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EHM-2198 Didimo:
Mine is a Pentium 3.0GHz with 1GB memory but it already shows signs of what I call "Windows XP Alzheimer and Parkinsons" :(

Did my 2nd flight, still not very satisfied with the Sukhoi 80 performance on approach, perhaps it takes a bit getting used to. I don't have such problems with the Beechcraft and Cessna or most other turboprops I "own".

A problem I noticed with the Sukhoi 80 default panel (that of the Dornier I read) in addition to some small letters is that apparently one cannot select and change the QNH. I looked all around with my mouse and could not find the hotspot to change the QNH.

EHM-2097 Andrei:
Hi Didimo,

That's good advice from Robert to start Flight Logger as late as possible (= before starting the engines), this avoids several nasty problems.

Especially the surprise you can get as FS9 sometimes starts flight with running engines and sometimes with them stopped (it either depends on the last SAVED flight or it is completely random). It's very frustrating, in ProPilot flights, to be "greeted" from the very beginning with "PENALTY: engines started without parking brakes set".

Starting the flight without the Flight Logger gives you all the time you need to ensure the acft is in the proper condition when Flight Logger starts recording.

Cheers
Andrei

EHM-0654 Murray:
Hey Didi,

Obvious suggestion (to me) is double your RAM if you can afford to, and then again if you can afford to, get a new hard drive and do a brand new install of Windows to it, installing as little as you can other than FS (I call this "gaming XP" on my machine)

I'm always amazed at just how quickly XP gets slow after a brand new installation, but if you force yourself to keep your gaming installation "clean", you can keep fair performance for quite some time (even on older hardware)...

EHM-2198 Didimo:
Thanks for the suggestions, I guess the upgrade to 2GB might be more feasable and perhaps buy a new Quad Core PC in a few months.

The problem for me is that since I am in IT my PC not only has the usual flight simulator stuff but also runs a whole development environment installations as well as one or two database servers :(. Should not be much of a problem in a quad core. The problem is as usual.... Windows....

May I ask why the Dornier 228 was retired (vanished)? the operations manual mentions several Class 1 a/c that are not even available in the site :( Probably try out that Beech 1900D, recently read an article about it on Airliners magazine.

And who is in charge of the website? I was wondering why all (or most) links open in a new window even when they are in the same (EuroHarmony) site, makes navigation a bit confusing. Other than that, great work on this VA!.

EHM-1001 Robert:
Hi Didimo,

well, in the past we had 3 airplanes per class, which made an enormous fleet. It was very hard to maintain that much aircraft, also there was not a real Fleet Manager position, almost everything was done by the website developers (Maarten and Gergely). Then we decided to cut the fleet, and in every class, the mostly unpopular airplane was retired. In class 2, that was the little Dornier. ;)

The website is under continous refreshing, although the developer guys put more energy to the new, more coherent site. That is why you can find for example a little outdated Ops Manual... (outdated means for the Fleet section).

I think it is weird what oyu mentioned. I think we almost no have pages that opens in new window. :| Every content works inside the blue frame that you can see on the opening page. As I know the Forum is the only page that opens in a new window...and some links to external sites.

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