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No offence, but anyone else reading this please consider using an external drive as an archive. As soon as I make a purchase I create a folder called the same name as the plane. I put in text files named Email1, Email2, etc and any updates that are released get added to the folder. I put in the program installer and any information dedicated to that plane, even copies of the textures I use. I then place this folder as a sub folder inside a main folder called "Flight Sims". This stops all the bother and saves the extra cost and waiting time for download extentions etc... I regularly wipe my machine and start over so I find it extremely useful and a good reminder of what is necessary to run the plane. If I spot any useful links, You Tube clips etc I add these too. With me having short term memory loss due to my meds I find this especially useful. Steve

Is that anything to do with PMDG? Pot, kettle, black....... :LMAO: :Party: Steve

I haven`t flown in a little while so here's what I`ll do. I`ll put the details in a text file as I do it now, not to fly but just to spark up the engines ready to taxi out. Then I`ll pm you the details. If I do this right you should be able to print it out and get it the first time round.Steve

It's good fun, try it. It's so good knowing you started from cold and dark, ran through all the procedures, got take off permission, flew the route, landed, parked up and shut down the engines. It feels like you really did the flight. So much satisfaction, much more than just flying the route on it's own-especially considering you planned the route too. Just have a few sessions where you start engines, even if you do nothing else. That way you add your engine starting knowledge to flying and it all gels in your mind.Steve

speke prupper engrish lik wot wii doo innit!Steve

Installed no problem here for the 800/900 and the 600/700. Many thanks for the work put into this guys.Steve

I had my Track IR 2 years and hardly used it. I heard about Ezdok here in this forum and gave it a go because so many were on about it. Now I use both Ezdok and Track IR all the time and hate to fly without them. Track IR lets me zoom in, look around. Ezdok gets me to the right place and locks my view into that position. EG the overhead, I don`t need to force Track IR to stay in that position because Ezdok gets me there and keeps me there. I now also have extra views I can set up with Ezdok, so I set one on the overhead, the throttle, the gauges to get a close up view, all the windows, behind me, outside, the door where the jetway joins, the front to see the pilot view in flight.Using Ezdok with my EH101 Helicopter to see the view from the two sliding doors inside, the rear ramp when open, the winch controls. You name it theirs extra cam views to set up and enjoy. Its the best £16 I ever spent and useful with all my aircraft, no more limited camera views here.....Steve

Excellent news n the sun is shining today too. :-))Steve

I haven`t made the change yet to a 2500K so bear this in mind, I haven`t got the funding in place. But, reading through all this thread I cannot help but get the overwhelming thought that whilst there may be something new around the corner the 2500K has been no.1 in most peoples thoughts and mind for such a long time now. Its certainly the longest time and the most amount of people I`ve seen enthusing about a CPU and system. Perhaps theirs a reason for this and a sign that its an excellent move to make, I`m not just saying that because I too want one. Because I struggle to find the funds as a semi invalid I know I have to make the right move. This feels just right, at least for me-if you can get that same feeling after research then forget about tomorrow, its new CPU may be a failure or not well accepted.As for old machines, I retain and network them. I sometimes have 7 computers and 1 Mac Mini here. Not all have complete parts but sometimes those parts get ravaged from old machines people have, sometimes I buy a few bits. Family and friends have machines that break and a spare one can always be found this way-I just feel so guilty when one leaves me, though I do it willingly. I may need a spare part sometimes at night when the shops are closed, it may be for my main machine or to run an experiment. I always always have spare parts with those machines. I intend building a computer in a piece of furniture one day so the parts are all there to do it. I also have the benefit of running a long process on a spare computer whilst I carry on flight simming on the main one.Steve

Glad its all sorted out amicably. For the purposes of the OP (first poster) just like you over reacted (and apologised readily) so did some of the forum. But its such a good company, products and forum some of us get over protective at times. You`re quite safe here in this forum and with PMDG, I can assure you. PMDG are one of the better companies in flight simulation as well as the leading models. I hope from here on in you enjoy the forum and use it any time you need advice, help or to enjoy a little banter about aircraft and simulation.Steve

