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This youtube channel is one of the 3 or 4 where v6 is being shown with success, and actually tempted me to reinstall it, and FINALLY get all of my ORBX stuff ( not many bt Global, OpenLC Europe, the freebies and MKStudios LPPR ) as well as the PMDG 777 working like a charm, together with Active Sky P3d v6 which I purchased at release time and FSHUD. My plans are to buy the Q-400 and I dream of being able to use my FSLabs A319, 320 and 320 SL as well as the iFly 737 MAX too 🙂 P3D6.1 featuring PMDG B77F + Active Sky + Ezdok and ORBX Tru-Earth (youtube.com)

@Ronda_sim, Great News ! Thanks !!! I love beautiful, non-streaming scenery !!!

DCS Kola - Orbx (orbxdirect.com)

Run # Prepar3d.exe --sillySigns 🤪

Should add to the overall experience yes, as would also the possibility to declare different types of distress or alerts ... It is still WIP... Maybe in the future... My only grip is having to purchase a Navigraph subscription if I want to use it without a rather outdated DB... Could at least preserve the last one 🫤

I did use the original MJ Q-400 in the good-old FSX Era ... Had followed the early news about it's development since 2005 when it was for the first time mentioned that it used as external FDM the powerful (in the right hands...) JSBSim framework. Have seen a few developers, for more than one platform, recurring to JSBSim when they want a much more detailled simulation in terms of "flight". I do miss the FSLabs Airbuses - never bought the Concorde 😕

Precious link !!!

PLEASE DISREGARD: The old question : - for someone without a P3dv5 install and / or ORBX install and backup of the orinal v5 Library, is it still possible to trick ORBX Central to install it's products into P3dv6 ? Thanks to the symbolic link + registry fix ORBX products now working beautifully in v6 !!!

The P3D forums, even more than the X-Plane ones here at AVSIM, have regular and increasing activity along the last months, after the "initial" "fall in love" phase for the new kid in town.... For me this is very positive, if not for other reason because I still prefer P3D to MSFS, by far, when it comes to my preferred addons, the stability, and the fact that I don't like to depend on Cloud Services for my simming as much as we do when using MSFS. I believe that I'll always be loyal to my beloved FSLabs fleet, the quality of weather injection and created effects that Active Sky P3D can give me better than in other platform, alhtough it's also very acceptable in XP12 and now in MSFS 2020 too... I would just love to see this activity find corresponding support from some developers, like FSLabs. I honestly believe that should FSLabs offer an upgrade of their fleet for P3D v5 for P3D v6, even paid - by a symbolic ammount - many users would easily get P3D v6 and start using it. I don't worry about LM and the base platform. They have good reasons not to care about the kind of market and user base that supports MSFS, so, from LM I can only expect even further enhancements for v6, and maybe next year v7 🙂 It's good to see daily posts and tthreads here at the AVSIM P3D forums !!!

Yep, let's hope for the best with 12.1 ASXP12 can work in basically 3 ways.... "Standalone", where it controls the weather from ground to the top of the tropopause, "Live Hybrid" where ASXP12 takes control of the weather from ground to a user defined "transition altitude", and "Passive" where in as far as depiction goes default XP12 weather has full control, and ASXP12 only tunes various effects to overcome Xp12's default weather limitations. I have been using the "Standalone" = ASXP12 full control with success, although under some circumstances and due to the limitations imposed by a proper SDK ASXp12 can cause some cloud popping ...

I have been noticing that default weather in XP12.0.9 still fails, most of the time, to properly depict the cloud coverage reported by METARs in a given scenery area. Yesterday tested it around where I live, with lot's of convective clouds all around ( SCT to BKN ) not being depicted at all ... Using ASXP12 works beautifully, and I can get proper cloud cover according to the reference METARs... Looking fwd for LR really giving more control to programs like ASXP so that they can further enhance these and other aspects of weather depiction and effects... ASXP also tunes turbulence and shear, which is really necessary, although 12.1 may bring good news in this area too...

Thank you! 👍

Unfortunately I presently do not have any orbx install. How should I proceed in this case?

Well, inspired today by the OP I decided to reinstall P3Dv6 and see for myself the result of the latest patches, and so far SO GOOD!!! Looks better than the first version I tried after release last year, and performance is very good I had a Nvidia Inspector Profile with VSync and Adaptive half-refresh rate, but in P3DV6 we still have to "tick" the VSync option in the Display settings because otherwise the in-sim FPS counter shows in my case 90+ to 100+ FPS.... Wonder if I should revert to a default Nvidia profile and do all of the customization from inside P3Dv6 only ... Also installed ASP3Dv6 🙂 Now I just have to decide if I should try to imnstall my Orbx stuff (Global, Vector and Open-LC Europe, LPPR and the free airport enhancements) using the mentioned "xml method" which I don't even guess how to use 😕 Guess P3DV6 is staying together with XP12 !!!