AlaskanFlyboy

Have you adjusted the realisms settings lately? This sounds like you have it set for high realism.Single engine planes such as the Cessna 172 gradually bank left on their own, this is generally countered by pushing down on the right rudder pedal. It's caused by multiple factors. The spinning of the prop actually makes the plane try to spin the opposite direction do to the air resistance against the prop, a force known as torque. The spiraling slip stream from the prop hits the left side of the tail and pushes on it, turning the plane left. Because the plane is rarely level - even in cruise - one side of the prop is actually bitting more into the relative wind than the other side causing another difference in force. The more pronounced the difference between the pitch of the aircraft and the relative wind, the more pronounced the turning force. When pitching or yawing, there is also a force known as gyroscopic precession that acts at right angles in the direction of the prop's rotation. This is why there is a pronounced left turn when lifting the tail up on take-off in a tail-dragger. Collectively, these four forces are known as "The Left Turning Forces".

I recently decided I'd try and install Fly!II again. Unfortunately, now that it's installed, I only get a blank screen when it loads. If I ALT-TAB out I see the start-up screen flash just before the focus changes. If I go back in, it's just a blank screen. It seems to have defaulted to 640x480 and my monitor and graphics card do not support anything under 800x600 and I think this may be the issue. Is there a way to set resolution in one of the .ini files?

I was able to get the information that Type I (de-ice) costs a little over 8 bucks a gallon (but it's cut 60/40 with water) and Type IV (anti-ice) costs around 14 bucks a gallon. That's our cost, not our charge though. I couldn't get them to tell me what they charge for de-icing per gallon.

For myself, I have Active Sky 6.5, Ground Environment Pro, XPax for airline flights, and I highly recommend Frame Rate Friendly and Mach 1 Designs sceneries. Then I can't highly enough recommend Reality XP's Flightline T and Flightline N gauges, I place them in all planes that use the default FS gauges or even those with custom gauges that have the same 1-degree tick movements. The movement's incredibly smooth so you can immediately detect any trends in movement, which is great if you ever find yourself in gusting winds on an ILS approach or for some reason want to practice partial-panel flights.I also recommend getting some good quality aircraft, such as Mikko's freeware Maule M7-260, or payware like Carenado, PMDG, or FeelThere (I know, I know. This one's debatable).ASA I think made me pee myself, so I may have to get it next month.

No fair, you have more unobstructed view than I ever had in my real-world flying. You need window posts and a big cowling in your way, and a seat that won't stay raised up. ;)Panel ViewReal World Cherokee Cadet Side View45 Degree Forward and Right ViewRear View With My Ugly Mug In the Way

If you're talking about FreeFlow New England and FreeFlow Florida, there would be no issue. Those two sceneries just adjust the coastline data to create more realistic lakes, rivers, and coasts. Mach-1 Designs airports adjust airport data, dealing with the grass area around the airport, the runways, taxiways, structures, and gate assignments. There would be no conflict unless the airport is misplaced and hangs halfway off into water.

From his post, it seems he is talking about aircraft and not computer performance. He mentions one cruising at a speed of 180 and the other at 220. The real question is if the plane is really doing 180, or if the gauge just says it is on the one panel. Several of the standard ASIs are marked with a red line at 180 knots. Does the overspeed tape appear at the bottom of the screen when you pass 180? Also, are these panels on the same model? You would see a Panel.X and a Panel.Y folder in the aircraft's folder if they are on the same plane and in the aircraft.cfg you will see one plane with Panel=X and the other with Panel=Y. If they are two separate models, they could just have two different .air files.

First we have to get the American North, the American South, the British, and the Aussies to all agree on what constitutes bad grammar. :(

I never used to have the cross. I have screen shots from a year ago and I have smooth transitions in them clear to the horizon. I first noticed it on my system after SP3 installed and noticed that several games have been taking an extraordinary amount of time to load and like to dump textures. I cannot say for certain that SP3 is specifically the culprit as it is all circumstantial evidence at best, but at the moment, it seems to be the primary suspect in my search for a fix. This problem seems to be coming a frequent topic lately, along with the OOM errors that lead me to wonder if there is some other common issue at hand. I've also installed a new graphics card around February, an nVidia 8800GT, and newer nVidia cards seem to be a common mention in the threads, perhaps that plays into it, though I do not recall myself having this issues after installing it.

