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Hi All I have lost the connexion between F2 and the thrust reversers on my PMDG a/c. If I move the levers physically the thrust reversers work OK......but they wont work from the F2 key How do I restore the config in FS/FSUIPC ? Advice gratefully received David Ireland Just seen how to do it elsewhere.........easy when you know how !

no problem.......it was just a thought........thanks for looking... cheers David

hmmmm.......I wonder if there is a file "thomson.wav" about somewhere. it should be possible to make one

Hi Ray/Ron Just to let you know RC4 behaved impeccably with OTHH both on arrival & departure.........Happy Days ! One more thing.......is there a way to replace (in RC4) airline callsign "Britannia" with "Thomson" ? Best Regards David

Ray/Ron I am outbound from EGLL to OTHH at the moment and will return from OTHH in due time, I'll let you know if I get any trouble leaving OTHH but I have set up a departure gate flight with no apparent problems. On reflection......I am pretty sure the root cause of the trouble with the normally reliable makerunways was a glitched installation of OTHH. I raised this issue with T2G support.......who advised a re-install. It is not the first time I have had installation problems with the automatic installers that seem to be the norm with payware these days. They are often unreliable in my experience. I much prefer a zip file and a manual install. Thanks again for your kind assistance........thankfully installing a completely new airport is not a regular event ! Over and out for now Best Regards David

I have to say that of the many attempts I made to get makerunways to work the only one that worked first time was when FS was running...........could be pure co-incidence of course.....but there it is. My new and very powerful computer ran the process very quickly.......but I accept others may not have the same experience if they do not have a "power machine". I have had a look at a4.csv and I do not remember editing that one......indeed I don't understand what some of the data means..... so I would have had real trouble there .......could be a "Veteran moment" of course ! :smile: David

OK Ray.....I'll try again........ Firstly.......I backed up rc4\data\m4.csv & f4.csv......for safety. I then did a clean re-install of OTHH.......and made sure the scenery library entry was suitable . Using AFX the AFCAD was amended so all the frequencies tallied with my charts . FS9 was started up at OTHH and the 747 placed at a suitable gate. RC4 was opened and the scenery database was rebuilt.........with FS still running I then checked FS9\runways.txt.........the airport OTHH data was all present......makerunways had done its stuff ! I then entered a line in rc4\data\m4.csv for OTHH as per above instructions and incremented the count by one....before saving. Then copy FS9\f4.csv to rcv4\data and overwrite the existing file...... Restart the computer/FS/RC and functional test.......which worked fine for me.....at last....... Happy days ! Best regards David

Ray/Ron I have just lost a post summarising how ......with expert help from you both I have succeeded with OTHH in RC4 I pressed "Post" and it vanished.........grrrr Thanks very much for your help........job done......happy days ! Best regards David

I am indeed an FS veteran !........but I forgot my Compuserve id long ago......along with many other things too....... goes with being a veteran !

Hello Ray....thanks for your help and interest......I remember you from a good while back.......on Compuserve. Its good to know what should happen...... What is not happening here is, for some reason, Makerunways is not adding OTHH to the runways.txt file . Its only OTHH that has the problem..... I have started again from a backup scenery.cfg file and added half a dozen new airports to the scenery library in the usual way.......then rebuilt the scenery database in RC....... I then checked the RC4 files.......no problems at all with the airport/runway data. Its only the Controller info screen entries that need to be added manually........thats for later.....if the airport works.... eventually. OTHH (Taxi2gate payware) proved problematic to install from the start....... I needed 2 re-installations before the visual scenery would display properly.......so I have removed the Airport completely and I will have one more try....from scratch. If not I will throw the problem back to T2G.....or perhaps Pete Dowson can help. I'll let you know how I get on best regards David

Hi Ronzie Thanks for the reply......but editing the m4/f4.csv as you suggest does not work for me. Having looked into this I find that makerws is not detecting and processing OTHH from my scenery.cfg even though the entry appears OK. Any thoughts on this ? Regards David

Hello all I have successfully added OTHH into FS9 but RC4 does not recognise its existence. I can start my PMDG 747 at a gate in a saved flight but when I start RC4 the A/C is floating in midair, the Y key reveals the A/C has no position.....Lat/Long is all zeros. What is the procedure for installing a new Airport in RC4 > I have run Makerunways.......to no effect on this issue, Any help much appreciated David Ireland UK

Hi All Please help ! Yesterday I defragged my harddrive after a cleanup and now my previously smooth FS9 with PMDG747 + Active Sky + Radar contact + UK2000 Heathrow is so slow and jerky its unusable. My framerate has been reduced to single figures......I had it locked at 33FPS and it would hit that no problem even with "everything running" What has happened ? Help much appreciated David Ireland (UK)

