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You can also click on 'Edit' and select 'Preferences' and then put a tick in 'User Defined' then select the folder path P3D. cheers Russ

Hi Jeff, After starting FSX, go to the menu to open FSUIPC, in 'Button and switches' put a tick in- Select for FS control, in the box 'Control sent when button pressed' select- Throttle (1,2,...) decr. Put a tick in 'Control to repeat while held' and then in the box 'Control sent when button released' select-Throttle (1,2,...) cut. This works well on my Saitek throttles... regards Russ

Hi there... I have the same Mobo and Cpu and I found some good tutorials on youtube specific to the sabertooth...sorry I can't be of more help than that but it was only a few changes and I have 4.5Ghz...haven't bothered to go any further... Good luck!!!

My CS777 serves its purpose...hand flying circuits...and it looks nice doing it too!!! And i'll hold off for the free upgrade to my 747...yeah right!!!

Yeah...really nice pic... If you hadn't said it was CS's 777 I bet you would have had a thousand praises by now!!! Haha regards Russ

G'day I recently upgraded to a Gigabyte GTX770, great card, but I believe, and I stand corrected by the experts...but to get optimum performance from it you will need to upgrade your cpu as well...the logic being that the 2600k is only PCIe rev 2.0 and therefore will only run the GPU at that speed, which, while being backward compatible, will not run the card to its optimum which is PCIe v3.0 (or double the speed of 2.0). regards, Russ.

Just today I tried to activate FSX online and was told i'd reached the limit of activations...had to phone MS (toll free) to get it activated. Despite the inconveniance there wasn't any issue...not surprisingly it sounded like the call centre was in India...I just wonder if they reset the number of activations or whether this is going to be an issue everytime!!! I think I must have done atleast 20+ activations in the last 5 years... cheers Russ

Don't forget that airliners, and particularly the big jets, are flown 'by the numbers' (boring but true). Expected landing weight, temperature and pressure all play a part and thats where the FMC inputs come into their own. The speed tape and flap indicators on the PFD are a good indicator...select your speed and practice maintaining it until the flare using your power levers and pitch (with yoke). As mentioned before, at 20-30ft close levers and gently pull back...careful not to pitch up! regards, Russ

All we need now is another devastating earthquake...this one will bankrupt the country for sure...and insurance will be unattainable!!!

Hows the nerves now...a little shaken again today I believe (6+)...didn't feel a thing in the winterless north!!! regards Russ.

Might very well work!?! One of the best investments in flying I ever made was the purchase of an active noise cancelling headset. Would this make a difference with a hearing aid? I have no idea!!! But I do know that it transformed my african bush flying experience...if I'd known how good they were, I would have bought one years earlier...they are expensive but worth every dollar!!! regards Russ.

Hi David, thanks for your input...My operating system is vista 64 bit and I have all the permissions I need...I think!!!Ok so I understand that basically the file can be called anything you want...and that fs9 traffic bgl's over-ride the fsx bgls...now that I have removed all my WOIA/MAIW bgl's from 'scenery,world,scenery' it would appear that the stock Ai bgl is now been reactivated...only it is not in 'scenery,world,scenery' and does have the 'traffic' in the file name...so my next move was to deactivate all my addon scenery files and low and behold...no stock Ai...now the long process of narrowing it down to the culprit...thanks again!By the way...yes it is a bit more difficult to update the traffic files...but i'd rather have to do that occasionaly with the few airlines worth updating than wait 3-4 minutes every time I want to start the sim...which is a lot more often than I want to do an up-date...cheers for now,Russ.

Maybe this is a simple problem...I have removed all 'Traffic_' bgl's... including FSX's standard traffic bgl, except the boat traffic bgl from the 'Scenery,World, scenery' folder...thats fine except I am still getting stock Ai traffic showing up in the Sim.I do not have any other traffic bgls in any other folder and have done a file search for all files with the word 'traffic' in them and still I have stock Ai showing up in the sim...is it possible for traffic to show up even if it is not prefixed with the name 'traffic' in the filename and if so what could it be named and what size could it be (assuming its the stock Ai traffic file)...so that I could search by file size...And finally if a traffic bgl is compiled using ttools, can aircraft not listed in the 'aircraft_' file still show up the sim? or do you need to delete all the flightplans with an aircraft number even if that aircraft is not in the aircraft list???Would appreciate any help as this is getting rather frustrating...By the way I have used AIFP to open the traffic bgls I have removed to see if the stock Ai aircraft appear in any of the aircraft lists...none of them do!!! (I have consolidated all the WOAI, MAIW traffic files into 11 bgl's...this has halved the time it takes FSX to load)regards, Russ

I don't have much more to add to this thread except to say that I have been having this problem for months and am following this with great interest to see if anyone can come up with a solution thats workable!While my problem is the same, for me it mostly occurrs straight after I do a 'save' of my flight, therefore I have been relatively lucky in that after restarting the sim I have not lost hours of spent time... thank god the fuels free!Here are my specs if anyone can correlate that with the problem,64 bit windows Vista running on Quad core Q9300 @ 2.5 Ghz4 Gig ramNvidia 9800 GTX 512 - latest driver(having tried earlier ones, none have made any difference)FSX sp2 using Dx9UTX, FEX, GEX747X, MD11 and LD767Fingers crossed someone can work this one out!cheers Russ.

Hi Konrad,Yeah like I said to Tim, all the BIOS stuff is way to technical for me, can you read that post and I ask you the same question about the problem I have occasionally with ATC in the sim when flying the 747.For some reason my flight from NZAA to YSSY is not going to happen...when I start the flight from my last save, within minutes it freezes up the Sim. But if I load the default flight but start with the MD11, day time with building thunderstorms (with the high res clouds from FEX looks amazing), it works perfectly, maybe somehow there is a corruption of the saved flight???Any ideas!!!cheers Russ.