Several weeks ago I made a post in the Avsim MS-FSX Forum concerning the logbook.bin file. I have receive replies but none of which have been really helpful in solving the problem. I am posting the same topic in the PMDG General Forum since the only planes I fly are the NGX, MD-11, 777, and 744 and 748 and I think I might get more helpful answers in this forum.

 

First off, let me state that I don’t believe the logbook.bin file is corrupt for two reasons. First I have deleted it and let FSX rebuild it probably 20 times in the past two months. Secondly, I have run a program called FSX Log Recovery which indicates that logbook.bin files generated by FSX are not corrupt. I have done that probably 5 times.

 

Here is what the Logbook is doing. It is either not recording fights at all or if it does the entry is incorrect.

 

Not Recording

From full screen mode press the Esc button and FSX just disappears into thin air. Or from the menu bar under Flights, click on end flight and FSX disappears into thin air. Restart FSX look at the Logbook and there is no entry for the flight just ended.

 

Incorrect Entry

Flights that are recorded seem to have instrument and non-instrument time reversed. An example from last night’s flight from EDDP-KLAX. It showed flight time of 12.5 hours of which 12.2 hours were instrument. That is obviously wrong. I just completed PANC-KMEM which the Logbook shows as total flight time 6.6 hours and instrument time as 5.9. Wrong again.

 

Either FSX is generating a corrupt logbook.bin file or some file is sending the wrong data to logbook.bin. However, FSX Log Recovery shows the file as not being corrupt. Therefore the data mist be wrong which is being sent to logbook.bin.

 

Any thoughts on this issue would be appreciated.

 

Thank you

Michael Cubine

 

 

ncorrect Entry Flights that are recorded seem to have instrument and non-instrument time reversed. An example from last night’s flight from EDDP-KLAX. It showed flight time of 12.5 hours of which 12.2 hours were instrument. That is obviously wrong. I just completed PANC-KMEM which the Logbook shows as total flight time 6.6 hours and instrument time as 5.9. Wrong again. Either FSX is generating a corrupt logbook.bin file or some file is sending the wrong data to logbook.bin. However, FSX Log Recovery shows the file as not being corrupt. Therefore the data mist be wrong which is being sent to logbook.bin. Any thoughts on this issue would be appreciated.

 

First, this really has nothing to do with PMDG, and is more of a basic FSX issue, if it is one...regardless of the planes you're flying when FSX is logging the flight.

 

My guess is that FSX is counting everything above FL180 as "instrument" since you should be on an instrument flight plan.  That's just incorrect coding based on a misunderstanding of a reg, though.

First, this really has nothing to do with PMDG, and is more of a basic FSX issue, if it is one...regardless of the planes you're flying when FSX is logging the flight.

 

My guess is that FSX is counting everything above FL180 as "instrument" since you should be on an instrument flight plan.  That's just incorrect coding based on a misunderstanding of a reg, though.

Kyle

 

I know it has nothing to do with PMDG. I am just looking for answers anywhere I can find them.

 

This install of FSX is over two years old and this problem just started several months ago. Up until then the data was recorded correctly so it might be an addon. ASN, PFPX or SweetFX might be causing it. A guess would be ASN.

 

Michael Cubine

I was wrong on the guess. It was not ASN causing the problem. I uninstalled SweetFX about a week ago and now 19 consective flights have been recorded correctly in the FSX Logbook.

 

Michael Cubine