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I've started a somewhat of a round the world trek myself. I started from Sangster International (MKJS) in Montego Bay, Jamaica with a PMDG MD11. I flew up the Eastern Seaboard up to Greenland, across to Iceland, Ireland, UK, and so on. I did a circuitous route around Europe before flying south to Algiers. I switched to the Dreamfleet 727 where I'm now tackling Africa on an anticlockwise route. Middle East is next with another aircraft, Asia with another, and so on. Each hop lasts no longer than 1.5hrs and is done with real world weather and time. It's gonna take months for sure!

Re "failings": I use the word loosely. Perhaps "shortcomings" would have been a better choice, but alas, at the end of the day it boils down to semantics. In any event, I think I may have (quite by accident) found a solution. In the Flight Planner (after setting my point of departure and destination, etc) I moved on to the Nav Log to see how long my flight would be. There in the table under "heading" is what I believe I've been looking for. It gives a heading to fly to get from one waypoint to the other. I suspect that the term "heading" is a misnomer here because "bearing" would be more accurate. I'm in the process of doing a little experiment to see how well that works. As soon as I'm reasonably sure what's going on, I'll post back and let you guys know. Thanks again.

Thanks for the input, guys! I think I understand what's happening now. I'm pretty much at the mercy of FS9, then. I never really noticed just how many failings FS9 had until I started this trek using only VOR/DME and not an FMC. These realisations have actually dampened the experience a bit for me since I'll now have to rely on checking the GPS for drift and correcting before FS9 ATC steps in. Bummer. I really appreciate the help guys. Really. It has certainly put things into perspective.

Okay guys. Thanks a lot for the input. Unfortunately I understand/know all that has already been said. I'm a real world air traffic controller so how VORs work, magnetic variation and so on are all familiar to me. What I am asking is this: Is there a way to dig through the FS9 files to find out what radials, bearings, etc are used to represent each route? They simply must be there since they are defined. I just want to know if there is a way to find them. Thanks again.

Greetings fellow Simmers.I've been having this problem that I recently discovered. I've been flying Dreemfleet's 727. I'm currently flying a trek around Africa with it and am doing so via routes that I managed to find online. This is the thing. Majority of the time the radials that are associated with the routes on real-life charts are not the same on FS9. That means when I intercept a route and follow the radial, before long the FS9 ATC will be giving me vectors back on "course".I'd like to know if there's a way I can find out what radial FS9 has associated with each route. Thanks in advance, guys.

Greetings folks!I've got hundreds of hours flying Boeing aircraft and finally decided to try my hand out at Airbus. This has been a very frustrating decision, but I'm not giving up. I've been having numerous problems over the last few weeks, and I've been resolving them one by one. I recently discovered the following and I hope somebody can shed some light. I flew a short hop, KPHL/KJFK. I set up RWY27R as my departure runway from KPHL, and tentatively set RWY22L as my arrival into KJFK. So far so good. Everything went smack smooth until the ATC vectored me for RWY22L. I engaged the APPROACH PHASE, clicked the ILS button, and waited to click the LOC button. Then I was vectored and cleared me for the ILS RWY31L approach. I went to the F-PLAN page, line selected KJFK22L and then changed it to reflect RWY31L, thus displaying KJFK31L in the F-PLAN page. I thought all was well until I noticed that the details dispalyed in the PFD for the ILS was for RWY04L! The RAD NAV page showed RWY22L and the F-PLAN page showed RWY31L! MADNESS! I finally managed to get things going by manually tuning RWY31L in the RAD NAV page but I am wondering what went wrong. So this is what I wanna know...how does one go about changing the runway in use? I've been reading similar questions/answers here but none address what should be done AFTER the APPROACH PHASE is entered into. Give me a hand here, fellas...

Thanks a lot brother! Honestly, before I install a new aircraft, my FIRST move is to see if Ken makes a panel for it. If not, I may go searching for an equivalent. More often than not if Ken doesn't do a panel it's not up to my requirements and I don't install the aircraft. I have no ends of respect for the man. However, with every genius there comes one piece of work of art that isn't quite there with the rest of them. The A320 is, I'm afraid, it. Oh well. I'm seeing faults with the Marciano panel too, so I guess my OCD will NEVER be put to rest! LOL!

Update:With regard to item 2 above, I have installed and run Eric Marciano's panel and the same thing happens there as well. I arm the autobrake to say [HIGH] and when I get on the ground no matter what I do it just won't disengage automatically. I spoke with a pal of mine that flies A320s (and A321s) and he assured me that the autobrake is supposed to disengage once the toe brakes are depressed. Antiskid remains in action until below 20kts, he said. So, what am I doing wrong? Or is there really an ironic identical problem with both panels?

