The FS2004 (FS9) Forum

Hi folks ! I have come across a great real time flight connections map at http://www.flightconnections.com/ And thought AI traffic flight plans might be well applicable in a similar map, too. Do you guyz think any simmer had already given such a project a try ? Thanks !

I've created some user waypoints which I will want to access on a regular basis. So far, so good - I can see them in the waypoints list [Window/User Waypoint menu option]. However, how on earth can I call them up and select them for insertion in a flight plan? I've Googled, looked at FAQs and even read the user manual [!!] but I just can't work out how to do this. If someone can help I'll be most grateful as I feel a complete idiot not being able to work this out for myself. Ta! Dijvid OK, forget it! I've finally worked it out.

Last night I was flying this helicopter and I turned on all the helicopter lights by using the switches in the VC, but non of the lights came on. The only way the light would go on is by pressing the "L" key. What am I doing wrong? I haven't flown this helicopter in a while so maybe I am just forgetting something?

Good day Gentlemen I have reloaded my FS9 and added aircraft from the Jan. B. kristensen stable i.e. Handley Page Hastings and Hermes and Douglas C124 , Every thing is fine until you stop moving on the ground ,Runway or taxy way, all three refuse to start moving again even with full throttle applied, I have contacted Mr Kristensen and he has never heard of this problem . I can not find any thing obvious in my set up .,my operating system is windows 7 64bit Richard woodard

I have an airport where the developer has used "real" ground textures instead of the default textures. These look totally unrealistic when on approach so I want to delete them and revert to the stock textures instead. There are a whole bunch of texture files in the format "011222231230303an.agn" and "011222231230303su.bmp" which I assume are the "real" textures. If I remove these I would expect the stock textures to then show, but they don't. In fact, there are absolutely no textures at all which seems to suggest that the developer has somehow disabled the stock textures. Is there an obvious trick I am missing or am I trying to effect the impossible? Any he…

4I have now installed FS 2004 7 times from my disks but still cannot get it to function correctly. The loading procedure was FS 9 into C:\OS, 9.1 update, file not mentioned. When I click on the icon I am always asked to say yes to to Administrator start. That's ok. However, everything loads correctly, with sound etc. I leave the flight on the Cessna 172 and open the throttle and the aircraft starts to move. BUT if I touch the "S" key to change view the top of the screen changes but the panel remains. This happens on every aircraft. Can anybody help? I have deleted every non-FS9 aircraft to ensure no pollution from that source. However, with hidden files viewable I canno…

Hi I'm thinking of getting the QW 757 (I have the PSS757) ...I wondered if it's possible to do a go around then reprogram the FMC for another approach ?..the reason I ask this is because I once owed their 146 but go arounds were not modelled for some reason , I do a lot of Vatsim flights plus flights for controllers under training which involves low approaches and go arounds etc ,...I can do all this with the PSS 757 but it's a bit of an old add on now . Thanks Rich

Hi avsimmers ! I'm wondering if it could be possible to change the grayish ground shadow colors ( especially, of the aircraft ) in FS9 to a relatively more black tone ! Any comments would be much appreciated !

Wait wait wait. No, this is not an heads-up for a release. I was just wondering. Will the developers finish this scenery for fs9 or will it be a promise that will last forever. Do you guys have some info on this one?

Hello. Can anyone tell me where I might be able to request for a specific airport scenery to be done? I have the scenery that was made by Dave Erickson (jksnhole04.zip) back in 2003 but things have changed at the airport since then and it would be nice to have it updated. Rwy numbers have changed and it looks like the VOR freq has changed as well. I tried to contact Dave at the address in his documentation but it is no longer valid and I was hoping someone might be willing to redo it. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

ARMI PROJECT - TEHRAN IMAM KHOMEINI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT OIIE FS2004 available over at Simmarket and probably elsewhere. Greg

A few years ago, I got a 'cutaway' Hurricane off a PC Pilot CD. It was more or less transparent. It was made by Charles Kirk, & I think he did a few more cutaway's . Does anyone remember, or know of other cutaway or tranparant planes? Cheers, Robin

I got the iFly 744 from here and when I open fs2004, select the aircraft and hit ok it just crashes. I am running fs9 on windows 10 with the no cd patch.

