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Sorry PMDG Server Specialists,it seems you run a little PC with Linux or BSD and just ONE Cable Connection SDSL 2MBit/s as a Server. That doesnt work with such many download requests, so many customers.I get many different errors while trying the download. Who wrote that the traffic will get easier after some days of wait? I do not see that and I even more think it will need another week 'till I have the chance to access and download SU2.That you dont wanna rent two servers somewhere for mirroring etc. tells me that you do not have the money to do so. The copyright protection is not an issue when you rent a secure server or give it avsim or flight1. If you can pay it, it will be 120% secure and save.Just tell us the truth that you do not have the money to manage such a demand of so many customers within 2 weeks. Just tell us how much will get access within 2 weeks. Even channel it by customers name and login details, so just when someone with A.. in the last name get first access and someone with Z will be the last. And than channel it even more to not more than 10 accesses at the same time at one port. I guess you just have one port. I do not mind having to wait. But watching what you are doing and telling us here about your only lonly one server is just useless. Tell the truth, pull the plug, give the job to avsim or flight1 and than tell us what to do and where to download it. Others have better servers and are doing the job not the first or second time. And if you do what you do right now just because you are out of money... tell the thruth please. That works better than just puzzling around in panic.

and if I am the 1001th who is complaining... well so be it!It just doesnt make sense!"You are Authorized for the following downloads: (We recommend Download Accelerator Plus V5.3 for downloading)"Guess what I am using??? DAP Plus 5.397 !!!I get pounced back off from the PMDG Server after I got to my shopping basket. If someone gets this fare he/she should be able to actualy start the download proccess right away. No, the server traffic is narrowed to some 100 connections no matter if these are accounts of users or download atempts! Why is it not just about how many can access there baskets by the link they got by e-mail??? My DAP gets bounced back off to my desktop. No chance to get the downloading realy started. Better to not even getting access to the basket by the link given by the e-mail we recieved!It is now 02:17 in the monday morning here where I live. Soon I have to go to work after some hours of sleep. Hopefully the traffic will be less in about 10 hours!PMDG... How many e-mails did you send out about the update? Are we 2000 or 10,000 customers??? Will it be a matter of anothe r2 days or 2 weeks 'till every one has had a chance?

Hi PMDG,I have the e-mail - I open up the given link - I reload 'till I get into my account where I see the link for download the update.Well, but when I am there,I cannot start the download proccess at all.That is somehow not good! Is the given link to the users account one just registered for me? Then when I got into it, the server should keep my connection allive and give me the chance to start the download. But somehow it does not make any difference if I got through the first door, the second to where my file is, will not open at all. I try to use latest DAP, but that is useless with your server and how you have configured you stuff of the update right now.

Hi,I'v got to tell ya all, I just deeply love the two GAs from you RealAir!!! They are not too complicated to handly and fly for someone who flies for years now with FS2000 to FS2k4, but they seem even to be better than the GAs from FSD! And I have them ALL!I just wanna tell you that you developed the best!!!

LOL ROFL DOLF !!!!!!!!!!!!!!That would never happen with a linux driven OS in a planes computer-system!But nobody programmes a Flightsimulator like 2004 for Linux or makes the existing one useable at linux. Thats a pitty!Dassault makes it just about right! I am amazed!!!

Hi,why do you compare FMC or MCDU with DOS and Windows???I would rather pull Linux out of the bag and compare SuSe 9.0 with Mac OS 9.0....But basicly your point is valid! But are you a pilot? Can you edit a flightplan of a FMC with real buttons and a be-color screen when you are in bad weather and in turbolences? Can you do the same with a one-for-all touch-screen at the center TFT EICAS screen as well???I am not a real pilot. So, these are just questions and maybe I am wrong and there is even the better way to have a TFT touchscreen MCDU with color graphic drag and drop interface with a better OS than today and more like Dassault seems to provide now.If I would have a FMC software for my Palm m505 and a GPS unite I could couple with my palm AND any AP of a GA, I could setup the flightplan with that palm. But it is too tiny in size to use in bad weather and turbolence... It should be about twice its size for aeronautics use.

Here is what I send to PSS in there forum. But I have this little scratching feeling at the back of my brain that they will not reply to what I wrote...PSS Team,who did this A319/20/21 patches??? Wherever a clickspot, a knob, switch etc. is, my mouse-cursor flickers, what is very show-stopping.I have seen such a message already here but you seem not willing to answere to that. Why is the VC not clickable? Will you update to a better VC to boost sales at your side by supporting and providing the new MS FS2004

Well, I sent a mail already a hour ago. No answere yet.

Hi,I ordered yesterday the new Decathlon. My Order Number is #U3978243I have not received ANY E-Mails from you confirming the order, nor have I received any download link.Is ist normal that it takes a while? Maybe I didnt received the e-mails because of my SPAM-Filter. I have send you a e-mail about that. If it is normal that it takes some days to send the download link etc. than I do not complain. Else I am not happy...

