Maxthrust

Well, after doing a bit research I decided to give G3258 a shot: People seem to be able to overclock G3258 @ 4.2ghz on stock cooler. 1.2v, 70 C max temp on stress tests, seems a little too good to be true but I'll give it a shot before buying a better cooler. 89 CAD Asrock Z97 anniversary edition board, built for, or marketed for g3258 89 CAD G.SKILL DDR3 2400 memory, 2x4gig sticks 59 CAD I went with the el cheapo 148 CAD Asus GT750TI. 2gb, not 16X. Spending 350$+ to a nice a card is against the purpose of this built. I also bought an 250gb ssd to save some head ache later on, 250gb should be sufficient for the o/s and fsx I've spent a bit more on the PSU and the case as the quality of these items are important for a stable overclock. I'm hoping to get nice and fluid fps with medium/low settings. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this topic, I'll report my findings later on..

G3258 is very tempting, I'll be running FSX-SE exclusively

Hello fellow simmers, I'm looking to get back to simming after a 10 year break. I've always followed up with the current flighsim news so I kinda know what I'll be running on my new rig. I've used to be able to find my way around the hardware that's right for my needs and within my budget, however, I think the market is flooded with overpriced and low quality products, therefore I need a bit help. I'm kinda old school, I value a fluid smooth flight experience than looking at the latest high res runway or tree textures. I don't use radar contact etc but I do fly online. I usually keep the mesh and cloud resolution at medium, but I'll be using active sky. I'll fly the pmdg and majestic planes, actually if I knew they wouldn't move my post to here I would have posted this to the pmdg forum.. I usually don't upgrade, but this will be a staged build; I'll use the stock cpu cooler and my existing hdd at this point. A better cooler for slight over cllocking and an ssd will be added later on. I'm leaning to stay with win7-64. Now my intent is clear, here's what I'm thinking to build: CPU I5-6600K I understand i5 is the best price/performance cpu for fsx. I'm not sure if I need this cpu though, it's still quite a bit $$, do I really need this? Or can I get away with an older haswell non K cpu? Mobo GIGABYTE GA-Z170-HD3 (rev. 1.0) No frills, overclocks well, latest chipset. GPU Gf gtx-750ti, 2gb. PCI 3, 16x Best $/performance card imo, I wish they had a 4gb version.. Or am I completely wrong with GF7 series? I've never been a GPU Expert. Which brand? Must be reliable and reasonably quiet. RAM: 16 or 8 is enough? I know I need ddr4 if I'm going with skylake, but I have no idea about what to look for. I don't care about its looks or color, however, reliability and overclock stability is important to me. Which brand is again an other question.. I think a 500w psu would be enough for this config Any input would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Derin

Only fact here is that they won't be touching to the NGX until they're done with the 744 AND all its service packs, that's at least 1+ year imo. They have changed whats coming or what will be happening to the NGX several times already so why not wait and see? I'm confident we will get a nice 737 from PMDG sooner rather than later Derin Boz

Any Boeing glass cockpit aircraft is out if question imo. That stuff take too much time and they never keep that kind of major projects secret anyway. I don't want to sound like a downer but a 757/67 doesn't seem likely, unless they're completing level-d's 757 project with some ex level-d designers.. Furthermore RSR stated multiple times that although they love older steam cockpit jets, they wouldn't make one because they think it won't sell enough. I don't even know why I am curious about this, my fs rig is 5 years old and I haven't touched it since 2011 summer. I'll get back on the train and catch up with all the nice PMDG stuff once I'm done with the school though, that'll be soo sweet. Derin Boz

Another PMDG Express aircraft.. Derin Boz

Well the 300ER got me so excited I went ahead and created an excel spreadsheet for the takeoff performance. It calculates a MTOW for a given airport altitude, QNH, wind velocity/direction and rwy length. Moreover, if the actual TOW is lower than the MTOW for the given conditions then it provides an assumed temperature. V speeds by FMC, flaps 15, dry rwy and TO thrust only. I haven't touched the FSX in years and I don't think I will until after xmas, but if anyone from the beta team is interested I can share the file. It should provide the basic data until Topcat for 300ER is available..

Max takeoff weights for given pressure altitude, rwy length and OAT is already given in the manuals. You can find the MTOW weight according to tables and use assumed temp method if you are lower than MTOW. I'd import the tables into a spreadsheet program and let it interpolate to save time. There are a few limitations though, the tables are for TO thrust and Flaps 15 only, you still need to be mindful about the obstacle limits etc.. Flaps 15/20 performance is very similar, add +5 tons to MTOW for flaps 20, and if you are really light then the MTOW reduction factors for TO-1 and TO-2 are 0.926 and 0.860 respectively, then use assumed temp method.. Bozhan Ozsoy

First of all, GOOD JOB JOHAN!! I've been waiting for the equivalent of the fs9 sim1.dll mod for a very long time. :yahoo: Now the hard part is done, I don't mind adjusting 1506 values for my jets.. Now the trust for lower altitudes ( say < 5000ft ) must be reduced by the same amount with the rwy drag, that would eliminate any excessive takeoff performance issues for the majority of the airports but wouldn't effect climb/cruise performance. I think it's worth a try. :Thinking: To bad I have my exams for the next two weeks, otherwise I would like to help you out with the testing, etc. :p0304: Keep up the good job sir :drinks:

Great news!

omg are you guys going back to FREEWARE?? nothing beats that when it comes to competition :lol:

Check the forum over sanalpilot.com, you should be able to find most if not all Turkish sceneries.

This project is just getting better and better..

That's nice, is it flying by the numbers though? i.e. can you actually takeoff from a hot&high rwy at calculated mtow or abort at just before v1 and stop without overrunning? Engine performance is very difficult to model in FSX..

I wonder if the gauges in the 2D panel, especially ADI and HSI are vector based (moving smoothly) or the older 2D bitmap style..

They sure taking their time though.

copy&paste your panel cfg and I'll tell you which line to fix

not so super high quality pots and trim pots in the throttles :)

Perhaps another clarification on the issue by PMDG would clear the air..

No worries, I think they'll add the missing pnf call outs (Vr, V two, etc.) in an upcoming update. Bozhan

Are you saying you have the PNF call-outs now, i.e. not just the V1 call out but 80kts, Vr and V2 as well? Bozhan

Having integrated PNF call outs does NOT make it any less realistic. Remember the real thing does not have a load manager or a maintenance menu either, but it does not make the NGX any less realistic. An usual and customary feature has been stripped from the "base" pack in order to make way for an another product, it did not get any more or less realistic. Yes I did. :-) Bozhan

NOT everybody is a fan of fs2crew. I wouldn't use it even if it was a gift to me. It shouldn't be a big deal to include the PMDG's usual and customary PNF call outs in a future update, however it seems the decision to not to include them in the NGX was intentional; want PNF call outs -> buy fs2crew Bozhan

Just found this neat presentation about RNP and RNAV stuff: http://www.ecacnav.com/downloads/6_Path%20Terminators.ppt Bozhan

I think this yoke has potential. I was worried about the quality of the pods that Saitek use but I've just found out that some people have managed to replace the worn out "trim pods" in their throttle/yoke units with far better pods and they are using their throttle/yoke again with much better precision now. (pod replacement requires a new joystick board too which fits in the yoke unit so no problems..)