I have just installed Captain Sim 757 base pack (download version) into FSX on my Windows 7 computer.

FSX has the accelleration pack installed and the captain sim installed ok but the aircraft callsigns are not read out or shown in the ATC text.

The callsigns appear in the dropdown menu when selecting an aircraft.

For example instead of ATC saying "Speed Bird 757 heavy" all i get is "757 heavy"

I know this is something with my computer as my daughters boyfriend installed it on his windows 7 computer and it all worked perfectly ok.

The usual attempts of reinstallation made no difference.

Please help

I forgot to mention, it works perfectly ok on my Vista computer but i don't want to use the Vista computer for FSX.

Do you mean the 757 Base Pack or the 767 Base Pack?

Anyway. To fix it i the 767, change atc_airline= to atc_airline=Speed Bird. Like this:

[fltsim.5]
title=CS 767-300 Captain Paint5
sim=B767-300RR
model=rr5
panel=
sound=RR
texture=british
kb_checklists=
kb_reference=
atc_id=N764A
atc_airline=Speed Bird
atc_flight_number=
ui_manufacturer="Boeing"
ui_type="767-300 RR"
ui_variation="British Airways"
ui_typerole="Commercial Airliner"
ui_createdby="Captain Sim"
description="767-300 Base Pack v1.5\n(c) 2011 Captain Sim www.captainsim.com"
ui_wglts=1

Mark

philwhite100 wrote on Feb 12^th, 2012 at 1:27pm:

Strange. In v4.6 of the CS757, it is already set correctly atc_airline=Speed Bird. I'll have to do a flight to test it. You edit the aircraft.cfg in the FSX\SimObjects\CS_B757-200 folder. Mine looks like this:

[fltsim.4]
title=Captain Sim 757-200 FSX 4
sim=cs757-200RR
model=RR
panel=
sound=RR
texture=ba
kb_checklists=
kb_reference=
atc_id=G-BPEC
atc_airline=Speed Bird
atc_flight_number=757
ui_manufacturer=Boeing
ui_type=757-200 RR
ui_variation=British Airways
ui_typerole="Commercial Airliner"
ui_createdby="Captain Sim"
ui_wglts=1
description="757 Captain (757-200 Base Pack) v.4.6\n(c) 2011 Captain Sim \nwww.captainsim.com"

Mark

I'll take a closer look at the entry. Maybe I missed something important.

This from the FSX SDK:
atc_airline The ATC system will use the specified airline name with this aircraft. This is dependant on ATC recognizing the name. ATC will treat this aircraft as an airliner when this is used in conjunction with atc_flight_number.

If you don't give it a flight number, then the Airline is not mentioned! It must have a Flight Number!

[fltsim.5]
title=CS 767-300 Captain Paint5
sim=B767-300RR
model=rr5
panel=
sound=RR
texture=british
kb_checklists=
kb_reference=
atc_id=N764A
atc_airline=
atc_flight_number=
ui_manufacturer="Boeing"
ui_type="767-300 RR"
ui_variation="British Airways"
ui_typerole="Commercial Airliner"
ui_createdby="Captain Sim"
description="767-300 Base Pack v1.5\n(c) 2011 Captain Sim www.captainsim.com"
ui_wglts=1

So the ones in red test need to be:
atc_airline=Speed Bird
atc_flight_number=767
so that the ATC will call you "Speed Bird 767" and not just "Boeing", or "Boeing 767".

The attached image shows how the ATC responded once I filled in the blanks.

Mark

Okay. My previous reply was about the 767-300, this reply is for the 757-200. as you can see from the image. It is working for me once I have an atc_airline=Speed Bird and atc_flight_number=757.

Here is the entry (again).

[fltsim.4]
title=Captain Sim 757-200 FSX 4
sim=cs757-200RR
model=RR
panel=
sound=RR
texture=ba
kb_checklists=
kb_reference=
atc_id=G-BPEC
atc_airline=Speed Bird
atc_flight_number=757
ui_manufacturer=Boeing
ui_type=757-200 RR
ui_variation=British Airways
ui_typerole="Commercial Airliner"
ui_createdby="Captain Sim"
ui_wglts=1
description="757 Captain (757-200 Base Pack) v.4.6\n(c) 2011 Captain Sim \nwww.captainsim.com"

Now the interesting part. When I first load the 757-200, with Bristish Airways livery, into FSX, I have the same problem as you (ATC calls me 'Boeing 757"). If I go to Menu > Aircarft > Select Aircaft and then look at the details (Details button) for my 757-200 Bristish Airways, There is no flight number displaying (the spot is blank). Once I add 757 in there and click OK, the ATC starts calling me "Speed Bird 757". I don't know why it isn't reading the aircraft.cfg, but I am having FSX do some strange things every now and then since I last reinstalled FSX. This is one of them and I don't know why it is doing it.

Mark

Something that has come to mind regarding my issues. The hard drive that it is installed on did have another operating system on it with FSX so all i did was install Windows 7 on it to overwrite the existing operating system and did not format the drive so could this be part of my problem.

thanks.

Why not try a repair of FSX? Place the FSX DVD1 in the drive and select REPAIR when given the option. If you have Acceleration, you need to do a repair of that too. If you don't have Acceleration, you will need to reinstall both SP1 and SP2 too. This should help fix the situation.

I guess it is possible, that the error might be in the fsx.cfg, but I don't really know if there is anything in it's settings that deal with that.

Mark

philwhite100 wrote on Feb 25^th, 2012 at 7:50pm:

I don't see the point of doing a repair of FSX if it wasn't working after a fresh re-installation of FSX. Have you thought of deleting the fsx.cfg so that FSX creates a new one? In case the fault is in there. Or was it a completely new fsx.cfg (in other words you didn't use the old one after re-installing).

Mark