FS 2004 ATC question

[Ron Buchwald]

Hi Pete. hope you are ready for Christmass. I have a question in regards to FS ATC. I want to turn off the ATC text so I don't see it on screen. When I do this thru FS options it does turn off however I can not then send a command to FS nor can I respond to ATC by pressing a key. If I display the text then all is fine. I do hear ATC with text off but can't respond. Also question on landing lites. using the default FS aircraft and in cockpit view, I do not see the landing lites out the front view. If I select virtual cockpit view I do see the lights. any Ideas on these :?: . Ron.

[Pete Dowson]

I want to turn off the ATC text so I don't see it on screen. When I do this thru FS options it does turn off however I can not then send a command to FS nor can I respond to ATC by pressing a key.

Correct. You have to get its menu up by pressing the ' key, or whatever. That's the way it works. I don't like it either, which is why I use Radar Contact.

using the default FS aircraft and in cockpit view, I do not see the landing lites out the front view. If I select virtual cockpit view I do see the lights.

Sorry, I don't know what does that. For add-on aircraft I'd blame some setting in the aircraft files, but for defaults it should work "out of the box". It sounds like there's some video setting wrong somewhere. But, I'm sorry, it isn't something I know about.

Regards

Pete

[Ron Buchwald]

Ok Pete. Thankyou. I'll look into getting radar contact. I'll keep tring to get the lites to work if I do I'll let you know. Ron.

[JSkorna]

Ron,

To see the lights you must have see self=1 in the FS9.cfg. I am not sure where this is in FS04 itself.

[Ron Buchwald]

just an update. I re-loaded FS2004 and now I see the lights in fwd. view. Ron.