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The fine folks over at Pac Islands Sim have some pretty sweet screenshots of their upcoming Cook Islands release on display here: http://islandsim.com/pis_forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=288&start=40 Should be ready by the end of August and will make a great place to launch a 777 from or any plane for that matter. Raratonga International Airport has a nice 7,638ft runway to accomodate just about anything. It will be my next scenery purchase for sure as I love island flying.

After reading through the Avsim FSX guide I decided to check out the Alpha Channels and MipMaps in FSX. However, I am rather (or completely) lost when it comes to how to fix this... I know I should use ConvImX for this, but I have no clue at ALL which settings to use... and if I should repair these files anyway or not. Maybe someone here who has some experience with this all can help me out? Here are the files that have things missing: should I fix them or not? If yes, what settings should I use? Alpha: MipMaps:

Just a quick question - with most types of games I'm used to them getting the best FPS in full screen mode. However, with FSX it's the opposite. Much better in windowed mode. Even with a brand new high end system my full screen FPS goes down to around ten, whilst hovering around 25-30 in windowed mode. Is this how it is for most people? Or is it something I should look into?

why is this happening!?! its adding a lot of green only in surrounding areas that my plane is at and adding ground in the ocean near klax! im also using utx and senery tech.

I cannot get any updates at the moment on any of the weather servers. Spy monitor reports many met stations, yet 0 available. edit: Disregard...updated to latest beta seemed to have fixed the problem.

Hello everyone, I recently downloaded and installed a new freeware scenery from the file library called Tampa3D, the quality of the work is quite nice especially if you use Airport Enhancer HDX and REX ESS + OD, however there is the really annoying scenery killing documented problem, there are giant black boxes covering the runways! I have looked at Flight Sim's forums and someone came up with a texture fix however apparently I am completely stupid when it comes to making textures (I am not a texture artist, in fact I don't think I have ever made texture before) so when someone tells me to make a black alpha channel saved in a DXT1 .DDS format I colored the background bl…

I've been using the same route for practice, and I'm tiring of having to input the same waypoints every time, I use Flightsim commander, which now says it can save axe flight plans, however, any attempt at saving a flight plan, the flightplan comes out all messed up in axe. Half the waypoints go missing and the rest are all messed up to the point that its not worth saving a flightplan in fsc I can't figure out how to save the flightplan in the aircraft itself, does anyone have some help?

Do any of you have an idea of how many active flight simmers are using FSX, not just AVSIM participants, but actual world-wide users? Also, does anyone have an idea if this hobby is gaining or losing participants as the years go by? I realize this info may not be available, but thought I would ask.

I got SimLauncher 8.9 but when running it i get a popup screen saying this: and I double check to see if I have that file in my main FSX/P3D's root folder, it's there and the version is 4.671 which is the latest one.

I've been experiencing a lot of difficulties trying to download files from the library on here. It just won't work at all no matter what I do. I have tried on 4 different computers, 2 different operating systems, and 3 different browsers and none would work at all. It's a very strange problem. Sigh. There's a lot of files I'd like to get from the library but unfortunately it just isn't working for me. Could a kind soul please show me where I can download the simlauncher app for fsx/p3d. Since it's on the library, I can't download it. Would appreciate if someone can put it on a file sharing site such as zippyshare or something similar. Appreciate it greatly.

Doing some cleaning of my FSX installation after years of installing/uninstalling various addons and currently I'm focusing on the FSX\Texture and FSX\Scenery\World\Texture folders. Should also mention that I have a 100% clean and out-of-the-box FSX SP2 installation I always keep on my disk should I ever need any of the default files. I'm done with the FSX\Texture folder but looking at the FSX\Scenery\World\Texture folder I have a number of files (39 to be exact) not found in the clean FSX SP2 installation so appearently these files were at some time added by some addon. I have already uninstalled all addons that would likely place/replace any files in this folder and…

Hey guys, Does anyone have an updated AFCAD for MSP, I found a few (avsim, flightsim.com) but they're not very good and outdated, does anyone know where I can find a really good one? Thanks!

