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- Birthday 04/15/1951
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McHenry, IL
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Anything aviation related.
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About Me
I am currently 65 years of age, married with one daughter, and started flightsimming way back in the mid '80's on an IBM PS-2 (no hard drive, just 2 floppy drives) and FS 3.1. I also used to design freeware aircraft and started a moderately successful VA in the mid 90's, Cyber Air. I was also, once upon a time, a VP/Supervisors (VATGOV11) on VATSIM for about 3 months, until I was asked to resign. (Boy, talk about being in over my head!).
I am currently retired and spend most of my time flying the virtual skies and as a volunteer tutor at McHenry County College. In their Adult Basic Education Dept.
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Hotstart the Challenger with XP11 or XP12?
Bill Alderson replied to JetCat's topic in The X-Plane General Discussions Forum
Been flying it in XP-12 with, mostly no problems. It did CTD when trying to replay the landing but, other than that it works fine for me.. Anyone know if the HS TBM 900 is working in 12 yet? I know Toto has been working on it but haven't heard anything about progress. -
Wouldn't be surprised if someone came up with one once for X-Plane once 12 comes out. I'd love to see one.
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Is This The End of Prepar3D v4.5
Bill Alderson replied to goodperson36's topic in The Prepar3d Forum
Yep. -
My CH Products Flightstick Pro, Pro throttle and rudder pedals. I've had these things so long, I don't even remember when I purchased them . Still use them every day; except the Pro throttle; I have the Saitek throttles now.
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I Did It Again.... (resolved)
Bill Alderson replied to Bill Alderson's topic in RXP GTN 750/650 Touch
Yep, that did it! Turns out that I had to modify my Admin rights because some Adobe upgrade changed things. I did a temporary fix and eventually MS came out with a special update and never reset my admin rights to where they were originally. Forgot all about that. The GPS is working normally now. Much obliged for your help. -
I Did It Again.... (resolved)
Bill Alderson replied to Bill Alderson's topic in RXP GTN 750/650 Touch
Hello Jean-Luc, No. I always had 7 but Microsoft stopped supporting 7 last month and I refuse to upgrade until I upgrade my computer and that's not going to happen for awhile yet; but no major upgrades (or minor for the matter) that I can think of. Strangely enough, the problem started a few days ago. I sometimes use the 750 in the FlyJ Sim 727 and when I clicked for the GPS pop-up, I got the window but no map; or anything else. The plane was on ground power and the gps should have running. I checked for upgrades and I showed the there was an upgrade available so I downloaded and installed the upgrade and the trainer and no joy. Maybe a complete uninstal/reinstall perhaps? -
I Did It Again.... (resolved)
Bill Alderson replied to Bill Alderson's topic in RXP GTN 750/650 Touch
I got the original from F1. Where else would I get the proper XP 11 update? Thanks for the help... Other than I'm still using Windows 7 instead of 10; no. Thanks for the input.... -
I keep getting the blank screen in my newly updated GNS 750. This happens to me a lot. Any ideas? This is what my rxp,GTN,SIM.dll.log says: 20/02/16 18:35:39.535 09820 - ] # rxpGtnSim64.dll version 2.5.22.2 20/02/16 18:35:39.534 09820 INFO ] 20/02/16 18:37:15.878 09820 INFO ] GTN 750.1 - TRAINER 6620 20/02/16 18:38:32.092 09820 WARN ] FAIL: 01 ..\..\src\krnl\krnl_lib\sim\hwm_nand_drvr_sim.c(838) (null) 20/02/16 18:38:32.093 09820 WARN ] FAIL: 01 ..\..\src\krnl\krnl_lib\sim\hwm_nand_drvr_sim.c(838) (null) 20/02/16 18:38:32.094 09820 WARN ] FAIL: 01 ..\..\src\krnl\krnl_lib\sim\hwm_eeprom_win32.c(267) (null) 20/02/16 18:38:32.095 09820 WARN ] FAIL: 01 ..\..\src\krnl\krnl_lib\sim\hwm_eeprom_win32.c(319) (null) 20/02/16 18:38:32.096 09820 WARN ] FAIL: 01 ..\..\src\krnl\krnl_lib\sim\hwm_eeprom_win32.c(267) (null) 20/02/16 18:38:32.097 09820 WARN ] FAIL: 01 ..\..\src\krnl\krnl_lib\sim\hwm_eeprom_win32.c(319) (null) 20/02/16 18:38:32.098 09820 WARN ] FAIL: 01 ..\..\src\krnl\krnl_lib\sim\hwm_eeprom_win32.c(267) (null) 20/02/16 18:38:32.099 09820 WARN ] FAIL: 01 ..\..\src\krnl\krnl_lib\sim\hwm_eeprom_win32.c(319) (null) 20/02/16 18:38:32.100 09820 WARN ] FAIL: 01 ..\..\src\krnl\krnl_lib\sim\hwm_eeprom_win32.c(267) (null) 20/02/16 18:38:32.101 09820 WARN ] FAIL: 01 ..\..\src\krnl\krnl_lib\sim\hwm_eeprom_win32.c(319) (null)
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68 here but I feel like I'm over 80! 😉 '
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How many times have you watched the trailer ?
Bill Alderson replied to cepact's topic in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)
What trailer? And you need to have a zero option in the survey. 😉 -
FLIGHTSIMEXPO CONFIRMED EXHIBITORS
Bill Alderson commented on Chuck_Jodry-VJPL's article in Product Announcements & Press Releases
All signed-up and ready to go; according to my travel agent (my wife). 😁 -
xEnviro 1.10 in Beta
Bill Alderson replied to steve310002's topic in The X-Plane General Discussions Forum
I've always been an Active Sky man. So, once they came out with an X-Plane version, I dropped xEnviro like a bad habit. Granted, A/S's sky is not as pretty as enviro's.......yet. But, I think the overall quality of their product is much better, they're a heck of a lot cheaper and they've been around longer and can be trusted to stick around and upgrade on a regular basis without breaking the bank. Just one man's opinion. 😉 -
Maybe she got tired of laughing too? Gobble....gobble! 😉 I guess it's not a real good time of year to be a jive turkey. 😉 Hope you're the eater and not the eaten. 😉
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v 4.3 Black Screen, Normal Sounds/Controls
Bill Alderson replied to snpower's topic in The Prepar3d Forum
Same problem. I tried launching from the program's folder and still no joy. I don't have the most powerful system in the world but 4.2 worked just fine. Ya know, if it wasn't for the Maddog and the Q400, I would gladly chuck this thing in a New York minute and run X-Plane 11 exclusively. I may end up doing that anyway. This is way more trouble than it's worth. 😠