Lincolnshire Poacher

Welcome to the world of AVsim

As a previous user of FSX, though not recently I have taken the plunge and bought a P3D academic licence. I must say that compared to FSX out the box that P3D is a revalation. I'm now looking for some decent photreal scenery for the Uk and ireland for VFR flying. What are othrs using? any reccomendations please? Gweebarra

I'm about to make a comeback to flying simulation, I've previously flown with FSX, REX and GEX. I just have a few questions and would appreciate any adivce. 1 since Microsft no longer do FSX, what if any issues will I have with a fresh install on a new computer/ will it activate. 2 Is Prepar3D any better then FSX? 3 If Prepar3d is the way to go do I get the Academic or the Proffesional version? Any help appreciated.

I'm about to make a comeback to flying simulation, I've previously flown with FSX, REX and GEX. I just have a few questions and would appreciate any adivce. 1 since Microsft no longer do FSX, what if any issues will I have with a fresh install on a new computer/ will it activate. 2 Is Prepar3D any better then FSX? 3 If Prepar3d is the way to go do I get the Academic or the Proffesional version? Any help appreciated.

Check what is assigned to elevator trim (up) and (down) in your sim settings. Make sure they aren't set to the wheel.

Is the bug on Horizons software that causes water to be displayed where land should be on the GPS now cured?

I would agree with that.

Next Flight. With the TO/GA switch solved its time to have another go at the tutorial. Not bad at all this time, I'm getting use to the FMC. Anyhow I get everything entered and its time to take off, this goes very well, but then things start to happen very fast. I get there in the end except I cant get the bird to go any higher then 6000 feet!!! I know I must have missed something and hopefully I will get it right in the next flight. Meanwhile I abort my flight at 6000 feet and will have another attempt shortly.

I use two 500gig 7200 rpm drives in RAID configuration for the operating system an all programs except FSX. For FSX I have a dedicated 1tb 72oorpm drive, works fine for me.

Thans for that Mark

Thanks to all for helping with this, onwards now with the tutorial. I still havnt managed to find the TO/GA switch on the throttle quadrant though!!!

Hereis the next installment: a couple of days ago I set to to work my way through the tutorial, the house was empty. A short time later my daughter and SWMBO retuned home. That was it, concentration gone, its impossible to prepare a plane for flight and listen to idle gossip at the same time so I aborted the tutorial :-( So yesterday I had another go, this time I got a lot further. However when it came to operating the TO/GA switch as in the tutorial I got a little confused. By the way both FD's were on. Do I have to operate the hidden switch as well as the one on the throttle quadrant or will one do? I could not for the life of me find the one on the quadrant, if someone can screen shot its exact position I would really appreciate it. Anyhow I went on with the take off and got this delightful bird in the sky and then run out of time as I had to got to work. I will try and work the TO/Ga switch out and have another go soon. I will keep you posted on how it goes.

So, is pressing the hdden switch the same as pressing the toga switch on the throttle quadrant or do you have to press both? I cant for the life of me find the switch on the quadrant, any chance of someone posting a screenshot and pointing it out please?

As promised here are the details of my NGX install, this was not without problem. I extracted the contents of the download zip file to a new folder, then installed from there, it took about 3 minutes to install, the vesion is 1.00.2922 RTM & Hotfix dated 16th August. After this the installer checked my Directx and decided it needed an update, this failed with the following message:'A cabinet file necessary for the installation cannot be trusted. please verify the Cryptographic services are enabled and the cabinet file certificate is valid' Well the service was turned on, but I had no idea how to check the certificate. I then fired up FSX and selected the NGX only for it to crash to desktop as soon as it had loaded. Tried windows update and installed Win 7 service pack 1 to no avail. Next I did some digging in the NGX support forum and found the answer ----- all you have to do is go to C:\Windows\SysWOW64\directx\ and delete everything in that file. then try again. this worked just fine for me, fired up FSX and had a very quick take off and landing at EGNJ. What a fine bird this is. Next I shall be printing the Introduction document and the Tutorial, it is my intention to sit down with thsi and find my way around, once I have I will report back here, this may take some time due to pressure of work. I would be very surprised too if I have not downloaded a new livery by then. Keep the blue side up. les

Greetings from England. I thought I would start a thread with my experiences with the NGX. I am fairly computer literate but do not have a lot of time to devote to flight simming. I have previously bought the MD11 and the J41 but never really got to grips with them due to lack of time. I havennt learnt my lesson as I have been enthralled with the reviews and comments on the NGX. I also understand the NGX can be flown almost straight out of the box so to speak. I decided then to purchase it, I can fly and learn as I go along (hopefully). First thing was to my PMDG account to purchase, whoops, I had forgotten my paccount password. No problem as PMDG quickly emailed me it. I then purchased the NGX base pack along with the cd when it comes out, purchasing the cd also gives you the ability to re-download for perpeuity. I opted to pay with Paypal, this was quickly done and painless, the total was $84:94 this worked out at just over £52 pounds sterling. A confirmation email with dowload link quickly followed, the download took 1 hour 10 minutes on my 1.5mb internet connection (11am uk time). The download appeared to complete ok and I shall install the NGX later today and post details of how it goes.