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    Orbx airports visited in real life - a rolling story

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Over the last years I have visited a number of Orbx airports in reality. And I suspect, many of you have done that, too. That gave me an idea... let me start a little collection here:

    1. Someone posts a (real) photo of the airport in question.
    2. Community may guess, which place it is. Preferrably with a sim screenie of the same location.
    3. If the right answer is found within the next 3 days, the first one to get the correct one earns the right to post another and we go back to step 1.
    4. If no one gets the right answer or is not able to start the next round, I´ll jump in. Until I have no more and have to resign. Or book more travels...

    Here we go with the first one. Not too complicated I think.

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    Have fun!

     

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    P3D long loading times and "Acronis Active Protection"

    in PREPAR3D® V4.x Support Forum

    Posted

    Dear mates (and especially @FalconAF, @Chris.D, and - last but surely not least - @Nick Cooper ),

    I got the issue solved! It was not the interaction of Windows 10 defender and my antivirus program. It was the "Acronis Active Protection" which came with the backup software I had installed before the change from win 7 to win 10: After deactivating this malware-blocker the loading times of P3D are now back to normal - and I will now return to flying and posting here!

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    P3D long loading times and "Acronis Active Protection"

    in PREPAR3D® V4.x Support Forum

    Posted

    13 hours ago, Chris.D said:

    Hi Stillwater,

    I'm now running  Windows 7 x64 Ultimate , my old copy,

    Chris.

    Hi Chris thanks for your comments. I was happily running Win7 until now as well, but decided to switch as the Microsoft support (=updates) for it will end next January. It was still possible to change for free, and all runs well - except my flight sim...

     

    13 hours ago, FalconAF said:

    As a minimum, what you may need to do with your new Win10/Windows Defender install right now is set all new Exclusions in Windows Defender for anything and everything relating to your flight simulator.  If not, Windows Defender is "inspecting" every single flight sim related file you are loading when you start the sim...and when you are using it too.  Choke, choke, choke your flight sim performance.

    I tried to follow your hints, Falcon, as it sounds logical. Unfortunately my version (win10 Home v1809) does not show any of the options to deactivate the defender (or to define exclusions) that I found in the web (until now): It has the perfect automatism to recognize my antivirus program and therefore allows no access to any defender settings.

    I´ll search more... or hope for some good suggestions here.

    RFDS emergency service for Alice

    in Community Screenshots

    Posted

    23 hours ago, BradB said:

    I needed your service's yesterday Gerold , tho  it was probably already to late and I had headed toward the light . Great shots and story line along with a interesting photo of a can of ale . :(:o:):D .

    Cheers

    John

    So sorry John, I was not there to help you. But, see, WAS state is a bit too easterly for RFDS to serve!

     

    22 hours ago, VH-KDK said:

    Beautiful pics and a great story Gerold.

    For a moment I thought he may have been accosted by one of those ferocious Dingoes that are so prevalent in the outback.:rolleyes:

    Hehehe. It remains unclear what caused that bloke to fall and recieve difficulties in articulation. The secrets of the outback I suppose.

     

    19 hours ago, lifejogger said:

    Great flight and story Gerold.....  The pictures were super.

    Thank you John. Deserts shown in this detail are not boring at all!

     

    17 hours ago, TerribleT said:

    Marvellous pics and a great yarn but a lousy beer really mate :lol:

    Hahaha, I was just looking for a picture to give evidence for the intoxication... and by the way found some with a local touch. Brewed according to German law!

     

    14 hours ago, Jack Sawyer said:

    That was very cool!

    Oh, all but cool, mate. All the time > 35°C!

     

    12 hours ago, adambar said:

    Outstanding flight and story Gerold! :)

    Thank you Adam.

     

    10 hours ago, Rodger Pettichord said:

    Hey Gerold. As always, a great selection of shots coupled with an interesting tour narrative. AC DC must be potent stuff -- or else that's actually a keg in the picture.

    Given the temperatures down there I can understand why somebody wants to finish the 5 litres. Alone.

     

    5 hours ago, Ripcord said:

    Gerold, loved the tour!  Let's do another one soon!

    Thanks, and I´ll try to, Mark. As far as my real-life travel schedule allows...

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    RFDS emergency service for Alice

    in Community Screenshots

    Posted

    We were called for a tourist to pick him up at Kings Creek Station. The report said he was run down by a "gigantic, fierce man or bear", fell and got "severly" injured. An unknown time later he was found "somehow lying on the ground of his tent, not able to speak in understandable words". When he woke up he claimed that he only had "one beer, maybe two" during the evening. Upon our arrival he was found stable, but with a severe headache. No traces of the offender were seen, and none of the other tourists reported any uncommon observation. Even the crowd of Big Reds aside the cattle station were quiet... So we just put him into the Jeep and drove him to our plane.

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    Off we went, following Larapinta Drive to the north, ...

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    ... passing Kings Canyon NP. Not a big sight in the sim, but should be in real. (Will be checked next year...)

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    The road winds itself up northwards through the western ridges (there should be a lookout point)...

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    ... and finally turns to the east at "Camels Hump". I wonder how this name was found.

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    Into the western MacDonnell Ranges... you see the crossroad bottom left?

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    As our patient seemed to be in stable condition, we did this little detour...

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    ... seeing Gosses Bluff meteroite crater up the road.

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    We continued to follow Larapinta Drive, which goes right east through Hermannsburg.

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    A few minutes later we passed Pine Gap tracking station (to the right), still following the road towards YBAS. The city of Alice Springs to the left.

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    Descending over the ranges...

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    ... into the 13. Do not land on the dragway to the right!

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    After a safe & soft landing...

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    ... our passenger was taken to the nearby RFDS center. No more symptoms left!

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    In the afternoon he was picked up by his bunch. They also returned the trash from their tour. Maybe this "one beer" is an explanation for all symptoms and observations of our patient.

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    Double Bridge San Mateo

    in Vector Customer Report Archive - Please do not post support requests here

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Holger Sandmann said:

    you could re-activate the checkbox(es) and then just manually deactivate Vector's bridges file for the San Francisco area, named "1518_OBJ_ExtrusionBridges_Highway.bgl", located in "\ORBX\FTX_VECTOR\FTX_VECTOR_OBJ\scenery". Renaming its .bgl extension to .OFF should do the trick.

    Cheers, Holger

    I wonder if something similar exists for the Oeresund bridge at Copenhagen as well? I suffer from its twin since I changed to p3d (with FT EKCH installed).

    Member photo gallery

    in General Discussion

    Posted

     

    Ok,  got it now i think 

     

    iphone pics 378 by *poppet*, on Flickr

     

     

    iphone pics 380 by *poppet*, on Flickr

    Yaaaa it worked  ::)  I'm famous,  I'm on the Tele 

     

    This is my Ferrari,  its beautiful isn't it  *snigger*  Nooooo its my friends Ferrari,   a fake one at that,  i think they call it a NR2 converted Toyota.  Its the business looking though. 
    Anyways that's me, So dude,  who the hell are you    ::)

     

     

    Bad luck you have a severe speed limit in your country. Well, we have traffic jams instead...  :blink:

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    Member photo gallery

    in General Discussion

    Posted

     

     

    Alex Feldstein

    American Airlines Boeing 777

     

    This is in January 2015, during our annual photographer's visit to Miami International Airport

     

    Great shot Alex, your lens looks small compared to the ventilator behind you...

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