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FoxxMounts and Monstertech are 2 companies that make them.
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There are a near-infinite number of generic aluminum extrusion desk clamp mounts available on eBay and Amazon from several different “brands” (but all generally similar. I bought a cheap set of $65 mounts for my VKB Gladiator stick and STECS throttle unit. They are kind of a pain to assemble (lots of little screws and extrusion-channel nuts) but they are solid and work pretty well.
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I gotta get me that!
I bought the P-38 a week or so ago and I really, really like it! Earlier this week, I did a 300-mile trip from near Los Angeles to San Francisco. I went up to 15,000 feet and set manifold pressure to 40 inches and RPM to 2600 (normal rated cruise). It turned out I was really going fast! Indicated speed was around 260 MPH, but the tablet was showing true airspeed at 320! The coolest detail, though, was that I was landing in San Francisco shortly after sunset and noticed that the superchargers were glowing red. I don’t know why, but that detail thrills me to no end.
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That’s what the superchargers did (glowed), especially noticeable at night. Check out this reference on page 10, in the paragraph on the P-38M night fighter version.
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That’s so cool! And funny, because when at the end of flights I was thinking there was something wrong with the model or the specific livery when I noticed that coloration.
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I had the most amazing dogfight with @Zeanuck flying the FW190(?) yesterday. I haven’t flown against a human in a long time, and I was soon in trouble. At first I was thinking about flying the aircraft as efficiently as possible, but I had to firewall it to get out of a bad spot. That’s when the fun really started. This is an amazing good dog-fighter! I encourage you to really try to rip the wings off because it can take it. Thanks for the adventure!
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Thank you for the fun adventure 
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I just saw this plane is on sale in the marketplace. It showed 25 euros. Then I went to FI website and it showed 19 euros there.
Does anyone remember the default price? I’m confused lol. Is 19 euros on their website also a discounted price? Why is it so much lower than the marketplace discounted price?
The Marketplace one includes VAT, I’m not sure the FI site does? Also, the MP prices were recently increased, so that probably accounts for the rest of the difference.
Default price is 27.75 Euros on the FI site.
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Might not be the reason this time, but 3rd party shops (including the marketplace) keep some of the money when you buy from them. So Devs are increasingly setting a price which is what you pay at their own store, and increasing the price you pay to cover the commission when you buy through other stores. That way you are free to buy from marketplace / contrail / JF etc if you want to, and they don’t lose money on it.
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Well, good news and bad news for the P-38L in the new sim. I can report that the plane does work, sort of. It does load into the sim, but I can’t seem to do go a cold & dark start - seems to be something not working correctly in the starter/energizer switches for the engines. CTRL-E will start them up however. After that, all the gauges and sounds seem to work, though flight dynamics seem off. There’s a weird fishtailing oscillation in straight and level flight that I wasn’t able to trim out, and something I don’t remember experiencing in 2020, though I ran out of time this evening to load up the older sim to compare.
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It worked fine for me in 2024. I did a cold start. I had trouble getting the switches to flip up in VR, but that’s always been a bit touchy. Other than that, it worked fine. Walking around the plane on the ground is pretty neat 
That’s very odd. I had no trouble flipping the switches but the engines just didn’t turn over. Very, very odd. I’ll have to explore some more, along with trying to figure out that oscillation issue I was experiencing.
My pilot is not showing up- anyone else experiencing this?
Okay, correcting my earlier report: the P-38L does seem to be working okay in FS2024. I first loaded into 2020 to verify I hadn’t lost my memory on how to do a C&D start, and the plane started up just fine. Then I loaded up in FS2024 and tried again, and this time things worked fine. So either I was doing something wrong and not realizing it, or else I just had glitch yesterday.
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Don’t forget to close the windows on both sides…
I worked fine on my end, but did not have a pilot…
I don’t think any third-party pilots are showing up in anything. I believe I read a dev comment that that was a 2024 change. I would speculate that it’s got something to do with having our own character now. Devs will have to update their planes to show our characters.
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