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oleandreasen (9/30/2008)
You DO know that in VC you can "raise" in your seat, yes? you press "shift-Enter" as many times at you want to lower the dashboard but not the horizon, as if you raised in your seat. I think you go back to default by pressing space, but you can see that in FS options, keypresses or what it´s called, where you map keystrokes.I new you could do it for cockpit mode, but I didn't realize you could do that with VC. Damn...call me idiot.  I thought you was stuck holding the space and moving the mouse around for views. Might make a little bit of difference....
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| Good tip Ole - raising the seat can be very useful when landing large aircraft, but one must aways remember to reset it just before landing or you can touch down at a disasterous pitch. As I recall the keys to do this in FSX are very different from FS2004... 
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| LDZA to LOWW (September 27) Zagreb, Croatia to Vienna, Austria Today's flight plan takes us North up to the Capital city of Vienna. It is here where I will solo with the Vienna Boys choir and practice my singing. Hope things go well.  
German Wings in background, and making downwind for a turn back to Vienna's airport.
 
Looking pretty good. Another new airline...Lauda Airlines. Taxiing to gate.
Landing Score:122.65
Landing included the following problems:
- Too hard - may have damaged your landing gear.
Flight Score:145.40 (Check out that number.... )
A smooth flight!
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| LOWW to LOWI (September 29) Vienna, Austria to Innsbruck, Austria. Well I blew them all away with my tenor voice. Standing O for the kid. Off to check out the ski resorts in Innsbruck. I was so looking forward to this flight and I made the biggest blunder, well it's not the first. I saw that both runways had green ILS on the map, so I didn't bother to make a non-ILS approach. Turns out I made a big mistake. Flight was absolutely awesome...took off at dusk. Flew north of the mountains until about 70 miles out, then ducked into a nice valley between the mountains to bring it home. Purposely flew VFR so I could land on 26, but could not get the control tower to allow me that runway so I had to settle for 8, and that when my plan went to hell. Got a big fat zero for landing...I was pissed but the pictures prolly won't do justice for the city all lit up at night.   
Makings of a great night of flying...flying over a lake....closing in our turn through the valley.
  
Cool flight through the mountains, closing in on Innsbruck, and finally the city all lit up....Awesome!
  
Had to fly over the intended runway and try to make a sharp turn back and land....man was that tough...Check out those mountains...
Landing Score:0.00 (Damn, just a disaster...)
Landing included the following problems: - No glideslope information was available on visual approach.
- No runway alignment information was available on visual approach.
- Too fast - you had to force the plane to stay down.
- No glideslope - could not compare flare to glideslope.
- Without spoilers armed - arm them before landing.
- Touch down not aligned with the runway - let's point down the runway.
- Poor steering after landing - stay on the centre line.
Flight Score:104.14 (Thank goodness I at least got some points for my troubles)
Flight included the following problems: - Steep banking - save your aerobatic flying for some other time.
- Exceeding flap speeds - your flaps may be damaged: have them checked.
- Loss of altitude during takeoff - climb smoothly.
- Rapid descent - dangerous and uncomfortable.
- Nose held too high - spilt drinks and worried expressions.
- Poorly trimmed aircraft - trimmers are there to help: use them.
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| LOWI to LSZB (October 1st) Innsbruck, Austria to Bern, Switzerland What a beautiful city....maybe some day I visit it in real life. Off to Switzerland and practice my yodeling.   
The backdrop on all these pictures is just incredible. The high steep mountains, water, snow capped....just awesome!
  
Get this baby up to altitude and get over these mountains...
Landing Score:115.09 (Humm, I swear I'm not pounding the pavement...sheez)
Landing included the following problems: - Too hard - may have damaged your landing gear.
Flight Score:133.57
Flight included the following problems: - Nose held too low - we're not in combat.
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