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Thanks jimburke, I check Avsim several times a day, but never caught the thread you mentioned, but I’ll seek it out, as well as the utility. samd

Does anyone know how to suspend the passage of time in FSX, so that one could fly at a specified time indefinitely? I really would love to fly at dawn for an entire flight, without the passing of time. Thanks! Sam

All of the islands, but they are no longer available. Google sim savvy and visit the website where you will see user screenshots. I posted a 727 over Nevada. Though you can’t make any purchases it will give you an idea of what a great product it was (is). I got the entire USA for around $200.00! The good news is that I believe Larry is producing for MSE V2. So be patient and it will come to you soon enough. I have the entire US at 50 cm and it is incredible if one likes photoscenery. Have a Pina Colada and chill until it’s released, then buy it. Sam

I have the complete Hawaiian islands produced by Sim Savvy and given free to purchasers of the entire United States 50cm scenery from the visionary producer of the product, Larry. It is stunning! Aloha!

Be very careful, as trial lawyers enter the courtroom to represent the weakest among us too. When one has a grievance the courts are our only venue to be heard. Sometimes a trial is the course of last resort. I’m not taking any sides on this issue because I am ignorant of all the details, but I know if Mr. Myers feels he has been wronged, and an out of court resolution is not in the cards, that he will too go to court with a trial lawyer to represent him. I have no problem with the proposition that OP has made about the losing party of a patent lawsuit pay the fees of the prevailing party, just with the notion that lawyers who take a case to trial should be regarded as “scum”.

I would like to see an addon that populates airports globally with static aircraft that can be dialed up or down by the user.

Very interesting Greg. Hither to now I've always thought that the "//" entries are the conventional way to designate the entry which follows as merely text, and not part of the instructional set that the program reads. Now I know that they actually prevent the entry that follows from being seen by the program for "processing". While I have your attention, do you know of any sources where I can learn the contents of the default FSX .bgl files so I might learn just exactly the scenery elements that they are rendering. The files are all numbers with the .bgl extension which does not tell me much. Thanks for increasing my knowledge base. Blue Skies, samd

Hello whitav8, If you want to disable the jetways from automatically docking to any aircraft, whether AI, add-on, or default you need to edit the aircraft's configuration file as follows. 1. Find the aircraft in the simobject folder and open to view the folder's contents.2. Find the file named "aircraft" and open it with "notepad"3. Scroll down until you find [exits]4. Under [exits] you will find, for example number_of_exits=25. To disable the jetway from automatically docking or docking with the control + J keystroke, place a left square bracket before the entry. In the case of this example the edit will look like [number_of_exits = 2 You will have to do this for every aircraft you do not want the jetway to automatically dock with or manually dock with. I did this with all My Traffic X AI aircraft and default AI aircraft and the performance boost at busy airports was profound. With the jetways disabled for automatically deploying to AI aircraft you can increase the percentage of AI even more and enjoy really smooth approaches, taxiing, etc at the Heathrow, JFK etc. It takes a bit of work to reach all the models, but it's worth it. If you think as I do, I don't need to see the jetways attached to AI aircraft, but do want to maintain high FPS (35 +) at heathrow with 75% AI, then consider this as a means. There you go! samd

Hello whitave8, I can't respond to most of the issues you raise, but I'm pleased to have learned that there is someone other than myself who sees the value of static aircraft rather than dynamic. For the 2 of us, at least, the presence of aircraft at the airport is more important than them moving around on the airfield. The idea for me is to get rid of the ghost town feeling while still having lots of aircraft visible, I would love for someone to produce a static aircraft population program for FSX airports. Who needs the performance hit, even on a powerful system, when the gain in all the other eye candy performing so much better is worth the missing dynamic aircraft? Also, I have gone into the aircraft configuration files of all AI and disabled the gate docking feature which makse for consistently high frame rates and smoothness even at the busiest airports with more AI than with the jetways enabled. I leave docking only enabled for the aircraft I fly, which is never the default FSX aircraft. Just my thoughts in response to your post, and maybe there are others who would like to profoundly improve performance at no cost. Those moving jetways really are performance hogs. It's a matter of personal preference that others might want to consider...or not. Blue Skies! Samd

Larry Woodson is a pioneer in the Microsoft Flight Simulator community. He has accomplished what no other has, continuous photoreal coverage of the United States. No longer do lovers of photoreal scenery have to spend endless hours searching file libraries for photoreal scenery. No longer does the thrill of flying over the "real world" have to end because one has flown out of the tiny photoreal scenery areas created by others. Larry has created a business model which values his customers first, and above all. He makes himself personally available to his customers by phone and/or email. If you love photoreal scenery, and I know you do, then SimSavvy will fulfill your dreams to fly over the real world, and provide you with the highest level of customer service/appreciation.