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..or it may be something simple like this problem.. i.e. load the driver before the FS starts. https://www.avsim.com/forums/topic/661214-logitech-multipanel-autopilot-fs-2024/

Do you mean the Multi-function Panel ??? And if so, do you mean when the left knob is put on HDG, turning the right knob makes it jump randomly up to 10 degrees. If so, I suggest alter the post title or you will miss many possible viewers who may have the answer you need. Unfortunately, I dont have it..

Hi.. Yes, its the gauge that's associated to the Prop De-Ice. The gauge shows the amount of amps that is being consumed by the prop warming boots and if its not showing enough then there is something wrong. If there was a variable it should be in the electrics section but I dont see any. The secondary question is, if no variable exists for the gauge, does anyone know if the sim engine has low prop amps as a causation factor in any icing scenario.

I am creating a FIP gauge that will allow activation of various switches not covered by the Saitex/Logitech Switches Panel, based on Baron G58 switches plus a couple of gauges to show current status . I want to include the Prop Amps gauge but cannot find the variable for it. Does anyone know if it exists and if so, what is it.

I started getting constant CTDs shortly after installing W10 and found a recent post in Avsim .. search FSX freezing when accessing menu items it was a dll issue and adding it into my FSX directory fixed it for me.

Milviz B55 was one of the first commercial aircraft add-ons I got.. quite sometime ago now... it stacks up very well against all the rest even newer ones.. Only irritation I have is that the landing light runway illumination is extremely bright and the lights create a glow of light for a couple of hundred feet into the air upon take-off but thats a small price to pay for actually seeing where you are going on the tarmac at night compared to all the other aircraft I have..

No idea whats causing it but I did a 4x top down zoom on the same location and you seem to have the correct 4x zoom image in the centre field of view. The symmetry of that 'error' would suggest its got something to do with a smaller zoom factor (about 0.8) attempting to filter in over the top of it.

The main screen keeps going.. my point is simply that the POV knob on yoke and other buttons will be linked to the active screen so until the main screen gets active again with a mouse click, these buttons will stay linked to the secondary screen (touch screen)

After vascillating for months I bit the bullet and hit the W10 Download button from MS site 3 days ago.. I run on a low speed broadband and have maximum download / upload limits. Before downloading I pulled the ethernet wire out and linked to router via wifi as I read that the MS system will allow options to stop peer to peer links if connected by wifi ,but not by cable. I started download at 1am expecting that when I awoke I would see a message to execute a file.. On awakening I discover the installation was underway,,, so much for the speel about nominating when to queue for installation to begin. In the installation process, a window gave me the options to cancel out of peer to peer exchanges, which I did. On completion I looked in Settings and discovered my instruction was simply ignored and so I altered the settings manually so as MS gets no info from me nor any peer to peer data flows occur.( why should I be expected to pay for others installations). End result.. Cant see any real justification in having installed W10 into a stand alone PC. Minor carrots in the package .e.g. gives live news updates in the Start menu and some other flashy bits n pieces. BUT it uses more RAM than W7.. looks like it eats up approx 1.8 - 2gb just for the privilege of sitting and staring at the screen doing nothing at all. All my saitek hardware worked ok on W7. In W10, FSX still works ok but land texturing is noticeably slower... Saitek FIP panels took a couple of attempts to display correctly but eventually did as did the Multi panel LED display. Initially it did not display the LEDs and I got it working by pulling the multipanel USB cable out and replugging to force a kick start. It worked and after half dozen times it now seems to start ok. There are web threads about this issue.. a problem with Power Management. Biggest issue for me.. In W7 I could use ADE and FSDS from my own account. In W10 you can only use these from Run as Administrator option. Plus, when making changes to saitek direct output xml files you have to swap accounts..e.g. making changes to the scripting for FIP gauges. In your own account if you are the administrator it will have 'Administrator' written under your name. That is confusing as its not the actual Administrator account. You have to close and re-open the HIDDEN Administrator account in W10, plough down through your username directory to relevant work folder, make changes and it then allows you to save changes to the xml files... (google opening HIDDEN Administrator account in W10) All in all I would say the only advantage to having W10 is if the PC is going to last past the end of MS W7 security updates then it would pay to have it as the PC could end up exposed to malicious intent.

