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Shalom and greetings all my pals, Does anybody know what happened to Simcheck the software company that makes A300B4-200s for use of FSX, please?? Regards, Aharon

New windows 11 computer. FSX installed properly, but with UAC turned, on and I had forgotten about the UAC. Now my FSX icon has the dreaded blue and gold shield. I've tried to lower the UAC setting without any successful change of the icon. I think (but I'm not sure) I'm able to access the hidden FSX files in the "roaming" section, you probably know what I'm referring to. However, I've replaced the controls file with my previous saved control file but it's not taking hold and makes no changes within the game. Is that also a UAC function by any chance? How do I; 1) remove blue and gold shield 2) manipulate hidden fsx files correctly from the correct location 3) totally disable UAC? thanks in advance for answers

What is everyone's thought on visibility. I try to use metar and use accurate weather, but I find 10 mile visibility is more like 3-5 mile visibility, and 20 mile visibility is more like 10 mile. Seems it is a little off? I just compared it to 10 mile visibilty in my city the other day and in fsx it seems way too thick by comparison.

ProcSpeed stands for Processor Speed and PerfBucket for Performance Bucket : 2 lines in the FSX.cfg. If FSX builds it's FSX.cfg for the first time those numbers are calculated. You can let calculate this value again (for instance after overclocking the cpu) if you delete this line and let FSX make a new one. - My own i5 2500K overclocked from 3.4 to 4.3 Ghz gives ProcSpeed=17206 / Perfbucket =7 - Bozdog reports his i7 3770K overclocked from 3.5 to 4.5 Ghz with ProcSpeed=10104 - Banjoman1960 with also i7 3770K overclocked from 3.5 to 4.5 Ghz with ProcSpeed=19321 I found this old topic about ProcSpeed and Perfbucket here: http://forum.avsim.n...and-perfbucket/ and read that those values are not important for tweaking, and that FSX uses those values the first time just to set the default slider values. Also: "PerfBuckets range from 1-7 and correspond to Minimal, Very Low, Low, Medium Low, Medium High, High, Ultra High. Procspeed is generated by some code we run on the CPU, to help bucket your CPU. The procspeed and information about your graphics hw contributes to your default PerfBucket setting. Customizing your settings moves you out of the default PerfBucket setting, but there is no "number" for that.They are not used beyond default settings, and we do not "read" the values back out of the config - they are "write only". We use them internally in our labs as extra verification of hw, there is no use in changing them. If you think that changing them is doing something, its not. " (Phase) from: http://www.simforums...topic38699.html > So my question is: are there other things that influence this ProcSpeed number, given the strange results (same processor and speed, different values) if you compare the 2 example i7 processors here that have each 4 physical cores ? Maybe you can give your numbers, so that we can compare them to. I am just curious ....

Good afternoon every one. I reinstall this application (GSX be FSDT) several times, but this erros still appears "The Couatl Scripting Engine has encountered and unrecoverable error and will be restarted". Can anyone to help me?

Hey guys so with Active sky 16, or any weathr addon like fsrealwx or even if i did a custom or preset weather scene within fsx i get the same result. If I am flying a Helicopter i cannot turn, takeoff or land without being blocked from doing so, its like putting maxing input but what ever weather setting is set it doesnt want to turn. I have no idea how to fix this and its very confusing to explain so below is a link to a video showing whats goin on for better clarification. Also I never used to have this problem, currently using FSX + Acceleration and used on windows 7, 8, 10 and 11 and same issue. Any suggestions and help appreciated. Andre.

Hi, I am posting because I am having a problem that I never had before. When I go to select the type of Aircraft i.e Project Airbus, Project Opensky. Those manufacturing companies dont show as selecting aircraft in the aircraft menu so I cannot use them. I am concerned because I spend alot of time adding the plane and spend countless hours putting textures sounds on the aircraft and would be nice to see it in the airaft menu. Anybody else have this problem?? Let me know if you have and what I may do to fix this. That you much. Lee

I tried every thing but it keeps failing it said error on client gethostbyname() [Error=11001] host not found . Can somebody help

There`s a lovely F27 in Avsim`s library (and elsewhere). It`s from Benoit Gaurant who`s a very generous and talented creator from France. I loved his Nordatlas work in FS2004. This is V.1. It`s free and a whole lotta work went into it. It's gonna need repaints. Many of 'em. Me, I've got no concept of how he does it, but I sure do enjoy his work!! Thankyou Mr. Gaurant. There are so many big things wrong with our world. The little things like this do it for me.

