September 24, 201213 yr Commercial Member 1) a true DEMO : only 10 minutes with a working joystick is too short to try a game ! (I probably would have already bought XP if I could have properly tested it with the DEMO) 2) more finished planes : I may be wrong but as far as I remember from the DEMO, we have no finished helicpoter in the game : only a 2D panel made several years ago (please correct me if I'm wrong ;-) ) Guillaume The demo is 15 minutes and the timer for the demo stops when you're in the hardware calibration screen. There are 52 default aircraft in the demo. Many of them freshly made, with VC's, specifically for XP10.
September 25, 201213 yr The demo is 15 minutes and the timer for the demo stops when you're in the hardware calibration screen. There are 52 default aircraft in the demo. Many of them freshly made, with VC's, specifically for XP10. Just after installing, in general you first spend time to set the parameters (graphical, ....). So you go several times into the setting screens. Then test for few minutes... then the 15 minutes timer stops. Then you need to reaload the sim (which is very looong !) Then you want to test some aircrafts : you load one, then fly 5 minutes, then another one, then.... reload the full sim because of the timer demo.... (so you need to be very motivated to tests all the 52 aircrafts ^_^ ) I don't find any intersest in playing a game with no joystick after the 15 minutes. The demo time is very short to do a full small flight in a cessna (taxi, do go around, interact with ATC to try it, ...). Just to really feel the sim. I just wish we had a longuer demo time.... That may seem a not important point, but maybe if people where able to test the sim more conveniently they would buy the sim (that seems to have lots of intersting points and features). ------------------ Guillaume CHARRIER
September 25, 201213 yr I haven't loaded up in about 3 months... Am I the only one that has trouble generating flight plans? I know it wasn't the best but FSX's "I want to start here and land over there, tell me what my route choices are." Was very helpful... And stupid simple. Tyson Rose
September 25, 201213 yr I haven't loaded up in about 3 months... Am I the only one that has trouble generating flight plans? I know it wasn't the best but FSX's "I want to start here and land over there, tell me what my route choices are." Was very helpful... And stupid simple. Gotta agree with you there. Some form of route creation utility built within the sim would be fantastic. As it is, I can't even think of any third party programs that generate X-Plane plans. If anyone knows of any, I'd gladly welcome suggestions. EDIT- To clarify, I mean IFR plans. I have Plan G and it's great for VFR. "No matter how eloquent you are or how solidly and firm you've built your case, you will never win in an argument with an idiot, for he is too stupid to recognize his own defeat." ~Anonymous.
September 25, 201213 yr If anyone knows of any, I'd gladly welcome suggestions. EDIT- To clarify, I mean IFR plans. I have Plan G and it's great for VFR. FSBUILD :-)... Good old FSBUILD, updated to v2.0 is possible - available at Simmarket Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
September 25, 201213 yr FSBUILD :-)... Good old FSBUILD, updated to v2.0 is possible - available at Simmarket Thanks! "No matter how eloquent you are or how solidly and firm you've built your case, you will never win in an argument with an idiot, for he is too stupid to recognize his own defeat." ~Anonymous.
September 25, 201213 yr FSBUILD :-)... Good old FSBUILD, updated to v2.0 is possible - available at Simmarket That works in the FMC, but is there a way to load it (Other than manually) into the ATC system? Thanks Tom My Youtube Videos! http://www.youtube.com/user/tf51d
September 26, 201213 yr That works in the FMC, but is there a way to load it (Other than manually) into the ATC system? Good question.... I don't know the answer, but will investigate and report back :-) Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
September 26, 201213 yr That works in the FMC, but is there a way to load it (Other than manually) into the ATC system? Interesting question, but I would say no. I tend to use FSCommander, which works fine saving XP fms files as long as you also have FSX/P3D installed. What really sucks is the fact that in Windows you can't even copy and paste stuff into the XP10 ATC file flight plan window, which probably has something to do with the fact that it's a multi-platform app.
September 26, 201213 yr What really sucks is the fact that in Windows you can't even copy and paste stuff into the XP10 ATC file flight plan window, which probably has something to do with the fact that it's a multi-platform app. Well I did some testing, and there doesn't appear to be a load file function, but the good news is you can copy and paste a flightplan in. While there is no menu option, you can use the Ctrl-C/V commands. Thanks Tom My Youtube Videos! http://www.youtube.com/user/tf51d
September 26, 201213 yr Well I did some testing, and there doesn't appear to be a load file function, but the good news is you can copy and paste a flightplan in. While there is no menu option, you can use the Ctrl-C/V commands. Really? It's never worked for me. I will try again and test.
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