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Is there a way to view your plane in Spot View and at the same time have some of the basic cockpit instruments showing on the screen so you can watch takeoffs, levelling, etc and have use of some of the instruments?Thanks.Louis

Hello, I've just discovered a little mistake in the panel instructions. It's about the ILS testing switcher (number 21 on the captain's panel screenshot). The doc says you must turn it on, test the ILS indicator and then turn it off. TURN IT ON AND DON'T TURN IT OFFin fact, it enables the ILS indicator. When it's off - no ILS. OK?Sorry for this mistake.

Ok guys, I had to reformat my computer, did this last weekend. And on monday I would say I installed FS2004, and it went as normal. SO I restarted my computer and all of that and went into FS and it worked fine. BUt, yesterday I went into start up the game and all it gave me was the FS 2004 startup screen, and that was it. Well after about 5 minutes or so I did the crtl.-alt.-delete button to see what was going on, and what I got was a Not Responding title next to the game. Well when I hit close the good ol' "THis program has encountered an error" and of course I hit the End Now button. I have both service paks from Microsoft and I guess some security updates, that my bro…

Hi,Visited the Windows Update site and found this: 'Recommended Update for DirectX 9.0 - Managed DirectX' under optional software updates."This update for DirectX 9.0 - Managed DirectX (DX) includes security and performance updates. Before installation, verify your system is running .NET Framework and either, the DX 9 gold version, or the DX9.0a version, of DX. Download now for the latest Managed DirectX updates."What I would like to know is do I need this update if DirectX 9.0c is installed?Mike

Hello everyone,When I take screenshots in full screen mode all I get is a black picture. It doesn't matter whether I use a screen shot program or just press the print screen button, the result is the same. If I go to window mode it works fine. I have an nVidia Ti4200 video card with the latest drivers. I can't find settings anywhere that have any effect on this. Has anyone else experienced this?Thanks in advance for your help.Corey

I just wanted to mention a very big Thank You to the guys over at FSDZigns for all the work on the Lockheed 049a "Constellation" Add-on for Microsoft Flight Simulator. You guys have done an excellent job of capturing the grace, beauty and sound of an aviation era gone by. Your efforts reinforce the fact that the love of flight by all of us really make flight simulation special when flightsimmers such as yourselfs go the extra mile to produce such a fine piece of work.Thanks AgainDave

Am I correct in thinking that QNH represents current barometric pressure at mean sea level for the local area(hence indicated altitude is read as AMSL)? This, in turn, means that at sea level, the altimeter would indicate zero altitude(approximately, given that I can never be at MEAN sea level!)? Or, to take another example, (which I found in an article explaining Transition Altitude/Level), if QNH is 1043hPa, then my altimeter will detect 1013hPa ACTUAL barometric pressure at 900 feet AMSL approximately. If I now change QNH momentarily to 1013hPa, the altimeter will read 0 feet AMSL?Follow up question: At what QNH value will the altimeter display the correct airport elev…

Hi folks...I hope someone can give some clues here...I've been trying to land at Innsbruck, Austria (default airport, with FSGenesis mesh), using a variety of aircraft...IFDG A320, Kittyhawk 737-800, etc. Everything's fine until I get to start the turn into the airport, runway 26, when ATC is asking for a visual, but has me at 10,000ft up until aprox 8 miles out. Only then does it ask to descend to 3900ft....far too high at that range, and so it's not possible to land! When requesting a go-around, ATC happily steers you straight into a mountain-side...not very friendly!! ;)This is all with a standard IFR flight filed through FS9's flight planner, and using ATC to guide…

If so, were you pleased with it?Victor

I find the Aerostar 700 plane more inreresting than the Panther.Butin the avsim review they wrote about the FSD Panther that'This airplane, simply, has the best flight characteristics of any airplane I have flown in any simulator.'So this arose my interest in the PantherNow the FSD Aerostar was finished after the FSD Panther, therefore Iwonder if I can assume that the flight characteristics of the Aerostar is as good as the Panther?

Have any of you seen how the body gear on the A380 extends/retracts, pretty cool, check it out at www.airbus.com and follow the links to the A380 pages :-)

I am now unable to print any flight plan created in FS9. I never had this problem before. My printer is working fine , and I am able to print other areas of FS9, such as help topics.My problem seems to have begun when I tried to print an FS9 flight plan while I was running my 737NG (PMDG) sim software. Has anyone one had this problem of not being able to print an FS9 flight plan?Would reloading the FS9 cfg file help?Any suggestions you may have would be appreciated.Thanks.Stanner

Hey guysim getting some wierd blurry images, on AI, some of the downloaded planes and on the taxiway signs...now i know how to fix it in DXbmp, but this take very long...how can i easly remove the mips (creating the problem i think) quickly?note the Delta is blurred so are the SIA's wheels and the taxiway signs.http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/91112.jpgcheersNick

Fellow simmers,I have multiple Traffic.bgl files in my FS9. My question is this. How does FS9 allocate priority in resources to show AI traffic in any given airport? Does FS9 pick a particular .bgl and show all traffic (according to the %) in that .bgl first then moving onto the next .bgl? Or does the FS9 engine somehow allocate the same priority to all available .bgls. Thanks for your input.

