Not a problem, just a word of thanks....

[Dougal]

Yesterday, for the first time since I started flight simming, I finally, and successfully, completed a long haul flight with a heavy duty addon aircraft (the wonderful PMDG747-400), FSCommander, Radar Contact and a few other applications, running across a network of PCs, whilst running FS on my main PC.

At one point, i had three PCs linked, all using their own monitor, but utilising a KVM switch on two of them. It all got a ‘bit much’ eventually, so i settled for just two PCs! This may not seem much to some folk I know but, for a guy who, nearly 3 years back, was told he had no more than 6 months to live, believe me..... it is pure joy! At the worst time, I lost about 50-70% of my cognitive function (yeh, yeh, I know.... what was there to start with!?), lost almost half my body weight and had almost continual fits (brain tumour)! Just launching flghtsim was hard, never mind utilising complex addons. It probably would have made a great comedy sketch.

Miracles really can happen!!!! Well.... huge advances in operating techniques in my case. Regaining enough health to use the flightsim in this way has transformed it for me – it’s now so much more immersive. Of late, I’ve been getting really bored with FS9 and FSX, but this opens a new door for me. For instance, completely independent output and volume control for ATC alone, is a vast improvement – especially when using Radar Contact for ATC. Having an enire PC just to run the moving map in FSC is fantastic, I get to see all the AI around me too. It’s like having radar!!! What’s more, as i’ve discovered, the networked PCs can be just about anything from an old Duron or P2 upwards, as most addons don’t need much processing power it seems.

Sorry to ramble like this, but the reason for this posting is to publically thank all those folk who make this possible: John Dekker of Radar Contact, Sascha and Co for FSCommander, Pete Dowson for WideFS & FSUIPC of course. PMDG for such great aircraft. I could go on listing folk ‘til the cows come home so, to all those who’ve helped me..................

Thanks Guys

[Pete Dowson]

Sorry to ramble like this, but the reason for this posting is to publically thank all those folk who make this possible: John Dekker of Radar Contact, Sascha and Co for FSCommander, Pete Dowson for WideFS & FSUIPC of course. PMDG for such great aircraft. I could go on listing folk ‘til the cows come home so, to all those who’ve helped me.

Thank you. I 'm really glad all this stuff is so appreciated and so well used. Carry on the good flying, may it last a long long time!

Regards

Pete