PhantomTweak

Glad I could help. I just re-read the paragraphs I took all that from. Turns out I was mistaken on one detail. You only need to have AI AIRCRAFT turned off, not ALL AI's. I do apologize for that. I have always made sure ALL the AI were off, but heck, no one's perfect :D I got this information off Microsoft's ESP PAGE, the section marked Testing Changes to the aircraft.cfg file. I realize this isn't FSX, exactly, but the information in it seems very accurate for FSX, and I have used it for a long time. Good luck, and enjoy! Pat☺

A little something to remember when using the Reload User Aircraft key combo, is that you MUST have ALL AI turned all the way off. Airport Vehicles, Ships of all sorts, AI Aircraft, you name it. ALL AI must be completely off. If not, the various .cfg files, like the Panel.cfg or aircraft.cfg, may or may not reload completely. Some parts of them, like .cab files, or .xml gauge files, may or may not reload, so any changes you make may or may not take effect. If you have all the AI completely off, this is not a factor. Also, some, in fact most, gauges in FSX are actually .xml files. All .cab files are is a form of zip file the .xml files can be packed into. Dll files are a compiled type of file, similar in construction or make-up to C++ files. Like .exe files are. You can remove an .xml type of gauge files from .cab files, edit them if you need/want to, and either just leave them in the Panel folder, put them into the sim's Gauge folder, or put them back into the .cab file. Just remember to keep the pathing correct for whatever changes you make. Finally, if you want other planes to be able to use a particular gauge or gauges, place them into the sim's Gauge folder. Whether it's a .dll, an .xml, whatever, it can go into the sim's Gauge folder for any plane to use. Once again, just make sure you use the correct pathing in the plane's Panel.cfg file. Good fortune in your endeavours! Pat☺

It can be found, and downloaded from here : https://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/resources/prepar3d-v1-sdk.227/ Hope this helps a little... By the way: when you click the button "Go To Download" in the upper right area of the page, it starts the download. It gives no real indication that it did so, it just starts it downloading to your PC. Once it's all the way done, just use your browser's normal method of finding it on your computer. Then, open it with your normal zipfile software. I use 7Zip, but everyone uses their own. Pat☺

Don't forget, there are two different SDK versions that you have to use. One is for FSX-SE, and it's a version of the P3D SDK, which can be downloaded from the FSDeveloper Resources section. The other, for FSX Box, is included on the FSX discs, and must be downloaded and installed from them. And never the twain shall meet, as the saying goes. Finally, yes, in the FSX Box DLL.XML entry, the "Environment Kit" part of the path is missing. Is this intentional, or inadvertant? Good fortune! Pat☺

He washed the wheels, wings, fuselage, his sinuses... In other words, a normal landing for The Superior Airman. Pat☺

Good old swave and deboner... That Zippy all over! :p Have fun, all! Pat☺

I don't know exactly what the resetsdll command is for, but the command to change the directory is CD \XXXXX where XXX is the directory you want to change to. Like if you want to be in the directory (now called folders) C:\Program Files , all you do is CD \Program Files . Usually you would have to go CD \C: and then to CD \Program files . That will put you to the root directory first, C:\ , and then the second will put you into C:\Program files . I always switch to the root directory first, so that wherever I want to go is accessable from where I am, if you see what I mean. THEN type in the reset command. You want to be in the folder where the dll you want to reset is. That's why I used Program Files as an example. I don't know where the dll you want is, but they usually end up there or Program Files(X86). So, once you have the the DOS window open, the command sequence I would use is cd \ cd \Program Files, resetsldl /a Obviously, if you put the ablscpt.dll in the root directory, you can skip the second CD \ command, so the sequence would be CD \ resetsldl /a Are you sure the reset command is spelled right? It shouldn't be resetsdll /a ? Just checking... Good luck to you! Pat☺

Classic "I want 350 KIAS, no matter what altitude I'm at." Sadly, many don't realize the KIAS above about 18000' MSL is never the same. Temperature, pressure, humidity, there are a ton of factors that affect KIAS. THAT's why you use Mach above 18000', not KIAS. That is a more useful, accurate, measure of how much air is flowing over the aircraft. Plane requires M0.80, to fly properly, and efficiently, then it requires M0.80, not 289 KIAS, or 1,050 KIAS or whatever. M0.80 is M0.80 regardless of altitude, humidity, or whatever. KIAS changes with a change in any factor involved. That's why modern aircraft use Mach above 18000' MSL, not KIAS. As long as the plane maintains the correct Mach number, it will fly correctly. Probably a really lousy explanation, but the best I can do this time of day... Pat☺

