Peter Clark

Well, you are entitled to your opinion, as am I, but legally you would be violating the EULA (End User License Agreement) if you were to hack or get hacked anything in PIC's code. You do not *own* the software, you own a license to use it. That license clearly states that you may not disassemble or otherwise reverse-engineer the code covered by the license.

Avsim's policy is that you cannot post links to hacks/cracks/etc - looks like Robert Kirkland might have deleted that part of the post.

I bet everyone had the ignition set to CON last night coming into KBOS.....Oh, btw, bump!

Yep, there is - get someone with mod privs to pin and lock the thread...P

I was looking for this thread to make as a standard reply too ;)Would be nice if someone who has mod privs could make it locked/sticky....

I have the same issue (I just undocked the windows, but still).The control spike problem doesn't seem to be something that FSUIPC seems to fix. the values aren't really sticking (look in calibration, wail on your pedals back and forth and they don't stick). It appears to be a reading somewhere in the joystick handler of PIC, one of the minor things which would need to be properly fixed.I just activate auto-rudder and use my yoke to steer. Makes crosswinds harder, but until someone comes up with something more elegant, there's a patch, or a new better product comes along we're kinda stuck.Luck!P

Perhaps they're future features which Marc hasn't fully coded so he gray'd them out for the time being?

That's generally because the cruise alt you have selected in the MCP is lower than the cruise altitude you have in the VNAV page of the CDU. Thus, you never really get to VNAV CRZ and stay in VNAV CLB.Luck,P

I'm not far behind you with $1100 for a new box ;0P4 3GHz 800MHz FSB 1GB RAM and a new 430W power supply. Already had dual-80GB RAID drives and a new ATI 9800 video card so no reason to re do any of that.

I've been reading all the threads on 2K4 and PIC and whether it will be patched, and to be honest (as I've said before) I hope that there will be a patch for 2K4, along with everyone else.On my system (owning RFP, DF737, PSS 7x7, and PIC), this is still the only aircraft that I fly in the MSFS world (I use PS13 for my 744 flights). I'll qualify this by saying that I haven't flown the airbus packages, so I can't compare the above aircraft with any of the MS Boeing packages - I'm not really into Airbus.Having said that, look at the community we have here - people developing addons, people attempting to learn better how things really work and handle the aircraft, real pilots who drop by, people who have stopped through because they're working on type ratings, and generally it seems like people still hold this aircraft (I know I do) to be the standard others stive to attain in the MSFS world. The following is almost PS1-like. I hope there's a patch (or a whole new panel) in the works on the QT - it would be a real shame for this aircraft, which still has leading-edge unreproduced features, to fade away now that the underlying SIM has finally caught up to it in some of its features. Finally, we can get a step climb out of ATC. Finally, we have multiple runways. Finally we (aparantly) have the ability to do proper SID/STAR. Finally we have environments where clouds are rendered properly. Finally we have a world where the people in the tower won't let a Cessna take off with a VFR flightplan with 1/4SM R -TS. Even more the shame since it seems like so much is already working - even if you do have to (currently) run it in an undocked window. Fact is that it *does* display - which seems to be a good sign (although not a guarantee) for the ability to make less-than-wholesale changes and get things going.I just hope that the patch is done on the QT, hopefully this will help avoid the debacle that happened last time. I'd rather not know that one is coming and see the clamor to release it regardless of state like last time, and come in here one morning and see a note from Wade, Eric, Pedro, or Laurent that says "We've released a new package, buy it here" or "We've released a patch, it here".If not, it is Wade, Eric, Pedro, and Laurent's product, they're the only ones who can make the decision, and we have to live with it and move on. Meanwhile, as everyone else has already pointed out - FS2K2 still runs fine on my box. So, I get my 2K4 fix by flying the GA stuff (their 400 is still laughable) and drool over the new clouds/scenery, and go back to 2K2 for my real flying.Peace all.P

Yea, I was just thinking that the standard aspect ration of 3:1 would be right, but yea, in the end it's obviously what works best :)Thanks to both!P

Greetings,Doesn't 1280x1024 make the panel slightly out of proportion? I thought that you should only be using resolutions that when divided by each other come out to be 1.33333(repeat)?1024/768=13333(repeat)1280/1024=1.251280/960=13333(repeat)So, shouldn't we be using 1280x960?Thanks!P

Greetings,I had the same issue with the zip. Grab the RAR if you don't want to wait for it to be fixed, I beleive it's the same sounds, just a different .zip program.Take care!P

And that blow-up doll shows up in the right hand seat whenever the autopilot is engaged? ;)

