wolfko
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"Flammable No Smoking"
At least now I know it is in an English speaking country.
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I have still no idea.
Hm, if I remember correctly, Gerold likes to fly his real world trips in the sim and then posting pics of these flights. So let's check out the screenshot forum.
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36 minutes ago, boetie said:
I'm so glad you've been spreading your wings again Gerold....more material for this thread. No idea where this is but perhaps someone else who knows of your recent trip will know?
Cheers
Graeme
Ps hope you had a successful trip
AFAIK Gerold has been in Southern Africa last summer, but I think neither CPT City Scape nor the Okavango Delta are fitting the pic.
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19 hours ago, Stillwater said:
I have a fresh one for you...:
Great, that this fantastic thread is continued.
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6 minutes ago, John Dow said:
The good news is most settings are retained somehow, control preferences etc.
Yep, that's a strange thing.
I had used MSFS via the Xbox game pass when it came out, because of a special offer which ran out after 3 months. I then quit the game pass, completely uninstalled MSFS and asked Santa for the DVD version.
So for about 3 to 4 weeks MSFS was totally absent to my system, but when I installed the DVD version all my previous settings and prferences automatically showed up again. Must have been stored in the cloud under my Xbox user name I guess.
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3 hours ago, John Heaton said:
But maybe that's the excuse for Asobo/MS leaving us with a Bing satellite that is 9 years out of date
and missing out on a major update to the sim - as others have been
John,
ad 1)
Maybe Australian officials are a tad too strict when it comes to open areal images to the public. So Google Maps is also not up to date for large parts of Australia.
And to be fair only for a few small areas Bing is using 9 year old images, which is okay, since anybody not just looking for his private house hardly won't realize any difference.
ad 2)
Australia is one of the lucky regions of the world which have been subject of major update namely World Update VII.
BTW, it is not too difficult to substitute the default ground textures for certain regions with other areal images including up to date buildings by your own.
There are many tutorials on the web inc. YouTube how to do this.
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Just my 2 cents to this subject...
As long as DX12 is still in beta I'm not going to use it.
When introducing DX12 beta months ago, MS/Asobo warned that this might cause odd behavior of the sim depending on the system.
At last ironing out such issues is the purpose of a beta.
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What? 40 GB!
I do hope not much space on c drive is needed for installing, otherwise I'll have a problem.
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Take the Orbx EGHI folder out of the community folder and look if the issue still persists. Then you know if the problem is caused by Orbx' EGHI or by AIG's traffic.
Edit: BTW I am using FSTL (which is a fantastic program) for traffic and do not have any problems at Orbx EGHI.
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6 hours ago, Perk said:
Do you have one of the many map addons, or are you just talking about the built in MSFS map that pops up when you hit "v" on the keyboard?
A three letter airport code is going to be an FAA or IATA code not an ICAO code. PWL would be Purwokerto Airport on Java in Indonesia. It's IACO code is WICP. IGN would be Iligan Airport on Mindanao in the Philippines (ICAO RPMI).CT wouldn't be a valid airport code under either notation system. On a full up FAA Sectional or Terminal Area Chart "CT" would indicate the Control Tower frequency for a towered airport. Common Traffic Advisory Frequencies (CTAF) are denoted by a circled "C" symbol.
Three letter identifiers on FAA charts are VOR Navaids. PWL is the Pawling VOR-DME and IGN is the Kingston VOR-DME in New York State. These are omnidirectional radio beacons that you can tune into with a Nav radio that broadcast the bearing to/from the radio beacon and in the case of VOR-DMEs and VORTACs also provide distance from the beacon.
If you're interested the FAA Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge (PHAK) chapter 16 tells all about navigating with VORs and other radio navigation aids:
https://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/handbooks_manuals/aviation/phak
https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/regulations_policies/handbooks_manuals/aviation/phak/18_phak_ch16.pdf
The FAA Chart Users Guide goes over all the symbology, but it's also in the Legend on a given Sectional. Page 23 for VFR charts:
https://aeronav.faa.gov/user_guide/20221103/cug-complete.pdf
If you're using Skyvector for charts, you can also change from "WorldVFR" to the specific Sectional chart for the area by clicking on the location name in the upper right. That will display just the local chart instead of merging multiple charts together, but it does give you the legends at the side like a paper chart.
