DVA9716
First Officer, A330-300
Joined on April 26 2011
50 State Club
Century Club
Online Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
"Take Offs are optional - Landing are mandatory!" Killeen, TX USA
154 legs, 324.0 hours
102 legs,
218.1 hours online 153 legs,
321.7 hours ACARS 4 legs,
8.9 hours event
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March 27 2014 12:57 ET by Kenneth Dickerson
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DVA853
Senior Captain, B747-400
OLP E-MAIL
Joined on September 26 2002
50 State Club
Tin Dispatcher
Globetrotter
Two Million Mile Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary
US Coastal Club
Toulouse Millennium Club
Bi-Millennium Club
Gulf Breeze Club
Online Twenty Century
Rincon, GA
2,036 legs, 6,054.8 hours
2,016 legs,
6,013.5 hours online 2,004 legs,
5,921.7 hours ACARS 2 legs,
10.0 hours event 376 legs dispatched, 185.3
hours
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March 28 2014 12:32 ET by Chris Hannigan
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DVA9716
First Officer, A330-300
Joined on April 26 2011
50 State Club
Century Club
Online Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
"Take Offs are optional - Landing are mandatory!" Killeen, TX USA
154 legs, 324.0 hours
102 legs,
218.1 hours online 153 legs,
321.7 hours ACARS 4 legs,
8.9 hours event
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April 26 2014 10:17 ET by Kenneth Dickerson
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Update since P3D2.2, they have solved the problem of saving and loading aircraft. But after I loaded a couple of DVA planes the problem returned. So I decided to peel the onion back and see what exactly is causing this issue. I found it was the texture files, I am pretty sure it has to do with FS2004 conversions and BMP formats versus DDS formats. I took a Texture off AVSIM that was made for CS L-1011, and was able to load the plane and when I tried to save, no issue. The plane was exterior was pure black but that I expected. So converting the DVA fleet to P3D now looks like it may not be so daunting. I will be experimenting with repaints and seeing what works. If anyone wants a challenge here it is!
Kenneth DickersonFirst Officer, A330-300
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DVA9716
First Officer, A330-300
Joined on April 26 2011
50 State Club
Century Club
Online Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
"Take Offs are optional - Landing are mandatory!" Killeen, TX USA
154 legs, 324.0 hours
102 legs,
218.1 hours online 153 legs,
321.7 hours ACARS 4 legs,
8.9 hours event
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September 12 2014 09:50 ET by Kenneth Dickerson
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Problem Solved and it was not what I suspected. Since I posted this I have been from time to time trying to get DVA Aircraft to work on P3D. For the most part they do well, but the one thing that kept vexing me was if you tried to Save or Load a flight, it would CTD. Last night I was working with the DVA 727-200. I stripped it down to basics and even installed the Panel and Sound directly into the file. But I would CTD even then if I tried to Save or Load, until I rememebered an article I read about how P3D does not like sloppy code and I thought that maybe that also extended to file formatting. I had noticed that the DVA file for the AIR file was xxxxxx_xxx_xx.air, at first I thought the extra _xx was the problem. No that was not it, I then happend to notice in the config file that there was a few [aircraft.xx] that were left blank. I deleted the unused headers, fired P3D up, and shazaam I could load and save and with no CTD.
So bottom line and I apologize for dragging this out but I have been trying to figure this out for a while, in your aircraft config file do add blank headers for future aircraft liveries. P3D version 2.3 is getting very, very nice and FSX I have not fired up now in over a month.
Kenneth DickersonFirst Officer, A330-300
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DVA7171
Senior Captain, B767-300
Joined on March 14 2009
50 State Club
Event Half Century Club
Everett 250 Club
Online Quintuple Century Club
Seven Century Club
Black Pearl Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
"Walk away from all your landings..." Lake Worth, FL
723 legs, 1,674.2 hours
572 legs,
1,400.1 hours online 714 legs,
1,658.6 hours ACARS 56 legs,
127.6 hours event
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September 12 2014 10:00 ET by Sergio Lopez
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