September 1, 201312 yr Greetings! I have grown weary of having a most excellent flight in FSX die for no apparent reason 4 minutes from landing. I have grown weary of FSX taking a dump on me just sitting on the tarmac setting up aircraft for flight. Just color me weary from having two of three flights die for no apparent reason. And no, I am NOT re-installing FSX. So, I made the switch to Prepar3D. So far I have migrated my beloved Orbx terrain over, my REX (all for 5 bucks!) textures, and my Opus weather engine, all with resounding success. P3D is getting much much better with every passing hour. My hanger is next - the stock Baron is still way too twitchy, which is why I have a MilViz B/E-55 model. And MilViz, bless their hearts, says the product will work but is unsupported. Okay by me! Although I will miss my A2A AccuFeel and AccuSim aircraft... However, I have one niggling problem with P3D: it always loads my aircraft in the *MIDDLE* of the runway. Not the end, but right smack dab in the middle. Haven't found an option for that, and while I suppose I could be a big boy and start from a parking position, I thought I would ask. Testing (as in re-installing my entire world), time is precious!!! Thanks! And while I will miss DX10, I am waiting with hopeful anticipation that P3D 2.0 will support DX11 and take care of it!!! John Howell Prepar3D V5, Windows 10 Pro, I7-9700K @ 4.6Ghz, EVGA GTX1080, 32GB Corsair Dominator 3200GHz, SanDisk Ultimate Pro 480GB SSD (OS), 2x Samsung 1TB 970 EVO M.2 (P3D), Corsair H80i V2 AIO Cooler, Fulcrum One Yoke, Samsung 34" 3440x1440 curved monitor, Honeycomb Bravo throttle quadrant, Thrustmaster TPR rudder pedals, Thrustmaster T1600M stick
September 1, 201312 yr Select and aircraft, position where you need it to be then save that as the default (Home) flight plan. Then you only need to change the aircraft, not the position as required. Alternately use SimLauncher and select the airport and runway of choice prior to selecting "Fly Now". Cheers, Mac
September 1, 201312 yr Yes, P3D looks more stable to me too :-) Let's see what v2 brings ;-) 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 1, 201312 yr Author position where you need it to be then save that as the default Ah. Manual intervention. Interesting - I note when I create a flight plan that the aircraft is positioned at the end of the active runway. It is just when I plunk down at an airport that I end up in the middle. Thanks for the suggestion! John Howell Prepar3D V5, Windows 10 Pro, I7-9700K @ 4.6Ghz, EVGA GTX1080, 32GB Corsair Dominator 3200GHz, SanDisk Ultimate Pro 480GB SSD (OS), 2x Samsung 1TB 970 EVO M.2 (P3D), Corsair H80i V2 AIO Cooler, Fulcrum One Yoke, Samsung 34" 3440x1440 curved monitor, Honeycomb Bravo throttle quadrant, Thrustmaster TPR rudder pedals, Thrustmaster T1600M stick
September 1, 201312 yr Commercial Member odd, never encountered that when selecting? Intel i9-12900KF, Asus Prime Z690-A MB, 64GB DDR5 6000 RAM, (3) SK hynix M.2 SSD (2TB ea.), 16TB Seagate HDD, Gigabyte GeForce 5080 RTX, Corsair iCUE H70i AIO Liquid Cooler, UHD/Blu-ray Player/Burner (still have lots of CDs, DVDs!) Windows 10, (hold off for now on Win11), EVGA 1300W PSUNetgear 1Gbps modem & router, (3) 27" 1440 wrap-around displaysFull array of Bravo, Saitek and GoFlight hardware for the cockpit. Varjo and HP VR headsets for mixed reality.
September 2, 201312 yr Author odd, never encountered that when selecting? Oh man, you mean P3D has non-deterministic behavior like FSX??? John Howell Prepar3D V5, Windows 10 Pro, I7-9700K @ 4.6Ghz, EVGA GTX1080, 32GB Corsair Dominator 3200GHz, SanDisk Ultimate Pro 480GB SSD (OS), 2x Samsung 1TB 970 EVO M.2 (P3D), Corsair H80i V2 AIO Cooler, Fulcrum One Yoke, Samsung 34" 3440x1440 curved monitor, Honeycomb Bravo throttle quadrant, Thrustmaster TPR rudder pedals, Thrustmaster T1600M stick
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