1 hour ago, SAS443 said:

what kind of category do you fall into, If I may ask? Not the general population I guess.

rated pilot?

I am a general flight sim user and have used P3D, FSX, and X-Plane over the years and have been using MSFS quite a bit lately. I am not a rated pilot and don't even pretend to be even when I fly a PMDG 737. 

Reading this with great interest....FWIW, I bought, then returned MSFS for a variety of reasons, most having to do with performance on my computer. However, if someone adds a DC3 such as Manfred Jahn's version, or even payware, I will likely be back in. With that said, ideally for me would be a P3D upgrade that utilizes Google maps, or similar cloud based satellite imagery ala MSFS. For now, I have not upgraded to V5 while 4.5 with the hotfixes works perfectly for my sim needs.

 

Sherm

P3D upgraded to stream Google Earth rather will not happen.

A scenario, however, I could imagine is an ORBX TE streaming version that streams their True Earth scenery from their dedicated servers. I think that's doable.

Karl

16 hours ago, shermank said:

a P3D upgrade that utilizes Google maps, or similar cloud based satellite imagery

Yup, that would do it.

On 9/22/2020 at 12:39 PM, d.tsakiris said:

Yup, that would do it.

It could be ORBX TE hosted by...  ORBX of course.

Karl

16 minutes ago, kaha said:

It could be ORBX TE hosted by...  ORBX of course.

The problem I see is that ORBX, has to edit many areas and hand places every autogen object in their TE series; that takes months or even Years, depending on the area size covered.
IMO, getting TE quality into P3D has to be automated (Like BlackShark AI.), or somehow get Google into a partnership.

Edited September 23, 20205 yr by RamonB

I love how Orbx TE Florida looks.  But it's definitely resource heavy.  More so I think than MSFS scenery.  

There's a French developer that generates Autogen via AI for P3D. Looks good, too.

1 hour ago, d.tsakiris said:

There's a French developer that generates Autogen via AI for P3D. Looks good, too.

Do you have a link for this Dimitrios?

Not sure if I'm allowed to post such links here. Google for “France“, “VFR“, and “3DAutomation®“.

31 minutes ago, d.tsakiris said:

Not sure if I'm allowed to post such links here. Google for “France“, “VFR“, and “3DAutomation®“.

Sure you can mention FranceVFR. Great looking PR scenery with custom AG and lots of POIs...

 

Well, I did mention it, I just didn't post a link. But yeah, it looks really good, doesn't it.

wrt to the OPs post, here's what I am looking forward to in v5.

• MD-11 by TFDi
• Zim Sceneries Narita
• Flytampa Sydney v2
• Flightbeam Auckland
• FSimstudios Vancouver
• PMDG 777

 

With all of these installed in v5, I am going to be doing a lot of flying hopefully in the remaining part of this year!😁 Not sure of the exact timings but they are all in the pipeline so I am keeping my fingers crossed!

Regards

On 9/11/2020 at 7:09 PM, bobrbend said:

Any rumors, scuttlebutt, gossip or even facts about what's happening?

nothing new,  addons are still being released by all the developers with bugs as normal.  Heres a 747 flying in circles as it cant follow a simple route.

V4.5  Fine no problems.   v5   you cant mess with the range selector or it does a CRJ and flies in circles.  just saying 

 

 

 

Edited September 24, 20205 yr by fluffyflops

Well it looks like FSimStudios has some competition  in the Vancouver department. I see FSDT just released a good rendition of CYVR for MSFS.

According the FSim Studios their version for P3Dv4/5 will be inbound by October 31st as well as their one for MSFS following a fortnight later.

https://www.facebook.com/FSimStudios-1995764354083070/