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I would also like to say Thank you so very much from the depth of my heart for countless hours of joy and satisfaction using RC4. It has contributed immensly to my simming experience. And when I sometimes got a real spanking for making mistakes or disobeying the ATC it was well deserved and made me a better pilot. I wish you a wonderful life as retired! Best wishes Krister R Lisbon, Portugal

Thanks Dan! rgds Krister Renard

Hi, I have all PMDG FS9 aircraft installed. As I have now bought iFly 737 and am going to buy iFly 747-400 v2 I would like to uninstall my PMDG B737 for fs9 and PMDG B740-400 for fs9. Is there any risk that my PMDG MD-11 will stop working (because some shared file will be removed during the uninstall process)? I have a vague memory that something like this could happen. But maybe that was a long time ago? I have searched for this and was not able to find the answer there. rgds Krister Renard Uppsala, Sweden

At last I found a forum where the GF Yoke is discussed! I bought a GF Yoke very early and I received it in middle of July. By now I have flown perhaps 100 hours with it. Mostly on iFly 737 but also on smaller planes (Dash-8 and Do228). I have also wondered why there has been no real reviews done so far. I have not seen one, anyhow. It feels very strange. Good things: It looks professional. It is very sturdy. I managed to drop it from my table to the floor (it weighs almost 10 kgs). It hit my leg so I bled violently and made a deep mark in the floor. But not the slightest dent or scratch on the yoke. I could see no trace at all from the fall and everything worked afterwards. Good mechanical quality! It has a nice feel, when flying. Not so good things: The mouse control on the right handle. Absolutely worthless as pointed out by others. It is almost impossible to control the mouse so you actually can maneuver a switch. It moves so fast so you always pass the spot you want to hit. And if you change speed in the mouse settings, you will also slow down the computer mouse (you can’t differentiate them) so this one will become unusable. I tried to use the mouse in the beginning, but gave up and never use it anymore. According to my opinion the hat switch on the left handle should be on the right handle instead. The elevator trim switches are on the left handle, and if you are flying a 90 dgs turn on the final, almost until touch down (this is the case for some airports in northern Norway, like Honningsvaag) you need the hat switch to look to the right or left (or forward right/left) and you also might need to adjust the elevator trim at the same time. Impossible as it is now. I find it strange that the testers did not complain on this. I pointed this out in a mail to GF but never got any reaction. Maybe they were hurt by my comment. When I received my yoke the left trim switch up and right trim switch down (or perhaps the opposite – I have forgotten) was soldered together by mistake, so they controlled the same Windows button. GF were very helpful and guided me by sending instructions and photos and an Allen key (In Sweden we use the Metric system) so I could fix the problem. The technician who helped me wrote that he ”saw” (perhaps in his crystal ball) a GF module on its way to me, if I fixed the problem. I spent many hours on this, but when the problem eventually was fixed, I got a gift certificate worth 100 USD, i.e. 1/3 GF module (depending on which one you want). Although they were very helpful and the technician was a very nice guy, I find this a little bit ungenerous. The shipping cost to GF and back would have been at least 200 USD, which I saved them. The hat switch is very difficult to control. I agree that it should have been much bigger and have another form. I had never any problems with the hat switch on my CH yoke (which I used for at least 10 years). To sum up. I like the GF Yoke in many ways. It looks nice. I find it much easier to control the planes with this yoke than with my old CH yoke. It is much more exact. The feeling is also much better. However, the elevator movement range should, as pointed out above, have been perhaps twice what it is now. I do not directly regret that I bought this yoke. The reason why I did not buy a PFC yoke is very simple. They to not (as far as I know) have a hat switch. And a yoke without a hat switch is a no-no for me. Had the PFC had a hat switch, I would probably have bought one. I guess that they are better when it comes to flying (they have so many years of experience and feed back from customers). Would I recommend the GF Yoke? I don’t know. Maybe a PFC yoke would be a better buy (if you can manage without a hat switch). Would I have bought a GF Yoke if I had had the opportunity to test one before? I don’t know. I am not sure. Some one wrote above ”Have these guys ever tried to use their own yoke?" Considering how bad the mouse control functions in real life (theoretically it is a splendid idea) and that the elevator trim and hat switches are on the same handle, one can wonder. Happy flying Krister R

Thanks RJ for the xml-files! I will test them asap. Happy flying guys! Krister R 2d rules!

To RJ, Yes please. Thanks! I would be very intested in looking at that code. bst rgds Krister R

I downloaded the Flusifix freeware program according to one of the suggestions under the link I got. It solved my problem, at least partly. The only drawback is that you have to use the numerical keyboard (it does not work with the hat switch on the yoke). I will try to program my hat switch as ordinary buttons. This should work. The function is not exactly what I wanted (to change view in steps 45 dgs for each hat switch press). But it will still be an improvement. Thanks guys! rgds Krister R

Hi again, Luis Miguel: The pan_in_cockpit_mode=1 did not do what I wanted it to do. This command makes the whole instrument panel pan, i.e. when looking 90 dgs to the right you still have the panel i front of you. This is rather confusing during a landing, as the plane is not moving in the same direction as the panel is pointing. You would rather soon loose your sense of direction during the busy landing phase. But thanks for trying to help out. RJ: I will try the tips you link to, they look promising. Thanks. Krister R

Yes you are right, I am talking about 2d view. I will follow your instructions. Thanks a lot! rgds Krister R

