jbinner

I guess since I am browsing forums today, I'll bite. 🙂 U.S. Dept of Veteran's Affairs, Senior IT Analyst. VA employee since 2011. Currently I am a "SME" (Subject matter expert) reporting to a supervisor and assisting 9 sites with the Imaging storage, hardware, VMware, and software needs.

Honestly, if you go that route anyway, get the online version, "ultimate" monthly. It comes out to around $10 USD depending on the exchange rate when it's debited. I have used it for a long time now and not only do you get the data you need, but a moving map that you can load onto the charts from another machine. I usually connect with a laptop and use the moving map for taxxing easier on the ground. 🙂

http://www.avsim.com/topic/492237-23jul16-oops-seems-we-still-have-activation-server-issues/?p=3456645

it's not the simconnect files. I just tried those to install again, same error as everyone else. ticket opened. Update 942pm EST: I removed ALL of the 777 products, did a complete reinstall of just the 772. Ran P3D, same issue, same flexnet errors. Well I tried, wait on the ticket now.

can confirm Wing's solution above worked for the PC12 into P3D 3.3.5 as well! thanks!

IF we decide to use VATSIM online for the flight, we might want to engage the local facilities and have them staff-up ATC for us. I am not familiar with the Virginia area as much as I should be, not sure if that field is controlled or not? But, they could put a center and approach controllers up for us.

Sorry, didn't see the forum link at first. I am volunteering for whatever is needed, and whatever I can do. I would also like to suggest IAD as an airport, as it was the "unofficial" HQ for AVSIM for a number of years for FanCons, server-farm work, and board meetings. I can't believe it's been a year already. :(

I wanted to write a little bit this morning, about the event, and my thoughts as a "lifetime" flight simmer, because that is what I intend to be. Yesterday I took the PMDG 777 from KMIA to EDDT as part of the titled event. just shy of 10 hours, and my computer handled it like a champ. But, more on that in a bit. First, for the event itself: · FSS stations, for the most part, were outstanding. I had ONE problem "controller" that unfortunately I had to report for his attitude on the air. All, myself included, if you cannot handle the stress of an enormous event, don't work it. If you are not prepared, don't fly it. Literally thousands of people plan for this event and it only works if everyone is prepared. · ATC, was incredible. Couldn't be happier with how it all played out!!! · The event itself, overall, was everything I remember it to be. I haven't done a cross the pond in a long while and was lucky enough to snag a slot last-minute.... well last days anyway. Now for some suggestions: · VATSIM should strive to get an automatic reporting system, which i am told exists in real-world. I've never done trans-Atlantic in real life, but my dispatcher that I "use" for flight sim has, and has to do several a year to remain current with his real-world job. This would take a HUGE burden off the voice system and FSS controllers, as all they would need to do is SELCAL or voice acknowledge the position report. · System tests. yes, I know voice servers can die the day of, but EVERYONE should check their system, controllers check mic levels, USE a headset!!!!! Not a mic sitting on your desk with reverb on every transmission. I am not just preaching, the night before I loaded up the 777 in both KMIA and EDDT and made sure the scenery matched the diagrams we were all given. I also loaded in the flight plan into the FMC to make sure it matched what I needed the next morning. Again, be prepared! · Other than that, I LOVED the event, and do every time it’s that busy online. Now I wanted to give some feedback on what I call “chasing the system.” For YEARS, and even with my tenure with AVSIM, I chased my system to make it better, and better, and better. Constantly moving to improve, spend what I could, upgrade. I want those of us, with less cash then we’d hope, to know this. You don’t always have to have the latest and greatest. I am an IT Analyst by trade, and it’s NOT my lack of know-how holding me back on the top-end system. I am a single dad, so flight sim has to be “what it is” and work for what I have. And thankfully yesterday was about the largest stress test I could do, and it worked. I took off, cruised, landed with ZERO issues. I wanted to encourage people in the same situation as me. Get your sim stable. It may not be perfect, but if it works, STOP. Don’t make major changes unless you have to, or unless it’s just that big of a bang for the buck. Then test some more. I am counter to most of what we always see on here, latest and greatest Intel CPU, video cards that could run the highest end engineering on it and still don’t push FSX the way you think it should, etc. Frame Rates, MY GOD stop worrying about them, if VISUALLY the sim looks smooth TO YOU, then stop chasing the system! I am going to give my specs below, trying to give ALL of them, every part, so that maybe I can help future and current simmers see that it’s not always what you spend, but what you can DO with it. ENJOY flying again, I do. J My setup: Main rig: Windows 10 Pro, 64-bit (upgrade, then fresh install), 1TB primary Seagate SATA at 7200RPM, secondary 500GB Seagate at 7200RPM, ASUS SATA-DVD ROM, AMD Radeon R7 260 with 2GB RAM, AMD Phenon II 970 at 3.5Ghz (Quad Core) with Zalmann cooler (Fan, not water), 16GB Crucial Ballistix Elite at 9-9-9-27 timing, ThermalTake SMART SP-750M Power Supply, ASUS M5A99FX Pro R2.0 MotherBoard. Three 17” Dell Monitors running from the above video. Logitech G510s Keyboard and Logitech gaming mouse. For now (until this week delivery) I am using a Logitech Extreme 3D Pro flight stick. Internet connection is a 30MBPS down, 5MBPS up with Time Warner Cable. (sorry only thing available here) Software as flown yesterday: FSX Steam Edition, ActiveSky Next, REX SoftClouds, GEX for ground equipment, vpilot for VATSIM connection, my VA’s ACARS software. Airport scenery was freeware from AVSIM; just enough to give me current runways and parking. WOAI installed for traffic for the above vpilot for VATSIM. I AM running a secondary laptop, that runs WideFs to the above system for the moving map using FSCommander. That is all it runs, along with pulling up anything PDF that I need like flight plans, charts, etc. Oh, it's also Win10 64-Bit Seeing a common thread in all of that? Yes, it works, but it’s in NO WAY the latest and greatest! ENJOY flying again and not worry so much about the latest and greatest. I do. J (Will be cross-posting this to VATSIM as well to give them feedback on their event.)

