twister1853

Hi Anyone tried Pro-flight simulator?

Many thanks for the info'. I've had a look at the Night Environment X Demo (Berlin): quite impressive. So I'll get for California. I have MSE X Lower South California so far and MSE Washington Western. The rest is default. Regards. Ray

Thanks for the clarification. I've looked at the documentation for the version of MSE Socal I purchased in 2007. It did indeed have night lighting. I thought when I upgraded to MSE X for the same area, it would also provide night lighting, but you say not. So are the blocks of lighting I see, a break-through of the default lighting and how can this be when using photo' scenery sitting on top of the default? I always thought default scenery was blanked out when over-laid with active photo' scenery. But there we go - I learn every day. Kind regards. Ray

The scenery is ulra high resolution MegaSceneryEarth 4X and it does have night lighting. It just that with my settings, there are large black rectangular blocks. It ocurs even with all scenery sliders maxed out. I am unable to locate a user manual for MegaSceneryEarth 4X and hence can't check the recommended settings. Ray Also, do not get this feature with the former normal res' MegaSceneryEarth 2 scenery, eg Washington Western.

Hi In nighttime, I'm getting rectangular blocks with no lights showing in Megasceneryearth LA California. Does the slider positions in the scenery display have any effect on this? I'm running FSX on a high spec. PC. Ray

Hi, I am affected by two problems recently: 1) when choosing the Cessna C172SP Skyhawk - Glass screen, the two glass screens appear 'black'. 2) when switching views with photo' scenery, ocassionally the scenery becomes distorted and messed up. Can anyone suggest how to sort this out? Thanks. Ray

Hi, I am finding that when I bring aircraft to a complete stop with the brakes at zero throttle (F1), the aircraft then starts to creep forward when the brake on the joy stick is release in FSX. I use a Microsoft Sidewinder Precision Pro joystick with FSX. Are there any settings I could check? Ray

Thank you Joe for that. I've had further precise information from the provider of the scenery, as to what happens with my proposal to load their scenery in a different drive to that of FSX: By copying the FSX.exe into the E drive you would enable our installers to install the scenery there. The actual FSX.exe which you copied into your E drive is of no value for the simulator itself. You still need to start FSX from the D drive. Therefore it is important that you COPY the files there and do NOT cut and paste it! The FSX.exe still needs to be in the D drive for your FSX to run and this is also from where you still have to start FSX. I'll give it a go. Ray

Hi, I have my Operating System on drive C and flight simulator FSX on drive D. I try to keep my scenery on drive E. I would like to install Switzerland Professional scenery and I understand, with my drive arrangement, It would automatically be loaded with the FSX on drive D. I asked the provider for the mechanism for loading their scenery on drive E. I have got the following advice: you can select the path for the installation in the setup. Automatically the path where your FSX is installed will be selected. To change it to another path manually you need to have an FSX.exe located there. Just copy the one from your main FSX folder into the other path where you want to install the addon and then point the installer there manually with the "Browse" button in it. When I look at the FSX folder in drive D, I see lots of sub-folders and files, including the fsx.exe. By copying only the fsx.exe on drive D into drive E, does this mean that I would not have all the contents of the FSX that is on drive D? Would any of these contents be needed when running the Switzerland scenery? Would I effectively have two FSX's installed, one on drive D and one on drive E ? I normally just click the FSX icon on my taskbar to launch the flight simulator on drive D. With this new arrangement, would it be sufficient only to click fsx.exe on the drive E when launching the Switzerland scenery? Would this setup cause any conflict between the two FSX’s and my other scenery? Ray

Hi. I've been installing scenery from DVDs and have met an installation error with one DVD. The error shows: D:\FSX\\UK2000scenery\UK2000scenryVolume1\options.exe A decompression error has been detected (#5) Could not open output file I'm given the option, Abort/cancel/ignore. If I ignore and proceed, the scenery seems to install but viewing the contents of the scenery folder, a necessary application file options.exe is not showing. Any advice on these 2 features would be appreciated. Ray

Thanks Christopher for the direction. I'll go to the Scotflight site and find out what I've had from them in the past. Ray

I felt I had to record my sincere thanks to AVSIM for the help I received recently on 2 topics that I posted. They each received no fewer than around 40 posts each from the moderator Jim Young, as I struggled to correct things. In particular, he kept the faith that with his help, I would get there in the end and achieve a satisfactory result. For an amateur like myself this Forum has proved invaluable. No doubt there may be other problems in the future with my FSX but for the time being I'm flying again, thanks to AVSIM. :smile:

Thanks Christopher - I have VFR Airfields for England & Wales but can't find the Scotflight DVD. Regards. Ray

Hi Christopher: I seem to have got the England, Scotland & Wales VFR Scenery loaded back into FSX. There is one feature that I am unclear about: in the Scotland Volumes, I see the scenery that I have added to the FSX Scenery Library. There are also other folders such as Airports in Volumes 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 which I persume would have also been loaded if I had used the DVD's. Do I also add these to the FSX Scenery Library as I have done for the relevent scenery? Ray

Christopher: does it matter the order in which these scenery folders are added? My original installation of the sceneries shows the order as 1.2m Photo 2.4m Night 2.4m Photo 4.8m Mesh I also have all the Scottish Sceneries but will need to load Ireland from the DVD's. Thanks. Ray