There is also a tweak if you want tor try it, suggested by Phil Taylor (ex Aces developer) that may help:

 

To quote Phil:

 

 

"For the dusk/dawn textures some people feel, subjectively, the result is too dark or too light. There are 2 items that allow the transition time to be changed:

 

[GRAPHICS]

 

DAY_THRESHOLD

 

NIGHT_THRESHOLD

 

 

 

acceptible values are 0 to 65535.

 

Defaults:

 

DAY: 32768

 

NIGHT: 4096

 

 

 

These represent the amount of 'ambient' light at the ends of the day/night blend threshold. Zero is perfect dark, 65535 is full day sun at noon in the summer."

 

Those are the settings I was mentioning, but the explanation by Phil I never understood. It seems like there should be a "start of dusk" time when only day (diffuse) texture is used, and an "end of dusk" time when only night (ambient) texture is used. I'm not sure how those values are used without testing.

 

scott s.

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What was your flight? AFAIK, the sun is keyed off of UTC and UTC is kept properly when you change timezones in flight. FSRealtime does two things: It resets your UTC constantly to avoid any slipage and it adds some timezone files, which for the US I don't think are correct any more (however, at least for DST it includes a utility and you can edit the ini fle to change the start/end day-of-year for DST. What it does is swap timezones files since the timezone files are based on pre-FS9 code, not FSX which allows setting DST in the timezone file.)

 

I rewrote the North America timezone files for FSX and did a lot of testing flight to/from Utah, Arizona, and Nevada checking time changes and it seemed to work correctly. I was working on Europe but kind of stalled due to a problem where FSX wasn't handling the Channel Islands correctly (they follow UK time not western Europe). I kind of put it on the back burner for a bit becaue I was going to have to start all over on it to try and figure out why FSX didn't seem to be using my files correctly. I think I will try to jump back into it in time for end of Europe DST.

 

I admit my testing mainly was automated flights at rate 16x logging local and UTC times and verifying those, without closely watching the lighting levels. There's just too much to test to try to actually do the flights in real-time.

 

scott s.

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My flight was from Calgary, Alberta, Canada to Los Angeles. I live in San Diego so the time was an hour ahead from me.

 

Jason

Bought FS Real Time, does its job. Thanks for the tip.

I got it too. Thanks for the help guys!

I got it too. Thanks for the help guys!

 

Did you get to test it yet? Is your FSX randomly getting minimized to the task bar since you've installed this application?