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Started out okay at my end this morning. Flew 100nm or so from departure airport into clear skies for the rest of the 600nm flight even though Satellite, METARs etc say there should be cloud. Other weather parameters seem to be okay just no cloud depiction.

There is a setting in fsx.cfg if I remember corretly that enables or disables VFR AI traffic, that could be included in UI. i Would also suggest all possible settings or tweaks to be implemented in DFS should be in the UI and placed in two settings tabs/menu. one basic and one advanced.

Here is South Africa ATC informs us to contact Departure at a particular altitude as part of our clearance. I think whats wrong with ATC addons is it tries to do everything for everybody. I think a better approach will be to create a proper ATC addon that works for just one country/FIR and sell that as an Addon and then expand from there. As an example create an ATC addon for french Airspace alone that only works within that airspace and when u have enough of such products you can merge them into a region specific Addon.

Hi Erich Am working on my GRII Instructors Rating at port Elizabeth.

Flight Instructor in South Africa/NIgeria

Hi Martin, MS flight simulator had a lot of detail and attention placed on North America and Europe. Regions like Africa had very little attention i.e outdated airports,navdata,landclass etc. Is there any plan to give African Region a complete makeover in DTG flight Simulator? Will the New Simulator be truly international Simulator where we could set visibility to meters, different transition altitudes/Levels etc? Thanks..

Try backing up then deleting your "fs9.cfg" in your "C:\Users\(user name)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\FS9" folder. Then start FS9. It will regenerate a new fs9.cfg file for you. This is just in-case your .cfg file became corrupted.

Come on PMDG why cant you guys make your own sim? your attention to detail is second to none. Great job!! I quietly Keep praying for A PMDG 727... :rolleyes:

R.I.P Tom, and I am very grateful for AVSIM.

My debit/credit card wont work on Paypal but it works on some other pay-sites. Sad to see I wont be able to get anything on sale right now. Maybe some other time then. ^_^ Happy weekend guys.

Any other payment option other than paypal?

No replies usually means no one else is seeing the same problem... :(

Hi there I saw a friend of mine use simlauncherX so I downloaded it from Avsim. After Installation I get an error with the Splash Screen saying "HiddenWindows.simlauncherx.exe Application Error" with some message about an exception occurring. I uninstalled, re-downloaded Microsoft framwork4.5, restarted the system then reinstalled and the error is still there. please kindly advise. Thanks A screenshot:https://www.dropbox.com/s/zi4mo0ttksooieh/Screenshot%202015-01-26%2017.55.40.png?dl=0 And I have the Log file ready.

Hello Guys, My ASN is having trouble interpolating visibility. No matter what setting I use I get a visibility of 9.0 SM (9999+ m). I set maximum surface visibility to 8SM and it only applies to stations that have active or current weather metars, but for other stations that are fully interpolated by ASN the visibility is always 9.0 SM (9999+ m). everything else works perfectly. Example. DNMM 171036Z 09304KT 9999 NOSIG 32/16 Q1013 RMK ADVANCED INTERPOLATION Decoded textual weather for DNMM Wind: 093 at 4 knots Visibility: 9.0 SM (9999+ m) Clouds: None Reported Temperature: 32.0C Dewpoint: 16.0C Precipitation: None reported Altimeter: 1013 mb (29.92 inches) Surface winds calculated from the closest data grid point Surface temps calculated from the closest data grid point Visibility interpolation based on: -DBBB 58nm SW (2000), DXSK 194nm NW (5000) Altimeter interpolation based on: -DBBB 58nm SW (Q1013), DXNG 233nm NW (Q1018) Precipitation based on extended grid weather data

Some of the issues raised here have been mentioned on the FAQs page of FSX Insider. http://www.fsxinsider.com/faqs/

or a 727. but all i can do is dream.

These days with the numerous amount of aircraft addons being released, I am very picky on which ones I purchase. Milviz B732 and the NG's are awesome but I don't see myself buying a 777 because I will fly it just once. Personally short range classics and Bizjet keep my sim and real life flying very interesting. But if due to popular demand pmdg releases a space shuttle.....[emoji17]. Anyways its all about numbers and business. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I hope their next project could be a vintage classic like B727 which has the -100, -200, -200Adv and S27 variant. Or a business jet like the hawker series with the 700-900 series. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Was hoping for updates on the BBJ series and ER's but hey just fly the 737 with 10pax that should simulate a BBJ.[emoji12]

-An option to request local weather at airports without ATIS would be nice. Both for arriving aircrafts and aircrafts on ground. -Adding takeoff time during the handover to departure will also be nice, and landing time when told to taxi to the stand. (ear candy) -finally an option to request direct routing to a fix would be great...with ATC denying the request sometimes

I also noticed that my destination weather is fully set at about 4 miles to land, visibility could go from 10km to the metar's 1500m when i am about 5-4 miles in the ils. Is it possible to set a wider radius and ceiling for arrival like 30 miles and 10000ft so the conditions don't drastically change on final approach.

Is the GRIB data the same as NOAA winds aloft data. I remember trying to plan a flight and had five different winds aloft data. NOAA was different from OPUSFSX GRIB which was different from activesky6 or evolution, data from FOREFLIGHT app on the iphone didn't match any of those above. it was really confusing. an example, in africa the winds aloft for say FL340 by NOAA is usually -42C, OPUSFX gives me -38C with winds significantly different.does anyone has any clarification as to the inconsistences. John D

I hope PMDG will try the biz jet arena. HS125 or hawker4000, gulf stream series, falcon 7x or 900, challenger 600 or global express or a proper learjet.

I hope the BBJ's come out soon too. I think flying a B737-700 with about 6-10% could be close to a BBJ's operational weight.

Those Few words tell a lot. That's all we asked for. Happy to know its still in the works.