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I run a B650E with a Ryzen 7 9700X on air with no issues. My gpu is a AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT. My CPU air cooler is a Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120SE that costs $55.00. My system isn't overclocked so air works without any issues. My case is a mid-size with 6 intake fans and only one exhaust fan. My experience with AIOs is after a couple of years the cooling fluid starts to evaporate and the pump develops cavitation issues and reduced cooling. With no way to refill the AIO it became necessary for me to replace the AIO.

Mike, Like you I only use MSFS2024 for the scenery. The clouds and scenery are OK without any issues with downloads from the cloud. I don't use any AI objects and add-on aircraft or add-on scenery. It has been in my system a little over a week. So far it is OK. I did notice that KDFW and KJFK have been cleaned up. It is smooth without any crashes so far.

I only know about the B744 NG FMC. When we go to an alternate we normally make those changes in the current RTE page (normally RTE 1) or possibly activate RTE 2 if it is preloaded for the alternate. The ALTN page is for ETA and Fuel estimates to potential alternates. A normal scenario would be telling ATC we want to go to our Alternate. ATC gives us an initial heading to give us time to get the new routing in the FMC.

The main differences are 1) Flight Levels in the US are at FL180, 2)There is no zero in runway names such as RWY6 as opposed to RWY06 in Europe, 3) When there is no ATC on line, all North American airports use CTAF when nearing the destination airport ( I use 20 miles) instead of 122.80.

You would be fine I'm sure. It is interesting and there are a lot of folks with sims like yours out there flying. I do it single pilot and usually fly about 12 hours a day. All the B744 sims like yours are using PSX with most using MS2020.

Mike, Slightly off topic, are you going to do World Flight on Vatsim this year?

Mike, I use the MS2020 as a scenery for PSX using an interface developed by Gary Oliver for his B744 sim (https://simfest.co.uk/). PSX is extremely accurate using the latest nav data available. I see the offset problems mainly when lining up for departure where I can switch between the location shown by the MS2020 interface and PSX. It's always something with these sims. 🤣

Mike. All the lipstick from MS doesn't count if they can't get the runways in the correct position. I'm continually amazed that a lot of runways are as much as 30 feet left or right of their correct location. This is a problem I don't experience with X-plane 12.

A corrupt logbook file will cause FSX to not start.

I'm new to xPlane 12 (XP12) and mostly fly the Aerowinx PSX B744. I am having trouble figuring out the Zoom in XP12. I understand how to get the screens to move in and out, but I don't know what I've got when I get there. If I set P3d at a zoom of 1.5, I can see the the zoom setting in P3d. As an example how do I get XP12 to the equivalent of the P3d zoom of 1.5? Any guidance would be appreciated.

When flying on Vatsim this week there was a DC-3 parked beside me, but it was showing as a default aircraft. With P3d I would know how to fix this problem. With Xplane I don't know where to get the model to show a DC-3 on Vatsim.

Where do I find AI aircraft for X-plane 12? I am specifically looking for a DC-3 and other classic aircraft that I can use with Vatsim. Being new to X-plane I am not sure how to proceed.

Mike, Since your flight deck is down, what are you flying?

I copied my add-on entries for Orbx in 5.4 to my add-on cfg file for 6 and Orbx works without any issues for me.

I'm not having any issues. I run Aerowinx B744 as aircraft and use MSFS2020 as a scenery.