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I'll dig out my old manuals and scan some of the tables for trip fuel etc and post them. Keep in mind that on top of required fuel, Trip+reserv, there ia also Alternate fuel, holding fuel (which can be your reserve fuel) and in cases where there are no suitable alternates, which is rare, there is island holding fuel. A lot of the latter is defined in the respective company's fuel policy. To sum up. Fuel from T/O to dest. + Holding at dest. Includes, taxi, climb. cruise , descent and approach, + fuel to planned alternate and alternate holding fuel + approach and taxi. All pieces that make up the puzzle. Douglas

Amazing. I did not know she was still around thought by now it would be part of my beer or pop cans, but clearly Mr.Boeing knew what he was doing. As for the SELCAL, not many people would have known what those letters stood for, I can vaguely remember the call tone and the blinking yellow lights, had to do a test eastbound with Gander and west bound with Shanwick Oceanic, which was assigned to the flight engineer. Lots of fun.

Our primary nav system was Omega for trans Atlantic or any long haul flights where VOR's or NDB's were not in range. Omega was very user friendly and was pretty accurate. The Navigators were phased out just before I started flying but the nav table, nav station and sextant hole were still there. This pic is an actual shot of my flight deck, cannot remember now where we were going. The Omega sys is outlined in green. Douglas

Bill,Well at least your computer is all sparkly clean and you have tracked down the cause. One thing leads to another. For my FP monitor the setting is always set to 60hz, I have never tried any other setting. Maybe, and this is a long shot stab in the dark, you can try matching your fixed frame rate setting with whatever you set as your screen refresh and see if it improves. This is certainly not my area of expertize but I understand how annoying niggley things like this can be.

I think in windowed mode the card is not under, for lack of a better term, "pressure". In fullscreen the full potential of the 3d capabilities are being utilized. So if you were to use that 3dmark program to test your card it would really be testing the cards ability to run intense 3D graphics, hope I'm making sense. Maybe someone else with a better grasp of cards and GPU's will chime in.Douglas

That happened to me a while back. Found out it was a problem with the card itself. It was an ATI pro 9700 or 9300. cannot remember which. The condition was referred to as "Artifacts", a result of heat or a defect with card. In your case it just might be the drivers or dust buildup on the slot. Pwr off, remove card and reset. If no joy then you might need a new card, try changing drivers first though. You can always run a benchmark type program like 3dmark03.Douglas

Could be the altimeter vibrators ticking or the fans running.Douglas

Hey, Look ( search ) in the file lib for a guy named Scott Gridley, the file is Asynchronous Aircraft Strobes Effect. Douglas

The stock airport in FS9 is shown as 111.9, RWY's 08/26. Maybe you installed an addon that changed the freq. You can change it back by either deleting the extra AF2 file or by using AFCAD and modifying it there.Douglas

Setup your flight, say 15dme out, or whatever suits you, straight-in approach, 30* intercept etc.With all radios set, OBS set and either established on the approach or about to intercept, pause the sim, click on file save and save the flight. You can now fly that app until the cows come home. BTW, you will have to click reset or load flight to start the flight again.Douglas

+3 If it aint broke...you know...don't fix it!But like most guys we are going to tinker anyway. The old one is fine, the new one seems jammed up in a small area, blah, blah, blah.Hammer anyone?

Dave, I checked that airport and in my sim those extra navaids are not there only CAE, so I'm thinking addon. If you have afcad 04, open up that airport and have a look. if it is listed then removal is very easy.Douglas

Maybe this will help ya.http://www.737ng.co.uk/technical.htmDouglas

Maybe you can do a scetch of the runways, taxiways and buildings that you recall and we can go from there.Douglas

Do you have pics of the airfield back then? what airfield is it?Short answer to both is yes.Douglas

Tom and the Guys at Avsim,Have a Merry Christmas and a hopefully a great New Year.Douglas.Lol Tom, Avsim Janitor... I guess my role nowadays as domestic engineer is not too bad...

Is this for FS2004 and if so is this for the default Cessna 172?Douglas

It probably was the cabin altitude warning - "ALT HORN CUTOUT" readup on aircon/pressurization.

The number 1 site for me is Nick Pike's http://www.fs2x.com/Tutorials.htm , Contains a wealth of info. The other is right here on Avsim in the MSFS Aircraft and Panel Design Forum. Lots of gurus in that forum with all willing to help. The xml learning curve is not too steep but the syntax can be confusing at times as everything is reverse and upside down but I come from the school of hard knocks and my masters is in trial and error. So jump in, nothing like building your first gauge and seeing it work, <Click> </Click>Douglas

Tom,is this for FS9 and are you familar with xml? if yes to both, it is very easy to put some code together to get them to work.DouglasThis post may be moved to the panel section as it is really a gauge question.For example: [b][color="#48D1CC"]//=====================CABIN LIGHTS SW=================>[/color][/b] <Element><Position X="628" Y="231" /> <Select> <Value>(A:Light cabin,bool)</Value> <Case Value="0"> <Image Name="Main_panel_lts_Off.bmp" ImageSizes="26,43"/> </Case> <Case Value="1"> <Image Name="Main_panel_lts_On.bmp" ImageSizes="26,43"/> </Case> </Select>

very nice work. thanks for sharing.Douglas

The master caution gets info from several parameters, speed, altitude etc, etc. The gauge is a two part gauge. One being the caution light itself referenced in the panel.cfg as Master Warning Light.xml the other part is found coded in the EICAS gauge.For starters the overspeed on a 747 is much, much higher than a 172 overspeed and the stall speeds are 50 odd vs 140ish knots clean.So basically you ould have to code the gauge to suit your ac. As an exercise you can test it in the default 737 and see the results.Sorry I could not be of more help.Douglas

Here is a good place to start. http://www.fs2x.com/Tutorials.htmWhen I started off putting together panels I wanted instant results, ha, not so fast, the learning curve is not too steep but you still got to cover some basics. Swap out some gauges and fiddle around with things and you will get comfortable with the process.There are quite a number or really talented code smashers on this forum and most if not all will help you at one time or another. when you are asking about building lets say an altimeter from scratch you should provide the sim it's for , FS9 or FSX and the type of code you are using, XML or C. The search function turns up all sorts of goodies and examples(working) of code to use in various projects.The sdk's also provide lots of reference information. As for bitmaps you can make your own or use real photos of cockpits and work with those.Here is a working overhead panel for the default 737 I built for my own use, with help from all the resources I have listed above. It is still in progress but then again I have no schedule.Good luck,Douglas

Short answer no.The VC is part of the model it came with and cannot be moved about, one ac to another, unlike gauges.Douglas

Hey, here is a link to one of the best resource sites for learning xml.http://www.fs2x.com/Tutorials.htmYou have gotten responses from the top guys in guage programming, I'm not in that league but learned heaps from them. The search here turns up goodie after goodie, welcome to gauges 101...Douglas