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This is a 360 panorama of the flight engineers station on a B-36: Six reciprocating R-4360s to keep an eye on, plus fuel, pressurization, hydraulics, electrical, and other systems. Steam gauge heaven! http://www.nmusafvirtualtour.com/media/062/B-36J%20Engineer.html Must have really been something when 4 jets were added! You can pan & zoom in & out in the picture. Stan

Noticed this while doing some testing between Shader 3.0 vs. not having it installed for Nvidia users. This test is the NGX, 100% UT2 traffic, Fair weather theme, and Orbx PNW. Sitting on the runway with downtown Seattle and the terminal in view seems to be about the worst FPS situation you can put FSX in (minus some situation you setup that would never happen in the sim during a normal flight). What I noticed was that with the mouse over the menu bar there's a 5 FPS increase. And it holds steady as long as the mouse is there. Anyone have any idea what is causing this? If I had to guess I'd bet this is some quirk with my system and combination of addons, otherwise so…

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I purchased UT2 last week. I notice that between 1 and 5 AM generally midnight the traffic is less in the sky at most airports. However, my question is, Why don't I see AI aircrafts parked at the gates at midnight? Every airport I visit is a ghost town say between 12:30 to 5 AM. This doesn't make sense as even if the dep and arr traffic is less, you got to have aircraft parked at the airport gates or remote bays. My settings are Weekly 40% and Daily 25%. Do I need to increase the percentages? Help on resolving this issue would be great. Thanx Sanjay D

Today I was in the MJC DH8D, and I was coming into the FlyTampa Scenery Buffalo/Niagara Intl on the RW32 visual approach. I didn't want to use ILS because the visibility was good. When Buffalo Approach cleared me to Buffalo Tower, I began my -700 FPM descent on approach for RW32. The problem was, the PAPI lights were very dark, in fact, impossible to see until at about 1000 ft. This bothers me because I came in slightly low, but I still landed well. It's the same deal at Sint Maarten. PAPI lights are way too dark in the daytime, very hard to see when coming in with the KLM MD-11 or the AA B738.

Hi all, Recently, my HDD decided to break on me, and that's where I have my ~\Documents\Flight Simulator X\ directory is located. Now I want to add custom flights (like AOA tutorial flights or MJC ones), I don't know where to add it to. My FSX is installed on an independent SSD, now I would like a way to redirect FSX to look in the OS's drive (also another separate SSD), and look in C:\Users\[me]\Documents\Flight Simulator X\. Although there is a "Flight Simulator X" directory in C:\, but when I put custom flight files in there, FSX doesn't seemed to be able to find it. I've had a search of this around, but all the topics it returned didn't solve the problem…

The Simcheck A300 was one of those planes that I was going to buy several years ago, but I told myself I was going to wait for a Service Pack. That came and went, but my interest drifted in other directions. It looks like a nice plane, but I never hear anybody talking about it, or putting it on their must-have lists. How does this rate in realistic systems modelling, accuracy, and overall experience compared to some of the top addon airliners out there today? Would it ever get any use when you have a hangar full of PMDG airplanes?

I have no connection with this company; I'm just a poor simmer who was looking for a solution to a problem. I like to use the built-in ATC in FSX once in a while, but I really didn't like having to reach the keyboard to give a response, and I didnt want to waste key positions on my GoFlight modules. I looked at ordering a USB keypad, and also taking a keyboard apart and mounting the keypad seperately. Then I found iSimpleKEyPad. That coupled with an old iPhone 3GS that I used only on wi-fi made a very elegant solution. Here's a screenie below.. I then mounted the iPhone on top of my CH Products yoke and voila.... very elegant solution. I dont need any of the other…

Just curious, are most flight simmers flying DX9 or DX10. Has there been a recent poll on this? I know there have been recent posts on DX9 and DX10, but I have never seen any poles of the use of one verses the other. My system appears to be running good enough in DX9 that I am somewhat hesitant to go thru the whole 10 yards to convert to DX10 -- it looks like a fairly cumbersome process. I expect this might be moved to the DX10 forum, but hope not, because it will get more exposure in the FSX forum as this post pertains to both DX9 and DX10.

