Nano

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Thanks for the reply Litjan. Sounds ligit. However I will say there are real FMS's that do load the global database. The Honeywell FMZ 2000 found on the Global Express and Falcon 900EX for example.

My install of the 737 seems to be working just fine. Awesome add-on. I am currently having an issue with the FMS data which I get through Navigraph via the download manager. Just flew a flight from KNEW to KBOS and everything worked at expected. STAR to an ILS final. Then I attempted to plan a flight from KBOS to EIDW and the FMC says EIDW is "Not In Database". The same for any waypoint in and around Ireland. The last waypoint it recognized was BEXET coming off the NATS tracks. I currently have AIRAC 1613 loaded with the proper identification on the IDENT page of the FMC. I know it's a little out of date, but I'm pretty sure EIDW was there before this cycle..:) I checked the aircraft folder and it appears the Navdata is correctly installed and I did open the wpNavFIX file and noticed that the Ireland fixes were in there. But still reported as "Not in Database". Any clues? TIA

It's a small Ram Air Turbine (known as a RAT) used in the event of a dual engine failure. It provides electricity to the emergency bus and has a small hydraulic pump for gear and flight controls. Usually deploys automatically given certain criteria, but can be deployed manually for ops checks. I have deployed one in real life for an ops check and it makes a heck of a loud racket. Can't be stowed in flight once deployed.

Thanks Cameron and Merry Christmas to you and your family. Appreciate all the effort you put in to make our XP experience better and better. Nano

No John, no other weather-related plugins. I just tried this in XP10 and could not duplicate under exact same scenario, so it may be just related to XP11. FYI, duplicated behavior on a flight from KSFO-KSMF. Just went to chase mode and zoomed out in the vertical and the altimeter changed from 30.06 to 29.92 and weather went from Match real world to CAVOK with 25 sm vis

I just did my upgrade from Ver 3.2.2 and think it is $$$ well spent. However, I have found a strange behavior in XP11. I know it's beta and I'll check for the same behavior in XP10.5x. I'm on rwy 28L at KSFO in the Carenado BE58 and tell the sim to match real world weather. The sim loads the weather which is currently Scattered Cumulus at 20000-22000 ft. Pretty clear day with visibility set to 10 sm. I know this is a current limitation in XP11. Now if I take an external view and zoom out above FL200, I see the clouds start to really fill in to basically a cumulus overcast. Then when I zoom back in to the aircraft on the ground, the weather is completely changed to cumulus overcast and when I go to the weather settings page, "Match real world conditions" is no longer checked. It unchecked it without me telling it to do that and kept the overcast condition. Can someone try to replicate this behavior. Nano

Thanks Cameron. Looking forward to it. The CRJ is still one of the best add-ons in XP.

I think you are going to be pleasantly surprised. Keep us posted on the result if you will.

Not a bad rig, but I believe you can do better by buying parts and building it yourself. I just built an XP only PC with an i7-4790k coupled to the MSI GTX 980 graphics card. The 4790k is not as new as the Skylake CPUs, but for XP the faster clock speed and lower cost made it the best option. I used the Fractal Design Define S case and think it's awesome. Also, do not go lower than an 80+ Gold rating on your power supply if you could potentially be over clocking your CPU or GPU. Which, BTW you definitely should. It's so easy and you can get 15-25% performance boost for free, but you need stable power to do it.

Quite impressive indeed. The DDenn G6000 was at the top of my purchase list, but I believe it just got bumped to 2nd place.

Stay safe guys. Looks like you'll be hunkered down for a while. As long at the power stays on, it's a great time to log some XP hours.

Nice post Veace. I too just built a new rig with a 4790k and GTX 980. A vast improvement in my XPlane experience over my 09' iMac. I'm very happy with my fps as I'm able to run everything maxed out with 40-60 fps in 99% of the airspace. It will slow to 18-25 in places like London/NYC, but all I have to do is lower the screen resolution a notch and all is good even in those areas. Unfortunately, I'm all about eye candy, so I like to have everything on max; and that, at times, presents an fps problem. Congrats on your new rig and hopefully the 737 will be here soon.

You are in luck. The Define S case comes in a non-window version for $10 less. And correct, I didn't purchase an optical drive for this computer. I created and .iso and load that to play xplane without having the disk in the an optical drive. There are lots of videos on the internet on how to do that. For the most part if I'm under 30 fps, it's CPU limited. However, the 4790k at 4.4 GHz is that best you can do for XP. I've overclocked mine to 4.8 and have had no issues at all. Temps top out at 60 and are mostly in the 30s even when flying the sim. In the two days of flying I've done so far, I can say that 90% of the time I'm at 35+ fps. Only around object intensive scenery; i.e. London, Birmingham does it slow to the low 20s. I have GB Pro so there are lots of objects as I fly around the UK and at "extreme" objects they are all there. Even in the low 20s the sim seems very smooth and if I didn't have the fps data posted, I wouldn't really notice it. The pics below are the DDenn Challenger 300 at Aerosoft's Dublin scenery with real-time weather.

I just finished my RedBeast two days ago. I too just switched over from Mac to a PC exclusively for XP. The iMac will still be my main computing rig but XP will now be played on the PC. Here's a parts list to the computer I built. http://pcpartpicker.com/user/nanosour/saved/#view=N32dnQ I got all the parts from new egg and am extremely happy with their service. Joined the Premier for 90 days to get the 3 day shipping. A good deal for $20. Some lessons learned: 1) Although the GTX 980 is great, I would have gone with the 980 Ti if I could have a do over. I'm running pretty much maxed out with the exception of Water reflections and Shadows and get no less than 25 fps. Usually 50-60 in the vast majority of area. Using GPU-Z I notice that I'm routinely at or over 3500 MB of VRAM used. The 6GB 980 Ti would be useful. 2) The Fractal Design Define S is a phenomenal case. Check out you tube for reviews. I love not having a rack taking up all that room in the front. Here a pic of pretty much what I built. http://imgur.com/gallery/hizeQ Youtube video review of Define S 3) If you are gonna go with a water cooler with different fans, make sure the fans are 4-pin PWM fans so they can be controlled by the CPU Fan header on the motherboard. I made this mistake on my original purchase of Corsair SP120 fans for the H105 cooler. Had to return them and get the SP120 PWM fans. Also, the water pump should be plugged into a system fan header for constant pump rpm. 4) No need to pay full price for Windows. Got a genuine product key for Windows 7 Professional for $35 here: http://www.bonanza.com/listings/Microsoft-Window-7-Professional-32-64-Bits-Oem-Product-Key-Code/270948159?gpid=76983190261&gpkwd=&goog_pla=1&gclid=CLem_ZuNrMoCFcKGaQodLp0CCg You can make your own free Win 7 Pro bootable USB from the microsoft website to install Windows. I believe the free upgrade to Windows 10 is good thru July if you should eventually want Windows 10. Also, make sure you get at least the Professional level of windows or you will be limited to 16 GB of RAM support. That's about it. It was fun building it. If it's your first time, check out the tons of youtube vids on PC builds. Good Luck with it.