The FS2004 (FS9) Forum

Hi there,i have a problem with my fs2004. When i approach an airport, it looks fine. All of the sudden (when i am close enough), the textures get extremely colorful:Look at this, please: http://www.bodovanlaak.de/pics/Vergleich.jpgThe right part of the pic is ok, the left part was photographed ca. 1m further in flight direction... :-(But this is no mipmapping effect. An it happens also with (at least) most ai planes, and with addon scenery building and autogen. You can even switch this both color tones by slewing forward and backward.Can you help? I tried all graphic driver options (gforce 8800GTS) and also all fs9-Settings with no luck.

I came across a rather excellent looking ATR by S

Hello everyoneI recently got the excellent Posky 747-400V4 and just completed my first flight in it which ended in a night landing. As you all know - when the landing lights are turned on the #2 & #3 engine-pods are illuminated by the beams.However on my jet: I switch the landing lights on but the pod-illumination effect only flashes on for a second and then it goes out (the lights themselves are still on are still on though).How to make the pods stay illuminated? Am I missing an effect file or perhaps a bitmap? Switching to external view I noticed that the fuselage-illumination effect was working properly...but not the engine-pod lighting effect :(A small issue I kno…

Does anyone know how to get the A/T working in this merge?Thanks,Brian

What does this error message mean? "The FolderC;Program.....(FS2004)AddonSceneryscenery is not an active folder. With the current setting, Flight Simulator does not use scenery files from this folder. Are you sure to open a scenery file from this folder? "Just what is an 'active' folder, and what does current folder mean?Am trying to learn how to put scenery items onto an airport using Instant Scenery and when I try to Select an airport BGL file from the addonSceneryscenery folder, I get this 'no-can-do' mesage. Does it have anything to do with the fact that when I open FS and start a new flight, none of trees or bldgs I put on the airport with IS, show up? I'm really …

One of my favorite freeware aircraft is the Project Opensky Boeing 757-200 Winglet Version 2004.9.0. One small issue I have is that the landing light on the nose landing gear (it has a landing light AND taxi light down there) will shine through the cockpit and form a strange cone of light above the cockpit in foggy conditions when the gear is retracted. The landing lights on this aircraft seem to be coded somewhere else other that the aircraft config file, otherwise I would disable the landing light on the landing gear and just keep the ones on the wings. Aside from not flying in foggy conditions or not turning on the landing lights until after the landing gear is down, d…

Thomas Kwongs beautiful VHHH scenery (is there going to be that update ever?) gives my Ai issues when on approach. Sometimes Ai just sits in midair, frozen, other times they approach literally on their side and slowly sink into the ground. This doesn't happen anywhere else. Has anyone else seen this and does anyone know a solution? thanks

Is there a Yangtze River Express 747-400F repaint for the aardvark model? http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1298106/L/

Been trying for some time to get these two addons to work with eachother, everytime it ends with disaster!When I swap out the CS panel with the PSS the A/C itself looks like it belongs in Mohave with no wheels and engine covers open.Ideas?Tom

Looking through the Filemon log I see dozens, probably hundreds of attempts to locate a file called AISmooth_RO.db-journal. The lines in Filemon look like this:AISmooth.exe:1248 QUERY INFORMATION G:Program FilesAISmoothAISmooth_RO.db-journal NOT FOUND Attributes: ErrorObvioulsy I am running AISmooth, but does anyone know what this file is and if I should really have it? Thanks,Martin

Where can I get information on how to read an AI flight plan?

Hi Guy's.I have the freeware Hughes 500, an EC135 and the Alphasim MH53J, however I can't seem to get any of them to show up as AI.I can't even get the default MS heli to show.Can't we have helis as AI then.any help would be very much appreciated.Thanks.

Greetings, I still have the AI problem as when first installed.I don't understand why I see so few Landings and many, many TO's.I suspect it something I've done, but what??Lots & Lots of TO's but maybe one incomming per 1/2 hr.I've got AI set to 100%Next, Dragons Pilot Guide suggests watching traffic from Airport Carpark Rooftop, Where is this building???Thanks,scupper

Does anyone know of a way to use a text writing app such as NotePad for taking notes, without pausing FS? Maybe a knee board plug in or something? I want to write down my runway assignments, squawk codes, etc. using the keyboard while the controller is speaking, and using a pen and paper seems so . . . 20th century! :-)TIA.Chuck B.

