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This product has been the subject of much discussion over the past year and I believe the general consensus is that it does help, but there are some caveats.

Don’t expect miracles, there is always a price to be paid. Additional performance in demanding situations does not come for free. If you can accept this then it could be a worthwhile purchase.

The current version is 1,4 (compatible with Prepar3D v4.4)

Regards,

Mike

Thanks for the info Mike.

I've played around a bit with different FFTF numbers in the P3D cfg just to see what they would do, and never came to any definitive conclusions on my system, so I was just curious what your add on might offer...

As for the highlighted portion of your post.. You are "preaching to the choir"....😎

Edited January 14, 20197 yr by SunDevil56

27 minutes ago, Cruachan said:

ASL? Sorry, no comprendo. Did you mean UTLive? If so, I wasn't aware it had this feature and, I agree, could be very useful in such situations. Thanks.

Mike

😧 Arrggh! Yes, sorry, meant UTL. Too many three letter acronyms! 😊

Pretty loose your juvenile argument. And now it seems only so you could find something to take a poke at? Not something I would do.

The question regarding the location of addons in the MyDocs folders is to do with which user is going to access those.

On a professional P3D system there may be several users of P3D each have their own MyDocs folders..

When addons get installed into personal folders they are accessible by only that user.

The reason for multiple dll.xml and exe.xml are the same - one is for All users and the other is for individuals.

...so the upshot of that is that a user can log in and get a set of settings and even airport addons unique to that login, yet utilise system settings that affect all users as well. FSX didn't make this so easy, but P3D is a professional program and that is why we need to know how to set it right.

I thought of something, a fact about IF10 Ray might actually find agreeable...the beloved Concorde was one of my favourite test aircraft during the FSX years and so I made IF automatically upload the data cards to the nav system.

1 hour ago, Cruachan said:

ASL? Sorry, no comprendo. Did you mean UTLive? If so, I wasn't aware it had this feature and, I agree, could be very useful in such situations. Thanks.

Mike

Don't forget Mike, that your copy of IFPro culls traffic according to algorithms that determine if you will ever get to see the ai traffic on your route at your time. There's some adjustment you can make manually in the config. If you use another app to cull traffic turn it off in the option full ai otimisation.

Edited January 15, 20197 yr by SteveW

7 minutes ago, SteveW said:

I thought of something, a fact about IF10 Ray might actually find agreeable...the beloved Concorde was one of my favourite test aircraft during the FSX years and so I made IF automatically upload the data cards to the nav system.

That’s good of you Steve but there’s a program called Concorde Performance System (CPS-X) which already does it along with calculating fuel loads, reheat time for takeoff and other engine settings.

Previously donationware it’s now in the AvSim library after the author retired.

16 hours ago, Cruachan said:

Hi Julian,

This is my understanding:

VSync enabled in Prepar3D will try to match the frame rate (set at Unlimited) with the refresh frequency of the monitor, in this case 60Hz. It is unrealistic to expect to be able to achieve 60fps or more consistently in Prepar3D. In fact, much of the time frame rates will be below 60/sec, in which case VSync enabled will drop your frame rate by another 50%, i.e. to well below 30fps which, for most of us, is unacceptable.

You can get around this by limiting the frame rate in NVidia Profile Inspector (NPI) to, say, 29.5 (there isn’t a 30 option) for Prepar3D. Be sure to apply this change before exiting NPI. Now, when you use VSync (+/- Triple buffering (TB) if you have the headroom) along with Unlimited then frame rates will be pegged around 30fps which provides decent smooth performance for most of the time unless, of course, demands on the sim drop frame rates below 30fps. That’s were settings and slider restraint come into play and you should create and save individual Display Profiles to suit these varying circumstances and your rig’s capabilities.

Regards,

Mike

Thank you Mike. Appreciate your help.

Will have a tinker with it in the weekend.

Regards

 

Julian

8 hours ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

That’s good of you Steve but there’s a program called Concorde Performance System (CPS-X) which already does it along with calculating fuel loads, reheat time for takeoff and other engine settings.

Previously donationware it’s now in the AvSim library after the author retired.

There you go again lol.

For some reason you can't help deriding other people and their stuff or ideas. What a shame for us all.

So what makes you think I don't have that or wouldn't know about it? And why should there not be a better system than that available? And how do you know which came out first. And why not have it included in a one button procedure? No harm in reducing the workload to start a flight.

 

IF10 calculates the fuel from measuring the actual fuel used in the flights and homes in on a more accurate estimate than that one. I see you got a new sim and it didn't bother you that FSX was already out. Perhaps you wrote to LM to mention that P3D was a waste of time? lol.

How do you measure your take off and landing distance? There's a few apps around that do that, including IF. No reason why they can't co-exist.

24 minutes ago, SteveW said:

There you go again lol.

For some reason you can't help deriding other people and their stuff or ideas. What a shame for us all.

So what makes you think I don't have that or wouldn't know about it? And why should there not be a better system than that available? And how do you know which came out first. And why not have it included in a one button procedure? No harm in reducing the workload to start a flight.

You seem intent on goading me into a fight. Are you an expert on Concorde? The author of that program was. He had access to Air France documentation and also worked closely with Concorde engineers.

I did not denigrate your product. Let me ask you these questions.

Does your program allow the user to select the number of pax and their distribution in the cabin?

Does your program fill the 13 fuel tanks to maintain a correct ZCFG based on that load?

Does it calculate v1, vr and v2 speeds based on weight and runway length?

Does it calculate the length of time reheats should be on for take-off / climb out?

I could go on but I suspect the answer to all those is no.

24 minutes ago, SteveW said:

How do you measure your take off and landing distance? There's a few apps around that do that, including IF. No reason why they can't co-exist.

I don't, CPS-X does. Landing distance is not too dissimilar to sub-sonic aircraft but take-off is very different especially with heavy fuel loads. With no flaps Concorde relies on sheer power to get airborne. That requires reheats and long enough runways. It is totally different to any other aircraft and the parameters that applies to those cannot be applied to Concorde.

With Airliner Pilot, we had a Dash 8 and returned to a hub, but there was only 15 or so routes in and out of a few hubs. What I set out to do was make that infinite and make the routes variable. It was OK downloading 'real' plans from websites but they were limited, I wanted a plan from any to any in under a minute and restricted to the time taken in flight that I desired and nothing could do it back then just after FSX came out. What it needed to do was generalise for every aircraft. To go into some specifics, especially on unique aircraft like the Concord, would require a growing database. Instead it handles all the functionality common to aircraft but not certain specifics on the Concorde. I required the navigation programmed because of the amount of GPS waypoints to handle. The app you mention is indeed a specialised version for that particular plane. Other than that all the common functions are taken into account. Anyway I thought you might like to know that I was using that for the navigation function.