Today, I bought the FlyJSim 737-200. I heard good things about this plane (as well as the FlyJSim 727) and because it was on sale, I decided to buy it and start a 737 collection. The plane is a real classic and has a back-to-basic principle that should keep anyone quite occupied in the cockpit. I intend to learn more about VOR to VOR navigation with it, especially since there’s no FMC present.
read more...More of a note-to-self, but here’s how to mount a CIFS (or SMB) share on Ubuntu Linux (192.168.1.20 is the NAS IP address in this case):
mkdir ~/data_flightsim/
sudo apt-get install cifs-utils
sudo mount -t cifs -o username=my-username,uid=$(id -u),gid=$(id -g) //192This weekend I was having problems with the pitch and roll controls of my Zibo while parked at the gate. Both my Linux and Windows XP11 installations seemed to be suffering from this and I had no idea on how to fix it. I have even compared files between the working beta installation and my stable XP 11.41 installation, going for the ‘difficult’ approach.
read more...Today I discovered the Spain Ultra High Definition scenery, via a Reddit post. The scenery can be found in the org forums, but you can also download it from the project site here: https://www.spainuhd.es. This post gives an impression of the scenery.
read more...Lately I’ve been flying the Zibo 737 a lot. I use it on my system that is running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS at the moment, unfortunately the performance is kind of lacking. I’m in the process of FPS hunting.
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