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Big Hugs for you Alex :)I've been suffering with bad flickering ground textures at virtually all add-on airports for a while now. Thought I'd never be able to solve it.Read you post.. disabled Contrails Pro.Sorted :)

Many years ago, pretty much the first add-on I bought was the full set of UK VFR scenery.Since then I've got loads more sceneries and add-ons.Was flying over the UK the other day and noticed the VFR scenery isn't showing anymore. It's still installed and active in the scenery library.. but the UK ground seems to be back to the default.Any suggestions on a likely culprit or easy fix? I don't fancy a fresh reinstall.The last add-ons I've got are Aerosofts Heathrow X, AES and Ground Environment Pro.

Just reading in Airports mag about the massive new T1 at LEBLSo that will need a good new scenery soon :)

Agreed.I can't think of any major European airport that badly needs new scenery. St Petersburg I suppose could do with some.Egypt is badly neglected FS-wise.

Whats the current best scenery for LCY?I have the old UK2000 "London Airports" that has a half-decent LCY but it's getting a bit dated now.I've seen the Visualflight London scenery includes an LCY airport. Is that better or worse than the UK2000?Are there any other alternatives??:)

Nope.. it's FS2004.Checked and double checked. No duplicate AFCADs.I think the people who haven't got this, aren't really grasping what happens.It's not that you're in one place and the aircraft are half in the terminal.. and in another they're not. The aircraft physically move into/out of the buildings.If you're some distance away.. the a/c are not there at all. Then as you get closer to the terminal, the end of the tail appears and then as you get closer, the a/c slowly backs out of the building. Extremely wierd.As someone said above, on a top-down view.. the a/c are always correctly placed. Only from ground level do you get the wierdness.Never seen it before. Bizarre.

Doesn't affect any other scenery, just this.Checked the AFCAD. Seems OK.I think you must be right.. theres something fundameentally wrong with the scenery. It is a bit ancient. I got it ages and ages ago and never really flew into PHNL so didn't take much notice.So is the freeware PHNL (Bill Melichar?) much better then? I'll have to check it out.

Can anyone shed any light on whats going wrong here.The aircraft at the gates are half way in the terminal.. unless you get closer to the terminal and then they slowly come out, so when you're at the terminal.. they're parked correctly.I know if the AFCAD is set wrongly, sometimes aircraft appear half in the buildings. But I've never seen a situation where the a/c and building seem to move in/out of each other depending on how far away you are.I've tried to illustrate with pics.Any idea on why this is??

I subscribe to PCPilot.It's not brilliant.. and the coverdiscs are rubbish, but its something to read and the only real FS mag in the UK.Agree with the comments about the reviews though. They only seem to do 2 scores. If they like it lots - 95%If they like it no so lots - 75%They should review freeware.. if only in a brief section. They'd get loads more content and the mag would be much more useful.

Theres a guy HERE doing a sweet looking Paphos LCPH

Cheers guys. I'd downloaded a couple of repaints and the paintkit.. but no model was included.Just found one that has it. :)

Does anyone know where this can be downloaded now.I don't think it's on AVSim and the PA website seems to have disappeared :(

I'm noticing on my various installed airports, if I'm taxying with the external spot view, the ground at the bottom of the screen is constantly flickering.. like the default ground keeps flashing through the installed airport ground.Tried a few. Freeware, Simflyers, Aerosoft. All seem to do it the same.Apart from a few add-on airports I have FS Global 2005 installed.Any ideas on whats causing this??

I have Traffic2004/2005/XOver time I've replaced all the models with the freeware AIA/EAI/TFS ones as, as mentioned above, the models you get in the payware packages are really quite awful compared to the feeebie ones.However I love the traffic editor that is built into Traffic. Easiest way to add and edit your own traffic.

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Due to getting a new PC, my trusty old Sidewinder Precsion Pro no longer works, so I've just bought a Saitek Cyborg Evo.Installed Joystick and installed FS2004 + the 9.1 update.. but as yet no other add-ons.Now.. when I'm on the tarmac, the rudder twist works fine (rudder moves full amount & nosewheel steers).However when I'm airborne.. rudder twist just gives a TINY movement of the rudder left or right. Not even enough movement for the aircraft to change course.I've twiddled with sensitivities & stuff, checked in the Testing section of calibration, checked on other default aircraft. Always the same.. the rudder works on the ground but not in the air.Any ideas?

Agreed here too.I'm in the long process of adding tonnes of AI traffic and Wikipedia is superb. Just search for an airline to get all the codes, fleet details and current destinations. Airports have codes and map references too.Excellent resource.

Installed a freeware scenery of Paphos Cyprus (LCPH).Landed OK. Exited the runway. Expected a handover to Ground, but nothing.Wasn't just me either.. the AI traffic was landing, exiting runway then just stopping.What could it be? An AFCAD issue?

I'll give it a go. Thanks

Having big problems with SimCharts. Jepessen don't seem to have a support forum and I've searched on here and can't find anything.Yesterday I upgraded FSUIPC to 3.60 and installed Flight1's ATR-72-500.Now, when I attempt to start SimTrack within FS9, the select a chart box appears.. and when I try loading a chart I get a "Cannot locate XXXX.tcl" error and SimTrack closes.This happened before when I'd added a few addons but a reinstall of SimCharts sorted it. Tried reinstalling SimCharts now.. same problem.AND..If I load SimView (the standalone program) after I've just booted my PC.. the charts load fine. If I load FS9, try SimTrack, then try SimView.. the charts won't load into SimView either. Even when I've shutdown FS9, SimView still won't work until I reboot the PC.Help?!?!

I'm looking for a utility or add-on that will list all the installed aircraft down to repaint level that I have.It will help enormously when updating my AI Traffic.The best I can see is Flightsim Manager, but this only lists each Aircraft folder with the number of textures for each.. it doesn't list the individual textures (and it doesn't allow you to print)Is there anything out there ??I started typing my own list in Excel but it'll take AGES.

A few times now, I'm following an approach pattern given to me by ATC, but they keep me at 10,000ft until I'm on final approach.. then clear me to land giving me about 10nm to drop 10K.If I try to decend early, the controller keeps ordering me back upto 10K.Happened at a few airports.Is this duff MSFS ATC?? or am I doing something wrong?

Riiiiiight !Now I get it.How do you set the % in the plan itself then? I use Traffic2004's built in AI flightplan editor but there's no mention of this %Where does it come from?

How does the % traffic setting in the FS options actually work when used together with Traffic2004?Am I right in thinking it limits the number of airline flightplans in use?I had my % at 60%. I was at Princess Juliana and saw the Air France, Continental, USAir that I'd set up.. yet not a sign of the KLM, American or Corsair.I always assumed that the system would use all the airline flightplans but cut a % of flights, whereas it seems to use all the flights but in a % of the airline flightplans.Is this right?

Fantastic,Just been having a play. I can keep Traffic2004 for the flight plans & editor and replace the AI aircraft with better models thru AI Aardvark & FSP.Cheers guys!!