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What's up with the lighting ? A nice bright sky but it's almost dusk down below

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-performance/i-have-a-3-tb-drive-windows-7-ultimate-wont-format/b1cc3811-f25f-e011-8dfc-68b599b31bf5?auth=1

Then I guess that Fsipanel is the way to go , I doubt that there is another freeware option

No idea, I don't use P3D any more

Try this free utility available in the library here. lola18.zip File Description: Lord of the Landing V1.8 : Landing Training Environment for FSX. A SimConnect application to help repeated landing training, and analyze and evaluate your landing data. 3 main functions are : (1) Position Set. You can move instantly to final approach course of ANY runway of ANY airport in the world(e.g. KLAX 25L 4NM 1200ft). (2) Landing Report. It analyzes, evaluates and displays your landing data(V/S, Flare Distance, Centerline Deviation, Pitch, Bank, Sideslip angle, Max V/S). (3) Analysis plot. It displays approach and landing trajectory (lateral deviation, altitude, airspeed) as plot. It is recommended to use FsTakeoffTrainer with LoLa to practice landing in adverse weather. It's companion application fstakeofftrainer10.zip File Description: With FsTakeoffTrainer, you can easily try real-world airline simulator training in FSX! Adverse weather(Wind: Calm/Light/Max Crosswind/Turbulence, Visibility: 1/8SM~20SM, Condition: Rain/Snow/Thunderstorm) and Engine failure(before or after V1, left or right) can be generated by this simple utility with only a few clicks. Sim training scenario examples are : Max crosswind takeoff and landing; Low visibility, Engine failure before V1 to Rejected Takeoff; Low visibility, Engine failure after V1 to takeoff and landing with 1 engine; Manual landing with low visibility and turbulence. It is also highly recommended to use with LoLa(Lord of Landing) to practice landing in adverse weather. Requires FSX SP2.

Where do you have P3D installed ?

http://www.pointsoftware.de/proatcxforum/forum/

REX Texture direct and soft clouds are just textures, Texture Direct does not include a weather engine unlike the earlier products. My advice would be to buy ASN but if that is not an option then the free FSXWX will work with any textures you have installed either from REX or any other source.

Iain, simply add the line ForceVCShadowMap=1 to the [Display] section of your FSX.cfg and you will have VC shadows, They look fantastic why would you not want them ?

So it's basically broken at this point for anyone who prefers handling the comms on their own. I will try a flight with the copilot handling the comms to get a better feel for the program but hope this if fixed soon. I also note that the program provides full ATC services, clearance delivery, ground, tower ect even at airports that do not have all of these in the real world, why does it not know from the data what facilities should be available ?

Jarkko, try a flight handling the comms yourself without opening the menu and let me know how you get on. I never mentioned VFR, it's not only the tubes that fly IFR using departure and arrival procedures. To my way of thinking, if the copilot handles everything then the ATC is just ambience and nothing more. Regardless, Avsim is not the place to discuss issues with ProATC, if I decide to use the program again and run into issues I will send the relevent logs to your support forum.

Jarkko, I can see how that works well for you, but not all of us fly tubes all the time. The menu system needs a complete rework, having the same key to open the menu and also for the key to contact atc is not a good design, same for the read back key moving its menu slot depending on the stages of flight, what was the logic in that programming decision. At this point it seems that ProATC is focused more on being an ATC ambiance program with Co pilot facilities than a fully featured ATC, so it's probably not for me at this stage in its development.

Then how do you confirm instructions without knowing which of key 2 or 3 will give the correct response or are you letting the Co pilot handle comms ? I handle comms myself because I use Goflight hardware, I have no interest in the copilot functions of ProATC and it is the ATC logic I am having issues with, for example not being able to cancel a request which has ruined three flights for me so far. it's almost as if you are following a script and the program is stuck in a loop. it needs flexibility. It's still early days for ProATC and I look forward to the improvements that will come as the program matures, I want it to succeed but it has some way to go till it is a well rounded reliable program.

Tom, three times I have inadvertently asked to begin decent and then found that there is no way back from that. Requesting a higher altitude lets you climb again but once you reach the requested altitude ProATC starts you back down again, this is just poor program design. The menu system is just badly laid out, confirm instruction jumps about between key 2 and key 3. so it is impossible control by any voice app I am not exactly sorry I bought the software as it will be interesting monitoring it's development and we really need more ATC options so I am happy to support anyone willing to have a go at programming one. but it still needs significant work to the ATC logic before it can compete with RC4 and PFE. And no ATIS, really ?

Radar Contact's controllers will allow the following enroute requests Request higher and lower altitudes Request initial descent be a pilot’s discretion clearance Pilot’s discretion descents Request deviations left and right of course for weather Request altitude deviations due to turbulence Request direct routing to down-line waypoints in the flight plan Leave frequency to get weather update Full feature chart here: http://www.jdtllc.com/Feature%20Chart.htm Gave up on ProATC when I discovered that once you request to decend you cannot cancel the request, its basically flight over at that point.

And from this day on you will discover a lot of features that you will wonder how you managed without FSuipc. One a quiet weekend morning, grab a cup of coffee and read through the documentation, amazing stuff.

The only ones with rain effects in the VC that I know of are: PMDG J41 Realair Turbine Duke v2 FlySimware MU2 and the unreleased Lear 35 Just Flight Canberra PR9 has window fogging effect

Then you will need to delete F9 from your P3D controls (does the same thing)

Vernon, The flashing is P3D redrawing the fog To stop the flashing when changing views in the VC with Ezdok open up Cameras.cfg in a text editor and change the last line in [CameraDefinition.002] to read HotKeySelect=0 http://www.avsim.com/topic/457154-flash-after-changing-view-in-p3d/ [CameraDefinition.002] Title = Virtual Cockpit Guid = {C95EAB58-9E4A-4E2A-A34C-D8D9D948F078} Description = This is the description of the virtual cockpit view. Origin = Virtual Cockpit MomentumEffect =No SnapPbhAdjust = Swivel SnapPbhReturn = False PanPbhAdjust = Swivel PanPbhReturn = False Track = None ShowAxis = YES AllowZoom = TRUE InitialZoom = 0.7 SmoothZoomTime = 2.0 ZoomPanScalar = 1.0 ShowWeather = Yes XyzAdjust = TRUE ShowLensFlare=FALSE Category = Cockpit PitchPanRate=30 HeadingPanRate=75 PanAcceleratorTime=0 HotKeySelect=0

Paul, it is a pinned topic at the top of this forum.

Probably best to ask in the PMDG forum which is right here at Avsim

Try this site http://www.plane-mad.com/airport-weather/

Roll the mouse wheel and you will see the little red mark on the master gain move either down or up and the numbers on the dial increase or decrease. You want to decrease the effect so turn it down, if you increase the gain the effect will become greater, think of it as a volume knob Be aware that the RND function does cause some problems as you come close to the max speed in some addons which is why I disable it, I still see cockpit and head movement in turbulence.even without it probably from the DHM fuction. The settings that come with EZdok are tunable for each aircraft so no need to settle for the defaults but very few peaple seem to experiment with the effects generators. This is a very complex piece of software once you venture deeper into its workings. Check out the video tutorials esp the 4th one in the following link http://www.simforums.com/forums/my-ezdok-setup-videos_topic38637.html

If the installers will let you point the install to a folder other than FSX then it will be fine. Just create a folder on your system such as FSGenesis\Scenery\ and install it there. Afterwards just add the FSGenesis\Scenery\ folder to your scenery.cfg

If I remember correctly you just need to put the mouse pointer on any of the knobs and roll the wheel. So try lowering the global gain knob and see what happens in the sim.