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Post by rattler1 on Jan 25, 2010 9:48:01 GMT -5
OK. Back when I was flying, we were turning over a disused airfield which looked familiar. I asked ATC and they confirmed it, so I said "Ah, that's where I did my first solo". Another voice asked "what type and when?", to which I replied "Jet Provost, 1965". Silence, then another voice spoke up. "God, you're old!" I'm so old I went through the ab-initio jet course before they decided it was a good idea to revert to starting off on pistons, i.e. Chippies. My Chippie time comes from flogging Air Training Corps cadets around, much later. "I can remember when Pontius hadn't even gone solo, let alone become a pilot"
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Post by rattler1 on Jan 25, 2010 14:56:39 GMT -5
Anyone else had computer trouble on leg 2? After turning the corner at Wilson's Promontory my FS9 decided to quit. I ended up having to save every couple of minutes and restart from the last save. Took me several hours to complete. At first I thought it might be the VOZ scenery causing a glitch, but it was still there after I unVOZed. The only other place I have had this happen consistently is in what I call the "Darwin Triangle". Both last year and this, the sim would not cross some sort of boundary; instead it would just quit. Save, restart, move a few miles further on, save again etc. I blame the Bunyips, so be careful out there.
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Post by Andrew Godden on Jan 25, 2010 19:10:10 GMT -5
Anyone else had computer trouble on leg 2? After turning the corner at Wilson's Promontory my FS9 decided to quit. I ended up having to save every couple of minutes and restart from the last save. Took me several hours to complete. At first I thought it might be the VOZ scenery causing a glitch, but it was still there after I unVOZed. The only other place I have had this happen consistently is in what I call the "Darwin Triangle". Both last year and this, the sim would not cross some sort of boundary; instead it would just quit. Save, restart, move a few miles further on, save again etc. I blame the Bunyips, so be careful out there. Not after turning at Wilson's Promontory (yet, but I have also been a bit busy, still haven't decided on what aircraft to fly), but I have had some peculiar scenery things happening and FS9 freezing for long periods on finals to YPID using 3rd party add-on aircraft. I have experimented for the last 2 days with various aircraft and scenery configurations. So far, I have narrowed my particular problem down to having the VOZ SE region active. When I changed it to the SW region is seemed OK (for now, touch wood). This is the only area that I have had problems with in all my flying with VOZ (notwithstanding the odd invisible building crash). I am using the last version of VOZ produced, ver 1.8. Try using the SW region.
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Post by rattler1 on Jan 25, 2010 19:18:00 GMT -5
Thanks Andrew. I've stuck with the SE region and leg 3 went fine. The scenery last year didn't give any glitches apart from the "Darwin Triangle"
Enjoy Australia Day. Hope you have some weather to enjoy it. Open a tinnie for me, it's +1 here at the moment, so the barbie is on hold.
Rattler
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Post by uhug on Jan 26, 2010 16:53:45 GMT -5
Hello from cold and snowy Switzerland (-5.4°C) I'm looking forward to solve the GAAR 2010 up to the Blue Mountains and finally to the Gold Coast in due time. I have been often in Australia - mostly 4WD on the go - but never in the region where GAAR 2010 will take place. Well, I'm curious..
Thanks to all the persons responsible for GAAR 2010
Cheers Urs Hug
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Post by rattler1 on Jan 26, 2010 17:11:45 GMT -5
JERVIS BAY A little historical interest. HMS Jervis Bay was originally SS Jervis Bay operating the UK - Australia run between the wars. When WW2 broke out she was commandeered by the Royal Navy, fitted with a few old six-inch guns and allocated to convoy duty. She was the SOLE escort (shows how stretched the Allies were at that time) to a convoy, when they encountered the German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer, mounting eleven-inch guns. The Jervis Bay went in to the ATTACK! Being hopelessly outgunned and without any armour she was soon sunk, but most of the convoy managed to escape. Details can be found on Wikipedia here. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Jervis_BayThere is a poem about it here www.electricscotland.com/poetry/young/convoy_hx84.htmI'm sure there is another poem with lines like "the days and the weeks and the months dragged on, with little to see or show, But the great grey empty Atlantic, and the convoy, to and fro" If anyone knows that one, please point me in the right direction, as I can't find it anywhere. My (very tenuous) link is that in 1952 I travelled to Oz as a £10 migrant on the Moreton Bay, part of the same fleet, which survived her days as an armed merchantman. Rattler
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Post by Jon on Jan 26, 2010 20:54:45 GMT -5
The old girl is now out of the Darwin paintshop . . . . Rattles: I *must* ask: where'd you get the gorgeous Dove? It's been a favourite of mine since I worked at de Havilland Canada's plant in Toronto, Ontario back around, oh, 1957. I thought I'd seen the aircraft offered here and there in the FS bazaars, in times past, but the ones I saw seemed to be a tad "rinky-dink". This one of yours, by contrast, is downright lovely. And I can only hope it's adaptable to FSX, but the big question is where can I obtain it? Thanks in advance, Rattler. Edit (hours later): I've found a likely suspect by Derek Palmer at Classic British Flight Sim (CBFS). Is that the rascal I seek?
