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I have some new aircraft for FSW. Is there a new category for FSW, or should I upload to FSX and label it "for FSW only"?

I didn't get the impression they were going to have "official" versions of aircraft, just that they want to run an app store. Like Apple's store that have many different chess games for example, once DTG approves your addon, they add it to the store regardless of how many others there are.

I think it can be a lucrative revenue stream for both DTG and small developers. I don't think it's targeting the big developers who create things people would pay $40 for, but maybe hobbyists who create maybe $2 or $5 addons. In the FSX world that's not quite worth setting up a payment system, download server, support forum, dealing with refunds, chargebacks and re-install requests, having to write an installer, having to market their site somehow, etc, so they would release it as freeware. DTG though offers an easy way to get their product in the in-game store almost as easily as uploading to a freeware site, then sit back and collect the money (I presume). 5,000 purchases of your $2 product is still around $5K for what otherwise you would have given away.

They've redesigned the whole UI menu system to use Flash (found in the new swfMenus folder) instead of custom widgets (found in the old Dialogs folder). I think they're just still in the long process of re-encoding all the different options screens into Flash.

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This is asking me to activate my product -- it's the same computer I've had since I bought and installed it 3 years ago! I searched and found my old activation code but I get this error: "ERROR: flxActCommonRepairLocalTrustedStorage - (50044,71013,1)" My only option is to click "OK" then it asks me for my activation code again. I see PMDG has stopped supporting their products -- anybody know of a way to activate it? Is there a registry entry I can do manually?

This is asking me to activate my product -- it's the same computer I've had since I bought and installed it 3 years ago! I searched and found my old activation code but I get this error: "ERROR: flxActCommonRepairLocalTrustedStorage - (50044,71013,1)" My only option is to click "OK" then it asks me for my activation code again. I see PMDG has stopped supporting their products -- anybody know of a way to activate it? Is there a registry entry I can do manually?

This is asking me to activate my product -- it's the same computer I've had since I bought and installed it 3 years ago! I searched and found my old activation code but I get this error: "ERROR: flxActCommonRepairLocalTrustedStorage - (50044,71013,1)" My only option is to click "OK" then it asks me for my activation code again. I see PMDG has stopped supporting their products -- anybody know of a way to activate it? Is there a registry entry I can do manually?

I'm like you, I keep the instruments on a second monitor below my "outside view" monitor. I don't know how else you can keep a proper instrument and outside scan looking through a VC on a single monitor. Either you can't see your instruments and have to unrealistically tilt your whole head down with trackIR with its visual lag like you're flying drunk, or you have to be at a zoom less than 1.0 which completely distorts your distance and speed perception (at least compared to a real life view). Maybe this explains all the people online who can't fly an assigned heading, can't line up with the centerline, and land nosewheel first at 200 knots. That this topic keeps coming up I think shows how many serious simmers rely on the 2D cockpits. Carenado's stopped making 2D panels too and it keeps me from buying their newest aircraft. It's really too bad. Hopefully somebody will make a 2D panel addon for this!

Arjen, you are forgetting the purpose of this forum. THERE ARE NO BUGS IN THIS PRODUCT. This product is perfect and there can be no improvements.

You should check out the open source flight simulator at flightgear.org. I'd think it would be a whole lot easier to start with their code and add the features you want, than redoing everything they've done completely from scratch. I think they've had 50-some programmers and over a dozen artists contributing to it for the past 10+ years. It would take you at least the same to get just to their level now.

There are a number of discussions about the CI in some of the real-world pilot forums like airlinepilotcentral.com that you can search through. It seems to vary quite a bit by airline (because of different fixed costs) and current fuel price. One guy from the old Continental said they were required to adjust it to reach their destination at the scheduled time. A Delta pilot said theirs at the time was CI of 12-18, but then they would change it to 60-70 for the descent. Another pilot said they only used CI for the cruise and manually overrode the climb and descent speeds. Apparently though it is captain's discretion ultimately. I can see where you're running late and normally might put in a high CI, but if you're in a busy corridor (like the NE united states) and you know you're going to be ATC restricted to 250 knots pretty much the whole trip, might as well save fuel and put in a low number.

I also see this, pretty much always. Temperature inversion is pretty rare in reality, but I always get it with ActiveSky. Temperature goes way up as I climb. The freezing level in Active Sky is always way above what I see in real-world weather forcasts like on aviationweather.gov. It's just weird to fly around in far north U.S.A. in the middle of winter, where ground temps are at 0 Celsius and Active Sky is showing +15C at 20,000 feet.

This is really, really picky. I hit wake turbulence crossing the threshold while landing in a light aircraft behind a heavy, me 7 or so miles behind. Wind was coming a little from the left, relative to my direction, so I should have hit the LEFT wing's vortex that would have been blowing left to right with the wind. The left wing rotates clockwise so I should have been pushed to the right. Instead it flipped me to the left! But it was awesome anyway, and nice to be woken up like that on a calm approach and have to suddenly fight for survival!Oh, and I'm referring to Active Sky Evolution.

I was at ZLA but left the agency for a much better career (in ATC software).You're right, 3-4K climbs do happen below 10K feet, but I was talking the much longer climb to final altitude once above 10K. B738's will do 1500fpm (Cactus) up to 2500 (Southwest) but in no case anybody does 4000 fpm like with the default PMDG. So it's clear all airlines are doing the derated climb.Also I forgot why we are arguing here, so maybe we're actually on the same page on this. Not trying to cause conflict... cheers!