robmarkf

One thing I've discovered at LHR is a perplexing amount of Cessna's pootling about - I fly out of there in real life quite a bit, and never seen one in real life!!

Christopher - sorry for not replying faster. I do run it at 100% and it's fair to say, there's sh1t loads of planes!! It's a bit odd though as there are more BA planes than you can shake a stick at and T5s always rammed - but the other's less so, with T3 being the least busy. The schedule's seem accurate enough with lot's of far east heavies going around 9ish of an evening. And no discernable impact on frame rates. Even tried it with last Jan's london snow storm (16th Jan if you're using Rex) and it gives me no real drop in rates. That was a pretty good test doing a landing in a PMDG 737 with

Guys - a quick update and another thank you! All's good in my world of FSX. Have installed all my various add ons (REX, UT2, various airports and planes) done all the recommended tweaks and have not had any CTDs at all - FPS tends to be around 28 on average, with an occasional drop down to 23 (worst case) at LHR in crap weather and lots of AI. But if that's the worst it can do, I'm pretty happy. As an aside I installed France VFR for the South of France (Cote D'Azur) and was seriously impressed. It's an area i know well and the detailing is superb - worth the investment. Cheers again

So, we're properly up and running now! Put a few of the tweaks in as suggested, uiautomaton and highmem, as these seemed to be the must do's and ran it for some time. As before no problems at all with the graphics maxed out - looked very very good. And best of all, no crashes. Ran a flight from London to Paris in poor weather and it all went swimmingly. So, took the plunge and went for it with a few add ons. Firstly the PMDG 747 - wow! So much cleaner than the FS9 version. Ran that for a bit. Happy! Then went for Heathrow on UK 2000, and that was pretty good. The graphics were a bit stuttery,

Cheers all! Britfrog, message coming across, Joe cheers for the upload! Will give it a spin this evening! Will keep you all updated Rob

So, we're up and running. Install went fine and all the sliders everywhere went to the right and off I got into the Microlight around Friday Harbour and woah, was I impressed. Incredibly smooth, no jitters, lovely views and textures, etc. So, after 20 mins or so of flying, went off to Heathrow to give the 747 a spin. All good, though I have to say the default model's a bit cr*p. But still lovely views, smooth textures - all in all a great experience. So, I upped the ante and put some weather in. 737 this time from Gatwick and that was fine until I took off and suddenly it just CTD - bugge

Couple of questions - Can you cancel a specific flight i.e. if I'm about to fly a scheduled route, I'd rather not have the same plane with the same flight number leaving at the same time on AI! Secondly, I read somewhere that one of the problems of UT2 is plane's parking where they like rather than where they should (heavy's in small gates, etc., BA at T4 at LHR, etc.), but I'd always assumed this was the scenery AFCADs rather than AI? Is this the case? Cheers

Cheers for the advice so far - I am waiting for the PMDG 777. To be honest it was one of the reasons for upgrading to FSX - I suspect it's the death knell for FS9 and new planes won't be made for it, which is a shame!

Hello all - So, after numerous years of playing with, installing, tweaking and generally loving FS9, a couple of months ago my old PC finally gave up the ghost in a fairly spectacular manner (there was smoke!). Having weighed up the pro's and cons I finally decided to take the plunge to FSX. Reading forum upon forum, I've plumped for a new machine (of pretty decent spec) which arrives in the next day or so and have in my possession a new box containing FSX Gold, so I'm nearly ready to go. I'm hoping with my specs, I should be able to go for some pretty intensive stuff without impact on th