Sectional Legend. Note the "CT - 118.3" which indicates the tower frequency for an airport:
Example of a Control Tower (CT) Frequency depicted on a Sectional Chart - in this case 124.75 for Spirit of St. Louis Airport (FAA: SUS, IACO: KSUS) in St. Louis, MO.
I assume these are the two VOR-DMEs you're seeing - PWL and IGN. The three letter codes are the abbreviations for the Navaids - all info for the VOR will be depicted inside a blue box as below - in this case 114.3 is the Nav radio frequency, Ch 90 is the military radio channel, PWL is the three letter identifier, and the dots and dashes are the Morse code identifier that is broadcast by the beacon. You can turn the audio on for your Nav radio and listen for the dots and dashes to verify you have the right station tuned in.
Lots of labour has gone into this post.
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2 hours ago, spinabove said:
I appreciate the compliment, John, but I meant to mention sharing screenshots. Since Orbx Global is not available in this simulator, it is much more challenging.
Me thinks you have posted this in the wrong thread.
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Last evening I had this issue for the first time, but only when shutting down the sim. After clicking "quit to desktop" it took a few seconds then this infamous GPU warning appeared. I then had to end MSFS via the task manager.
This is really strange, because I am using the sim almost daily with the same settings etc. and never had this issue before.
Since I have been using the same Nvidia drivers for years now, I don't think this is a driver issue.
The only changes I had made to MSFS yesterday was upgrading the installed FSLTL to the most up to date version and installing a certified livery for the Fenix A320. So the only reason for the GPU warning I can imagine is, that either FSLTL has a bad livery included or the new Fenix livery is faulty.
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On 10/28/2022 at 4:58 PM, wain71 said:
thanks for clearing that up Nick, maybe not this but some more complicated planes should come with a tutorial, I find it very bad when someone brings out an airliner and can't be bothered to give us a good example of how to fly it, especially if they call it a 'study' aircraft...
The more they are using discord for support instead of a proper forum. Discord is fine for many things, but not for support and product info.
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Our former regional carrier Tyrolean Airways used to do scheduled flights from LOWI to Courchevel during the ski seasons operated by a four engine Dash 7.
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11 hours ago, Matt McGee said:
I don't have a 777, but I fly the 787 into Courchevel all the time!
Wow!
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On 10/23/2022 at 6:54 PM, Tim said:
Is the harbor of the crab fishing vessels part of this scenery as well?
In the OP it says:
- Complete reproduction of the entire city and harbours with custom buildings
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14 hours ago, lifejogger said:
Now that is what you call low and slow. I would have like to see some shots of your landing.
Actually they can go up pretty high. The world record is 68,986 ft.
In many countries altitude restrictions apply though and special permits are required for these high altidudes. Where I live, during the cold seasons one can occasionally see hot air balloons crossing over the Alps, mainly from North to South due to prevailing winds, up at around 16,000 - 19,000 feet. Such an alpine crossing can be booked by anybody for around € 900 - 1,000.
Of course oxigen masks have to be used by the balloonists.
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Come on, icebergs in Sydney harbour?
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1. draw
2. Piper
3. Q400
4. Citation
5. Caravan
6. Super Cub
7. I always have been a dreamer
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On 10/15/2022 at 2:54 PM, John Dow said:
I can't imagine there's any need to have any msi or msp files that are in your installer folder, as they only contain the files to install programs, updates etc, not the actual exe files. I think you'd be pretty safe in deleting all the msi and msp files in that folder. I'd keep any exe files though. The only downside might be a need to re-download an installer that W10 might need in the future but with updates happening all the time the ca\hances of an msi being current aren't that great anyway.
As a test I just cut all my Installer folder content out to a temp folder in another drive, so the C Drive folder is empty now. It'll be interesting to see if there are any issues. My money is on none at all.