Hi,just a question... how long did it take receiving the order confirmation e-mail and download link, after you ordered and paid by there website?I bought it last evening (US eastcost time), in middle of the nite in Europe and have not yet received any e-mails from them.

Well,I wonder how to get any nice info to which gate I have to taxi to when I fly a specific airline. I do not know every detail of the terminals and there gates of every airport I fly from and to.AFCAD2004 knows the gates and the airlines, if the right AFCAD bgl is used and my UT2004 knows where to park the AIs. But I do not know at which gate no AI will be, so I have a spot, etc.

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Hi All,a very weard problem is that sometimes, especialy when I crashed the plane at ground or in air, the plane just freezes at place, routates and doesnt do any more good. When I push up throttles, the speed indicator shows me that the speed builds up or down when I reduce throttle. But the plane just is like glueded there and the only way to get out of this situation is by re-loading the plane. But than I loose all data of my PMDG or PSS Airbus FMC / MCDU.Does anyone know why that happens, does that happen with you as well and what is to do against that?I wildly guess that it is a MS FS9 bug!!!!

Hi,So than why am I not any more able to switch the FD ON at Ground with Avionics ON and Engine 1 + 2 ON and GEN 1 + 2 ON with the Ariane B737-300 and there Classic Panel???In FS2k2 there is no problem, but the first time in FS2k4 (FS9) I loaded the Ariane B737-300, I was not able to switch it ON. But I had updated the panel from Ariane for FS9!I already send Ariane a E-Mail about that, but they have not yet replied.

Hi,may I just jump in here?I think the reason is within if it is 2D or and 3D drawing/vectoring of the panel. Any Graphic Card has it's work load to process and compute the 3Dimensional graphics for your Sim. So, in 2D mode you just render/compute the gauges with a stable fixed view angle at them and there is a "part" which gets rendered 3D, like the 3D world you see through the wind-shield windows forward, right/left. But in full 3D panel ALL gets rendered / computed in 3D vectored graphics, no matter if it is the "outside world view" or the 3D panel bitmaps and gauges. So now, you got 3 different things for your Computer System to compute: 2D panel bitmaps and the 2D gauges, 3D outside view through your "Windows" of the plane and third the 3D view that runs parallel behind all so you are able to switch back and forth within no time needed at all.That eats a lot of performance and so frames/sec. Not so when you fly ONLY in 3D panel mode where ALL gets computed for 3D what FS2k4 does just fine and very fast. No need to mix three different graphics to show you and or to keep up to date parallel in behind.The time where ALL gauges are gonna be clickable in 3D panel will be the time when the 2D Panel is due to get erased/deleted forever! Than you will have the best performance you could get with FS2k4/FS2k6

Hi Pilots,just a quick dummy question.... In the classic B737 Cockpit, should the Flightdirector be switchable to ON at ground when Avionics are ON? Or is the FD only in the air after takeoff to switch ON???

Hi ALL,I wondered why the bank angle selection has none effect while in VNav/LNAV Mode FMC driven.The real Pilots are as well in wonder and anger about that, but so is life...http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.ph...threadid=104403

Hi,sorry to correct you. I have learned some by asking more deeply my friend Scott, who realy knows that stuff.Here is what we all could learn:-----------------------------Torben,It matters because of inertia. The more weight in front and back, even if it is in balance, will slow response for pitch. If you have 4 tons of weight at the tail, and 4 tons at the front, although the plane is in balance, it takes longer to pitch up and down simply because you have to shift 8 tons of weight. Also, that weight affects the CG as you pitch since it alters the MOI (moment of inertia) points. You also have more drag with more weight, so you will have to pitch up more to maintain your altitude. The writer is incorrect when he says it doesn't matter where the weight is as long as it's in balance. This is because of the inertia changes and added drag with the distributed weight, neither of which you get with the load at 0,0,0.As for the writer's comment that you have to have the CG in a certain range, that's true. And that's what ACLoader tries its best to calculates. But it also calculates the MOI changes, even if those aren't reflected in the aircraft.cfg file, then balances with that in mind.You can actually do a little experiment. Pick up a couple 3 metre 2x4's and hold them out from your sides from the ends. Now try to lean one way or other fast then stop fast. Now hold the 2x4's half-way and lean to one side or other. You're in balance with the 2x4's all the way out. You're in balance with them half-way out. But which were you able to lean and stop faster? The aircraft handling is a lot different with the weight distributed correctly than all at 0,0,0. It's all inertia. The best way to test it in FS is to load up one of the Cessna's to MTOW and see how differently it flies.This goes for fuel as well. Load up all the wing tanks of an airliner. Use one with auxiliary tanks included (in the correct positions). Does the plane turn faster or more slowly? If you have no payload and minimal fuel, how long does it take to take off? How long does it take to climb to altitude? How easy is it to pitch up and down and turn? Is your fuel burn better or worse with the load distributed correctly or at 0,0,0?ACLoader takes all this into account and does balance correctly because it does make a difference.Feel free to use this as your response.Cheers,--Scott----------------------------------