As the poster before me said, most light planes such as your Cessnas and Pipers 4-6 place planes just have a marker that says "TAKE-OFF" and you set the trim indicator there. For larger jets, it's usually the FMC or something listed in the aircraft's POH. I know both the PMDG 737NG and the FT 737PIC show the trim setting on the TAKEOFF page of the FMC.

Go into your joystick assignments and remove the racing wheel's assignments.

Ah! Proof that, sometimes, condoms break. ;)I've had spell check for a while as Firefox has a plug-in for an inline spell-checker. As I type, it actively checks my spelling and underlines it in the red squiggly lines like Microsoft Word has become famous for.

I'm sure it's up there in that range. It's glycol, the same stuff that you put in your car for anti-freeze. I believe I payed just under $10 for a gallon of the pre-mix 40/60 glycol anti-freeze for my car the last time. The de-ice and anti-ice are both glycol, but the de-ice is more like the stuff in your car. It's a mixture of glycol and water, but heated to 180-200 degrees Fahrenheit. I seem to recall the mixture is 40/60 glycol-to-water. Anti-ice fluid is pure glycol and isn't heated. De-ice is colored orange and anti-ice is colored green, at least for UPS anyway. I saw all this stuff on the slides at one point, but I just get in the bucket and spray, I don't buy or fill the trucks so it's mostly slipped out of my head beyond "De-ice is orange and hot, anti-ice is green and ambient temp, and both are sweet when you get back spray in your mouth on a windy day but there's a bitter aftertaste".

Everyone has had these lately, including myself. I'm not sure what the real fix is for it, but I'm fairly sure Windows XP SP3 did it, as FS is not the only graphic intensive program that has taken a hit to graphics quality since then. The Sims 2 and Half-Life 2 have been behaving strangely on my system since the hard lines have appeared on my system. I used to run sliders at full with no noticeable problems on my system and now I get artifacts such as that, including strange white shimmering bands at the lower edges of my screen when I'm on the ground in small aircraft such as the Cessna 172 or Cessna 206. Unfortunately, I haven't found a way to get rid of SP3 without fully wiping my system to see if the change solves anything.

I'm not sure, but I know we go through a bit of it on our two jets. I could always ask at work next time I'm in.

I'm assuming you have a wide-screen monitor and it's shrinking, leaving black bars on either side? Does it look distorted like it was pushed in (gauges would be oval shaped instead of circular)? If so, it may be your monitor settings. I've had monitors that seemed to have a separate memory for full-screen games than it did for the desktop. I never was sure why, but I just had to adjust the monitor settings for the full-screen games and it remembered the next time they loaded up.

I know this thread's getting a little old, but I thought I'd add something. Any time the FS time is changed by more than a minute or more, the AI refreshes. The updating of the seconds shouldn't trigger anything. Or at least it hasn't in my experience. But manually changing from something like 12:01:59 to 12:02:01 will, for whatever reason, refresh the AI and give you those clusters.

DHL is out of Spokane in mid January and we (UPS) have apparently be fighting against FedEx for their customers in the region, which has made things a little stressful on us as the higher-ups are trying to get perfection out of us. As for the noise comment, I can say that their DC-9s aren't any quieter. It's by far the loudest plane we see at the airport, nearly on par to the occasional F-15s from Fairchild.

There's also the old addage that is something to the effect of, "If your flight is going perfectly, you're blissfully ignoring the problem at hand."----------------------------------------------------------------John MorganReal World: KGEG, UND Aerospace Spokane Satellite, Private ASEL 141.2 hrs, 314 landings, 46 inst. apprs.Virtual: MSFS 2004, MIDCON P-401"There is a feeling about an airport that no other piece of ground can have. No matter what the name of the country on whose land it lies, an airport is a place you can see and touch that leads to a reality that can only be thought and felt." - The Bridge Across Forever: A Love Story by Richard Bach

