The FS2004 (FS9) Forum

I'm in love with the excellent freeware PSPanels 737NG. Probably the best quality freeware panel I've seen. Anyone know of similar quality high res freeware panel for a 757? Maybe there is one out there i haven't found yet. Also I have a love of the old 727s. I know these aircraft are old and extinct now but it seems as every panel designer made the panels to look old and beat up. You know at one time the 727s were new. I would love to find a decent 727 panel that had a new just built look with that new airplane smell. A kind of panel that had the high res quality that the PSPanel has but with analog gauges. I think I'm dreaming here. I checked out Captain Sim's 727 and t…

Since I can't seem to get either RC or PFE working in my new Windows 7 environment, I was wondering if there are any other alternatives out there besides VATSIM and the standard ATC that ships with FS9?

I am having problems with the POSKY 777 Freighter and the 747-800 at night. When the landing lights are activated my ground textures become blurry. When the landing lights are off they are fine. My other aircraft including POSKY aircraft do not cause this. I have changed video drivers and nothing cures the problem. I would post this on the POSKY forum but they seem to get a little testy when you post a problem with their aircraft over there. I'm running windows 7 64 bit with an E6600 overvlocked at 3.2 ghz. 4 gb of ram and a 8800 gts video card. All are running fine. Here is a pic to show you. This only happens at night with the two aircraft. Landing lights on. Landing li…

I have fs9 installed on my computer. I am running windows 7 64 bit on a Pentium I7 920. I have a ton of addon scenery and aircraft. I mostly fly PMGD 737's and 747. I have my FPS leveled at 50 FPS, and has been running pretty smoothly. I recently added a few freeware aircraft and after that I started to get all kinds of problems. First it was my joysticks. I have a CH Flightsim Yoke and pedals, and the CH throttle quadrant. All of them setup and calibrated within FSUIPC, and the joysticks disabled under FS9. The first issue was when I plugged in the throttle my sideways spot vie of the aircraft moved to top down as in looking at the plane from above. If I am ion cockpit v…

I just installed Eugene Heyart's DHC-3 PZL Otter amphibian. My problem is that the aircraft simply will not taxi or take off from the water. As soon as I approach water the aircraft suddenly rises uncontrollably into the air. I am am sure that there is something simple and stupid that I'm overlooking. Any help appreciated.Michael Verlin

I have just created some texture sets within GEpro, now to get it to work how should i proceed for start up?Im thinking to start up GEPro and enter a FP, then start active sky 6.5 then fs9, is this correct??Thanks

I am running FS9 on windows 7 and when starting up I get the original Flight Simulator screen but then it quickly goes black and remains black until I get the Creat a Flight screen Hope someone can helpregardsBrian

I am running at 1280x768.In the first picture you can see the jaggy lines on the 747 and on the 2nd picture you can see blur into the horizon.Is this because of my Sony bravia 32" LCD running at 1280x768 ?

I know this is off topic for this forum, but it was the closest to FS2000. I had recently come across this FS2000 addon. It is apparently a partnership of American Airlines and FS Partworks. It adds payware DC3 and a 757-200. Both are American airlines liveries. The box has the American Airlines logo all over it. It also has an AERAD CD charts logo on the box. It also has the World Airline Simulation logo on the box a few times. It comes with a disk and an American Airlines 757 Operation Manual checklist. It also says there a Boeing flight manual, (which I have yet to find unless it's in the other manual or on the disk), and there are a few old postcards that come with i…

Anyone out there who uses any activesky, could they clear the air for me...The one big thing getting me, Do i have to install the Activesky textures?Or can i keep the default ones, or the REX ones instead.... Liam

hello all,as you see from screen, i have a bad water view above black line. actually i dont know if it is a problem or not, so i am waiting for your comments about following screenshot; sight distance: 110 milecloud distance: 60 milehow can i deal with this?

When I change my view, from VC to spotplane and back I see for a short moment strange patterns popping up.It is a issue I struggle for a long time but delayed actions due to a hardware change so I am sure that the hardware is not the case.My former C2D 8500 with 8800 GTX produces exactly the same as my newer i5/750-275GTX.I also made a fresh FS9 install and tried standard .cfg settings but the same result. It appears all over the world so add-on (Europe) scenery is not the problem. It appears also in default scenery.I have included 2 screenshots.Happy landings

I notice that FSGenesis is now selling 19m mesh for FS2004. I have their complete set of 38m mesh. I now have a new system which should now be able to handle a higher resolution mesh, but I want to try it first before investing more $$ into new mesh.Does anyone know of any freeware 19m U.S. mesh available? My google search and sim site searches have come up empty.gwillmot

