fsBreak Flight Sim Podcasts

Yes...there is a Flight Sim Podcast out there and a good one too.



Check it out.

I am glad to see someone going to the work of putting together a podcast dedicated to Flight Simming.

Virtual International Flying Club

The Virtual International Flying Club has a new promotional video for the club....check it out.



Well done guys.

NetWorx - Free program for monitoring bandwidth usage

Have you ever wondered how much bandwidth you were using....like if you are running Skype and have several people you are talking to and downloading a file at the same time? Well I did, so I started searching around and found NetWorx This is a great little FREE program that helps you evaluate your bandwidth usage and you can watch it on a graph:



You can also see what your usage is on an hourly basis...or daily or monthly.

Giveaway of the day.com - FREE Software

Yep....believe it....FREE Software.

giveawayoftheday.com

They giveaway a new piece of software each day...for FREE.

The catch is you have to activate the software that day, if you wait till the next day...you are out of luck.

Ever wonder what the Stall speed is for your plane, but can't find it?

There have been many times I have wondered what the stall speed is for a plane I am flying is...and there is nothing in the Kneeboard.

Well in FSX open the Aircraft.cfg file for the plane in question and scroll down to the [Reference Speeds] and there they are.

Don't like your Default Minipanel in FSX?

Well here is how you can change it.

Go to your Microsoft Flight Simulator X\Gauges folder and look for your Minipanel.cfg file.

First MAKE A COPY OF THE FILE.

Then, at least in my file, insert your new Minipanel like this. This is a transparent minipanel I like for single engine planes.

[MiniPanel00]
Background_color=0,0,0
size_mm=550,63
window_size_ratio=1.000
position=7
visible=1
ident=MINIPANEL
no_luminous=1
window_size= 0.790, 0.160
window_pos= 0.125, 0.845
child_3d=1
alpha_blend=0.50
gauge00=KingAir!Vsi, 198,13,50,50
gauge01=KingAir!Airspeed, 2,12,54,51
gauge02=bendix_king_radio!Bendix-King Radio AP, 429,35,120,29
gauge03=KingAir!Hsi, 67,9,66,53
gauge04=KingAir!Altimeter, 139,13,50,50
gauge05=Kingair!Flaps, 344,32,15,30
gauge06=SimIcons!Map Icon, 433,26,8,8
gauge07=SimIcons!Avionics Icon, 443,26,8,8
gauge08=SimIcons!GPS Icon, 452,26,8,8
gauge09=737-400!Gear Lever, 375,28,28,34
gauge10=KingAir!Attitude, 259,15,58,48

Destination Finder

Still having a hard time finding a place to fly??

Destination Finder is the best little FREE program I have found. You can plug in an airport ICAO and tell it you want to fly 150 miles and it will go out and find all the airports within that radius.

There is a version 1.1 for FS9 that can find water airports or version 2.0 is for FS9 and FSX but does not find water landing airports.

Version 2.0 is at http://www.flightsim.com The name of the file is destfn20.zip Be sure to read the Readme file because this program can do a lot of things to help you in finding a flight and don't forget to thank Martin Gleeson at masala@blueyonder.co.uk for writing this great little program.

Version 1.1 is at http://www.avsim.com and the file is called destination_finder_for_fs9_v1.1.zip You can run both on your computer at the same time....V 2.0 is not an upgrade for V 1.1.

Protect your Computer

Well I got a Trojan attack the other day while looking for animated gif's for a forum I belong to.

I was lucky that I had Winpatrol running and it stopped the Trojan from completely taking over my PC.

I got the Trojan removed with Malwarebytes. Great little program...also FREE.