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Ray, Can you send me the links as well? I am rebuilding my older flightsims and can't find the file and key gen. Thanks

No I do, but your argument has shifted to macroeconomic terms and you apply an artifical barrier to entry. You have the option of not buying at all. That is the Free Market. Or you make one yourself. That is the Free Market. If you make one and there is a demand, you can charge money for it. Again, free market. If you put a lot of time into it and make it really pretty and lots of people like, you can charge more money for it. Free Market. If someone else make one, but it clearly is not superior you can market that yours is better quality so you can keep your prices the same. That is competition. Even if your customers go over to the other guy, you still are good because you have enough willing to pay for your products. Free Market. If some of those customers come back to you because the other guys stuff was terrible but yours was great, and the other guys goes out of business that is the Free Market. That too is the free market at work. If there is not enough demand to be profitable, it is not done. There is no barrier to entry in this niche. It is not a locked out proprietary environment, if you wanted to design a panel, make a plane, or even create your home airport, it can be done. The SDK is included and it is free. The only barrier to entry is the size of the market--which in this case is minute. But some do pretty well by working smart or charging an arm and a leg where it is needed to cover expenses and (!) make a profit. I own every single PMDG product. I also own some Captain Sim and even some Abacus and the price varyied greatly along with the quality. If the game would not run unless you paid money for something--then we are starting to close it up and that would not be a free market. Which is why Flight was a collosal failure. Contrast and Compare Mercedes Benz and Porshe with Ford and Chevy. In short-- You percieve the lack of competition of your airport example as a result of s barrier to entry and demonstrates the lack of a Free Market in the world of FSX. I see it as the opposite--The market is too small to be profitable for someone to spend time making your airport example unless they charge a lot for it so the Free Market dictates that it is not undertaken at all(demand is not sufficient for profit to occur unless significant effort is undertaken). By the way, I own Carenado products as well as Captain Sim. They are just fine and worth what I paid. Free Market.

No it's a free market. You are NOT forced to buy anything. FSX comes with airplanes, there are free ones available and it also has an SDK and basic 3d tool so that you could make your own. Buying one that is already done for you is a free choice that you make (the market) but it is not neccesary to enjoy the game as marketed and sold to you. You may also choose to buy very accurate representations or simple ones, but again, the choice is yours and one of the choices is not to buy anything at all. A limited market is one where you must buy something to recieve basic or better functionality (such as those "free" online games that require to make micropurchases to gain maximum benefit of the game).

Pending!

I have noticed it lately too---

I gotta tell ya, I am having no issues with this driver what-so-ever.

I hate when that happens!

It was a great add-on (one of the best) but its best days are past. I recently sent mine to the boneyard in Arizona. There are so many good newer things out there that I found myself flying it less and less. Sadly, it was time to retire it.

I use REX 4 and Active Sky Next. I am very happy with the result.

The changed Runway number should have no effect on the ILS as they are ground based and not dependant on magnetic heading that much. In the FMS I see that sometimes I am looking for Runway 10 and the FMS says Runway 11 -- but I guess that's why I am the pilot (lol). The only time I see lots of offset issues is when I have a LDA approach or a Sidestep approach.

I have and tried dozens of controllers ( I will try and take a picture sometime ) but the one I keep coming back to is simple to use, cheap, does not take up huge space and yet has fantastic feel, has a throttle and is a twist grip. http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/300980463123?lpid=82

PDF Kneeboard screws up my anti-aliasing.

Or just rename the aircraft.cfg to aricraft.bak in the folder and the aircraft won't show up at all but it won't mess up the file structure.

The Queen is an older addon. If the 737 and 777 are any indication, the 747V2 should be very very good and not suffer from little things like this.

Haha--we're still discussing this? Level-D is dead, gone, buried, and decomposed. Move along--nothing to see (I actually posted that a couple of years back on this thread).

Well, because it was very expensive and very dangerous with very little overt return on our investment in terms of science and furthering man in space. Of course, by "our" I mean the taxpayer of the United States who footed the bill for the moon missions and the shuttle. Everyone knows that the only reason we went to the moon in the first place was to win the space race which was an artifact of the cold war. Many have surmised that we were lucky to get away with the fatalities we had and no more (Apollo 1) as dangerous as space flight is. Still is--see Challenger, Columbia and the other various Russian accidents that came to light after the cold war ended when we supposedly know what we're doing. Now I am a proponent of the US Space Program and certainly believe in manned space. We should be spending way more on science (all of us planet wide) and less on finding creative ways to kill each other. I think we should go back to the moon and Mars, and we eventually will, but it has to make sense and it has to be somewhat affordable which is why NASA is supporting commerical space and other national agencies and science programs. Unfortunately, we have to get our house in order first. Also, we also need to work out the various technologies to ensure that man can live an work in space for a long period of time. The are many technical, physical and financial limitations that will make visiitng and staying awhile on the moon and Mars a possibility. Other wise we are just going and staying for a couple of days and that will not be worthwhile-that's what we did in the 60's. Has nothing to do with "aliens" or otherwise. With that said, the story of "Aliens on the Moon" and the hilarious reason we never returned was the "Aliens warned us off" is utter Malarkey. Aliens on the moon threatening us would have been the greatest thing to happen to the space programs. We would have spent far more money and time developing ways to protect each other and going into space to fight the bad aliens. The fact is that there is not much worthwhile out there other than science so there is no rush and it is all about money. It is actually sadder that we limit our space efforts because of the monetary limits to space exploration. If we only spent half of what we spend on Defense, we would be much much farther along. But then again those ISIS, AQ and other various bad guys might have something to say about that.

Yes. I understand, just reporting my results. (PMDG no workee under the beta g3d fix). No matter, FSX SE in not working for me either way. I get a choice between terrain.dll errors or my PMDG stuff doesn't work. FSX Box runs fine so I will just wait out Dovetails work on the repairs. I wouldn't even bother but FSX SE runs so smoothly until the terrain or g3d crash that I really would like to see it work out. That and I love Steam.

Well. I enabled the beta and it broke my 777 install. No gear and guages all black. (like when it is unregistered). FSX regular works fine. Reinstalled. No go, same thing. Looks like the beta broke my PMDG.

KDAL is not a major. It is an Index C. KDFW is an Index E by comparison. You would find more biz activity and GA at KDAL.

Nothing more improved than the NGX. The PMDG is easy to fly since everything operates as it is supposed to. It is very easy to hand fly and the auto flight system can do basic things and allows you to learn as you go getting into the more complicated flight plan programming. Throw in FS2Crew that gives you a second set of hands to do things and it is near perfect. I think people get very intimidated by it unnecesarily. It really is fantastic and worth every penny.

Disconnect the autopilot on landing, or if hand landing, turn off the Flight Director.

I have this terrain.dll crash as soon as I take off or within 15 minutes of taking off. Everytime. 100% of the time. Without fail. Same offset. I have backed off sliders, verified the cache, vanilla installation with the Aerosoft Airbus and PMDG 777 (though it does it with the defaults albeit longer time). It too bad because right up to the crash--it runs amazing. Then boom. CTD. Occassionally get the runtime error. I am going to try to download the runtimes to ensure tha all my libraries are good but it is very frustrating. Fortunately I have my MS Gold on a different drive.

What's a tosser?

Biological Interface issues....

1. None that I can see though I had to reinstall my PreciptFX and Rex runway textures. 2. I see no impact at all. It just changes the airport textures to less bland ones. It's actually pretty good. I like them.