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vololiberista, it is not confusing for you since you already knew the above information - since I did not know, then there certainly was confusion - media talking about a second runway when there is clearly already one there = confusion for me. Many thanks to you, and indeed all of you for the useful information, Keith.

ah ok, many thanks for the reply

Would someone please explain why I keep seeing all this talk about building a second runway at Gatwick - there is no mention of the already present second runway. Is it never used or unused for some other reason? In any case it seems strange that it is never mentioned. Keith

Glad it's working for you, all my mce.dlls & fsinsider are where they are supposed to be so that was a different problem to mine.

I'm not sure if it is the same problem. For me, MCE works fine from the gate, and usually up to takeoff. Then suddenly the Comm switch stops working and everything freezes including FSX. When I close MCE, FSX then continues working where it left off. Anyway, I seem to have fixed it, don't know if this will help you. 1)I disabled hyperthreading in my bios. So my i7-4770k is now running with 4 cores instead of 8 virtual cores. 2) I downloaded a small utility called Bill2's process manager. Using this, I set MCE at slightly higher priority than everything else. Since then I have done two flights now without a freeze, so it's early days but one or both of those things seem to have helped, but time will tell.

Unfortunately I spoke too soon, it happened again, so I am putting it all in the AV exclude list and see what happens. Also going to try a small Windows Process Priority manager I used once before which might help. With so many addons running, it might help to lower the priority of some of them and raise MCE a bit.

A reinstall of MCE, so it is the last thing installed, seems to have solved it, just flown KLAS to KLAX with no sign of the problem

Thanks for the suggestion Jethro, but then surely that would happen every single time, and would not allow me to run at all, whereas I can fly normally for several minutes at a time? As stated, I have also had the whole lot running perfectly in the past when I have somehow found the 'magical' installation order. But it definitely is worth doing what you say thanks, I will add them to the excluded list to eliminate this as a possibility.

Does anyone else suffer this? I have also had the problem with previous versions & on my old pc, and it would be good to get to the cause of it. All starts well, & voice recognition is excellent. I get clearance, pushback, and co-pilot Travis is responding to pretty much 99.9%+ commands. Then, during taxi to the active, or during takeoff, I lose use of my PTT button, it just ceases to work. Then everything freezes, FSX included. But if I close the MCE program, FSX then immediately un-freezes and I can continue the flight. I can then restart MCE, and it works for a while longer before doing the same thing again. It has happened before (old pc - different mobo, AMD 960 3ghz quad, 8gb 800mhz ram, HD7950) and I uninstalled MCE plus a few other progs (FSCaptain, UT2, maybe others), then installed in a different order. Eventually I get an install that works very well with zero problem. I now have a new system, (i7 4770k, 8gb 2133mhz ram, HD7950) and the same problem. It feels like a seizure due to memory or software conflict but I would just like to find out what the best order of installation is as I know it all works perfectly once I hit the right combination. Definitely in use when I hit this problem: MCE, UT2, JustFlight A318, FSGlobalX, FSDT KLAS, GSX. Also installed but not always being used at the time: FSCaptain, iFly737NG, DBS GPS. I'm quite prepared to go through the trial and error process again, but just wondered if FS++ or anyone else might have any shortcut solution? Cheers Keith

Found this, don't know if it helps, but someone seems to have got it working: http://forum.avsim.net/topic/247803-saitek-x52-pro/

I don't know if this will help, but it is worth a try. http://forum.avsim.net/topic/420431-a-cure-for-the-flickering-cursor-in-triple-monitors-at-last/

Same here, have had this problem for over a month around 8am to 9am GMT so I no longer try to access the site at that time. Every other site is fine. AVSIM also struggles at other times of day when every other site I visit is fine. Just assumed it was caused by heavy traffic.

