Captains:

 

I've encountered two problems with the fictional Air New Zealand Livery: 1st, on the outside model, the turbine fans do not move at all (even if the turbines itself are started), 2nd, the ground power trolley stays visible even if ground power and chokes are disconnected.

 

Cheers,

 

It has been reported over and over. Please read the Intro document

 

Has to do with the way you load your aircraft on FSX. Select directly the one you want from free flight menu and do not change among same versions.

FSX is very fickle in this regard. It happens with all aircraft of the same type.

 

The only safe option with FSX is if you want to fly something else, completely quit and start over. Multiple flights with the exact same aircraft is fine (though if the sim has been running 24 hours straight, you are asking for some kind of crash if you try and fly a 22 hour long-haul).

 

Best regards,

Robin.

It was an issue that was reported on the FSX Beta in 2006!  And for the SP1 Beta and the Acceleration Beta that followed.  Aces kept saying yeah they would fix it and never did.  I get the airplane without the skin, kind of cool but yeah it is a FSX flaw.

I'm perhaps excessively conservative and with complex aircraft, completely rebooot my PC (sometimes even shut down, power off power supply, and power back on) to insure "fresh FSX state" before starting a planned, longer flight session.

 

FSX leaves plenty of interesting state behind even when exited; it's best to play it safe there.

 

Heck, I've even found times when a plane that seems unflyable upon first load, tried a few hours later -- without a reboot -- is now smooth as glass.

 

I check to make sure no unnecessary processes (Adobe, sigh.....) are running in the background (I prefer to keep my AV stuff running, just configured not to be scanning FSX files while it's being executed), but even so, Windows is a constant party of various processes and services doing background housekeeping, disk caches being refreshed (or not), etc. etc. -- so seriously, there's no way to absolutely guarantee "clean state upon startup" even with my extreme techniques.

 

You just have to be patient, and master your PC.  Along with the aircraft.

thanks for your replies, but I am aware of that and this is not my Problem. I started the flight as I do so everytime since years with PMDG aircrafts (Boot PC, Start fsx, select plane From freeflight menu). Never ever had any problems. Since none of you seems to habe the same problem, I will reinstall the livery tonight and see if it works then).

 

Cheers,