Just watch the PMDG 737 walk around video in AOA website (http://www.flyaoamedia.com/aoa/nicks-737ngx-walk-around/) Wondering how I can move so smoothly around a plane like that?

I would really appreciate someone posting a screenshot of the new Orbx Global textures for PEI somewhere near Charlottetown at say 1500-2000'.

Hello, This topic is addressed to users of WOAI or people with lots of knowledge with AI traffic (I don't know anything lol) I have been using WOAI traffic for a few months I really like it it's free and the models are nice but I am starting to get annoyed. On most of the airports I fly at witch in the real world are pretty crowded, there is hardly any moving traffic at all times of the day and all year long, maybe 1 taxing plane and one landing that's it! My traffic sliders are at 100% And all the gates are filled but it's not realistic to have no wait for takeoff! Any help would be appreciated! Thanks! -Spark

Hello, Dudes! How to Adjust fuel in B747-400 using FSX? Suppose I fly a long route like from Lahore to London Heathrow. So how can I calculate that how much right fuel should I adjust before take off? Otherwise, you know that over fuelling cause the plane's nose too high while landing. Best Regards, AP,

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Hi Simmers FSX is behaving strange with AI. The only airport where it loads all the time is KLAX My set up VOXATC controls all the traffic and I have default AI disabled as required. Now Im not sure if its Vox atc or the A1- player. Im pretty sure it may be the AI player as I messed with it trying to restore the AI traffic So I extracted the original AI player from FSX disk however FSX just crashes to desktop with the original. I dont know a lot about the AI player so would appreciated some guidance in finding out whats happening with my AI (woai) traffic, thanks edit forgot to mention re starting fsx can sometimes re set AI at any airport …

When I start my flight with the PMDG 737 NGX , it starts cold and dark. This is something I don't want. I can't get on the FMU screen because that's black. Also the default Cessna 172 starts off with the engine running, but it quickly shuts down. Not all my planes are doing this. What do you think is causing this. What steps can I take to get that FMU screen in the 737 to light up so I can go to the " start up in default " to click on to ? I do go through the Booster 2013 first to start FSX if that is making any difference. Thanks guys in advance.

I plan on giving P3D a try, however I have FSX installed and everything is running really well. Is it possible to have P3D installed as well or will the 2 conflict when another?

I had UTX Europe only enabled yesterday when testing FTXG. I was pretty impressed with the textures and autogen, tested it around EDDM and across Europe. Bought SceneryTech few months ago only to cover the Balkans, the part of the Europe that UTX don't cover. Enabled again SceneryTech, and moved the entry just above UT landclass vegetation entry, just to assist UTX for vegetation placement. I tested that combination before with default FSX textures and it was fine, but the story with FTXG is completely different. See it for yourself: (tested just above EDDM) UTX + FTXG UTX + SceneryTech + FTXG With SceneryTexh entry squeezed between U…

I emailed you guys too get on your forums, I haven't got an answer yet. I know your having email problems that's why I'm posting here. I sent you 2 emails 1 from yahoo email and 1 from aol email. Sent them this morning. Looking for a reply Lar

Hi All Fsx is on drive E However the repair disk points to C only. Can I get it to point to drive E at all?

Hi again, FSX is giving me another headache. I installed a hi resolution scenery (SBPA). It worked fine for a few days, however now I see water where should be terrain. Here is the image. It is pretty annoying. Visibility is not good since I was using real weather, but clearly you can see buildings "floating" in the water. I tried to config this scenery as the number 1 layer but had no result. Also I downloaded a file terrain.cfg that said would fix the problem but no had result.

I am thinking about biting the bullet with the next Europe mesh. It comes with the worldwide mesh. I know they/it works with UTX and GEX, but how is it all installed? I presume worldwide first then the Europe NEXT afterwards. Is it easy enough? I did ask before but cant seem to find where I asked it. Paul