pdmike

Default aircraft. Hmmmm. I fly an add-on aircraft almost exclusively. Maybe, if the problem persists, I will give it a shot with a default aircraft. Good suggestion.

Great tips in these last three posts. Will run through it, trying all of them. Letcha know!

Well, mine isn't. I don't know where the heck it is or if I even have it. But, you know, I'm thinking this through - why am I even worrying about sdk? Because I need to locate it so I can open ADE. But what do I want to do with ADE? Fix the ILS runways so their frequencies mesh with planes I am trying to land there. OK - but what I think I'm hearing from more than a couple of guys here, is that they don't have this problem to begin with; that whenever a runway is assigned an ILS frequency, all of their planes land using ILS with no problem. If that's the case, then I think I am probably wasting my time (and everyone else's) honking around with sdk and ADE. Let's go back to square one. Why am I having this ILS problem to begin with when others don't seem to have it? When I have more time (dinner now), I will come back and go through all of the settings I run while attempting to effect an ILS landing.

OK - I guess I need help with sdk. What is it? How can I tell whether or not I have it on my computer?

Thanks. Good stuff. I always land passenger jets using ILS. Been doing it for a long, long time. So I am aware of the necessity of "coming up from under" on the glide slope. I always do that. My speed when the carat starts to descend is always around 150 with gear down and full flaps, so got that covered regarding speed, I think. Once the carat begins to descend, we can be assured I am close enough to the runway. My problem is, the carat descends from the top down, passes the midpoint and keeps descending, but the plane just keeps flying at the same altitude. It is most frustrating. Maybe I am not checking something on or off that should be activated or deactivated? The problem with that is, that when I am landing at a runway where the ILS "works" for the plane, I don't have any problem descending the glide slope.

If you mean have I tuned the ILS frequency into Nav 1, the answer is yes. I rarely turn on the morse code identifier because of the racket it makes. I don't think the DME has any relevancy to my problem of the plane not responding to the ILS, do you?

I have ADE165. However, when I try to open it, I get the following: "Unfortunately, ADE cannot find the Bgl compiler. It has looked in both your settings file and and the registry and cannot find a valid path. This probably means that your FSX SDK is not installed in the default folder and/or the registry entry for the SDK does not match the location of the SDK. Until this is corrected, it is not going to be possible to compile your airport. Click on OK to open a help on how to resolve this or Cancel if you want to deal with it yourself." The Help section says the following: "The FSX SDK is not available with the Standard Edition of FSX. you need the deluxe or Gold edition. If you have the standard edition then you cannot use ADE. The SDK is not free and not available for download. If you want to use ADE ( and a number of other tools for FSX) then you would need to purchase one of the other editions." Of course I have no idea which Edition of FSX I have. HOWEVER, I get this same message when I try to open AFCAD and I know that, at one time five or six years ago, I WAS able to open and use AFCAD with this same edition of FSX I have on my computer now. I'm off to see if I can find out which edition of FSX I have. I'm back. I have the Deluxe edition. Next step: determine whether or not I have SDK installed. Doing that. Stand by .... Well, don't hold your breath. I am hitting a huge snag trying to see whether or not I have "SDK" installed. I can't begin to figure out where to even look. I'm almost certain I have it, or I wouldn't have been able to run AFCAD a while back. Any help here? I didn't see it anywhere in my FSX folder. Should I be looking elsewhere?

I think you are missing my question. I am talking only about the large, major airports that have ILS frequencies assigned to their runways. My experience has been that, even though an ILS frequency is assigned to a runway in such airports, the planes I fly (large passenger jets) will not respond to the ILS frequencies, even though those frequencies exist and are assigned to the runway where I am trying to land. Just one (of many) examples of such an airport is Ontario, CA, Rwy 8L. This runway is assigned an ILS frequency of 109.7. My jets will not respond to that Rwy/ILS frequency, even though I have it set on the Nav 1 radio. Am I missing something? Is there some other setting that should be activated? (Believe me, I am capable of a basic goof like that.)

Perhaps I should have limited my statement somewhat. Of course not all runways in FSX have ILS. In fact, most of them don't. I fly the big jets with takeoff and destination airports limited to the major airports around the country. LAX, SFO, SEA, on the West Coast and other major airports in other states. All of the airports I "visit" have ILS frequencies assigned to at least several of their runways if not more. And, I have found that, at the majority of the major airports with ILS runways, the big jets will not respond to the ILS frequencies assigned.

An old problem (for me) revisited. I have found that most of the runways in FSX do not have ILS. They will be assigned an ILS frequency, but the plane will not respond to the localizer nor descend down the glide slope. Back when I first confronted this problem, I found that AFCAD could be used to fix the problem. I could go into AFCAD for the desired airport and set whatever runway I wanted to work with ILS. Sadly, my current version of AFCAD is so old, I can no longer activate it - something about a missing file with a horribly complicated fix which I am not willing to try. Is there a current version of AFCAD that I can download for use with FSX? If not, any thoughts on how to deal with the many runways in FSX that do not respond to ILS?

Well, I just flew a complete flight from LAX to SFO in the A319. During the flight, I changed views a number of times, alternated the speed, and did a few other things with the menu. No error of any kind, so looks like so far, so good. Time will tell of course, but I am hopeful we have this solved. If any problems come up in the next couple of days, I'll be back. If not, good on ya! Job well done.

OK - downloaded and installed. We'll see what happens now. Keep ya posted.

First off, THANKS to all you guys for all you help! Truly appreciated. It's beginning to look like I need that dll dile: UIAutomationcore.dll. How do I get it without downloading it from a dangerous site?

Disc version. installed on m hard drive. I do not have UIAutomationcore.dll in my FSX directory.

Yes. I will decide to save a flight. Flight/Save and then I get the Fatal Error. Or I can decide to change the weather. Fatal Error. So long as I just fly, all is good. But if I decide to go into the menu for some reason, that's when it happens. Not all the time. In fact, not most of the time but, when it does happen, that's the activity that seems to trigger it. It rarely happens when I am using the S-key to switch views.

No faulting module listed. Not on board for removing all add-ons. Some of them are very old and I doubt that I would be able to replace them. Most of the stuff I have read on the Internet (and elsewhere on this forum) puts the blame on a faulty .dll file (UIAutomationcore.dll). But guys report mixed results with replacing it.

I am running FSX in Windows 7. I keep getting the Fatal Error. Is there a reliable fix for this?

Thanks. Good stuff. I didn't know you adjusted the trim from the throttle quadrant window. Now I do. Let me ask you - the small, trim wheel guage you have on your panel. I guess that's an independent addon that must be downloaded, right? Might you still have the link for that?

I am flying the Airbus 319. I want to set the trim for takeoff. I know that the 7 key moves the trim down and the 1 key moves the trim up. But I want to make a certain numerical setting on the trim wheel itself. I don't know how to do that. I can go to a Virtual Cabin view and I can view the trim wheel, but it's just a view. You can't move the trim wheel or do anything with it. How can I set the trim wheel to a certain numerical setting and view what I have done, so I can actually see the setting on the trim wheel?