How to know an X-Plane guy.

[David Mills 4,763]

When someone starts talking about the "orthos" in the new Microsoft Flight Simulator, you know he's a past or present X-Plane guy. 

[Nate1 163]

I just deleted 3TB of orthos from my hard drives 🙂

What I really want to do is take off in my XP Siai Marchetti or TBM 900 and land them in MSFS. But I'm sure aircraft of that quality will be along soon. Plenty to explore in the meantime.

[bartp71 21]

Can you play MFS on an Iphone? No!...  Well, I can with Ex-Plane! 😂

[Dillon 2,197]

XPlane guys don't think ATC, AI, and real world weather is too important.  Only flight dynamics and scenery is what matters (more so flight dynamics).

[FlyingInACessna 656]

1 hour ago, Dillon said:

XPlane guys don't think ATC, AI, and real world weather is too important.  Only flight dynamics and scenery is what matters (more so flight dynamics).

I disagree - I care highly about real weather 🙂 Active Sky XP doesn’t do a horrible job despite the clouds in XP looking atrocious. ATC doesn’t matter because those of us who are in it for the realism use VATSIM anyway. Never paid any attention to AI in X-Plane for the same reason...

[rtodepart 761]

Dont forget they also tend to use the word PLAUSIBLE. 

Edited August 23, 2020 by rtodepart

[airlinejets 709]

5 minutes ago, rtodepart said:

they also tent to use

...only when camping out.

[rtodepart 761]

1 minute ago, airlinejets said:

...only when camping out.

🤣😂🤣😂🤣 hey Siri wrote that 🤣😂🤣😂

[reignman40 450]

What does ortho stand for anyway? Is it fancy talk for photoreal scenery? 

[Slides 1,552]

Coming from the combat sim world, I thought Orthos was some dental disease. 

[Agrajag 286]

I just said it over in another thread, but the reason X-Plane got to this size at all isn't because of their innate brilliance. It was because the #1 player left the field. Guess what? They're baaaaack.

[BIGSKY 316]

Wheres L. Adamson when we need him?

[Mace 1,926]

21 minutes ago, Slides said:

Coming from the combat sim world, I thought Orthos was some dental disease. 

It is, ha ha.  The only proper term is "photoscenery".

What is the green jet in your avatar pic?  That's pretty neat looking.  Is that a Pakistan livery JF-17?

[Slides 1,552]

14 minutes ago, Mace said:

It is, ha ha.  The only proper term is "photoscenery".

What is the green jet in your avatar pic?  That's pretty neat looking.  Is that a Pakistan livery JF-17?

Yes. The DCS Jeff as it's lovingly called in the community.

[wim123 763]

but thats obvious, they have x-legs.