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  1. there is no attempt to question any volunteers integrity here , you guys are so wound up you are going off at a tangent, whilst i have no problem with there being site rules i just dont think that it can be called a forum if all the discussions are moderated,but never mind i will still enjoy avsim and fully support it as i have done for many years, i just think it is a sad day that the admin feel that they have to take a site down and then angrily shout me down in a typical american way when i question the misuse of the word forum.whatever happened to "speak softly but carry a big stick"
  2. personally me thinks M.S. had a word in someones lugole , I cant see the harm if people do get personal, it just shows how passionate some of us are about our hobby, i think we should re-name" forums" to "aunties fireside"
  3. not being a part of, or having taken part in the strong views expressed in the forum whose name shall not be mentioned, Doesnt the management feel that we are using the name forum too loosely. After all it was the romans that created forums as a place where free speech and radical ideas could be discussed with fervour and harsh words. I noted the rules of avsim when i joined and have endevoured to act accordingly but there are times when some decisions, news make one want to vent ones spleen and that place is ideally a forum.Whilst I have been a member of avsim for many years and have enjoyed reading many peoples thoughts, whether i agreed with them or not, do you not feel that applying the nanny state rules a trifle harsh? if we no longer support free ideas etc then we must surely no longer use the name forum. I well remember compuserve , surely the originator of the name forum when it comes to the internet, and the heated discussions that were tolerated there (over 25 years ago) and it didnt suffer from those discussions so why not let them continue? how does the old saying go? "sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me".
  4. hi,i have visited this site for the first time after trying the version 10 demo. and came across the post about removing critical posts, dont you feel that this is a trifle marxist?i remember well when fsx was released there was a hue and cry givng a lot of criticism about fsx to which MS immediately responded with several service packs.Do you think for 1 minute that these service packs would have been forthcoming if this criticism hadnt been voiced on forums such as this?similarly xplane creators will get feedback, ok some perhaps undeserved but they can sift through the constructive criticism and see where real problems lie. There is no future only allowing people to pat them on the back if the product isnt up to scratch, or has real problems, as they wont be addressed,this is a forum may i respectfully suggest that you look up the latin meaning of forum and how it has been used throughout history before you stop people using a forum as a forum.No doubt this post will also be removed.
  5. I have an interesting little issue, when programming the fmc if I set it at full fuel, full weight then setup the rest of the fmc it gives me v speeds of 104,104,122 okhowever if I then start again with 1/3 fuel and an empty plane it still reproduces the same v speeds which is surely not correct!upon further examination the full plane is showing a g/w and tow of 61.2 and at the empty setup initially i get the same weights if i then activate the qrh it gives me a g/w of 30.4 and a t/o of 61.2over to you guys!
  6. up to now been really happy slowly getting the hang of doing battle with the fmc etchowever i can now reproduce a ctd every time.the route is yhba to ybbn fmc programmed in various configs but say use rnwy 29 departure ybbn ils 29 arrival , a very simple exerciseso line up on 29 set lnav flaps at 5 and rock and roll climb out set vnav get the flaps up and cross the arms , as this has now happened 5 times in succession i have a second monitor with a gpu monitor and a cpu monitor on which i started to watch the fatal error come off , sometimes it can happen in the climb out and sometimes at toc but i have yet to get past tod.so i am watching the gpu monitor, all is correct it is using 30-50% the the gpu temps are stable at about 76deg,however the cpu monitor is showing me that slowly but surely processors 3,5,7 are maxing out initially they would run up to 88% then drop back then the graph would climb again to say 90 odd % and drop back, remember this is on full auto no personal inputs, then after say 3 or 4 troughs and mountains on the graph the processors finally max out at 100% and bingo ctd/fatal errorhey I know its early days for this great sim and we are bound to get the odd bug, well here is one!!my cfg file has been corrected by oh i dont know his name spanish geyser and it works well and i certainly dont get ctd's or any problem with other a/c so this may be something ou can replicate.looking forward to hearing guys
  7. the fmc will not allow me to delete a line of discontinuity it comes up with invalid delete and it wont accept direct or dct as an alternative solution, has anyone any idea please.
