Busterbvi

This is the way to go for Huey fans, with its working mini guns, rockets etc you can re-create a similar attack scene (not Vietnam) from the movie Apocalypse Now. Excellent detailed model and flies nice. Great Huey sound-pack. Add a bit of "Ride of the Valkyries" :smile: DCS is free and the aircraft modules are the best you will find.

To the O.P. It depends what you like really, American or British, the Milviz F4 phantom and F15 are superb. The Aerosoft F14 Tomcat and the Just Flight Tornado GR1 are all excellent choices, I have them all. The Razbam Harrier is a cracker also. If dog-fighting is your thing, take a look at DCS World.

I have my FPS locked at 30 and V-sync set to half refresh rate in NI as per Kostas tweaks, silky smooth in FSX and P3D. Kostas tweaks solved my headaches years ago !

Thanks for all the input chaps, I got it sorted, I habitually fly from my local former RAF St Athan using runway 26. I went into "CURRENT LOCATION" to check the settings and found it on "ACTIVE RUNWAY" re set it back to runway 26 and job done !! Works fine now. Cheers. Buster.

Not starting from a saved flight, I dont save flights. My planes always loaded up on the centerline of the runway, now its off on the far right side, the veer left is more of a turn, quite violent and impossible to control, this is not torque that just needs a bit of rudder input, something badly wrong here.

Seasons greetings to the forum. A new problem has just started in my FSX, when the plane loads (ready to fly) it is on the right side of the runway, when you power up to go it veers sharply to the left out of control. All my planes are doing it. I have re-calibrated my CH Fighter stick and I don't use pedals. Any ideas why this is happening chaps ? Cheers, Buster.

I've always been puzzled as to why makers of throttle controllers have overlooked this, so nice to have the basic essentials of flight controll on the stick or throttle so you dont have to take your eyes off the screen to hit F2 when landing. Many throttles have a useless idle detent, if you close the throttle you know its at idle !! why not make the detent for reverse thrust & prop feather ? Just sayin

I'm not 100% sure on this but I believe this has reverse thrust after the idle position ? Saitek Three Lever Pro Throttle Quadrant (PZ45) Perhaps another member can confirm as I need one too ! Buster.

Wish I was there, nice fire, I could have got close for a warm & chuck some spuds in !

I had complete success with Word Not Allowed's FSX guide using a stock 4770k and GTX580, FSX runs like a dream.

I had the same problem when downloading Milviz stuff. I turned off AV and Windows Firewall, during download and installation then back on after. That fixed it for me.

If you can get 60FPS with a complex plane at a complex airport then you are certainly going to get a consistent 30FPS if you are locked at 30. I fly the PMDG 747 and 737 NGX from Heathrow and Gatwick X and it runs like a dream.

I think you misunderstand, below 27 FPS film or computer rendered motion becomes less fluid, above 27FPS it becomes fluid so 30FPS is the sweet spot. To the naked eye, graphics or film motion looks exactly the same at 30FPS as it does at 60FPS. The point is, anything above 30FPS is completely pointless. Flight simers that crack on about getting 60FPS in these forums do make me laugh ! Locking your FPS at 30 frees up your hardware to handle other tasks more efficiently instead of grinding away producing unessesarily higher FPS. My Brother is an Optician and a flight simer so I do know my facts sir !

30 FPS is perfect, you don't need any higher. 30 FPS is as fast as the human eye can see, pre digital age, movies were shot at 27 FPS. Lock your FPS at 30 and use the half refresh rate tweak. Overclocking a 4970 is unnecessary, I use a stock 4770 and FSX runs like a dream on a Z87 and 8GB RAM with a GTX580.

There really is no problem with your OS and FSX on the same drive, however, for disaster recovery it makes sense and life easier if the OS is on a separate drive for a cleaner set up. I use a 120GB SSD for the OS and my FSX and other games and apps are on a 1TB Samy Evo. Shove your OS on a 120GB SATA 6 SSD, they are cheap enough now. If you do put everything on one drive, do not install FSX into its default installation path. Follow this guide from the well respected PMDG for a hassle free and clean installation. http://support.precisionmanuals.com/kb/a87/how-to-uninstall-and-reinstall-fsx.aspx Buster.