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If you do not own the payware FlyTampa scenery, and you want a better, more accurate scenery/AFCAD than default, then this is a MUST GET! You can download it from the AVSIM library here: http://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?DLID=195938 This is just a FREE scenery without advanced textures. Native P3D objects used, with the exception for the Ground Marking and the Concourse-D terminal, that are done using Google Sketchup. Looks basic, but accurate, and it works. After hard work getting things to work the way i wanted, here's a scenery update for OMDB. This update will help those not owning FlyTampa payware to use an accurate airport based on the FlyTampa skeleton. This scenery is based on Google maps and the FlyTampa base AFCAD (default FSX/P3D AFCAD). Every Runway, Gate and taxiway is right on the actual spot with a very small error margin. The new Concourse-D terminal for airlines other than Emirates is now added, with a basic terminal building design using Google Sketchup for better visuals. So, What's changed from default and the FlyTampa? - The new Concourse-D terminal east of the existing Terminal 1. Terminal replaces the old Emirates Sky Cargo terminal, and servers all other visiting airlines. - Apron Q used by FlyDubai is added. - Extra runway rapid exits added. - Extra parking gates in the C apron according to the latest charts. - Extra Taxiways connecting to the runways according to the charts. - Ground marking for Gates and taxiways! (A, B, C, D and F aprons). - Placed FSX/P3d default Dubai scenery objects to add a little bit of life around the airport and the city. I haven't added neither any of the new G stands, not the S parking stands. I will do that in a following update. Appreciate positive comments and critique! Regards,

Great read, thanks for sharing. I would like to add that, as of May 2015, EK has increased the Cost Index for all flight except for the ULRs to CI 200. Initial increase was to CI 400, as fuel prices plunged, then brought down to 300, then 200. There was an endless debate on the forums regarding that decision. ULR flights, across the Atlantic and Cargo flights are using a CI 66. The change enables EK to enhance the OTP and protect connections. (If only it wasn't for the DESDI hold... ) Now to the PMDG: the PMDG seems to burn less fuel than the fuel burn increase calculated by PFPX for the same burn bias. For example: If you use a Cruise fuel burn bias of 96.5% for a default CI 66-70, planning for a higher CI of 200 would return more fuel than the PMDG would burn at that CI. This is probably something that would be fine-tuned within the fuel burn logic of the PMDG. To counter that effect, if I'm to plan for a CI 200 flight, I'd enter CI 350 into the FMS to be close to the fuel burn suggested by PFPX. Enjoy your high-speed flights!

Actually, I just noticed that the dynamic head movement has completely disappeared with the latest 737 SP! I do not fly much with the VC, however, I just noticed that while pushing back and starting the engines today during push back. I was at ENGM and not sure if this has anything to do with the northern latitude. Will try again from Dubai or further south to see if I get any DHM. Regards,

That may require more research then if it is a 5.1 bug. I think I will just go by the quick two presses, the wailer and siren always disturb my baby's sleep lol.

To everyone who asked whether we are hitting the AP disconnect button twice, I didn't have the time to go into length and explain in details: I have chosen the 2 press option and performing two presses works perfectly. The problem which started either after the installation of SP1b or after configuring 5.1 sound on my computer is that if I press the disengage button on my yoke once, the walier sound starts which makes sense, but there's no way to disable that wailer by a thousand more presses on the disengage button and even by reengaging the auto-pilot, nothing works other than changing the sound device to let's say the HDMI yhen back to the default one through the fms sound options page. Looks like a bug to me and I shall be logging a ticket if no one rlse has done so.

I think that this maybe be related to the sound configuration on machine. I started to have this problem that the AP wailer won't go silent even with a 1000 presses. I didnt have this problem prior to installing the 5.1 sound set. If I do the 2 presses quickly and the wailer doesn't go off, that's not a problem. The only was to silence it was to go to the sound settings in the FMS, then changing the sound device to a different one, then back again to the default device. That's pretty troublesome when flying online with atc.

AffinityMask=14 worked for me without a single freeze for the whole 7 hour 11 minutes flight last night. Before that AffinityMask=7 worked as well but apparently the first core was shared with the other apps so 7 wasnt as smooth as it was yesterday.

From long 8 minutes to ZERO freezes. I'm a happy customer. AffinityMask 14 seems to be the setting I wanted for a quadcore processor hyperthreaded. I would only fall back by a second or two if I change tasks while in the sim. So I confirm the above for affinityMask 14.

I'm having that and it triggers my OC'ness and is quite annoying. I have reinstalled FSUIPC in order to make the weatehr radar to work, which it did. I will try what you said with a freshly created FSX.cfg and see how things work. I'm hating my VC performance and I have nothing to lose.

Just an update on the topic. I have tested a security emergency diversion to Shannon EINN while En route Cairo to JFK. The RTE2 worked flawlessly and I did not lose VNAV information, and LNAV/VNAV took my 777 down to the runway without a glitch, except for me taking control on final and doing a very unstable final approach Here's the URL for the stream recording: http://www.twitch.tv/dynamania/b/553747546 I won't be logging a ticket for now. I could not reproduce the issue.

Just a quick follow up: I went out and just got back home and 10 hours 43 minutes into the flight and the UTC time is dead smack with the pc time where I left it. That means that no freezes happened since I left. This is happy new. My understanding is that my i7 2.20Ghz processor is physically 4 cores but virtually 8 cores. How doea the affinitymask 7 work in this case?

Finally the affinitymask=7 seems to have solved it for me with my i7 processor. Brilliant.

I have just tried a diversion to FNLU with the -300ER while enroute from Sao Paulo to Dubai last night, and the FMS got screwed up when activating the RTE2, as i've lost the VNAV and startedto get errors but managed to land as the ILS saved the day. I think this is not yet fixed in the SP1 release.

I second that. I am somehow relieved that the freezes are being investigated. I've tried everything: tweaking, GPU and processor fan control, the pauses are just 10 minutes long and just heart shattering, Other than that, the PMDG 777 is something the programmers who worked on should be very, very, very proud of.

Nah I'm alright Work and my little junior are keeping me busy. I too reckon that they will release the airplane on a weekend, surprises might happen though.