Well,I have no reason to repeat the already know issues we all can read in the PSS moderated forum. I see and have experienced all of these problems myself within my first testflights.It is all about balance of PAX and Cargo. And when they get loaded, they should be positioned balanced along the x-axe of the aircraft, with the CG as the balance center point. ACLoader just does that without me having to care about it. But as a beta-tester I know hwo ACLoader works inside. So, why does the PSS A330 and A340 pitches even after it got loaded balanced by ACLoader in both sims and ONLY PSS shows this problem? I tested ACLoader with default and freeware aircrafts. POSKY, Ariane, FDS, DF, Flight1, name any and I tell you I tested it.Because I know PSS will need some more weeks to understand all issues and as well fixe them, I will wait what they'll do befor I would go ahead for a refund. I hope they see that there dynamics need much more work and a new developement all over again and fixes that as well as all other issues. I do not expect them to do it within two days, but it should not take as long as CaptainSim needed for fixing all issues about there Legendary B727 - half a year!>>Do you see any differencies with the x, y, z axes????>>>>It is ALL at one spot, even thou it has more than one>>station.>>Big deal. All this effects is balance, not MOI, so we will>have to set our trim a little differently. Besides, in the>real world, a load master will try to balance an aircraft this>way, for reasons of safety and to make it easier to keep the>plane in trim. If this is the worst thing you can come up>with, then PSS must be doing a great job. What do you think>about the aircraft add-ons that don't come with a load>utility? >>Maybe you should take Tony's advice and ask for a refund?>>- Martin

Hi,well, they should address all of the dynamics. Do you wanna fly a airliner aircraft empty just for the unreal fun of it? If that is your goal with the SIM, it is ok and totaly up to you.But if you look at if the aircraft behavies right in the air, even when it got loaded like real, then you are a more serious simmer. I dont just wanna fly them and have fun, but I wanna learn by MS FS2kx how a aircraft flys and why, than all about navigation, ATC rules, etc.The way how a loader loads the aircraft is critical for the dynamics of the aircraft. If all weight gets loaded actualy at ONE center zero point of the aircraft, than that is both unrealistic and cheats, and it has not a lot to do with dynamics because it than is the "empty_weight_CG_position" the center gravity point of the aircraft. If much load got loaded at the nose of the aircraft, it would tend to pitch down at the nose without correcting. if the aircraft has only cargo at the rear end, it would be unbalanced and too heavy at the rear - oriented from the center gravity point (CG). The faster you fly and the higher you are the more a effect would such unbalances play. So now, if the aircraft gets loaded balanced but realistic by a software like Shareware ACLoader 4.x, you can see if the developers where developing the dynamics realistic or if they just bypassed that and are cheating by using and releasing a ow loader which just loads at the CG point ALL weight.So, do you still think correct loading is not a major issue like the others, which are well major bugs and problems?ALL of them shall be addressed and fixed ASAP.I see that some are again outside of the "different-customers-systems" and should have been found within the beta-phase.>.... PSS has acknowledged these>shortcomings and has committed to fixing them. These to me>seem much more critical than any issues with how the loadedit>routine applies the station loads...>regards,

Hi,just because MS has a bad habbit releasing never finished and open products to the normal user/customer and as well to guys like me as a webmaster and computer tech., that doesnt mean that it is right and I should not be angry about that and that many others seem to think they may do same way. Yes I do not call PSS lords and kings and praise them god-like. Well, the A32x was not bad bad it took them loong time and a lot of pressure to release some needed patches, even today it could be better.Let's not talk too much about framerates because every sim system is differently configured...The loader PSS has released loads just one spot with some stations. The one spot is the center of the aircraft. From there it is easy to tune the flightdynamics. But what if the loading happens all over the plane cabin and where in FS2kx the cargo bays are? Just near alike like in real? ACLoader just does that and very well. If you use ACLoader (which can load all and any FS aircraft), you will see and feel the difference with any other aircraft. If you take a look into the aircraft.cfg, you will see the difference compared to what PSS does with there loader.PSS has already experiences with a airbus series for FS2k2. So to get a new seriese working for both sims now is not as new and spectacular as the A32x for FS2k2. They had a week to get some major bugs fixed but never answered my message about the dynamics I posted befor. They probably do not like if someone, who knows about how Sim aircrafts should get loaded and how the dynamics than should be, talks about there latest products. I know 120% for sure that ACLoader works just right and if a A320 to A340 gets correctly loaded, it should handle right without pitching up/down while cruzing. The best test was to download a A330 from POSKY and load it with ACLoader, take the PSS panel for the PSS 330 into the POSKY and have a testflight. The difference is feelable and seeable within the testflight and the aircraft.cfg files of both compared to each other.What a shame that POSKY developes better flightdynamics than PSS...!

