Is anybody here a vatsim member?
I've just passed my S1 exam. Im very happy with myself! I can control ground and delivery now! Is anyone interested in vatsim? If so it is a must for all flight simulator users. Id love to here your stories and if you have any q's id love to answer them.
Best regards,
EI330
I have heard of Vatsim, what does it do exactly?
FSX mod. Allows multiplayer on a massive scale.
You will find me on vatsim flying out of the south of England for Thomson Virtual.
http://www.vataware.com/pilot.cfm?cid=1094094 (http://www.vataware.com/pilot.cfm?cid=1094094)
Where will you control?
Too much of a hassle. Job + other more important hobbies = no no.
well i'll certainly try this when i have my next flight sim phase
My computer glitches badly with FSX. I'd join but I get bad lockups.
Quote from: ban2 on May 14, 2013, 03:13:45 PM
I have heard of Vatsim, what does it do exactly?
VATSIM is an online flight simulation network. You can connect to it with Microsoft Flight Simulator or X-Plane if you want to be a pilot (using a free plug-in), or you can connect to it with free, downloadable programs that simulate radar scopes if you want to be an air traffic controller.
People on the network communicate by voice as they would in real life. Pilots receive and follow instructions from air traffic controllers, and ATC coordinates traffic and maintains separation of aircraft, as in real life. The procedures used and the radio language used are the same as in real life. Membership is free.
See http://www.vatsim.net
Quote from: alexgv1 on May 14, 2013, 03:23:18 PM
You will find me on vatsim flying out of the south of England for Thomson Virtual.
http://www.vataware.com/pilot.cfm?cid=1094094 (http://www.vataware.com/pilot.cfm?cid=1094094)
Where will you control?
EIDW_GND/DEL for now. (Dublin airport). I'll let you know when im controlling so you can fly in ;)
Quote from: swiftus27 on May 14, 2013, 04:13:24 PM
My computer glitches badly with FSX. I'd join but I get bad lockups.
That's a pity, it is a fantastic game, vatsim really applies that realism thats missing from fsx on its own.
Also @alexgv1 you should apply to become an ATC.
Quote from: a330erlingus on May 14, 2013, 04:25:58 PM
EIDW_GND/DEL for now. (Dublin airport). I'll let you know when im controlling so you can fly in ;)
Might take the CityJet RJ over there when I get some Dublin scenery :)
I tried becoming a controller in VATSIM UK division but they were pretty useless back then, and now the system is saturated. I'm happy to fly and have some ATC service.
Quote from: a330erlingus on May 14, 2013, 04:29:59 PM
That's a pity, it is a fantastic game, vatsim really applies that realism thats missing from fsx on its own.
Also @alexgv1 you should apply to become an ATC.
I bought the thing so I could use it with ivao and vatsim too
What did you buy?
Quote from: swiftus27 on May 14, 2013, 05:53:02 PM
I bought the thing so I could use it with ivao and vatsim too
Do you use the PDMG 737ngx alexgv1? (Or any other payware aircraft)
my Alienware Quad I7 with dual cards seems to lock up alot. I run three monitors and this game wasn't designed for that. That MS Fly game was amazing with this computer and no one played it because it was a freaking arcade game.
Ah i see now.
I flew 'across the pond' in vatsim (A huge annual vatsim event, flying across the Atlantic: pond).
So anyway, i was at a friends house who has a 747, real life cockpit and we were descending into JFK, that went fine, but as we were approaching the minimums for landing the 4 screen-monitor froze and fsx crashed. We sat there for about 30minutes not believing our eyes. :laugh:
That's when it always locks up... It always happens on final. They know about it and there is nothing you can do. Perhaps take off again out of LGA (haha) and enter the VFR pattern.
If you tweak your GFX card settings and FSX.cfg file you can stop a lot of those crashes on approach swifty. It's when the game has the highest work to do.
Quote from: a330erlingus on May 14, 2013, 07:08:55 PM
Do you use the PDMG 737ngx alexgv1? (Or any other payware aircraft)
Yeah I use that and am awaiting the flight sim labs A320.
Taking a 737 accross the pond, now that was exciting! (Boeing delivery flight Seattle to England)
Quote from: swiftus27 on May 14, 2013, 07:29:45 PM
That's when it always locks up... It always happens on final. They know about it and there is nothing you can do. Perhaps take off again out of LGA (haha) and enter the VFR pattern.
Hahahaha good idea :laugh:
Quote from: alexgv1 on May 14, 2013, 07:39:10 PM
If you tweak your GFX card settings and FSX.cfg file you can stop a lot of those crashes on approach swifty. It's when the game has the highest work to do.
Yeah I use that and am awaiting the flight sim labs A320.
Taking a 737 accross the pond, now that was exciting! (Boeing delivery flight Seattle to England)
Ok il look into that.
Haha must have been very fun!!
The computer can run every total war game on max settings and the cooling fans don't even kick on
FSX doesn't run like a normal game. Plus no current computer can run it on max settings.
For a start, try turnin autogen down to dense and turning off DX10 preview. Not sure if you still have to do the infamous 4 gigabyte switch these days. Remember it from my teen years though haha 8)
Try it Chris, with no payload and 20t of fuel you can ferry that thing 4000nm eastbound with the wind at your back 8)
Exactly, no computer runs fsx maxed out with no lag. I used to get 5fps(!) in the 737NGX until i did this:
Turn off lens flare, direct x10, light bloom and advanced animations (Unless you want a moving jetway. (Im ryanair most of the time so jetways dont bother me, ryanair dont use them unless your in Spain)
Turn target frame rate to unlimited so it doesn't have to worry about meeting the target.