Hello guys Before I bought fs9 I used to fly Fly! and Fly2. And I still sometimes fly Falcon 4.0. In those sims you use the hat switch in a different way than in fs9. If you look forward and then click once to the right on the hat switch, the view is changed 45 degrees to the right (to right-forward view) and stays there even after you release the hat switch. Next click to the right moves the view another 45 dgs to the right etc (to 90 dgs right view). If you want to go back to forward view you must now press the hat switch to the left twice. The advantage of this is that when you e.g. are in a right turn on the final, you just press the hat switch once to the right, and you will stay in the right forward view and see the runway without having to keep the hat switch pressed all the time. I have tried to set this up in fs9, but not succeeded. Is there any way to do this in fs9? Or perhaps with the help of Active Camera or FSUIPC? Or maybe there is a prgram that could solve my problem. Any help is appreciated. I have searched some forums and used Google without finding anything that could help me. Thanks! rgds Krister R

Ok. Thanks John! rgds Krister R

I have the same problem. When I opened Avsim page today Norton said; "A high risk attack by aparkechon.dyndns.org was blocked". I use Firefox and a couple of weeks ago I told Firefox to warn me if a website tries to redirect me to other sites. Everytime when I go to Avsim (I still have the url avsim.com as bookmark) I now get a Firefox warning that I am redirected to avsim.net. Is that correct or is something fishy here? When I clicked on the link "Contact us" (bottom of left frame) a mail window was opened (as it should) but there was no mail address filled in (as it should). Is this just a bug or is avsim.net a malicous copy of avsim.com? Krister R

Hello,I have about 100 hours flight time in the PMDG MD-11 in FS9 (I very seldom fly FSX although I have it on my computer). I am very satisfied. Like you I prefer 2d cockpits with separate side views (not the vc). But this is not possible here. However the good news are that the vc is very fps friendly, so changing view from front view to side view is almost stutter free (I have a very powerful computer though). I have locked frame rates to 50 fps, and even at complex airports I get this frame rate.I enjoy flying the PMDG MD-11 immensely. It feels very realistic. I doubt that a simulation on a home PC could be more realistic than this.May I recommend that you buy the dvd "Swiss MD-11" from Just Planes (you follow a long-haul flight Zuerich-Sao Paolo-Buenos Aires and back). You will get more feeling when flying MD-11 after seeing this video. I think this video is one of the absolutely best cockpit videos on the market.Merry ChristmasKrister Renard

I too agree. Thanks guys at the Avsim staff, who by hard work and great skill were able to save most of the files and get the site going again! The flight sim community wouldn't have been the same without Avsim.com. When Avsim was down I fully came to understand how much Avsim means to us flight simmers.Zorropisa :( Sweden

Hi folks,and thanks for helping.I have now tried flying Ibiza-ESSA 5 times with different settings (different seasons, different planes) but still CTD. But not only because of "out of memory". The last time was during descent for ESSA and the cause was weather.dll. I have spent hours reading at different forums and have got some ideas.Today I tried Ibiza-ESSA once again (sixth time). And behold -- with success! I disabled some sceneries (Mega-Frankfurt and German Landmarks -- my route passed very close to Frankfurt and I have had some problem before with that scenery). But I do not think this was the culprit.I think the problem this time is/was related to AES (Aerosoft's very good litte addon to enhance the airport realism). There was something at Aerosoft's homepage about that the latest version (1.93) had some problems and there was an upgrade to download, which I did. That could have been the solution to my problem. But I do not think so, although I think the problem is related to AES and that is has with memory allocation to do (as mgh suggested -- thanks!).What I think solved my problem was that after starting fs9, I placed my plane at ESSA (point of arrival) and made a panoramic sweep around the airport from external view. Then I moved the plane to Ibiza and started the flight. With "place" I mean that I use the fs9 main meny "Select location". And then I moved the plane from there by loading the flight plan via the flight planner and saying yes to the question "Do you want flight planner (or whatever) to move your aircraft....". I have already used this solution a lot of times when I get problems with terrain.dll and g3d.dll and g2d.dll. For instance when I try to fly to Dussedorf (EDDL) I always get a CTD when approaching the airport, caused by terrain.dll or the other two dll:s mentioned above. I have never been able to find which file is causing this. But if I first move the plane to EDDL and then to my airport of departure (according to my description above), I can always land without problems at EDDL. The same with some other airports. But this was the first time that an "out of memory" problem was related to this (I have had very few of this type -- they have probably been related to my experimenting with virtual memory settings). I have never been able to find an explanation before why the method I use works, but problem with memory allocation seems reasonable (I also got a hint of this at Aerosoft's forum).One theory at Aerosof's forum was that if you fly from an airport with AES installed to an airport without AES installed there might be problems with just memory allocation. In my case it was the opposite, I flew from Ibiza, with AES installed to ESSA without AES (you can only install AES at certain airports -- and no Swedish airport has this option so far, as this demands a certain degree of cooperation from the manufacturer of an airport scenery and Swedflight, which has made the, in my opinion, best ESSA scenery, seems to have ceased operations -- their homepage was updated last time about a year ago -- which is a pity).So according to my experience, many problems of this type can be solved by first moving the plane to the airport of arrival and then to the departure airport. So far all problems with terrain.dll etc when en route of approaching an airport have been solved by this method. Not the ideal solution, but better than nothing.As I say, even en route this works. When I fly from Vadso in Northern Norway to Tromso I always get a terrain.dll related CTD about 15 nm from Alta (ENAT) -- about 2/3 of the way between Vadso and Tromso. If I first move my plane to Alta and pan around there and then move the plane to Vadso, there is no CTD when passing Alta.So maybe all these problems with terrain.dll etc, etc are related to memory allocation problems, caused by bad coding/Zorropisa