Money is tight but if ever I have the spare funds I`ll really need to consider this plane highly. She looks great! Nice one.Steve

I have nothing valuable to add, short term memory loss due to meds doesn`t help. But I would sincerely like to congratulate you on your recent PPL pass. Well done and I hope you enjoy it more and more in the future. You`ll no doubt remember that day with much pride, as you should. Good luck and enjoy,Steve

From new mine had the recalibration problem, but disconnecting and reconnecting the USB lead temporarily fixed it. I could see the out of alignment in the yoke control panel each time and it just centred that one incorrect axis each time. Then about a week or so in I decided to do the rubber band trick by opening the case. Once I put all the screws back I noticed the yoke was turning left/right but no movement was picked up on the plane. So I reopened the case to investigate.Down at the bottom left when facing the yoke controller end were two toothed cams and they were not meshing together. One end was linked by rods back to the yoke for feedback and control by turning the yoke. I managed to slip them back into mesh and was able to choose the position that best gave full meshing no matter which way the yoke was turned. Obviously this is around the centre on each of them.After my work was complete the plane reacted properly once again. But ever since that day my yoke has never gone out of alignment since then. I cannot help but wonder if the percentage of yokes that do go out of alignment are due to the two misaligned cams when going through the Production phase. Hence some work and some don`t. All it takes is one of the cams or both of the cams to be touching nearer one end instead of full contact in the centre. When rotated they are out of alignment. When the Control Panel is reset it may be resetting the default position as that point where the cams are in contact at that point. So quite quickly afterward they go back out of contact again when rotated a couple of times. If this is the reason then Production should have a white dot inscribed on both cams and these two dots should be in full alignment at the centre of both cams before QA passes them. If the dots are misaligned then that unit doesn`t pass QA (quality control check) or even simply the check made by the person who puts it all together in the first place.Steve

Dan, you and I may not always see eye to eye. But your passion and conviction for both the artwork itself and helping others is plain to see. Its evident that you spend a long long time on producing the stuff. Its all full of passion, skill and flair, most of it to benefit others. Helping folk is nearly always a thankless task, you know it, I know it because I help out in other non flight related forums. But when your heart is in it, as yours most obviously is, you cannot and should not allow peoples lack of manners and simple courtesy to put you off. Do what you so obviously enjoy Dan, don`t give it up, any thanks you do get is a bonus. One thing I 95% refuse to do when helping folk in a forum though is to help by PM. Mostly I tell them in the best way I can that I manage to help one person only in a PM. Whereas in a forum I could be helping 15 people in one go. Most queries take up follow up messages, research if I don`t have all the answers to hand. So rather than make a rod for my own back I try to keep to the forums wherever possible. Unless someone catches me on the right day. :( Giving up is relatively easy Dan. Not giving up is the hardest thing to do and you already proved many times the hard work doesn`t faze you. Think long and hard about this, their are many people in this forum who think good of you. Don`t lose that ever, for the ones who give no recognition the vast majority are either too damn lazy or pig ignorant. But wouldn`t life be boring if we were all the same as each other? I`m just hoping you shrug your shoulders and carry on. Good luck in whatever choice you make, now lets get back to snarling at each other :( Steve

Many people wear peaked caps so it isn`t so much of a problem. One of the first things I do when I go out is reach for my sports cap. So its just as natural indoors when flight simming and mine is well vented anyway. For those who wear headphones its just a further addition to add the Pro Clip. If you enjoy flight simulation its surprising the lengths you`ll go to to make it more enjoyable. Wearing a hat or an headset is no great problem unless you let it be, in your mind. With time it becomes natural to don one or the other. For the ease of looking around and zooming in/out its well worth the little effort it takes.Steve