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From: urban@spp2.UUCP (Mike Urban)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Re: Microsoft Flight Sim problem?
Message-ID: <926@spp2.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 25-Jun-86 16:36:18 EDT
Article-I.D.: spp2.926
Posted: Wed Jun 25 16:36:18 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Jun-86 04:15:13 EDT
References: <920@spp2.UUCP> <302@colossus.fluke.UUCP> <830@wang.UUCP>
Reply-To: urban@spp2.UUCP (Mike Urban)
Organization: TRW, Redondo Beach  CA
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In article <830@wang.UUCP> ephraim@wang.UUCP (pri=8 Ephraim Vishniac x76659 ms1459) writes:
>>> (re my problems with saving situation and the solution)

>This is only one of the many appalling ways in which MicroSoft murdered and
>dismembered the user interface.  The flight simulation in Flight Simulator
>is great, but just about everything else about it is awful.
>
Yep.  By the time you read this, the "cancel" for the original article
should have reached your machine, as I discovered the solution for
myself a few hours after posting.  RTFM (Read The Manual), as the saying goes.
I guess I got used to the usual high quality of Mac software where you
hardly ever *have* to read the manual!  The simulator's  user interface indeed
sucks rocks.

>> >By the way, I feel that Southern California geography got
>> >slighted by Microsoft.  We're pretty flat, but not *that* flat!
>> 
>> We at John Fluke are right next to Boeing's Paine Field, which you can take
>> off and land at in MFS.  They don't show Fluke on the map, but it's easy to
>> figure it out.  It's great fun to try to land in my office area....
>
>How about the East Coast?  When I take off from Logan, I can't find Boston!
>No Orient Heights, no Beacon Hill, no Pru or Hancock, no MIT or Harvard...
>Manhattan's OK, but I'd like something a little closer to home.

If people will send me (ELECTRONIC MAIL.  DO NOT CLOG THE NET WITH
THIS MATERIAL) lists of about three or four MAJOR ground references
near their favorite Microsoft-simulator airport, I will collect
them and post them back to the net and additionally send the list
in a nice polite letter to Microsoft.  Obviously, they can't put
*everything* in the simulator, but Boston and LA (and the SF bay
peninsula) are really bland, and I should think they could add
some "local color" without running entirely out of disk space.

And for the record, notwithstanding the gripes, I *LIKE* this program,
have spent obscene amounts of time playing with it (skim along next
to the Golden Gate, watching out the side windows, oo, fun!),
and recommend it highly.
-- 

   Mike Urban
	...!trwrb!trwspp!spp2!urban 

"You're in a maze of twisty UUCP connections, all alike"