VoxATC

In an effort to put as much useful information out to the sim community as possible, I want you all to check out this program for Flight Sim. It works in FS9 and FSX:

http://www.voxatc.com

In short, would you like to talk back and forth to ATC within your flight? This allows you to do it. No more ATC on screen, no more push 0 through 9. Speak real ATC lingo and hear it back. NOTE: This uses Microsoft's Text to Speech in order to talk to you. Some people expect a real voice. You won't get that. What you do get is much better, REAL WORLD ATC lingo spoken to you, and you speak it back. Free demo download on their site allows you to use at 2 or 3 airports. In March they are expected to release a new deluxe version that incorporates two AT&T True Natural Voices (Which normally costs about $300 per voice) in their product. (Which is all of what, $50 dollars?)

AWSOME program, you'll love it.

Matt

VATSIM Pilot, USA-W

Coral Airlines, N324CR

Pilot ID: 908853

http://www.mycessnasim.com

GREAT KLAX Scenery!

This scenery package only works under FS9, but is awsome!

http://www.fscloud9.com/php/products.php?lang=EN&id=138

They also offer a score of other products, I have not tried any of those but I love this KLAX upgrade. They are even offering a 50% off discount right now. If you put in this coupon code: BLAH then the package comes out to a little over $10. Moving cars, lighted KLAX light poles, great airport scenery! If you fly into or out of Los Angeles international airport in FS9, you'll want this!

Matt

VATSIM Pilot, USA-W

Coral Airlines, N324CR

Pilot ID: 908853

http://www.mycessnasim.com

FlightScenery.com

I've tried many scenery downloads and purchases over the last couple of years for creating better looking airports. NOTHING has ever come close to the products offered by Flight Scenery!

http://www.flightscenery.com/products.htm

They even have a page for optimizing Flight Sim:

http://www.flightscenery.com/optimizingfs.htm

If you'd like a demo movie from my sim (forgive the horrible video and sound, this movie was taken under the old sim and Fraps took my TH2G 3 screens) look at this video I made of their Portland area scenery I purchased:

http://www.mycessnasim.com/movies/flightscenery_kpdx_mycessnasim.wmv

I can't recommend this companies scenery enough!

Matt

VATSIM Pilot, USA-W

Coral Airlines, N324CR

Pilot ID: 908853

http://www.mycessnasim.com

FSAutoStart

I can't recommend this utility enough:

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/System-Tweak/FSAutoStart.shtml

Carl Hackman from http://www.flight1.com mentioned this to me while trying to tweak the sim for Ground Enviornment Pro II. Later I looked it up and I'll never fly without it again.

In short, you run FSAutoStart and it shows you all your windows services that are running. (Print spooler, MSN, Anti virus etc) Naturally, you don't need these while flying. It lists them out and when you mouse over each one, it'll give you information (as much as available) about what that service is and what their general recommendation is. The options are "No Action" which leaves the service running while FlightSim is running, "Stop" which stops the service entirely until you reboot or "Stop and Restart" which stops the service while FlightSim is running and then restarts it once you exit out of FlightSim.

Simply put, this can save you some valuable processor cycles and memory, thus giving you better performance in Flight Sim!

Matt

VATSIM Pilot, USA-W

Coral Airlines, N324CR

Pilot ID: 908853

http://www.mycessnasim.com