[Updated] Arrows Across America: fly the US Air Mail routes 1926 - 1934

Hi Luuk and Fred,

Thanks for your post. Great to hear you enjoy our work so much. What you discribe with 2 identical files should not happen.

We are currently working on V4. I will try if I can reproduce the issue you describe in that version.

Best, Rob.

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Hi Luuk and Fred,

My two cents: I have the Premium Deluxe version (or whatever the most expensive version is called!) and I can select 49BR in MSFS 2020 and take off from there. I checked and I can see SF-S 57B Lake OSWEGO when I fly. So I donā€™t think it has anything to do with the purchased version of MSFS 2020.

Iā€™m using the Steam version on a PC. Iā€™ve got all the World Updates installed along with a host of scenery and planes in the Community folder. I canā€™t think of what the conflict might be. If you are running the Steam version, you might try checking the integrity of the files that are installed.

Roger

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Hi

Thanks for the suggestion
Indeed this is a steam installation also.
I did run a verification and all 11729 files were verified succesfully.

Not sure how deep this verification is however as it was done in less than a minute.
As it says it is only 1.97Gb on my fs2020 drive. (probably only the steam loader)

And although my fs2020 installation seems to work perfectly, with the exception of AoA, i am considering reinstalling all fs2020.

As i also have all worldupdates etc, i know this will take a long time, so i need to see when there is a sufficient timeslot to do this.

Fred

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Hi Fred,
Iā€™m sorry, but I cannot recreate the issue. I can start at 49BR, and I see beacon 57B and 57A on my end.
Also everything is visible in LNM.
Iā€™m not familiar with the inner workings of the MSFS2020 installation, so Iā€™m afraid that I canā€™t help you there.

I hope you can figure something out, or somebody else knows the solution?

All the best, Rob.

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Took my loss and deleted fs2020 from my harddrive.

Reinstalled with premium upgrade packagae only and AoA active and can now select 49BR and also found the beacon at SF-S 57B Lake Osewego.
Clearly visible.

Will continue to add worldupdates and other owned stuff and see if somehow the becaons dissappear again.

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Hi Fred,

Strange, but Iā€™m glad you sorted it.

Enjoy the route, and in the near future you can fly here:




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So i installed all marketplace world and other available updates and all still is working fine.

The only two addonā€™s i have not yet activated are:

  1. PMDG 737NGx
  2. A32Nx Neo

So there might still be something in these addonā€™s as Luuk is not using those.

For the moment i am not flying the tubes that much so we will continue flying AoA with the available planes and enjoy the scenery and routes from AoA

THanks for your support.

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I saw you can vote us into the Market place. We have applied, but not yet been approved.
If you would like to fly the Airmail on your Xbox as well, cast your vote here :wink:.
https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/msfs-marketplace-program-which-of-your-favorite-3rd-party-devs-do-you-want-to-see

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Hi folks, we have been a bit quiet again getting across to the east coast but we have some news to shareā€¦

After a long wait we been approved by Microsoft as a Marketplace Partner!

Arrows Across America will be released under the banner of Time Machine Designs and we are working through the onboarding process with the aim of releasing in the early autumn.

Thanks to everyone that has supported this thread, linked to it from other threads and nominated us in the ā€œchoose the developed to approvedā€ thread - it has all helped to move the approval process along.

For those of you on PC, AAA will remain a freeware release available through Flightsim.to

But for those of you on Xbox we are really excited to be able to bring you the experience of mail runs from the Golden Age of Aviation via the Marketplace. Pricing will be at the minimum allowed by MS to keep it as close to free as possible for everyone.

And we will soon have an update on the next release including

  • the new routes we are adding
  • new hangar models and vehicles
  • @Megadyptes7635ā€™s work to georeference the original sectionals to provide you with overlays in Google Earthā€¦

Our Overall Route Map

The Beacons Around New York

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Just wanted to say that you guys deserve this and you are doing an amazing job. I love flying these routes.

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Great news,i have a lot fun to do this,if you want to have my free stearman GAS liveries(Fs.to) for this addon in the markrtplace,feel free to ad them,you have my permision to use them,if possible to adā€¦
did them for your addon :wink:

cheers Ralf

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Hi Ralf

That is so generous of you, thanks so much!

We will have a go with them in the test environment and see if we can include them in the overall file.

Richard

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You are Welcome!
you all did a Great Work there,
so i am glad to give some back :wink:

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Potentional beaconsā€¦

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Hello,
Unless I am mistaken on the SL-GF-25 & SL-GF-256 Aux points, located between U41 and 4U9, we should send a rescue team to change the lamps. Or, perhaps, the abuse of whisky. :wink: I do these flights with the stearman from https://goldenagesimulations.com/
Itā€™s a treat to fly in these conditions.



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Sometimes we experience trouble with beacon lights. Slightly offset, or not showing at all, despite correct programming in the Dev mode. We havenā€™t found the cause yet, but we suspect terrain elevations popping in, or some mysterious lack of maintenance, as you say. We will check what you found.
Glad you enjoy it.

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You really need to charge for this crazy amount of work- both in marketplace and outside.

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Might be critters getting at the wiringā€¦

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It was just a piece of information, a feedback.

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Sorry, it was meant to be a humourous follow-up to the possible causes of the ā€œoutageā€.

(We have also joked between us about modelling random lamp failures so probably a bit too much of an in-joke).

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