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A reasonable reply is going to need SOME ONE (several of them) who has actually USED these specific books to make a judgement about what YOU need....difficult call; if there are 20 users who all think the books were good, then a "consensus" suggests that you might reasonably expect similar results, but they are still not YOU and you might need something completely different than they. Certainly give them a try, a fair trial for several mission, lessons, chapters... if all goes well, then continue. If, a couple weeks of poor results, simply admit that 'their' way is not 'your' way and put the Books away. Raw fish is also not for everyone. Nothing wrong with never trying again if you didn't like it. This is a Hobby, if it causes stress and it isn't working for you right now, try a different approach or put it away for a month. It has to be fun and not "work". FAA has much PDF free documentation, including all the ground-school basics and fundamentals in their "Airplane pilots Handbook" (or similar name) Get real-world flight basics under your belt and many things will be easier because you understand what it is you are trying to do vs perhaps a series of lesson steps without a sense of what they are trying to teach. Hope this is helpful, Loyd

Before I actually read your text I immediately began thinking of what I then saw you didn't want. 'nuff said. I'm not TOTALLY sure that the answer is "NO" but I think it likely true (AT FIRST GLANCE). What I would have to look at first and you can be there before me: in the FSUIPC documentation is a LIST of sim functions that can be bound to keys and, possibly something for the mouse action. Don't remember that specifically. Functions as in Gear UP and Gear Down and the familiar TOGGLE GEAR only that we are given by default - All sorts of 'interesting' functionality; do your homework but I don't recall any combination that approaches your need. My last look was years ago and I can't be sure what I had for breakfast or even IF I had breakfast today... I did have two pieces of toast when the power came back on about 0230, the next thing I recall was some yogurt about 1645. I also seem to have misplaced about 6 lbs in the last two weeks. Anyway, in Star Citizen, I use two sticks: Right is my sim stick MS ForceFB, Left is T16000; that one is functionally FSX slew... in a vacuum, your attitude and your velocity vector have no essential connect (I guess you would say) so, 0 hands available for mouse or keyboard. In Combat, EVERY FUNCTION IS VOICE DRIVEN KEY ASSIGNMENT sub routines. All essential MFD's are visible so I center the view and still move the mouse through menus with "Voice Attack" and similar software. It's nowhere as fast as I want it to be but future built-in code may be faster. we await. I have a friend who has the drive to find out what is possible.. When he got VA he set out to fly FSX/P3d anywhere, anytime totally hands free. He certainly proved the concept to me; I have a copy of the code to verify that is works. so... If you could use VA to do the work, would just saying "fuel level" and having 'someone else/Copilot' go thru the menu and display what you want... is that close enough to be acceptable? 'Cause each panel will have different co-ordinates for every gauge and it's gonna take some time to get it all running. potentially a month or more just to get that first aircraft working. After that, it's copy/past except for the mouse co-ordinate and all the differing menu option. He definitely changed headings, radio frequencies, Autopilot functions etc while flying. How bad do you want virtual 'control'? VA ties all the movement needed to virtual keypresses via SCRIPTS to manage the fine details. It's sill keypress and menus but YOU don't have to execute them. It's the only potential I see, but I've been wrong before AND unaware of alternate approaches. Keep looking, Loyd

any recent update? Microsoft Operating System, ever changing now. Curtail your expectations and expect unexplained changes... everything seems to be chaotic these days. I try to not worry too much.... also one of the reasons I continue to use 7, and only keep 10 updated and available in case of emergency. At which time I will be expecting unexplained phenomena. I plan to keep fingernails shorter so I don't draw blood scratching my nearly-bald head... Peace. Loyd

step by step Answer in language "Simple": Keep suitably-sized, just-barely-sticky piece of masking tape in convenient location. Upon opening search for airports, Place tape over "Search Add on scenery" Select only from remaining option (all) "default scenery". Ignore word "default" or use more tape. Find airport (from all airports) Smile when successful. Learn to live with confusion and disappointment. I'm only 75 and I've come to accept that Chaos really is almost all that exists. I am grateful when almost anything works like you would rationally think that is should. Programmers are paid extra to introduce annoying 'features'. The good ones do it for free. You must learn to accept that which you cannot fix. It won't get any better but we're here to help. Peace! Loyd

at the link mentioned previously, Reply #20 has a link at the bottom to a still-available exe that found and displayed all of my matching AC and boats directly. I ran it from the download folder and it gave me this... If there are so many results that the window can't show them all, fix what you can see and rerun the finder until NO duplicates are found. Case dismissed; Next case...:) Loyd