Another factor to consider, although a minor one I'll admit, is that not everyone can use VR. I don't mean simply don't want to, it doesn't work for some. Why? Only one eye makes VR non-operational. You need two functional eyeballs to use VR. Probably a very minor consideration to the developers, but I would rather, like Michael, have them work hard on a functional simulation of how the various aircraft actually fly, than make the pictures look pretty. Obviously, since I can't use VR, it really doesn't even enter to my considerations of a new sim at all. At least until someone mentions it. Then, if it is a "VR only" type sim, well, I just ignore it. I would say to file all complaints about my attitude towords VR with the horse I ran into on my motorcycle, that caused my loss of an eyeball, but he died at the scene. Just what he was doing on my motorcycle I will never know... :rolleyes: :p :D :D Have fun, whatever you enjoy using... Pat☺

Oh, I never denied it! I like to eat. Do it a few times a day. Sadly, not as active as the young Marine who developed the eating habits, so it just doesn't stay off my waist like it used to :D But hey, I'm still in shape! Round IS a shape, after all. Besides, if there's a catastrophe, I've got the reserves skinny folk don't. Live longer with no food :p Have good times, all! Enjoy the food you can get. After all, that's what a lot of the winter holidays are all about. Work hard during the summer, can't do as much in the winter, so people enjoyed the fruits, vegetables, and meat, of their summer labors. And heck, not so long ago, if you didn't eat it all, it went bad. I'm just making sure the food the lovely Miss Ghost cooks doesn't go....bad :D Pat☺

And that, right there, is one of the main reasons to make sure of 2 things: 1) Ensure your default flight is the sim's original default, default flight, and 2) If you're going to swap planes in and out, make sure you have no AI active. No ships, no planes, airport vehicles, nothing. If you do have ANY AI active, it's possible that when you switch planes, the sim doesn't read, or entirely read, the new .cfg files. Panel.cfg, aircraft.cfg, all of them. It may keep part, or all, of the previous aircraft's .cfg files in memory, rather than replacing them with the new one. Have fun, all! Pat☺

Ohhh yes you are! You're letting it go to your waist! :rolleyes: :D ;) Isn't English a fun language?? Enjoy all! Snow isn't so bad, if you don't have to drive in it. Seems like most forget everything the learned about "how to" last winter. SOOOO many police/rescue call outs on the radios the last few days. Roll-overs, slide-offs, collisions, you name it. If you don't HAVE to drive someplace, just don't. Wait a bit for the idiots to cull themselves... :p Pat☺

When you use canned air, it's a good idea to use a small wooden stick, like a chopstick from a chinese restaurant, to keep the blades from being turned by the flow of air. Especially since it's a good thing to flow the air from the can opposite to the fan's normal airflow. You can also use an air compressor with a pressure regulator set to 10 PSI or less. Something like that. Works great, since it has a higher volume of flow available, and won't run out nearly as quickly as a can will. Not a higher pressure, mind you, but a higher volume. Clean the whole case, too, not just the fans, and focus on the power supply, and heatsink fins. I use a small, commercially available paintbrush, like for painting trim, to break dust etc loose. That way the air you use is more effective. Always, ALWAYS keep yourself grounded to the computer's case, whether with an ESD wrist strap, which are cheap and readily available, or simply by keeping some piece of your flesh, a wrist, finger, whatever, touching the metal. Flowing air can create a large static charge, and they can eat PC parts without any physical indications at all. Be cautious. I've seen a fellow e-tech forget to use ESD precautions, open a brand new set of memory sticks for his computer without using precautions. When he installed them and ran it up, not a one was functional. He had static-ed all of them. Just didn't think for a minute, and that was all it took. Now he has a bunch of small paper-weights. Good luck! Pat☺

Awwwww, c'mon, Michael. You just used the radio stations so you could listen to "THE Game" to while away the time on those long night flights :D AM stations are still, to this day, a great source for "THE Game", btw... Oh, just so you know, AM does not really stand for Amplitude Modulation, like the public is usually told. It really stands for Advanced Magic. If you run the math, it just doesn't work, but there it is, working just fine. Kinda like the whole bumble bee thing... Have fun all! Pat☺