Hey guys! I don't mean to hijack this thread (but then again us Jamaicans are getting a reputation for that as well! LMAO) but I'd just like to get a word in here. I've been hearing for years now that Microsoft has been meaning to move FS over to some planned XBox platform that will have better user interface than the current one. Is that in any way true? I mean, let's face it, as far as entertainment is concerned FS has got to be the most popular single PC software that Microsoft makes. Why would they knowingly kill off a goose that lays a platinum egg? I'm thinking (okay, I'm starting a conspiracy theory) that they are just finally finding an excuse to move FS over to XBox. One of the things that surprises people who I explain the concept of FS to is how easy it is to manipulate it...to manipulate a MICROSOFT software?!? Impossible! I wonder if Microsoft wants to take that away from us? That's a major selling point for FS and that would not be a wise idea. I would sooner shift to X-Plane than lose the adjustability that I enjoy with FS.

I've been using Ken Mitchell panels now for quite a while (A320, A340, B727, B737) and I rate them by and large to be the best for simplicity, looks, and quality. Recently I took a short trip in the iFDG A320 with the Ken Mitchell panel and I noticed a few very strange things.1) If I select full flaps when descending on the glideslope (ILS approach), the aircraft goes into what seems to be TOGA mode and starts climbing like a bat out of hell! If I drop flaps back to setting 3 then I am fine, it settles back down on the glideslope. I am sure I am not too slow because the last time I tried it I was descending with a speed of 160 KIAS. Any ideas why this might be?2) When I set the autobrake, when I get on the ground, it takes the aircraft to a complete stop and doesn't disengage once I have stowed the buckets and have long since released the brake. What's going on here?There are other issues, with regard to the sounds, but I think that's an issue with the soundset that I am using. I will also have to adjust the [autopilot] section of the aircraft.cfg file because the intercept of radials and localisers is not as smooth as I would like, with a lot of wandering going on before finally establishing. Would really like some feedback on this please guys. Thanks a lot.

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Hey gang!I recently observed this little bug with FS2004. I was flying the default Piper Cub and after landing on RWY31R at KJFK, I attempted to vacate using differential braking (F11 and F12) and FS just crashed. I noticed it after that when I attempted to steer the default DH88 some time after. I then realised that no matter which aircraft I loaded, FS routinely crashed when differential brakes are used. I saw one other person post the same issue some time ago but nobody was able to help. It's fairly easy to replicate. I find that it doesn't happen immediatly but certainly after some degree of provacation. I do however notice that holding the F11 or the F12 key down does bring on the crash more regularly. Can one of you guys try to replicate it and perhaps give some insight as to what is happening? I recently did a reinstall of FS to attempt to solve this, but it didn't work. Need help guys..I love flying my old tail-dragers!~Tango.

Thanks for the help, guys.But I must say that both methods that you describe yield the same result. That error with the B732.gau file. I am beginning to suspect that I received a corrupted version of that file in some way. I'm gonna suspend using this download for now until I can get my hands on a guaranteed different source. (It hangs up my machine and requires a reboot with Ctrl+Alt+Del everytime that error comes up!). Great panesl are so often ruined by poor installation instructions by the creators. I'm most likely gonna make due with the far-easier to install Ken Mitchell panel and be done with it though. There's no point in me getting frustrated over this. Thanks a lot once again!~Tango.

I went ahead and downloaded Richard Probst's 737-200 panel and I am having a problem with it. For starters, the 732 I am using is a Kittyhawk Ryanair with Jaguar livery. I am also using FS2004.After unzipping I read the install instructions and it said:"FS2004:Using WinZip, extract to your FS2004 root folder using the "Use folder names" option. The full path must be //Fs2004/aircraft/fsfsconv/panel.b732, otherwise the sound effects will not work. All files, including the gauge and sounds, get put into the one panel folder."All this is fine, but when I do just that I get an error that FS can't run the B737.gau file. I'm also not very confident that the installation instructions are correct either because it mentions nothing about the aircraft panel folder or panel file. Can somebody give me a hand with this installation? Thanks.

I rebooted my computer and lo and behold Free PIC Editor no longer works! LOL! I keep getting a prompt saying that it has generated errors and it would be shut down by Windows. I uninstalled it and then reinstalled and the same thing keeps happening. Oh well...Terry...send me the syntax buddy! My life is easier with the more complicated things in the computer world! All I need is what each parameter is for. I am a real-life ATC so I can read approach plates etc, no need for tutorials. I ca fiddle around and make headway after that. Thanks in advance!~Tango.