Hey everyone,I bought myself X-plane 9 a while ago and only tried it once. I was very unimpressed with it because i was completely lost in the interface system (menus,control keys, etc) and i couldnt even get the plane to takeoff. So i gave up. However i kept watching the xplane videos on youtube and it kept growing on me that i should try it again. I must confessed that there were 2 things that really amazed me. Those were the terrain and high fps. Believe me, xplane terrain is way better than fs2004 even with gepro imho as i am an FS2004 user for quite a while now and over the years i have accumulated some addons for it. Now i want to give xplane another try but one thing i am scared of is that i will get lost again. So, i am asking for any advices that would help me understand it and any details on how to get those:Ai traffic (if not, is there a way to convert ai traffic for fs2004 to be displayed as static in xplane)How to convert fs2004 addons scenery( mostly airports) to xplane???How to get good airliners boeings primarily??? Thanks a lot.From someone who wants to switch but dont know where to start.

Ai traffic (if not, is there a way to convert ai traffic for fs2004 to be displayed as static in xplane)

There are 2 utilities called xtraffic ( http://www.xpluginsdk.org/xtraffic.htm ) and FSImp ( http://www.fsimp.com/ , payware) but I don't know how they work.Instructions here:http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?showtopic=17410http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?showtopic=17920

How to convert fs2004 addons scenery( mostly airports) to xplane???

There's a tool called FS2XPlane, here are the instructions:http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?showtopic=35790You can also find add-ons scenery at the scenery section of X-Plane.org:http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?app=do...s&showcat=6

How to get good airliners boeings primarily???

Boeing 737, 747 and 767 at xplanefreeware.net:http://forums.xplanefreeware.net/forum/113-airliners/Boeing 777 at XP Jets:http://www.xpjets.com/aircraft/Boeing 737NG from Benedikt Stratmann:http://www.eadt.eu/Various Boeing and Airbuses (of mixed quality) at X-Plane.org (best ones are usually those most downloaded, so be sure to sort them by number of downloads):http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?app=do...&showcat=89Be warned though, they're not as much sophisticated as complex MSFS addons in terms of systems/avionics.Marco

There are 2 utilities called xtraffic ( http://www.xpluginsdk.org/xtraffic.htm ) and FSImp ( http://www.fsimp.com/ , payware) but I don't know how they work.Instructions here:http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?showtopic=17410http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?showtopic=17920There's a tool called FS2XPlane, here are the instructions:http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?showtopic=35790You can also find add-ons scenery at the scenery section of X-Plane.org:http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?app=do...s&showcat=6Boeing 737, 747 and 767 at xplanefreeware.net:http://forums.xplanefreeware.net/forum/113-airliners/Boeing 777 at XP Jets:http://www.xpjets.com/aircraft/Boeing 737NG from Benedikt Stratmann:http://www.eadt.eu/Various Boeing and Airbuses (of mixed quality) at X-Plane.org (best ones are usually those most downloaded, so be sure to sort them by number of downloads):http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?app=do...&showcat=89Be warned though, they're not as much sophisticated as complex MSFS addons in terms of systems/avionics.Marco

Thanks for your reply. I will have a look at those links. I think it will take me sometime to learn everything about xplane as it is very different from Microsoft Flight sim. I want to do world tour in xplane but i think first i will need to learn the inside and out of the software. I loaded it again today, location Cape town South africa, and gosh, i love the mountains scenery. However i kept on crashing as i'm only loading the plane at say 10000ft and freefall. That's all i can do so far but will get there slowly to do a proper a takeoff, cruise and land. Thnaks again