Thank you! to both of you. I really appreciate the responses.   The model is Iris's freeware FS9 version of the PC-9 that is bundled in with the retail FSX version. I have leading edges, wings. horizontal stabilisers and errors and omissions left to do, and then learning how to fly it...   The wording will be much too small to be clear but not knowing is frustrating, especially as everything else in the reference photos is perfectly clear.   D    

During our catastrophic flood here in Feb 2022, all the modern comms went down: electricity failed (or was turned off for safety reasons), the cell phone towers' batteries eventually went flat (nobody could get to them for days or over a week or even longer), so mobile (cell) phones went dead, which is what most people use nowadays (we still have a fixed copper wire network but few people are on it nowadays, and the company that owns it is encouraging everyone to go to cell).   Since then, our community has started up our own Emergency Community Radio Network, using mainly UHF CB. Little communities in the valleys have formed up local chapters. This has all been coordinated by local hams. (I've been involved a bit with helping set up our local community chapter of that CB network.) Of course, none of this is likely to work in the next 'big one', but the community awareness is better than nothing, than ignorance. Now, the authorities and private comms companies have upgraded things and given assurances that they're better prepared', but there is much evidence that nothing much has changed in the two years since the catastrophe. So there is a lot of community mistrust in governments and private businesses when they say 'don't worry, we have all the most modern infrastructure', as all that modern infrastructure went down in 2022!

And locally, there's always CB Radio to fall back on. I think I still have that old rig laying around somewhere...   I have a little Grundig G5 shortwave radio, but have never been able to pick anything up other than AM/FM. I wouldn't know where to tune anyway; it's in Meter Bands instead of MHz or KHz. Had much more experience jabbering away on Ch. 7 in my youth (that was our preferred CB Channel).

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