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Check the windows event log, may be a clue there.

Generically, do not install to any "Program Files" folders, run all exe files as admin, make sure your account has full access to the install folder, for FS2004 you may need XP or Win7 compatibility mode.

LOL, no one noticed a P-39 at over 99000ft. A couple of seconds later the engine died and I had to glide down to below 35k ft to get it restarted. (No slew was involved in this odd flight.) The 20fps lock shows this was on my old Vista system, at least a dozen years ago.

What's wrong with this picture?

In FS? Typically 12k-15k, going any higher I'll be in a jet or something like a B-17.

Be careful using WD-40 on modern pots, its solvent vase can damage the resistance element. I second the recommendation for the Logitech; had mine since around '09, still looks and works as new. A new one is only $35, shipping included.

It is that strange place to which we go when we log out of here that is weird. (Reality isn't what it's cracked up to be ...I've been there.)

For variety- (The latter exists only as a mockup, production was never ordered and funding was cut.)

Updating a computer is chasing your tail. Permit me to be analogous- You have a car you like, it looks good, handles well, is reasonably economical, and you like it; but you think "if it only had another 50hp it would be a great little car". And you hear that next year's model will have a more powerful engine, so you trade in the current car on a new one with more power. And in a couple of months you notice the new car isn't any faster, doesn't accelerate any more quickly, doesn't brake better or handle any better ....but it gets worse fuel mileage; it's still a nice car though, and you like it. Another couple of years and you hear the new car model has a high tech turbo engine with 100hp more, so you run trade in your car for the new model .....and notice it isn't any faster, performs no better, and gets atrocious fuel mileage; but it's still a nice car. What has happened? Every time they add a more powerful engine they add more weight to the car, so the performance never improves, just the mileage gets worse. It is the same with computers. Every time we get faster cpus, more and faster RAM, larger and faster storage - every blasted programmer out there thinks he must now update his software to take advantage of all this extra power. Our computers get no faster in real world operations, they just use more power to accomplish the same tasks (1800W power supply anyone? ...that's the same as a large electric space heater, how long before a new gaming rig will come with a 220V plug like a stove). The only way to get ahead is to stay a generation behind in software.

One way to find out, lol.

The old RKG Fuelstat gauge is my favorite, comes in round, square, or rectangular versions, for piston or turbine engines. Can be switched between Imperial or metric, has optional window to display IAS and GS. Buttons select Fuel Flow, Fuel Remaining, Fuel Used, Time To Empty, or Range on Remaining Fuel. Install on panel or as a popup.

Because MS, in their sublime idiocy, have decided on an "all your eggs in one basket" concept of file management. Instead of logically having all files for a program/game in that install folder let's put everything - mods, save games, ini files, cfg files, images, videos, etc. - in one folder on the C drive, thus cluttering the drive containing the OS with hundreds of gig of files that do not need to be there. And where a truly nasty malware could ignore the OS and just delete My Documents to thoroughly ruin your day. I make extensive use of symbolic links to keep all files in subfolders of the software that uses them. (After firing up my old Vista system to a message that the 80gig C drive was out of free space ...because a game had eaten over 40gig of that drive for save files.)

FS2004 Too much time and money in it to learn something new now. (Have FSX somewhere, not installed in years.)

There is no applause emoticon here, or I would wear it out.

My feeble mind has been working on just such a flight. Two airports, both on coastlines, a good distance apart; fly from either to the other in any aircraft you like on whatever route you like, stopping wherever you like along the way (in the spirit of adventure, a minimum of three stops will be the only "rule"). The goal is the adventure and shared experience. Iqaluit (CYFB), in the Canadian province of Nunavit, is the northernmost airport in the western hemisphere with regular scheduled commercial flights (there are airports farther north but they are small local affairs with traffic mostly between them and Iqaluit; FTR, the farthest north runway is the Canadian Research Station "Alert" on the NW coast of Greenland about 500 miles from the pole, its only traffic is C-130s bringing supplies and personnel changes). With a runway of 8500ft and situated on a coast it should be capable of handling any aircraft you wish to use. This is Iqaluit in FS2004 Far to the south is Ushuaia (SAWH), the southernmost airport in the western hemisphere with regular scheduled commercial service; at the tip of Argentina, it is also the southernmost city in the western hemisphere. Primarily a tourist and resort area and a staging point for Antarctic flights, its 9200ft runway should be suitable for us. In FS2004 If I can fly a 75 year old biplane 12000 miles around the Pacific, none of you should have any difficulty with this flight, lol.

I figured it was an insurance situation. The flights weren't cheap though, I think we paid about $150 each for a flight of about an hour. My sister-in-law told us that a couple of times a year they had longer flights that came to Orlando (where she lived) looped around Disney World and returned to Miami, but these were quite expensive and the waiting lists were ridiculous (I think it only carries about a dozen passengers, but the number varies with weather conditions).

Those are frequent sights here (their main base is still near Akron), flying downtown or over OSU stadium. Unfortunately there is no public access to them; the only passengers allowed are corporate guests and reporters/photographers. For a while back in the seventies you could get tickets for the blimp based in Florida, but this was a condition of the agreement with Miami to allow them to operate in the area; once Goodyear moved the operation to a different base in Florida they stopped the public flights (my wife and I got tickets when visiting relatives in '76, but the winds were too gusty so the blimp wasn't flying). Even the Akron base, now a National Historic Site, is not open to the general public; tours are given to valid groups such as schools, churches, etc., and you can get on a mailing list to be included in such events, though I've heard it may be months before you hear anything. https://www.goodyearblimp.com/

As an insatiable reader I've noticed this trend in more and more history/reference books over the past forty years. The problem is usually hack authors. These are freelance people who accept contract work from publishers, often on topics for which they have no prior experience; they do minimal research, enough to sound authoritative, and meet a deadline.

I thought I would have to abort the flight when I reached Siberia. Was planning the flight one leg at a time using Destination Finder to select the next airport and a conservative range of 750 miles, got to the first stop in Siberia and there was nothing within 750 miles unless I turned back. I knew the plane was good for 850 miles at normal cruise, so tried 800 miles, nothing; 850 miles, still nothing; 900 miles, not even a little farm strip; then using a 950 mile range there was an airport roughly 920 miles away. Fuel consumption at minimal cruise settings (155kt instead of 180, low rpm, mixture as lean as practical) showed she just might make 950 miles; I landed with about 20 minutes of fuel remaining.

There are quite a few available for FS2004, don't know about other sims. From vintage models to the modern Goodyear blimp. There's a well detailed Hindenburg, you appear in the passenger lounge (with the big view windows) and must traverse halls and stairways to get to the gondola. Flying one is a learning experience, no ailerons thus no banking, and everything (except crashes) occurs in slow motion. Modern blimps do not even have a control yoke, just rudder pedals and a large trim wheel beside the pilot.

Well, she's on her way home. After running the race route and the eastern route, then continuing from Cairns westward around the coast back to Jandakot, we will remove and crate the wings and let her ride home in comfort as a passenger. Adding her trip around the Pacific to get here with the circumnavigation of Australia, she's flown approximately 20,000 miles, average altitude of 8000ft and average cruise of 180kts, since leaving Columbus. No desire to repeat this in reverse

Now the registration number is backwards

One of Jordan Moore's best - the 412PE.