Leo Fontana

Pete: I don't think that is the problem: C:\Documents and Settings\leo\My Documents\Flight Simulator Files It seems pretty standard to me. Can it be the dll is damaged and a simple replacent would solve the problem? Thanks, Leo

Hey Pete, how are you! I have been having a problem with Autosave. It began a while ago, and it is that for some reason Autosave keeps saving flights, way beyond the 10 that is supposed to save, and at some moment stops saving as if it feels it is full. The only way I have to get around with this is to delete all flights saved every once in a while, but I was wondering if there's an easier way. Thanks a lot Leo

Mr. Dowson, I beg you to accept me as a beta tester of this version including the new (or old, depends on how you see it) turbulence parameter. My e-mail is le061070@yahoo.com or the one I entered in this web site. Thanks, Leo

Mr Dowson, I'll be looking forward to your next release then. Do you have any idea when would you develop it? It's been really nice to have a conversation with such an eminence in the FS world. Thanks, Leo

I was forgetting. My wind smoothing is on, and I have turbulence anyway, mostly when I cross through clouds. The wind doesn't change in speed or direction, but my AC shakes nicely, such as it did in FS2002 (This with the added parameter in teh .ini file. Leo

Mr Dowson, I knew you were going to answer but never expected such a fast reply. Thank you very much!!! The parameter that does not appear in the FS9 versions of FSUIPC is "Set turbulence as variability of this strength factor" that is in the "Winds" tab of FSUIPC 2.975. The line I add in FSUIPC.ini 3.40 is "WindVarFactor=18" which I assume is the one referring to the above mentioned box. The weather came in two different opportunities from Active Sky WXre and from the Vatsim online weather. Never had any turbulence until I added this line, or at least that is my experience. On the other hand, disabling the smooth winds change won't it have the undesirable effect of winds changing so fast that the aircraft gets overstressed? In FS2002 versions you could have a lot of turbulence and winds smoothing at the same time, isn't it possible to do teh same for FS9? Thanks again, Leo

For some reason there's no way I can make FSUIPC 3.4 produce any turbulence. I have the registered version. I changed the turbulence parameter in the FS9.cfg putting from 1 to 0.50 with no result, then I tried putting it at 4 and nothing again. Supposedly new versions of FSUIPC have decreased turbulence then I tried to install a previous version of FSUIPC (3.2) but since I have the FS9 patch installed FS9 won't work. Then I tried to uninstall the patch and got a the screen saying "Press Ctrl-C to stop from undoing patch" and "press any key to continue". Nowhere it is mentioned about deleting a Backup folder like it says in the instructions, and of course no matter how long I leave the window opened, nothing happens. If I press any letter the window gets closed but the patch IS STILL THERE. Then, knowing that the box in which you could set the amount of turbulence in FSUIPC 2.975 is gone in these FS9 versions, I checked the FSUIPC.ini of FS2002 and copy-pasted the line with that parameter into FSUIPC 3.4. I thought I was going to get some error message but nothing happened and when I crossed some clouds and YES, my CRJ was shaking badly. Never thought I would be happy with turbulence (who likes it in real life). The problem now is that I have to add the line every time I start FS9 and it seems the parameter dissapears sometime while I am flying since at some moment I stop getting turbulence. Please help me, either with FSUIPC or with uninstalling the patch. Thanks, Leo