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  2. Posted

    Many thanks Ray, I searched the fsuipc forum but not this one!! Doh... I'll give it a go and report back.

    Interestingly just did another flight without my usual Active Sky, Rex Environment and Rex sky force and no problem showed... but I'll change the.ini file and see what happens. I really don't want to use any other ATC programme... 😁

    Regards Alan

     

    ps Also updated fsuipc to the latest version (I was already on v6 but a couple of updates behind)

    Regards

    Alan

  3. Posted

    Hi All

    Not sure if I should post this here or the FSUIPC forum...

    Anyway, recently returned to simming using P3D v4.5. Flying the QW787 about 10mins or so into the flight RC freezes and I get the following pop up from RC "fsuipc_wait can't get D008 to change from 7520501 always 7520501"

    Any ideas?

    Thanks

    Regards

    Alan

  4. Posted

    7 minutes ago, doublebubble said:

    Ok thanks Ray, I have posted over at AIG so we'll see how we go, I thank you for your time.

    Rod.

    Hi

    Just out of interest, are you using AI flow or any other tool to “space” out your AI? That can have the effect of curtailing landings.

    Cheers

    G

  5. Posted

    14 hours ago, Deltaair1212 said:

    Hey guys, does anyone know how I can get in contact with the author of the AI Flow and AI Ground program? I know his name as it is listed on AVSIM but I do not know his user name in the forums. Any help would be appreciated. Or maybe he’ll see this post idk haha 

    I think his forum name is Clipper Ocean Spray

    Cheers

    G

  7. Posted

    1 hour ago, fzike said:

    I'm new to AIG AI Manager and could use a bit of advice. This is a P3Dv5.2HF1 install. I've installed  35 flight plans both BGL and AIGFP. I've set the sim and Traffic Controller to 100%. I'm seeing both BGL and AIGFP traffic, not the 'mob scene' I would've thought with 100% settings, but okay. My question is I have nothing but a blue screen on Traffic Controller; no map at anytime before or after connection and injection nothing in the log tab. The AIG entries do appear in the Addons section and the Scenery Library in P3D but I've found only a single AIG entry for the Traffic Controller in AppData/Roaming/LM/addon.cfg. 

    I appreciate that no map image in the Traffic Controller is hardly an issue but it just feels like something's not quite right and I ought to be seeing more traffic and turning the settings way down.

    Any Thoughts?

    Thanks

    Fred 

    Hi, my AIG traffic controller always starts with a blue screen, I check the en route box, centre on user and show all tracks and zoom the map out. It then shows all flights within a certain radius of your aircraft (not sure what the radius is)

    Hope that helps

    Regards

    G

  8. Posted

    5 minutes ago, David Vega said:

    Even with the link to the AM calculator, I still don't understand how to select the correct number.  Are the '1' (ones) in the binary number the logical processors you want for p3d to use, or the ones you want it to avoid using?  Sorry for being so dense on this.  

    Oh good, I was hoping someone would ask this so I didn’t have to 😁

    Thanks

    G

  9. Posted

    Hi All

    Just discovered this great app (I live under a rock...), congratulations to the developer and testers! I’ve read this thread front to back (and back to front!) and just have a couple of questions. Did the Simstarter integration ever happen? And which is the better “flow program” to use? AI flow works well but appears too aggressive and fs separation only appears to work intermittently on my system, I keep getting an “error in program” message.

    Many thanks for any help

    Kind regards

    G

  13. Posted

    55 minutes ago, pmb said:

    One of the main advatages of AIG over UTL is that it's actively developed by an enthusiastic group while development of UTx - as much as I like it - has been a nightmare for a decade.

    I already tried installation of AIG some time ago but gave up when I saw the list of flightplans to choose from. Whould I hand-select them? While I happen to know a hand full of airlines 😉 most of them are uncommon to me. Should I install the hand full or batch-install the whole lot (which supposedly would make my machine explode and my sim implode) or something inbetween? Is there some sensible default selection for average users like Bruce B. (and me) who just want some nicely filled airports?

    Thanks and kind regards, Michael

    Hi

    The way I do it is to select the airports I use most regularly and google which airlines use those airports. Then bulk select those airlines then install using OCI and sit back and let it do it’s thing. It might take awhile depending on how many airlines have been selected...

