April 16, 20233 yr Author 5 hours ago, jwenting said: I've been using XP for 6 years, and MSFS in various versions for 17 years before that. I never used the cabin views in all that time. Didn't even know the IXEG had one... Back in the earlier days just before I left FSX. Most of the aircraft built that were considered high fidelity or study level, did not have full 3D cabins. due to the limit memory resource that FSX impose, because of its 32 bit process nature and did not fully support directx 10 let alone 11 (except with the Directx 10 fixer). If there were full 3D cabins, there very few and limited in function over all. For developers, having a 3D cabin was a challenge for utilizing limited resources when you combine that with a highly detail airport scenery and cockpit. Although FSlabs manage to overcome those challenges, still was a challenge for users nevertheless. Which is why many move to P3D to take advantage of directx 11 support that help diminished the OOM issue and the continue development that eventually move them to 64bit sim. X Plane 10 at that time was already a 64bit sim and was using Opengl that can utilized the graphic hardware when it comes to VRAM use. So finding most of the aircraft with 3D cabins was not a surprise since the sim could utilize the resources needed to run the aircraft, loaded with feature and not have the OOM issue. It made for completing a flight, with all the resources for running the aircraft was, a thing of beautiful. I was use to getting a twitch of hearing that OOM alarm from FSX even time I wanted to land at a complex airport with a complex aircraft. 😃 Edited April 16, 20233 yr by BobFS88
April 17, 20233 yr On 4/15/2023 at 4:37 AM, StuSpeed said: I'm a Classic enthusiast but I have to wonder if a single sim pilot can realistically handle a 727 especially with CIVA navigation. It seems to me the IXEG Classic hits the sweet spot. As long as there is no failure, it's fine for me. Most FE jobs are done before and after flight, there are some task in taxi but I can easily move them into before taxi as modern Boeing sop do for 2crew cockpit fleets. The only thing I automated on FJS727's FE panel is use a lua script to turn off xfeed value once center tank equal to wing tank, it can and have been done by hand with a cellphone alarm... 2 other thing you need to move in flight would be fuel heat and packs cooling cowl, which is not much a workload as you only need to adjust them well into steady flight, or just leave it there.... Ofc FJS727 came with handy block5 AP and fully automated cabin pressure system. which helped a lot compare to old good DF727.
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