HS-748

[Rick Piper]

Hi John M

There is a ported to FSX installer in the downloads section for FSX

shouldn't be a transparency issue with that version.

only the original should suffer that problem

Regards
Rick

[Jon.M]

Hi Rick,

I'm pretty sure I used the FSX installer.

I'll post a sceenie of the transparent coaming this evening, can't at the moment as I'm off to work now. I can't say it really bothers me as I usually use the 2D panel and still use FS9 more frequently than FSX.

Jon

[Rick Piper]

Hi Jon

No problem mate

you might be right but thought i fixed that problem

pic would be useful

Regards
Rick

[Jon.M]

Here's a couple of shots Rick.

No lights turned on.



This happens to the VC when any lights are turned on. The textures for both the pilot's and co pilot's coaming (binnacle?) disappear and a couple of textures to the right and left of the pedestal as well. It happens both by day and night. I didn't try all the different models.



I'm sure that I did use the FSX installer as I've got all the thumbnails of the aircraft and the starting problem that happens with the FS9 model in FSX isn't present.

I'm running this on a Core2 Quad Q6600 with 4Gb Ram and an Nvidia 9800 GTX+.
The system is Vista 32bit.

Hope this helps but if you need any more info I won't be around till tomorrow evening.

Jon

[oldoak]

Nice scenery there - is that the Voz stuff for fsx??
Leif

The scenery is FTX by ORBX. It's very, very good. Their site is at http://fullterrain.com
The Melbourne airport scenery is so realistic it's breathtaking. Trouble is even with a very grunty system framerates suffer badly and I sometimes need to switch features off to get fly-able framerates. Other airports are not so resource intensive and default setting are fine.

It is possible to slave the auto pilot to a GPS flight plan by switching from Nav1 to Nav2 with the switch at the top left of the radio panel. Like you not something I feel the need to do often.

Using the Glide function on the auto pilot will get the plane to follow an ILS glide path set on the Nav1 radio. You have to set the throttles manually to get the correct speed and it WON'T auto land so disconnect the auto pilot at about 100ft (click z) and land manually.

The water methanol is needed at high rather than low ambient temperatures when the fuel trimmers have to be turned right down. I'd have thought this would be important in the GABA during summer.

Thanks for the tips. I'd forgotten about the water methanol thing. I played with the Nav1/Nav2 CDI switch but still couldn't get it to lock onto a GPS track. Perhaps it's because I didn't used the FSX installer. After about six attempts the file wouldn't download completely, so I finished up installing the other FSX file that would download (HS748compatible.zip). That was many weeks ago. I'll try again and see what happens.

Oldoak

[oldoak]

Nice scenery there - is that the Voz stuff for fsx??
Leif

The scenery is FTX by ORBX. It's very, very good. Their site is at http://fullterrain.com
The Melbourne airport scenery is so realistic it's breathtaking. Trouble is even with a very grunty system framerates suffer badly and I sometimes need to switch features off to get fly-able framerates. Other airports are not so resource intensive and default setting are fine.

It is possible to slave the auto pilot to a GPS flight plan by switching from Nav1 to Nav2 with the switch at the top left of the radio panel. Like you not something I feel the need to do often.

Using the Glide function on the auto pilot will get the plane to follow an ILS glide path set on the Nav1 radio. You have to set the throttles manually to get the correct speed and it WON'T auto land so disconnect the auto pilot at about 100ft (click z) and land manually.

The water methanol is needed at high rather than low ambient temperatures when the fuel trimmers have to be turned right down. I'd have thought this would be important in the GABA during summer.

Thanks for the tips. I'd forgotten about the water methanol thing. I played with the Nav1/Nav2 CDI switch but still couldn't get it to lock onto a GPS track. Perhaps it's because I didn't used the FSX installer. After about six attempts the file wouldn't download completely, so I finished up installing the other FSX file that would download (HS748compatible.zip). That was many weeks ago. I'll try again and see what happens.

Oldoak