Bruce Nicholson KMFR

Michael,I'm at work so I can't look up the CD files right now. Perhaps someone else can respond more quickly.As I mentioned, most of my CTDs have been texture related so reloading the default textures may be the answer. It's really hard to say without having a log file that can be inspected on startup to see where the error occurs and what the program is loading at the time.Bruce

Michael,Anchorage is one of the bitmapped areas in FS, so the problem needs additional investigation. Do you have any other scenery in the region, like bush scenery. It may not be near Anchorage, but may still be within a LOD tile that is loading into memory. Make sure you have all extras removed, including any extra landclass or DEM files.Once you are sure all extras are disabled, then the problem may be a default file corruption.I would try disabling the Anchorage bitmap in the scenery config. This will determine if the associated generic BGLs are causing the CTD or the bitmap.As for knowing which one... geeze! good luck! You can use the LWMViewer to get an idea of which BGLs are active in the Anchorage area and replace them from the installation disk. It may be simpler to use the brute force method and just copy the default bgls for the NAMW area back over the originals.I've been dealing with CTDs for the past 3 months. It's part of the risk of using add-ons. I really hope that MS is able to trap the errors more gracefully in the next version so we have some clue as to where to look for the problem. For example, this week I had a CTD in the Warsaw, Poland area and the cause was a AIA 737 texture for a plane in the Baltics - not exactly a direct connection between the area of the problem and the cause. I spent one whole day looking for problems in the Warsaw area only to eliminate every possibility and still have a CTD. If an error trap could just ID the BGL as the sim goes into meltdown, we'd all have better running sims and fewer headaches.Bruce

Mike,Although a very fitting reply to Al's remark, I'm surprised that you responded to a troller obviously looking to incite reaction within this thread. Seems to reinforce your theory as Al is somewhere between the misinformation type (see his reply to my post) and hostility type mentioned in your post.As for the wildcard you mentioned, I believe those people have elevated themselves to a higher level through prior experience and purposeful exclusion of the emotions you mentioned. The major difference being those people understand nothing constructive results from participation in any one of the categories listed. If anything, perpetuation and propagation results.Bruce

The aircraft's radius will determine where it parks. If your aircraft's radius is larger than the parking settings within the AFCAD, that would explain why you are seeing the Electra in a Heavy Jet spot.

>> ...is that the current one is so close to blissfulness...I agree! That's why I'm using flight simulator and enjoying it to the max rather than stalking the forums waiting for news of 2006 (or whatever it may be).If you really love FS2004 that much, what's the big deal about when the next version will be launched? You might have a point in searching for release news if you had problems with the current version and the next version promised to remedy those problems. That doesn't seem to be the case.If you stop and think about it, the anxiety over the lack of an announcement is self-motivated. So enjoy what you have now and save up the worries for the release when you discover all of the add-ons that need to be updated because you were so anxious to get the newest version."Life is what happens when your busy making plans"

Open FS9.CFG (its' located in different places depending on your version of Windows, check the tips and tricks pinned topic at the top of the forum if you can't locate FS9.CFG). You may have to perform an "open with" command to a text editor if you have not already associated cfg files with a text editor.Inside the file, locate the section title AContainer (name between square brackets).Each of the lines in this section controls the display above AI Traffic. Change the variable ShowLabelFlightPlan=1 to show flight plans. While in the config file, you can edit the other AI label variables to whatever you prefer. Save and exit the file.Restart FS and you'll see your changes.Bruce

AAL225 B752 KBOS-KSAN EOBT/2115 TTL_EET/0551N0460F380 DCT MHT DCT SYR DCT BUF J94 ECK J38 GRB DCT ODI DCT OBH J128 TBC J236 EED BARET4AAL226 B752 KSAN-KBOS EOBT/1415 TTL_EET/0427N0462F350 BRDR5 IPL J18 GBN J18 LVS J19 LBL J134 STL DCT VHP DCT ROD J29 JHW J82 ALB GDM3

The link works for me. After the page opens, futher down are sections for approaches, stars, and sids. When you click on one of those section links, a PDF opens showing the chart.I don't understand why you can't access the link.

