Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Engine Data Plate

My thanks to all the amateur radio operators over the decades!    In the 60's while a pilot in combat in Vietnam my mother contacted me at about 02:00 Vietnam time to tell my stepfather, who first taught me so much had died.  She didn't have any understanding of radio conversation so every time she'd stop speaking her local operator would have to tell her to say "Over."  Despite that, I got the news and could honor Frank and go on with my life.   A decade or so later I got my license and spent many an enjoyable hour communicating with or hearing others communicating with people who lived all over the world.    The internet and cell phones may be great toys.  But IMO when the power goes out or the cell towers go down It's wonderful to still have amateur operators all over the world to keep is in touch and remind us that regardless of who is in power in whatever country that day, we are still caring and sharing human beings!!

That was a commercial package, I think originally from Aerosoft. However, some of Peter Kruesi's other works can be found on various packages now available from archive.org. For example, see the 3 Apollo Collections available from archive.org, the 3rd one is here: https://archive.org/details/apollo-collection-3-great-airlines

Spring in the north means an end to the ice roads, and an increased reliance on aircraft to move supplies and equipment.   This month, we are making cargo and passenger runs into an area of northern Canada where this time of the year the sun never sets. Who knows, you might even see the northern lights if the time of day is right.   Your mission is to depart Merlyn Carter (CYHY) and fly to Yellowknife (CYZF) with the Canadian Xpress Beechcraft King Air 350, Cessna C208 Grand Caravan, DeHavilland DHC-6 or Douglas DC-3 freeware or payware aircraft only.   Join Canadian Xpress today in order to participate as there are some great prizes to be won including any Aerosoft download product from https://www.aerosoft.com/   The May 2024 Monthly Challenge is open to all Canadian Xpress pilots from May 1st until May 29th, 2024 so join Canadian Xpress today by visiting https://canadianxpress.ca.   

This, and the previous 2 Apollo Collections are available from archive.org: https://archive.org/details/apollo-collection-3-great-airlines

So, I'm following the refresh rate conversation with much interest.  The AC supply here in South Africa is 220v @ 50Hz   My laptop's screen resolution is 1920x1080 @ 144Hz that's where my sim runs My LG second monitor is 1366x768 @ 60Hz that's where my FSNav map sits. - that's the max resolution. I stand corrected, but I really think that fps has nothing to do with either the ac supply frequency, nor the refresh rate of the monitors.  The fps rate is subject to memory, not forgetting that FS2004 is a 16bit program running in Windows 11 (in my case) that will only address 4GB of RAM, & GPU memory, irrespective of how much RAM your PC has. I've patched my FS2004 with that 4GB patch, and things run very smoothly.   I've locked my frame rate at 30fps, as the more frames you have, the more resources are being used, and I have not noticed any smoothness improvement when running more than 30fps. I'm going for perceived smoothness as opposed to chasing a higher fps setting. My laptop has AMD Radeon Graphics, as well as a Nvidia GeForce RTX3050 laptop GPU, with 4GB RAM, and I've set my FS2004 to use that.    

I believe this aircraft has been withdrawn from multiple sites like Simviation, Flightsim and Avsim.   I also understand that the developers can be contacted in the Forum areas of FS Nordic/FlightsimForum.fi.    

The yellow ring is surrounding a static grounding plug, and the two white circles ate static ports. The plate is the aircraft data plate. I will do some more research and see if I can get you exact stenciling and data plate info.

Sounds fine to me. 🙂  

I searched the web but never found it. Can you send me the evektor files please? My email is dascha.poglosky@gmail.com Thanks you in advance

defaid,   If your monitor is being fed by a DC power supply then your "refresh rate" of 59/60Hz is most probably being created within your monitor itself. In this respect my information has in the meantime also changed, e.g. that all modern TV sets, like I'm using as a monitor, have also become independant from, not only their AC supply voltages but also from their AC frequencies. Commercial production standardization maybe ?? Anyway, if you are happy with your existing monitor -------   Today I've been experimenting intensely with my FS9 hardware FPS display settings for the very first time in many years, all the way from 10 upto unlimited but at 10 the stuttering was intense, especially when panning around in "heavy" sceneries and via different flyable aircrafts in external views. However, at my traditional setting of 30, everything was smooth again, while at "unlimited" my FPS never came below 40 and sometimes even reached as high as 100+, which convinced me that 30 was (at least for my FS9/hardware setup) a good setting. The 60Hz information on your monitor and on my TV, can only be some kind of default and/or of informational value.   P.S. I still believe that structurally mipping all scenery and AI aircraft textures is a good practice.   Regards   Hans        

After doing the circumnavigation in 'Austral Rose', I got a bit of a taste for such silly things and looked up a few historic flights around the, world. Amazingly I came across one that was quite close to home, as it were.   My youngest daughter, Anita, is a Warrant Officer in the RAF and she's at RAF Shawbury in Staffordshire, about 85 miles north from me, and she's heading up a programme to produce a new training syllabus for all the RAF Air Traffic and Fighter Controllers. Back in 1944 a rather special tweaked Lancaster called 'Aries' flew around the world westbound starting from Shawbury, and the main cafe/restaurant on the station is called 'The Aries Cafe'. They also have an 'Aries Event' there every year, where they present awards and have a darn good dinner too. A few years ago Anita invited me to go along to the event and it was rather splendid to say the least.   As a result of this I've decided to re-fly the 'Aries' flight in FSX, as I know all the airfields she used, and there's quite a few reasonable FSX Lancasters available, even though I can't find one exactly like 'Aries'. I've done a boiler-plate repaint of a civilian Lancastrian, which looks a lot more like 'Aries' than the usual WWII Lancaster bombers, and Anita's finding some more info on the aeroplane from the station historian up there. What it is to have friends in high places, eh? 🙂   I'll probably start a new thread for the flight itself, and I'd like to post it under the 'Club Chachapoya' label if I may?   This is the 'Aries' repaint as far as I've got so far.      

It never occurred to me to consider the ac supply frequency: the monitor runs on a low voltage dc supply. Here are my monitor's native settings: 2560 × 1440 at 60 Hz (though Windows 10 insists that it's 59 Hz).   I'm not sure about TVs, though I believe the old tubes were tied to the ac frequency. If your TV refresh rate is 60 Hz then locking your framerate to 30 should work well, reducing flicker and reducing tearing when you pan your view, because frame and screen will always change at the same moment.   D  

Catchy title, huh?   I've found some free time and am busy priddying the new acquisition. I guess there'll be more on that when it's fully priddied.   Meanwhile, do any of you real aviators (I know you're here) know what is surrounded by the yellow ring in this photo of a Texan ii. There are two on the left of the fuselage and one on each upper & lower wing surface. Six total but none on the right of the fuselage.   Here's a bonus question for a fudge sundae. Any idea what the legend might say below the two white circles between Z and M? There's a matching pair on the right side and they all seem to have the same words.   And for a candle on the dessert, any Beechcraft pilots know what info is on the riveted plate over on the right? It's just under the leading edge of the horizontal stabiliser. Is it manufacturer's serial number etc?     Snip of a photo by Taffevans, who has taken some outstanding reference photos.