I did a short search; I'm sure I've seen a reference to a utility that will find duplicate title names but did not find. If such isn't found, then the DOS level command string mentioned below WILL search your aircraft files if you start it at/inside the airplanes/folder, find all the titles and collect them in a text file in the same folder. This will facilitate the search for the offenders. This forum page, answer #8 https://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/threads/multiple-models-with-same-title.429030/ If I delete the saving of the results and only display them, I get this: but the saved text might be sorted so that duplicates are gathered together .... Hope this isn't needed but you always need a plan B Loyd

Now that some of the dust has settled, "space". we use wireless mouse/keyboard; my bluetooth jbuds for my android are much lighter than my Sound Blaster with mic, so wireless sound is practical and there seems to also be wireless monitors and wireless sticks. NOW, tuck the box somewhere with good reception and good cooling and you have a flexible, adaptable 'system' that may be incorporated in with existing 'room components' and still be accessible and convenient to use/store. Or am I coming from out of left field here? Does this suggest practical options? Loyd

Been there, done that! I like the rectangular GPS, despise the small hand-held unit so I frequently replace the small one with the large and use the exact same procedure to add the gps-500 to any other aircraft. Pop-up Windows are defined in each panel.cfg I almost always make a copy of any config file that I'm going to edit so I have a copy of the original if I mess up the edit Each window is listed at the top of the cfg like a table of contents and there is a definition after that which describes what is in the window. You can change order so long as you change both the table portion and the description portion so the keep the same number and physical order in the listings. I want the sythetic ILS panel add-on in my Baron instead of the compass so the before/after table entries look like this: // Panel Configuration file (ORIGINAL) // Beech Baron 58 // Copyright © 2001-2003 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. [Window Titles] Window00=Main Panel Window01=Radio Stack Window02=GPS Window03=Throttle Quadrant Window04=Compass Window05=Mini Panel ------------------------------- // Panel Configuration file (REPLACEMENT) // Beech Baron 58 ------- added "anywhere ILS" gauge ---------------------- // Copyright © 2001-2003 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. [Window Titles] Window00=Main Panel Window01=Radio Stack Window02=GPS Window03=Throttle Quadrant Window04=ILS MFD Window05=Mini Panel Down below, the description original section for Compass is removed [Window04] size_mm=70 windowsize_ratio=1.0 position=2 visible=0 ident=COMPASS_PANEL gauge00=Magnetic_Compass!Magnetic-Compass,0,0 and the provided ILS description is pasted into the now-empty #4 description section [Window04] Background_color=0,0,0 size_mm=140,155 position=3 visible=0 ident=2017 zorder=25 gauge00=ILS_MFD!zzDAT37, 0,0,140,155 ---------------------------------- The ILS_MFD gauge itself is placed in the Gauges folder so it will be available for any/every aircraft to use. To add a new gauge is essentially the same procedure except that you INSERT the table entry at the top and the description entry in the same relative location taking the correct sequence number and increasing all those below by 1. So you would add ILS gauge table entry into (for example) the table following item 3, number it 4, and raise all the following entries by 1 to maintain the sequence. Add the description following #3 and list it as 4, and raise the following one so they number 5 and up. Mistakes happen so you Always have a copy of the original so you can start the editing over if problems occur. And they will. Loyd

Thanks for the link. Pass on that. Sounds like something with a learning curve. At my age, if I were just discovering Flight Sims, I believe that I might be too intimidated to tackle it. As it is, I'm still learning new stuff almost every day after 25-ish years in the hobby. What must it feel like to a new-comer, seeing all the accessories available for free and for a price. I eased into it, continuously upgrading since FS4. Old hat with that approach; starting out now, from scratch? Daunting. It almost has to be. stay safe people Loyd

