DarkstarF16

Thank you so much for your help. I have the spec of the PC as he was very sure on what he wanted it to have. Once I have sorted out all the other details I need to go through I will take some pictures. Thanks again for your help

My husband DarkstarF16 was an avid virtual pilot and had built himself a cockpit at home with a high tech PC I brought him for his birthday in Feb this year.

Sadly he passed away, suddenly and unexpectedly on the 3rd December. I will need to at some point find a new home for all his equipment, because although I knew he loved it. I knew very little about it.

I am looking for some guidance on how to find the right home for all the technology he had.

Thank you for taking the time to read this and for also taking the time to reply.

Jo

Are you sure? Granted, I only have one experience to fall back on but when my instructor radioed the airport, Manchester (EGCC) lit up like a Christmas tree and I was in no doubt where the runway was. It was early afternoon on a bright but cloudy day. We weren't 10 miles out but I'd be surprised if on an average night you couldn't see them from at least that distance give or take a miles or two.

Ive worked with China and India. The only thing that's different is they have a different culture to ours.

Holy Cow! Finally! The vision is beginning to unfold.

 

I referred to it as creating a "Virgin Earth" allowing anything and everything conceivable to utilize the planet that is created.

 

Stephen B.

Haha, we'll we be both (and some others too) know that is the way forward and how to fund this project successfully. Imagine the whole world playing in a virtual world! How cool is that? We could all talk to each other too in a common language. And yes, that can be done. I'm playing a virtual game right now where the majority of the wolds languages are translated in real time.

So at the risk if kicking my own dead horse, this is why I've believed that simply a flight simulator will just not cut it in today's market. People crave variety, different things to see and do and try. All planes all the time at this point, is a proven low-draw concept, and trying the same thing repeatedly and hoping for a different result is not logical.

 

(Kicks horse, sees a twitch.... shrugs)

 

Its why I keep suggesting something that's more than just a flight sim. Something that can expand into other genres and draw a wider audience.

From a funding perspective and from the "wow I must have that software" perspective I completely agree with you.

We need to think about how can we use "what's out there" to our advantage, to get whet we want. What can be created that's a multi platform simulation, let's call it an earth simulation, that will interest not only the flight sim community but many others too.

I simply feel that although some really good points have been made, the whole community is insular. We need to think BIG we need to think what else can be offered that will interest not just us, but a much wider audience.

The simple question is, what is a simulator trying to simulate? Take away the airplane and what are you left with? The software needs to simulate the planet in such a real way that everyone will want it.

This planet simulation will have real people driving cars, trains, taking their virtual pets for a walk. The virtual farmer ploughing his field. All this, in real time with real people doing their own virtual thing. Meanwhile, we will be flying our virtual aircraft under virtually controlled airspace into virtually managed airports.

Perhaps Ive gone a little way over the top! Just trying to make a point.

So...

The question is... how do we help people to understand that a next generation flight simulator is really as close as we want it to be?

 

Stephen B.

Personally, I think its as close as we want it to be. This reminds me so much of a project I was involved in (and ultimately led) where we took a bunch of unrelated emerging technology and knitted it into something completely new that had not been done before. It was not easy and the sceptics said it could not be done. How wrong were they?

Personally, I think your biggest asset is momentum. This needs to be nurtured and used to full advantage.

Bri.

For those of you where it's not working...

Sometimes when performing copy and paste you may lose a carrage return and a line will end up under the comments ('--') so will not work. Just make sure that each individual line appears as it does in the OP in your lua file and you should be good to go.

Thanks for the great explanations Rob, I see now where some of the tools you have been mentioning would materialise from and how they could be extreamly useful. I also see a dilemma, a fault finding tool by default will point to a problem. you then need some method of fixing the problem other than crude extraction, e.g. Uninstall

Your settings for LOD and autogen are rather high at EGLL and the 777 reload the airport and select it's lowest settings from the installer. Then turn autogen to NORMAL and LOD down ONE or TWO notches. Or, turn them to the left completely and report back the MOST important thing with EGLL is to use the UK2000 configuration tool and turn off everything and select the lowest settings. Turn off ORBX EU and if you have ORBX vector turn off all the secondary roads etc. I notice you have cloud shadows turned on also, worth checking just to test.

