Chris Wright

noted and thanks for the follow-up kyle.

very timely as i had exactly this issue arise yesterday. i miskeyed the temp as a positive number, noted the error immediately and changed it to the correct figure but this would not address the waypoint eta calculations. i tried going all the way back to cold and dark to reset the error but the only way to fix it was to reload the sim (fsx). a bit of testing also showed that having put in the corrected value, saving the flight and then restarting fs and reloading the saved flight fixed the issue and ETAs calculated correctly. i couldn't find a reference to this in the manual - is there a way of resetting/fixing the problem without reloading fs or is it a case of 'don't make any typos or you've no choice'?

a cheap do-it-yourself alternative to experiment with for the $-challenged...http://www.free-track.net/english/

no you don't need to send an email.use the link to the support portal in the post at the beginning of this thread.as noted above, it takes a while to open/load - be patient.if you aren't registered for the support portal, never fear it's free but some have had issues with dud activiation url's - see posts on page 1 of this thread.once registered and logged, recalling it takes an age for the page to load, create a ticket by following the links.hth

g'day no name... it's a VERY slow page to load - it takes 65secs on this machine at work using ie7 for the page to load (about half that time on my machines at home using ie8.however, once it does load it is functional for the purpose.hth

g'day corey...i had the same problem (and followed the same advice).the link in the activation email appears to have some spurious characters:here's part of the emailed link "http://support.precisionmanuals.com:9996/Main..." - i deleted ":9996" from the full url in the email and it worked correctly.hth

robin (and others that took part)...that's a great event - run it annually! a bit of team rivalry is good and running on-line will almost certainly attract increasing participation and ATC coverage.dan...in answer to your query about a map, you want a tool such as vatspy ( http://www.metacraft.com/VATSpy/ )- it shows who's connected on vatsim, where they are, etc. it's not the only one out there but it's one of the latest.

my money's on ear wax which is also consistent with the greasy finger marks on the glassware several pages back. :(

...and as noted umpteen times, it happens in fs9 too so it isn't a simconnect issue!

...and it's not limited to fsx either, thre are references to fs9 users with this problem in this thread (and using add-ons other than pmdg and level d) - implies simconnect isn't the issue.

re: rob's suggestion to use active sky - if you have active sky advanced, you may still suffer from dodgy oat results - see this thread on the activesky forum which affects large number of asa users regardless of weather source or fs platform - http://forums1.avsim.net/index.php?showtopic=261770

gee stefan...perhaps you didn't ask the right question - see the last line of the following link which makes it clear manual activation can be arranged through the support service.http://ops.precisionmanuals.com/wiki/PMDG_Product_Activation

g'day maik...coffs' icao id was changed about 2 years ago (or thereabouts) to YCFS.if your airac is up to date, that should fix it for you.

my fs9 report (early in this thread) was over water.

g'day jim...maybe a better question is in two parts '(a) have we enough here to conclude we have a problem with asa and ( b ) that it can be fixed?'speaking as a non-developer, the evidence seems persuasive for (a) - many have reported fsx above, i have reported fs9 above, not limited to pmdg add-ons, the latest report above is also with a default aircraft, restarting asa is one method reported as a work around. is this still too circumstantial or do we have the smoking gun here?!what does this mean then for ( b )?

i can also report my first experience of this problem just yesterday...fs9.1, asa (up to date), wilco/feelthere e-jet series (v 1.6), vista64 os (up to date), approx 3 hrs running the sim, on-line (vatsim) weather data.problem occured near waypoint ipkon (from memory) south of java, f380.completed crossing of oz with same setup and add-ons earlier in the day (on-line for around 6hrs) without issue.for info.

re: uac - it's that really useful 'feature' in vista that pops everytime you click on something, blink, or have a scratch, asking if you really want to do that!go google for 'turn off vista uac' and you'll find a gazillion tips on the net devoted to getting rid of it.then go to the other thread we've got going on your fs 9.1 woes here - http://forums1.avsim.net/index.php?showtopic=259286 which includes the 'turn off uac' suggestion again.

mike...it sounds to me like you need to start again.remove fs9 completely and remove the associated folders (do this using the uninstall utilities, don't just delete folders - you need the registry entries to be correctly removed).then:. if it's not disabled already, turn off vista's uac. install fs 9.0 from the disks running the setup proggie in 'run as administrator' (you must also be logged on your pc as a user account that has admin privileges).. once fs is installed and before you try and update it, run fs9 (again as 'run as administrator') and go through the full set up of database builds it does when first installed.. once you're in the sim, load the default flight at least once and then close the sim.. go to your fs9 folder and check that fs9.exe is indeed version 9.0 (this is saved in the properties info when you right clcik on the file with that name in explorer).. if it is 9.0, download the msfs 9.1 patch and make sure you copy it to four fs9 folder BEFORE you run it (the instructions say it should be in your fs9 root folder when you install).. run the patch as 'run as administrator'. when it's complete, run fs9 and let the database rebuild etc. and load the defo flight before closing the sim again.. check the fs9.exe file again and you should show the correct version (9.1...).you should now be good to go with adding your add-ons ('run as admin' when you install them).if you mess up any of this stuff, you can get duff registry entries and things get unpredictible.hth!

mike...if sounds like you didn't run the various installs as 'run as administrator'.this is not the same as being on the machine as an administrator account.when you run an install program (eg. the update to fs9.1 or run your pmdg installers), right click on the file name and select 'run as administrator' from the menu that's shown. also, when running fs9.1, run it the same way ('run as administrator') - you can set this to be automatic by right clicking on the stat menu shortcut and selecting 'properties' and check the 'run as administrator' option on the relevant tab - that way the program is always 'run as administrator' when you select it from the start menu.hth.

bob...negative.gerrit...bizarre! it works (kind of) - ALMOST every entry in the scenery.cfg file ends up with '\scenery' in the path and requires manual editing to fix it but at least there's some basic functonality there.

unfortunately i have the same problem (vista ultimate 64 bit, everything opened/installed 'run as admin' ticked) and 'clicking anywhere on the background where the scenery folder resides' doesn't make any difference for me.i don't really fancy editing scenery.cfg manually so are there other solutions to this problem??

and they're not so helpful if you're operating your vc from the right seat either!

re: "...so I shouldn't use the vatsim weather..." - this is not quite correct - it's fsinn that fails to deal with the vatsim weather correctly.ideally, use a weather proggy (like active sky) to process the weather data sourced from vatsim (not real world weather direct through fs) - if you use a source other than vatsim for your weather data, you risk having weather that does not match what everyone else around you on the network is using. there's nothing more likely to guarantee an unnecessary arguement resulting in supervisors getting involved that going head on with someone over which rwy is active - you MUST use vatsim weather when on vatsim (regardless of whether it matches what's actually going on outside the window) - you just need a good weather engine to process it (and that is not fsinn in this case).hth

sam...this one by pierre chevallier (search avsim for his name or fuelplanner747_176824.zip) is very simple to use and operates very much like the 737 kit.http://library.avsim.net/download.php?DLID=76593hth

ryan...it wasn't f/p's - it was v/a schedules info in a format specifically stipulated as covered by copyright of bav's software developer.fyi