This is curious; I have never heard of such a thing. I have FSX-SE and a few other games on Steam but no purchased DLC on anything except the Skyrim expansions. My FSX-SE is primarily a default-only safety backup on a Win10 OS and I rarely access that except to update every couple of months. I guess I'll take a look and see if my library seems to be intact. Thanks for posting your concerns. I wouldn't miss the Euro-Truck (?) thingy or No Man's sky. Skyrim is the only one that I still enjoy (you know, the add-on Waifu girls and their curves). Now if FSX/P3d had such enhanced cabin crew.... Are you sure the missing stuff isn't just 'hidden' for some reason - I 'hide' stuff that I've uninstalled so I don't have to look at it; I want those to appear 'gone' even though I still own them. Peace!, to a suffering planet. Loyd

Wait! I thought it was the F-4 Phantom II that was the 'brick'? L

I think I've seen some 'in flight' audio stuff uploaded to the library. I've never used any such 'cause, you know, multiplayer with real people. However, if you can't find anything appropriate in the library you might consider writing out the desired type of dialog and getting the necessary voice recording help from some friends, acquaintances, girlfriend(s), girlfriends of your friends, total strangers on the forum here, etc. Former girlfriends might also be a good bet because something ambitious like this might end up with some of them never wanting to speak to you again...:rolleyes: Keep the home fires burning, Loyd PS good first post and welcome to our shared obsession!

Don't know what you stand to lose but a bad drive is pretty well lost... I'd copy what you can if you have the need and space, Reformat, not 'quick' but the long way - I think Windows would check and flag problem areas and save what it could. I'm NOT totally sure this is the best step; it's just what I would (and have done) to 'problem' drives like my older 2TB usb drive. Give others time to tell you I'm wrong. Follow the consensus or follow what you think is the safest approach for you, after due diligence... Loyd

ooooh, I just started reloading this on my now-5-year-old installation. We're flying some 'memorial flights' in the UK for the next couple of months - our flying group lost an elder member a short time ago (non-covid causes). I posted an open invitation in another thread to other adult enthusiasts who would like a group of old timers to visit with and fly on line. see the "Covid Flights" post if you have any interest... Loyd

I nearly Hijacked my own response to Sibow's help request. So, what I didn't need to drag into that other thread is here... The bulk of my flying for the last decade involves twice-a-week multiplayer flights with my on-line friends of 10 years. We added two addition COVID-ORIENTED flights a week as of two weeks ago: on Thursdays and Saturdays we now fly while maintaining 'social distancing' and stay on separate continents..... just KIDDING! but only about our location. We're 5 -7 mostly-retired ol' farts and are now actually flying an hour or so, four days a week to keep our spirits up. We fly for an hour, starting about 1830UTC on Mon, Tue, Thur, Sat. The largest group I ever recall gathering in years gone by, was 15. Most days we're 6 active members. We communicate with Discord, we use JoinFS to connect our various versions of Flightsim: 1 always-FSX, me on FSX/P3d2.5 and the rest on 64-bit P3d. We are scenery-oriented, seriously casual fliers, seeking out the ripply parts of the map, significantly more than adhering to proper procedures... (Tony! Tony, come left; turn left. You're going the wrong way. Follow the labels!) I'm the only active admin of our Discord channel usually around at the moment (placing me an a leadership postion, as it were - and I plan half of our weekly flights anyway) so I'm making an executive decision. We've never "recruited" so far as I recall. No one wants to try to separate the wheat from the chaff but these are trying times. If you can get Discord and JoinFS 1.4.34 installed; if our schedule suits your schedule; and our casual and sometimes goofy antics appeal to you, Private Message me with some basic info and sim experience (adults only please) and we will see if we can add a few people to our family. A few of us have actually met in previous years in Dallas, New Orleans and Orlando. No formal 'rules', just be respectful of everyone else. I'm willing to try up to 6 new adoptees able to fly at US Central daylight flight time 1330. "ish". Officially, our scheduled flight time is 1400 Central US time CST/DST but people kept showing up early and we're all just sitting there at 1330 so we 'go' when it seems that 'everyone' is ready... Otherwise, if our wonderful, scintillating personalities don't sweep you off your feet and you still want to be a part of a flying group to help your 'mental health' during troubled times I urge you to seek more fellowship in the multiplayer community. The good folks at Digital Theme Park (a gaming community) have numerous events in many sub-groups, including FlightSim and P3d. You'll need Teamspeak3, and JoinFS ver 1.4.34, I think. visit their site and get current information. I'm -- well, never mind how old I am, but I assure you I've never, ever been THIS old before; sometime I forget things. So far, I have never forgotten to wake up in the morning. Except maybe last week when I woke up at 1215pm. If you PM me and I don't respond right away, I may be behind in my flight planning or still trying to find my way to the kitchen (once I find where I left my coffee cup). I'll try to respond in a timely manner but this is all new to me and I'm flyin' by the seat of my pants. What you're gonna find: 4 from the US, 1 or 2 from UK, 1 from Gernany (only rarely), 1 from Israel. Average age, probably over 60 as half are retired. A retired Army Colonel who flew Hueys; a retired Air Traffic Controller; 2 retired, former aviation maintenance types and a couple of other hangers-on, 'wanna-be's'. But we do have fun. We're English-speaking though our German and Israeli friends are bi/multi-lingual. Our Controller speaks both American and NewYorkish, and the remaining three only speak Southern with various amount of Drawl. Deal with it or get out! I could say more but it's (oh, hell) 0350 and I need to post our flight for later today and get some sleep. Call me; we'll do lunch.... Loyd