Hello all,I need some help in finding out why I can't finish installing Groundhandling gauges for FS2004 aircraft By Rob Barendregt. I have read and followed his readme instructions about 5 times now. I added lines to my panel config as instructed and successfully installed the Icon into the panel as his instructions have mentioned. I installed the guages into the guage folder of FS2004 but all I get is a black square when I try and pull up the pushback utility. Is there supposed to be a Panel Bitmap for the Guage? If anyone knows, I sure would appreciate any input.Thanks and fly safeDave

Wow! Is this a record? Almost the entire front page devoted to ONE addon......and wots more, a FREE addon!! How much better does it get?

I haven't flown to this scenery yet but went through the install process last night.I notice in a couple of the folders, for example in the "10 9Dragons - Copy these files to your FS9 Scenery-Generic-scenery" folder there's a readme that says "Rename your default FS9 Generic.bgl to something else...". However, the 9Dragons replacement file has a different name, which is "9DGeneric.bgl".Should this file be copied "as is" with the "9d" in front of it or should the "9D" be removed so that it's actually named "generic.bgl" and replaces the default "generic.bgl".I didn't see anything in the instructions about renaming the 9Dragon files that were replacing default files.Thanks.…

I am trying to complete FS VOR lessons & am wondering where to get VOR info for any airport I might want to fly to? Is there a web-site I can go to for this info? I don't seem to be able to find it in FS9.Thanks,Terry.

I've tried posting the same question on the ATR forums with no luck, so I figured I'd post here.For those of you who use the Flight1 ATR72-500, when route planning the FMC, I've noticed the only altitude constraints I get are those relating to STAR approaches. None of the other constraints automatically generate based on the navigational database as is suggested in the F1 ATR manual.Should these constraints next to the way points be there and I'm doing something wrong, or are you required to put those in by hand?

OK, I have track IR 4 with the 3D hat clip thing. It is set up and works with FS9. Generally I am using it with heavies like the LDS767.My problem is in the actual usage of it. I have a headache, it makes me dizzy and I am now flying like my 8 year old.I have the "enter" button set up as pause and I am using it quite a bit, particularly when scanning to my second screeen. I just find that I can't seem to get the right head position & view for landing and in turn I am scanning all over the place trying looking at my instruments. The pan rate seems very fast.Perhaps some of the experts can give me some advice on setup that will make things smoother.thanks,Mark.

Basically I don't know if it has installed!! I paied, and then nothing happend! Nightmare. Is there a folder with ground environment stuff?Cheers

Greetings. I've searched the world trying to figure out how to install this gauge in aircraft as a little popup gauge with no success. Is there a simple way to do this? A tutorial? A gnostic gnome roaming cyberspace with the secret in his pocket? Any help would be appreciated. Miller

I have a problem with the AI traffic performing the IGS on rwy 13: when they should be on the ILS, heading 088, before turning right for the visual approach, they in fact are not on the ILS, but shifted to the left almost a mile, so their turn is wider and less challenging than it should be. Is it my problem only or it couldn't be done better? In my Generic folder I put both Generic.bgl by 9Dragons and 9D_VHHX_IGS_Approach.bgl.Thank you.James

I know this has been addressed before, but for whatever reason, I cannot seem to search the right keywords to find the answer here. My heading in FS9 is jacked up to the nth degree. Currently, I am flying at a hdg of 160, however my hdg indicator reads 041. Thats not a magnetic variation. That is an error in my FS. Im sure once I restart my FS, this problem will disappear. Ive seen it before. But is there any way to fix this? Any way to do it while it is running?After setting up a flight and firing up the active sky, squawkbox, flightplan this and that... It takes 20 minutes to quit and start over. Seems like there should be a fix to this to avoid this inconvenience.

When flying around the scenery/airplane texture appears fine, but after I land, and goto instant replay mode, the textures for the aircraft and scenery vanish/turn gray, and it looks very odd.Any solutions? (images attached)I'm running a 2 GB machine w/ 512mb video card.Thanks,MB