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Hello from a new buyer of the Dash8 Q400, I just purchased the DVD version of this highly acclaimed product, but I have run into a roadblock already. I get to the point of being prompted to enter the license key, and when that is done, the install program just hangs up and will not proceed any further. I have tried multiple times with the same result, and thus I am writing here to see if anyone else has experienced this lockout during the installation process. Any help that can be offered will be much appreciated. I waited for a long time for this delivery to be made, and now that the Q400 is here, I cannot even install or use it.

I should be so lucky. Oh well, I can at least consider myself an unwitting charitable donor of funds to the guy who runs Active Camera, which I suppose is as good a cause as any.

Let me know how it goes with those emails. I purchased Active Camera, but never got a chance to use it even once. The money I paid for Active Camera is gone, but is a small enough amount where I just decided to write it off as a loss, rather than make a fuss, especially when my emails to the seller of Active Camera met with no response at all.

Thanks for the reply Peter. I am optimistic that my difficulties with this program will be resolved, and I will fell slightly foolish for missing something obvious in my setup.

Much thanks Peter. I have emailed to you the contents of my Sim Starter Log Book, in the meantime while I continue looking for a file folder with the suffix "User Profiles, which if have not located in FSX or in Sim Starter just yet. I am hoping that the Log Book record of my scenery groupings might shed some light on any mistakes I have made here. Much thanks again for your help with my very basic questions.

I guess I can now see one benefit of only ever taking very short' low altitude flights of 15 minutes or less in duration from takeoff to landing, with all my addon aircraft. I have never once experienced the sudden "freeze" of the PMDG T7, as described in this thread, and, looking over the reports, it does seem to be a problem that most frequently appears after many hours of flying time.

Hello Peter, please may I request your customer questions email address here in this forum, if this can be possible. I checked the Sim Starter program and did not find the button labelled "About" , in order to find the email address, and I also checked your website, where there is also a reference to the "About" button, which I haven't located as yet. I hope to send my files by email today, but again my very poor computer know-how is getting in the way, with the result that I am having to request the email address that I am sure is already right under my nose. Much thanks in anticipation.

Apologies for my delay in responding, Capt Pero. I got sidetracked with various things going on here, but definitely over the next couple of days, I will send the requested files so that you can be able to offer advice about the correct settings needed to get the improved FSX rates that other SimStarter users have been seeing. I really appreciate your offer of help, and I am certain that I made a fundamental error that will be evident once you get the files to see the FSX configurations I have set with my copy of Sim Starter. My computer skills are very poor, I must admit, and this is why I need to devote more time to carefully following the instructions in the video clip that you have been kind enough to post here.

The FMC is obviously trying to send you a cryptic message by posting that seemingly random numerical sequence "420" on the CDU screen, while blocking you every frantic attempt to delete the code, whose significance will shortly manifest itself to me, since I have preemptively donned my conical thinking cap to tackle this conundrum. For the record, I tried but failed to stop my restless fingers from typing the foregoing response to your predicament, meaning of course that I am perilously close to being drawn into The Vortex. Speaking of which AAAAAaaaaaaaaaargh !

I will do this before the end of the day today, Capt Pero. In creating my scenery profiles in Sim Starter, I was quite ruthless in un-checking all scenery listings that I thought were not related to the areas geographically close to the location of my saved flights, but I might have gone overboard and de-selected some aspects of the scenery list that should have been left active. I will try and send my Sim Starter User-files to you , but I must confess that I have no idea how to convert them to Zip files, though I will now look up that topic now. Thanks again for the quick reply. With the number of users you mentioned as having seen improvements with Sim Starter running, I suspect I may have done something fundamentally wrong here, and I will be glad for any corrections that you can offer after looking overt the files I email to you shortly.