OK, I found it, and the file of which you speak. Tell me, do you have your FSX scenery folders located in the dreaded C:\Program Files(X86) folder, by any chance? IE: C:\Program Files(X86)\FSX\Addon scenery\ or something similar? If you do, make a backup of the suspect file, and put it in a temp folder someplace. Like C:\Temp, for example. MOVE the file there, don't copy it. So now, there isn't a capsule2 file of any kind in your FSX folders. In the temp folder, make a copt of the file, and rename the copy to capsule2.bgl . Take the copy, capsule2.bgl, and move it to your FSX folder that has the other files in it. Now, the folder in your FSX folders should only have a capsule2.bgl in it. Load up FSX, and try going to the airport in question. Does it still crash out your FSX? If it still does, try simply deleting the capsule2.bgl file. Does it still cause the CTD? If so, may I suggest downloading and installing the OTHER UAON scenery at Avsim? The one that is 97062 bytes, not the newer, 8644 byte file by Mr. Trapp. By the way, before deleting an entire scenery folder group from FSX, make sure you remove it from the File Library using the in-game menus first. If you simply delete it and restart FSX, you'll get an annoying scenery error message as it loads up. Hope this is some small help... Pat☺

It's a beautiful lake and surround. Except in winter, when the snow is so deep, they don't even try to plow the roads. Some roads they DO make tunnels under the snow for, so the Rangers can get to where they need to be, but other than that... The lake it's self IS geothermally heated, as are the sidewalks in downtown Klamath. Crater Lake IS an active volcano, after all. The name is a dead giveaway, after all. It's the crater left after the mountain blew it's top. The local tribes have some incredible stories in their oral histories of when that happened. Wizard Island, out in the middle of the lake, is the cinder cone left over from the eruption. We have a large number of hills around here that are other cinder cones from the volcano as well. Or the Three Sisters volcanoes. Or the Mt. McLaughlin volcano. Maybe even Mt. Shasta, which we can see from here on a relatively clear day. All active volcanoes. We just keep an eye on their snow pack to see if they looking to erupt. Nothing so far! Lots of cinder cones around here. The road crews use them to provide the cinders they use to provide traction on the roads in winter. Like salt, but not nearly as corrosive. Work pretty good, too :) Little hard on tires, but not too bad with decent off-roaders... As to the $100.00 hamburgers, they have to go all the way into Klamath, now. Sad situation, really... :p Have fun all! Enjoy the view. I do every day :D Pat☺

IIRC, for FSX:SE you need to have the SDK from P3D. Version 1.4.4747.0 You can get it at the FSDeveloper Resources section. Here IS The LINK Download it, run the installer. Point it at the folder of your choice, and when you go to add the different .dll files to your DLL.XML file, just make sure that the path is perfect. Capital vs lowercase letters, symbols, spaces, whatever. Do you need an example that I know works? It's on my system. Traffic Toolbox True False ..\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\SDK\Environment Kit\Traffic Toolbox SDK\traffictoolbox.dll I change the entry when I need to use a particular .dll. Keeps the sim load time down to have fewer entries loaded at the same time. Keeps the load on the RAM, VAS, and CPU down, too. The SDK is on a different drive than the sim, but I have several of the .dll's in my in-game menu, so I know they work. Also, some .dll's will only load if they're located under the sim's folder. I copy the pathing from the Explorer menu bar at the top of my screen, then just type in the name of the .dll I want to have show up in my menu. Sometimes it's an .exe file you need, not a .dll, but in that case, just place the desired entry into your EXE.XML file instead of the DLL.XML . The most important thing to remember is the SDK version. The Version 1.4.4747.0, as far as I know is the only one that'll work with FSX:SE. I may well be wrong about that though... Good luck! Pat☺

Was there a ReadMe file included in the download? If so, did it have anything to say about that file? Did you try changing the file suffix to a simple .bgl? Just a couple of ideas. More coffee may generate more...:confused: Good luck! Pat☺

Gee, that lake looks vaguely familiar. Hmmm... :rolleyes: It was a real pleasure to meet you in person here, Michael. Sadly, a new owner bought Melita's, and within 2 months it was closed due to severe mismanagement. We all hope it opens again, as it's a local land mark, and has been for a LONG time. Darn good food, and plenty of it too. At least I thought so... Great pictures, this one and the last one both. Myself, and the lovely Miss Ghost, appreciate the posts :D Have fun, all! Pat☺