  8. As many have said before me, i would like to add my praise for such an excellent a/c. the wait and hype was worth it. No doubt some people have a few "issues" most will be down to finger trouble, or not reading the manual etc but at the end there may be half a dozen bugs that will get sorted in due course it is only to be expected for such a complex programme, however there has never been, in my experience,another a/c released for fsx, that offers such a depth of programming , that can replicate so accurately say 90% of the real aircraft, and yet give better frame rates than all the lesser products ,that is truely impressive.when i look back to the dispair i felt when i first installed fsx , it was rubbish before sp1 and 2! this release makes it all worth whileDeep respect guys !!with teams like you and Orbyx who needs M.S. Flight?However I have an ever so minor gripe, why cant the wing surfaces , or the a/c for that matter be weathered? they are just toooo new and clean i enclose a pic of what i would love to see.
  9. there is now a fair amount of software available for fsx although not nearly as much as fs9 sadly , however times be hard and there appears to be a lot of duplication in what is available so where does one put ones money??I would like to purchase a 757 for my collection and a 767 but which one do I buy??? all have individually received reasonably admiring reports on avsim but just when you decide to select one to purchase one you read some very poor reports on one of the various forums that are avaialable.Isnt it time that avsim do some proper comparitive tests,of like on like, so that people can best select the version that suits their kind of flying more accurately?some a/c like those by PMDG emulate as best they can , a real simulator, whilst others are little more than an arcade game. I for one use fsx as a simulator (being a pilot) so realism is important to me , but others may feel that a/c simplified like those of aerosoft may be closer to their requirements and it is only by directly comparing products that the we the buying public can make an educated choice to buy the version that best suits them without disappointment. the manufacturers , i am sure, would be happy to go along with this idea as they have all produced a product with a certain client in mind, however constructive criticism frequently creates better products. It may also weed out some of the chaff because there are one or two people out there who have a high handed attitude to their clients if something isnt quite right so after sales service is also very important to quantify.so how about it Avsim?
  10. I know a lot of developers visit this forum, and i would like to know are the guys at M.S. liasing with current industry companies such as FTX, Flight1, aerosoft et al over flight ??What concerns me is that ok perhaps a total re-write is long overdue but is flight going to be it?I have invested a lot of money on scenery, a/c upgrades and hardware for an FSX that is finally starting to fullfill its promise when released, will all our hard earned cash be destined to the bin with flight? is there anyone out there working with M.S. that can give us an honest bit of guidance? will current a/c and scenery work on FS 11??I for one am getting more and more p--sed off by the promises of a/c that never seem to appear, and as these ever extending delivery dates go on and get closer to the release of fsim 11 I am getting less and less prone to buy their products if we are only going to get a few months use out of them, or are they talking to M.S. and already re-jigging things for FS 11.I think this game of secrecy being played out by M.S. and others will be self defeating all you have to do is look at the quantity of things being created by the public for fs9 it is still 20 times the stuff being made for fsx is M.S. going to try to reduce this with FS 11 are they going to try and re-instill the ability for joe public to make free add on's therebye re-energising our hobby, or are they also intending to keep that secret??I could understand the secrecy if there were competing simulators , but there aren't any so why not give us all an idea of where their mind set is?
  11. Having been unhappy with fsx from the start I am now really trying to like it and as we have many highly qualified and competent people on the forum I would like to pose a question or two.why is it in FSX we now have a better instrument panel presentation yet in the main the exterior models are not as good as those in fs9, is it so much more difficult to make a model in fsx? why are there so few amateurs having a go at modelling now?Also when one purchases a lovely plane such as the new eaglesoft premier (Or carenado and others) why is it when one swivels around from the superb instrument panel to a view of the rear and is met with what appears to be a very amateur reproduction of the rear seats/interior. Is it that difficult to take a picture of the real interior and digitize it? and just cut holes where the windows are for the exterior view this also applies to the wing view yes the flaps work but the wing modelling could be better drawn with a stick why cant we make it more realistic?why is it so difficult to get the nose leg to aim where the a/c is actually going? Minor gripes I know but they do detract from the enjoyment somewhat and I would just like to know why these things cant be done properly.
  12. Can anyone tell me how i get the buildings to appear at heathrow i have the runways airstairs and all the parking markings but not a single building is this normal?
  13. As FSX has been in the public domain for nearly a year now I feel we can look back at what we have received and offer constructive criticism to its creators, no doubt I will get flamed by some but I have a thick skin.First observation I have to make is that it is released under the M.S.Games banner now this may not seem important but it may give some insight as to how M.S. see or perceive the world wide client base of flight simmers especially in the light of the up and coming acceleration expansion pack. Now there is no doubt that there is a proportion of those who bought any fsim product use it like a game but judging by the huge quantity of educated people around the world who program products or create add on
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