Thanks all of you, I shall go for it. Downloading iFly 737NG and FS2Crew right at this moment, Cheers Keith

Hi, I currently use RC4 and MCE for my voice recognition with ATC, and MCE for my co-pilot. I am about to purchase iFly 737NG, and I also like the look of FS2Crew, but every demo video I have seen does not show any voice interaction between the pilot and ATC. Can anyone please confirm that I am able to continue using MCE & RC4 for the voice recognition & talking to ATC; whilst using FS2Crew for the Co-Pilot & crew, checklists etc ? Many thanks Keith

Thanks mwilk, I'll take a look at them regards Keith

well, so far I've only had chance to try it very briefly (download version), but I am impressed with the basic operation of it, i.e. the voice recognition and the format of the sentences seems to be 'comfortable' and immersive somehow; but not so impressed with the voices (quantity or quality), and it also seems to slow my system down a bit as well, so more testing is needed here. I would really like to find some voices that are just a bit better, l don't expect miracles but even RC4 sounds a bit better, and MCE is far superior. It would also be good to be able to try a demo of ProATC x to compare, but I don't think there is a demo for that.

Hi, I'm looking into VoxATC & thinking of giving it a try. Can anyone please tell me 1) why does it cost £45 on voxatc.com, and £85 on rcsimulations.co.uk ? It certainly looks like the full version for £45 on the voxatc site, & I don't fancy paying £85. and 2) Is there no official support site? I see lots of good comments about the software, but I also see lots of annoying points mentioned in this forum, and I'd really like to see one of the developers responding somewhere, to get an idea of what is being addressed in the future, but I have not seen them do so here at VatSim. Thanks Keith

Just a minor report about Jim, not sure if it is possible to correct it without some re-recording. When Jim first introduces himself, he says ' Hi guys, I'm Jim, Jim will provide you with your gorund services'. I assume he was supposed to say 'I will provide ...etc'. Just a minor one, but it sounds wrong. But as always, great job with the updates, thank you for this

Going back to the original post, it depends exactly what you want, but I have another suggestion which might be of interest http://forum.avsim.net/topic/408490-ai-aircraft-sid-and-star-controller/page-1 I don't know how it is with the default ATC, and it is still a work in progress. I have not had chance to try it myself, but it may be (or develop to be) a far better solution than AI Smooth, and can handle sids & stars, so it might be worth investigating. Keith

Thanks jambo & Roland, I'll do as suggested and try the sample airports for a while before deciding to subscribe

Thanks jambo, if they will definitely convert then I would be happy to subscribe, I did download some from navigraph and they were the ones I tried to convert and failed, so I am not convinced they will actually work.

Unfortunately the files I have managed to convert do not work, they just cause the AISidStar program to crash. Roland, for those of us that do not have a PMDG aircraft, do you know of any other source of the correct format files that I can convert, I'd really like to get KLAS, KRNO and others working, sorry to be a pain, I am just struggling to find a suitable source. Regards Keith

Thanks Mike, they are the ones I am trying to use at navdata.at/index.php , there is a long list of pmdg sidstar files, but so far only KLAS has converted for me. EDIT: I've now had some more success by converting some of the older versions in the list, in case anyone should have the same trouble.

Thanks Roland, I'll try one of the other traffic view programs as you suggest. Just one other question - do you know why AIConv crashes when I try to convert some sidstar files? I downloaded some from Navdata, and I successfully converted KLAS, but many others cause the program to stop working (giving a msvcr100.dll error). Thanks again for this great program, Keith

I would appreciate some advice - this program looks really good, but I must be doing something wrong - I selected the 'all airports' .ini file and copied it into the root AISidStar folder. I set AI separation at 5nm, UT2 set to 1, and Maxspawningdistance set to 50 as per instructions. But when I watch the aircraft departures from top down (KLAX), every plane suddenly moves very rapidly once it clears the end of the runway (slews?). Is this correct behaviour? Is there a parameter I can change to stop this happening? Sorry if it's a dumb question, I have read the pdf and watched all the videos but cannot resolve this, Keith