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robson131
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Can anyone remember what the default airport was in the previous versions ie 95,98, 2000 etc, I completely forgot?
Cheers
Andy
ps, Does anyone have a Geforce 7900GTX, Im trying to find the best driver for my card helpp ty |
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99jolegg
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Joined: Jun 26, 2004
Posts: 5429
Location: UK |
| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 10:11 pm |
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I believe it was Miegs Field  Click below to support FSF:
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PIC1stOfficer
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Joined: Sep 25, 2006
Posts: 206
Location: KSEA/Seattle |
| Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 3:46 am |
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Yeah, Chicago M. F.
The people at that real-life AP have been in court over it's shutting down attempts.  |
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media_pdc
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| Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 6:53 pm |
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hey, by the way. What's the default airport in FSX? Again Seatle like in FS9? |
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media_pdc
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| Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 7:09 pm |
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hey, by the way. What's the default airport in FSX? Again Seatle like in FS9? |
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CrashGordon
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Joined: Jun 20, 2005
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| Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 7:41 pm |
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Out of curiosity. Why worry what the default airport is when it is so easy to change? CrashGordon
CEO, Omega-Air Virtual airlines |
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greystone
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Joined: Jan 31, 2006
Posts: 71
Location: Round Rock, Texas USA |
| Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 11:03 am |
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Crash, Would greatly appreciate a short tutorial on changing the default airport and airplane. I didn't want to go mucking around in .cfg files without some sense of what I could be screwing up. |
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99jolegg
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Location: UK |
| Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 12:34 pm |
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greystone wrote:Crash, Would greatly appreciate a short tutorial on changing the default airport and airplane. I didn't want to go mucking around in .cfg files without some sense of what I could be screwing up.
You can do it in the sim. Select everything you want i.e. the aircraft, the location, the weather, season and time of day and then go to save, and tick the box that says "Set as default flight" or something to that effect. Click below to support FSF:
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CRJCapt
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Joined: Sep 12, 2005
Posts: 4281
Location: Ohio,USA |
| Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 1:20 pm |
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The real Meigs airport is gone. Last time I was in Chicago, there was a Police substation located on the property. Sounds strange that FSX would use a nonexistent airport as the default location. It probably includes Meigs for nostalgic reasons but uses another airport as the default airport.  |
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encarta2006
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Joined: Feb 23, 2006
Posts: 46
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| Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 1:35 pm |
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CRJCapt wrote:The real Meigs airport is gone. Last time I was in Chicago, there was a Police substation located on the property. Sounds strange that FSX would use a nonexistent airport as the default location. It probably includes Meigs for nostalgic reasons but uses another airport as the default airport.
Really? I never knew that!
FS2004 HAS the airport in it! UNBELIEVABLE! Lets hope FSX won't have it...... |
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CRJCapt
Chief Captain
Joined: Sep 12, 2005
Posts: 4281
Location: Ohio,USA |
| Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 2:10 pm |
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Meigs airport has been the default airport in FS for a long time. It was included in FS2004 as a tribute. It may be in FSX also but I don't think it will be the default airport. It doesn't matter, you can change the default airport to whatever you want to.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meigs_Field |
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greystone
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Joined: Jan 31, 2006
Posts: 71
Location: Round Rock, Texas USA |
| Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 3:28 pm |
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Jon, Thanks....DOH!!!....that was the one thing I hadn't ever done in FS9, save a flight. It seems I was always inventing new itineraries on different aircraft all the time. Only thing I ever saved was the flight plans. Sheesh. What a dummy! |
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Unknown
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| Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:16 pm |
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I think the defult airport for FSX is firday houbour. Im not quite sure because i changed it straight away. |
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 3:15 am |
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Friday Harbor.
Tiny airstrip in the San Juan islands just South of Victoria, BC, Canada, and about ten minutes in a cessna North of Seattle. |
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Guest
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 4:31 pm |
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I think it would have been cool if when you start up the sim for the first time (and it does all the initiallization) that the default was set to your nearest airport based on IP location..... 2 cents worth. |
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encarta2006
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Joined: Feb 23, 2006
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 4:53 pm |
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Guest wrote:I think it would have been cool if when you start up the sim for the first time (and it does all the initialization) that the default was set to your nearest airport based on IP location..... 2 cents worth. |
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crash_deplane
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Joined: Nov 30, 2005
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 7:46 pm |
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encarta2006 wrote:Guest wrote:I think it would have been cool if when you start up the sim for the first time (and it does all the initialization) that the default was set to your nearest airport based on IP location..... 2 cents worth.
Maybe not so cool; the nearest airport to me is a grass strip  . Westfield Airport. I was surprised it even appeared in the list of airports, since I've never seen an airplane there, but it's basically a grass field and a windsock. Maybe fine for ultralights, but probably not great for anything bigger than a Cessna 152. |
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dmgcapt
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Joined: Sep 24, 2006
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 8:00 pm |
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I like the guests idea that it should default by our location...maybe for FS08 |
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jordans
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| Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 5:26 am |
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I live in Friday Harbor and was pleasently supprised to find it as the default location.. Its an awesome place. |
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