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If it's real, it'd be one hell of a simulator...I'll believe it when I see it though :ph34r:

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Great Update guys!  Can't wait for the 300ER.  Helped me get my mind off the referees blowing the Raptors-Nets game :angry:

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Personally, I like the CYYT-EGLL-CYYT route that Air Canada does in the ETOPS A319.  Only about 5 hours to cross the pond, which stretches the 319's range.  You need all the power you can get getting out of CYYT, especially with full pax.  Usually, winds are challenging in St John's, with early fog, so things get interesting

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I agree with you with the 787 part (I didn't pick the 787 despite wanting it in PMDG form) as it is developed by Quality Wings. However, from what I know, the A380 and the A330 was developed by Wilco but it didn't stop Aerosoft from developing an A320/A321 Extended (that was developed by Wilco) or even PMDG from making a 777 (also made by Wilco).

These products were old, outdated, and not exactly up to par.  If the new ones coming up will be up to par, then why try and make something on top of something else that was made to make another thing better.  Thing

I will now crawl out from under my internet rock and say something, as this seems to happen a lot.  A quick search of here, or using a new fangled thing like Google, will tell you that the 787, A380, and A330 are all currently being developed, or are planned to be by other companies.  They all look fairly decent in quality as well.  Although customers are what keep companies rolling, this isn't PMDG's first rodeo.  They know what is optimal to put out on the market.  Besides, we already have multiple excellent aircraft out from PMDG, so we should enjoy those while PMDG makes their educated and executive business decisions B) 

Now, to slowing return to the deep, dark depths of the internet :ph34r: 

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I tested GPU settings and found that they had no effect whatsoever on the VAS load - stuff like AA is done entirely on the video card and never "gets out" into the main process memory for the application - FSX could care less and has no idea what AA setting you're forcing in the video driver.

I realize that it isn't supposed to help, but my VAS dropped significantly with it vs the 4xS settings, etc.  Maybe I just got lucky with my tweaking.  Seems that's what I'm relying on most trying to fight FSX.  Luck <_<

This is my personal experience, and I don't know if it'll work the same for others, but using the "8xSQ" settings in Inspector keeps me well away from OOM's.  You can play around with it a bit to get the best settings.  In case you haven't seen it, there is a pin showing ideal Inspector settings, and 8xSQ is one.

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Ryan

I don't think it is really whether it is 'good' or not, it is what works best for your computer and GPU.  I started with Ryan's settings, and then tweaked them to get the best performance, usually in the area of antialiasing.  Nonetheless, Ryan's settings will still provide a world of a difference as is.  

Hope this helps,

Hey Everyone,

Lately, I've been flying the MD-11 a lot, and one thing I have noticed is that the taxi and landing lights are very far in the distance, and slightly displaced.  I looked around on these and other forums, and saw that it may be a conflict with my weather program, AS2012.  I tried unchecking the option to use AS's lights, uninstalled the MD-11, and no luck.  I'm wondering if anyone has any other solutions.  Also, I was planning on purchasing Shockwave lights from A2A, would that also solve it?

Thanks,

Are you sure you are landing on a runway that is CATIII capable?  If not, then you can't carry out a full autoland.  And besides, landing is the best part.  Why sit back and let the plane do it for you? B)

Looks amazing!  :Applause: Well worth the slight wait :good:

Are you guys positive you're not seeing a temperature related issue here? Especially in station weather mode it's very common to see FSX go nuts with the temperature and start setting it to unrealistically high values - this will stop the plane from climbing or maintaining altitude dead in its tracks because it's making already thin air even thinner with the huge temp increase.

 

I've never heard of any specific issue related to icing with the MD-11 at support here in the many years its been on the market - we definitely did not model any effects of icing in the flight model or anything.

Hi Ryan,

The message was there saying it was icing, but I've heard of that temperature glitch, where it decides to skyrocket.  I was getting a reading of -47C at the time.  I'm flying back across the pond next Monday, so I'll see what happens then. 

I'll use the Jet A1 next flight.  Sounds pretty convincing to me :clapping:

As I said in the first post, I get a warning saying there is ice detected, so I turn the ant-ice ON, and it goes away, but I still can't maintain altitude and airspeed.  Eventually, it would go in and out of protection mode, put still wouldn't fully recover.  I think that it was the combination of the cloud icing, headwinds and turbulence that did it, because I am now flying in clear skies, having no issues

Nuts. Take it right to zero, and look for ALL sliders related to icing. If this doesn't work, we have a problem. I wonder if there is anything in the FSX sliders that account for icing? Might look under a/c realism settings just in case. Also try in the FSX weather window. It should be overridden by AS, but you never know.

I put them down to 0, and I still could barely climb.  And the MD-11 said that ice was still being detected.  Tried the FSX weather didn't work.  I'm baffled

Yeah, I think I'm getting the same thing in the J41. Go into AS2012's Options pane and I believe there is a setting for icing (not certain as I'm not at home right now). Reduce that down a bunch and see if that helps. It could be AS is able to deliver a whole lot more icing than what the airplane can handle. If you reduce it by 70% or so and it helps or fixes the problem, then you'd be able to keep the effects but the airplane would be able to keep up with it. Worst case scenario, reduce it to zero and that should get rid of it entirely.

 

Let me know if you try that and if it works.

 

Glenn

Thanks.  It was a good idea, and I reduced it to 20% (it was under cloud icing), but it didn't work.  I definitely thought that that one would work.

And it's happening again now.  Thunderstorms over Ireland.  Can't hold speed, even with full throttle.  I even put anti ice on before I was even close to the clouds, and I still am not really going through any.  This is really annoying 

My first thought would be... Why are you flying through a thunderstorm?

Usually it isn't even through the thunderstorm, it's near it, and I'm just getting severe icing and turbulence from it.  Still haven't figured out how to deviate for weather

Ryan, does your indicated speed drop to really (ridiculously) low values? Does the IAS recover after so and so many seconds?

It drops, and barely stays over stall speed, but it never recovers.  It sounds like it would be icing, but the warning goes away...

Hi,

I've had this happen twice to me already, and it has also happened to a friend of mine.  I use ActiveSky 2012, and I am flying through bad weather, usually a thunderstorm, at cruise.  I then get a message saying "Ice Detected", so I turn on the anti-ice, and the warning goes out.  But then, moments later, I will start to lose altitude, and won't be able to hold speed, even at full power.  I'm wondering if the conflict is with ActiveSky.  Sorry if this has been solved already, but I want to get to the bottom of it.

Thanks,

Ryan