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Question regarding synchronizing FSX set ZULU time (GMT) with the FMC...  I'm using FSX and Sim-Avionics.

I can't seem to figure out how to get the FMC to show correctly, ZULU time on the Progress page, when flying a Route.  I have the correct ZULU time set in FSX, but it is always shows up incorrect on the FMC's CDU, as shown on the Progress page when flying a valid Route.  That is, the estimated ZULU time to the next waypoint is significantly off.

Probably a simple solution, but I can't seem find how to get this corrected.  Any assistance on this would be appreciated.

Mike

Just a thought but I seem to remember that on the SimA server there is a checkbox somewhere to synchronize the time with FSX time or something like that. And then again, I may just have invented that :)

If that does not work, maybe you have to change the time to Zulu time in the SimA server PC.

Maurice

Thanks for the comments Maurice.  I finally figured out what the problem was in synchronizing FSX ZULU time with the FMC in Sim-Avionics. 

It turns out that selecting various "Dispatch Scenarios" within Sim-Avionics (a nice feature of Sim-A), that whatever  time was set, is what is sent and sync'd to Sim-Avionics.  The solution was a simple check on FSX ZULU time after starting FSX, loading Sim-Avionics and selecting a Dispatch Scenario to ensure that FSX indeed had the correct ZULU time, afterwhich it was echoed correctly to the FMC and CDU display within Sim-Avionics - as shown on the POSIT INIT page under UTC (LSK4L).

This is something I will now have to double check prior to each flight route, if I want the FMC to display the correct ZULU time on the Progress Page and elsewhere via the CDU.  I don't think this is something that most Simmer's ensure is correct, unless they really exercise the CDU during a flight - but then I' a bit slow sometimes when it come to climbing the Sim learning curve  ;D

Mike