Links to charts for SKBO are on this page:http://www.colatc.org/modules.php?name=Con...showpage&pid=30

David,Different parts of the world have different laws on monitoring radio transmissions. There are free ACARS monitoring programs on the internet and they all have the disclaimer to not use them if it's illegal in your country or region of the country.It's fun connecting one or more of these decoders simultaneously on the internet and picking up aircraft transmissions that one could never hear locally. It's also a great way to build airline fleet registrations when making AI traffic schedules. I've been running an ACARS server at my home for the past year. When someone connects to it, there is a disclaimer that reception of the data may be illegal in their part of the world. I normally have 10 to 14 people connected at any time of the day. It's usually the same people, which leads me to think they are connected to multiple ACARS hosts and collecting their own database of data on their client software.Bruce

You don't say much about your setup. Are you running the 9.1 upgrade? Do you have the sim set to automatically bypass the flight selection menu?If you are bypassing the flight selection menu, then you can't tell if the sim is crashing after the splashscreen or when it's trying to load the default start up file. I'd be very surprised if the sim is crashing during the splashscreen because an operating system error normally appears.The other reason you could be crashing to the desktop is a hardware issue. You mentioned rebuilding fs9.cfg, but this will not help if one your memory panels is undervoltage or if you are overclocking your CPU.If you are at least getting the flight selection menu, then there must be a scenery conflict with a bad BGL file.You say you removed the LOWW scenery. Was this from a single folder that held scenery and textures? Or were some of the BGLs copied into your main scenery folder? You may not have a complete uninstall.If you think you do have a complete uninstall, try creating a flight at a different airport. If FS doesn't crash, then the airport in your last saved situation file is creating the problem. Explore all scenery, aircraft, AFCAD, and landclass at that airport until you find the problem. If FS crashes at different airports, then you have a widespread conflict.The next series of steps is to remove your addons, one layer at a time, until you determine what is causing the problem.Start by setting all of the non-FS scenery to False in the scenery.cfg file. If you keep all of your AFCADS in the Addon Scenery, this change will also eliminate an AFCAD conflict. If you don't, pull the AFCADS out from where ever they are stored and save them in a temp folder outside of FS.Try starting FS again. If you have a crash, it's not in the AFCAD or addon scenery, but may be in your AI traffic. I know you have addon traffic by your screenshots. Have you added any new paint schemes since your last successful startup? Move all of your traffic files from the main scenery folder to an external temp folder. This is an easy way to cancel the AI aircraft. Also move any addon aircraft to a temp folder. Try starting FS.If you don't crash, you'll have to go through your AI aircraft and/or addon aircraft to determine which aircraft has the bad texture. I've had to do this a couple of times and it's not easy and takes a long time.If you still crash, you've narrowed it down to either 1) an original FS file or 2) an addon bgl added to your main scenery file. The simple solution is to reinstall FS and then promise yourself to never put addon BGLs into the main scenery folder. :-) Instructions tell you to do this but I always place new BGLs into a subfolder of the Addon Scenery folder.In summary, the problem can be anywhere. Some people are going to say it's the seasonal CTD problem. But if you were able to run the sim until recently and never have a CTD, then that can't be the problem, especially if you are running 9.1. Explore your hardware. It's the fastest way to eliminate one of the possible problems. The software side is tedious and very hard to locate. If you have too much time invested in setting up addons, you may want to look for the problem, otherwise, the quick solution after checking the hardware is to reinstall and then carefully manage how and where you install your addon scenery and aircraft.

Brian,Here are all of the COA Expressjet routes as of last Dec 2004. It's routing only between city pairs by aircraft type. You'll have to look up the departure times on the website and determine cruise altitudes (which constantly change due to airspace restrictions and winds aloft).I created this for a commercial flight planner and since you asked, it was easy to extract and post.Hope this helps anyone else that is interested in COA Expressjet routes.Bruce

David,Interesting that you are bringing this topic to light because 10 years ago, BAO (developer of FS at the time) produced an airport tower simulator. Traffic was commandable on the ground and in the air using similar graphic components found in FS at the time. BAO even developed the first photorealistic backgrounds that put FS aircraft at the gates, taxiways and runways of a background bitmap.It didn't do well, which probably explains why you don't find such a program today. You may be fascinated by the concept, but the general public never was too keen on the idea.You can try it yourself at http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?name=TowerRealize that it is over 10 years old and not up to today's stadards, but was quite an engineering achievement in its day.Bruce

Just a minor correction on historical release dates...FS9 was released earlier than any previous version in order to time it's theme, a Century of Flight, with the Oshkosh event.Historically, all the way back to FS1 for the IBM PC, the release date is during the Sept-Oct timeframe. The one exception is FS8, which was set to release mid-Sept and in stores first week of October, until the 9/11 event. It was held back a couple of months, which bought the developers more time and kept the sim out of the headlines (sims were not getting good press at that time).

