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Cool shots. I get to see that plane come in quite frequently from my office. Should plan a time to see the A380 come in. It arrives in the late afternoon and leaves in the evening. It's ginormous!

Annnnnd this is where the thread turns into shameless plugging by people pushing their own VAs....

Thanks Steve - I'll check them out. They look great! I like the more minimalistic, elegant paints myself. Atlas Air is still one of my favorite liveries, along with Polar and Titan. Any plans for a "dirty" version of one of your cargo paints?

Great shots, Chris! I'm about to start Miami to Provo, UT (KPVU) myself. Going to give that Polar livery you used a go!

Been playing catch-up with the 777 updates and all the new integration and your thread was very helpful! Thanks!

Great shot!

This. I have yet to be asked to increase my descent rate to something that I couldn't accomplish without extending the gear, but ATC would definitely get an "unable" if my only other option was to extend the gear at 20,000 feet to achieve my descent target. Then again, I'm practically always above Vlo while descending through 20,000 feet anyway. Jets typically don't 'go down and slow down' at the same time very well at all.

The Avsim link isn't working for people anymore? It seems to be working for me when I try to download it from the library.

No, but I wasn't specifically referring to a 737. There are jets where you either 1) aren't able to do so in overspeed or 2) don't have speed brakes.

Not to the extent you are referring to. Sure, we may use the gear if we receive a last minute change due to ATC or weather and we have to immediately rush re-configuration to satisfy a new altitude change (to where changing prop settings or speed brakes won't be enough), but if you are having those issues when are in the middle of descent from cruise and brushing up against a 250/270 Knot limit, than something has gone rather wrong. I don't know anyone that has ever had to get as drastic for drag as extending the landing gear all the way out on a STAR. On another note, the landing gear is allowed to be extended into high mach speeds because it is used as a sole and last resort for drag in high overspeed situations, as you obviously can't be extending flaps or speed brakes at high mach - landing gear is the only option for drag at those speeds (and yes, you'll blow the gear doors off).

A 4.5 stable OC on a Haswell chip is not "modest" - it is very good.

Cool pics! I've flown into the Taos airport a handful of times. Flying over the massive ravine on final when landing to the north is one of the best parts!

You can typically search Googke for the airport ICAO code + the word 'Jeppesen' and find charts that way for airports outside the US and CAN. I would use FltPlan.com for Canada charts. It isn't a big deal to have outdated charts for flight sim since the nav database and frequencies inside FS are so old (and therefore charts that are years old are still correct for FS) and/or typically never change even with updated AFCADs. I have access to a JeppView so that is how I get all my global charts but that even presents its' issues (brand new charts can be incorrect from the years old FS nav database).

Not sure what you mean - recommended by whom? It is up to you if you want head movement / shake on. All those are customizable, including the frequency and severity of the shaking. I use EZDok with the NGX and T7 and haven't had any issues.

Eh? Why not just use EZCA than? It works fine.

Interesting. For starters, my bet is that is that there is a relay on the MOBO popping. How old is your MOBO, or components in the PC, for that matter? Are there any charred or black marks anywhere on the MOBO? Can you keep the PC open and on your desk when it is running, or a place where you can instantly look at it when it happens again, to see what it is doing? I had a MOBO that was a few years old and died in the same fashion - I just turned it on one day and heard a pop and I shut the PC down. I opened the PC up to troubleshoot it for when I turned it on again and when it powered on there was a bright orange glow coming from a relay and, of course, it started smoking the hotter it got. The MOBO was fried. There is nothing on the CPU cooler fan to "pop". It is just an electric fan with a wire that is being powered by the PSU. Another thing to note is that relay's, when "popped", will most likely burn out and not function any longer. If you have heard multiple "pops" than you've likely blown more than one. It isn't like a circuit breaker or fuse that can be reset. Other than a MOBO or PSU, I can't think of any component that could electrically pop, burn and still continue to function. Most components on a PC either work or they don't.

Try almost 8 years.

I've never used Simbrief so I don't know what it does, but I used FSBuild before I purchased PFPX. PFPX is very heavy into ETOPS and real world planning and it does everything by the book (even as a real world pilot I gasped at the huge amount of flight planning customizations and capabilities). There is a ton of ETOPS stuff that I will probably never get into beyond the basics, as I'm not a huge ETOPS guy. You're correct that PFPX pretty much does what you can find elsewhere in some form or fashion. However, there is no other program that does it all in one program and also integrates with TOPCAT. You can customize every single aspect of each and individual aircraft, incorporate NATS, weather, select SIDs and STARs easily (based off direction), etc. To accomplish my flight planning prior to PFPX I'd have to use FSBuild, Active Sky, TOPCAT, browse the internet to find real world routes and weather charts, and a Scratchpad to write everything down and incorporate it all together. PFPX does everything all with a few button clicks. I took your position before it came out as to why it would be worth the money but I saw the efficiency of it and I was getting tired of using a bunch of different programs to do everything, so I purchased it and I'm glad I did. It's a very nice program and I don't regret purchasing it.

It's rather difficult to understand your "English". I, or we, don't know what you observed nor can we read your mind. The NGX doesn't have Auto-Cruise. I'm not sure what you expect someone to say to that.

FSX comes with Time Compression, from which you can enable in the FSX menu (for any airplane). The NGX doesn't have Auto-Cruise, which is the time compression feature in the T7.

No. You're just going to hear about it when it happens in the USA, as opposed to other parts of the world, because the media loves aviation for some reason.

It'll be nice but not that big of a deal to me. The 737 trip lengths aren't that long to where Auto-Cruise is required when the normal FSX time compression will work just fine for those short trips. I think the 777 SP1 is more important at the moment.

Were people actually surprised it took off? It's an empty -700 that was most likely just hopping back over to Branson which is less than 10 miles away. They didn't even do a short-field take-off.

TrackIR didn't solve the problem - you're just compensating for it. People without TrackIR can do the same thing - just move the viewpoint to what you want. However, that doesn't mean the problem doesn't exist.

Of course you can. Video capturing software just records what is being viewed on your desktop, so just turn on the recorder and go about doing whatever it is you want recorded. FSRecorder makes a "replay" in FSX. You just load the replay of the flight you want to view / record and then you can use all the views you want, etc.