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So on which panel is the pitot tube heat switch located? Let's say the default A321. Eytan

So MSFS is is like a tough teacher, no skipping homework! Eytan

Almost everytime I load the game, it indicates that I must perform an update, otherwise I cannot start flying. The title shows a scenery upgrade, usually a particular area. Now these updates are massive, and my C drive is getting close to full capacity. Can I bypass the upload and go straight to the main menu? Eytan Ornstein

During a flight, no matter what aircraft, but mostly with the commercial jetliners that I fly, the airspeed needle drops to zero. The Shift +Z display on top of the screen also shows zero speed. Then a few minutes later, the speed is shown again, and this reoccurs. The only way I can see how fast I'm going is the ground speed shown on the GPS. Why is this happening? Eytan Ornstein

Hi After so many ctd's and not finding a solution, I remember reading somewhere that installing FSX not in the default location helped resolve the issue. Right now it's installed in C/program files (x86)/steam/steamaps/common/fsx. My D drive has much more space available than in C. Would that help? Would there a problem with addons- scenery and aircraft? Eytan Ornstein

Hi guys, I've had several ctd's lately using FSX SE. One advice I got is to minimize switching to spot views. That worked for a while, but the ctd's still hapened. I have no idea how to open the error file myself or how to attach it to this post. It's an MDMP type file. Opening it with notepad just shows gibberish. Please assist me. Eytan Ornstein

Well, the good old tactic worked. I reinstalled FSX. Now the addon aurcraft are showing up for selection. Go figure. Misgav

Hi everyone, All of a sudden all my aircraft addons do not show up un the select aircraft menu. The Level D B767, the Pilatus 12 by Flight1, various bush planes are just a few examples. I have no idea why this happening, unless something outside FSX is causing it. I have noticed that lately when starting my pc, a warning appears -file not synced...Could this be related? Misgav

I had to reinstall Lavel D 767 on FSXSE. Before that this product ran perfectly, and is my favourite commercial plane. I orginally bought the LavelD 767 from Flight1. The reinstallation went smoothly, and the 767 shows up in the FSX directory, but not on the choose aircraft menu. GRRR! Why? Eytan Ornstein

Thanks. Eytab

Problem resolved. I right click RC and run as admin. It runs just fine. just wondering, what setting in windows do I change in order to start RC without having to run as admin. Eytan

Hi I've had RC4.3 running great for years, until... My pc was screwed up due to a malware attack. Took it to a shop. It came back clean, malware removed. They also, without asking me, removed AVG and installed Microsoft Security Essentials instead, saying it was good protection. Then I ran FS9 with RC4 and got the dreaded error 75 RC fsuipcrcv4.code. I uninstalled the MS antivirus and reinstalled AVG. That didn't help at all. Still got the error. Ran a registry cleaner- same thing.Tried to rebuild database in RC, got an error message. How do I get this fixed? I have Windows 7 64bit. Eytan Ornstein

Sorry guys- my mistake! Just Flight do have the duchess and Archer as separate addons, . When they first came out the JF site had them as bundles. Misgav

Harald, Where does the fs9.cfg: hide on the computer? I searched for it, but the "search programs and files" tool failed to locate it. I do use Active Sky v 6.5. I have it on 59 miles max vis. I'll try a lower setting and see how it looks. Misgav

I am more or less happy with display settings in fs9. I've had been running the sim since it came out. Like most people I've upgraded my system since then- at least three times. So while most of us complained about graphic performance when fs9 came out, everyone is equipped now to run it with high settings. Except one feature- sight distance (Settings-Display-Weather- sight distance). I've experimented with this, from 70 miles to 130. But when I look at the scenery outside the cockpit, or in spot view, it doesn't make much of a difference. Here is what I do: In Scenery, I choose Medium high, then go to Weather and play around wuth varying sight distances. Still they all end up visually the same. Another curious feature of fs9- if you choose top down view and expand the range, soon you can see that the area of textures is actually shaped like a cross, not a circle around the aircraft So is sight distance more or less limited? Misgav My Specs Intel Core [email protected] GHz RAM- 16 GB Windows 7 64 bit NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT 2 MAG monitors, 19" and 22"

The only problem with the GA addons is that they are purchased with the entire Aerofly package. Present owners of aerofly cannot buy the duchess and install it, as in other sims. Bummer! Misgav

But will it affect other games? What does DirectX do anyway? Misgav

After a pc upgrade recently I wanted to fire up FSX. (new motherboard, more memory, and reinstall windows 7 from 32 bit to 64 bit) It was installed on D drive and so FSX remained untouched during the upgrade. When I hit the FSX.exe, I get this message- FS cannot run because the version of MS DirectX® installed on your pc is incompatible. Please reinstall DirectX 9.0 by running FS setup, or download the current version, etc, etc I have other games/ simulations, and I guess these won't run on an older version. Like Aerofly simulator. So what shall I do? BTW I reinstalled FS9 and got no such message. Misgav.

Thanks for the advice. BTW, those "Meatwater" voices. Are they meant to be a complete replacement to the RC voice set? Misgav

I ran RC as system admin and this time it worked correctly. Now maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to me that the speech is somewhat broken. I clicked the ABOUT button, and it says it's version 4.3.3845, and below that it's v4.2. In the voices section the number of pilots\controllers is only half of what it was when I last used RC (before the pc upgrade) I remember there was an update after RC4 was released that added many voices and smoothed out the speech. So should I update or am I OK so far? And if so, where can I get it? Misgav

. I repeated the same sequence as in my first post. The fs9 default atc was turned to zero. The key commands in RC remained untouched. Then an RC window opened and announced a Run-time error 75 Misgav

I had to reinstall RC after getting a new motherboard and reinstalling Windows 7 64 bit(previously 32bit) I got the license key and activated the software. I fired up fs9, created a flightplan and was placed at the departure airport. I opened up RC, chose the flight and hit Start. The RC adv window showed up ok. I hit the 2 button for wx, but get the atis scrolling message- no voice. I tried the clearance button- no response. What's wrong? Misgav

I just reinstalled RC 4.3. I need to get a new activation key. There's a standard format for sending JD the email with the key request. can someone tell me what it is. Thanks. Misgav

Thanks for all the advice guys. I finally gave up and decided it's worth uninstalling fs9 (manually, since the uninstaller wasn't working) It took a while. But I persevered. I did a fresh install, added the 9.1 patch and proceeded to installing the addons. After each addon I test fs9 to see if there any problems. So far so good! And fs9 runs fast like the devil! Misgav

I reinstalled fs9 into the same location I had it before the windows upgrade, in D drive. The reinstall went ok. I started fs9 and got a window saying "For security reasons, this program will not run while system debuggers are active. Please remove or disable the system debuggers etc etc." What the heck does that mean? BTW, if I have to reinstall again, should it be in the default location, i.e. C\Program Files\Microsoft games, or anywhere I choose? Misgav.