Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler - Time Sync Issue in FSX

Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | PC Support | Time Sync Issue in FSX

DVA11505
Captain, CRJ-200

Joined on May 06 2013

Midwestern United States

27 legs, 44.7 hours
14 legs, 22.9 hours online
22 legs, 35.7 hours ACARS
1 legs, 1.8 hours event

Posted onPost created on August 23 2013 10:53 ET by James Cropper

I noticed all of a sudden FSX kept reloading textures after the initial load causing my selected flight time to be changed to a time in the middle of the night, as well as an annoying 30 second unnecessary delay. After searching the internet for the cause for several hours this morning with no solutions found I reviewed each of the add on programs I had installed in the past few weeks. I had recently changed from Squawk box to FSINN and suspected the issue must be related to FSINN. Sure enough there is an accessory in the FSINN Copilot programs which is called Time Sync. When playing with this utility I must have checked the box to "Sync Zulu time Automatically to Zulu minus 5 hours. Simply unchecking that box seems to have solved the issue. You can always use this tool manually and I would recommend that.

James Cropper

Captain, CRJ-200

DVA10641
Assistant Chief Pilot, B757-200
OLP

Joined on March 29 2012
50 State Club
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Events Quintuple Century Club

Rosemount, MN USA

1,987 legs, 4,456.2 hours
1,865 legs, 3,929.2 hours online
1,967 legs, 4,422.4 hours ACARS
638 legs, 1,290.5 hours event
18 legs dispatched, 157.2 hours

Posted onPost created on August 23 2013 17:42 ET by Jason Boche

I purchased a program called FS Real Time which handles time sync. I use it on 80% or more of my flights, especially for online flights and events where I want immediate access to Zulu time without having to perform the mental calculation. Of course it will mess with things like trying to flight in daylight when it's currently night time in the region. It also doesn't work well with time acceleration in flight

Jason Boche

Assistant Chief Pilot, B757-200

DVA9571
Senior Captain, B767-300

Joined on March 10 2011
Everett 500 Club
Online Quintuple Century Club
DVA Five-Year Anniversary
Six Century Club

Miami, FL USA

612 legs, 2,333.0 hours
590 legs, 2,242.9 hours online
602 legs, 2,307.3 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on August 23 2013 18:17 ET by Bob Klemm

You can adjust the offset on FS Real Time, to set any time of day you want.

Bob Klemm

Senior Captain, B767-300

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