posted by B17Skull12
IVAO=europe
Vatsim= America.

the European's left vatsim and started IVAO.

Alot of europeans uses VATSIM.
99.5% of finns.
Though, almost no americans in IVAO.


IVAO is more relaxed enviroment than VATSIM.

[Bluedog]

Thanks for the info Gixer
 Blue