Never really thought about this issue but I suspect this development is taking a longer term view into account.. i.e the future of getting out of the plane and walking around as being a standard part of a sim experience. In the interim like others say, have an off / on switch for it.. Personally having a few 3D interior objects viewable though windows from the tarmac, just makes the terminal more realistic than an obvious image rendered onto a flat wall..

I would also like to know, when all these specs get quoted... please state the power usage per hour and also who pays the power bill. I choose a lower power bill over higher fps performance. My 4yo pc only draws 20watts/hr on basic performance with a 4core i3 3.2ghz processor with radeon HD5450 card (now considered sub-standard by most) and LG 100hz TV 42 inch screen drawing 55 watts/hr on power saver.. i.e. very cheap to run for hours but the trade-off is 30 fps ocassionally spiking into the 40s is an optimum result. Fortunately I get smooth scenery down as low as 15fps although the jitters begin when I close in on an orbx airport. I run ASN but no other commercial terrain /weather/ scenery software other than orbxAU and airports and various freeware scenery add-ons. I prefer to keep what PC power I have left for runnng all the other hardware of which I have a fair bit. In short maximising fps is just one component of the overall consideration and not the end goal in itself..

thxs for the above...I did not cite the 25 fps because movies use it .. it was what we got told in high school i.e. that humans see the world at 28 fps .. obviously research in the intervening decades has put that into the "busted" bin. It would be interesting to know if humans are now processing their eye input data at higher speeds due to constantly looking at IT screens and TVs. The principles of evolution would suggest such a possibility.

Away from Orbx airports, I have the outside scenery sliding smoothly by with no obvious jitters as low as 15fps and sometimes even lower with no real jitters. I've seen people claiming 60,70,even more fps on these forums and wonder why bother. The human eye and brain processes the outside world at 25 fps. With my old PC that cant accommodate a new display card Im grateful for anything over 20. But I think it depends on the planes you are in. I stay mostly with props and so dont go over 150 kts generally and landing speeds 90-100kts, and by my reckoning fps is not as important, as for each 1/25 of a second you dont cover as much ground as a faster plane does, so jitters are not as obvious. If someone can show my logic here is wrong, please do.

Scott.. thanks for that link.. looks like I have a fair bit of brain cell manipulating to get my head around it all.

I jumped on the net an got a cheap small touchscreen that fits perfectly on top of my saitek yoke unit to display the main flight instruments. I can also use it to display anything else I choose eg GPS.. ATC The one problem with it is that by touching the screen to manipulate switches etc,, choosing ATC option.., you then have to remember to mouse click back on the main monitor afterwards. This is important in my set up as my POV switch is used for eye rotation views which I think a lot of people use it for, and if the main screen is not "clicked" then moving the POV will move my main instruments left / right.. same problem will apply to a top consule being displayed..

Was going to start another topic but I think it fits in here. I have relied on custom textures for making scenery but got sick of it always looking too candy shoppy. So Ive been taking photos and have made a texture file at 512x512 for a range of sheet metal textures having a bit of an aged look to it. Going to texture some generic hangars I've modelled.. My question is - will FSX run more efficiently if I made a few files at say 128x128 each specific to one type of hangar rather than put all the textures in one larger file (512x512) containing texture for about 4 different kinds of hangars, some of which may not be needed at the airport being visited.. or to put another way, if all four hangar textures are needed at the airport, does the entire 512x512 file get opened and read 100% x4 by FSX or just 25% x4. I ask this as I am ignorant on how FSX manipulates/utilises texture files .. i.e. whether it has to open and read an entire texture file to enable texturising to take place or if it just takes the portions from each texture file as needed. As the great majority of default textures are quite small files I suspect the answer is the former, not the latter, but I seek confirmation.

Two reasons why FSX wont start and not for complex reasons. 1. The logbook.bin file gets corrupted (for various reasons).. Before wasting a lot of time looking for why it wont start, delete that file ( in Flight Simulator X Files folder in My Documents) and start FSX again and force it to rebuild the logbook. If it starts up then thats the problem.. but of course you lose the logbook history. so dont dump it permanently,, wait to see if that was really the problem. ...and I found a gem of a bit of software on Avsim ... fsxlogrecovery11... that recovers the logbook if it does get corrupted. 2. Another annoying reason why it wont get past the first screen ..if there is an error message which gets hidden behind the main screen so you dont know FSX is waiting for you to respond.. Hover the cursor over FSX in the taskbar and see if an error window is there. Ive found that this happens if you are doing other stuff on the PC whilst FSX is starting up.