>> And now I swore myself to take extreme care what I'm gonna install and what not.Andreas is absolutely correct!All of us have unique FS setups and there is no magic bullet to get rid of CTD's. The best we can do is try to isolate the issue and fix it.For example, I had a CTD at EHAM, but only at certain times of the day and night. At all other times the sim worked fine. I moved to KSEA and tested all different hours and no CTD. So it couldn't be hardware and it had to be something associated with EHAM. I removed all of my EHAM add-on scenery plus EHAM AFCAD and still had the CTD. So I removed all of my AI traffic textures for airlines at EHAM and guess what? No CTD at any time of the day or night. It was a matter of isolating which texture BMPs were causing the crash. There were two files causing the problem. Luckily, those airline repaints existed for other AI models, so I installed different model textures and no more CTD.I relate this story because it's possible to root out the cause of the CTD, though it's not an easy task and one must have some patience. If you're willing to add on to FS, or change your hardware after FS is installed, then be prepared to fix possible CTDs.If FS has a CTD right after a clean install with no add-ons, then then that is a legitimate reason to complain to Microsoft. But to come to the forum and complain about CTDs when the sim has been modified umpteen times after it's original install is just immature and silly. Take some responsibility for one's choices and fix the CTDs or, at the least, stop using add-ons!Listen to the wise words of Andreas: "limit the installation of add-ons, and be extremely cautious with freeware." You'll save yourself both wasted time and trouble.

Tom,It's a real blessing that your business takes you internationally and you are able to meet with simmers. The photos demonstrate how the passion for flight simulation has no international boundaries.The FS community is fortunate to have someone like you, in a leadership role at AVSIM, hear the opinions and thoughts of various international groups. I think it can only enhance the direction of AVSIM into the future.I spent part of my vacation last October in Turkey and it was an incredible country to visit. Good luck with the success of your real job and the venture in Istanbul!

Airport and IAP charts are here: http://www.sunairexpress.com/tpa/charts/mdpc.htmEnroute airway chart is here: https://164.214.2.62/dafif/enroutechartscur...0MAR%202005.pdf

Here are some transpacific and interisland routes from yesterday:HAL35 KPHX-PHNL B763 EOBT/1745 TTL_EET/0615N0471F300 KPHX.BXK2.PSP..SXC.C1177.FICKY.R578.FITES..LNY.JULLE4.PHNLHAL36 PHNL-KPHX B763 EOBT/0825 TTL_EET/0522N0467F350 PHNL.MKK4.EBBER.R577.ELKEY..SXC..OCN..JLI..IPL.J2.MOHAK.ARLIN3.KPHXHAL24 PHNL-KSEA B763 EOBT/0015 TTL_EET/0508N0470F330 PHNL.MKK4.APACK..ZURIC.A331.SEDAR.C1418.HQM..OLM..ARVAD..FOURT..KSEAHAL21 KSEA-PHNL B763 EOBT/1545 TTL_EET/0532N0464F260 KSEA.ELMAA7.HQM..SEDAR.A331.ZURIC..APACK.MAGGI3.PHNLHAL4 PHNL-KLAX B763 EOBT/0055 TTL_EET/0443 N0465F370 PHNL.MKK4.EBBER.R577.ELKEY..VTU.SADDE6.KLAXHAL9 KLAX-PHNL B763 EOBT/0120 TTL_EET/0523N0471F300 KLAX.PRCH9.DINTY.R576.DENNS.MAGGI3.PHNLHAL939 PANC-PHNL B763 EOBT/1015N0461F320 PANC..HOM..5500N/15200W..5000N/15300W.4500N/15300W.4000N/15400W.3500N/15500W.3000N/15600W..ZIGIE.MAGGI3.PHNLHAL938 PHNL-PANC B763 EOBT/0200 TTL_EET/0535N0473F330 PHNL.MKK4.APACK..3000N/15600W..3500N/15600W..4000N/15500W..4500N/15400W..5000N/15400W..5500N/15300W..HOM.AMOTT5.PANCHAL25 KPDX-PHNL B763 EOBT/1545 TTL_EET/0529N0466F280 KPDX..ONP.C1419.HEMLO.A332.ABSOL.R463.APACK.MAGGI3.PHNLHAL26 PHNL-KPDX B763 EOBT/2320 TTL_EET/0459N0470F330 PHNL.MKK4.APACK.R463.ABSOL.A332.HEMLO.C1419.ONP..UBG..KPDXHAL7 KLAS-PHNL B763 EOBT/1710 TTL_EET/0610N0466F320 KLAS.SHEAD3.OAL..OAK..BEBOP.R464.BITTA.MAGGI3.PHNLHAL8 PHNL-KLAS B763 EOBT/0750 TTL_EET/0512N0470F330 PHNL.MKK4.CLUTS.R465.CITTA.R585.AUDIA..RZS..PMD..DAG.KEPEC1.KLASHAL11 KSFO-PHNL B763 EOBT/1540 TTL_EET/0508N0464F320 KSFO.GAPP3.SFO..BEBOP.R464.BITTA.MAGGI3.PHNLHAL12 PHNL-KSFO B763 EOBT/2300 TTL_EET/0426N0459F370 PHNL.MKK4.CLUTS.R465.CINNY..PIRAT..OSI..KSFOHAL157 PHOG-PHNL B712 EOBT/2350K0390A140 PHOG.MAUI5.OGG..LNY.JULLE4.PHNLHAL152 PHNL-PHOG B712 EOBT/0000 TTL_EET/0022K0385A130 PHNL.PALAY2.LNY.CAMPS2.PHOGHAL183 PHNL-PHLI B712 EOBT/0030 TTL_EET/0021K0390A140 PHNL.KEOLA2.PHLIHAL172 PHLI-PHNL B712 EOBT/0010K0385A130 PHLI.V15.PHNLHAL147 PHKO-PHNL B712 EOBT/0003K0425F200 PHKO.V20.FIRES.JULLE4.PHNLHAL108 PHNL-PHKO B712 EOBT/1515 TTL_EET/0028K0420F190 PHNL.PALAY2.LNY.VECKI6.PHKOHAL262 PHNL-PHTO B712 EOBT/0210 TTL_EET/0035K0465F250 PHNL.MKK4.PULPS.V21.PUMIC.V15.PHTOHAL361 PHTO-PHNL B712 EOBT/0420K0460F240 PHTO.V22.OKALA.V16.LNY.JULLE4.PHNLThat should keep you busy! :-)

