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I too would like to see bookmarks, but it seems this isn't going to happen anytime soon. In the meantime, make sure you use the index-pages for the manuals and subsequently the indexes for each chapter. With the indexes and using Ctrl+F to search for the Chapter and Section number you'd like, it becomes managable, but not as easily handle as it could've been.

+1 on that low-vis. We were 3 rotating positions in the cockpit, and the guy acting PF while i was PM tried his luck on the low-vis with HGS. However, he forgot to notice the flare-indicators and slammed the thing at -500fpm or something. That ground came up really fast, and it actually sendt a soda bottle flying out of its cupholder. Seeing those running rabbits appear out of the fog, not on your PC monitor, is a completely different experience. However, if you got limited time, the suggested patterns isn't a bad idea. If this is the real deal, you'll have an experienced instructor with you, so if you feel your skills are lacking on the stick & rudder, he's gonna be a lot of help.

Just please don't take the scroll-function away from the EFIS-panel with NGX SP2, Ryan! However functional the click-drag method of the T7 is, it just feels wrong not to scroll scroll-wheels

Well, RNAV is taking over the world. The FAA is still a bit on the analogue side, but you'll have to search far and wide to find medium and greater sized airports in the JAA countries that is not equipped with RNAV/P-RNAV STARs and approach procedures (and of course the CATII / III ils) . Well, that might be a bit of an overstatement, but the old procedures are fleeting more and more with each cycle. The fact is that, in my experience, the pilots too use the modern precision systems rather than cranking up the VOR/DME and ADF. It's just that much more convenient. I'm not saying there isn't any ol' stick 'n rudder flyers around, but at the end of a 8-10-12 hour shift, on your 4th, 7th or10th year on the job, I'm guessing a lot of people opt for the comfy straight in (more or less) STAR to ILS or GNSS/P-RNAV procedure. I myself still light up with joy when I get to do some real work in the sim. Flying arcs, I prefer to bring up the cirular map and use continous HDG adjustment to keep the directional needle at my 90* until it's time to turn onto the inbound. This does indeed increase the work load considerably, keeping up with the published altitudes, speed restrictions, and conducting the approach checks of the plane itself, but that's where I find the most joy in the sim.

Stephen, out of interest, why would you change this? I'd think that PMDG has made this pretty much spot on. And... what is the problem with having a positive nose pitch? I don't see what the problem is, and I can't think of any plane that's flying with a level/negative pitch either.

In the introduction documentation it's mentioned that the T7 automatically switches off certain systems and items to route electircal power to where it's really needed. If you're on the ground, the LOGO lights is one of the prime candidates to be switched off if you don't have a sufficient power supply (running on the APU, for example). The T7 is a smart lady, and does all this for you instead of having you monitor electrical draw and eventually start to blow fuses if things aren't done correctly. If you're mid-air with both generators running without problems, your LOGO lights should however stay on, as far as I know.

What's with the bickering? No wonder the moderators and developers are getting frustrated. Whatever happened to acting civil... As mentioned, weather (temperature in particular) could be a strong factor here. Try the default Clear Skies weather setting without any wx-engines running, and monitor your temps when using the wx-engine. Also, how's your nose pitch when retracting/accelerating? Veirfy engine thrust settings, and check for any ghost key mappings that could cause some havock (maybe your throttle overrides the A/T? If so, that's an easy fix via the PMDG settings). It wouldn't hurt if you gave a rough step-by-step of your actiosn during climb-out either.

.. Pulled? Works fine for me: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.virtualavionics.virtualcdu&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS52aXJ0dWFsYXZpb25pY3MudmlydHVhbGNkdSJd

Thanks alot, Jim! Do you know what a BEX error is a result of? Is it memory-related?

Thanks! Found the app crash, anyone able to get any info from this?

Hi, I was flying the F1 B200 around the New York area yesterday. On my third leg (EWR-PHL), suddenly a windows system sound (two-note low-to-high pitch sound, it's the default for new mail in Live Mail) started going off every 5-10 seconds or so. A minute or two later, FSX kindly informed me that it was no longer interested in flying. I haven't suffered any CTD's on this computer before, and I've certainly never heard of the combination of windows system sound going off followed by a CTD. Any experiences? Any suggestions or solutions? Unfortunately I didn't note down any error messages (if there was any). EDIT: I have an i7 3820 running on 4.6GHz, my system shouldn't be a problem. I have no add-ons along the east coast, payware nor freeware.

Yeah. I'm not sure if/when I'll try this, as I'm stable at 4.6GHz, with my Noctua NH-D14. It runs FSX smoothly, so I don't really have the need right now.

Do you by any chance remember what your vCore and temps were when you had that config?

Yes, from late may till august we do have an increased rate of convective weather, at least around the capitol area (Oslo) and the rest of the inlands. A little less so along the coast (low-pressure systems floating steadily in from the Atlantic). From August till May, there's rarely any convectivity at all, and all weather is either low pressure systems (bad weather) and high pressure (the few days of nice weather we have during autumn/winter). But the temps fluctuate a lot during summer as well, and we rarely see cumulus clouds on days with bad weather. So if you check back on those webcams at a rainy day, you'll see the type of weather we're accustomed to. Low stratus layers at 3-6thou feet.

Hello folks. I'm very satisfied with my purchase of the OpusFSX software, it is by far the best WX generator I've touched. However, I do most of my flights in Norway, my home country, were stratus clouds dominates the skies. Cumulus and cumulunimbus are far less common. I know other WX generators have/had options to shift the ratio towards the one or the other, but can this be easily done with Opus? I'm not entirely sure what dictates the type of cloud that will appear, neither am I fully aware how Opus will cooperate with other WX-add-ons with this capability. All I want is some good 'ol flat stratus cloud bases, instead of the cotton balls I'll be very thankfull for all and any help!