wow.

I am far removed from the current discussion above then I used to be, but rest assured Chase and the team working the IT side of things have taken what we (I) installed in 2009 and made it VASTLY better. NO online service is going to be able to touch the stability and sheer volume of data traffic as the current NOC does. It is quite literally secure from a physical and data point of view. Not Azure, not rackspace, not godaddy, not google, not anyone. Comparing the sheer volume of AVSIM's library and forums to ANY other site it like comparing an apple to a zucchini. They have the right people and server farm in place. Please just give them some time to do their job AND their volunteer work here. --Former IT Staff, AVSIM

AMAZING kit! Running windows 10 at home, Android ASUS 7" tablet with Dolphin browser and this works FLAWLESSLY! Just purchased another license for my friend to!!!! NICE JOB!!!

Chase, congrats to you and Brian and all. I could go into the WHY we did it that way back then, but, it would no longer make sense 6 years later.

This was a multiple application test for me, so I thought I'd put it here in general items and report my findings. The setup: See my signature for overall stuff, but here is what I did: Win7 64-bit workstation: --FSX Acceleration with original FSX box running on Win7 64-bit PC. --Default Cessna and PMDG NGX and 777 tested. --Default Scenery. --NO other flight related programs running on this box, all running from below laptop. --Network-connected Laptop running 64-Bit Windows 10 home apps running from laptop: ----Active Sky Next ---FS Commander (Latest edition) ----WideFS (for above connection, for FSC) In the above configuration, with the laptop being "upgraded" to win10 64-bit, I have NO issues with any of the above 3rd party plugin apps running. Weather is correctly depicted, FSC moving maps and GPS works, and no issues. Now, of course, the next step would be upgrading the MAIN PC with FSX on it, but, I am not that brave yet. lol Any thoughts from anyone else?

