A friend told me he heard no sound when flying A2A aircraft under 2D cockpit mode, and ask me if there’s a fix. I believe there is information about it on A2A’s Support Forum. Anyway, here’s the solution using C182T as an example.
That will do.
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Besides backing up my system images, I also make individual copies of important files on my computer regularly. Orbx addon registry is certainly one of them.
During installation, Orbx addons firstly performs an online-store verification and then creates a corresponding entry containing the serial of the product in the registry. With this information in place, the verification process is no longer needed, no matter how many times the product is again reinstalled onto the same computer.
This principle similarly helps in my recent system break-down incidence. Continue reading
Even though you are probably not one of us who tend to rebuild FSX for this and that reasons from time to time, putting FSX installation contents onto a hard drive and running from there not only 
improves convenience but also significantly reduces processing time required.
The conversion is simple. Just copy everything from the installation discs to any folder (e.g. FSX Deluxe Edition and FSX Acceleration) on your specified hard drive.
But do remember to copy the discs in their installation order, and answer [NO] when prompt to overwrite files already copied to the hard drive earlier.
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Rebuilding the shader cache of the simulator helps fix problems suddenly coming up without a proper cause. The reasons explained in my Post 58: Rebuild FSX Shader Cache for FSX. It is applicable to P3D as well.
There are friends asking if it is possible to automate the deletion process right before the running of FSX or P3D, when needed.
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Sounds of my default C172 SP have just been replaced by some more realistic alternatives I recently found on FlightSim.com. 
Although the Soundpack by Christoffer Petersen of Turbine Sound Studios/TSS was created for FS2004 in 2007 and there’s a dedicated payware version for FSX, the freeware still works great on my C172 both in FSX and P3D environments.
As files in the soundpack are called differently, they must be renamed accordingly (basically taking out “TSS” from the filename) before they can be used to replace the default sound files. Continue reading
Switching to P3D could also mean losing many handy features added to FSX previously. FSDiscover is definitely one of them. Until Flight1 launches a P3D compatible version, command TOGGLE_AIRPORT_NAME_DISPLAY is my temporary measure when I am lost in the sky.
Just open the Standard.XML file inside the Controls folder where Prepar3D.cfg is located. Then add the command to any key or key combination and save it. That’s all. Names of airports around current location will be shown when the key or key combination is pressed.
Due to various unexpected situations, the Turning Off the FIP series were stopped for over a month. To compensate for the interruption, I have put the OFF Masks for the remaining RPM, Integrated Fuel Gauges, and even the new Turn Coordinator into a single RAR file on this Black Friday for existing users to download by clicking the image below. The OFF masks for the earlier Altimeter, Vertical Indicator and Airspeed Indicator are also included. Just put the files in corresponding folders will do.
(Updated on: 24 October 2013) This is part three of the Turning Off the FIP series. This time is the AirSpeed Indicator.
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Similarly, save the image on the right to the \1024 folder where you keep the VS indicator (e.g. C:\Program Files (x86)\Saitek\DirectOutput\Gauges\1024) via the link below: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/25018674/Gauges-C172/C172_Gauges_130815_OFF/C172_AS_OFF.bmp
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(Updated on: 24 October 2013) This is part two of the Turning Off the FIP series. This time is the Altimeter.
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Similarly, save the image on the right to the \1024 folder where you keep the VS indicator (e.g. C:\Program Files (x86)\Saitek\DirectOutput\Gauges\1024) via the link below: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/25018674/Gauges-C172/C172_Gauges_130815_OFF/C172_ALT_OFF.bmp
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