The FS2004 (FS9) Forum

Hi all, This is a problem I've been trying to solve in FS9 for some time now. When I edit the wind sound section in an aircrafts sound configuration folder I do not hear the changes as configured when flying. For example, I set the minimum speed to 250KTAS but the wind sound actually kicks in much earlier say at 125 KTAS during play, surely I should hear no wind sound until I reach 250KTAS as set then increasingly getting louder until it reaches maximum speed? The settings I choose in the wind sound section don't seem to correspond to what I hear whilst playing. If anyone has any ideas that would be great, maybe there is some other setting in FS9 inter…

I am making Kotzebue PAOT for FS9, which does not have a control tower, and I have noticed that AI aircraft seem to prefer the east-west asphalt runway to the north-south gravel one, even when the wind is 16 knots from the north. In fact "seem" is an understatement, they fly as if there is only one runway. To head off the inevitable question, I have checked and both runways and all taxiways are connected and there is nothing preventing them using the gravel runway. Is this normal? I think it is the first time I have made an airfield that has the two surfaces plus adequate runway lengths for both.

This is strange. Three times today, 2x in the DM BAC1-11 and 1x in the DM HS Trident 3, I experienced total engine failure. Upon checking the failure tab on each occassion the red checks were in the failed boxes e1 2 and 3 for the Tri jet, 1 and 2 for the Speys. Now, never, ever in my 15 plus years of simming have I set failures. I am not interested in those scenarios. What or how could failures be set whitout my knowledge? I haven't a clue and would appreciate any ideas. FYI, no new a/c have been installed, just a coupleof freeware sceneries I need for our current classic BA a/c tour of Europe. TIA

I have installed Airport Chart Gauge and everything seems to be working but when I try to build a database (running as administrator)the airports show as zero and I am unable to get any charts to show.. Using windows 8.1 pro 64bit and FS2004. Any help would be much appreciated regards Brian

Just curious

Much of my FS9 time these days is spent flying "war birds." Does anyone know if there's a way I can increase the torque effect to increase yaw when opening up the throttle and also when raising the tail on take-off? Though some do model this (especially the RAS Spitfire, which does so perfectly) many do not and as that is one of the real challenges of flying tail draggers, I would be grateful if anyone has any suggestions Cheers Ian

I finally got round to installing the MI-8 AI package, and then went looking for some. UNNT seemed like a good place to start, but there I found all sorts of interesting visitors. I chased down the AN-22 - no idea where I got it from - and my word that is a large aeroplane! I clean forgot to go looking for the helos. Another time, then, always interesting to visit the Russians out of season!

Hello Guys, Well I gotta admit Im not an expert on this topic when it comes to modifying an airport in FS. But the thing is, I tried to extend the renewed runway (length and width) with the AFCAD editor, the problem is that the AFCAD editor created the new runway extension under the Airport area (Pretty much like a layer) and also it created it with different textures than the original portion of the runway. What could be the best solution to this? Thank you in advance guys, Rafa

I have switched to Windows 10 but FS9 will only part load. When I click on the icon I get a message to ask if I want the following programme to make changes to my computer and the file in question is FS9.exe. If I say "yes" the splash screen appears and after a while the screen goes black with an enlarged waiting circle. This is followed shortly by an enlarged white cursor arrow. The screen is effectively frozen but on using Ctrl-Alt-Del I get a very brief flash of the Create Flight/Select Flight screen but in very large font and then back to the cursor arrow. If I say "no" the screen goes black and an icon appears on the bottom task bar but on clicking it I am told FS9 …

Just installed Bogota scenery of Detlev Rohmer (colapts1.zip). Compared with one of his screenshots I'm missing the old terminal and finger docks in front of the new part. Has someone installed this scenery too and might told me, what could be wrong ore missing? Eventually it could be the file "T2.bgl". Thanks for any advice.. author's screenshot: Bernard

I have the freeware A330-200 for American Airlines off of AVSIM. Reg N290AY Anyways I fly with FS Passengers and When I'm Taxiing and I Change Views The Aircraft Starts bouncing and causes FS Passengers to think i crashed. Any idea why or any fix for this? Thanks for the help.

At a Russian flight simulation website there is new scenery for Salekhard airport in Russia (USDD). I installed the scenery but all the taxiways and the parking aprons are missing textures and the runway is missing some textures too. I was wondering if anyone else has this scenery and if you have missing textures also? Does anyone know what I am missing? I translated the instructions using Google and it didn't say I needed to download anything else, so I don't know why I am missing textures. Also the author made scenery for USTR, UNOO, USRO, and USMM and they all work fine. (The file name for the scenery is 59189-USDD.zip)

Searched, but cannot find. Thanks. Sorry moderators, could you please move this topic to the "paint request" forum.