A week or two back I had forgotten that I'd left the Aerosoft night lighting enabled and at EGLL I couldn't even look round and got OOM within 30seconds on the ground in a default plane. I had escaped the wife for a little while and thought I'd go for a quick spin round and of course it all ended in ding dong OOM Llying in bed that night it suddenly dawned on me what had changed.

Probably late to the party but I run UK2000 extreme (EGLL) and very early on I had to load the airport with its lowest settings otherwise I'd OOM on the ground using the NGX. It still won't play with ORBX EU and the NGX. those three in combination guarantee an OOM on the ground for me. If I want to fly out of EGLL in the NGX I have to turn off ORBX EU and use lower settings.

I completely concurre that identification is the main ingredient. As an example, when I was on the technical side with a major retailer and DVD was introduced, as a company some off our players would not play certain disks. Some major manufacturers also had this problem with their players. Was it the disk or was it the player? As you can imagine arguments ensued. I was given the unenviable task of finding the solution.

The dvd consortium issued two huge documents one was for the player manufacturers and one for the disk manufacturers. Call it the SDK of player and disk manufacture/authoring. Of course, as you mention, everything was written and made by humans. Like all documents of this type, some things were clear and some things were open to interpretation. A DVDs player is like a computer it has to have its own operating system written and it had to have the correct memory etc. The disk had to be authored so it too was reliant on a computer programme being written to correctly author the disk according to the SDK. So, was it the player? Was it the Disk? Was it the authoring tool? Who was suffering? Everyone! We were getting returns of players, the retailers selling the disks were getting returns and the big studios releasing blockbuster movies were not happy.

To cut a long story short, before a certain first for DVD blockbuster title was issued by one of the worlds biggest studios, so sales were expected to be huge I was already working with them to find the problem. Let's just say that by this time the legal eagles were starting to extend their tendrils so their was a lot of pressure. We brought together the manufacturers the studios and the authoring houses and because of one certain disk (a little like you finding the BGL) step one was accomplished.

People that say the words "bad code" simply show their lack of experience. Finding problems is about the detail and sometimes bringing all the different parties to the table. It's all about finding the hook and sometimes facilitating to solve the problem. In my example above, knowone had made an error everyone had done everything correctly, by the book, and the two books were huge. The issue was interpretation in this case. Step two followed quickly but their was also a step three which was solved and by getting everyone to talk and finding the hook, the problem had a resolution. I call it the Appolo 13 solution. The Luner module was made by one manufacturer, the command module by another. NASA issues the SDK and when that one in a million problem occurs, all the parties got together and solved it. Software is no different.

That's what I meant? Unable to serve all requests whilst backing up at the same time is what I'd call stretched.

I see, I misunderstood your post. Either way, you also cannot rule out someone running a DOS script. Either way, it should be traceable.

It's unlikely that the servers are stretched during the times I've mentioned as I would imagine it's a low traffic period.

Because the UK is now on British Summer Time 9am translates to:

4am (0400hrs) on the east coast

1am (0100hrs) on the Pacific coast

6pm (1800hrs) in Australia

And during the working day or end of day for most of Europe Asia etc. the USA is mostly tucked up in bed.

Central America is just getting up and in For Africa it's early to mid morning.

The clockwork regularity points to a server job running somewhere. If I was running jobs, it's logical to set them to run during the period of least traffic when the majority of your users are asleep.

@codechris - your right, it's unlikely to be a DNS issue. I did some quick tests this morning during the down period:

Pinging forum.avsim.net [205.252.89.43] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 205.252.89.43: bytes=32 time=107ms TTL=57

Reply from 205.252.89.43: bytes=32 time=107ms TTL=57

Reply from 205.252.89.43: bytes=32 time=107ms TTL=57

Reply from 205.252.89.43: bytes=32 time=116ms TTL=57

Ping statistics for 205.252.89.43:

Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),

Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:

Minimum = 107ms, Maximum = 116ms, Average = 109ms

Tracing route to forum.avsim.net [205.252.89.43]

over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 * 2 ms 2 ms 192.168.0.1

2 25 ms 21 ms 22 ms host-92-26-144-1.as13285.net [92.26.144.1]

3 24 ms 42 ms 20 ms host-78-151-227-8.as13285.net [78.151.227.8]

4 25 ms 21 ms 22 ms host-78-151-227-5.as13285.net [78.151.227.5]

5 29 ms 30 ms 28 ms host-78-144-10-173.as13285.net [78.144.10.173]

6 31 ms 37 ms 28 ms te7-5.br03.ldn01.pccwbtn.net [195.66.224.167]

7 109 ms 110 ms 111 ms purple.servers.avsim.net [205.252.89.43]

Trace complete.

