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I'm having two odd problems with my B200 (with the RXP GNS 530 in the left-hand slot) in addition to the non-working weather radar and the flickering top third of the VSI/TCAS. I have no clickspots anywhere on the ADF or transponder to tune them. I've moused over every square inch of both instruments, knobs and display both, and the only clickspot on either of them flips the active/standby frequencies on the ADF. There doesn't seem to be a way to tune them. What might I be missing? Other than that, and the fact that it's a little *too* quiet, I love it. The texturing and model are stunning inside and out, and it flies so nicely.

If that's Heavy Weapons Guy in the last row, I think that JS41 is SERIOUSLY out of CG limits! :)(And if the flight doesn't serve food, was he allowed to bring The Samvich along?)These are absolutely amazing screenshots. I've never seen anything like this...almost enough to prompt me to get FSX soon. Almost. :)

Bringing this back to the top because it happened again, with FS2004 and ASA build 355. Flying over Africa with my closest station at FNME (Menongue, Angola), this is the METAR I see:FNME 112143Z 27000KT 16255 SCT033CB 26/20 Q3512 RMK ADVANCED INTERPOLATIONThis is the exact same problem I was having a month ago in certain regions of South America. The METAR pressure reading is totally borked. Does the "RMK ADVANCED INTERPOLATION" mean that ASA is somehow generating this data, or is it receiving garbage data from wherever the METAR data comes from?Forgot to add, it was with a different plane this time than before--the Wilco/Feelthere A340-300.

OK. I'll try a 737 or 747 in the same general area of Chile and see what happens.BTW, Jim, aside from these two pressure glitches, I am very impressed with ASA. B355 seemed to fix the twitchy winds problems I was having in FS2004, and I'm loving the new features and the fantastic cloud depictions.

Hey guys, I don't know if this is a bug report for ASA, but I think it's kind of funny nonetheless...ASA does a very faithful job of reproducing the conditions that the METARs give.Even when the METARs contain the string "Q2340". That does some FASCINATING stuff to the handling of your MD11 at FL370, let me tell you... :( This was from SCRA (Chanaral, Chile), the 2/5/2009 03Z METARs: SCRA 050335Z 22000KT 16255 SCT096 SCT151 19/14 Q2310 RMK ADVANCED INTERPOLATIONAnd here's one even better, the station just north of Chanaral, Las Breas (SCTT): SCTT 050338Z 20101KT 16255 SCT110 20/14 Q3280 RMK ADVANCED INTERPOLATIONI am now closest to the next station south, Caldera (SCCL) and it's showing: SCCL 050339Z 21804KT 16255 SCT064 BKN131 17/14 Q1018 RMK ADVANCED INTERPOLATIONBut my altitude is still completely whacked. My outside pressure appears to be somewhere over 38 inches of mercury; even hitting "B" over FL180 sets my altimeter to 32.01, not 29.92. (May be a PMDG MD-11 oddity?) I'm at FL360 and my altimeter is showing FL270 and slowly descending, cabin altitude is increasing even though the plane is level. And this despite the station showing Q1018. Multiple refreshes haven't helped.EDIT: After running across another station (SCLL) that had a "Q2380" entry for pressure, I've had to shut down ASA and clear all weather settings in FSUIPC in order to finish my flight. I am running Build 355. I've also seen this happen running the original release build of ASA, while flying the Maddog 2008. The Maddog 2008 glitch happened near Memphis, TN and exhibited the exact same symptoms of an insanely high barometric pressure--increasing cabin altitude, altimeter descending even with the plane level according to SHIFT+Z, airspeed all over the place.

Well, against my better financial judgement, I laid down my $80 last night and bought the MD-11. And really, all I can say is this: You guys have raised the bar for Flight Simulator addons with everything you've put out, from the 737-600, to the -800 expansion, to the 747-400--even the B1900s, that proved that inexpensive and simple doesn't mean ugly and tough to fly. With the MD-11, you haven't just raised the bar. You shot that sucker into geosynchronous orbit.Congratulations on a job well done, PMDG, and thank you.

