Scenery "Earthquake"

[exnihilo]

Has anyone seen this sort of thing?  I start FS2004 and load a flight saved at KHSV (Hunstivlle, AL).  After the plane sits on the ground at one of the GA ramps for a minute or so, it just goes completely nuts.  The plane just jumps up in the air and dances around for a while, then eventually just crashes.  This happens with the plane just sitting parked and unpowered.  I've tried sevaral planes parked in other places at this airport, and the same thing has happened.  Then I deinstalled the KHSV scenery I was using.  The weird effect remains; no matter what plane I use, it always ends up jumping around on its own after about a minute, then eventually crashes.  Has anyone seen this sort of thing?

[Zfly2sky]

I had an aircraft that responded like that and then a message came up and said "aircraft not compatible with FS9".

[Opa]

A long shot - but have you recalibrated your Joystick and Throttle lately?

Might be the problem.

[exnihilo]

I'm sure this is purely a scenery problem.  It happens to all of my planes at this particular airport, AND I've seen it happen to some of the AI planes too.

I've de-installed the KHSV scenery, and the problem persists.  Upon re-installing, no difference, the problem remains.  I use FS Global 2005 terrain.  Could there be a problem related to that?

[Opa]

Try disabling it and see if the problem persists.

[exnihilo]

I have disabled it, and the problem remains.

[dave3cu]

Do you have a link to the KHSV-Huntsville scenery?

Dave

[exnihilo]

Thanks for asking.  On AVSIM, its just khsv_1_2.zip, from FS2004 scenery.  The thing is, I've used this before with no problem.  I had to recently reinstall FS2004 when my hard drive failed.  I don't think its the scenery itself, but something with my install.  The thing that's especially weird is that the problem persists when the scenery is de-installed.

Thanks for you curiousity at least!

[Opa]

I just downloaded and installed it - sorry to say that I am not able to duplicate your problem.

The only problem I noticed was that the parking spots for the jetways are too close to each other. Wing tips touch and that should not be happening.

The aircraft also park too close to the terminal - well past the jetway entrance.

All of that could be tweaked.   :-/

[homebrewer]

Sounds like it's time to shoot your horse...

[exnihilo]

Hey guys thanks for trying to give me a hand on this one.  Yes, I did "shoot the horse" and do a complete re-install.  Its working fine now.  Still don't know what I did, but most likely it was some sort of conflicting sceneries problem.  Just chalk this one up to the "weird unexplainable" problems.  Again, I appreciate all your posts and help.

I have installed the scenery onto my re-installed FS2004, and it works fine, so obviously I did something to mess it up at some point.

[DaveSims]

I've had a similar problem with the "hops" when changing views.  I think I heard somewhere it has something to do with the tower view being too far away and the scenery reloading when cycling views or something like that.