Much thanks for the information about accessing my saved flights Capt. Pero. I was able to access my saved flights, and when I checked the scenery file listing, I noted that Sim Starter did in fact select only the scenery for the area of my saved flight, as I specified in the Scenery Manager of SimStarter. By de-selecting those addon scenery areas outside of the UK, where I saved a flight over London, for which I installed the excellent Aerosoft scenery for FSX, I expected to see an increase in frame rates, making for a smoother picture than before, as I flew the standard FSX R22 helicopter over the city of London. What I observed, however, was a LOWER frame rate than before I used Sim Starter, with a picture that stutters badly at about 11 frames per second, down from the average of 15 frames per second that I was getting before I installed Sim Starter. Intuitively, I expected better FSX performance, and HIGHER frame rates than before I installed SimStarter, and used it to turn off scenery outside of the UK, and this is why I am baffled to see worse FSX performance on my flight over London city, using Aerosoft London scenery. All the scenery sliders are set to the far right of the scale in FSX, and I was wondering if there are any specific sliders that I need to move back to the LEFT, so as to get higher frames per second when use Sim Starter. I did read some really good reviews from other users of Sim Starter, which encouraged me to download and try the product, so now I am hoping that somewhere in my FSX scenery resolution settings is hidden the one slider change that needs to be made before I can enjoy the full potential of Sim Starter. Any advice that you can offer in this regard would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Thanks for the fast reply, Capt.Pero. I will give this idea a try and report back here over the next couple of days.

Hello Capt. Pero and many thanks for the kindness of permitting us to try out a fully functional version of this product. I am writing because I have so far been unable to start FSX via the "Jumpstart" tab. Following the instructions in your tutorial Youtube video,as well as the printed manual, I was able to create nine scenery sets, by un-checking the relevant boxes to disable all scenery products not geographically close to the area of my intended flights. Having created those scenery sets I clicked on the "Jumpstart" button to try and access one of my saved FSX flights, but the Jumpstart menu page would only permit me to select the scenery sets to be used for the start profile, but not permit me to access a saved flight, by indicating the error message stating "No default flight found". In the jumpStart menu, I have been able to set the Scenery Mode dialog box to "Sim Starter Scenery Set" , and then to select the scenery set covering the area of my intended saved flight, BUT, everything else below that point on the Jumpstart menu is greyed out, such that I cannot start FSX and thus cannot access a saved flight via Sim Starter. Thinking that I might need to start up FSX before starting Sim Starter, I did so, but was unable to get any aspect of Sim Starter to work within FSX, despite searching inside FSX/s various menus, for a mention of SimStarter. I suspect that my problem has something to do with the configuration carried out in the Start Manager or Profile Manager of Sim Starter, but I honestly haven't a clue where and how to go about inputting the appropriate settings to get SimStarter to work on my system. Any assistance that you can offer would be greatly appreciated, and once again, thank you so much for creating this FSX optimizer, which I am determined to get working, despite my limited computer navigating experience.

Wobbie your post is almost a word-for-word rendition of a write-up that appeared in the Jet Careers website, but which has been circulated widely. Great minds think alike. Truth be told, I would imagine that life as a long-haul airline or cargo pilot could be one of stupefying boredom, interrupted only when approaches and landings occur, or when storms liven up the cruise, increasing the pucker factor. As much as I love flight simulation, I find long distance air travel VERY boring, as a passenger, so it is a good thing that I never went into aviation as a career for that reason. Other considerations in the same vein would be polluted bleed air in the cabin, and of course the much closer proximity of airliners to the harmful solar radiation present at the upper flight levels, all of which I imagine could shave a few years off the normal lifespan of crew members. Perhaps due to my low threshold for boredom, my flight sim sessions never last more than a couple of hours at a stretch, and I never reach cruise altitude, concentrating exclusively on takeoffs, approaches and landings in very short flights, lasting fifteen minutes or less on average.

If what you are asking is how to go about posting screenshots, then FRAPS is the free download I learned about on this forum, and it works for both still pictures and flight videos. If your question concerns where in the forum it is permissible to post screenshots then I would say anywhere you feel that such shots would be appropriate, as the proverbial bear in the woods might agree.

I almost blurted out that the seeing eye-dog's name had to be Manuel, but then I managed to maintain decorum.

By far my favorite comedian was Rodney Dangerfield, and here is one of my favorite quotes from him. " I went to a shrink. He told me I'm crazy, so I told him I need another opinion. He said yeah, you're ugly too." I can seriously relate to Rodney Dangerfield, since I don't get no respect either.

