The FS2004 (FS9) Forum

Well, I have a decent system since september: an AMD Athlon 64X2 4000+, 1GB DDR2 RAM, and an eVGA GeForce FX5500 256 MB video card. I had FPS locked at 24 and the framerate stayed there almost always. The exceptions: SKBO Colombia Virtual 2007 Xtreme Edition... (well, it's the same airport of Virtualcol Bogot

I ported over my P.A.I. VHHH A.I. to land at VHHX, and waited at the holding point for 13. What an absolute hoot to see the Cathay Pacific Boeing 777 follow the curved approach down to its landing point about 2/10's down the length of the runway.It's just as much fun being an observer on the ground watching the flights (Air China, Korean Air, Cathay Pacific) land as it is to land myself as P.I.C. of a flight.Great work, this 9Dragons....what sheer fun and entertainment!Cheers,Mitch

I must say...pretty darn spectacular! Did it with an older B737-200 with a great animated wing-view. All I have to say, is that I would **NOT*** be living in any of those condos ANYWHERE on that approach-path, no matter HOW sparse real-estate is!!!!!!! :)Kudos!Mitch

I just installed My traffic for fs9 and it seems to have disabled the default traffic bgl in the scenery folder,renaming it to passive.I now notice that although there is more ai at larger airports,the smaller ones dont have any ai at all even with the slider at 100%.Should I enable the default bgl to run with the My traffic addon?Or will this create a conflict in the sim?Regards,Dimitri.

Alright. I've being looking into cars for FS recently. I've downloaded a Mercedes-Benz, (avsim) Military humvee (fltsim), and a bmw (flightsimworld). But with all three, every time I attempted to drive up the mountain in St. Barth, Netherland Antilles (FlyTampa scenery) I crashed or drove straight through! :-(. Does anyone know a special car, or have a good tip, on how to drive up a hill in FS?Ta, Aidan

Hello All, Today I bought the Majestic Software Q300 pilot edition and wanted to try and merge it with the Dreamwings Q400 model. I moved the panel folder from the majestic aircraft folder and moved it into the dreamwings folder. I loaded the aircraft in FS9 and hit "fly now". It began loading and crashed to the desktop. I tried again and kept getting the same results.Has anyone successfully merged these? Any advice?Thanks,Dylan

I am desperate for some good AI for FlyTampa TNCM, which I use a lot. I have finally gotten tired of the only traffic being delta, continental, us, american, air transat and american eagle, and small commuters like liat or bwia. I want winair, klm and air france to service TNCM. Does anyone know a good, quick way to do so? If ou do, please replyTa, Aidan

I found the manual for getting AI at VHHX, but I'm not sure I understand how to do it.I use WOAI traffic and have tons of airlines. a big edit: I found out what to do, and I think (unfortunately) I'll have to decompile and recompile about 50 traffic bgls ugh, but it should work. My dilema is now that I got the stock AI traffic to show up, but now I don't want them there, only my WOAI traffic. I decompiled the huge traffic file, and replaced all VHHX with VHHH back to normal, and recompiled, but the default planes are still there???Why, there should be no trace for the default planes to go to VHHX...heres a pic, I also have a few china airlines in there to show I did ge…

Does anyone know definitively whether the 'golden rule' of never having a texture folder associated with scenery folders containing landclass bgl files refers only to an empty texture folder (as I have seen reported), or to any texture folder, which normally will have FS scenery bitmaps in it?If the latter (and I can't personally see what difference it would make - if FS doesn't find bitmaps in the texture folder it will go elsewhere in any case, no matter whether the folder is empty or has only bitmaps irrelevant to the landclass files), then a large number of sceneries I have installed from AVSIM and elsewhere (a few payware sceneries too) may have problems (I'm trying …

So, for about a year now, I have gone thru EVERY freakin option as to WHY my FS2004 is crashing. I have updated it, updated video cards, updated drivers, system restores, (I have NO viruses etc...) bought a new sound card, swicthed RAM sticks, I have done everything possible. When my FS crashes, it does it automatically, mostly when I switch views. and it wont crash to Desktop, it restarts my entire machine. No errors come up, nothing. I have even upgraded my PSU to handle more power. I havent been able to play at all, and I have 1 question as to why it could be crashing. Could a scratch on the CD be causing this?I looked at the underside of thr CD and it is banged up, af…

I wonder if anyone can help - I posted the note below on the original 9Dragons thread but no answer. Could anyone help me with this? Very much appreciated.What fantastic scenery - every bit as much as I remember it from a VC10! Everything is great - I've decompiled reset recompiled my traffic file but my AI do not fly the curved approach - they do a straight in and appear through the buildings on finals!! Any ideas? Small point as everything is great - but it would be nice to do some spotting of the AI chasing the rabbit. Thanks again and any help would be really appreciated.KFD

I have downloaded Wake Island scenery and managed ti install it. But now my problem is that my first flip over the island was in a Impala jet. Then I thought I would take a Seahawk for a flip over the island and Mil base. It has the sound of the jet. OOOPPPSSS, what happened?Can someone give me a solution to correct this? Corrie

Hello I like the Boeing 777 and i use the model by Melvin Rafi(Meljet)these aircraft are still excellent externally even though they are knocking on a bit(Five years old now)that is the good news.There is a major irritation for me with these models and it is to do with the virtual cockpit display and its this.... when i switch to VC view there isn't one(I am not bothered about that i am not a VC fan)but there is on most models what appears to be a grey door that blocks out half the screen and thats it.I have tried every which way to try and tinker with panel and aircraft CFGs to remove THE DOOR but have never succeeded(i presume its something in the model or air file tha…

Anybody know whats going on over at Digital Aviation's website? It has been down the last couple of days.

