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DVA1528
Captain, B757-200

Joined on February 16 2004

Midwestern United States

43 legs, 103.7 hours
39 legs, 92.1 hours online

Posted onPost created on January 04 2005 16:05 ET by Raymond Lancaster

I either print out the one from the manaul in my payware aircraft or make my own from the a/c procedures. I print them on "card stock" paper. it is thicker than normal paper. I them laminate them using self adhesive sheets I get from the office supply store. I trim the edges and there you have it. A checklist that can take those coffe spills when in turbulance

DVA2052
Captain, B757-200
E-MAIL

Joined on December 19 2004

"Iraq can eat my arse."
Middle East

44 legs, 176.6 hours
30 legs, 111.0 hours online
7 legs, 21.9 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on January 05 2005 02:22 ET by Todd Krebsbach

now THAT's a hardcore flight simmer wink

Todd Krebsbach

Captain, B757-200

DVA938
Senior Captain, MD-88

Joined on November 03 2002
Million Mile Club
Online Seven Century Club
50 State Club
Bi-Millennium Club

Dunwoody, GA USA

2,132 legs, 4,949.7 hours
1,197 legs, 2,739.0 hours online
1,301 legs, 3,486.7 hours ACARS
16 legs, 39.5 hours event

Posted onPost created on January 05 2005 06:06 ET by Jared Angstadt

Hehehe I like to put them on a htm as well as the ref stuff and put them into the FS kneeboard instead of looking at the PDFs etc.

Jared Angstadt

Senior Captain, MD-88

DVA2030
Captain, B777-200

Joined on December 01 2004
Online Triple Century Club
Long Beach Century Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary
Quatercentenary Club

Maricopa, AZ

411 legs, 763.3 hours
376 legs, 696.5 hours online
362 legs, 692.8 hours ACARS
4 legs, 9.4 hours event

Posted onPost created on January 07 2005 02:09 ET by Greg Goodavish

For the computer illiterate among us, how do you put them on the FS kneeboard?

Greg Goodavish

Captain, B777-200

Posted onPost created on January 07 2005 10:20 ET by Jared Angstadt

All you need to do is make a normal htm or html, I use FrontPage, however, I am sure any web page creator program will do the job and save the file into the aircraft folder you are going to use them in then open up your aircraft config and add these to things to the fltsim.x entries you use: kb_checklists=
and kb_reference= next to the = sign you type in the name of your web files, a good idea is to name your checklists file with a xxx_check or xxx_checklst name and the ref page as xxx_ref. After that you save the aircraft config and your done. The next time you load up your aircraft you can press the F10 key to bring up the kneeboard and then press the last two buttons first one is checklists and the last is the reference one. Hope this helps, if not I'll try to explain it in simpler terms. smile

Jared Angstadt

Senior Captain, MD-88

Posted onPost created on January 07 2005 10:55 ET by Jared Angstadt

One note the my last post I found that FS might not see a xx_checklst file name, but the xx_check will work.

Jared Angstadt

Senior Captain, MD-88

DVA1267
Senior Captain, B777-200

Joined on July 09 2003
Triple Century Club

"Tactless, Understood, Right"
Colorado Springs, CO USA

368 legs, 1,943.8 hours
47 legs, 192.9 hours online
54 legs, 217.2 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on January 07 2005 22:45 ET by Matt Reamy

Jared, perhaps you can help me out here. How do I search through the ones I have to find the one I want? I will happily sit here for hours making html files to display an approach chart... but do you know of a relatively simple way of turning those millions of html files into a searchable database to use in FS?

Matt Reamy (DVA1267)

DVA894
Captain, B757-200

Joined on September 27 2002

Round Lake, IL USA

24 legs, 55.6 hours
8 legs, 22.1 hours online
4 legs, 10.5 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on January 08 2005 08:02 ET by Bill Bouxsein

Matt:

If you download FSUtils (from avsim I believe) there is a folder set up to allow you to add your app/dep plates and seperate them by airport or region, however you wish. You can then open them from the kneeboard. If you can't find the program let me know, I will either help you find it or email you a copy.

Bill Bouxsein (DVA894)

Posted onPost created on January 08 2005 08:06 ET by Jared Angstadt

Matt, as far as I know all you can use is a htm or html, no "databases" or anything, however, what you can do is make one file that is linked to others and just point FS to the main "menu" page for each, if you have DF's 727 they did this with their checklists and reference stuff, like V-speeds, EPR settings, Trim settings, I can look at the structure and set up and let you know how I see it done if you need me too, but what I will do is look at the aircrafts docs, if the developer did not make and put their own stuff in, and make a htm of my own and stick it in there, these files can include graphics, the reference page I made for the ERJ-145 PIC includes a pic of ExpressJet's Pax Weight sheet for me to look at when figuring weights for JetLink flights. If you want IAP's in yours the best thing I can tell you to do is get jpgs or gifs of the charts you want and put those on web pages, if need be set it up simular to what I was referring to above. For this purpose I use the Myairplane site.

Jared Angstadt

Senior Captain, MD-88

Posted onPost created on January 08 2005 08:12 ET by Jared Angstadt

Hmm, Bill I'm curious where you found this, I searched Avsim and FlightSim and turned up nothing.

Jared Angstadt

Senior Captain, MD-88

DVA1347
First Officer, B757-200

Joined on October 18 2003

Southeastern United States

12 legs, 27.6 hours
7 legs, 15.4 hours online

Posted onPost created on February 03 2005 15:08 ET by Ched Wiggins

I have not yet made checklists for MSFS2004, but I have made checklists or charts for two other games: WWIIOL and Falcon 4.0. I don't have any pics of the Falcon kneeboard, but here are some WWIIOL bomber kneeboard pics (sorry I don't know how to imbed them):

http://www.latech.edu/~cew006/bomberkneeboard1.jpg
http://www.latech.edu/~cew006/bomberkneeboard2.jpg
http://www.latech.edu/~cew006/bomberkneeboard3.jpg
http://www.latech.edu/~cew006/bomberkneeboard4.jpg
http://www.latech.edu/~cew006/kneeboardv2.jpg

These are basically all the data needed when conducting strategic bombing raids of opposition factories, along with aerial photos of the target facilities for visual identification. The coordinates are there as well, allowing a pilot to line up on a facility from a cardinal direction on a latitude or longitude line while still several miles out of town. This is know as the Initial Point (IP) and once there, lined up, and inbound at altitude I like to call is "being in the groove."

This kneeboard (and the Falcon one) were made by printing the sheets to be 1/2 of a 8 1/2" x 11" letter-sized sheet. They were then pasted together and laminated (at Office Depot here in the US). The Falcon one was easier because the checklists for the F-16 come in a PDF that already has two panels one on letter-sized page. I had to use some creative resizing on a copier to get the WWIIOL perfect.

To make FS2004 charts, I will probably use a deal similar to what a friend of mine on USAF C-130s uses. He has a book with some small slide-in page protectors instead of laminated charts. 1. It's cheaper. 2. It's much easier to update. Just print and crop, then slide out the old and slide in the new. Also it hold more charts because the laminated charts are pretty thick.

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