Good evening, I am using FSX and own the MDPC Tropicalsim, however I wonder if someone could be kind to signpost me where there is a good freeware Dominican Republic VFR scenery for the entire island that will not effect the existing Punta Cana scenery from Tropical Sim. many thanks

Is the Leonardo Fly the Maddog for FSX still available anywhere? Been looking for it but I've only found the MSFS and P3D version available.

Hi there! I'm just writing because, I have probably hundreds of WOAI flight plans installed. The question is...how can I make a traffic file similar to the one that WOAI makes. i.e. Traffic._000O_wow_Air China_wi17. I noticed that the traffic tools program is native to FS9 and so is the MRAI gen which again is native to FS9, as to the MRAI Installer too. Could anybody please let me know a program I could use in creating that sort of file like mentioned above, it would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. Lee

Went to use P3DWX 3 days ago, got this series of events in my client 10:33: SIMCONNECT connection established 10:33: WX DATA initial download failed 10:33: Connection closed Still am encountering the same issue now. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling to no prevail. Anyone else having the same issue?

First time posting here. Decades of experience with FSX (although I took a break and tried hard to love MSFS2020...too many things regressed instead of progressed there...) Back to FSX! Just bought ORBX sceneries (Base Pack, PNW, and a couple of airports) after trying lots of stuff to make FSX more real and enjoyable. I read LOTS of posts on LOTS of forums. (I'll be posting this on AVSIM as well). I bought Ultimate Terrain X. I bought Megacenery Arizona and California. I downloaded free airport addons. It just wasn't doing it for me. Megascenery added a little realism if I was flying a really high, otherwise it was just lifeless. I wanted better visuals, but something with buildings, trees, etc. A living world! I also tried AI Traffic addons. The only one that worked smoothly and reliably with FSX (Steam Version) was Traffic Global. It took a bit of following instructions in the manual (in other words not super intuitive but easily setup). THAT program really made the airports and sky come alive. Highly recommended!! But I still wanted a better visual environment. So I finally bit the bullet and spent the bucks on ORBX. That gave me everything I wanted. Great scenery, airports, life animation, etc. But when I flew in or out of any mildly busy airport, my FPS wer so low it was almost impossible to enjowy- and landing...forget it! I was really bummed. After all, FSX is decades old and I have a modern computer. FSX ran great before addons. Why couldn't it still run great? I searched forums and found some FSX.cfg tweaks and also recommendations for lowering FSX settings for AI Traffic, ground vehicles, etc. Between the cfg changes and the lowered settings, which lost so little in realism that it wasn't at all detracting, I ended up with such better FPS that I can't believe the difference. I was starting to think that ORBX just was going to kill my FPS in spite of how great it made the FSX world look. So, if anyone using FSX experiiences these performance issues, don't give up. With a few settings and easy text additions to the cfg file, you can have a very smooth running, incrediby improved visual world. What I did: FSX Settings- GRAPHICS Target Frame Rate- Unlimited Filtering- Trilinear Anti-Aliasing- unchecked Bloom and Lens effects- unchecked AIRCRAFT Aircraft Shadows- unchecked SCENERY Level of Detail Raius- Large Mesh Resolution- 38m Tecture Resolution- 60cm Scenery complexity and Autogen density- Dense TRAFFIC Airline density and General aviation density- 46% Airport vehicle density- Low Road Vehicles- 12% FSX.cfg file (located in Users/Your Name/AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/FSX (you may have to select Hidden Folders setting to see AppData...not sure..) Add this at the top of the file: [BUFFERPOOLS] PoolSize=0 Add this underneath "[GRAPHICS]" HIGHMEMFIX=1 Add this under "[Display]" SmallPartRejectRadius=4 I do not know WHY these things work but after trying LOTS of tweaks this one made a HUGE difference in my FPS. ORBX airports like LAX or SEA, which had me getting 10-12 FPS now give me 23-35 FPS ! IMPORTANT!!! Always ackup your cfg file just in case, on your system, this causes issues. Happy Flying Everyone! Pete