Hello gents. I've just stabalized my new i7 3820 to 4.6GHz, and am quite satisfied with the results. While I was tuning my system, I noticed that my P9X79 MB has the option to set the multiplier per core, instead of the entire CPU. So I started thinking (oh-oh), since FSX runs mostly on one core, delegating only some tasks to other cores, would overclocking the FSX main core higher than the other cores be a good idea at all? Without finding any topics anywhere describing any results of such an attempt, I can at this point only use my ( flawed?) logic: Tuning down cores that are not as busy would reduce the required vcore for a stable clock, and therefore the temps, allowing for a higher clock on the core mainly used by FSX. Since FSX doesn't use these other cores, it is more likely that this would boost FSX performance. That's at least the general idea. Now, I'm completely new to overclocking, and I therefore know very little about the relationship between the different cores, the memory timings, etc etc. For all I know, running cores at different speeds might screw everything up. So those of you who actually know this stuff, what's your thoughts on this? Impossible? Plausible? Feel free to comment your predicitons, and maybe even attempts.

Hello gents. After a meltdown efficiently destroying my i7 950 (unclocked, go figure), the company I bought it from is sending me a new CPU. They would only provide the 3820, even though I requested the 2700k or 3770k. Even though 3820 isn't a K-cpu, it's partially unlocked, so in terms of OC, I'll manage to raise the clock a bit. However, I'm curious as to if anyone here has tried the 3820 with FSX, either stock clock or OC? I wanna know what to expect from this CPU. Thanks!

I find it interesting with the secrecy around the cockpit door. Outside the US, it's not that strict, at least I've been given full introductions to how the door works, and how to open it myself during jump seat rides. And in the end, it's the same plane, so how effective that secrecy is, can be discussed Note, this is not an argument for actually modeling a door. I understand why it's not done, and I'm much happier with PMDG using the limited animations and reducing the polygons to focus on bringing out as much detail as possible from the VC itself, rather than having a non-system function that a great number of us is never gonna bother with.

To explain it very easily, it basically enables the 737 to fly like an Airbus. I've asked a few flight crews about it, and almost everyone says it's rarely/never used amongst the pilots they know. This is at least pretty unanimous across Norway/Scandinavia, can't account for other parts of the world.

Disengage A/T. You oughta try to fly by the old stick n rudder, it gives for a much more fun experience than A/P all the way in.

Thanks for the hint, is your suggestion to let FSX create a fresh CFG?

Thanks for the inputs so far, fellas! CoolP: No, I'm not running autosave (as I have a crashfree system, it don't bother. The only issue I experience, is the one I've made this thread about). Although I've done more tests than I can count, lately I've been focusing on hardware and tweaks to find the problem, so I'll double check your addon-suggestions. mpw8679: I've tried Word Not Allowed's guide, it helped set up my FSX nicely, but didn't change the random drops. fltsimguy: One thing I'm almost 100% sure about is that it's not scenery related. It happens wether something as demanding as ORBX is below me, or it's just the default scenery. I'll probably still check it out though, just to be safe. venustus: I've been through them, didn't solve it, thanks anyways. Oracle: That's probably the thing I've been exploring the least. I'll do tests closing as much as I can of background programs. stevejp: I only fly on VATSIM, and even if I do something offline I don't have any AI at all. And the problem occurs wether there's zero or fifty pilots within range. Thanks though. I'll be doing more extensive testing tests and report back with results (might be a day or two). Thanks again, all of you!

Hello gents. Yes, it's one of the million performance threads you're all so fond of! Shortly explained, I have a nice setup with my current FSX. I've followed 'bout every pinned or highly regarded topic/guide for tweaking, settings, nVidia inspecor, and so forth. I'm overall qutie pleased. BUT, now and then when I'm flying, I have periods of reduced framerates, which just is a pain in my lower back region. I'm currently externally limited to 29 in Inspector (tried other limiters, and other fps-rates as well, with no real change), and FSX's holding that limit just fine. Then suddenly it drops down to 15ish, maybe even dropping down to 10 now and then. It does that for a short while (less then a minute, usually), then pops back up to the limit. This occurs wiithin varying intervals, usually there's between 5 and 15 minutes separating each "inceident". I've googled and browsed and tried to find an answer to this riddle for ages, with no luck. The drops/drags happens regardless of the scenery below or the weather, and it's the same if I fly the NGX or the default C172. Now I'm getting tired of it all, and I turn to the bright minds of this forum to aid me in the search of an sollution. I have the following specs: Hardware: ASUS P6X58D-E, Socket-1366 Intel Core i7 Quad Processor i7-950 Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1600MHz 6GB CL7 GeForce GTX 470 1280MB PhysX Software: Win7 64x Ultimate SP1 FSX with Acceleration CFG File: I'm very happy for all contributions, evne the most elementary ones, as it might well happen I've skipped something vital even though I've used a loong time working this problem.

And remember, once you've got contact, you're stabilized, fully configured and you've disengaged AP and AT, you want to be looking at your speed and out the window only.

Exit FSX and go to folder:X:Program FilesMicrosoft GamesMicrosoft Flight Simulator XFontsMark all font files and hit enter (or right click -> install). Restart FSX, check if it works.The fonts are one of the potensial bugs (both on the MCP and elsewhere) if you fail to install the NGX as an administrator.