On 10/15/2022 at 4:50 PM, paulb said:That's exactly what I do. Move everything out of the folder and into a folder on another drive (usually an eternal SSD). If everything still works on the pc then problem solved
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On 10/15/2022 at 5:23 PM, renault said:Hi Wolfgang
C:\Windows\Installer is where Windows Installer stores cached copies of the setup packages (.msi) and setup patches (.msp) used for your currently installed programs. These files are required if you want to update, modify, or uninstall a program on your computer.
They should not be randomly deleted as they are also referenced by entries in the registry. Without the appropriate .msi or .msp file and the registry entry, you will
find that it is impossible to update, modify or delete programs on your computer. The best advice I know of is to proceed with a great deal of caution and most
importantly do not try to do this by hand.
The only ones that I know that can be safely removed (deletion by hand is not recommended because of the registry entry which also needs to be concurrently removed)
are so called orphaned .msi or .msp files. Usually these are left behind from a failed installation
You might find the following link instructive to give you some guidance on how to go about cleaning up this installation folder
The best advice I can give though is to use extreme caution with any of these methods . I have never tried any of them ( I use the windows
refresh approach and it keeps my system running well) and therefore cannot in good faith recommend them to you.
https://www.raymond.cc/blog/safely-delete-unused-msi-and-mst-files-from-windows-installer-folder/
And just to remember, even after you have moved them to another location (recommended in the above article) your machine should still
boot up normally. There is an important caveat to this ....
However you will not know if what you have done is successful or not, until you attempt to update, change or uninstall a program.
This is one of those annoying things in windows that unfortunately can cause all kinds of difficult to solve issues when it goes wrong
as your computer will run normally until you attempt to modify/delete an existing application in some way.
If it were me , I would try doing a windows refresh . This is a link below that I use as I have found this fellow to be very solid
It will take you approximately half an hour or so to do.
It will simply give you an new win10 installation, while keeping all your settings , files and data for all your existing applications.
I find anymore that life is just too short to mess around with a lot of this stuff (and especially then trying to fix the problems that arise)
Instead I have found that doing a windows refresh is firstly very safe, easy to do and generally fixes a multitude of issues .
I would recommend it to anyone as a periodic maintenance item that is easy to do on any win10/11 machine.
Hope this is of some help
Cheers
Pete
On 10/15/2022 at 5:48 PM, renault said:Hi again Wolfgang
Sorry just one more add to my note
Dammed cat just jumped on my keyboard as I was typing
This is a Microsoft article that contains some good information that you might also wish to try
to reduce the size of the cache using the DISM.exe program which comes with every windows installation
I have also used DISM to reduce the size of the component store. It is very easy to do
Use the /StartComponentCleanup parameter
In the article where MS refers to use an elevated command prompt, they mean open a Dos window using administrator mode
(In the search bar type cmd and then select Administrator)
This may take some time to complete and even when it appears to stop , just let it run
And lastly here is an article from Microsoft on the advisability of deleting files from the installer directory
It is very old (2012) but still I feel gives useful background to the above
So just to summarize steps that I would suggest you try ....
1) Use DISM to reduce/cleanup the component store first
2) Then do a win10/win11 system refresh. Aside from fixing issues, I've found personally that it tends to keep my machine running
in a "like new" condition.
Cheers
Pete
On 10/15/2022 at 9:02 PM, Nick Cooper said:Hello,
SSDs are no longer very expensive, so perhaps the best solution would be to leave Windows alone and buy a larger drive?
there is a 240GB SSD on Amazon at the moment for under £23, or under 27 euros.
On 10/15/2022 at 9:22 PM, Bullfox said:There are 2tb SSBs available for a little over $100.00.
Thanks again guys for your responds. Weekend is here and I now have time to think about your suggestions and to try the one or other.
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Happy Birtjday mate
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There is a conversion of Manfred Jahn's famous FSX freeware version available for MSFS. It's the one seen in this video about the Arroplane Heaven DC3 for MSFS
Ihave seen one of them years ago at the manufacturer's own fast food restaurant in Taupo, New Zealand.
They just spelled it wrong.
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LIEO Olbia update long overdue
in Microsoft Flight Simulator
Posted · Edited by wolfko
And due to the zoomed out perspective it looks even lower than it probably is.