Levkov

Well, after several years of using the NGX, I started having issues. Today when I parked on the gate and started preparing for my next flight, both of my FMCs have become totally unresponsive, left one shoving landing ref page but with some missing numbers, and the right one (which I haven't used) showed the first init page it does when its powered on. None of the buttons on fmcs seamed to do anything, both in vc and in 2d popup. All of the other displays worked just fine. This issue has occured multiple times over the last month or so, and, even stranger, exact same issue occured on my Majestic dash8q400, fmc frozen and displays working.

A weird thing happens whenever I fly the NGX lately, my FPS is hanging around 13-16 and it usually is around 24+. My GPU usage as shown in my msi afterburner is 0. Sometimes, after a lot of alt tabing, hitting escape, opening some other stuff in background something goes wright, GPU usage goes back to 60ish and performance goes up to normal where it remains for the rest of the flight. It happens in some other planes (for example a2a b-17), but it never happens in their 180 for example. I am at my whits end, I have googled everywhere, and tried pretty much everything. I have a Radeon R9 280 GPU with 3gb ram, core2quad q9505 cpu, 6gb of ram. Currently on ati catalyst 14.12 omega. [please delete the other topic, accidentaly clicked twice]

I say why not, I actually don't know of any other forum that allows image uploading, so I am used to uploading them to storage sites and linking here...

In which axis are you getting the issues, for elevators and ailerons, pots are magnetic so just open the cover and blow out any dust from the casing. If it is the rudder, it is probably the pot itself so you need to open it and clean the inside of the pot with tuner spray or isopropil alcohol. Another possible cause is the wiring to the pots which can get damaged, in that case, you need to change the default wires which are rather thin and flimsy with your own, you will need a soldering iron for the job. Bear in mind that all of the above void your waranty, and I am not in the least responsible for any damage you might cause to your controler.

I have finally solved this, open your fsuipc.ini file and delete any reference to brake axis, it works for me now for both the NGX and MD-11. Use fsx default settings for brakes

This incident demonstrates the power of the comunity. A lot of people contributed when problems arose. I am fairly confident that, even if all the data was lost, the website would have been resurected to former glory. Little ones and zeroes on a hard drive can be deleted, but there is one place that no man can penetrate no matter how hard he tries: our minds. Everything on the forums and in the file library has been made by people who had no financial benefit for their actions. Even if all the files were deleted, we still have the knowledge and love for aviation to do it all over again. I truely hope that AVSIM will outlive all of the people who are reading this today.

I found a fix for this guys, assign your brakes in FSX and manually delete all brakes reference in FSUIPC.ini file.

I had experienced these issues before while making repaints, my first guess would be to check if the repaint has been made correctly, sometimes, you just miss that little spot all the way to the edge. Also, check if you have the latest version of your NGX, this was talked about in the forums a while back, but then it stopped so it may have been an issue corrected in a patch...

Yeah, that would be my guess. You can also reinstall the plane and it will fix it.

Your fonts are missing, contact PMDG support via a ticket and they will probably be happy to send you the replacements, or reinstall the bird. I am sure a lot of the users would send them too, but it would be a violation of copyright.

Yes, but the switch should pop out, and it just rotates to auto in the simulator...

Now, I might be wrong, but I think that you should press the switch before rotating it from auto to ground in a real plane, but in the sim, it just rotates. Is the animation wrong?

Oh shucks tom_876, I am flatered. Back to the point. You can reenable accu feel if you want, just remember to increase the Vne and Mne sliders. P.S. You are required to sign your posts with your full name, I recomend adding it to your signature. Cheers

You shouldn't grease the inside of the pots with regular lube, it is good you used silicon one, I would still recomend cleaning it thouroughly with tuner spray (or redneck alternative, iso-propil alcohol, or even more redneck rubing alcohol, the higher concentration the better), and elevator and aileron pots are magnetic so they don't nead anything but blowing away dust. And make sure to calibrate it using fsuipc.

I am writing an article on those and many other issues as we speak. Most of the time, just blowing out the dust will help, followed by using tuner spray (for cleaning rudder and throttle pots). Sometimes, the wiring fails, I will publish a detailed guide for that next week.