I am testing out the demo version and have it working on a networked desktop and laptop both running W764. And using FSX Acceleration. While the client aircraft moves with the server aircraft the clouds (which are supposed to sync, right?) are very different between computers. I've included two screen captures that should tell the story. The server has crazy striped, prismatic cirrus, while the client has something that looks very real, altho not what the current station weather is reporting during the update process. I don't have any weather add ons that could be interfering. So far as I know I followed all the directions. The anomaly seems to occur with an…

I am looking for a complete description of the [Exits] section of the aircraft.cfg. with respect to the jetway and cargo door positions I have read the SDK. It says the coordinates are from a Reference Datum. Is that Datum position the same as the Reference Point for all the other dimensions like camera definitions, engine placement, lights, etc.? For a particular aircraft the exits coordinates have to be related to the nose wheel position on the parking spot. I find that if my plane is located by using the stock aircraft position that FSX sets at a particular airport the cargo loader and the baggage truck are not always aligned with the cargo door on the plane Sometimes…

Alan AKA Chock (where is the these days?) posted his thoughts about Pro ATC X on here in a thread that grew to a zillion posts. I thought I'd share some of my first impressions, having done a few flights with it now. The thing is, we NEED ATC in FSX. In the real world, you don't move an inch without ATC. Pretty much the whole job is about interacting with, anticipating and processing the instructions from ATC. We still don't have an ATC program that replicates the real world very well. I was keen to see how this newest (and the only one currently being developed, apart from VOX ATC perhaps?) add on got on. I've had RC4 and PFE. I looked at Vox ATC but I knew I'd…

Even after a clean fsx.cfg I struggle with blurries. Aircraft can look as sharp and crisp as you could imagine but scenery especially whilst in spot view often looks very blurry indeed. What are the main things to try to combat this issue? Should I add a high FFTF entry to allocate more time to texture loading? Lower sliders? Change inspector settings? Just so many variables and so little knowledge on my part of these technical issues. Thanks Martin

The only stock aircraft I fly is the default C172. I'd like to exclude the others from my acft loading screen to help organize my in-game selection window. Is it save to, say, rename whatever folders I don't want to use to *.bak ? I don't play the missions either but I wondered if my addons that happen to use a file from stock planes would have an error because a certain gauge or sound would not load.

Hi Guys, I'm having trouble selecting NAV mode on the autopilot. Heading mode works fine but for some reason I can't get into NAV mode even though I think I have programmed a valid flightplan into the FMS. Any clues on what I may have done wrong? Cheers, Noel.

Hi I was wondering if it would be hard to transition to the PMDG 737 from the iFly 737? And would it Difficult to transition from FS2crew for iFly to the one for the PMDG? I've pretty much got flying the ifly to Memory.

I've been practicing my ILS approaches with the Real Air Legacy, and twice now I've landed far too early and the only answer I can come up with is either I am hitting the GS at the wrong angle, or I am coming in with too little speed or could it be both?

Hi everyone Can anyone tell me what would be the flight route when a brand new A320 is delivered from France to one of the airlines in the USA please, do they go via Iceland/Greenland?? just curious. Thanks Paul

Lionheart has put up lots of preview screens of the upcoming Fairchild 24 http://www.lionheartcreations.com/Fairchild_24.html John

The New Brunswick Bluebirds Formation Team (formerly FSNB Virtual Bluebirds) is now looking for pilots. At the present time, we have two openings: Left Wing (#3) and Slot (#4). We are kind of laid back, yet when in the cockpit and flying tend to stick to the serious task at hand - flying and behaving like pilots. Requirements: Flight Siulator X with Acceleration, a good knowledge of FSX commands and control settings, How to fly an airplane in FSX and be willing to install our T-33 - which we will provide. Ability to fly in formation is not a requirement - we will teach you that Other requirements: •Attend regular practice sessions - we have two per week and are on Sund…

Hi everyone, Sorry if it is the wrong forum to start this topic. Please change the location if this is wrong. I am having a problem with FSX airport ground textures. It happens at every airport. The textures flicker constantly and it is really annoying. I have some screenshots which might help explain. I am using DX9. Sorry about the zoom. The textures flicker can be seen at the terminal in image 1 and 2.

I know there is a way to select what information comes up on screen when you press Shift+Z - I have done it before, but for the life of me I can't remember how and seraching these forums for relevant keywords hasn't produced an answer. Can someone please help? Thanks!

Hi, I'm looking at getting ORBX's PNW region for bush flying and test flying the PMDG 777 out of KPAE. What does everyone think PNW is like for these purposes? I currently have most AU packages and I love them. Also, how are the FPS? Thanks in advance.

First of all it looks like a fun program but I can't figure out why the flights don't seem to match up with the aircraft? What I mean is, I did a search for flights for a 737 800 and one leg was 4000 nms and call me crazy but I didn't think a 738 could even do that? When I do a search for flights for a 747 they all look like something for an ERJ. I'm fairly certain I'm doing something wrong, can someone help me?

Hello, I would be interested in knowing how be users use the flight simulators FSX and Prepar3D. Meanwhile there are many addons which have P3D installers. But for some of them it is not allowed to use them in P3D. Moreover the PMDG T7 will probably not be functioning with P3D, apart from this it would be not allowed to use this addon with P3D, too. So, do you use FSX only, P3D only or both together? Patric