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ZBAD is the new (but not all that new: opened in 2019) international airport for Beijing, Beijing Daxing Intl. I am surprised it isn't even in MSFS. Yes, it's an addon in my setup, but the airport has been in the X-Plane default database for some time now. I have added the COMs to the f5.csv file an...

It is INCREDIBLE how many times I have to close down X-Plane before I have even got the engines running because something has gone wrong - usually a completely new problem. SOOOO frustrating!!!! Very coincidentally, immediately after the above exchange about adding COM frequencies, I set up a flight...

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I'm hopeless at searching, be it on Google, the PF3 User Guide (I never seem to choose the 'right' search term)... or for stuff in my fridge, come to that!

That all makes sense! Thanks again. That way, I don't need to run the database creator for entries made in Options2 to be recognised and used (a 'mask' as the user guide puts it). Would be simpler than my editing the f5.csv file and having to rebuild the PF3 database every time I change something (w...

Hmmm... I don't remember ever even opening the user_facilities.dat file. Does that mean that I must have made that entry myself, back in 2020? Why would I have done that, if so? If there are any COM frequency errors (or, far more often, missing airports) in PF3, I edit the f5.csv file and recreate t...

Thank you very much for taking a look Dave - I do appreciate the time you take helping me (and others, when I am not hogging the forum!! :lol:). I attach the dat file. I didn't make any changes: given that COM frequencies used in PF3 are nearly always different from those in X-Plane/Little Navmap, b...

Whenever someone has a spare minute or two (?), I'd love to know why I couldn't get any response from ATC on my previous flight when I hit the usual keys to ask for clearance. I tried both Ground and Tower, checking that my radio frequencies were correctly set (121.80 Ground; 119.70 Tower at EDDP). ...

I could replace all the files you specify with a silent file ... OK, that works, BUT (of course, there's a 'but'), although there's no audible request, you still get 'Centre; callsign " after the silence.. and a possible refusal in reply to the now silent request. :roll: Probably better to rev...

Thank you Dave! You seem to be working harder on PF3 than ever! :) No, I can't see me actually editing that many files, as you rightly imply. However..... I could replace all the files you specify with a silent file - even better: I should then get exactly what I am after: no comment/request at all ...

I am looking for a way, as some may have seen (definitely including Dave M.! :lol: ) to be able to request a climb or descent when I need to, without the limitations in place as to when I can do that (the current options don't work in X-Plane, particularly when you fly VR/3D and so can't see the PC ...