Hi,ok, you are right, it does not load only at one station:#########################[WEIGHT_AND_BALANCE]//do not changereference_datum_position=0.000000,0.000000,0.000000max_number_of_stations=50station_load.0 = 0450, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 //Weight Crew (lbs) LEAVEstation_load.1 = 3000, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 //Weight Galleys (lbs) LEAVEstation_load.2 = 0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 //Weight Baggage (lbs) Baggagestation_load.3 = 12000, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 //Weight Cargo (lbs) Cargo station_load.4 = 0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 //Weight Psgr Sect OA (lbs) Firststation_load.5 = 0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 //Weight Psgr Sect OB (lbs) Coachempty_weight = 265057.1empty_weight_roll_MOI = 3900000empty_weight_pitch_MOI = 13000000empty_weight_yaw_MOI = 11500000empty_weight_coupled_MOI= 0.000000empty_weight_CG_position= 0.000000,0.000000,0.000000max_gross_weight=568571.5##############################BUT it load at just ONE coordinate within the aircraft scaling.Do you see any differencies with the x, y, z axes????It is ALL at one spot, even thou it has more than one station.If you use ACLoader, you will probably experience a different behaviour than when loaded with PSS own loader. ACLoader does load more realistic and I never had a major problem with ACL4.x. So, I can load with ACLoader any other commonly used aircraft, no matter if GA or Airliner in FS2k2 and FS9 and it flies more real. But not so with the latest PSS aircrafts.Do you use ACLoader? If not... You seem not to know about how something gets loaded by ACLoader, FS9 or PSS and how in real life a aircraft gets / must get loaded.

Hi all,just in case PSS doesnt release my message in there moderated forum, I post what I wrote here as well. I'd like every one to know what I feel about them with reason. I see there flightdynamics are poor and not well tested. Even the Airbus 330 from POSKY flys better and more stable.What do you think and experienced? I dont wanna see any flaming and alike. So, please do not use bad words or unplaced behavbiour.#################################Hello PSSplease address this issue about the defect flightdynamics.Your Loader loads the planes just at ONE station, what is realy very un-realistic. ACLoader 4.x and higher versions load much more realistic as can be within FS limits. Not one station but every row like in the real aircraft.As a beta-tester, I know how ACLoader works and does so for ALL FS aircrafts. Just your Airbusses are tough to load, because your dynamics are so buggy. I cannot get it not to pitch up/down around flightlevel. That there is a error with the dynamics shows when I set simrate to more than 1x, but 2 or 4 times. As you can see at my sign I have a about highend system and should have no problem flying your aircrafts in both sims, FS2k2 and FS2k4. Well, somehow your gauges drives my framerates down to 7 to 10 fps in 2D panel view.Ah, so when I set simrate to 2 x I get a pitchin about +/-400ft/min. and at 4 times about more and more. It gets out of control flying with simrates higher than 2 times. That does not happen with ANY other aircrafts in FS2k2 and FS2k4. I am used to test about all there are for ACLoader frequently because Scott sends me about frequently beta-files to test...So, please do not tell me to only use YOUR loader. If you have trimmed and fine-tuned your aircrafts just and only for using your unrealistic loader, you are not realy professional. Sorry to say so. Do not wanna flame you, it's just the truth in my mind.

Hey John,I guess wildly that you had none not english Windows version user among your beta-tester team. Otherwise you would have found this problem earlier within the beta-phase.Do you know of any problems with none english Windows version with differences in the kommata / decimalpoint country setting?Sorry not having that described better. English is not my native language.

Ho John,ah, about where they are saved... What if my System root directory is not C: but D: ????My Flightplan path of FS9 is this:D:Dokumente und EinstellungenFS200xEigene DateienFlight Simulator-DateienAnd still your MCDU cannot find any flightplans. I have NO problems with FS9 default flightplaner to find them but your MCDU.I guess it is a bug of your MCDU programming about when someone has a none english OS Windows XP Pro and it is not at C: but somewhere else...So, I cannot save a flight at my destination / arrival airport where I landed and endet with a PMDG B737NG and later open this saved situation and just change the aircraft to your PSS A330-200 or alike, because FS9 and your gauges cannot handle anything what doesnt start with a default cessna at KSEA???Is that ONLY a MS bug or as well a PSS bug??? I had none problem changing aircrafts within FS2k2 to your A32x - all displays did work.