Paul Clancy

Significant loss in fps for me, down from 25-30+ to less then 10 now Have reset graphics settings all the way down to min but no change, no matter what I choose. Can't find anything else to change in Hydravision. My 2X HD4850 showing their age I guess, but I swear with 10.25 I had way better frames.

If you like mountains you'll love flying around New Zealand. I enjoy NZWN-NZQN a lot as the mountain approach to Queenstown is spectacular, Wellington also has its challenges.

Ok realised that it wasnt initialising as I didnt have anything plugged into the audio jack....obviously the 737NGX needs an audio device to be connected during its loaded or it crashes.

Have tried the xml fix in here: http://forum.avsim.net/topic/347775-no-initialisation/ Still doesnt initialise at all :(

Just installed FSX and Acelleration on a spare PC and ran the PMDG 737NGX installer. Then did SP1C update. The only other thing I installed was the VLC New Zealand landclass. Crashes and doesnt load instruments at all. The 737 loads but the cockpit is cold and dark, nothing I click does anything and after a few clicks it crashes FSX to the desktop. Windows 7 64-bit No other hardware/software/antivirus installed yet. Am logged in as a local administrator. What am I missing here folks have I done something stupid?

Yeah at night you can clearly see the area that they light up on the ground and the runway signs etc being lit up.

Aircraft here in Nz tend to use strobe lights to signify cleared onto the active runway, then landing lights on when they get the actual take off clearance. I've never seen them use runway turnoff lights except when actually turning off a runway :)

This drove me mad way before the NGX arrived on the scene. FSINN would give crazy high alititude temp readings and make a lot of jets perform weird. Its weather simulation is crap. Now once i've logged onto VATSIM I just hit CAVOK and chose FSX real world weather.

Long haul in a 737....that must be a long flight for the crew. I wonder which of them gets the honour of making dinnner.

What speed should a typical VFR circuit be flown at in an empty 737?

I've been really enjoying flying the NGX in slow tight visual circuits for touch and go practice, makes good fun to setup some FMC waypoints and do it in total overcast IMC using the ILS and the HUGS at times. I was shared a nice chart from Ryanair of how they are taught to fly visual circuits so thought i'd share here:

You can save the flight and the state of the panels to avoid losing all your preflight work, then restart everything and see does it reoccour.

I had the same issue on one fligth last night Acez except I was sitting at NZAA :) Interestingly i have a Logitech Extreme 3D joystick too. I had loaded the PMDG House -800 with both engines running played around for a while then performed a restart. After doing all the checks, getting clearance from the VATSIM controller on at the time I tried to taxi but no matter what I did, no 1 wouldnt spool up. No 2 worked fine. I could even see the litle grey markers on N1 rise and fall with my joysticks throttle input, and both of the aicraft's simulated throttles move, but no 1 just wouldnt increase power. Also as mentionned by SgtMajor above, I had been playing with the ground power and ground aircon carts before starting both engines. If I used F2 on the keyboard both engines advanced as normal...go figure. When i next loaded the sim it was working fine and it hasnt happened since.

I wasnt expecting the strobe effect at all. As I was ending my landing roll on the first night flight I realised what I was seeing, a little bit of strobe being reflected onto the tarmac makes for such a realistic effect. The landing light effect is also better then anything i've seen so far. I get way worse frame rates in the J41, this is performing very well considering its complexity.

Getting varied rates of 30-100Kb/s down here in New Zealand :)