Putters RTW sight seeing tour

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cputters

Charter Member 2012
Ok, so I started this a few days ago to begin testing Duenna and get a feel for how everything works in preperation for the next online event.

My trip planner starts at home and ends there. (East coast, Australia)

I plan on heading north into Indoniesia, into Asia, Russia, west to Europe, jump the pond and make the trip south throughout the Americas etc etc until home again.

First leg: Hervey Bay, Queensland to Townsville.
Nice test leg (If I remembered to start Duenna :sleep:) Good to get a feel of the DC-3 in prime weather anyway.

Second leg: Note to self. DC-3 doesn't have the range to go from Townsville to Darwin. Had to sit her down at a coal mine strip in the Northern Territory to refuel. The next leg will be a jump to Darwin for an overnight stay before pointing the nose across the sea.


Problems so far/HELP ME!!!

Duenna is coming up with an error about my realism settings. From what I can see, I have everything set up right. When it gives you the suggestion on why it's encountering the error, it suggests items that have already been resolved. I'm a bit lost on this, but that is why I'm doing this test flight I suppose. :)
 
Chris if you can sign into SOH teamspeak... I'll be there a while to hopefully resolve the issue.

Make sure you check winds aloft and close FS then restart and check.
 
Aircraft stress causes damage needs to be checked.

I have to hit the little arrowheads (at the right hand side of the Flight Model sliders) a few times to make sure they are all the way right.


Should look like this:


View attachment 44682
 
Make sure you have 'winds aloft' checked in the weather settings too as most people forget this one and then Duenna will spit out it's dummy!
 
View attachment 44762

Ok, got my second leg done tonight.

Macauthur Coal mine that I had to sit on over night to Darwin International. Night flight and landing.

View attachment 44764Screenshot of Darwin landing.

Here's my log and info. Duenna still called shenanigans, I'll post my realism settings as well. There must be something wrong on my end.
 
This might give you some clues. Taken from the 'Errors' section of the Duenna text file:

Errors:
30.07.2011 19:20:29 ERROR: FS9.CFG is not readable: Can't open 'F:\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\FS2002.CFG' for reading: 53 - File not found
30.07.2011 19:20:29 AT S16° 20.2' / E135° 55.5' at 4001ft GS:175kts, IAS:166kts, VS:-79ft/min
30.07.2011 19:20:29 STATE
30.07.2011 19:20:29 AIRCRAFT Douglas DC-3 / Counter 2
30.07.2011 19:20:29
30.07.2011 19:20:29 ERROR: Realism-Settings are not valid!
30.07.2011 19:20:29 AT S16° 20.2' / E135° 55.5' at 4001ft GS:175kts, IAS:166kts, VS:-79ft/min
30.07.2011 19:20:29 STATE
30.07.2011 19:20:29 AIRCRAFT Douglas DC-3 / Counter 2
30.07.2011 19:20:29
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If you don't get all green buttons/indicators on the duenna before you start you will get errors. IIRC the only time a yellow button/indicator will be OK is when you are flying a jet.
 
Try these suggestions and see how you go:

1. In your realism settings make sure the 'Crash Tolerance' slider is fully right. Clicking and dragging the slider sometimes drops it at 97-99% and not 100% so you need to click on the silver tab to the right a few times to make sure it is really at 100%.

NOTE: As you are doing this for fun the other sliders don't need to be at full right although for actual race events Team SOH insists that it's members have all sliders full right.

2. In the 'Engines' section you can uncheck 'Engine stress damages engine' unless you like to fly that way as the Duenna does not read that section and it is not required for the races as FS2004 does not have that feature.

3. You seem to be missing a weather setting that a lot of people miss when setting up Duenna the first time. Have a look at my attachment and make sure your settings match my highlighted ones. The 'Winds aloft' setting is one that catches most people out.

Regarding the references to FS2002 and FS9, even though you have FSX there are still the FS2000, FS2002 and FS2004 exe files in your root FSX folder (or should be). These are used for certain functions by FSX.

Try that and do a short flight and see if the Duenna stays green.
 
Hi looking at your settings , the General , P-factor and Torque sliders do not look fully right to me . The Duenna only looks at General and Crash Tolerance of these sliders AFAIK , but the General looks a little left to me . And remember to restart FSX after changes to realism settings made, before trying Duenna , to allow the FSX.cfg to update new settings .

Hope this helps cheers Bry

Ps "allow collisions with other aircraft" need not be checked for the Duenna and it is important that it is not checked when on multiplayer :)
 
Your realism is out of whack because your sliders are to the left. Push them all to the right. Don't worry it only hurts for the first few flights after that you never know there is a difference. :icon_lol:

The weather needs one more tweek. Duenna looks for the Previous flight weather.

Look in your my documents folder and find the Flight Simulator X files folder.

Open it

look for a previous flight.flt file (something like that I don't have that PC up right now) Open the file with a text editor

Look for the weather section. Change the weather type to a 3.

Then save the file you should be good.
 
Thanks Dave.

Mine was already set at 3.

Tonight I'll re-download Duenna to try that, something is very odd, it's like the program just isn't seeing my fsx folder.

Anywho, not to let a problem like that get in the way of a good story, the RTW trip has been continuing, leaving software problems behind.

Georgous day at Darwin Int. as the old girl took us over to East Timor. The ocean was bluer than blue and the only thing that was any concern was the 25 knot cross wind on approach. The trip was a success.

Now preparing for a jump over to Jakarta.
 
I didn't have it updated to the latest revision. /facepalm

Ok, the realism is all fine now.

New problem :)

The weather says it isn't set at real weather (15mins) Which is true, until I change it, however to restart it, it defaults back to static. Is there something I can do for this issue?

Cheers guys
 
Save a new flight as your default flight and set the weather to Real World Weather with 15 minute updates. That will do it. When you save the flight check the box make default.

To keep the time correct with Duenna you should also have the default flight set up at an airport in the same time zone you live in. This is not necessarily important for these events that will allow you to fly in any time frame but is important for the RTWR.
 
Thanks Dave

That got it going. :icon29:

I've been setting the time to the local time. YYou're saying I should have it set to MY local time and the time difference will be automatic? That would be helpful. :)

Thanks for your help guys, couldn't have done it myself.
 
Yeah .... nice one there Chris!


Kick back with some BBQ'd Stingray and some Jackfruit on the side.

Red Bean Soup for desert ... ready to go after that ... quite sure. :wiggle:



Cheers,
 
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