So i have SNA2004 installed and downloaded the Service pack for it off of avsim. When I installed it all correctly and took my first flight there i noticed something that was a bit odd considering i was only there a couple days ago. They were having me and AI planes landing on the skinny short 19L runway! So i opted to take the ILS 19R from FS2004 ATC , which is no big thing, but when i see AI landing on 19L and over shooting the runway end, it's just a bit odd. So i edited the Afcad to close runway 19L/1R all together, but still ATC wants me to land in 19L and same with AI. Is there a way i can fix this? Also ive noticed i have a file, SNAtaxisign.bgl above my AF2_KSNA.b…

hello everyone, Im currently reinstalling fs9(for the last 2 days) and am looking for something to seperate my AI, I was looking for AI seperation but cant seem to locate it. Would anyone have th efile and be able to pass it along, it would be greaty appreciated.P.S MODS, if this is not kosher I apoligize and request that this post be deleted.ThanksP.S Email address is gerry_dude999 at hotmail dot comThanks again

What setting would let me see in the distance a little more clear, it seems since my reinstall a few miles away from my aircraft it is pretty blurry, but right underneath ny craft it is very nice and very clearly visible.ThanksP.S im running GEPro if it matters.Thnaks againP.S.S I would advise against a complete reinstall unless you absolutely have to, it is so time consuming it is unbeleivable. Mind you the sim runs amazingly now. :(

Hi allI've searched high and low and haven't found a solution to my problem: FS9 runs brilliantly, but I still get major stutters whenever AI traffic textures are loaded. Ground textures are perfectly smooth, but as soon as I approach a new AI aircraft, the sim stutters until the textures are loaded. I'm using WOAI traffic, and I've tried converting to DXT1 but no difference. FS9 also runs off its own harddrive (defragmented).Doesn't matter if the traffic is set to 10% or 100%, even a single AI aircraft causes a momentary stutter, and on final approach to any airport it gets a bit ridiculous as the sim stutters every time an aircraft gets within "texture showing range". A…

Hey does anyone know a good city scenery for Hong Kong? Is Fly Tampa's or 9dragons rendition of the city better? Which one can be used with imaginesim or thomas kwong's VHHH?Or is there any scenery that depicts just the city itself not the airports. I have autogen for Hong Kong but sometimes it's not very real.Any suggestions much appreciated.Thanks

Greetings All:I've been using an older version by Chris Buff of the L188 Electra that employs a constant rpm buildup of the prop at start up. By this, I mean that there is no fluctuating of the prop rpm as the engine comes to idle power. On a newer rendition of this AC for FS2004 by another author, on start up, the prop will start to rotate, then almost come to a stop, and then slightly rotate in the opposite direction before reversing itself to continue in the clockwise direction. It is not a smooth continuous rotation of the prop. I'd like to know if the prop rotation in a continuous rpm increase, is part of the Model or Aircraft file or where ever, and is it adjustable…

I recently upgraded my system with a new one from Dell and am finally bringing FS9 back to it's former glory. Now comes the time when I must decide on which AI packages I should install. In the past I used WoAI and PAI packages, but honestly I can't remember which one was better since they were both mixed. Has anyone done any comparisons between the two to see which one has better frame rates, definition, etc? Is there something else on the horizon I should be looking at instead of WoAI and PAI?

Just finished installing these addons, first "Mesh St. Barths 2004" then "Scenery St. Barth" (version 1.2.) Now flying over the island I realize that I have installed this version 1.2 but the landscape is unchanged. There are boats on the ground.In the addon library I have StBarths 2004 and StBarth but dont know why, the mesh has not been implemented.Using XP with FS 2004.Has someone any idea what went wrong??Scenery St. Barth (1.0) (4,2MB) http://library.avsim.net/sendfile.php?Location=AVSIM&Proto=ftp&DLID=67245Scenery St. Barth (1.2, bessere Performance) (3,65MB) http://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?DLID=68576&CatID=fs2004scenMesh St. Barths 2004 (309KB) h…

happy friday everyone,well I am in the middle if a tedious reinstall on my fs9, and i thought it would be a good time to up my experience within fs9. I was just wondering if REX is a good program for real world weather, or should i just stick with Active sky?I have yet to purchase REX but am seriously considering it, but am very curious as to how good the real world weather is, Im not questiong the textures for clouds, as they look amazing but just the real world weather feature.ThanksP.S I must say that I really like active sky, mainly because of the their customer support (The best I have received on any of my add-ons to date), And if I do switch over to REX I have no …

Any ideas for nice generic roads and highways textures for the whole world?everything i could google is for fsx. thanx!

Hello Avsim Flyers ,maybe you will know the answer !I just got back to the "old" FSinn 1.2 Beta as the new virsion did my some problems.. after installing the 1.2 and conecting to Vatsim i open my "ServInfo" to see other flights and ATC and found that near my Name the version of the FSinn is writtenlike so "George Clooney - Fsinn 1.2 Beta2does anyone know how to solve this ? Best regardsBush Buster

Does this include both the airport and city fully: http://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?DLID=151652 ?Is it better than these 2 combined : http://www.philskies.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=11209 with http://www.philskies.net/library/rpll2k4/download.html - the airport seems quite old, looks like it was made back in 2004...What about this for the manila scenery buildings: manila08.zip ?What do you think. Which has the best city scenery and also which is the best airport scenery?Would like to know what you guys think.Thanks