Greetings,I believe you may be confusing the RAT (Ram Air Turbine) wich can provide limited air and electricity with the APU (Auxilary Power Unit). The APU is basically an engine, located in the tailcone of the aircraft, and as you point out requires fuel to run.Not all aircraft have RATs. The 747, for example, doesn't. However, with 4 engines and 4 sets of bleed air, a situation where you lost one engine and it's air/electricity generator isn't quite as big a problem as one failing in a twin engine aircraft.Every AOM or checklist I have/have seen for the 7(3/4/5/6/7)7 airframe has the APU used during engine start to provide air to turn the turbines to the point where they can be made self-sustaining, or in limited situations during takeoff (APU->PACK takeoff in a 747 for example) so that you can get a little extra power from the engines for really heavy weights, or really hot days. And even that's not doable for any aircraft.In fact, the 747 series aircraft have cutouts which will not allow the APU to be started during flight. The 757/767 will let you start it in flight (usually reserved for the 0case of engine failure so that you can replace some of the power and bleed air lost), but as has been previously mentioned, only under a certain altitude.Luck!P

Greetings,On a GeForce2 I'm not surprised - a GF4 or ATI 9xxx series card should help, but I thought this is where MS said they were using the multithreading capabilities of the multithreaded P4's?Does Avsim have a test system with everything the same except one has multithreading and one not? It would be interesting to see the difference between them.P

A belated "Me Too!" for thanks to the team for hundreds of hours of fun and learning, and good wishes for your vacation. As to the future, glad to see there's hope, but in the end everyone has to do what's best for themselves, and whatever that ends up being for you and the team, regardless of what myself or most of the people around us would like to happen, best wishes and luck for your future endeavours!P

I thought that to get the secret of the next project you needed to find the singing bush and then shoot three times in the air to summon the invisible horseman who would then tell you?

You have to smile when you see PIC767 with Lee's VSI/TCAS guage in the screenshots advertising the product:http://www.fssharecenter.com/simflyers/klas/l52.jpgThe airport is on fssharecenter.com's home page, looks pretty neat but I don't have it yet so can't comment.Happy flights!P

Greetings. Granted, the next PIC programming team product is likely not the 767, but in http://forums.avsim.com/dcboard.php?az=sho...&topic_id=14940 message 6, Wade seems to make a distinction between the next patch, and the next product. If we're lucky the patch will also make PIC conpatible with 2K4, if the 2K2 patched product doesn't just work. We can always hope that A) there is another PIC767 patch released, and :( the software functions in 2K4.Take care.P

You can always pick it up from Mike's publisher's site - http://www.utem.comLuck!P

Greetings.Ya know, there was a thread not too long in the past where Wade(?) mentioned that there may be another patch for PIC coming, so the product may or may not go forward into COF. I think that I can safely say that we'd all be incredibly happy if it did, even if this time it was a pay upgrade, but considering that we've now had an aircraft which I still fly more than all my other aircraft combined for years, I can certainly say that I've gotten far more than my fair money's worth out of it. Even if I did have to lave 2K2 on my drive just to keep flying this aircraft, I know that I would. So, I would suggest that we all have some patients. Who of us knows what surprises the future may hold.Good luck!P

Greetings,Looking at the indicators I agree with Lee that this looks like a standard LNAV/VNAV CMD engaged climb with speed-intervention mode active (see VNVAV SPD mode annunciation active)..I can often reproduce similar behaviour when climbing into 'turbulence' - wind shifts for direction and speed showing on the ND, AIS needle fluctuating, etc. PIC doesn't seem to do a good job of analyzing the averages of the weather going on around it, so it seems to instead latch onto a climb rate (my experience is that it's whatever the climb rate was when the turbulent layer was encountered, I guess in feet/min) and sticks there, completely ignoring the ever decreasing airspeed. In my experience once you get through the 'turbulence' (and I use 'turbulence' in quotes because I don't think what Microsoft calls turbulence is anything like what real turbulence must be as viewd from the front of the aircraft, could however be wrong) and the airmass smoothes out it's almost like the aircraft goes "Oh, oops, look - I'm down to 190 knots at Fl200, perhaps I should pitch down" and promptly does and from there on out (until descent when encountering another turbulent layer) will be quite happy. Just set up a bunch of clouds, set turbulence sharp in FSUIPC and climb through them.Static screen shot might not be enough to convey this behaviour being the root cause here though. Easy enough test to reproduce (at least for me).Luck!P

Actually, http://www.nyartcc.org/route_central/NAT/index.htm is a great flight planner for NAT tracks from Logan/Newark/Kennedy/Philly to/from a bunch of airports in Europe (see the site pulldown for the complete list), uses either the VATSIM fixed or daily real tracks, and will even create tracks to/from the airport for a complete end-to-end plan. You can always take the tracks it shows available and merge it into your flightplan if you aren't going from somewhere it has auto-routing for.Luck!P

Strange, that's exactly what I'm running, and I see the "x has joined" as well as the controller messages..When you start SB, do you see the "welcome to SB" message in the FS window? When you login to, say, vatsim, do you get the "welcome to vatsim " messages? You'll likely only see the last line since they'll all scroll over each other.Here's a thought, are you running advdisp?P