The Leve D 767 has been on the market for a while, but now the Zinertek cockpit upgrade vastly enhances the instrument panel appearance of the LD767, particularly at dusk when the panel lights are on, bringing this fantastic creation right up to date, and almost on par with a few of the well-regarded FSX airliners out there. Very importantly to me, the LD767 allows you to save instrument panel states and FMS data, when flight segments are stored for later repeat flights, which is a feat not many other FS9 airliners can replicate even today. The Level D 767 for FS9 will satisfy even the most demanding fly-by-the-book sim pilot, and all in all is a very worthwhile addition to your FS9 airliner hangar.

I use an overhead laser projector for my flight sim sessions, and while that crisp panoramic floor-to-ceiling image does up the realism factor quite a bit, I found that I was beginning to develop eye strain from using that setup in a darkened room for too long of a time in one session, and so I learned to keep my simulator flights to less than one hour long, to keep that eye strain from setting in.

Here is a link to the one-stop discussion forum for the Twotter. Everything you wanted to know but were reluctant to ask will be answered there by the pros. http://forum.aerosoft.com/index.php?/forum/588-twin-otter-extended/

Thanks for the response Kyle. I definitely agree that the search for technical understanding can be reward in itself, especially since the knowledge gained in the pursuit of this particular hobby can often be tried out right away in FS9 or FSX, to see how closely the sim planes performance conform with manufacturers' specs and procedures. In that regard the website Smart Cockpits has been the greatest find on the net for me ever, and I still find it amazing that manufacturer's aircraft flight operating manuals are available there for free download by anyone with an interest in aviation. Whenever I have time to kill at home, I pore over printed copies of my downloaded FCOM manuals, relating to airliners I use in FS9 and FSX, forgetting a huge chunk of what I read over time, but always retaining a fair bit that offers a more comprehensive insight into the magnificent flight sim airliners produced by PMDG and Level D for Boeing birds, Feelthere for the Embraer regional jet family, and now of course Aerosoft for their satisfyingly complex rendition of the Airbus A318/319/320 series. As an aside, I have always felt that airline pilots, regional fliers inclusive, should earn salaries on a scale comparable with those commanded by medical practitioners, given the tremendous depth of highly detailed technical knowledge that must become second nature to a pilot, and given the fact that a pilot is entrusted with far more lives during the course of one day's shift at work, than a doctor would encounter over a whole year's worth of clinical consultations.

Hats off to you Kyle, for you have definitely walked the walk, as opposed to the ramblings of landlubbers like me who can just about hold their own talking the talk, despite having zero real life aviator experience to back up all the theory and pontification spouted here.

Once you get the hang of using the FMC, pretty much all the Boeings will become easy to program for long or short flights, and there are quite a few parallels between the Boeing FMC and the Airbus MCDU, so that know-how will carry over to an extent if you decide to buy Aerosoft's brilliant new Airbus A318/319. It must have been fun going for test rides in the jump seat. I only ever experienced a real life jump seat once in my life, in an ancient 737, and that was long before my interest in flight simulation ignited, so I hadn't the foggiest what all those switches, buttons, dials and displays were for, which only added to the sense of adventure lol.

Hypnotized by tall tales promising a "professional level" Airbus "Advanced" rendition for FS9, I lost close to a hundred dollars gambling on the lofty promises ladled out by the crew at Airsimmer, as did quite a few others I imagine, but in the end the Airsimmer discussion forum simply vaporized under withering fire from irate punters. . On a positive note though the Aerosoft Airbus 318/319 release for FSX has been getting rave user reviews thus far, meaning Airsimmer's lineup won't be missed by many who run both FS9 and FSX. I'm actually surprised to learn that a few people are still making do with the Airsimmer "Basic" version, now that relatively bug-free complex Airbus offerings are starting to appear for FS9 and FSX from Aerosoft and Feelthere. When the history of FS9/FSX airliner packages gets written, Airsimmer will be derided as the Ford Pinto of the genre.

Ah that explains things. Thanks for the reply Reed. I will give it another try and report back here before the day is over.