Hi, I am used to fly the PMDG 737-800 and like the immersive and realistic aircraft. I now got the Quality Wings 757. Easy to install (just for once for FSX), and it feels kinda realistic. As in the real world, the 757 is slightly overpowered. But there are two things that I wondered on how realistic that is in respect of its behavior: 1. After startup, the aircraft moves upon parking brake release in IDLE power? It's a plane that was fully loaded with cargo and fuel. 2. When adding thrust during takeoff, the plane would take-off by itself without pilot intervention and that isnt at overspeed, but pretty close to v1/vr. Would be great, if anybody could comment on that. Cheers,

I suddenly have no click spots anywhere. No switches, knobs etc respond to mouse clicks. No + / - pop ups, just dead. The aircraft is otherwise totally responsive, i.e. animations, flight controls, etc. I haven't run FSX in a few weeks, been running FS9 lately, but I'm almost certain this happened during my last Duke preflight and when I started FSX today the problem is still there.

Long story short, I went on a mod download bender, and tested hundreds of planes to create my catalog. At first the IRIS F-14 worked fine, I downloaded the Grumman F14 which is also a Dino model. I downloaded the Eurofighter by IRIS as well, and decided to jump into the DC designs F15 and noticed the lights and hud wouldnt turn on, werid, jumped in the eurofighter same thing, jumped in aerosoft F16 same thing, no hud or monitors (MFDs) displaying. Delete, redownload eurofighter, try to recreate, but nothing, all other planes back to normal, EXCEPT the IRIS F-14 tomcat. Which would not display HUD, cabin lights, panel lights, exterior lights, or MFDs (monitors). Okay, so I say you know if I can just swap the interior and/or panels of the Grumman with the IRIS F-14 I'd settle and be happy, nbd. Which is where I need help. STEPS taken so far: 1) not skilled enough to solve the issue out right (no hud, no MFDs, no cabin lights, no panel lights). - Description: When I press L or shift-L the panel lights and/or cabin lights will flicker on for a second and immediately turn back off, like an electrical short. Hud and MFDs completely unresponsive. 2) Swapped model.cfg of the Grumman F14 interior file into the IRIS F14, swapped code. Transferred all panel textures and panel - Results: no interior loaded at all, apparently I can't swap interiors with different exteriors? I assumed since they were both Dino models it might work. 3) Reverted original model.cfg files of the IRIS F14, BUT kept the panel.cfg of the Grumman F14 - Results (lights): IT FIXED THE PANEL LIGHTS AND THE CABIN LIGHTS! YAY -- Adopted the cabin light, exterior lights of the Grumman F14, but kept the red panel lights.. turned out awesome looking TBH - Results: The afterburner effect now turn on when I press "L" for lights 😂 (just visually not sound or thrust) -- Afterburners do NOT turn on when throttle threshold is achieved... but will if I press L - Results: When I flip the Hud, MFDs they now respond, BUT have place holder white box for the HUD, and place holder black boxes for the MFDs... but at least they respond. Day 1 Conclusion: I am stoked I made progress getting the cabin lights to work (and adopted some cool colors in the process). Possible Solutions/Outcomes (what I need help with): Option 1: - since I have placeholders for the Hud and MFDs, its almost as if the original HUD, MFD files for the IRIS are missing, but other than downloading other mod planes, I never altered the IRIS file. -- Replace the HUD and MFDs with new HUDs and MFDs and fix afterburner effect turning on with "L" key --- I believe this is the easiest solution? I know people have put the F18 mod hud in the F14 --- Same with MFDs, I have seen people put GX1000s, beechcraft or boeing MFDs in other planes Option 2: - Complete the conversion of the IRIS F14 to the cockpit OR HUD/MFDs (see option 1). -- I believe it is possible to do a full cockpit swap? or should I just focus on panel swap (option 1)? ----- both cockpits have awesome features, I believe the TACAN works in the Grumman, and with mods works with things like aircraft carriers (glass half full if I can just do a swap). Option 3: - Somehow, someway identify the corrupted file, or rediscover what I am missing? I know for the IRIS- F14, the the panel files are in a cabinet or .cab file. In the Grumman they are individual tiles and textures. Also, I need to fix the afterburners.... -- Redownloading definitely did not help... Option 4: Live with no Hud/MFDs, or delete the plane and move on. -- At the end of the day when I began modding, I only really wanted the Aerosoft F16, I managed to acquire it along with several top notch add ons. Just be happy with what you got. --- In fact, I failed to find two planes in total the F-15 by milviz (well I found it.... but), and the mudhen F15 by iris. So it happens... the F14 does feel a little bird in the hand because it was fully functional when I first downloaded it and it is really well done. The cache 22 is if I would have been around to download these planes in the first place I wouldve cost a lot of money, I am lucky so much payware went freeware to begin with. Please let me know if anybody has a next step I could take, I sincerely appreciate it. -Daniel

