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Ryan, Thank you for taking the time. Most of these also work in the other brands of FS... Might be nice if you could add a column for reviews with a link. -Ken

Too bad they canceled the LJ60 as I suspected once they get the PL21 down pat producing multiple aircraft with the technology would be easier and much quicker. Still many months away if you ask me. I would guess a Spring to Summer 2017 at best. No inside info on this, just SWAG based on current progress and historical delays.

Updated profileinspector, link above fixed the crashing.

nVidia inspector 1.9.7.6 moved the editor outside of inspector and you need to run the program nvidiaProfileInspector.exe to edit your settings. However, nVidia drivers 372.70 seemed to have broken nvidiaProfileInspector.exe and it now crashes. EDIT: Updated nvidia profile inspector is here: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/Orbmu2k/nvidiaprofileinspector/build/artifacts Hopefully the mods won't block this link, if they do it is also in the changlog.txt (the second link.)

I know not want to speak of... All the ones I flew had the toilets installed. :wink: :wink:

For 2015+ the 350i was suppose to come with a standard interior which include the upgraded lav. This one has a pocket door as opposed to the standard curtain. I don't have the latest options sheet for 2016 so I cannot say for sure if this can be deleted from the order sheet. Some of the older lavs were removed by the operator. Beech went to a dry chemical toilet for a time and no one really cared for the spread chemical in a bag, do your duty, then put more chemical. Not to mention emptying it! As crew I preferred the old smurf juice electric toilets.

Don't confuse planning with real world. Back in the old days we used to say the balloon only flies twice a day (every 12 hours) and thus the winds were only accurate for those times. Thus for dead reckoning we would do a drift check. With VOR and DME the drift check became much easier. With GPS its an afterthought. Like the real world AS will be a little bit off of what was planned and it should be.

Steve, Thank you. PM sent with a copy of my order details. -Ken

Steve, No the installer is on my HD and I have already tried disabling my antivirus. This is weird and I have tried a half dozen other .msi files and all launch their installer correctly. I guess I'll be sticking with version 2.9. Thank you, -Ken

Lots of Security-SSP Information, a LoadPerf Information and ICCS Information. A Dipawaymode.exe error Nothing I can find that has to do with MS Installer

No errors in reliability history.

Nothing, happens. The circle spins for a few seconds and then nothing. I'll try redownloading. EDIT: I tried downloading again same thing. 13,723KB

Thank you. Unfortunately I am unable to get you .msi file to run on Windows 10 Pro 1607 "anniversary update." I tried both double clicking the installer, right click and install and even the registry hack to "install as administrator." I ran the fix tool for .msi files and even tried another .msi file which worked just fine. -Ken

I cannot find a link to this update. Where do I go or do I have to purchase it again to get Version 3?

I went with the Thermaltake Water 3.0 120mm 3 years ago for my i7 4770K which I have a modest OC to 4.3 to 4.5. This little block does fine to keep the temperatures under control and I have not had any problem with the water system. It is very quite with the graphics card being the bigger heat source / fan noise. I am so happy with the water CPU cooling I am now looking for an all in one solution for my GPU.

You do realize that a Gulfstream G650 flown under part 91 is General Aviation (GA.) General Aviation is all civil aviation operations other than scheduled (Part 121) and non-scheduled (Part 135) air transport operations for remuneration or hire. So what you guys are saying then is a private business jet flown under IFR cannot be used in PRO/ATC-X?

Will this solution fix the microstutters as well??? I can keep hoping.

Not much information here. What version of FS? (FSX:Boxed, FSX:STEAM, P3D) What type of controls do you have? How do other multi-engine aircraft behave? What are your realism settings set at? Multi-engine aircraft really need separate yaw controls, preferably rudder pedals. The torque effect at take-off power will cause the airplane to pull left.

Kostas, I appreciate your response, but you still left me with questions. What is the beam width in degrees that ASN outputs to Roland's Radar and or others if it is a variable. (Although I saw nothing in your API documentation that sets beam width.) That would be more helpful when looking at various "types" of radars. I am also confused why you would not want me to use your NexRAD output when comparing to a display. I would think your internal NexRAD would be the more accurate display of what is really happening. Your documentation also leads me to believe this is so. Also where are the distances measured from. When I set the range in your software where does it determine that range if from / to. Thank you,

Think of it this way. Place an small object (like a football) on the floor a few feet in front of you. You can see it right. That is Roland's radar with the API interface. Now close one eye and look through a paper towel roll, but make sure the roll is horizontal. That is WX Advantage and it represents a very narrow radar beam looking forward. To see your object through the paper towel roll you have to tilt the roll down until the object is in view. Like wise you have to tilt your radar dish down. Now kick the football so it is 10 to 15 feet in front of you. You have to tilt the roll down less to see it. The football never changed size, but because of your height and the relative location of the football, you could not see the foot ball through the paper towel roll. The same thing happens with an airborne weather radar. If you have the tilt too high to see the storm, it slides under the nose of the aircraft. I agree lots more testing is needed and I think there are some limitations to either ASN or even FS. Mostly with very large thunderstorms fail to represent as large columns filled with precipitation. (Thank you for fixing those above Bill!) One of the things I noticed is ASN will report base reflectivity and echo tops where as my datalink is composite reflectivity with satellite coverage. If precipitation only exists off the base of a cloud in FS then that could be a problem for a Weather Radar looking for echos in other then the base of the cloud. Maybe this has all been discussed somewhere else but now with these "new radars" interest has resurged in accurate weather or how accurate is the weather... Thank you...

