OnCourse Software

Hi,
I finally got around to reinstalling PFE on my new computer. I am having similar issues to those that I had before upgrading.
I am flying right now to Acapulco and thought it would be nice to use PFE because it gives controllers a local accent and that is pretty cool. So upon leaving Albuquerque, I am having these issues:
1. Controller told me to line up on RWY26, which is the opposite end of the RWY from the AI. So I pressed time acceleration 8x until the AI disappeared, then back to 1x so I can get airborne without a head-on crash.
2. Upon reaching the assigned altitude of FL370, I am being told continuously to climb and maintain FL330. Hello? I have already been instructed to go to FL370. My voice says back to the controller "Roger, out of FL370 for FL370" so that's a little strange.
3. The sound level is good most of the times but sometimes the other chatter is at a very low level then it pops back up to normal. Back and forth, low volume then high volume then low again and so on.
System - Dell XPS9000 with i7 975 Extreme, 8GB DDR3, nVidia GTX 260 with 1792 DDR3 VRAM. FSX installed, all patches installed to SP2, ASE, myTraffic X and PFE running.
I also fly a lot using RC4 but when I fly to foreign countries, I like the local accents thus I would like to get the bugs out of PFE. Please advise.

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1. Controller told me to line up on RWY26, which is the opposite end of the RWY from the AI. So I pressed time acceleration 8x until the AI disappeared, then back to 1x so I can get airborne without a head-on crash.

If you don't have any winds then the AI will use the wrong runway. It's always best to have at least i knot of wind but if you prefer not then you can always request another runway to match the AI. This would only occur if (when you were initially assigned a runway) there were no AI landing on, taking off from or about to take off from a runway.... if they were then PFE would have used the same runway.

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2. Upon reaching the assigned altitude of FL370, I am being told continuously to climb and maintain FL330. Hello? I have already been instructed to go to FL370. My voice says back to the controller "Roger, out of FL370 for FL370" so that's a little strange.

As you say, a little strange and I would like to see the debug_monitor.log file for that flight please. You'll find it in the PFE\Logs folder. If you have run another PFE flight since then it will be named Old_Debug_Monitor.log. If you've at least two more PFE flights since this problem occurred then a;; the eveidence will unfortunately be gone, so please see if you can recreate it and then send me a log.

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3. The sound level is good most of the times but sometimes the other chatter is at a very low level then it pops back up to normal. Back and forth, low volume then high volume then low again and so on.

That's an (optional) 'realism' feature. You have read the latest version readme and the latest user guide, haven't you?

Hi Dave,

1. I can try that, thanks.

2. I will do that. On it's way.

3. I didn't catch that part - sorry. Here I was thinking this Soundblaster card was hosed somehow.

Thanks,
Dolph