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Good for you ! When I purchased the training program in 2021, Ben advised me that downloading was not possible when I asked him. Wish now that I'd not taken his word for it and looked for a way to store the streams as they were coming in. Fortunately I made a concerted effort some months ago to stream the videos again, make notes, and learn, when the Airline2Sim website was still alive (I hadn't had much time to devote to the Q400 until more recently). Nevertheless it's very disappointing that I can't get back to them now to verify or check things ☹️ Would be nice if I could get them off someone but that would probably be asking too much.

I have just signed up with Vimeo and my profile shows no purchases. Looks like my Airline2Sim purchase has gone into a black hole.

Thanks but I purchased the Q400 training program from Airline2Sim and always logged into the Airline2Sim website to access it. I never used vimeo and haven't got a login there. If I join, will I be able to access and download the Q400 vids (i.e. is there some link between vimeo and Airline2Sim) ? In the past I've had no luck trying to download the vids to watch them offline rather than streaming them. Update : tried emailing Airline2Sim but got reply saying the mailbox no longer exists. The glowing testimonials that showed up each time when the website was still live, now seem a bit hollow 🙄

I found the following commands in the PMDG 737NGX LUA module of Günter Steiner's wonderful creation LINDA that may be of use (depending on what sort of commands your rotary encoder generates) : "ipc.control(69850, 16384)" (minus the quotes) looks like INcreasing the cruise altitude setting (assuming this is what you mean by "cabin pressure"), by the looks of it in 500 ft increments. "ipc.control(69850, 8192)" looks like DEcreasing the cruise altitude setting, by the looks of it in 500 ft decrements. Hope this helps. I don't actually use LINDA to operate buttons - for that I use FSUIPC - but I have found the contents of LINDA modules a huge help in setting up my own modest rig, both for PMDG's 737NGX and 777.

Hey Andrea, You may want to check out the following link : http://www.simforums.com/forums/the-fsx-computer-system-the-bible-by-nickn_topic46211.html I followed this religiously when setting up my then brand-new system two years ago and have not had any issues with FSX to this day. I'm not sure if all of this would work under Windows 10 as well though. Hope this helps.

Hey Hubert, Until someone with more knowledge (which is most of them :blush: ) jumps in : there can be a whole host of reasons for this to happen. But I do know that installing FSX in the default folder as suggested by Micro$oft is not recommended. Evidently this can lead to problems with add-ons being unable to write files to the disk. You should instead choose a different folder, e.g. C:\FSX, when the FSX installer asks you where you want the program installed. If the folder of your choice does not exist, the installer will create it. The location of the FSX folder will be recorded in the Windows registry. Then when you go to install add-ons such as the PMDG 737 NGX, their installers should find that location and put their files where they should be without you needing to do anything. It's not much, but I hope this helps.

Hey Jude, Sorry, couldn't resist that but I'm sure I'm not the first one to do this to you :wink: Don't know if you are aware of this, but the Orbx New Zealand North Island scenery includes quite a nice rendition of NZAA, which may do the trick for now. It doesn't come cheap but it's very good quality and for your money you'd get the entire North Island too. However I would also hope that FlyTampa comes to the rescue. I've already got their Dubai, Sydney and Kai Tak sceneries which IMHO are superb quality.

Hey Mike, thanks for the feedback. That would explain it. Will have a try at that over the weekend, just out of interest.

Hey Mike, Can I just confuse the issue a bit ? On my PC I have a \Documents\Flight Simulator X - Steam Edition Files\ folder, created August last year. And I haven't got (or ever had) FSX SE : only FSX Acceleration boxed edition, which I installed two years ago on my then brand-new PC ! This "steam folder" only contains the flights associated with the NGX Tutorial #2, all dated 22/02/2012. Any more recent files - even the WX.PLN file that some posters are having issues with - are in the \Documents\Flight Simulator X Files\ folder as I would expect (the Tutorial #2 files are also there). Absolutely no idea what would have created the folder for Steam Edition files...

Hi Mark, I only came across your app a few days ago - and it made my jaw drop ! Purchased it for both PMDG jets yesterday (goodness me : a glass of wine at an average local restaurant would cost me more than a license for this superb add-on) and got it up & running immediately on my Windows 10 tablet. For years I've been using a redundant B737 classic training CDU, connected to a keyboard emulator, as part of my modest home cockpit. It has served me very well but had the drawback that it didn't have a working screen so I'd still have to watch the sim CDU while pressing buttons. No need for that now. Brilliant ! Hopefully Microsoft will come to the party one day with a facility to run your CDU as a webapp in Windows 10 - currently running it as a Firefox pinned tab and just putting up with the menu & tool bars at the top. It helps a lot that the CDU can be swiped to close enough to full screen size for now. Thanks very much for this most excellent realism enhancer :Applause:

Hi Romain, If you always restart FSX before loading another complex add-on aircraft, you certainly won't need RestoreFriction.lua in this context. But it is possible to safely load another complex add-on aircraft within the same FSX session, as long as you first load an FSX default aircraft (e.g. the ultralight) and then the next complex add-on. I do that at times, but only when I'm testing, not if I want to actually fly. So perhaps I should not have mentioned the RestoreFriction plug-in at all, sorry.

Hi Romain, Is it working if I add it in the aircrafts sections with an [AUTO.XXXX] instead of [AUTO] for all the aircrafts? EB : Yes that should work. In FSUIPC.INI, add it only to the [AUTO.xxxx] sections for the aircraft that you want to use it with (and leave it out of the "general" [AUTO] section). If you have separate profile files for each aircraft (in your \MODULES\PROFILES folder), add it to the [AUTO] section in the profile file for each aircraft that you want to use it with. And if I do that, do I need to add also the [LUAFiles] section in each aircraft section or can I leave it at the end of the INI? EB : No you only need to list the plug-in once under [LUAFiles] in FSUIPC.INI. If you have separate profile files for each aircraft, the same applies since these files do not have a [LUAFiles] section. And another thing to think about : you may want to add the RestoreFriction LUA plug-in to the [AUTOxxxx] section in FSUIPC.INI (or to the [AUTO] section in the separate profile file) for any aircraft that you do NOT want the dynamic friction to apply to. I am not entirely sure about this but I seem to remember reading a comment somewhere that if you have been working with a "dynamic friction aircraft", then load a "normal friction aircraft" without leaving FSX, the dynamic friction values will remain active which would not be what you want. I stand to be corrected though. Hope this helps.

Hi Jan, Welcome ! Agree with your sentiment re the default aircraft. I've been flying only add-on aircraft since FS2002. There's a lot you can learn from the folk here. I have often enough found answers to problems, by searching the forum or, if no luck that way, by asking. Good choice to join :Applause:

Hi Herve, I'm not sure if this applies to you, but I suggest you check out page 88, third paragraph, of the PMDG 737NGX Introduction document (it's about the option SET FSX LOC CRS). If you do not have that particular simulator configuration option set to ON, this is what could happen even though you have set the correct localiser course. The explanation is in the document. Hope this helps.

Further to my first post : Since no-one had replied, I created copies of the files PMDG_737_Airtruck_ext.wav and PMDG_737_StarterTruck_ext.wav in the same folder, and renamed the copies PMDG_737_Airtruck.wav and PMDG_737_StarterTruck.wav respectively. Ran FSX, loaded the NGX, and after shutting down FSX, no "Can't access WAV file" messages in the debug log anymore. So I kinda answered my own question, but I still think it's odd that this occurred in the first place. Maybe this obs is of use to someone, maybe it isn't. Whatever...