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Fragging in Vietnam was not limited to Officers, NCOs were also targets. There was a culture problem between the Lifers (career soldiers) and the draftees. It all got down to respect. I spent time as an FO, artillery battery XO, and an aviation platoon leader (helicopter pilot). Show your fellow soldier (Officer or Enlisted) respect and being fragged will not be an issue. Just my opinion after two tours in Vietnam.

Kinda. There are a lot of commands that were changed in v6 that make it difficult to accurately build a scenery. I'd been a long time user of ADE and gave up in frustration.

I have the FlyMex MMMX airport that I bought on Marketplace and don't have any issues with it. There was an update for MSFS2024 for $8 that I also did. I bought MMSM on Marketplace that I also like. For freighter folks like me they are excellent.

I've been doing raw data ILSs since 1967. 🤣 Using steam gauges and a manual throttle. Did my ATP in a DC-3. Yea, I'm old. 🤣

I am running a MSI Z790 Pro WiFi DDR4 on Air and have had no issues. It is still available. It is a LGA 1700 board (12700K). My video card is a MSI 5070. I see no problem with DDR4 since flight sims are about capacity and not speed for me. No bottle necks on either end, it just runs. With Cinebench stress test the max CPU Package temp is 77C.

There is too much downside to liquid metal for me. The couple of degrees I might gain on cooling are not worth the potential risk of the liquid metal getting loose on my MB especially since it is electrically conductive and corrosive.

Have you tried the Aerowinx B747? It's not a video game. I do have the Felis B742 and do enjoy it.

I have the Justsim version of ELLX for MSFS2024 and have not had any issues. Since I am a freighter guy would changing to the Atelic version be worthwhile for me? I'm only going to the "Z" parking spots.

You might try Jetline. I've bought from them in the past and there is another member of this forum that just bought one. They specialize in Flight Sim. Search Microcenter on Youtube and they have a video where they build a high-end gaming computer.

In video games Ram is not about speed, but about capacity.

I highly recommend using Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut Extreme Thermal Paste. Also recommend using Win 11 Pro. Lian-Li 217 Case. Lian-Li Galahad II LCD CPU Liquid Cooler. I run a 5070 card and 12700K CPU and this keeps my CPU temp below 80C on Cinebench23.

That number is the "maximum demonstrated crosswind", not the maximum crosswind. There is a big difference. As I've mentioned before after being on several accident investigation boards, a person can't criticize command decisions unless they were in the cockpit and know/knew what the crew knew or thought they knew.

Mr. LRBS, I read your "about" and find it very interesting. Qualified and current in both the B747 and A380 at the same time. Also you referenced being a Designated Examiner and a Chief Pilot. One of my CAF buddies is a DE for experimental aircraft. Not something I would be interested in doing since I'm not interested in flying the "A" model of anything. In my military career I was on several aviation accident boards and was trained at the USC safety school. The one thing I was taught and learned is "Never question command decision until you know what the pilot knew or thought he knew". I know I'm old, my first type rating was in 1967 in a DC-3. ROFL Grace and Peace,

From your post it sounds like you were riding on the jump seat? 😕

Stan. Good luck with your new machine. I've had a couple of Jetline computers and have always been happy with their machines and service.

What is your Cinebench r23 score?

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.