If you have the registered version of FSUIPC, try going into it and looking for "wind smoothing" options. I run FS2004 and not FSX, so I don't know if FSUIPC 4 has different options than FSUIPC 3. I don't think the wind smoothing options work for an unregistered unpaid version of the program, though.Even with wind smoothing turned on, I'm seeing the same thing, occasional areas where winds aloft will shift 90+ degrees from what ASA is showing, and will sometimes "wobble" back and forth over a few minutes--a problem I saw back in the much older days of ActiveSky, and one that AS6 finally fixed. The MD-11 can be a handful when that happens!

I am getting a small amount of flickering as well in the VC. It's only on the ADF2/VOR2 buttons on the pilot's side, and the compass slider on the bottom of the standby instrument. Everything else is rock solid.Core 2 Duo E84004 GB RAMElitegroup Geforce 8800 GTS 512MBnVidia drivers version 175.16 (16xS AA, 16x AF)Vista 64-bit Home PremiumFS2004 9.1

>Hello all,>>>i am just wondering if fs2004 INCLUDING ALL ADDONS are running>under Windows Vista with no problems. This is because my>Flighsim has now seen over six years of modding and I don`t>want to do this again with FSX. If it would be a problem>running FS2004 with the addons on Vista then I will not change>my OS.>>Does somebody know this?>>mixen82The only FS2004 addons I've had trouble with under Vista 64-bit are:Blueprint KRDU v1.1 (.msi installer will not run under 64-bit OS)Reality XP GNS 430 and 530 (Garmin Trainer is a 16-bit app; their new GNS 430W/530W *will* work under a 64-bit OS)Dreamfleet Piper Dakota (there's a gauge that crashes it, don't know which one)I had to get new installers for a couple of things because mine were so old, but once I did, they worked fine.Here's a partial list of what I do have working under FS2004/Vista x64:ActiveSky 6.5Ultimate Terrain USA and UT Alaska/CanadaGround Environment ProFSGenesis mesh (lots) and landclassPMDG 737NG and 747-400LDS 767Wilco/Feelthere 737 PIC, Airbus v.1 and v.2, LegacyEaglesoft Beech 400, Citation II, Citation X, Citation CJ1+, Cirrus SR-22, Columbia 400Digital Aviation Fokker 70/100, PA-31T Cheyenne, Dornier Do 27Carenado planes (lots)Leonardo SH Maddog 2006Dreamfleet Archer, Bonanza, and Baron AFTER replacing the included RXP GNS units with the new GNS 430W or 530W purchased separatelyPSS 757 and 777FSNavigatorFS2004 does tend to crash on exit, but since I'm exiting, I don't worry about it too much.

I'm trying to reinstall my Captain Sim C-130 and the installer is giving me an "error code 11" when it tries to authenticate my order number. Attempting to go to www.captainsim.com doesn't work either, something's blocked between me and their server or else their website is dead. Anybody have any idea what's up?Lewis "Moose" GregoryDurham, North Carolina

Actually I think I may have partially figured it out...it's the taskbar. If I set the taskbar to auto-hide, my frames jump back up to 30+ in the window. As soon as the taskbar pops up, my frames go back in the toilet again. As long as I keep the taskbar hidden, it seems to be working fairly well in a window. That's very odd.Lewis "Moose" GregoryDurham, North Carolina

Hey guys, I've just re-installed FS2004 on my brand new machine, which is a Core 2 Duo E8400 processor, 4 GB RAM, Geforce 8800GTS 512MB video card with the latest nVidia WHQL drivers (175.something). This thing should run FS2004 with everything pushed over to the right quite easily, and it does...in full-screen mode only.I've installed no add-ons at all as of yet, just FS2004, the 9.1 update, and the no-CD mod (to save wear and tear on my disk #4). In the default flight, sitting on the ground at KSEA, if I'm in full-screen mode at my normal resolution of 1680x1050, I get 40 fps (locked at 40). If I switch to windowed mode, still at 1680x1050, I get 8 fps. Anti-aliasing is not turned on in my nVidia drivers yet. Almost all graphic options are maxed out.What's up? My old machine (an Athlon 2500 with a 6600GT) would actually get better frames in windowed than full-screen. I would greatly prefer to run windowed mode since I do a bit of online flying and need the ability to quickly task switch. Thanks!Lewis "Moose" GregoryDurham, North Carolina