Thank you, I specifically did not test Roland's Radar to WX Advantage on purpose. I don't think it is a fair comparison. One is pulling from ASN directly (and free so the price is right) while the other is trying to simulate a beam to detect the precipitation. (spelled it right this time!) Both can be used to avoid the weather and I think it is just a matter of taste as for what one chooses to use (or economics.) Like the difference between FSX and P3D or Xplane I think we could continue to have an academic discussion on the "advantages" or "disadvantages" of each, but in the end it does not matter. Both are fully capable. Of course my opinion and 8 bucks and you can get a cup of coffee at Starbucks. :smile: I was remiss and I would like to tank Roland for making his gauge and providing it to the community.

yes couple of typos and I do know how to spell precipitation as opposed to participation. :wink:

With the information above I decided to fly ASN and WX Advantage against a well developed storm moving across Oklahoma on 14 July. Let me describe what you are seeing. On the left fltplan Go on my iPad using datalinked weather and synced to the location of FSX. In the center is ASN depiction of the weather and the right is WX Advantage. Each time I show WX Advantage I have already tilted up and down to analyze the return. In this first image we are just starting to approach the line of storms and we can see that on ASN. WX Advantage is already showing hazardous returns at 25 to 35nm. With ASN range at 68 I assume that is 68nm from the left of the window to the right, so it seems like with are starting to pick up the lead of the storm. Using WX Advantage I head for the clear area North of my filed route. I fulled expected to be turned around by this storm and based on the datalinked weather this would have been a no go. But I decided to see how close ASN weather is. This last image shows the gaping hole in ASN weather presentation. According to the datalinked weather, I should in in the thick of a very powerful storm. I was wondering if this was a lag in ASN weather. The datalink was just after a refresh. Even considering that while there is some matching of the storm, the ASN weather still looked different in many aspects. I guess either a lag or the METAR from KTQH was messing with the presentation. What about WX Advantage. You can just see some radar shadowing of the storm at 11 O'clock and 40nm (which after the fact I think I should have had the range of ASN further out and we would be able to see that cell.) Other then that it is generally painting cells in the same vicinity as where ASN put them. You also have to consider the color difference between NEXRAD and Airborne weather. Basically, Dark green on NEXRAD is about the start of the moderate band on Airborne and medium yellow on NEXRAD is strong on airborne. Also when the radome gets wet, the colors shift (yellow is actually green, and red may be yellow or red!) My dome was dry at this point. One more shot this one is sans the datalink image since we already determined that my datalink was newer then ASN. Now ATC is vectoring me south for the approach. I would have gone west of the field with the info I had on board, but ATC was determined to send me east and into the thick of it. Again the range on the ASN window is still unknown (25nm but from where to where.) There was large precipitation between 30 to 60 degrees left of the aircraft at about 8nm. To the right there are cells off the nose slightly past 60 degrees. I don't expect the cells to match up perfectly. I also turned on the turbulence mode of WX Advantage. I can sort of match up precipitation with ASN and I am topping the closest cells with the radar beam. Bottom line: ASN is delayed weather, I'd guess about 30 to 45 minutes based on what I saw. Either that or the one METAR report was causing the large hole that was not really present. But, overall there was a large storm generally east of Tulsa today. WX Advantage was able to steer me clear, you have to look at the chart above to compare NEXRAD and airborne sensitivity, only the darkest blue will register as green. The narrow beam will easily top cells. The beam was more powerful then expected, but it is also a BIG dish. I did see some shadowing, but it was not well defined. Sometimes WX Advantage would shadow in the middle of a storm then paint the back side. The primary purpose of a weather radar is storm avoidance, not penetration. I am fairly certain I could have avoided the storms using WX Advantage with ASN today and should have told ATC "Unable" when they vectored me into the weather.

I was speaking real METAR. Three levels of intensity (+) heavy, ( ) moderate, and (-) light. Maybe ACES added the other two intensity levels to account for the descriptor or they had something else in mind. i.e. Rain showers is one intensity and light rain is another. Either way I would be interested what the other two intensities are as I don't think I have seen them outputted as METAR in FSX. Maybe 5 intensities of precipitation in the engine, but the METAR follows the standard format?

Thunderstorms or all clouds for that matter are textures. FS will jostle you about some, (ASN seems to enhance this slightly) but many of the effects inside of storms are missing. Not only is there severe rain, but strong up and down drafts, wind-shear, lighting and possibly hail. I think the last thing we need is for developers to add a rip you wings off mode to weather. While it may sound cool I can easily see this effect getting abused by people who have not ever actually flown an airplane in convective weather and have no real idea of the forces involved or the actual strength of aircraft. It would be very bad to be cruising along and punch through a stratus cloud and find your aircraft torn to pieces. If they are getting their data from METAR you only have three levels of precipitation. i.e. Light Rain, Rain and Heavy Rain. I have many times flown through heavy rain that was not associated with thunderstorm activity. It did not rip my wings off... I am not sure how much can be done with the weather simulation, but clouds that behave like clouds and more then one type of thunderstorm would be nice. There should be a difference between a building cumulonimbus and a super cell.