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  1. @mokeiko, I actually don't have an antivirus program running because I am running x-plane on an iMac. The Mac OS doesn't have the same issues with virus attaching themselves to processes vital to core OS operations. To the point though, I don't even have an antivirus program installed that might flag the addon as malicious. @YYZSimmer, What you say is mostly correct, and a good practice in the majority of scenarios. However, the truth is, antiviruses are usually the culprit responsible for the majority of system incompatibility issues that result in software conflicts. Please don't take my response as negative or an attack, I just want to help clear some things up and in fact, my response may help you and others a lot, especially if you want better performance from your systems. First, there are many more false positives that occur than people are aware, and a false positive is not the result of a poorly built 3rd party program or installer like this one. Furthermore, it should not be the responsibility of 3rd party developers to program an installer to counter false security alerts. Not when the alert should have never been flagged in the first place. Instead, this actually falls on the development team of the antivirus program. They should be coding using standard practices that allow typical and legetmit scripts to run without being seen as a possible threat. Keep in mind, antivirus programs have a very complicated set of tasks to undertake with many different variables to consider, not to mention that the users themselves, can further complicate the matter if they don't properly configure them correctly. IMPORTANT!!! PC Antivirus software access (in regards the Windows OS specifically) the two major architectural components designed for the Windows OS. These two design layers are called, Kernel mode and User Mode. The fact that antivirus software have root level security clearance to interact with or manipulate the Windows Kernel mode (which is the most restrictive environment within Windows), means that the software can sometimes inflict the same level of damage as a virus. This essentially means your antivirus program has the ability to alter the most crucial parts of your operating system. Why? Well, because kernel mode is the only mode with full access to both the hardware and system resources. (e.x.: system drivers, external mice, joysticks, ect...) A better practice is research the antivirus software carefully and have one installed that leads in its class and hardly interacts with the system it is monitoring. Not all are built equally and many programs are extremely bloated which in return are unnecessarily taxing on a system. It is more commonly advised that you don't have an antivirus program even running during any type of PC gaming, whether it be a Flight sim or something like League of Legends. This is especially true if you experience a large performance hit. You'll see a vast improvement on FPS if there isn't an antivirus running in the background and it's why most of the more reliable security programs have implemented a game mode option. Although, if it were me, I'd shut it down completely while running X-plane. Security programs are widely known to cause conflict with other installed programs. This is why a lot of software require the user to shut it down during installations. However, if you feel more secure with it on, another less drastic option is to create a 'rule exception' within the preferences inside your antivirus software and also inside your firewall so that it knows not to flag the in/out port communication piping necessary for the software to run correctly. On a less important side note: Windows OS infrastructure implement the registry mechanism which acts like a spinal cord to the brain of operations. Everything installed is recorded into the registry whether the processes are installed through an installer (by the user) or a malicious process injected into the system by a bad script. Almost every process attaches to the registry in some way and therefore could possibly be programmed to interact on the top level user mode core operations. Every running process running in the user mode layer share the same environment so the script can send instructions to the user mode brain of operations, directing it to run its objectives or it can attach itself and spread systemwide. Extremely sophisticated viruses like a rootkit virus can even communicate with the Kernel mode explained earlier. In contrast, the mac OS is an unix based architecture, and the same can be said about the Linux infrastructure which is similarly based on the Unix concept. Unix Based processes act more like single cell organisms. It is as if every program or running process (i.e. app) is it's own individual computer separate of the OS. Therefore it makes it harder to spread malicious code to the core because everything runs independent and isolated. Also Unix ran OS's separate it's core modes into altogether separate containers and only make reference links into the lower level user mode container. Those links are largely, one directional. By the way, this post was not my attempt to discuss the pros and cons and the tireless argument of which system is better, Mac or Windows, it's just that many people don't fully understand the differences between these two OS architectures. I was just trying to help better explain the way security programs interact with windows and the complications and sometimes accidental damage that can occur when they interact with a system.
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  2. Happy Friday All! I’ve been very sarcastic at the end of this video, BUT, I’m going to use Traffic Global in my videos from now on. It just Works.. out of the box. I attempted to review traffic add-ons for X-Plane in the past, but they just didn’t work without a great deal of fiddling around, even then, I felt I couldn’t review them as I didn’t have the time to figure out why they didn’t work properly. This is Traffic Global by Justflight, and I think it’s the best of the bunch, it just works on the fly. This is just my opinion - please let us know your opinion in the comments section. I hope you enjoy my first look at traffic global! Thanks. : ) https://youtu.be/7qEYJB-ZdPI
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  3. Version 1.0.0

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    Livery for the Hot Start TBM 900. N900FZ: https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/9086041
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    This lua script reads the V speeds from the CDU and sets the speed bugs automatically, for this script:
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  5. Seems you have flooded your engine. As the message says you have to perform a dry motoring now to clear any fuel residue. All this is described in the POH, but here's what to do in short words: - Throttle in cutoff position - Ignition switch off - AUX BP switch on - Hold starter switch in on position for 2 seconds, then release - wait 10 seconds - Hold Starter switch in abort position momentarily, then release Now all residual fuel should have been cleared and you can try another regular start procedure.
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