Hello I wonder if my problem is covered by this post. when flying at hight (above FL30) particularly at night,particularly over water I see a lighter blue patch with straight triagular edges in the distance, This area reduces as the A/C approaches but never disappears altogether. I remains larger the higher you go. Can FS9 be persuaded to render the ground /sea textures to the horizon ? Is it a "settings" issue,or perhaps lack of grunt from the graphics card (Geforce 9800GT 512mb vram) I have a screenshot of the problem but I don't know how to insert one into this post ! Can anyone advise if this can be fixed.....it quite spoils the view ! Thanks in advance David ireland UK

thanks for the info........ sorry for omitting the signature David Ireland (UK)

hi All can anyone point me towards the Stair Animation please.? I cannot find it in my manual

Just to add my support for FS9,FlyTampa and the others who support FS9. I have a very large FS9 setup to fly BA 747 long haul with AES I will shortly upgrade Tampa,purchase Montreal from Fly Tampa and have other airports to buy. Still firmly committed to FS9 for my kind of flying. Please do not desert us George ! David

I spend a lot of time at FL 3xx too,,,,,,,but the first 3000ft going up and the last bit coming down was MOST annoying !

Hi Andy thanks for your reply....it got me thinking. The FS9/Autogen file is an .xml file which appears to "call up" autogen object textures from the main FS9/Texture file. I have a backup of my entire FS9 on an external hard-drive......so I copied the FS9/Texture file from backup to active and now all is well. It seems there may be a bug in the Autoinstaller for Tropicalsim SBGL 2012 which "forgot" or corrupted a texture file in the main FS9/texture folder. This is not the first time I have come across this issue.......I wish Payware scenery developers would supply a Zip file and proper instructions for a manual install. At least with that method we have a chance of isolating a problem. Thanks again best regards David

Hi All Autogen buildings have started appearing as untextured white blocks in random locations before vanishing and re-appearing somewhere else.The patterns are not the same each time. This happens on any scenery,day or night. The only way to stop this irritating flashing on and off of Autogen is to turn all of it off ! I have been installing scenery lately but have tried disabling this in turn and all together ,to no effect. The Autogen seems to have "a mind of its own" Anyone come across this before ? FS9/Windows 7 32bit/Dell Studio Quad Core/Nvidia Gforce 9800GT with latest drivers. David (UK)

Thanks for the comments guys.....EGLL is "home base" for me and I too have flown hundreds of flights in and out. I've just flown the approach again......this time everything went impeccably. What did I do differently this time....? I tightened up tthe RC altitude limit. I used a 40mile range ring to aid the descent to the crossing limit.(i had forgotten about this facility) I took care to descend on the QNH to an instructed altitude even when above the EGLL transition which is 6000ft. I think perhaps I did not have the ears fully open and the brain fully engaged yesterday ! cheers to all David

I was approaching EGLL from the south last waypoint OCK for EGLL 27R. I was cleared down to FL120 from FL130 "in 30 miles or less" I reached FL120 in less than 10 miles.....about 50 miles DME from VOR LON. I was then told I had missed my crossing point........???. I was then given an easterly vector away from London "maintain FL120" After flying this course until LON 50 miles DME I gave up and declared "Minimum Fuel" I was instructed "fly direct EGLL....maintain FL120." ..........................did so to intercept ILS 27R. No instruction to contact approach was forthcoming or descent instructions either until it was clear to me I was not going to get in at all. I aborted the flight then. Glitch ? Bug.....?..or "pilot error" ? First time a flight has failed in RC for me Comments appreciated David

Hi All I have Brazil scenery "Wonderful Rio", from some years back. The green taxiway centerline does not show up on the visual scenery (FS2004) even though all appears to be well with the AFCAD. I disabled the Addon Scenery and its AFCAD and went back to the stock airport which displays its green centerline lights OK........ Any ideas appreciated. Thanks in anticipation David I cannot see any way to delete this.....so please disregard this post.....I've got updated scenery to replace the old stuff. Cheers all David

Hi Guys The 747 VC panel lighting seems to have a mind of its own. Even though the checkbox (FS9) "pilot controls aircraft lights" is ticked the panel instrument lighting comes on with the cabin interior lights at their own convenience......not under control of the upper panel switches. The result is the FMCs particularly are very difficult to see at dawn & dusk. Is there a way to make the lighting controllable manually ? Any advice much appreciatedDavid

I'm glad it is not only me !I'll play with it and maybe follow the suggestion to inform NvidiaThanks Guys David