dseagrav

To quote xkcd, "F--k Cancer"

FBW is for hippies and communists! Every airplane should have a FBW disconnect button and every pilot should use it. If it crashes the airplane then the airplane deserved to be crashed for depending on SATAN'S HANDS. Everyone who dies as a result of such a crash should feel proud that their deaths contributed to the extermination of FBW aircraft! "I used to be WITH IT, but then they changed what IT was! Now what I'm with isn't IT, and what is IT seems weird and scary to me! IT'LL HAPPEN TO YOOOOOOOOU!"

Awesome. Thanks a million.

I have a tablet and I like having manuals and checklists for reference on the tablet so I don't have to continually jump in and out of FS.

I fixed it. In \AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\FSX\SimObjects there's two folders, PMDG_MD11 and PMDG_MD11FDelete those. They will be recreated when the MD11 is loaded, and all is right with the world. As for the other problems I was having, it turns out that when Flight1 products tell you to back up the extracted data, I somehow misinterpreted this to mean that you were to back up the key and exe.I thought they were a pair. This is not true. The exe is specific to the computer it was extracted on, and is useless after the install completes. You're only supposed to back up the key file.Copying the extracted installer is interpreted as violation of the copy protection and is intended to cause problems. You're supposed to use the key file to run the Flight1 wrapper again.

I tried this and it didn't work. I uninstalled and reinstalled the MD11 and that didn't help either.FSX did ask me to re-authorize the DLLs, so they are being loaded, it's just locking me out.I also noticed that the PMDG menu is not showing in the menu bar.

I built a new computer. I reinstalled FSX from the DVDs, reinstalled all my addons from their original installers.BUTI didn't want to go to the hassle of recreating my key maps and tweaks and everything else, that would take days, assuming I can even remember it all. So I copied the stuff in Users\dseagrav\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\FSX (fsx.cfg and so on) from my other computer. That was all I copied, nothing else.Apparently, if you do this, most addons think you're a filthy pirate and disable themselves in strange ways designed to foil pirates.The MD-11 was installed from the original download and did its verification with the PMDG server, so I wasn't expecting anything from it. But when I try to load it, all functions are disabled and the initialization never happens.Is this a real bug or is this just the pirate protection?If it is the pirate protection, do I have any hope of convincing it that I actually paid for the software WITHOUT having to delete my FSX config or reinstall FSX yet again?

Yep. It confirms that not only are you a valid address, but you actually read spam and click links in said spam. It makes your address very valuable to the spammers, and they will immediately sell it to other spammers. The problem with this is that the vast majority of sending addresses are innocent people whose addresses are being forged by the spammers. All you do is grow your block list. The spammers almost never use the same sender address twice.Email filtering technology is the best option.

Some of those had radio altimeters toward the end of the war - Maybe it's the antenna.

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to imply that the impact on pilots is worth more than a little girl's life. That is TOTALLY not what I feel. I meant that this action is so patently evil and vile that you cannot possibly have done worse with an airplane. This is the worst anyone could do.Edit: Additionally, and reluctantly, were a ban on general aviation proposed in response to this action, I do not feel I could oppose the ban and remain on sound moral footing. My hobby is dear to me, but not worth trying to justify the actions of this evil being.

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/arti...D=2007703060397Geez, the anti-aviation lobby couldn't have asked for any more.

Your link, not your article. I should have worded that better.

{Sorry; First paragraph redacted... that's going too far. My sincerest apologies to anyone who read that and was offended by it. I am not racist or anti-semetic, and I do not intend to devalue the sacrifices of the holocaust.}I would have no problem giving consideration to the other side of this argument if it weren't a series of misrepresentations and biased half-truths designed to mislead the public and ensure that I can't fly anymore. This won't "force corporate jets from the runway" like the commenter in your linked article wishes, and it won't prevent the rich from jetting wherever they wish - They can afford to pay. It won't make ticket prices substantially cheaper - The airlines will lower prices by some token amount and pocket the remainder. It won't remove any tax burden from the public - The government will put that tax money to other uses, or in their own pockets. The only thing this does is ensure that myself and people like me can't fly.

Also, we pay a higher tax than the airlines do. For private use, avgas is taxed at 19.4

This whole thing is just to benefit the airlines anyway. I would have much less of a problem paying for satellite-based ATC if I had the ability to use it, but the features they want to add have nothing to do with a 152. They aren't adding any significant new functionality, no better weather or better coverage, they just want to have computer-controlled dispatching so they can stop paying dispatchers, and they want to use more regional jets so they can pay pilots less. The whole thing is just the airline management trying to fleece everyone from the top down.