I can confirm, as I just tested it. It works. FSX on a Win7 computer, all other apps running from laptop on Win10 and it works. I did the Win10 HOME UPGRADE on the laptop and had NO issues. I can also confirm that other apps are working that way across network, but I will post that in other forums. thanks!

Sorry, I know it's still officially a day off, but I wanted to know if I should do this or not. I run FSX on a Win 7 workstation, and then network weather from ASN to a Win8.1 laptop. Will ASN work in a networked configuration from a windows 10 laptop to a Win7 desktop (FSX on Win7)?? thanks!

I didnt take any video but if you would like to see photos, You can view them here: https://plus.google.com/photos/110243457677523759170/albums/6159956897422835825 I also included in there photos I got with Rob R. from PMDG with his DC3 at the ramp. Yes, he flew himself in. lol

hmmmm would be an interesting app. Most VA's strive to supply an online live map. Other then that, I am not sure something exists.

sorry to dig up a 2 week old thread, but that index.html is a VERY old link. We switched to IPB forums over....5 years ago now. I originally installed it, over Christmas time 2009.

I had to dig a bit, and I hope it's OK for me to post 3 photos here. If I can get them to post in order, they are: 1. 2005 San Diego, with Bob Kirkland, Matt Johnson, Tom, and staff from Microsoft. 2. 2005 San Diego AVSIM partial staff, to include all of the above, Tom's Wife, and myself. 3. Again staff photo, this one was I believe one of the years in DC.

VATSIM has a "hit squad" of visiting controllers to work events. being this is only a week out, you'd need to contact them ASAP. I'd love to control the event, but my skills are VERY rusty at this point, and I was a RADAR controller in real life, some 20 years ago. VFR would not be good for me to work. But contact VATSIM Hit Squad. I am sure they can find some. As for my own flight, I am thinking of what and how I wanna fly this. Will post my sign up later...

Any possibility of this in the future? There is a few "good" ACARS units out there now for use by Virtual Airlines. I am experimenting with one for an airline I am assisting to bring back from the dead. We're close to having the ACARS working, of course via a 3rd party running program. My question is, would it be possible, at some point, to have this actually work from inside the PMDG's FMC units? I'd LOVE to see this.

I've posted a few times, around AVSIM and other places, about my heart felt loss for Tom. Anyone that knows of me, know that Tom and I didn't "always" see eye to eye, but, we respected each other. Through the years, I had left, come back, repeat. More then a couple times. :( Most recently, I was away from flight sim for a couple years, and missed the last conference they held. I now very much regret that. :( Family and my own life had gotten in my way, but I intend to never let that happen again. I missed flying, I missed being part of this group. God Willing, I will get back to my old ATC chops too. And why? Because I can think of NO better way to honor a dear, respected, lost friend then to continue flying. Beating my head against the screens when I need to tweak more, or flying into intense weather and smiling every time. I can only hope that paths cross again for all of my current, new , and former flight sim folks. Both here and now, and in the afterlife. I'll be Tom's co-pilot any day.

I hope the admins will allow one small lee-way and allow the link below. It is to my personal site, and a heart felt thank you for Tom, AVSIM, and the community. God Bless. http://www.binnerfamily.org/avsim/for-tom/

hmmmm, just tried it on my Samsung Note 8 (Android) with Dolphin browser for Android and it looks fine to me. Opens with full screen mode as well and not portable. (Note 8 is an 8" tablet with AT&T service)

I had to go look myself....because i was curious too.....from the HP website, this is what they use in the G5's: Storage Controller: Performance Models: HP Smart Array P400/512MB BBWC Controller (RAID 0/1/1+0/5/6); High Efficiency and Base Models: HP Smart Array P400/256MB Controller (RAID 0/1/1+0/5); Entry Models: HP Smart Array E200/64MB Controller (RAID 0/1/1+0) HP is typically VERY good stuff. Knock on wood hope it stays that way!