My flight from Sao Paolo Brazil to Santa Cruz Bolivia was interesting. I was using Active Sky Next, which is proving a mixed blessing. I will say the foggy morning at the origin was convincing, and the towering storms encountered half-way were amazing. By the way, the Captain Sim Weather Radar picked up ASN's storms nicely, which surprised me, although I eventually used their own gauge to deviate, skirting the thunderstorm and giving the starboard-side passengers quite a show.

A couple of things about ASN if you have it or are considering it. Turbulence as very aggressive, and it gives me long freezes. They last about eight minutes, maybe two in a flight, maybe none. Not that big of a deal, all things considered; honestly ASN makes it a new sim as far as I'm concerned.

I realized after all this time that I wasn't sure how icing protection was handled, and there is nothing in the documentation about it. I'm sure there was icing.

Then my engines got weird on me. EPR got pretty low, resulting in a 210 kt airspeed shortly before TD. NOTHING would spin them up any higher, not disengaging the autothrottle and using the throttle (it would just advance as far as the (low) EPR bug and that was that). Given that I was ready to descend anyway, I wasn't too worried, and eventually made the visual approach to runway 16, well left to the centerline, I'm sorry to say, but not in the grass, at least. (Why can't I line up runways in FSX like when I was flying real airplanes? GAH!)

So (1) what do we do about icing? and (2) what do you think was up with the engines? I suspect ASN weirdness.

Thanks, Michael. I'll check the OAT if it happens again. I find it more than coincidental that I'm seeing all sorts of weird things I've never seen before since I installed ASN. But until it becomes absolutely unflyable, I'll stick with it.

Do you have to do anything in the 757 to counter icing? I didn't see it covered in the manual, other than a brief mention about engines.

I was departing JFK last Saturday for Heathrow and there was a bong sound in the cockpit.  I checked EICAS and saw Icing.  I immediately opened overhead and turned on engine and wing de-ice.  Within a matter of seconds, power was restored.  From there on I also leave it on auto.