**The OFFICIAL All Sims Air Tour Thread**

MAD1 said:
(Tako-Kichi. Re your multi-player flying, I've wanted for some years to explore the 'heritage' possibility of using old tech that is built-in to FS2002, FS2004 etc. to connect. You state 'SOH TeamSpeak 3 voice server.' I did join VATSIM years ago and got everything working, then didn't mess with it for a few years, then when I went back to explore, they'd changed ('improved'!!!) their environment and the old SquawkBox/TeamSpeak etc. was not longer supported and wouldn't work. I wasn't happy at all about that. Would anyone be interested to try an experiment to try a hookup via a single server, perhaps it only needs a shared IP address, per the FS2002, FS2004 original multi-player thingy? I just have this feeling that the old stuff will still work, and us philistines who don't want or need all the latest whizz-bang stuff are being short-changed by being advisied 'oh, that isn't possible anymore ...'. Maybe it is, we only need to try.)
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The SOH TeamSpeak 3 server is a voice chat server that we use to communicate while flying online to save all the distractions of trying to 'type chat' in the chat box while fighting to hand fly an approach in bad WX like we did in FS2004 (although you can still type chat if you don't have a mic/headset). It can be set up for voice activation or PTT operation either via a button on a joystick or a keyboard key. It also has a built in file storage area so that people can share flight plans, textures, screenshots etc. among themselves.

We use JoinFS for our dedicated SOH multiplayer server since switching to the new Linux only server last year but unfortunately the latest version DOES NOT support FS2004/FS9 anymore, it only supports FSX, P3D, MSFS 2020/4 and X-Plane. When we had a Linux server and a Windows server we were able to run FSHost on the Windows server which was fully compatible with all the MS based flight sims and supported 'Hop Lists' which were very popular back in the day and SOH ran as many as 4 or 5 different ones concurrently (including a Round the World hop list with 970+ legs that took me many years to complete!)

FS2004/FS9 users would require some additional support to be able to fly with FSX/P3D users (the newer sims are an unknown factor) where a FSX user could act as a 'host' directly and others could join onto his 'box' or someone could run a private FSHost server and people from the older sims could connect to that.

HTH.
 
Thanks Tako_Kichi for the info. Yes, I remember now, FSHost etc. Have never been into simming enough to bother messing about with it all, but am still intrigued by the fact that both FS2002 and FS2004 (plus others) have built-in to the software the ability to connect over the Internet, minimum setup I think is just two people, one uses their computer as the host, the other connects into that computer. Would like to try this sometime with someone, e.g. two FS2002 connected, or maybe my FS2002 connected to a FS2004 computer. If it worked, would be interesting to see what was possible, could we fly together, could we see each others aircraft in our own sims? What I'm talking about here is a 'legacy multi-player' scenario, the old stuff might all just work!
 
I miss our Club Chachapoya site. Now that this Adventure is finished, it'd be good to have a general forum space like we had with the FBO at the old site, where we could hang out and 'chew the fat' about things. Is it acceptable here in SOH to have a Club Chachapoya set up? VP2, your thoughts?
 
I was never a member of a 'club' over at flightsim so don't know how they worked (I first encountered them with last year's HeliFest event) but a dedicated forum section could possibly be done if there was enough interest to warrant it.
 
We could simply continue to use this thread, renamed. Things I'd like to chat about and get help with, I only yesterday successfully used on the Boeing 737 reverse thrust mechanism, have been frustrated for years with it. Could never figure out how to get it to work. Doesn't seem to be any specific tutorials on it, have seen a few Facebook Reels that show RW pilots on takeoff going through this sequence 'positive climb', 'gear up', 'nav'. Aha, the guys hit the NAV button, so I can do that. On ILS approach, visual, on the glidepath, on centreline, got the plane down nicely and by figuring out I had to flick off the Autothrottle switch, then nudge my throttle lever back to idle, then press F2 and hold it down (as the FS instructions say) the thrust reverser came on, happy day! But, none of that is explained anywhere I can find on how to do an ILS landing in a Boeing 737. This is where a Club chat forum would be useful, I could ask 'hey guys, how do I', with folk I know and trust, rather than posting the question into a general forum that might have thousands of people in it. Food for thought.
 
Whiteout speaking about the pleasure of sharing stories, tips and tricks, organising air tour and so on. Difference of a club and general forum, is that the club clearly identified actif and trusted members .
 
No idea of the programming involved, but probably flightsim used different forum software than SOH, perhaps clubs was a default option there. One item on the menu bar gave options for forum, downloads, clubs, etc.; selecting clubs opened another window with a large icon for each club, selecting one opened a new page that looked like a regular forum but with only club threads. (If you weren't a member you got a popup to apply.)

Whatever is worked out here, without too much fuss, is fine with me. We still have a home.
 
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