I d like to thank FlightsimJBS

     Hes another blog i visit everyday or so. While searching for a rare fs2004 file i came upon his blog and have loved it since.

    He posts everyday with links to files from FS9/FSX and P3D, most are files you've seen before but some are files so rare that it makes mundane days fall away!!

     I've never been able to get in touch with him but id like to say thanks for linking these files and stuff for the last few years. If i can find a file anywhere using flightsim.com or avsim i will load up his blog and voila... you should see some amazing aircraft's he gets linked on his blog..

 ☝

All you need to do to get there is click this link

 or click on the link in the sidebar!!

 Happy flying! and thanks JBS!! 

 you make me feel

 Keep Up the good work!!

 



 

 


sayonara squawkbox from early 2000...

so i guess it comes to this I've uninstalled this program and have no reason to use it ever  again.. thanks to the group who made it and i hope we all learn from them...

squawk box came into the fs community in the late 1990s and early 2000s with a way to connect to vatsim, and allow us to enjoy the servers..

and just last year vatsim said they dont need people using it, so they retired it and there we go!!

thanks to the 20 years of service!!


its deeply important...

 after all these years and counting that we still see questions about the fs9 no cd patch its aggravating no one knows...


the fs9.1 patch is available on the net, and the no-cd patch is on the net as well

since 2004 was released its incredibly stupid to think that once it was thought of as a virus and not allowed so its been like a feew  years that its been ok to download it...


https://www.fileplanet.com/archive/p-2763/Flight-Simulator-2004-Update-v9-1

is the 9.1 versiom

https://www.gameburnworld.com/gp/gamefixes/flightsimulator2004acenturyofflight.shtml

and the fs9 no cd crack



It's kind of tough you know?! (The ongoing threat of loss to FS9)

I bet you have seen a lot of reasons not to use fs2004 because their is quite a competing compliment to the world right now as newer flight Sims are on the rise....if it ain't so big and vested 🤣

While we just focus on the here and now in this blog post..i tend to notice program and stuff don't work for it.

So I thought maybe I should list things and settings that no longer work for fs9


List is as follows:  


1. Default fs9 deal weather no longer connects to jeppesen anymore..please read my previous post about real world weather..


2. Connecting with vatsim is harder if you are using older operating systems..since the good old trusty sqwkbx doesn't exist anymore and so u have to upgrade to 7 or so..and download a program called "audio for vatsim"


3. Certain virtual airlines have moved on to version 2 of smartcars as most acars are "almost" out of date...not yet thou..😎


4.....tbd


There are more but just don't worry right now

when working with [fltsim] part of the aircraft.cfg

...you must understand...that working alongside the aircraft cfg files, that everthing listed in the "title" and "model" and everyhing down to before the desription has to match whats in the aircraft folder for which aircraft you are working on.

Heres whats written in the default cessna 182

"[fltsim.0]
title=Cessna Skylane 182S
sim=Cessna182S
model=
panel=
sound=
texture=
kb_checklists=Cessna182S_check
kb_reference=Cessna182S_ref
atc_id=N778WS
ui_manufacturer=Cessna
ui_type="C182S Skylane"
ui_variation="White with green"
description="When Cessna saw how well their Model 180 was selling, they looked for a way to make it an even bigger success\s the answer was the Model 182.  The Cessna 182 Skylane feels and acts like a heavier, more powerful version of its sibling, the 172 Skyhawk.  The airplane is a workhorse and a stable platform for flying on instruments. Even with a full tank, the 182 carries a family-size useful load and performs admirably as an aerial sport utility vehicle."





-So that means the title is just for the name of the aircraft and doesnt need much of any other info

-the "sim= "is where you type in or copy the name of the *.air file word for word, and letter for letter

-model is not used that much as there arent too many fs aircraf makers that include a secondary "model file", if there is one in the folder you have just downloaded...type the nane listed on the folder after the period (ie model.pk)  so the info you type here is "pk" (the sane way its listed on the folder).

-panel is where you can put the panel.xxxx info in, straightforward like i mentioned above, but if a creator  never put any other folder for yu to moce or whatever you can just leave it blank

-sound is where you can most of the time let it  be kept blank, or enter it like ive talked about above 9but thats a rarity to have to put in a sound.xxx folder...(ive never had to do that as mostly sound files are kept in sound folder inside of the aircraft folder)

*note some of these above can be kept blank as theres only a small about of creators fs2k2, 2k4, 2k6 that even try to add other folders (its soooo  rare)

but not with this one

- texture is where you will be enter the info after the "texture.'xxxxx' " and you must make sure the texture folder and the info youve written here is exact, as any spelling mistake may make you feel lost,you can always copy and paste if need be so theres nothing ba... yuo can always rename the folder but if you do, theres aleays got to be checking out  and making sure it maries up!!

you can do whatever yuo want with the rest but most realists and everyone alike may want the name of the aircraft and the model  to be correct but its only up to you...

90% of the time most texurte and model creators will have a copied info copied into thie txt file in the readme or other file in the zip or rar  file you downloaded...

last but not least the [fltsim.0] for each entry you are putting in, has to be in sequence, most fligtsim aircraft creators will include their own aircraft.cfg file that you can add to, and continue as far as you want...

i currently have 35, 737-200 textures (half came wiith the tinmouse version i got years ago, ) the rest are ones ive downloaded so you can get quite alot!! theres no need to stop thinking the file size is too big as most cfg files are way back in the KB file size..

this information might be one of what you see all over the internet im just giving it here as a better chance to talk about things!!


 

Computer with fs9 is wreaked for now

If you have been wonderimg why no screenshots just yet at all of my major screenshot sharing sites...its becaudse the computer i use to play fs9 isnt workimg and i have been workimg a long while to get it fixed by myself but i think its about time to send it in..   Sorry of that soumds like im giving up but...oh welll      

i have no problem with this unless...

i dont mind that people want to make flightsim addos more updated and amke games more of the same.. some games lik doom (ive been playing a dozen times) just has recentyl got some new remakes of it over the last few years

if that idea were to come to the fluightsim 2004 or just the flightsim community as a whole, i would be impressed, if like, you took a few old 2004 files and made them new...like since they came out nearly 20 years ago.. or so...or to take a fs98/fs95 aircafrt and update them to fs2004 standards...id acatuialy be happy...

but lets take mike stone or kazanori ito's aicraft...we cant just remake them without making sure we remeber what they did getting us here, in set like the posky 757, he made a 757 with nearly as much paintjobs but posky exploede onto the scene and there you go we adopted ther posky one but have many cheered on mike stone and told him that ehy liked his aircaft? not sure but i hope you all have!!

if we foreget all the peoopke that got at least a model and a few repaints we should remember to thank them for their time. it would be like a person made a model of the whole of the city of paris and someone came in to look at it and said "i have a whole model of the country of france" now the whole fight might seem like they cant get along but they are within their bbounds and hey they certauly made some nice models but lets hope they rember that one made a model tyhat would help others see a city properly and we can see what it looks like  and hope w rmem,ber who started out that project.

thats all im talking about...it would be terrible to think we never could rembemnber who kzanori ito was while tons are making the same aircraft models for newer sims...

please and thanks!!

 

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