eric5150

I have the i9-9900k and have it stable at 5.2GHz on each of the regular cores (turned hyperthreading off). I also have a 2080 GTX (not Ti). Let me know how the Ti does with frame rates if you don't mind as I might be buying one in the future after mining enough bitcoin with the 2080 GTX. Eric

Check out MyFSGoogleEarth (https://flyawaysimulation.com/downloads/files/1272/myfsgoogleearth-10-link-google-earth-with-flight/) It will not leave a path from where you took off but it should do all the rest

If I was in London..I would be all over that. Ship to the US? Just asking out of desperation...I would pay if it were not too much. Let me know Eric

Try reinstalling AS16. I know that it installs a plugin or something like that (Simconnect plugin?) after you install the main program. Then restart the sim and see if it works.

I was thinking of FSUIPC as well. AS16 works great on my FSX SE. Recently, I've been flying Prepar3d v4.5 though and using Active Sky for P3D. Go here to download the newest version of FSUIPC https://www.schiratti.com/dowson.html

Video of my son and I building the computer:

Hi, I just wanted to post some pictures from my flight from KRNT Renton Municipal to KDEW Deer Park Airport (Deer Park, WA). My 6 year old son and I custom built a desktop PC and the weather in New England has been terrible for real-world flying to finish my private pilot license so I decided to continue with my around the US flights which left off in Renton, WA. I started in Plymouth, MA KPYM Plymouth Municipal where I am hopefully finishing my private pilot license this Summer in the real world. I had everything planned out on Skyvector and I was able to use my cross country planning skills to keep the flight on track. I've got Prepar3d 4.5 running from a minimum of 17 fps in KRNT (with Seattle Airports X installed) to around 70 fps outside congested areas. It's a great machine! Mind you this is with a 3 monitor setup (hence the landscape pictures with Nvidia Surround (5760x1080 resolution). If I ran it with one monitor I would be getting 25 fps at KRNT and who knows outside of it. Anyways...let me know what you think of the pics Taxi to Runway 16 at KRNT - Renton Municipal Over The Columbia River Near Chelan, WA Over Banks Lake With the Grand Coulee Dam in the Distance Grand Coulee, WA Parked at KDEW Deer Park Airport Deer Park, WA

Here is the video of the flight back (KGON Groton New London Airport to KPYM Plymouth Municipal)

Hi All, I'm nearing the end of my private pilot training and wanted to share my second solo cross country flight from KPYM Plymouth Municipal to KGON Groton New London Connecticut. Enjoy Eric

Unless you install an earlier version, take out the simobjects folder, install the new one and then put the planes that were in the old one into the new one. I did the same with the FSX default aircraft just to have them in P3D. I mostly fly the Carenado 152 to practice for my real world flying though (had to modify and correct a couple of things on it to make it more realistic). It still has it's quirks (engine still runs underpowered as compared to the real world) but is pretty good until flight dynamics get better overall (other sims do them better but I like the addons for P3D). Eric

Successfully overclocked the i9 9900k to 5.3 GHz now. Also, I got a Samsung 970 Pro Evo 2 TB SSD hard drive. The hard drive seemed to give me faster loading times and somehow a frame or two extra. Glad to go back to building a desktop computer. I needed laptops in the past for work and decided on getting gaming ones but nothing beats a custom built desktop computer. The build came in at around $2300 which is around what I paid for the gaming laptops from the past. The main difference being that I can upgrade components over time. Also, having bad weather in New England that has effectively stopped me from flying my last two solo cross country flights in the real-world for the past month made it so I could put some of the saved up money to go towards the new computer for training.

New computer is built and is awesome. Overclocked to 5.2GHz on eight cores (turned off visualization...aka hyperthreading) pulling up to 60FPS with triple monitor setup. On high demand scenery I average 20-25FPS with 3 monitors. Biggest thing.....no random crashes to desktop. Nothing worse than planning out a cross country with flight planning, flying an hour, and then just one crash wiping every effort out. When I get a new PCIE 2TB M.2 drive, I might reinstall FSX SE just to see what I can pull on that but Prepar3d is my new practicing for flight lessons workhorse. Hopefully getting the private pilot license done this Summer.

Going to build a custom desktop model (haven't done so since 2002). Core i9-9900K GeForce RTX 2080 Prepar3d has been working better on the old laptop (GeForce 980M Core i7 4720HQ overclocked to 3.6 consistently, etc...) ibut I have a five year rule to computers so it was either get another gaming laptop (which I also used for work/YouTube video creation) or build a new one. I decided to build one because it's actually cheaper than buying a high level gaming laptop. I'll let you know how it turns out. I will probably have it built within 1-2 months. I go all the way back to Pentium III 500 MHz for building custom computers so this should be interesting.

The default weather in FS2004 hasn't worked in years...

Active Sky Evolution should work still. It's not available for purchase but it works on FS2004 for me (purchased it back in 2012 when FS2004 default weather stopped working correctly). Contact HiFi and ask though as they helped me get my serial working again just a couple of weeks ago.

I've monitored the VAS while running and it's not that.....I thought it was my graphics card overheating but it's not that either (bought cooling fans galore and run the laptop like a desktop by leaving it in once place and taking the covers off with fans blowing massively to get it to cool off. I was running some heavy scenery and it would work...just crashed when I did certain things. I looked at the crash logs and I'm just done with it. I actually thought Flight Sim World would be awesome if they kept developing it (the flight models were more realistic than what I was accustomed to on FSX) but....it is what it is. The simulator at the flight school runs what looks to be Prepar3d with less intensive scenery and no traffic. Running Prepar3d 4.4 and probably will go with 4.5 in the future now.

I've had it....I'm done I've been doing cross country practice on FSX:SE for a while now and I'm done with the incessant crashes. Currently installing Prepar3d. Did anyone else get fed up with FSX? Great graphics in DX10 mode with fixes but now I can't turn panel lights on or load the standard gps without it crashing during a flight. I've reinstalled several times, tweaked the FSX.cfg to make it have good frame rates with my laptop, spent hours of my life reinstalling scenery and everything. I don't even care if I have to run Prepar3d with worse graphics if it means a more stable flight.... Reflections welcome... Eric (P.S. I still have my FS2004 installed but it shows its age....however it is still installed for posterity sake - no crashes there)