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Dear PMDG Team, I cannot emphasize enough how much I appreciate your perfectionism and how much respect I have for your unbelievable efforts and hard work in order to offer the flight simulator community such great and realistic addons! :( Compared to other aircraft addons, your products always have been bargains if you consider the quality level you get for your money. Thus, I am sure that the announced manuals as well as the 737NG addon itself are well worth their price and I hope that both products sell really well, no matter what you need to take for them - you have deserved it. :( Best Wishes,Sven

Problem solved, my Grand Caravan now flies like it should. I am sooo happy!!! :biggrin:Deleted the line "Spoilers=-16380,16380/24" from my FSUIPC.ini. It caused FSUIPC to process my spoilers axis even though I currently hadn't assigned it to any joystick axis. I think I had configured it for the DiscusX addon some time ago and since then it has been active for all my addons. Fortunately, FSUIPC allows to assign this to a specific aircraft only, in my case the DiscusX.Best Wishes,Sven

Hi Kreg,thank you very much for your help. I deleted my default situation and let the FSX rebuilt it - resulting in the ultralight flying over Friday Harbour. Unfortunately, that didn't change the strange takeoff and landing behaviour on my system. However, today I came a big step ahead in my investigations: After completely disabling FSUIPC and assigning all axes back to FSX control, all my above described problems have gone away and the plane behaves perfectly. Thus, I assume that there is some setting regarding the spoilers in my FSUIPC configuration, that leads first to too much drag and after pressing the spoilers-key to not enough drag. I couldn't find any relating settings via the FSUIPC GUI, so now I try to learn the syntax of the FSUIPC.ini file in order to manually correct the parameter causing my problems. :( I am still wondering, why I haven't experienced such problems before with any of the many, many other addon planes I own... :( Anyway, thanks again for your help. I keep you updated on my troubleshooting progress.Best Wishes,Sven

Graphics and sounds of the Carenado Grand Caravan are great, but unfortunately I still have severe problems with its flight performance, even after installing the service pack. I will try to explain my problems in the following:I have FSX Acceleration and already reinstalled the Caravan package including the service pack several times (verifing that before reinstalling all existing files of the previous installation have been successfully removed). I load the FSX default flight with the standard Cessna 172, engines off, then I load the Caravan. During takeoff, with flaps 20 and torque of 1900 lb-ft, the plane accellerates very slowly taking almost the whole runway and even in the air it accelerates not beyond 80 kts. When I then once press the #-key (speed brakes), the plane quickly starts to accelerate as it should and seems to behave normally during cruise flight (reaches approx. 160 kts with cruise flight settings). Thus, I accustomed myself to pressing the #-key once during my takeoff check in order to be able to perform a normal takeoff run. Wondering if anyone else has experienced that, but anyway this trick works great for me.The bigger issue I have with the flight performance occurs during landing. With full flaps, throttle to idle resulting in 500 ft-lb torque, and an approach speed of 80 kts I am not able to increase the sink rate to more than 400 ft/min. That is not enough to establish on a 3 degree glide path. If I reduce speed to 70 kts the sink rate gets even below 300 ft/min. During flare, the plane does not lose speed and glides a few feets above the asphalt along the whole runway instead of touching down. I first thought it might be a calibration error of my throttle hardware, but then double checked that this is not the case, the throttle out value is -16383 in FSUIPC. Furthermore, I have no such problems with any of my other addon planes (including some from Carenado also).Does anyone has an idea what could cause the strange flight performance effects on my system? I would highly appreciate any helpful advise, because I would love to fly this great addon to the smaller airfield of PNW - which is currently not possible for me with the above described landing characteristic.Best Wishes,Sven

Another terrific repaint from you! Thank you very much, Bill!!! :( Best Regards,Sven

Thanks, Bryan!This is extreme! Unbelievable! I can't find the right words in order to express my enthusiasm for this video. I'm really looking forward to the release! :-yellow1 Best Wishes,Sven

Hello Bryan,thank you for your support.My video and sound drivers are up to date. But I won't give up! :-samuraiNext I'll try to make a clean FS9 installation on a different partition and see, if that solves the problem...Best Wishes,SvenP.S.: I'm really looking forward to the upcoming ATR version. Hopefully I won't have any framerate problems with that one...:-roll

Hello Bryan,thanks for your fast answer.1. Yes, I disabled the on board sound within the BIOS.2. As mentioned before, I already use the 2D cockpit version only.Does anybody has another idea?Grrrr, why have I to belong to the few people having the framerate problem?!? x( Best Wishes,Sven

Hi!First of all, thanks for the greatly enhanced flying experience with FS2Crew. I like the program very much, but I still couldn't solve the framerate issue. Sorry, I know it is an old topic... My last trial was to deinstall FS2Crew as well as the PMDG 737. Then I reinstalled the 737-600/700 and the 737-800/900 packet. Then service release and model update. I started FS9, chose KSEA and the default Cessna as flight and, once on the runway, loaded the PMDG 737-800 with 2D panel only. My framerates (locked to 24 fps) were stable at 23.5. Even after switching views, changing viewpoint and zooming in and out nothing changed - constant 23.5 fps. :)Then I installed FS2Crew as well as all the patches and updates, chose the same situation and loaded the 737-800. Without doing anything the framerate is hopping between 8, 16, 19 and 23 fps with an average of 18. After starting the engines, while performing the take-off, severe stutters occur making the control of movement nearly impossible. I have to note, that until that point I haven't switched to any other view than the 2D cockpit, as proposed in an earlier reply. But obviously that didn't help to avoid the severe framerate loss in my case. :-hmmmWith flying time the situation gets even worse ending in a CTD or hanging FS9 after 1 to 2 hours. Please help, I have no ideas anymore! :-zhelpMy System:- Intel Pentium 3.2 GHz- ATI Radeon 9800XT with 256 MB- 1 GB Ram- AC3 Onboard sound / Soundblaster Audigy 2 (tried both - no effect)- Windows XPThanks in advance and best wishes,Sven Vogeler (EDDW)

Hi David and Bryan,many thanks for the fast replies! :-)So the problem appears only on my system... my monitor settings are ok, so I'll have to investigate my flightsimulator settings... and maybe try to reinstall FS2Crew.I'll let you know when I've found the solution.Best Wishes,Sven

Hi David and Bryan,many thanks for the fast replies! :-)So the problem appears only on my system... my monitor settings are ok, so I'll have to investigate my flightsimulator settings... and maybe try to reinstall FS2Crew.I'll let you know when I've found the solution.Best Wishes,Sven

Hi !First I have to say that the more experiences I gain with FS2Crew the more I love this addon. However, after the service update, the CPAL symbols disappeared on the 2D-Panel when switching to night lighting. The clickspots where the symbols should be visible are still working. Anyone experiencing the same problem?Best wishes,Sven Vogeler (EDDW)

Hi !First I have to say that the more experiences I gain with FS2Crew the more I love this addon. However, after the service update, the CPAL symbols disappeared on the 2D-Panel when switching to night lighting. The clickspots where the symbols should be visible are still working. Anyone experiencing the same problem?Best wishes,Sven Vogeler (EDDW)