First post guys so please be gentle:-) I was wondering what flight planner you are using I have FSbuild, and to build a flight plan to Kai tak you have to use the IACO code vhkg which, when i export it to my pmdg aircraft it becomes quite useless !I suppose i could use fs9 and convert with plan to route but Im hoping that you guys will have a better solution!I have no doubt that i have probably missed something obvious.Some times stupidity semms to be my strong point!:D Thanks for any help or adviceMark

Had to install a new C drive, most everything saved. I also had to re-download CS's C-130J, AC-130 expansion packs and 757-200 Block A.Problem: On running, I encounter a black screen with the gauges at the top. Replacing the panels causes landing gear, props (where applicable), etc to disappear. Sometime back, I'd managed to replace the panels, but it required some tinkering and the like. I've forgotten how I did it, so if anyone can help me, I'd appreciate it. I'd successfully used Simshed's panel in the -130s and I want to do it again.Advice is requested; the opinions I've read a hundred times already.Thanks in advanceBob

I DLed POSKY's 767-200 but was disappointed to find no VC :(Are there any others out there? Or Is there another model that is close? (like an Airbus BlahBlahBlah or what have you...)

Hello there.So I recently did a flight from Salzburg (LOWS) to Lugano (LSZA), and I can tell you, it was fantastic. Beautiful scenery, great route, and great airports.So my question is, have you guys got any great flights to recommend?I usually prefer to fly the Mooney Bravo, so nothing over 300nm.A nice recipe would be-- Brilliant scenery to fly Over.- A great route to fly, preferably a VOR/NDB flight.- Great airports, preferably more major ones (departure and approach plates to go with them; Makes it all more fun..So what have you got?

I'm a newbie learning how to work with scenery in FS2004. Am used to adding and deleting scenery objects in MS Train Sim, but the Flight Sim is quite different. I'm trying to add something to my home base airport as it came with the basic MSFS using the Instant Scenery addon program. But,I must be doing something wrong, or have missed a step or just don't understand how to work wth IS. Here's where I get stuck in the process of adding an object:I can pick out an object that I want to add to an airport,(tree or bldg from the RWY 12 collection of objects downlowded and installed succesfully a couple of days ago) and move it to where I want it to be. Then I click on "Add Ob…

Hello, Flying into 9Dragons KaiTak runway 13 i need more bank angle than the normal 25 degrees, i can get more when using the autopilot after changing the bank angle in the CFG file but where can i change it for hand flying? Thanks for any help,

Google only turned up one link http://www.simradar.com/File/2363/AirEd_Version_1_51.html but when I tried the d/l the file couldn't be found. Does anyone know where I can find the Aired utility?Dave F.

HiI installed the first 16 files as per the manual and everything has been running fine. Looks great, no fps probs - a real masterpiece. Then I saw mentions of more textures in File 17. Which I haven't installed - doh!!So my question is this - can I just drop these textues into the appropriate location or do I have to de-activate everything in FS9, install, re-activate, etc?Thanks in advance for any help and thank you very much to all 9 Dragon members for one of the best FS addons ever!Best wishes!

Hello Fellowsimmers...Having recently experienced difficulty adding scenery into my FS9 setup because of Vista UAC I decided to switch that annoying little service off. Unfortuntly it wiped alot of mods' I had made to my FS9 setup. One side effect was my ATC disappeared, no sound no ATIS etc.. Having replaced the sound files from Disc 2 as per the instructions I then tried to run Editvoicepack to accelerate the ATC speech rate and hear all those wonderful AI callsigns I have installed. However everytime I run the Update Voicepack i get the horrible message on screen saying "The following custom modification is not valid for this version of flight simulator, and it should …

Hello:My ActiveSky 6 has a "Refresh AI traffic" that forces AI traffic to takeoff/land on the correct runways for the winds (this bug in FS kills me!:)) I'd like to do that not using AS6, does anyone know if there's a set of keystrokes that will force an AI traffic refresh?Thanks, as always, Happy New Year.Ian

:-hahA/C: "Radar, we're a flight of two A10s, currently overhead and, er, we've forgotten our callsign"RAD: "No problem, we'll allocate temporary ones: adopt callsign Stupid One and Stupid Two"-------------------------A student ATCer was confused about what to do regarding 2 aircraft that were vectored on parallel (in normal english that means they are flying at the same flight level both on the same headings with a bunch of nautical miles between them). The aircraft were on the wrong side (i.e the one on the left had to go right and the one on the right had to go to the left and were not supposed to climb or descend).Coach: So, how will you solve this situation?Student: …