    Hope that helps

    Regards

    G

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  15. Posted

    Hi

    Bought these at full price, I’m not an expert pilot so won’t comment too much on how it flies, just to say there is another hot fix in the process of being tested and I haven’t flown it in a while. At the price (full) I was disappointed to have to download a utility to open the doors and another utility to calculate v speeds. In addition fuel loading is done via P3d.

    I personally wouldn’t buy again, but at sale price.... probably not.

    Regards

    G

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  17. Posted

    13 minutes ago, OzWhitey said:

    Great plane, and exactly what i’ve been flying in the sim this week. Bomanza v-tail is newer, and also a great aircraft. You can’t go wrong with anything A2A.

    Thanks for that 👍 

    Plus your tag line always makes me smile...

  18. Posted

    21 minutes ago, OzWhitey said:

    P3D v4.5 or v5 and VR are your friends. VR is great for avoiding the problem simmers have of staring at their panels rather than looking outside the aircraft. Track IR is an alternative, but VR is much more realistic.

    Add a GA aircraft by A2A - the Bonanza and Comanche are great, but their 172 is likely to be closer to what you use during training.

     

    Thanks for the advice, I’m on 4.5, I do have track IR but unfortunately I don’t think my current rig is up to handling VR, it’s rather outdated by current standards but I’m holding out on upgrading until we see how things shake out with upcoming sims and hardware.

    The A2A Comanche looks good so I may go for that...

  19. Posted

    Hi All

    Firstly many thanks for taking the time to type such detailed and informative replies.

    The reason for wanting to try GA is more to learn about procedures, especially the use of various navigational aids and so thank you for the recommendations for airplanes and thanks for the links to reading materials. 🙂

    Please keep the suggestions coming

    Regards

    G

  21. Posted

    Hi All

    Having used both FSX and P3d almost exclusively for flying ifr in big airliners I thought it time I learnt to fly vfr. Unfortunately I know very little (nothing) about it so was looking for advice on the best set up plane wise, equipment etc for training.

    Thanks for any help

    Regards

    G

  22. Posted

    On 5/12/2020 at 12:52 AM, captain420 said:

    I couldn't find the payware tab, where is it located?

    Sorry, late in replying. In case you’ve not found it yet open AIG manager, go to tool tab (first left), then settings, then AIGaim-OCI. It opens in general tab, payware tab is next to it.

    Hope that helps

    Regards

    G

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  23. Posted

    35 minutes ago, captain420 said:

    Did you ever figure out how to make it default to freeware only? It keeps popping up a window asking me to choose which is quite annoying. It was working before until the updates came. Not sure how to fix it.

    Pop over to the AIG forum, there are a couple of threads on the subject. The way I cured it was to go to the payware tab, deselect everything there, make sure then that freeware only is ticked then save and close.

    Solved the problem for me. Hope that helps

    Regards

    G

  24. Posted

    2 hours ago, w6kd said:

    I wrote a utility called Quantum Leap (in the library here) back around 7-8 years ago for FSX that uses FSUIPC...should still work in P3D with the appropriate version of FSUIPC.  It allows you to reset the acft position and time (Z).  It repositions the acft, either to a lat/long or to any waypoint defined in the PMDG waypoint database (if you have a Navigraph subscription you can install the PMDG-format database even if you have no PMDG add-ons).

    It is a bit messy still...after the reposition, often the difference in wind, variation, and barometric pressure at the new location results in the acft speed/altitude/heading being way off and in need of recovery to stable flight, and you have to manually reset the fuel load.  It's still much more desirable than droning on for hours and hours.

    I typically create a flight plan that takes me via a normal routing to a point 200-300 miles out from departure, and then direct to a point ~200nm from the destination, with normal routing after that.  That helps with not having to skip past pages of waypoints in my ATC program.  Once reaching the planned jump point, I set direct in the FMC, get cleared direct from ATC if needed, do the reposition with Quantum Leap, reset the fuel and stabilize the acft, and then resume the flight.  That's 5 min of hassle to save many hours of boring cruise flight...I've lost thousands of hours of my life doing that for real; don't need any more practice!

     

     

    Thanks for the heads up on this! To be fair the QW787 goes slightly AWOL after a jump, but takes about 2mins to recover.

    On my way to the library 🤓

    Regards

    G

  25. Posted

    Hi All

    Been using the QW787 with the jump ahead feature which I’ve found works very well. I prefer this to time acceleration and was wondering if there was a utility that could add a jump ahead feature to all aircraft?

    Many thanks

    Regards

    G

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