Hello Sibow, welcome aboard. We will TRY to help. I doubt that I, personally, can help 'cause when I couldn't get UT (for FS9) to run on my new build with FSX I took the 'chicken' way out. I just copied the Aircraft and the Traffic files over to FSX and to this day, I still run the old traffic on FSX, FSX-steam, P3d 2.5 and P3d 3.4.... I don't do much big airport stuff and at 38,000' a contrail is a contrail is a contrail... If someone out there is knowledgeable about your issue, perhaps that person will drop by in time to be useful. If not, oh well.. copy; paste and move on. Sorry, that's all I got for you Loyd

Stuarta, I was running a single-core 2.2GHz when FSX came out; I enjoyed it but the ONLY add-ons I would recommend for such a 'underspeed' cpu is this: PHOTOSCENERY! I have observed significant improvement in FPS as I added photoscenery. I once watched a video as one of the FSX developers described how the complex world scenery is built on-the-fly from many 'layers of data' and then modified again based on the actual slope of the ground - as in replacing vegetation images with rock imagery on steeper slopes. I've never seen any actual numbers but when I fly over photoscenery on my current 4.4GHz build I've seen 'unlimited' fps numbers above 300fps. Understand this: when photoscenery is used, (an oversimplification) only the terrain and image needs to be processed - and surface/airport stuff. No autogen, powerlines etc. Cars, yes, also. No, you don't see 300fps; the/my monitor only refreshes at 60Hz, but it does mean that the CPU is freed up to handle other stuff if doesn't have to build the world underneath you. You have nothing to lose really. Put the sim on your machine and see what it does fps-wise out over the ocean on a nice clean new build. If the info display in the upper-left corner shows 30, 40, 50 fps then I'd guess you probably could enjoy a "photoscenery simulator" that you can fly around in; I certainly do. Take a look at the free offerings from blueskyscenery.com; photo-real coverage for a lot of the American west. I used it in some of the videos I have linked below. You needn't rush. Take your time, try budget approaches before you spend $ that may not buy the experience you're hoping to find again. Photoscenery needs LOTS of storage space: I run mine off of a 2TB USB 2 hard drive. It suffices, though USB on an "older" laptop may not be fast enough... We wish you well, after all, so feel free to continue to seek answers. We will help. Sometime there are multiple 'final' answers that will be acceptable. Take your time, do your research. best wishes, Loyd

your sig says W7 and you then say W10 install (but who am I to talk, I have both) not real sure of myself here but... are you starting the install via "autorun" when you insert the disk? Block autorun (insert disk while holding shift) and manually run installer "as Administrator": Right-click installer and select "run as administrator". You probably should run FSX.exe when it is installed also "as Administrator". If you still have permissions issues you may have to assign some permissions yourself manually (beyond my paygrade to describe how). I installed disk FSX on Win7 and FSX-Steam on my Win10 with no permissions issues so I doubt that this is normal. I had FSX disk on a non-os drive on my previous build, also with no permissions issues. best wishes for quick 'recovery' from unnecessarily stupid stuff... Loyd

