ERROR 404: CAN'T DOWNLOAD FALCON MANUALS
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AS THE TITLE SAYS EACH TIME I TRY TO DOWNLOAD A MANUAL FROM THE “4.35 BMS Document release” I GET A
“404 ERROR” AND I CAME UP WITH AN EMPTY WEBPAGE.
THIS HAPPENS WITH EVERY “Direct link”
win 11 , i5-11400f, amd 550 4gb, 16gb ram, boot:250 sata3 kingston, browser : microsoft edge latest -
oh, sorry, a bit of search reveled the truth. 3 to 4 weeks can’t come soon enough though
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYBODY!
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i HAVE BEEN IN THE PAST A FALCON 4.0 PREORDER!!!
AND THE BIG BOOK THAT CAME IN THE BOX MADE EVRYONE TO LOVE THAT SIM!! I HOPE FOR A DOCUMENT RENAISSANCE FOR FALCON BMS TOO!!!
MERY CHRISTMASS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYBODY - A FALCON JOURNEY THAT LASTED FOR DECADES AND WE AWAIT FOR MORE! -
@alu332 You do realise that all required manuals are installed with the sim in the main BMS directory?
Also you might need a new keyboard, your caps lock key seems to have failed…
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I thought they are not updated!!
don’t know where i got this impression!!!THANKS!btw read this==>
i have read them all and i find them somewhat lacking…
FOR THEGRATEST SIM EVER WE NEED TO HAVE THE GRATEST DOCUMENTATION EVER
i understand that documenting such a complicated sim is quite difficult and probably time consuming but there is nothing i believe more significant if falcon bms wants to open to more new players.
bms documentation is good BUT it lacks in my opinion the magic Falcon 4.0 documentation had or the falcon af training sorties. of course THIS IS MY PERSONAL OPINION…
BUT i think none disagree that if we have an excellent sim we need excellent documentation to make it justice
i also understand that i am kind of an “old dog”, where the documenation was half the fun!!! but today everyone is anxious to jump to a night low sortie straight to beirute!!!
btw
a)the most significant practical issue with the documentation is the fact that omits the actual keystrokes needed to operate the aircraft. I totally disagree with that decision and this- for me - makes the majority of documentation a chore to read and use…
b)the documenetation of falcon bms is actually in a quite good level, just if we could buy the damn think printedP.S sorryfor the caps. it was pressed and i never though to turn it off, i didn’t think it could bother anyone
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@alu332
BMS has stated that documentation method IS getting revamped in a future release. A few thoughts:
If keystrokes are added, which .key and keyboard layout should be selected?Printed manuals are slowly dying in real life aviation too, the ability to search, hotlink, and easily add updates are making them obsolete.
@Red-Dog did amazing work putting this altogether and made the -1, -34, and nav charts as realistic as possible while adding the extra appendices to fill on some of the sim specific issues.
We have been discussing the documents situation a little here as well: https://forum.falcon-bms.com/topic/21784/2021-a-falcon-bms-year-to-remember/
We also discussed the printed manual issues here:
https://forum.falcon-bms.com/topic/21707/new-bms-bound-color-mauuals-where-can-they-be-purchased/ -
For the keystrokes: the disicion is easy, add keystrokes in the US key layout and give us a guide how to add to our keyboard a us layout througth windows…
when you install windows, after choosinglanguage and layout it asks “do you want to add a second layout”? the second,third etc layout is changed through a key on the taskbar. My native language is greek-and mylayout is greek- BUT I always add the second layout as english US -that’s how i’m writing these lines to you now…I believe that the majority of windows installation have already an english layout choosen as second to be able to write english and communicate with foreigners… I thibk english US is the most common.SO
add keystrokes in the english us layout and give us a small guide how to enable it in windows setings…
My opinion…in the same idea-why is the documenation in english?there are so many lamguages! if this question was valid you should;n;t have write any documentation at all bcause In what languagee to write them???