damocles

The NGX sounds are pretty damn good. The OP is allowed to ask the question without everyone getting so 'sensitive'.....it's only a sim. If the OP buys another sound set that's fine, it might be better, worse or the same quality. Really, there's more to life.

Not much help from me, sorry. I always wait a few months before investing in 'new' O/S as it can take a while for developers to update their software. It's not an easy task.

Are you flying beyond gear speed? might cause a malfunction. I have seen this in FSPax as well - also only 2 of 3 gear only dropping....the fix was a hard touch down to release the gear. Not sure what to do in the opposite situation I don't use FSCew - does it have aircraft maintanence options - perhaps something needs to be repaired over time?

This is probably irrelevant....I used to use a Mimo UM-740 7 inch usb monitor as a fmc - worked great in windowed mode, something happened over time which halved the FPS in windowed mode so I stopped using it, if you get good FPS in windowed mode I would recommend it. You don't have physical buttons, but for £150 it is a descent enough option. ...if you want a proper FMC hardware, forgive me and ignore the above.

As a rule I think it's bad practice to run any intensive software on the same drive as the O/S, even ssd's....best install on a separate drive [not partition]. 20 to 30 fps is not that bad, if you were getting 8 fps then that would be worth tears. Are you 'seeing' frames drop during the flight or are you just looking at numbers? - if you are just looking at numbers be aware the human eye will perceive 20 to 30 fps as smooth. If you are stuttering then apply tweaks. Affinity Mask will help spread the CPU load, my guess is that you won't see that much of a difference.

I have been waiting for a high quality Cityhopper for a while ( bought and deleted the Fokkers as they are rubbish ) and I agree the QW Avro is very nice indeed - a few small issues to be ironed out, but, I love this plane. EGLC is back in play and it took a few goes to get into the 5.5 degree glide slope. FPS are really good too with UK2000 EGLC. Flight One also have the BAe 146, however, do some research as I will not say which better here......also Aerosoft are going to release one too. Are these going to be the same quality as the JS4100, well, maybe, as the JS4100 was not designed as an 'in depth' simulation. FSX can't simulate turboprops, it's a known bug if you look. As per the OP....why would anyone use the default planes? It's like learning the English alphabet - real-world has 26 characters, in this context, FSX default has 5 and PMDG has around 17. There is no home simulation that can fully simulate a plane in flight. Can FSX developers create the illusion, well, yes....

I had been struggling with this issues for years.......then I installed Nvidia inspector and applied the settings easily found online. No more jaggies. Bliss. Edit: airplane cast shadows on themself...while I know what you mean as it looks crude, I don't think this is the issue.

Nice Video, ...but! where's the rain? It's been raining here in London for nearly 3 months ( most days )...... Good stuff.

After a few issues with Track IR and NGX, when looking around the view point would stick resulting in pauses and jerky movement, I discovered the Light Filter Theshold in the camera tab - I have set it to 63 and I now have the full range of view. My normal process is to launch Track IR, sit where I would sit with Yoke/pedals/ center of the screen lined up and press F12 to reset the view - I do this before every FSX sesson....

FSPassengers failures works fine with the NGX. However, if the NGX failures kick in, FSP won't recognise it and you may get a penalty for cutting the flight short.

True...but! FSX has nothing to do with that - It can't simulate weather or Physics, what you see is an illusion. No doubt about using a real training simulator - of course, that is an essential part of training.

One would hope a pilot would have grasped the basics of flight by instruments [real world] before even considering going any where near an airliner for training.

+1 FSX IS a flawed peice of software and should have no direct relationship with real world training...OK, you know where the buttons are and are familiar with the FMC.....that's as far as it goes.

Brilliant and Thank you. MCPpro works well - good job.

+1 on placebo effect. There are way too many factors in FSX that affect it's FPS; add-ons ( both in fsx and running outside ), weather, traffic, location, terrain, hardware bottlenecks ( this can vary in different sessions according to computer usage )....the list goes on.... I occasionally try out new drivers, most of them have issues with FSX, the ones I use are a couple years old and are stable. As FSX is really fickle, I will not change a thing on a whim as I have my system running smoooooth.