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This issue might be resolved after SU5, see the 2nd item in this feedback snapshot ("Photogrammetry Trees Completely Ruin the Experience"): https://flightsimulator.azureedge.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Slide19-1024x576.png

I am considering getting a Thrustmaster SOL-R (1) joystick for use with MSFS-2024 and have a few questions, maybe someone uses one of these and can answer my questions: Towards the front of the base there are two switches on either side, labelled 1-2, 3-4, 12-13, 14-15. Are they momentary switches with a neutral center position, rather than being e.g. either at position 1 or 2? IOW, you can push the left-most one forward once to create a "switch no. 1" event and then the leaver returns back to its neutral position? If yes, can one assign an auto-repeat function to it if it is held in place for a little while? The knob labelled 9-10-11 at the left-rear, can one continually turn it, I mean more than 360 degrees?

Tom, I am sorry to hear this, but maybe the following might help, although your description sounds very bad: http://phkillscancer.com/ This guy was written off in 2008 (he was given between 3 months and 3 years to live) and is still alive to my knowledge. My brother has also used this recipe successfully and a friend of mine was diagnosed with "cancer spread to the bones" in early 2014 and was given a few more months to live. She is still alive today and feeling better than ever. I cannot really comment on this as I am not a medical professional but whoever is interested, besides Vernon's web site, just do a web search for "cancer bicarbonate of soda" or "cancer baking soda". This is not medical advice, only a pointer to information. Regards, Siggy

In FS5.x (BAO times) the gauges were encrypted, the BGL scenery format was not documented, even the planes were encrypted. Scenery was available I think from BAO only (remember "scenery disks" (diskettes)), except a few attempts that were made based on reverse engineering of the BGL format. One of the better ones that I can remember was Hongkong from "Pilots". So FS opened up after that and now it is closing up again.

Hi Julian,The driver version is "8.17.12.7533" so I'll try to find better a better one. The .61, is that a newer version (can't tell from the last digits only) ? The shift-1 etc. I'll avoid, I understand, thanks. Regards,Siggy

In the past I have often used parts of the 2D panel components from within the VC by typing shift-1 etc.. Following my old habit in the NGX, this caused an issue on my machine (Win 7 64-bit, GTX-580 card) as shown in the attached images. I think I got to issue shown in the thrid image by cycling through shift-1 to shift-9, then to the outside view (F11) and back to the VC (F9) and I got it in two separate runs. Would have to try to reproduce it again. The popup screens (clicking into the PFD etc.) look ok, but inside the panel they look corrupted. It's not a biggie for me as the VC is excellent to use, just an old habit of mine. Regards,Siggy

Something must have changed recently on the AVSIM forum server. I used to see the good old AVSIM favicon with links in my bookmarks, now I get the default icon instead of AVSIM's. Please see below, the top icon is what I used to see, the bottom icon is the current one.Cheers,Siggy

The name change may have to do with them wanting to make it more appealing to those costumers who did not want to buy a 'simulator' but who would buy a 'flying game' (even if it still contains the functionality that we enjoy now). Have a look at Page 2 of this where some insider mentioned a list of things they had planned for after FSX. Some of these features would certainly make it more appealing to the masses and they could still provide the simulator world that we know. The mere existence of the missions in FSX didn't harm any of us and so if this stuff makes it into the sim it won't either :-).Cheers,Siggy

The simulator required more imagination back then and the (much smaller) community seemed to have gathered mostly at Compuserve.

When MS worked on TS2 (the 2nd), they made some good progress with tuning the graphics engine (that it got from FSX or that was meant to be shared). Here is an old post (that refers to another post) and it mentions a "nearly 4x increase in framerate". However, it's of course not clear whether the same improvement would be achieved if those changes were back-ported to FSX.Cheers,Siggy

The exclamation mark (!) after 'Flight', this is something that was appended on the AVSIM front page, but is not part of the official name it seems. It would make it look a bit similar to the old 'Fly!' by Terminal Reality, which is probably not intended.Cheers,Siggy

The favicon used for the forum pages is now some standard one instead of AVSIM's own. Would be nice to have the old one back.Cheers,Siggy

'NewChucky' gave you a link above.

Ideally, the error message should then read '... into a root directory'.Siggy

You can simply write to them and they will fix it up if you get multiple mails. I had something similar before because I used multiple e-mail addresses for orders from them. They fixed it in no time. (I think the address is crew at pcav...).The only thing they can't get right is, their mails contain the images that belong to the HTML mails, but when you view the mail the images still need to be loaded from their servers (this is the case with Thunderbird at least).Siggy