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Zane,If you're a loyal customer, that's fine. However, the idea that updates must cost money to justify the labor is not always the case.Take the competing weather product ActiveSky 2004. Users were required to purchase this if they already owned ActiveSky Wx because it was a totally new product for FS2004. Once that purchase was made, every update since (and there have been plenty) were issued for free.I think this is why many users are posting that it's not worth it to pay for an incremental upgrade.Marc has the right to charge what the market can bear, but with the competition Marc has, he may want to rethink his pricing strategy or risk losing customers.Bruce

JZA8442 CYXY-CYVR CRJ2 EOBT/1530N407F350 DCT YXY DCT DUXAR DCT YYD DCT TRENA KEINN4JZA8444 CYXY-CYVR CRJ2 EOBT/0120N405F350 DCT YXY DCT DUXAR DCT YYD DCT TRENA KEINN4I cannot locate any Jazz flight plans to CYXY, perhaps someone else has access to that route. In the meantime, here is an Air North Charter flight plan to Whitehorse (adjust the airspeed for the CRJ).ANT506 CYVR-CYXY B732 EOBT/1930N0425F340 YVR3 FASBO J528 TRENA DCT YYD DCT DUXAR DCT YXY DCT

ASA60 PAJN-PAKT B734 EOBT/1612N0430F330 JNU2 CGL DCT SQM DCT DOOZI DCTASA60 PAKT-KSEA B734 EOBT/1747N0429F330 DCT ANN DCT ANN140040 DCT YJQ DCT YYJ JAWBN9ASA61 KSEA-PAJN B734 EOBT/1539 TTL_ETT/0212N0432F320 J523 ARRIE DCT CL DCT QQ DCT LVD DCT HOODS DCT SSR DCTASA61 PAJN-PAYA B734 EOBT/1855N0428F300 CUSHI2 CUSHI DCT ASORT DCT ISERY DCT YAKASA61 PAYA-PACV B734 EOBT/2024N0429F300 DCT YAK DCT FORAT DCTASA61 PACV-PANC B734 EOBT/2142N0436F260 EYAKS2 EYAKS DCT JOH KELYE1ASA62 PAFA-PANC B734 EOBT/1500N0431F330 MICK5 TKA DCT TAGER MUDIE2ASA62 PANC-PAJN B734 EOBT/1644N0429F330 OUTER2 NOEND DCT JOH DCT ISERY DCT ASORT DCTASA62 PAJN-PASI B734 EOBT/1905N0381F160 JNU2 SSR V431 CLUCK DCTASA62 PASI-PAKT B734 EOBT/2026N0430F290 DCT BKA DCT LVD DCT DOOZI DCTASA62 PAKT-KSEA B734 EOBT/2155N0429F330 DCT ANN DCT ANN140040 DCT YJQ DCT YYJ JAWBN9ASA64 PANC-PAJN B734 EOBT/2116N0430F330 OUTER2 NOEND DCT JOH DCT ISERY DCT ASORT DCT JNUASA64 PAJN-PAPG B734 EOBT/2330N0394F210 JNU2 CGL DCT SQM DCTASA64 PAPG-PAWG B734 EOBT/0043N0341A090 PSG2 DCTASA64 PAWG-PAKT B734 EOBT/0136N0366A130 HABNA1 DOOZI DCTASA64 PAKT-KSEA B734 EOBT/0245N0426F350 DCT ANN DCT ANN140040 DCT YJQ DCT YYJ JAWBN9ASA65 KSEA-PAKT B737 EOBT/1600 TTL_ETT/0138N0434F340 J523 ARRIE DCT CL DCT QQ DCT PR V309 ANN DCTASA65 PAKT-PAWG