Just experiment and put the settings higher and higher, but you have to be willing to lose the odd frame.
Now i get 16fps with aerosoft Madeira X in a pdmg737.
I will try that, ill get a good laugh out of it. EGLL-KJFK in a fully loaded 737. 8)
Are crashes simulated? Is it possible for the ATC to make mistakes, or do planes just fly through each other?
Most ppl turn crashes off and there is no clipping
Alex:
If you're looking for a good A320, have a look at the Airbus Prologue from BlackBox Simulation.
While still developping( version now is 0.70) it's a very useful plane.
They have too an A330, if you like long range flights.
Hope you'll enjoy
Ramon.
BTW: I've flying in VATSIM since 1997, when it was called SATCO.
Quote from: alexgv1 on May 14, 2013, 07:39:10 PM
If you tweak your GFX card settings and FSX.cfg file you can stop a lot of those crashes on approach swifty. It's when the game has the highest work to do.
Yeah I use that and am awaiting the flight sim labs A320.
Taking a 737 accross the pond, now that was exciting! (Boeing delivery flight Seattle to England)
You guys seem geeky enough :D (That's a good thing!)
I'm playing Flight Sim for years now but I see more and more people making their own livery and exporting it into FSX. Any of you got an idea how? I got a few of the Project Open Sky planes and they supply paint kits for some and although I can do the painting and all, I can't seem to get it to work in the game.
Anybody?
Hi Dasha: I'm not a painter but I've downloaded and installed lot of liveries.
Are you sure that you do every steps to make a liverie work in FSX?
Place the liverie folder texture on your plane main folder.
Edit your aircraft.cfg file, located at the main plane folder, to add the new liverie.
To do that you may copy another text from other texture and simply modify the text by changing the name of the texture.
Start your FSX and,at the aircraft menu, be sure to check the "show all variations" button. I have the spanish version, so I'm not sure if this is the correct name of the button.
Let me search for an example, and I will post it later, since I'm now in hollydays and don't have my FSX here
Dasha:
Here is an example of the aircraft.cfg that must be modified.
Suppose your new liveri is called Flyfast
The texture folder must named "texture.flyfast"
Place that folder at your main aircraft folder.
Open the aircraft.cfg file.
You may find something like this:
[fltsim.0]
title=PA319 - Air France
sim=pa319-cfm56-2
model=CFM
panel=
sound=CFM
texture=AF
checklists=
atc_id=F-GRXB
atc_airline=AIR FRANCE
atc_flight_number=58
ATC_PARKING_CODES=AFR
atc_parking_types=GATE,RAMP
ui_manufacturer=Airbus
ui_variation=Air France
ui_type=A319 CFM
ui_createdby=Project Airbus
visual_damage=1
atc_heavy=0
kb_checklists=AirbusA319_check
kb_reference=AirbusA319_ref
description=AIR FRANCE / Project Airbus A319. Visual model by Andy Warden and Derek Mayer. Base textures by Demetris Themistocleous and Alessandro Savarese. Flight model & Sounds by Peter Binamira. Copyright Project Airbus 2008.\ n \ Repaint by Hector Perez Gonzalez / h_perez_g@yahoo.com
Copy the whole text and add it below the original.
Change the [fltsim.o] to [fltsim.1] or next number after all if they are several textures)
Change title= PA319-AIR FRANCE to title= PA319- Flyfast
Change atc_id=F-GRXB to the appropiate.
Change atc_airline=AIR FRANCE to atc_airline=FLYFAST
Change texture=AF to texture=Flyfast
Change ATC_PARKING_CODES=AFR to ATC_PAKING_CODES=FLY(or leave it blank)
Change ui_variation=Air France to ui_variation=Flyfast.
Change the description at your own(don't forget the other authors)
Save and choose your variation at the FSX.
I hope this will work, just in the case that you didn't before.
Regards
Ramon
I've recently been cleared on Dublin (EIDW) as a tower controller, hopefully any vatsim flyers here will fly into Dublin more frequently, also if you're thinking about joining vatsim (Which you should, unless you like x-plane/fsx default atc?!) you should join the Irish division, regardless of your nationality, with some of the most intelligent controllers with us and also the friendliest (a fact on vatsim!!) its a no-brainer!
Quote from: Atcramon on August 08, 2013, 10:15:33 PM
Hi Dasha: I'm not a painter but I've downloaded and installed lot of liveries.
Are you sure that you do every steps to make a liverie work in FSX?
Place the liverie folder texture on your plane main folder.
Edit your aircraft.cfg file, located at the main plane folder, to add the new liverie.
To do that you may copy another text from other texture and simply modify the text by changing the name of the texture.
Start your FSX and,at the aircraft menu, be sure to check the "show all variations" button. I have the spanish version, so I'm not sure if this is the correct name of the button.
Let me search for an example, and I will post it later, since I'm now in hollydays and don't have my FSX here
I have installed and downloaded liveries before as well. They always work. But the ones I painted myself are completely black. Even after copying them over an already excisting livery that worked. I will try your steps though, see if that works.
Thanks
Never flown on VATSIM as I already fly and control on IVAO.
Quote from: Maarten Otto on September 19, 2013, 10:34:13 AM
Never flown on VATSIM as I already fly and control on IVAO.
Same here, although I have a Vatsim account.