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Alan, That is a very well written,comprehensive article. Tom

I don't know what happened, but I installed several more planes and suddenly all of the external views are good. Who knows, Tom

I have to reinstall more planes to check. Since I did a total reinstall of FSX I am just starting to reinstall aircraft. I may not get to it until tomorrow. Thanks for your help. Tom

Charlie, I didn't mean Carenado needed DX10. When I turned it off it still didn't help the exterior views. They are still missing parts. Tom

Charlie, My DX10 was on. Thanks for helping. It did fix that exterior view on some planes but not all. The Carenado ones are resisting...grin Thanks for your help. Tom

I have FSX with Acceleration and a high end system. All seems to be running well except in external views the plane is always missing parts. It never used to do this but is doing it now after completely reinstalling FSX. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Tom

Amazing !!!!! Tom

How do you fly an aircraft with no visible controls. There is no visible starter, throttles, mixture etc. How do you look around the cockpit. It seems all you have is a fwd view and a few instruments. There must be away. Tom

You won't be doing much flying without your arms and legs....grin Tom

Is there a way to look around inside the cockpit? Everything I have seen so far is a small portion of the main panel. I don't understand how you can fly without the power on switches, the throttles, mixture etc. How do you use radios ? Any thoughts would be appreciated. Tom

Noel, Have you not logged in? That has happened to me several times and I wasn't logged in. I know what you mean about an "old guy just twisting in the wake turbulence". Tom

Very nice story. Tom

Is this just for P3D and not plain FSX? Tom

Jim, Thanks for the info. I had a hard time finding my belt also...grin. I don't know how I did it but I have the latest version of Prepar3D V4 up and running. All I did was just keep stumbling around and "voila", it was suddenly installed and running. Thanks, Tom

Ray, Thanks for the info. I will see what happens either a little later tonight or tomorrow. Just recovering from our Thanksgiving dinner......grin Thanks, Tom

Ray, Sorry about that. I am trying to install Prepar3D V4 latest update. I had the original version installed but deleted it to install the V4 update. Now nothing will install correctly. Thanks for your reply, Tom

I think I have screwed up the update. Before installing the update I deleted the original installation then installed the update. It is not starting. If this is true how do I download and install the original release? Thanks for any help. Tom

Started with Sublogic Flight Sim 1 probably in 1976 on an Apple. Been Flight simming ever since. I am presently using FSX and have tried the newer systems but am getting to old to figure some of them out....grin I have a high end system and get very high frame rates on most planes. I am now using mostly single engine and an occasional dual engine. Tom

I spent my whole career in commercial and military flight test at Boeing. I was a system test engineer so flew on the planes during the flight testing of new aircraft. So loved flying. In 1979 when Sub Logic came out with the first simulator for Apple II, I jumped on it. I have continually upgraded until recently and am using FSX. I have tried to use some of the newer versions of flight simulator but my memory is failing so just stayed with FSX. I am now 84 and am having a tough time remembering how everything works so am sticking with single engine planes for now. Over the years I have purchased most of the planes made, from single engine to the 747. Just can't remember how to fly them all. I have no problem taking off, flying and then landing. Just can't remember where I have saved all of the switch positions....grin. I spend most of my computer time browsing flight sim posts but only respond occasionally. Where else can you find such knowledgeable friendly folks. Tom

If the keyboard has batteries they could need changing. Tom

Birdguy how true, I am now pushing 85 and I USTA do a lot of things. Trouble is my memory is going and I can't remember most of them...grin Tom

I installed the 767 the other day and when I loaded FSX it wouldn't install anymore. I tried to restart several times and always got a black screen. The only way I could get it fixed was to uninstall the 767. This was a problem because there was no uninstall program which uninstalled everything that was installed. I had search all of FSX for installed 767 bits and pieces and delete them. All is running again now thankfully without having to do a total reinstall of FSX. Tom

Problem solved, Thanks, Tom

I went into the support area and I think I then clicked on activation reset. Somewhere along the way I submitted a problem report. It is just getting confusing. The bottom line is when I try to open the serial number it won't accept the one I was given. Tom

Here it is 17 hours later since I responded to Kevin and I still haven't heard anything. Isn't there anyone in this organization who can help? As I mentioned before I entered the problem in the support page and still no help. So please fix the problem or give me a refund. Thanks, Tom