B737 EOBT/1830N0410F180 DOOZI1 LVD DCTASA65 PAWG-PAPG B734 EOBT/1940N0240A050 KAJBU1 IRUNE DCTASA65 PAPG-PAJN B734 EOBT/2049N0300F200 GORBY2 ODECO DCTASA65 PAJN-PANC B737 EOBT/2212N0455F400 CUSHI2 CUSHI DCT ASORT DCT ISERY DCT YESKA KELYE1ASA66 PANC-PACV B737 EOBT/0037N0461F250 DCT JOH DCT GCR DCTASA66 PACV-PAYA B737 EOBT/0157N0454F290 DCT FORAT J501 YAK DCTASA66 PAYA-PAJN B737 EOBT/0321N0454F290 DCT YAK DCT HAPIT DCT SSR DCTASA66 PAJN-KSEA B737 EOBT/0449N0493F390 JNU2 CGL DCT SQM DCT YJQ DCT YYJ JAWBN9ASA67 KSEA-PAKT B734 EOBT/2308 TTL_ETT/0133N0436F320 J523 ARRIE DCT CL DCT QQ DCT PR V309 ANN DCTASA67 PAKT-PASI B734 EOBT/0150N0446F240 UDENE1 FLIPS DCTASA67 PASI-PAJN B734 EOBT/0321N0381A160 STKA5 SSR DCTASA67 PAJN-PANC B734 EOBT/0439N0433F280 CUSHI2 CUSHI DCT ASORT DCT ISERY DCT YESKA KELYE1ASA69 KSEA-PAKT B734 EOBT/0317 TTL_ETT/0136N0436F320 J523 ARRIE DCT CL DCT QQ DCT PR V309 ANN DCTASA69 PAKT-PAJN B734 EOBT/0550N0429F300 DCT DOOZI DCT LVD DCT HOODS DCT SSR DCTASA70 PANC-PAJN B734 EOBT/0459N0431F290 OUTER2 NOEND DCT JOH DCT ISERY DCT ASORT DCTASA70 PAJN-PASI B734 EOBT/0719N0376A160 JNU2 SSR V431 CLUCK DCT

HAL21 PHNL-YSSY B763 EOBT/2320 TTL_EET/0945N0500F300 DCT OPIHI2 CARRP A579 CUFFY A579 JORDY DCT SHARK N774 SY DCTHAL22 YSSY-PHNL B763 EOBT/1601 TTL_EET/0923N0462F350 DCT GITON B580 BOILS B580 BINDS B580 CHOKO OPACA4

>> MIA..MNATE..CARNU141029..CUDJO..EYWIt shows as an intersection name, but we know it doesn't exist in the generic AIRAC database.Here are the EGF plans for 2/28 and none match the one you gave:MIA..MNATE.V3.EYWMIA..WINCO..DEEDS.V601.EYWEven the Gulfstream International Airlines route doesn't match:MIA..MNATE.V3.EYWSo I'm not really sure how the CUDJO came about on the FBOWEB site. It may have been a special airspace routing for that particular day. I'd assume CUDJO is a private waypoint used by EGF.Bruce

Tom,CUDJO is not an official intersection, if that is what it's suppose to be.Where are you seeing CUDJO?If it has to do with your previous question, there are several geographic references to Cudjoe in the Key West area. Cudjoe Marina that accesses Cudjoe Bay on the south end of Cudjoe Key (halfway between Marathon and Key West).I have several guesses:1> it's an obsolete intersection in the area of Cudjoe Key.2> it's a "custom" waypoint used privately by an airline. Some airlines will specify waypoints in a flight plan that are not in the AIRAC database.3> it's the name of a procedure (STAR, DP, IAP)Bruce