I've been playing with this beast for a couple of hours now, and I'm just...speechless. I've mastered every piece of complex payware I've ever tried in virtually no time, and this thing is more challenging than ANY of them. Wow. I did finally get it into the air after working through the excellent step-by-step tutorial, and it flies wonderfully! It's a keeper. How is this possibly free?Those Russian designers sure do love lots of switches, though...Lewis "Moose" GregoryDurham, North Carolina

Thanks Dave! Very interesting stuff.I did figure out my problem...first, I was attempting to use the prop pitch keys to adjust the prop RPM rather than just using the clickspots on the throttle. Then when I did start to use the clickspots, I pushed the levers all the way forward to the "AIR START" position, rather than to the "RUN" position. I did a flight with them in the "RUN" position and everything looked fine, good prop animation, and takeoff power seemed just great. So now I know, just set it and forget it!I just wish they'd put the ground idle speed controls on a popup window, and not exclusively in the VC (same with the interior light controls)--or are they, and I just missed it?Lewis "Moose" GregoryDurham, North Carolina

Hey all...I've been messing around with my Captain Sim C-130, and have a question about the condition levers. If I click the condition levers forward to "run" as the manual (and tutorials I've found) state, the prop RPM just goes to 100% once I put any throttle on it, and stays there, so there's no rotating prop animation. Is this the normal setting for the C-130, just to leave the prop RPM at 100% through all parts of a flight?Also, does anyone have any ideas about typical power settings (ITT, fuel flow, etc.) for climb and cruise? Thanks.Lewis "Moose" GregoryDurham, North Carolina

>Hi,>>See if your Internet Explorer is set to Work Offline. That is>under the File menu. It should not be.That fixed it, Jim! Wow, I would've never thought of that, since I use Firefox 99.5% of the time and only ever use IE for a work website that requires it. Thank you!Lewis "Moose" GregoryDurham, North Carolina

>Hi Lewis,>>I just checked and both servers are up and running. Could it>be your firewall or anti-virus blocking things?Well, this gets weirder. Not only can I not connect to HiFi still after several reboots (with firewall + anti-virus + spyware checker enabled or disabled), I also can't use the Flight 1 wrapper to install some new software I bought (Eaglesoft's Citation II Expansion Pack). It just gets to "connecting to Internet" and exits. But all my other Web stuff--surfing, email, online games--is working fine. Very strange.Thanks for checking the servers, Jim. I've got some debugging to do on this end.Lewis "Moose" GregoryDurham, North Carolina

Still can't connect after a reboot. This is most odd. I'll keep trying.Lewis "Moose" GregoryDurham, North Carolina

>Hi Lewis,>>I just checked and both servers are up and running. Could it>be your firewall or anti-virus blocking things?>>Thanks,>JimWell, I haven't run it in a few days, but everything else Internet-related is working just fine, and I haven't recently updated AS6 so ZoneAlarm shouldn't flag it (and it isn't). Maybe it's some sort of glitch with my ISP or something between here and HiFi. I just tried it again and it won't connect, regardless of the primary/secondary force settings. I'll try rebooting to force an anti-virus update and diddle with some things on my end. Thanks Jim!Lewis "Moose" GregoryDurham, North Carolina

9:00 EST on Sunday 13 January, and my AS6 can't connect to either of the HiFi weather servers. Doesn't matter whether "Force Primary" or "Force Secondary" are checked or unchecked, AS6 just sits at "Connecting to HiFi DataNet" forever. Probably just a momentary glitch, but I thought I'd post on it anyway. :)Lewis "Moose" GregoryDurham, North Carolina

