Saitek Pro Flight Yoke Update

The next step is to go to the actual folder you just saved this file to. If you have a preferred method of browsing your hard drive, use it. Otherwise, right click on the main Windows Start button and select Explore. In the split window that opens, on the left-side (folder tree side) find the Program Files folder. Click the (+) to the left of Program Files to expand it, and within that expand the ASA folder, the InstrumentRefresher1.5 folder and then the ASDB folder. Inside the ASDB folder, click on the "PROGRAM" folder to display its contents on the right-side window. On the right side find the file named plugins.dat. Right-click on plugins.dat and select Delete. Be sure NOT to delete the plugins.txt file that you just saved to this folder.

Plugins.txt - 1KB

CH Products Flight Sim Yoke Update

The calibration file shown below, "plugins.txt", is intended for users of CH Product's USB Flight Sim Yoke. If you have experienced a delayed response of the throttle, i.e., no reaction within Instrument Refresher 1.5 until around half travel of the throttle lever, this update will address this issue.

To use the file:

• Save the file to a known location on your computer (for Internet Explorer, right-click on the link, and select Save Target As...; do NOT rename the file, or it won't work)
• Copy/paste the file to Instrument Refresher's program directory. By default, this location is "C:\Program Files\Asa\Instrument Refresher 1.5\program"
You will be prompted to replace the existing "plugins.txt" file. Do this.
• Delete the existing "Plugins.dat" file. This will remove previous calibration settings.
• Close all windows and re-start Instrument Refresher. You will be taken to the calibration page to re-calibrate your yoke.

Plugins.txt - 2KB

CH Products FlightStick Pro Joystick Update

The calibration file shown below, "plugins.txt", is intended for users of CH Product's USB FlightStick Pro joystick. If you have experienced a delayed response of the throttle, i.e., no reaction within Instrument Refresher until around half travel of the throttle, this update will address this issue.

To use the file:

• Save the file to a known location on your computer (for Internet Explorer, right-click on the link, and select Save Target As...; do NOT rename the file, or it won't work)
• Copy/paste the file to IP Trainer's program directory. By default, this location is "C:\Program Files\Asa\Instrument Refresher 1.5\program"
You will be prompted to replace the existing "plugins.txt" file. Do this.
• Delete the existing "Plugins.dat" file. This will remove previous calibration settings.
• Close all windows and re-start Instrument Refresher. You will be taken to the calibration page to re-calibrate your joystick.

Plugins.txt - 2KB

Garbled Performance Feedback Text

We have discovered that some NVIDIA brand videocards have a compatibility issue with Instrument Refresher version 1.5 when used with Windows XP and DirectX 9.0c. The symptoms of this issue are garbled red and yellow feedback instructions that stream across the cockpit windscreen during a lesson and garbled yellow text displayed on the lesson performance evaluation page.

The following NVIDIA videocard models are known to have this issue:

• Quadro NVS 140
• 8800 Series
• 8600 Series
• 8500 Series
• 8400 Series

If your system uses Windows XP and has one of these videocards, updating your videocard driver to the most current available from NVIDIA (Sept '08 or later) will eliminate the garbled text displayed during the lessons and on the lesson evaluation page.