tomgl

Greetings Pete, This is my first post here, and I want to start off by saying what a great job you have done interfacing FS via FSUIPC! Now to my small but hopefully fixable problem. First, I tried searching these forums but could not come up with anything. I am beggining a small program that reads and records flight time (like many others), and I am monitoring the sim rate value within a timer event. I noticed that (and it MIGHT BE? my programming in-expertise :) but if I minimize FS 2004 or FS2002 while my program is running (which monitors the sim rate to be sure it is always 1x), all the sudden the sim rate changes from a normal value (1) [raw value divided by 256] to something like 1025 or higher? I aso noticed that the simulator seconds can change drastically to something like 12 or 13 to a number like 10003834? Wow. Like said, it might be my crappy programming skills, but I don't know how I could change a value I am only strictly reading and spitting out the value of or copy of that value so this is why I am stumped. P.S. I am resetting the variables before each timer event so I know the value = nothing before each read. Also, FYI I am programming in VB.net so using the Read/Get/Process methods. All other values I am reading (like LAT/LON, etc) seem fine after minimize. Thanks for reading and hope someone can help me?