A phenomenon I have with both Rick Piper's famous Viking and the stock DC-3 as well: when breaking after landing, I can easily put the nose of the plane onto the ground and thus crash the aircraft. So, "stuttered" breaking for me is the only way to keep the plane from turning over and stopping it at the same time.On the other hand it's quite difficult to raise the tail during the takeoff roll.Both problems don't exist on the new MAAM-Sim DC-3, so I guess the flight models are simply badly designed in this area.Don't know if the strange breaking behaviour is realistic for the Vickers Viking, it is described as nose-heavy, cannot confirm this due to lack of more information…

I installed Sqawkbox and now I'm getting this error message when I start FS2004"Mag Var InitCannot read FS2002 MagVar data.You will be using 0.0 Magnetic Deviations."What do I have to remove to get rid of this message?

I downloaded the fantastic looking F4-U corsair by Hulin Guy. It flies fine when I start in the air, but any time I try to take off it turns very hard to the left and I crash. Any one else having this problem?

Hello! I would like to know how I can modify the weight and balance of A300 SGA. In the simulator it shows CG a lot the front and that is influencing in the dynamics of flight of the aircraft. In the landings the aircraft comes with the nose down and that complicates enough. Is anybody known that a problem is in the file CFG or AIR? They know where I can download a FDE for A300 (B2 or B4).Best regards!:)Alan/BRAZIL

Hi folks,i'm wondering if there's any way to influence the fuel flow of aircrafts by tweaking the "aircraft.cfg". One of my planes has an higher fuel flow than the real one. What effect do the lines "fuel_flow_gain" and "fuel_flow_scalar" have?Hopefully somebody knows more than myself.cheers!Tom

Avsim,Would you please consider starting an AI Traffic Forum in the MSFS section. The TTools Forum has kinda been a general AI forum in the past, but lots of AI related posts are made in the MSFS General Forum. I propose that you rename the TTools Forum to "MSFS AI Traffic Forum". All posts relating to AI aircraft, AI flightplans, TTools, AFCAD, and other AI related material would then be more consolidated. Thanks for your consideration.

I've just installed the demo of FS Painter by Abacus and noticed that in "Animate mode" an FPs is shown on screen for each aircraft...in fact each repaint of each aircraft. Could this be the ultimate and also the most convenient way to find out which aircraft model is the most frame rate friendly? For instance: I loaded an Aardvark B743 and then the equivalent Project AI's B743 and the quoted FPs was significantly lower in the Aardvark model as I would have expected, but it seems to be a great comparison test of the many 'AI aicraft' now available and I have hundreds of them in my aircraft file.

Thought I share some of my FS experiences here.Excuse me if I'm not familiar with Hawaii, I have no maps available at the moment, but I do the best I can.Yesterday, I did a flight starting from the northmost airstrip of the island which is south of the one where the Hana airstrip is located, with Hana as destination. The weather was generated with Wetter2004. I choose the Vickers Viking, and pure VFR. After tekeoff and a left turn, I climbed to about 5000 ft with approx. 180 kts heading towards Hana. It's pretty difficult to see this airport, so I cheated one time by switching to spot view to see if I missed the airport already. I was exactly over-flying it when I did thi…

Hi,I somehow lost my FS9 default Piper Cub (probably a senior moment).Could someone out there list the procedure for reinstalling this aircraft off of the installation disc.Also, I know that I would have to get into a CAB file. I would need to know the procedure for extracting the needed file.I tried to do a search, but came up empty.Thanks, in advance.Joe

One thing I have noticed recently is that my Microsoft waves in FS9 suddenly seem to be lapping the shore like poodles on heat. They seem to be going twice as fast as they were ... I'd be happy just to kill them as I think they look silly anyway half way up the Thames, but how? I have NO water effects enabled as my card does not support DX9's water effects, and my other effects slider on NORMAL.I did upgrade my Nvidia driver recently to 56.72, but I'm not sure if that's related. I'll post full specs if necessary.I'd be grateful for any advice from the surfing community. Thanks.Mark "Dark Moment" Beaumonthttp://www.swiremariners.com/newlogo.jpg

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