Thanks, problem solved!Lewis "Moose" GregoryDurham, North Carolina

I see that the Wilco A330/A340 package has been upgraded from version 1b to version 1c. Does anyone know what the changes between the versions were?Also, an odd problem--I'm curious if anyone else has had a sound problem with the Edelweiss Air A330-200 Rolls-powered repaint that comes off the Wilco website. It doesn't have any engine sound, but the A332 repaints (NWA, AFR) and A343 repaints (AFR) I've downloaded all work fine.Lewis "Moose" GregoryDurham, North Carolina

>Or, with the help of the inexpensive Friendly Panel>Instrument and GPS Pack, you cab get much better functionality>by installing upgraded avionic radios....well worth it in my>opinion....(yea, I put some RXP stuff in there too)>>http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/180477.jpg>>;)>Brian, are you going to make that panel.cfg available somewhere? I'd LOVE to do that mod on mine, except putting the RXP GNS 530 in there in place of the Simflyers one. But I have the rest of the stuff in your picture--the RXP FLT/FLN, and the Friendly Panels radios (which, IMO, are one of the most underrated inexpensive addons out there). I know the night-lighting won't work correctly with the landing lights on, but for that functionality, I don't care! :)Lewis "Moose" GregoryDurham, North Carolina

>Hi,>I know there is are the following available:>>Feelthere/Wilco CRJ-200>Feelthere/Wilco Embraer 145>Aerosoft BAE146 Avro >>Which of these regional jets do you recommend? Are there any>ones out that I am missing (both payware, and freeware)>>thanks!I'm actually a fan of Feelthere/Wilco's Legacy. Yeah, it's not exactly a regional jet, but with the right paint job, you can fake yourself into thinking it's an ERJ-135. :) The Legacy is based off their ERJ-145, with some improvements, and one of the better payware jetliner VCs out there.I also have the FT/Wilco CRJ-200 and really don't like it so much. It's a frame hog on my older system, the VC is unusable due to very slow gauge refresh, and something about the way it flies makes it hard for me, although that's probably 99.44% pilot error, and not the plane.Lewis "Moose" GregoryDurham, North Carolina

First VERY quick impressions.Exterior model: Typical Carenado, which is to say, outstanding. Three different paint jobs + a blank "white" paint. Fantastic detail including radio antennas, step up into the cabin, pitot/static, clear covers + light bulbs at the wingtips, "powered by Lycoming" stickers on the cowling. It's as good as anything you'll ever see.Cockpit: Again, typical Carenado--obviously modeling a well-used aircraft that's given its owners a lot of pleasure. A lot of the gauges--altimeter/VSI, VOR and ADF heads, and all the radios, transponder, and autopilot--are recycled from earlier Carenado models, or at least look like it. The 2D panel has the same set of mini-icons up at the upper left of the screen as the C182/C206 do. The avionics fit is normal--dual NAV/COM, ADF, transponder, KAP 140 autopilot. It differs from the Cessnas in that the FS2004 default GPS 530 is actually in the VC panel.The VC is good. The refresh rate is fine, and most gauges can be zoomed by clicking on them. The interior detail and texturing is top-notch, and you can even zoom in while looking at the wings and see the fuel gauges in the wing panels (which work). Framerates are good on my craptacular old Athlon XP.Sounds: Nice. They're not the same recycled engine sounds from the 182s, they're different. I don't know what a Mooney sounds like, though.Handling: I'm not a pilot, so I can't speak as to how accurate the modeling is. All I can say is that it "feels" good, with a reasonable "feel" of inertia and mass for the size of the airplane. As somebody upthread stated, it's a non-turbo airplane. In a bit of messing around with it, at the default payload (396 lb) and full fuel, a cruise of 23" MAP/2300 RPM gets about 130 knots IAS at 6500 feet. So it's not exactly a turbo Mooney speed demon, but it's a respectable cruiser.All in all, IMO it's yet another classic Carenado product...an older plane, without state-of-the-art avionics, but painstakingly detailed, visually great, and well-modeled all around.EDIT: The only thing so far that I don't like is that the panel lighting in the VC works exactly the same way as it does for their 182s. Turning on the panel lights gives everything a red glow. You have to turn on the landing light to actually light up the gauge faces.Lewis "Moose" GregoryDurham, North Carolina