I just purchased another new release for FS9 - Polish Airports Vol 1 2017 - a completely reworked version of what was already an excellent add-on. Takes things to a whole new level and if you purchased the earlier version from SimMarket, the upgrade is only 10 Euros... This is DEFINITELY worth buying... I am starting to think that FS9 will out-live me!!!! I am still very much an FSX-SE enthusiast too but for me they each offer a different experience and I enjoy both of them equally... And with our good friend Sascha continuing to upgrade EVO, I can't imagine ever giving up on FS9.... Cheers Ian

Hi all, I wanted to post some screenshots showing the effects of using SweetFX combined with Enbseries can have on your FS2004 look. This is not meant as a promotion for a specific look but rather a brief glimpse into the quite radical transformation possible, in this case based on my taste. But the great thing about these two graphics tweaks is that they allow you to go in ANY direction, from lots of colour and contrast to a completely detoned look if you prefer that by just changing a few parameters in the config files! This is what I end up with using both swetfx AND enb: This is what I start out with: Began by adding SweetFx HDR: Added SweetF…

Just aheads up to everyone here. Another great scenery released by Gary for FS9 Steve

Hi all! This goes to you who use TrackIR in FS9. I've had v4 with the trackclip for many years and couldn't fly without it. But the periodical stuttering has always bugged me. It comes and goes, never ends. The sim itself is completely smooth, locked at 60fps vsynced and stays there. It's only when you pan around that you notice the stuttering. It's no showstopper at all, but an annoyance that I'd be happy to get rid of. This stuttering does not happen in FSX or P3D. So I got in contact with the devs at NaturalPoint and they requested a video that shows the problem. I made one and now they are looking into it to see what can be done. Really pleased with …

Hi folks, I wonder if you can help. When I start FS9, which has worked fine for years, the splash screen comes up but before it gets around to opening the main menu screen I get:- "Your computer has run out of available memory. Flight simulator will now close. You may not have enough free space on your hard drive. Run Disk Cleanup to free up space and then try running Flight Simulator again." When I hit OK it then tells me:- "FS9.exe - Applicatiom Error. The instruction at '0x7c14f0e7' referenced memory at '0x0000001c'. The memory could not be read. Click OK to terminate the program." Well I thought the first suggestion unlikely as there are 68GBs fre…

Just curious if anyone knows of any reason given by PMDG why they would not release their FS2004 products as freeware? Yes, I would like to get a couple of freebies, I don't deny this but as far as I can see it would make sense for them to do so. Here is a chance to literally put out some fully functional 'demo' aircraft for people to try which could get them hooked on the PMDG brand. With strong competition coming from iFly in future sales I don't see why they would not look to use all avenues to control as much of the FSX/P3D market as possible. Their FS2004 aircraft are simply in the hangar doing nothing when they could be making PMDG future sales and pleasing a wealt…

Hello, I've used this tool on all my non-default scenery and all aircraft to fix any alpha channel issues. The thing is, that i saw a warning in a post in a forum, not to use such a tool on the main texture folder, because it would ruin the sky textures. I took a look in this folder and found 247 files that had "sky" in their names. I guess these ar the ones, but are not sure if these are the only ones. I wondered if anyone here had completed this operation before and can tell me if these are the only ones i should avoid? Regards Kim Jensen

I think all FSniners should d/l this gem. It's about missing alphas and how this causes stuttering. Once found it can fix them all if you wish at the touch of a ..mouse click Run it on your FS9 root folder and see how many faults it finds( So it will check all sceneries, Flyable aircraft, AI aircraft …the lot) . I think you will be shocked. http://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?DLID=187538&CatID=genutils I think this file should be called "U_thought_ur_ FS9.5 was smooth b4" Thankyou Peter Nyman. :Applause:

Hello. I have a question on how to use one original install of FS2004 (FS9) in the "C" drive of OS Win7 64bit. And another install of updated copy saved to disk (DVD) which I installed on desktop. I check the Scenery files from orig. install and go to "Cities" and open open "Properties" "sharing" and it shows they are not shared. I do the same in the desktop copy and it shows they are shared. I only did this kind of install because my updated FS2004 crashed, but not before I saved it to a DVD. The copy I saved to DVD is the updated FS2004 version 9.1 plus the new World Trade Center scenery, the new Gibraltar scenery plus all the add on bridges. I lost all the updates when…

The airport is UKLR, part of the freeware Ukraine06.zip available elsewhere and designed by Andrey Anta. The runway altitude according to ADE is 751ft. The airfield altitude shown in the default Cessna altimeter is 758.7ft. The entire airfield appears to be flat and the altitude on the Cessna at numerous points shows 758.7ft consistently. This includes the full length of the runway. I have tried flattens around the runway area at various altitudes, but I cannot get the correct runway texture to show. I'd be grateful for advice - it's a neat little scenery otherwise.

Go to the REX support forums and find it there. Downloaded and installed fine, under W10

I'm exploring airports, masses of them, every flight is to a new airport I have not visited before. At a later stage I intend to learn my away around the actual airport creation and modification tools so will likely learn the answers to some of these questions myself. For now I'm just curious if there are any typical causes for the 3 things I'm listing below or any simple fixes? These are problems I've hit more than once: 1. Why are taxiway signs sometimes all over the place? (Guessing it's an AFCAD thing?) 2. Why do some airports have sticky taxi or tarmac areas? For example, you need to apply a good deal of throttle to move. (Guessing maybe a texture property wrongly a…