I hope we can get this sorted out for you. The CS C-130 is a fun aircraft to fly in FSX/FSX-SE (I haven't tried it in P3D v3.3 yet).


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I served a 6 year tour in the USAF as an avionic specialist, working on the C5A, C141, C130 and C123

The good old C-141 Starlifter! As a 12 or 13 year old (1971), I used to watch those big planes taking off from the Richmond AFB (Sydney N.S.W). My parents had friends who lived at the end of the runway, no kidding, if I jumped over their back fence, I would be on the Base, and only about 100 metres, if that, from the end of the runway, and I got to stay with them for a week while my parents were away. I used to sit on their back door steps to watch them take off. They used to need the entire length of the runway to get enough speed to take off, and as they were coming down the runway, I was ready to "run like hell" to get away if they didn't make it in time (like I could escape from that if it was going to happen [smiley=rolleyes.gif]). There were always a lot of them coming and going from Richmond AFB at that time (because of the Vietnam War), so I got to watch a lot taking off in the week that I was there.

Note. My father was an aircraft welder in the RAAF. for 22 years (1953-1975), and he served in Ubon, Thailand, for 6 months in 1966. The longest we ever stayed in any place during his time in the RAAF, was Malaysia for 2 years and 6 months (1961-1963), but it was normally only for 12  months, so we moved a lot when I was a kid!