Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler - DVA Installed 757 Causes FSX to Crash

Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | PC Support | DVA Installed 757 Causes FSX to Crash

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Posted onPost created on October 10 2013 21:09 ET by James Butler

I'm trying to do a check ride for the 757 and I had to download and install the DVA 757. Now every time I start a flight using the 757, FSX crashes. I've checked the events logs and (Log Below) that is what I found. Looks like the panel file is causing the problem. I've reinstalled the DVA 757 3 times, twice using the Run As Administrator. No help. I've read on here that I could get a different panels to use but would that conflict with my required check ride? Please advise on what I should do.

Faulting application name: fsx.exe, version: 10.0.61637.0, time stamp: 0x46fadb14
Faulting module name: znewpfd.GAU, version: 1.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x3e3b6bd8
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x000012c7
Faulting process id: 0x2e94
Faulting application start time: 0x01cec617060c984a
Faulting application path: C:\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\fsx.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\SimObjects\Airplanes\FSFSConv\PANEL.JET.757\znewpfd.GAU
Report Id: 96f56796-320a-11e3-be92-b4b6763d75ec
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

James Butler

Captain, B777-200

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Posted onPost created on October 10 2013 21:19 ET by Bill Gardiner

This is for FS9 but might help.

http://forum.avsim.net/topic/32612-lonny-payne-757-panel-keeps-crashing-fs9-need-help/

Bill Gardiner

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Posted onPost created on October 10 2013 21:42 ET by Jim Warner

Also, James, it might be that this 757 panel required the FSX default aircraft be the cessna 172 which is parked on the runway (36C) at KSEA with the engine running and the avionics active. This panel uses some of the condition of the default aircraft to assign the startup condition of the 757 panel. If you have changed the FSX default aircraft, I would recommend that you restore it to the Cessna 172 that was used originally. Hope this helps.

Jim Warner

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Posted onPost created on October 10 2013 21:52 ET by James Butler

@Jim I don't recall my FSX had the Cessna set as any default aircraft. I remember it was one of those AirCreation planes. Should I try and set it to a Cessna any way?

James Butler

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Posted onPost created on October 10 2013 22:29 ET by Bill Gardiner

Yes, give that a try. Jim is right, the default Cessna loads up and configures a bunch of the default panel "states" that a lot of addon panels use.

Bill Gardiner

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Posted onPost created on October 10 2013 22:51 ET by Joe Cappelo

I am not rated for this AC but was trying it out and had the same problem, I fixed it by making the default Panel state when starting a flight the 2D cockpit. It seems to work fine for me now.

Joe Cappelo (DVA11781)

Posted onPost created on October 10 2013 23:08 ET by James Butler

@Joe No help its crashing with a different error this time. The error is pointing to FSX.exe

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Posted onPost created on April 18 2014 14:35 ET by Lawrence Woodworth

I'm getting this error now as well with the Fleet 757. I can load the fleet 757 and fly it all day until I've saved a flight and then re-loaded it. If the save was made with the 2D cockpit displayed, then a subsequent load crashes FSX immediately. If the save was made from an outside view, FSX loads and runs normally UNTIL you switch to the 2D cockpit view - whereupon FSX will immediately crash. This "znewpfd" gauge is consistently the culprit.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/59191044/report.html

Fleet aircraft gauge = FSX crash = Fleet aircraft gauge is defective and needs to be replaced.

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Posted onPost created on April 18 2014 16:22 ET by Darren Tung

This exact thing happened to me except when I select the fleet 777 or 747-400 in FSX, for the 777, it crashes, and for the 747-400, it doesn't load. How do I fix this? I run Windows 8.1 with FSX Deluxe SP2.

Darren Tung

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Posted onPost created on April 18 2014 18:25 ET by Lawrence Woodworth

While reading the thread referenced in Bill Gardiner's post above, I came across a weird comment:

Are you trying to load a saved flight? The panel will crash FS9 if the 4 windows are not visible before saving a flight. The 4 windows are the top 4 icons on the panel. (overhead, fmc, throttle and sim failure).Try to switch to other aircrafts first and switch it back. Before saving a flight make sure those 4 windows are visible first.

I've noticed that when you start a Fleet 757 flight that those four displays are blocking the outside view. If this requirement is true, then I'm surprised that DVA would choose such a user-unfriendly cockpit for their fleet installer. Saving flights while in the air are all but impossible because of this requirement to completely clutter your view with unnecessary panels. EPIC FAIL DVA. facepalm

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Posted onPost created on April 18 2014 18:28 ET by Luke Kolin

Lawrence Woodworth wrote:

I've noticed that when you start a Fleet 757 flight that those four displays are blocking the outside view. If this requirement is true, then I'm surprised that DVA would choose such a user-unfriendly cockpit for their fleet installer. Saving flights while in the air are all but impossible because of this requirement to completely clutter your view with unnecessary panels. EPIC FAIL DVA.

Do you have a better freeware panel in terms of accurately modeling a 757 and 767 cockpit?

FWIW if you use the ACARS flight save functionality it will automatically open the necessary sub-panels for you.

Cheers!

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11

Posted onPost created on April 18 2014 19:44 ET by Lawrence Woodworth

Not freeware. I'm currently trying to see if I can get the NPS payware panels to work with the fleet aircraft. I guess with freeware you get what you pay for. This wouldn't have been such a big deal if I had been able to use my CS 757 for the flight academy, but I'm told our ACARS doesn't work correctly with the CS 757.

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Posted onPost created on April 19 2014 05:27 ET by Roger Taylor

Lawrence Woodworth wrote:

"This wouldn't have been such a big deal if I had been able to use my CS 757 for the flight academy, but I'm told our ACARS doesn't work correctly with the CS 757."

Lawrence,

Looking at your profile and what aircraft you are rated to fly, you are not even rated for the 757, so use for the Flight Academy would be a none starter as your flight would be rejected for unrated Airframe. Get yourself rated in the type before using the model for any Flight Academy stuff.

Roger Taylor (AFV493)

Posted onPost created on April 19 2014 15:42 ET by Lawrence Woodworth

My mistake. I said "flight academy" when this checkride in the 752 is for the 757 First Officer rating. I've got a VFR Pilot flight academy checkride waiting in the wings for when I complete (or fail) the 757 FO checkride. I was excpecting to do that one in the 738.

Lawrence Woodworth (DVA4229)

Posted onPost created on April 19 2014 17:43 ET by Roger Taylor

Lawrence,

I am sure you will do very well in the up and coming Checkride. Have faith in your abilities and you'll be golden. Look forward to seeing the post in the Forum announcing you've passed.

Roger Taylor (AFV493)

Posted onPost created on April 19 2014 18:12 ET by Lawrence Woodworth

It's not my abilities I'm really worried about (though they're not that much to brag about, either). It's the hardware and software issues I've been experiencing that have the overwhelming majority of my concerns right now. This 757 checkride clocks in at right around 2 hours in length. Getting my computer to complete a 2 hour flight without crashing borders on the "highly improbable" category. frown

Posted onPost created on April 21 2014 01:16 ET by Lawrence Woodworth

Well I guess I didn't need another rating anyway. Is it normal for a 752 to treat a 10 knot quartering headwind like a small hurricane? I never would have thought a 5 knot crosswind component would blow a commercial airliner on short final across a taxiway and almost to 16R.

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Posted onPost created on May 16 2014 02:55 ET by Jose Bazil

i had the same problem here with the captian sim 757 try getting the quality wings 757 it work with acars and its not a big hit on frame rates

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