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.

Flight Sim Bloggers Network

Great place to find anything new in Flight Sim.

Flight Sim Bloggers Network

Looking for somewhere to fly? fourflights.com

Saw this in last months Computer Pilot Mag.

www.fourflights.com

Looking for somewhere to fly to but can't come up with anywhere?

This site creates a new VFR, MFR(Marginal Flight Rules), LFR (Low Instrument Flight Rules) and IFR once every hour based on the weather rules you pick.

I thought this sounded very cool since I can never think of anywhere to fly.

Vista Tweaks

This is a great site if you feel up to tweaking Vista....if you have the stomach for it?

Thanks Jim.....for this one.

www.blackviper.com

FSWidgets....Very cool little navigation tools.

Danny with VIFC told me about this one.

Very nice tools for navigation assistance.

www.fswidgets.com

WW2, Pacific War

WW2, Pacific War

"It's Your Plane", Voice Controller for FS9, FSX

It's Your Plane is a really cool program....especially if you are lazy like me.



Flight Simulator Voice Controller for FS9, FSX

They call it a Virtual Co-Pilot and they are right. I wasn't expecting much when I downloaded the Demo, they give you 15 days to try it, but I was pleasantly surprised.

It does take a few flights for the system to recognize your voice to the point where it will quit just sitting there when you talk to Michelle and she does nothing. You have three Microsoft Voice options....of course I chose the female voice.

I will post a more in depth review of this later. I just wanted to let you know about it now so you could go and download the demo and check it out.

Oh yea....make sure you have a decent microphone on your headset.