Hi there- Im just asking on how can I edit the AFCAD in FSX? I know how to do it in FS9 but not sure of it in FSX. The traffic tools by Lee Swordy is only for 2004 and not for FSX. So, anybody know what program is used to edit them? Any help would be appreciated. Thank You

My request is for Milviz to create a depository like many other top creators have. Possibly license issues, but at the very least, let others continue to enjoy the FSX versions. Honestly I am just looking for the T38A, I can live without the Iris F15, and the Milviz F15, as DC designs has a lot of momentum right now and I wouldn't mind supporting their FSX 32 bit version. Companies like Aerosoft I understand, as they still have a ton of physical products and digital keys being sold for their products, but Milviz FSX is currently vaporware. Thankfully, Iris released his promodel F14, and indiafoxtecho released incredibly former payware --> freeware. I'll probably try the aerosoft version as well, and then call it a day with the DC designs F15. No offense to the talented modders out there, but alot of the freeware doesn't scratch that immersion level. If anyone here is down to do mediafire, DM. Seeing as they are vaporware and converted for free to FS2020. If not, we will all take the plunge into FS2024 together! Until then, I am really enjoying FSX's raw analog feel, no over the top UIs like FS2020.

I fly around and sometimes I can see a watertower but I would like to know if anyone could make some for me. I have pictures if you would like to make them. If you can let me know. Thank You Lee

Ive installed Spad to get my saitek FIP and AP/multipanel working as the logi drivers were doing my head in. While it is a relief to get them working in not much time at all, 24 euros is a little expensive for what should have been a pretty simple task for logitech. I'm a lazy weekend flier and use the OBS exclusively on the FIP and have no need to reassign any commands on the MP. Can anyone give me a good reason to buy or not to buy Spad? Cheers. Edit, I fly VOR using ILS approaches so it's that gauge with the course/heading, nav flag and glide slope ind, etc. It's a standard issue saitek gauge. A word not allowed one at that.

It used to be fairly easy to log on to Orbx and post a problem but it seems sort of difficult now, at least for me. Have not been there in years. Maybe someone has had this same issue. FSX - Orbx - OLC USA - Indiana pyramids

Hi there! I have a whole bunch of World-of-ai flight plans installed. I come across alot of planes that would be cool to have but not sure how to add them without the use of the world-of-ai installer. Is there a way I can do this? Any help would be very much appreciated. Lee

I noticed an old post of someone searching for a quality mission. I too am in search of them. Let me recommend a little known site, FSXMissionsHangar.com, which has MANY quality missions. Additionally it contains many hints and tutorials on the subject of "mission building". It's pretty much devoted to FSX as we wait for the Mission SDK from ASOBO for FS2020. FYI I recently posted a new mission here entitled UA328, designed around the actual flight wherre an engine was lost on takeoff. The plane ultimately circled around and landed safely wiith all fuel, passengers and cargo... an extraordinary achievement. Check it out and see how you do.

Hi all,Just a note to let you know that my California Classic propliners page has moved to a new location. All the links that have been going bad over the past weeks should now work, and I've spiffed up the main navigation table a bit. Also, the main banner is a "picture postcard" which will change now and then.I would post a redirect page at the old AOL address but one of my problems is that I can't upload things there! So make sure to bookmark the address below.Thanks,-- Tom GibsonCalifornia Classic Propliners: http://www.calclassic.com/Cal Classic Alco Page: http://www.calclassic.com/alco/Freeflight Design Shop: http://www.freeflightdesign.com/ San Diego Model RR Museum: http://www.sdmodelrailroadm.com/Drop by! ___x_x_(")_x_x___