On 4/26/2019 at 10:28 AM, spilok said:

Started a flight at London, Heathrow this morning (+5 hours from U.S. PA time), and flew to Tegel, Berlin (which is +6 hours from U.S. PA time).  When I landed the time was correct and advanced one additional hour from my starting point in London.

Stan

When you were flying did you noticed P3D was reloading to catch up on time? I use another program and every 30 mins or so the sim reloads itself to correct the time. How does this program work? Is this time syncing noticeable at all?

Thanks  

No noticeable time syncing problem.  Like said though....the combination of Time Zone Fixer (about $12 bucks) and Real Time Flight Manager (free) is what works best.  That is what I have.

Stan

Edited April 27, 20197 yr by spilok

The way I understand  Real Time Manager just corrects the time at departure airport and closes after takeoff (based on the description  on the website). I did not see it was mentioned if it syncs the time in the sim during flight like FlyChrono for example? 

Also, is it really necessary to login to the program every time before I load the flight just to correct time at the departure airport? Will that be faster and easy just correct the time myself in P3D start menu? Am I missing something?

Thanks 

Once logged in, it stays logged in every time you run it. If you write a simple start-up batch file to auto-run the program then you don't have to do anything.

2 minutes ago, caveney747 said:

If you write a simple start-up batch file to auto-run the program then you don't have to do anything.

Thanks for the comment. I man not sure I have enough knowledge to write start-up batch file. I was hoping the program does it all.  

1 hour ago, skysurfer said:

The way I understand  Real Time Manager just corrects the time at departure airport and closes after takeoff (based on the description  on the website). I did not see it was mentioned if it syncs the time in the sim during flight like FlyChrono for example? 

Also, is it really necessary to login to the program every time before I load the flight just to correct time at the departure airport? Will that be faster and easy just correct the time myself in P3D start menu? Am I missing something?

Thanks 

Hi,

As I wrote in my post, This Real Time Flight Manager only sets your Departure time and if you have Time Zone Fixer addon, you will have correct time during your flight (from departure to destination)

In most cases everyone runs different programs (weather, ...) before or after flight simulator. Running Real Time Flight Manager is only a double click task on program's shortcut. It is really simple and won't take any time. It finds your departure time automatically and this part helps you a lot and save you time. For example if you want to depart from Tokyo in Japan. If you want to depart at current real time then you have to search and find Tokyo's current time and set it manually in your flight simulator. With Real Time Flight manager, you only run it and it sets Tokyo time for you automatically.

10 minutes ago, victorpapa said:

As I wrote in my post, This Real Time Flight Manager only sets your Departure time and if you have Time Zone Fixer addon, you will have correct time during your flight (from departure to destination)

OK, so if I have Real Time Flight Manager and Time Zone Fixer I do not need any FS Real time or FlyChrono programs to keep sim time sync/correct for the entire flight. Am I correct now?

I am basically looking for a program to keep sim time accurate for the entire flight without reloading it every 30 mins like FlyChrone does. Very destructing. 

Thanks again 

Edited April 28, 20197 yr by skysurfer

1 hour ago, skysurfer said:

OK, so if I have Real Time Flight Manager and Time Zone Fixer I do not need any FS Real time or FlyChrono programs to keep sim time sync/correct for the entire flight. Am I correct now?

I am basically looking for a program to keep sim time accurate for the entire flight without reloading it every 30 mins like FlyChrone does. Very destructing. 

Thanks again 

Yes. It is correct.

Install Time Zone Fixer once and run Real Time Flight Manager before running your flight simulator. You will have correct time in your entire flight.

Copy that. Thanks so much for explanation. 

8 hours ago, skysurfer said:

 

Deleted, sorry. 

Edited April 28, 20197 yr by NovemberUniform
False Info, sorry.

I am still somewhat confused.

As a relatively happy user of FS Real Time, would I be even happier if I replaced it with RTFM and TZF? What would be the improvements?

 

8 hours ago, victorpapa said:

Yes. It is correct.

Install Time Zone Fixer once and run Real Time Flight Manager before running your flight simulator. You will have correct time in your entire flight.

Yes, but the combination of your tools can not prevent the clock from accumulating a small error (seconds, maybe some minutes) during longer flights, right?

12 hours ago, NovemberUniform said:

Yes, but the combination of your tools can not prevent the clock from accumulating a small error (seconds, maybe some minutes) during longer flights, right?

Really? So FS Real time still may be necessary? 

15 hours ago, Richard McDonald Woods said:

I am still somewhat confused.

As a relatively happy user of FS Real Time, would I be even happier if I replaced it with RTFM and TZF? What would be the improvements?

 

Dear Richard,

FS Real Time was made to fix UTC movement problem in FSX. It checks real world's UTC time and when your sim's UTC time goes off course, FSRealTime inject correct UTC time into your simulator.

Time Zone Fixer is working in different way. Flight simulator's default Time Zones are not correct and with Time Zone Fixer, all those faulty default Time Zones will be replaced by new fixed Time Zone definitions so it doesn't have any external application. It is a part of your flight simulator and when you fly, your flight simulator uses correct Time Zone definitions and in this way you will have correct local time in entire your flight.

Time Zone Fixer can be used stand alone or beside FS Real Time (If you already have FS Real Time you can still use it without any problem) although Lockheed Martin announced, UTC Movement problem has been fixed in their Prepar3D V4.

15 hours ago, NovemberUniform said:

Yes, but the combination of your tools can not prevent the clock from accumulating a small error (seconds, maybe some minutes) during longer flights, right?

Lockheed Martin announced, UTC Movement problem has been fixed in their Prepar3D V4 so I think there won't be a major problem in your flights.😉