Bri

I don't have this airport but the implications of your find are interesting and possibly far reaching. Your a star by the way as I would imagine that it took an age to eliminate.

I know zero about BGL's but would imagine that they are a script created either manually or with a scenery programme then compiled. So is it the scenery programme, the compiler or how a particular section of code is handled within P3D?

Rafal (above) mentioned FSX which implies this is old scenery, which further implies that perhaps when it was released FSX didn't OOM because it was not loaded enough with other scenery therefore the issue never showed up?

Perhaps this is a latent bug and what you have found will be amazing. Perhaps I'm making too many assumptions from too little knowledge lol

First point of call is to always calibrate your monitor(s). You can adjust the brightness of the day and night to suit if you follow the instructions. I also use ReShade (a better implementation of ENB) which adds it's own vibrancy which you may or may not need or like. With ReShade you can enable HDR too but I found it too harsh so stick to P3D I use three monitors so it helps me.

I'm sure the passion of the train set enthusiast and the HIFI buffs and the crochet makers and the dry stone wall builders and the list goes on, is just as strong and opinionated as us lot.

The community and the civility of what just happened above is testament to how great it is.

This is an interesting debate so here's my take on things...

...Firstly, I do think we are a community and a close one at that. Our hobby is very niche. Our hobby is also very technical and what we simulate, 'flying' we do with total passion. What we see on our screens is an art form and because of that it's very subjective. Because we each use a multitude of different hardware all set up differently, we each see something slightly different to the next man or woman doing the exact same thing.

Secondly, as a demographic many of us have grown up with this hobby and perhaps have settled into a groove. Another assumption is that maybe some are suffering from grumpy old man syndrome. What this means to me is that some appear more opinionated than others.

Thirdly, we forget because we visit these pages, what we do we do completely on our own. When doing this hobby it's on the whole totally insular. We may use VATSIM to talk to a real person but for the most part we are alone.

Throw all this into the melting pot together with the ingredients mentioned above and you have a recipe for an outstanding diverse community which goes out of its way to help each other and of course have some heated arguments, scrub that, debates, over many subjects along the way. Our moderators do a brilliant job at shutting things down when the fires start burning but deep inside so long as the arguments are respectfull don't you just love em? Hehe. Sometimes the passion goblet runeth over that's humans for you.

Sure, just PM me when the time is right.

Probably over a year ago I contacted Tom regarding this issue. I live in the UK and at the time was getting the HTTP 503 error between 8am and 9am UTC daily. Toms reply was... "I have tried to tell folks in both the UK and central Europe; you have DNS issues along the way to AVSIM. There are at least one DNS system both in the UK and the Netherlands that are causing no end of issues with things like you are seeing. I have no control over those."

It's APPARANT that the DNS issue is still ongoing because now between 9am and 10am daily like clockwork I am unable to access AVSIM.

I have since moved to a completely different location and using a different ISP. However, most if not all the ISP's in the UK probably route though a common DNS server which is still causing issues. Just thought I'd share.

If I can do anything to help let me know.

Have a read through this topic it will help

http://forum.avsim.net/topic/465890-p3d-hdr-brightness-mod-bright-daytime-and-dark-night/#

When you pick up a good book you immerse yourself in the narrative and transport yourself Into the books world with your imagination.

Our book is the computer screen and we're still reliant on our imagination to transport ourselves into the sky. I'm sure many here can empathise with the pain and suffering we endured to reach that place with our endless tweaks and underpowered hardware. Yes it true, the hardware and the tweaks have reached a pinicle where we can attain that mind state and feel satisfied. Or can we?

To date nothing has come close to the feeling I experienced flying SubLogic II on my Amiga. Why? because it fired my imagination and as progress in the genre continued I often compare what I have now to that picture and feeling I have in my head.

A new series of flight sim is emerging. It's embracing flight and I've hitched a ride. So far, it's showing true promise. I wouldn't be here if it weren't for all those that came before it. Whatever software your using, if it transports you to where you want to be why knock it and why change it?

Captivating read... Many thanks for drawing attention to it