scandinavian13

This one here? No. This is all, 100% anti-virus being exactly what it's meant to prevent: viruses. In the beginning, these programs would at least say "hey, I think this might be a problem, please advise." Now, they just shut everything down without notification, going as far as deleting things without advising you. That, ladies and gentlemen, is exactly what viruses do. ...but they're called anti-virus programs, so it's all okay...right? No...no it is not. EDIT: ...and let me be clear: I'm trained in Security+ and taught it for a few years. I don't take security lightly.

Yet another example of why I tell people to remove their AV software. Seriously...looking at the number of times AV gets in the way versus actually protects people, it's actually quite startling. I know a lot of you might not see it since you only use your machine, and AV programs do so many things now without warning you (which is pretty awful, if you ask me). From my perspective, though, working support, you get to see how often this actually occurs. AV software for home use is - I'll put this very bluntly - garbage. Just use Defender. It's really all you need, and it's free.

If you can manually download/install a livery, then something on your computer is interfering. Not running the OC as an admin, or allowing some other program to restrict its access to the internet are the main causes. It is usually the latter (specifically any AV other than Win Defender, since after-market AV essentially exists to get in the way of life). Given that the updaters are actually separate programs, and are also failing, this, again, points to some other program getting in the way.

If it's not pinned at the top of our General Forum, or mentioned in an actual interview with RSR himself, then it's simply a rumor.

I have nothing against wiki as long as it's properly cited and verified. Regardless of what you're reading, you should verify by reading more than one source - yes, this includes Scientific Study C from Ive League University X. I'd argue that most of the "mainstream" wiki pages get more peer review than a lot of the other stuff people might use as reference. While I don't use it as a specific reference in most discussions, I will often start there to get a good baseline of knowledge, and then use the linked sources for further education and citation. I think it's mainly just a stigma that we picked up in school or university, which usually stems from mistrust due to its lack of formal review, though it could also simply be a bit of intellectual elitism (keeping in mind that a there is a predominant belief that a college professor's "worth" is partially judged by the the works they've published, so seeing people cite resources outside of the "scholarly" realm would be seen somewhere from simply inferior, to a shot in the side). To me, there are a great number of wiki articles out there that are simply superb as they are able to communicate a particular topic to someone who might not otherwise understand it. Consider someone who wants to know what quantum mechanics is all about. A lot of the academic topics about QM are pretty complex (some are actually remarkably detailed yet free - kudos to MIT), but there exists a wiki article that explains it in many different languages, to include Simple English. Again, I won't cite wiki since it usually isn't a primary source (and I prefer primary because it makes my argument a lot stronger) if I'm participating in a serious discussion about something, but I think it gets often gets a bad rap when it usually shouldn't. Side rant over...carry on...

No need to apologize. I could see how it would be confusing.

Not sure what you're referring to. He called in from his phone while standing in an airplane at Washington Dulles (KIAD). The visuals were those of the person running the stream.

As the Intro Manual instructs: close the sim between loading different PMDG aircraft/liveries. Please make sure to read the Intro Manual as it has a lot of important information for you. Full names - first and last - in your posts please.

Perfect. Thanks! One of the guys should get to it momentarily. If not, I'll be in the queue later this evening.

Looking at the page, I can definitely say none of the PMDG team spent any amout of time providing information on it. That table is atrocious, too.

Would've been pinned if it were. This is correct. The tech team this time around is very, very, very thorough, as he mentioned. It's actually really impressive.

The support site is mentioned in the Intro Manual, and is linked from our main page under the word "support." It's also linked in my signature for your convenience. Create an account and then submit a ticket. We'll be able to work it from there.

K. That's enough for this one...

Glad to hear it. There is a known issue for a small number of NGX users that use the ESC function to end their flights in the Full Screen mode. We are currently investigating this, but to date have been unable to identify any faults in the gauge files that would cause this type of behavior. The good news is there are a couple of easy solutions to avoid the problem. If you are running the Full Screen mode, simply select "CTRL + C" to Exit FSX directly, or you can switch to the Windowed Mode by pressing "ALT + ENTER" and then simply click on the "X" in the upper right corner to close FSX. Either of these solutions should prevent the CTD issue you describe.

In theory, no, but we discourage discussing other devs here. The occasional "this dev does X, which is cool/suggested/etc" is fine. In general, though, it's discouraged. It can either start a fanwar, or could end up that our forum plays host to potentially negative opinions of other devs, and we wouldn't want this place to become known as hostile to other devs. If positive or negative things need to be said about other devs, they deserve to hear it and see it in their own forum (particularly the positive stuff - it's seriously appreciated by whomever receives it).