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Post by Andrew Godden on Jan 27, 2010 6:06:15 GMT -5
Jon, The Derek Palmer DH.104 'Dove' file you want is dh104v2.zip. If you do a search for "dove" on www.flightsim.com you will also find some great repaints. Any repaints for Palmer's earlier version, dh104v1.zip, generally work with the latest version.
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Post by rattler1 on Jan 27, 2010 11:08:48 GMT -5
Jon, as ASndrew says, it is Derek Palmer's Dove/Devon. I'm running it in FS9, so I can't say about FSX. It's a nice machine, and does what it says on the tin. Hope you can use it. Enjoy. Rattler
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Post by bgas004 on Jan 27, 2010 22:09:45 GMT -5
Here's my entry, almost out of the Paint Shop and ready to go:
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Post by Jon on Jan 28, 2010 17:21:08 GMT -5
. Andrew, Rattles:
Many thanks for the confirmation and the tips, gents! I've downloaded a hockey sock full of the results, and I'll be assembling the lot as soon as I get my kludge (royally dis-assembled computer) back together and running properly.
Just in time for the GAAR, methinks.
Cheers, all.
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Post by BAW9DV on Jan 29, 2010 12:04:54 GMT -5
Rattler,
Just to add on this post rather than start another one....
I, too, have issues with leg 1 and 2. I use VOZ 1.8 as a new install in FS9 and am using the MAAM-SIM C47 DC-3 Dakota. Took off from YMEN with no problems and some lovely views on that first short hop - but it all began to go wrong after I turned east when crossing the CWS VOR to make my approach to YPID.
Screen began to freeze up for over a minute or so - and I suddenly had very wierd textures painting themselves all over the screen! In the end I had to exit out of the Sim.
I have Ultimate Terrain Europe, Alaska, Canada and USA installed along with GE Pro and FSGenesis mesh for the whole world (not using Andy Weir's mesh this time) but VOZ is installed way up ahead of these and so it should not be an issue.
I then unVozzed back to normal, leaving the VOZ scenery still enabled and tried it again - same problem which only happens as I descend towards YPID. I tried Vozzing both the SE and SW region and the same result.
So, I then disbled the VOZ scenery from the FS Scenery Library and tried again. This time all is well - except of course that the YPID airport is not that well represented.
So far, I have checked all the other airports up to Bathurst and there are no problems with VOZ installed but I will have to fly Legs 1 and 2 without VOZ enabled.
Thats assuming Andy has accepted my Pilot Registration - no email yet! :-)
Take care,
Lee
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Post by rattler1 on Jan 30, 2010 18:40:06 GMT -5
The bunyips have struck again!! About 40 miles to run to Jervis Bay, the FS quit. I tried all sorts, even copying the files to the laptop (which did work) and moving the aircraft a few miles downstream, then copying back to the desktop. I finally resorted to saving every minute and restarting from the last save when it quit. To add insult to injury, on finals for 33, at about 100' the whole thing went crazy, freezing and unfreezing at silly angles. Crashed, twice. Eventually settled for runway 08 and managed to get it down in one piece. Not a happy leg, either with or without VOZ. Strange, because the previous legs After West Sale went off without a problem. Ah well, a couple of days off now. Must get to know some of the Navy guys and have a few beers.
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Post by Allan_Lowson on Jan 30, 2010 19:35:06 GMT -5
Are you remembering to feed the wombat in the wheel enough vegemite to keep the generator turning?
If all else fails there is an autosave function that you can download from flightsim that will automatically save your flight at intervals to save you having to restart the flight. The Ftimer will reset if you have to load up one of the flights, so you will need to take a timecheck to calculate flight duration as Tom has mentioned elsewhere.
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Post by Les Smith on Jan 30, 2010 22:57:41 GMT -5
Rattler, Perhaps FS9 on XP is running out of RAM. It seem to me that you have a RAM or Virtual RAM problem. RAM can be improved by adding more physical RAM with an extra memory chip. Have you examined your Virtual RAM settings lately? If you don't mind my suggestion your Virtual RAM should be about 1.5 times your physical RAM. So, if you have 512MB of physical RAM then Virtual RAM should be about 768MB.
Les
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