Given the amount of time I spend on the ground before nearly all flights, I've found AS to take less time to load than I do to plan.For the MidCon flights, it takes me a good 30 minutes with X Pax and the 737PIC to get ready for push. And most of my other flights are through FS Economy, so I'm trying to deal with the loads in the small GA craft that they give me.----------------------------------------------------------------John MorganReal World: KGEG, UND Aerospace Spokane Satellite, Private ASEL 141.2 hrs, 314 landings, 46 inst. apprs.Virtual: MSFS 2004, MIDCON P-401"There is a feeling about an airport that no other piece of ground can have. No matter what the name of the country on whose land it lies, an airport is a place you can see and touch that leads to a reality that can only be thought and felt." - The Bridge Across Forever: A Love Story by Richard Bach

>How current is your FSUIPC version? I had the same problem>with the Wilco 733 and using AS6.5. Turns out it was because>my FSUIPC was an old version.>>Might try that.It's been so long since that FSUIPC issue, I'd forgotten about it.----------------------------------------------------------------John MorganReal World: KGEG, UND Aerospace Spokane Satellite, Private ASEL 141.2 hrs, 314 landings, 46 inst. apprs.Virtual: MSFS 2004, MIDCON P-401"There is a feeling about an airport that no other piece of ground can have. No matter what the name of the country on whose land it lies, an airport is a place you can see and touch that leads to a reality that can only be thought and felt." - The Bridge Across Forever: A Love Story by Richard Bach

It's been ages since I've used the default GPS and my attempts to use it right now pretty well reminded me why I don't use it. I would try one of the freeware GPS downloads and see if you have better results, or shell out for one of the Reality-XP GPSs if you plan on using GPS heavily with online ATC. Else I would stick to the old fashioned low/high altitude enroute charts and VOR/NDBs.----------------------------------------------------------------John MorganReal World: KGEG, UND Aerospace Spokane Satellite, Private ASEL 141.2 hrs, 314 landings, 46 inst. apprs.Virtual: MSFS 2004, MIDCON P-401"There is a feeling about an airport that no other piece of ground can have. No matter what the name of the country on whose land it lies, an airport is a place you can see and touch that leads to a reality that can only be thought and felt." - The Bridge Across Forever: A Love Story by Richard Bach

Did you attempt to select the leg in question from the FPL page and then hit the Direct button? If that doesn't work there's a Garmin GPS freeware guage that supposedly adds some pages and functions, though I have never tried it. Other than that, the only option I know of is to purchase one of the Garmin or Apollo GPS guages from Reality XP.----------------------------------------------------------------John MorganReal World: KGEG, UND Aerospace Spokane Satellite, Private ASEL 141.2 hrs, 314 landings, 46 inst. apprs.Virtual: MSFS 2004, MIDCON P-401"There is a feeling about an airport that no other piece of ground can have. No matter what the name of the country on whose land it lies, an airport is a place you can see and touch that leads to a reality that can only be thought and felt." - The Bridge Across Forever: A Love Story by Richard Bach

Can they also be linked to key commands? I know some payware aircraft's FMCs allow for key commands to be activated for the various functions.----------------------------------------------------------------John MorganReal World: KGEG, UND Aerospace Spokane Satellite, Private ASEL 141.2 hrs, 314 landings, 46 inst. apprs.Virtual: MSFS 2004, MIDCON P-401"There is a feeling about an airport that no other piece of ground can have. No matter what the name of the country on whose land it lies, an airport is a place you can see and touch that leads to a reality that can only be thought and felt." - The Bridge Across Forever: A Love Story by Richard Bach

I have AS6.5 and there is a setting to control how many seconds it takes for a complete wind change. The disadvantage seem to be a dulling of variable winds simulation toward the surface.----------------------------------------------------------------John MorganReal World: KGEG, UND Aerospace Spokane Satellite, Private ASEL 141.2 hrs, 314 landings, 46 inst. apprs.Virtual: MSFS 2004, MIDCON P-401"There is a feeling about an airport that no other piece of ground can have. No matter what the name of the country on whose land it lies, an airport is a place you can see and touch that leads to a reality that can only be thought and felt." - The Bridge Across Forever: A Love Story by Richard Bach