Hi Good people, Something different for FS2004 is coming your way - Working Jump Ramps. Not sure if this has ever been done before, but the Ford Project Team is about to release a bit of scenery that includes a bucket of jump ramps for your flying fun. There are eleven different jumps within the scenery package - from slight to very steep........ I am having great fun testing this scenery with a wide range of aircraft as I work on the refinements. In Final Tweaking mode now and should be available very soon........... Regards Your Ford Project Team

Hello everyone, I am trying to find what has happened to my beloved FS2004 I have just completed a full and fresh install of FS2004 and attempted to load My Traffic 2010 and was promptly advised that it could not find my directory. So I manually pointed to D/FS2004 and again I was told it could not find the FS2004 directory. I renamed it and tried to reinstall again with the same results. I have never had this problem before so I thought it may be a faulty FS2004 installation. So ,,,, uninstall, and reinstall FS2004. Tried to load the My Traffic again with the same results. I then went into my fs2004 directory and all looked normal so I am at the ???? stage.…

Hi all, I've been using the Feelthere Ejet series for awhile now, and for the most part, things work as advertised. I do have one issue, though, and that is getting the aircraft to fly a star/approach with a DME arc. I've ensured that the FMS is set up correctly with the published star/approach that includes a DME arc (quite common in the Caribbean where I do most of my flights) and I'm pretty sure that it's not a programming issue. For the record, every other procedure that I program into the Feelthere FMS works without a hitch (including Rnav procedures). In all instances where I've programmed a procedure with a DME arc, I've had to follow the arc manually in "heading"…

Hi I've been looking for a while for the proper config for the PMDG MD-11 3d lights from A2A but none seem to be accurate i found one on here but the strobes are only 3d when the taxi light is on so i taxi down the taxiway with strobes on and cruise with the default small lights has anyone found the proper config yet? i will greatly appreciate it. Thank you for any help Ryan

Good evening everyone, I'm looking to see if anyone can help me please. I have Project Airbus A380 in FS9 and noticed that the gear compression is not as compressed as in real life? I have tried to change the contact points and the static compression part in the contact points, but unlike any other aircraft I have done this too, nothing changes and the compression stays the same? I am not sure how I can change it if this method does not work? I'm not sure how I can add the screenshots that I have onto here? I look forward to any reply Kind regards Gavin Moss

I couldn't find any reference to this, but I wonder if anyone else has a problem with the Project Airbus nose wheel. (To be honest I am not 100% sure at the time of posting this whether it's restricted to just the PA Airbus, but I have been flying Boeings for some days and had no issue. Now I come back to fly a (PA) Airbus, I am getting problems again). The Airbus nose wheel has a tendency to flip round to 90 degrees when turning/taxiing, which looks odd, but that's the least of the worries: it may possibly be causing the problems I've been having, I am starting to think, with my X52 joystick. I have always thought the fault was with the X52 itself, where the Z Rotati…

I almost invariably take off by starting pushing the throttles forward until N1 is at 50%, then engaging the FLEX option. When I get to the Thrust Reduction & Acceleration altitude and LVR CLB flashes on the instruments, I go to THRUST to CL. That always works just fine. I was flying in the Chinese/Tibetan Himalayas today (great scenery!) and taking off from altitudes of up to 14000', the FLEX option just doesn't generate enough thrust to get the aircraft comfortably off the ground, even on 12000' runways. So I used the next gate, TOGA, and all was well. However, I then found that pressing the '-' key to get back to climb thrust didn't work. I get FLEX or SPEED.. …

Hi. Something I wanted to do is to fix a problem in some of my airports. In Honolulu, planes lands on 8L and 8R and sometimes takeoff 22L and land on 26L. In AFCAD I can close the other runways to leave 8L and 8R open. When I want to takeoff on 22L and land on 26L I can't because you can only do that on parallel runways. If possible, how do I leave 22L and 26L on while they are not parallel?

Hi all, is the T-37 by Microsimulator still available for purchase somewhere? I lost my installation files a long time ago but still remember it fondly, and flying some training jets recently I decided to give it another go. But the company seems completely defunct ... Is this retailed by a vendor still? I couldn't find it anywhere myself. Or maybe a boxed version? I'd buy it off anyone willing to part with it also! Cheers, Sascha

I tried to make an exclude to get rid of default scenery at LSGG (Geneva), but it didn't work. Turns out the buildings are contained in OB9EURW1.BGL (EurW). Is there any way to get an exclude to work on this file? I used ADE9x to make the exclude/ALL, covering the whole airport, but the default buildings are still there. Thanks

Downloaded FreeZ LSZH here and for some reason on certain views, the ground texture switches from apron to grass. Did the AFCAD purge, and side loaded FreeZ but same issue persists. Currently on v.61. Anyone have links to v0.9 in the effort to troubleshoot the problem?

I decided to play around with wx settings in FS9 and so set three layers of 7/8 cumulus with each layer 2000 feet thick - i.e. 1000-3000, 3100-5100 and 5200-7200. I thought that this would just about obliterate the ground completely once I was above 8000 feet, but it didn't. Instead, I got some quite visually interesting results. That's got me going now to try mixing other cloud types and layers. I wonder if anyone else has tried doing this? Dijvid