Oli, some questions:
1. Does this problem occur on all grass areas everywhere? Or does it only occur at a particular airport?
2. Do you have a NVIDIA graphics card? If so, have you taken a look at your settings. eg. Mipmap Quality settings? Have you tried different Antialiasing settings? Have you tried switching in the settings from Bilinear to Trilinear?
Regards,
Paul
As Buschi has stated, SkyVector is your friend! It offers the latest IFR and VFR maps, route planning functions, as well as direct links to the latest airport approach plates. For example, the following flight is now bookmarked:
SkyVector: Flight Planning / Aeronautical Charts
If you want the approach plates to the airports, just click on the link, and you will be offered more info, plus a PDF download of the approach plates.Clipboard 2.jpgClipboard 3.jpg
Here is another one to try out:
Realistic Stars (rs1207.zip)
Regarding UAC on modern computers, this protection is essential, and I would recommend never turning it off. A simple visit to a web page can infect you without your knowledge, and cause you grief!
A much better approach is to use, for day to-day use, a non-Administrator account, and then use limited user rights for specific programs by using a magic program like SuRun, available for free from here:
The author is German, so this is a bonus for many of the fs2004.team members! His website is here:
There is a forum to discuss this wonderful program, where both German and English is used:
Beta versions of the program can be downloaded here:
After setting this up, you login to your computer as a "limited-rights" user, and then if you need elevated rights to install or use a program you right-click on the file and use "SuRun: Start as Administrator". This is better than the normal "Run as Administrator" as SuRun installs as you, not as an Administrator, which avoids problems with programs that need to write configuration files to your user/documents folder.
I use a multi-engine search engine: https://www.etools.ch/
The advantage of this wonderful Swiss tool is that it searches multiple search engines (including Google) but also more obscure ones (eg. Yandex), which are more useful than Google when searching obscure things in languages other than English. It can be customized to have menus in German! Different search engines use different algorithms. Google for example, filters (removes) results that are not "politically correct" and in line with the doctrines of Google's owners. speichern
As well as etools.ch, I also use specific searches in AVSIM, Simviation and Wikipedia - by having them as search icons on my search bar. Using a legacy browser version of Waterfox (a derivative of Firefox), I can put a search term in the search bar, and then choose the icon (specific search engine) I want.
Setting this up is initially a bit tricky - it depends on whether the page has a search box function. Then you can use an add-on like "Add custom search engine" to place this as an icon on your search bar. You may be able to do this in other ways on your browser, but essentially it makes life easier - you don't need to go to the page first - just use the search bar, just like you would for DuckDuckGo or Google, and you will get search results eg. from Avsim straight away.
I'm not confident that the search function will ever be as good as the original, because I'm not sure that the site owners are seriously taking note of users' comments. Secondly, the new database does not seem to be based on filenames any more.
Commentators are often now attacked by a small bevy of sycophants who patrol the comments. Either your comments are dismissed or they insist that the search facility is fine and only needs a bit of "adjustment". It is revealing to read their responses to users' comments here:
I get the impression that they are are suggesting that the problem is with the user - not with the flightsim search function. They even suggest a "Search Tutorial" to teach users how to search!
Also, as stated by one of their apologists, the onus is on the developer of the file to include information that can be found in their (poorly working) search function. So there! The solution is that we can now blame all of the previous thousands of uploaders for not providing a "good title and write up with enought detail key words to help those searching the files."
Worse, is that all the previous links on their own pages have been destroyed. For example, some entries will link to necessary addons through the filename (with an underlying hyperlink), as the filenames were indexed by their database. Previously, one could find the file and the accompanying page by typing in for example: https://www.flightsim.com/vbfs/fslib.php…me=mkpink11.zip
That is all gone, as the new database is not based on filenames any more, so none of the old links now work.
What is also missing, and perhaps gone for ever, are the categories.
What makes it especially difficult, is that one can no longer search within a category, say "FS2004" or "repaints", resulting in hundreds of hits for non-relevant entries that cannot be filtered. File size is also not shown, so one does not know if a file is 1mb or 100mb.
AvSIm and Simviation, and SOH are looking very good to me now!
Hello, has anyone tried using the setup described by Gunther Zielosko to use Bluetooth GPS Out from FS9 to view your location on a "moving map" (Google Earth)?
The idea is very interesting. The setup is described in a PDF document by Gunther here: https://c.gmx.net/@328119205859694970/tRj4t6DZSm6csaKYg6-FrA
The setup involves:
1. Installing GPSOut by Peter Dowson (available here: http://www.fsuipc.com/)
2. Having a PC with Bluetooth, or attaching a cheap Bluetooth adapter to the computer.
3. Setting up the right port for the Bluetooth adapter (described in the PDF document)
4. Installing an Android app, for example Bluetooth GPS Output, available from Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/det…AllReviews=true
After the connection is made, we can view our location on the Android tablet, while flying in FS9! 
I saw Guther's post originally at https://www.flightsim.com/vbfs/showthrea…er-real-terrain
Regards,
Paul
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Hallo, hat jemand versucht, das von Gunther Zielosko bezeichnete Setup zu verwenden, um Bluetooth -GPS von FS9 zu verwenden, um Ihren Standort auf einer "beweglichen Karte" (Google Earth) anzuzeigen?
Die Idee ist sehr interessan. Das Setup - PDF : https://c.gmx.net/@3281192058596…-FrAbeinhaltet:
1. Installieren von GPSOut von Peter Dowson (verfügbar hier: http://www.fsuipc.com/)
2. Einen PC mit Bluetooth oder an dem Computer einen billigen Bluetooth -Adapter anbringen.
3. Einrichten des richtigen Ports für den Bluetooth -Adapter (im PDF -Dokument dekredet)
4. Installation in Android App, zum Beispiel Bluetooth -GPS -Ausgabe, verfügbar bei Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/det…allreviews=true
Nachdem die Verbindung hergestellt wurde, können wir unseren Standort auf dem Android -Tablet sehen, während wir in FS9 fliegen!
Ich habe Guthers Beitrag ursprünglich unter https://www.flighttsim.com/vbfs/showthrea…over-over-real- ungrain gesehen
A free program: F1View Utility for FS2004 is available from https://www.flight1.com/view.asp?page=library
To quote: "F1View Utility for FS2004 implements mouse-based zooming, panning, and eyepoint adjustments, including the ability to move your eyepoint beyond the limits imposed by Flight Simulator (this feature is good to stroll about virtual cabins of larger aircraft). This module requires a wheel-mouse (a center wheel that also acts as a center mouse button). By Flight One Software."
The only downside, that I can see, of this program is that the middle scroll-wheel is sometimes used for changing the dials on the auto-pilot and radio settings on the instrument panel.