To Milviz... I think Flying Beach has a point but not that people are stupid for buying at the high price.. like many have said, if you want it ..you pay for it.. but to pay the price and then complain about it.. that is what is stupid..

You refer specifically to FSX (P3D has a separate forum).... I have never seen an addon for FSX that would be in the price range you suggest. If it is, you have a good point ..but show me the examples. Most aircraft I see for FSX is in the Aud$50 - Aud$60 at the top end of the market. (That would be roughly 25 - 30 UKpds) And there are plenty on sale in the Aud$20 - Aud$30 price range. Just wait for the promotional sales and buy then. (Whats so important about having a new release as fast as possible ... ) Aud$30 is what you would spend taking your girlfriend to a 2 hr movie plus buying the overpriced popcorn. So dump the girlfriend and go buy another plane... it will go for more than 2 hrs.

As you say, just like any other scenery.. untick it in the Scenery Library.. there will be numerous ones to be done but they are always clearly labelled as FTX

Sometimes its the simple things that get overlooked whilst everyone is looking for the complex. Do a search on Jeff Pierce in avsim library... he has done a Nav / Gps switch for the Baron VC panel.

That just proves it... Microsoft is now officially a malware distributor

Im looking at the hangars in the distance .. they seem to be buried in the ground too so there are a few issues to fix up. I would remove the background.bgl from the Addon Scenery and see what happens (Just remove it.. not delete it). That will most likely be containing the background image and after seeing what the land surface is like when its not in there will give you a better idea of whats going on and a place to start "hunting" for a fix. Like you say I suspect the cause has something to do with that file but no idea why. just thought.. open the airport in ADE and see if there is an airport background poly in there.. if there is none then the terrain probably wont be flat.. the author may have been trying to do a runway over uneven ground and not got it quite right. The fact that the hangar in the distance looks to be 10 feet in the ground makes me suspect there is no airport background poly.. if there was the whole airport should be perfectly flat... regardless the hangar should sit on the surface whatever it is but fsx seems to be able to always come up with some new tricks.

You have got what looks like either an add-on runway or fsx default with texture add-ons running, showing through from under a runway on a background image and further down the runway it looks like the runway re-surfaces... no idea why it should be happening but it suggests there are either two airports in your library or the add-on has two runways embedded in it. As the 'higher' runway is a background image I'm also guessing the lower runway is the 'real' one which should be edited so as to stay invisible... a clue must be in the strange diagonal behaviour of that problem.. its hard to see but it looks like that altitude difference of maybe 2-3 feet goes on for some distance. I'd start by putting each airport into ADE and check them out and see if there are exclusion zones etc as something is causing that diagonal issue and once thats known you can work out the fix... plus use ADE to check the editing values of the 'lower' runway. p.s. .. and what is that horrible black area.. whilst you have ADE open , I suggest fix it up... looking at it a bit closer I thinks thats part of the issue as that area runs directly into the vertical 'slip' across the runway.

Heres some hints for ADE. I found everything pretty easy to work out but the following took me a while... why... because I ignored the pdf..!!. Have FSX going when you open up ADE. If you only have a blue set of co-ordinates in top left corner then press Connect button and a red set of co-ordinates will display.. That is the position of your aircraft and it will show up in ADE as a red icon. Once you have the red co-ordinates, you will have two extra options in your right mouse click ... its Move Aircraft Here and Centre on Aircraft. These two buttons used in tandem is what makes ADE really useful for manipulating the land class scenery as you can see the default background in FSX whilst you traverse the ground in ADE (the bigger the screen the better) and make changes at specitic spots or vertices.... in addition to being an object placement tool, this is found in right mouse click in Add option. If you dont see a poly after saving and going back into FSX it will be because of the layering process. right mouse click has the options for moving to front, back etc. Something that took me ages to work out is if you want to move a VOR or NDB, it wont drag. You have to be Connected to FSX and move the plane to where you want the nav aid to be and then highlight the original and use the Move to Aircraft option under right mouse click. Then move the NDB object and put an exclusion rectangle over the original one. Even in the right spot you may want to move it a little as for example it could be right on the edge of a creek in the default scenery.