just a question to enhance clarity: you upgraded your W7 installation in place (as many people did) and now it's a Win 10 installation? you say HDD; I'll assume you mean actual mechanical disk so, have you defragged your system after the upgrade? I'd think that would be an essential first step. Are you aware of the disk managment softwares that not only defrag (gather file pieces into contiguous sectors) but also gather related files into nearby sectors so the read head doesn't have to jump all around the platter to load related files. I noticed an improvement when I did this on my previous machine - This does not apply to SSD's, only mechanical drives. Some may claim the improvement is minimal but I could certainly tell the difference. Best bet of course is to move to SSD's if you can... they are suprisingly cheaper than they used to be. I've had only one failure (in warranty) out of 6-7 Samsung drives - I think it best to keep all ssd to the same mfg. In case of failure or contamination, I have a clone of each OS..... ransomware? 2 minute fix. OS's go into hot swap bay, not buried inside - up and running again (offline for safety) copy the fresh clone again and away we go. components in my now-5-year-old win7/win10 dual boot machine in the signature below.. I kept the win7 as primary, built win 10 to 'get acquainted' without full commitment - I update it every couple months but that's practically all I do with it; it has FSX steam and P3d v3 on it but I live in disk FSX and P3d v2.5 in Win7. I didn't throw away my Rambler Classic when they quit supporting it either... best of luck moving forward, Loyd

Great for now; hope it stays up. L

I can't help directly but I might help you get better prepared to receive help. Wired connection SHOULD BE better than wireless. Have you tried a new/different ethernet cable? Your service provider can remotely test the quality and throughput of their service; have you asked for them to check the service to the modem? I've had to do just that several times and they repaired THEIR service every time; there was nothing wrong at my end. You're on a mobile laptop, can you test with someone else's internet to see if it's better, or even plug into a different jack on the modem/router. Have you tried at a wireless hot spot like.. oh, sorry - Covid-19 I tend to assume people mean disk version if they don't mention Steam, but you never know (and here I also suspect the version is irrelevant.) Are you cable or DSL? perhaps that matters or perhaps not but still, better to give as much info as you can. best wishes for quick resolution Loyd

I'm not qualified to make any suggestions about a machine with newer hardware but I make only a couple of generalized comments: Make yourself be patient about this and do research here and elsewhere. A couple of weeks or more on this size investment is a good idea. FSX is 'mostly' single-core and cpu speed is crucial for good performance. I would recommend 4GHz as a minimum starting point (absolutely nothing that starts with a 2!). The newest P3d (v4) is 64bit and can use extra memory but FSX and all previous versions (1 - 3) of P3d are 32-bit and only use 4G of (virtual) memory so FSX itself will not benefit from much more RAM - 8Gb is quite enough for FSX and additional activity such as browsers, music players, TrackIR. I purchased 16Gb for my build but ran it for perhaps a year on just 8 before I added that extra 8 for other games and saw no improvement in FSX/P3d with the extra 8.... but I don't fly those memory-hog big-iron haulers; they might use the extra memory. SSD storage is recommended for storage, of course. Again, Be Patient above all! best wishes for a good buy that will make you smile, Loyd

Damn guys! I keep saying that after 25 years of flight simming, I still learn something new every day - you've just gone and proved that again. Thanks to all contributors and hope you all stay safe. Loyd

Mallcott I agree with your comment if applied primarily to long-haul flights where allocated memory for long-gone scenery might not be all released but I only fly 32-bit and I don't recall ever having a OOM error on this machine (2015 build). I certainly had a few on my previous 4Gb core-duo. I don't fly any 2000 nm flights but I commonly have either FSX or P3d v2.5 on all day and typically stay within 500nm of my starting point. the OP's description suggested more like a difficulty with writing to the page file rather than out of virtual memory. Certainly, cleaning up a HDD is reasonable, unrisky first step. meanwhile, the OP hasn't described his system so we're kinda workin' blind here... Loyd

It will help a lot to provide basic system information: PC or Laptop Hard drive or SSD if HDD & laptop: 5700 rpm or 7500? if HDD, have you defragmented the drive in the last few months? If PC, can you power down and re-seat the memory chips? (I recently started having erratic occurrences of complete loss of power; it stopped when I reseated the video and ram memory chips... just a thought. here's the FSUIPC setup to show available remaining virtual memory (mentioned previously). in the 'logging' tab enter the data from the top row (024C & S32); flying in windowed mode, you can display in the frame; the on-screen option shows in a (much-too-large for my preference) green transparent window Loyd