Unless they've changed it dramatically, your "30 day Free Trial" never ends. You CAN pay them, should you desire, and unlock a number of features, but, much like FSUIPC, if you choose not to pay, it will continue to function exactly the same as it is now. I have had it since Feb. 2019, with FSRealWX Lite installed since 2016, and it still works very nicely. Just so you know... Pat☺

Yeah. I call it FM: Friggen Magic. If I need to, I can actually go to AM. Advanced Magic. :cool: Easy enough to find: Open the .cfg file, with P3D shut down completely, that matches the FSX.cfg file if you were in FSX. I think it's called P3D.cfg, but I may well be wrong. Look for the heading [uSERINTERFACE]. Under that is the line that reads SITUATION=. What comes after the equals sign is of no import. Why? You delete it. All text following the equals sign. Save the .cfg file, and start P3D, and bingo... Like magic (see above :D ) your default flight will now be the original sim's default flight. Remember to ONLY use NotePad, or NotePad++, to open ANY .cfg file for any reason. Word processors add in a bunch of symbols you won't see, but they make the file unusable by the sim. Aircraft.cfg, Panel.cfg...ANY file the sim utilizes that has the extension .cfg. Note: If there is a P3D.cfg under the main P3D folder, that's not the file to edit. It's what the sim uses to place the "in use" .cfg file wherever it may be. That's the one you need to find and edit. I apologize if you know all this good stuff already, but I'd rather give too much info, which you can just ignore, than not enough, that you might need. Why go through all this? What settings are saved in your default flight are applied to the next plane loaded. SO: if the AP is on in the flight you saved off as your new default flight, then when you load up the F-16, IT'S AP will be on. Even if it's the first plane you load up after starting the sim. Even if it's the very first time you've loaded this plane in the sim ever. Making your default flight the original sim's default, any plane you load will not have any surprizes. Like the AP being on, just as a wild, random, example. Just pulled out the aether, as they used to say... :p Good luck, and have fun! Pat☺

You're absolutely correct. You didn't ask about the Steam client, you asked about FSX:SE. My client just fires up when I start my computer. It's always running in the background, so I don't have to wait for it to sart, and then wait for FSX. Since it's already running, all I need to do is start the sim. Simple enough solution: use the same commands to start the client as you would to start the sim, and throw a PAUSE command in after, so you can continue the batch file execution, starting FSX, after the client is up and running. A simple tap on the ANY key, and away it goes. I use the SPACE bar as the ANY key, so an accidental double strike won't have any detrimental effects. That's a small joke from the DOS days, BTW. We had a bunch of retired AF pilots as managers where I worked, and for the life of them, when they saw "Strike any key when ready", the result of the pause command in a batch file, their brains would vapor-lock. They'd go looking for me to "fix" it. I finally had my techs put small sticky letters on all the space bars, so they could find the "ANY" key. Kinda sad, really. College education to break 'em, High School education to fix 'em, as we used to say about pilots in the military. Ever see a pilot complain that a system doesn't work in the On Full Force switch position? I have. Think about it...:confused: Problem solved... Pat☺

It sounds like the autopilot is still on, and commanding a turn to another heading. Hence the stabilator positions. Have you tried turning the AP off? Or changing the autopilot's heading to the current runway heading and seeing what happens to the stab positions? If they get closer to level, or matched to each other, hit Z to turn off the AP. Alternatively, another possibility: Is your default flight the sim's default, default flight? The one it comes with when you first install it, before you do anything at all. Are you certain your joystick, or whatever you use, is properly calibrated, using the in-game calibration page. Will the aileron axis move correctly when you try calibrate? Don't use an external form of calibration, use the one the sim has. Another possibility, are you sure the aircraft's hydraulics are on and at pressure? There is a hyd pressure gauge someplace in that cockpit. Same for the plane's generators, and is there a CAS (Control Augmentation System) that is off, perhaps? I don't have P3D, but I'll wager something in all my rambling will help. Alternatively, I'm very often wrong, but heck, at least I gave it a shot, no? Good luck! Pat☺

OH! OOOOps.... :eek: Sorry bout that. Nice to see I'm still wide awake and firing on all 8. Or is that all 4? Heck. Anywho, off for more coffee. Obviously I'm in desperate need of it. :confused: Sorry again, il. Have fun, even with my errors inserted now and then! Pat☺

I figgered, I was just offering a possible alternative (wow! two big words in a row, and at this time of day!) to using a batch file. Nothing wrong with alternatives to a single way of doing something :) Have fun! Pat☺