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DVA1732
Captain, B727-200
Joined on June 18 2004
Century Club
Northeastern United States
132 legs, 243.2 hours
1 legs,
2.1 hours online
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Posted onPost created on
August 10 2005 11:34 ET by Mike Carvelas
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I've been using the DVA 727 with the Richard Probst panel for well over a year now with no problems. Yesterday, I had to do a complete reinstall of FS9. I saved several folders to get everything back up to speed in an easier way. Now when I start FS9, if I load the 727 from our fleet installed, it locks up FS9. Before the program locks, I get an error message that FS cannot read gauges\RP727.GAU. I've tried re-downloading the 727 and installing it from scratch, but no luck. Even when I delete the entire 727 folder as well as the panel folder and reinstall everything from scratch, I still get this error. Anyone have any ideas how to get this great plane and panel working again. I'm using another panel that I got from flightsim.com but it doesn't hold a candle to Richard Probst's fine panel. Thanks.
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DVA2253
Senior Captain, DC-8-61
COMM
Joined on April 01 2005
Everett 250 Club
Online Century Club
Eight Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
"I'd rather be flying!" Church Hill, TN USA
862 legs, 1,344.5 hours
108 legs,
165.2 hours online 299 legs,
485.1 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
August 10 2005 12:13 ET by George Lewis
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Mike, I don't have that bird, but I usually copy my entire FS9 install, root folder and all subs, to a backup folder before the reinstall - just in case I need something out of the gauges folder
hopefully someone on here that flies with this panel can email you the gauge
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DVA1732
Captain, B727-200
Joined on June 18 2004
Century Club
Northeastern United States
132 legs, 243.2 hours
1 legs,
2.1 hours online
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Posted onPost created on
August 10 2005 12:38 ET by Mike Carvelas
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Hi George. Thanks for the suggestion, but actually, that's exactly what I did. I copied all the folders that I would need, including the aircraft, gauges, effects, etc to the desktop. I then put them all back after the reinstall. Everything else worked fine except the 727. And no matter how many times I download and reinstall that panel, I get no joy. Change to another 727 panel and all works well. So it seems to be only that panel.
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DVA2253
Senior Captain, DC-8-61
COMM
Joined on April 01 2005
Everett 250 Club
Online Century Club
Eight Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
"I'd rather be flying!" Church Hill, TN USA
862 legs, 1,344.5 hours
108 legs,
165.2 hours online 299 legs,
485.1 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
August 10 2005 13:55 ET by George Lewis
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Hmmm, Michael Carter may be your best bet - you may want to email him
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AFV011
Senior Captain, B777-300
Joined on September 19 2004
GVA 5 Year Anniversary
Online Two Fifty Club
Triple Century Club
Historic Triple Century Club
"Remember...140, 250, and REALLY FAST" Midwestern United States
394 legs, 606.7 hours
274 legs,
430.6 hours online 86 legs,
126.5 hours ACARS 8 legs,
16.0 hours event 501 legs, 763.5 hours total
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Posted onPost created on
August 10 2005 18:14 ET by Michael Carter
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I loaded my RP panel separately from AVSIM. Check the .gau file to make sure the Probst gauges are there.
If you are using the fleet installer that comes with the Probst panel I'm really at a lot as to what could be wrong, unless there are two panels included with the F.I. and you must choose which panel to point at in the FSFSconv file in the aircraft folder.
When you look in the B727 in the FSFSconv folder make sure the config file points to the Probst panel.
If none of this works, you might go to AVSIM and download another Probst panel. THere are three available. Mine has A/T installed.
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DVA2253
Senior Captain, DC-8-61
COMM
Joined on April 01 2005
Everett 250 Club
Online Century Club
Eight Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
"I'd rather be flying!" Church Hill, TN USA
862 legs, 1,344.5 hours
108 legs,
165.2 hours online 299 legs,
485.1 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
August 10 2005 18:44 ET by George Lewis
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you have an autothrottle on your B722?
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AFV011
Senior Captain, B777-300
Joined on September 19 2004
GVA 5 Year Anniversary
Online Two Fifty Club
Triple Century Club
Historic Triple Century Club
"Remember...140, 250, and REALLY FAST" Midwestern United States
394 legs, 606.7 hours
274 legs,
430.6 hours online 86 legs,
126.5 hours ACARS 8 legs,
16.0 hours event 501 legs, 763.5 hours total
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Posted onPost created on
August 10 2005 19:05 ET by Michael Carter
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You betcha.
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DVA2253
Senior Captain, DC-8-61
COMM
Joined on April 01 2005
Everett 250 Club
Online Century Club
Eight Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
"I'd rather be flying!" Church Hill, TN USA
862 legs, 1,344.5 hours
108 legs,
165.2 hours online 299 legs,
485.1 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
August 10 2005 19:36 ET by George Lewis
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well if you are attached to it (the A/T) don't bother with the DF, it don't exist
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AFV011
Senior Captain, B777-300
Joined on September 19 2004
GVA 5 Year Anniversary
Online Two Fifty Club
Triple Century Club
Historic Triple Century Club
"Remember...140, 250, and REALLY FAST" Midwestern United States
394 legs, 606.7 hours
274 legs,
430.6 hours online 86 legs,
126.5 hours ACARS 8 legs,
16.0 hours event 501 legs, 763.5 hours total
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Posted onPost created on
August 10 2005 19:50 ET by Michael Carter
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No, but it helps to better be able to concentrate on other tasks when neccesary. This is after all, a three crewmember airplane.
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DVA1732
Captain, B727-200
Joined on June 18 2004
Century Club
Northeastern United States
132 legs, 243.2 hours
1 legs,
2.1 hours online
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Posted onPost created on
August 11 2005 14:23 ET by Mike Carvelas
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Hooray!!! I found part of the problem. For some reason I had a file RP727.GAU in my gauges folder as well as in the panel folder that I downloaded from our site. They were not the same size so I replaced the one in my gauges folder with the one that was in the panel folder. I always thought that FS would read gauges from the panel folder but I guess this presented a conflict. Anyway, I replaced the one in the gauges folder with the larger file that was in the panel folder and now the panel works. The only problem is that if I use the 727, when I try to change to another plane or if I try to close the program, FS9 crashes with that annoying message from MS about the program not responding, do I want to send a report. NNNNOOOO!!!! Why would I send a report to MS. Anyway, until I get this one sorted out, at least I can use the 727 with the Probst panel. I can live with this for a while.
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DVA2253
Senior Captain, DC-8-61
COMM
Joined on April 01 2005
Everett 250 Club
Online Century Club
Eight Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
"I'd rather be flying!" Church Hill, TN USA
862 legs, 1,344.5 hours
108 legs,
165.2 hours online 299 legs,
485.1 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
August 11 2005 14:32 ET by George Lewis
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Here's a great long term solution btw
http://www.dreamfleet2000.com/Previews/727/preview_home.html
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DVA1732
Captain, B727-200
Joined on June 18 2004
Century Club
Northeastern United States
132 legs, 243.2 hours
1 legs,
2.1 hours online
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Posted onPost created on
August 11 2005 15:31 ET by Mike Carvelas
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I think you're right. How's the framerate hit with the DF737? I run an old dinosaur of a Dell P4 1.3 with 640 Ram and an NVidea Ti4200 with 256 mB. If I could run the DF without a huge hit, I might go for it.
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