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  2. He mentioned city vs. rural. I use another mod, the free one on fs.to. I cut down all the numbers another 1/3. On the block of the street where I live the trees are no longer higher than the houses. So it did work in my city.
  3. This is the first youtube comparison video that I've seen. The mod has changed just one of the default Asobo files. Each line in that one file has two numbers which are minimum and maximum height for that particular species of grass, shrub, or tree. Therefore you can modify the mod yourself, such as removing somewhere around the same percentage from each number, such as maybe one fourth. To swap, just drop the mod or modified mod into community. Anyway, this guy's video, 5 days ago showing stock mod vs. default. (it's a payware $5 mod, not the free flightsim.to mod).
  4. Hello FS2Crew aviators, We are launching new experimental versions for our Animated FO product line today! These are experimental, but they're pretty solid. We recommend that all users install these experimental versions. If you have any issues, please report them to us on our Discord Support Channel. These "experimental" versions are only available as direct download links. They are not available via the FS2Crew Product Manager. If you don't own the animated FO FS2Crew expansion packs, you can purchase them at www.fs2crew.com Other FS2Crew news: Good news for "MSFS Marketplace PMDG 737 Aircraft Owners"! The animated FO may be able to support the "Marketplace" version of the PMDG 737 after all! As you know, the animated FO for the PMDG 737 only works with the PMDG website version due to Marketplace's encryption issues. However, we've found a way to support the Marketplace version of the 737 safely without causing any issues for the host aircraft should it ever be updated. We'll let you know next week! More good news for the animated FOs! As you know, the animated FOs are currently in "Generation 1." We are working on Generation 2, which will include some big improvements. The animated FOs are massively complex -but we're striving to improve them. PMDG 737 SOP 2 and 3 Animated FO: They will be coming soon! MSFS ATR version: We're almost at the release candidate stage! PMDG 777: There is no news since the 777 hasn't even been released yet, but we'll support it fully since the 777 is a major aircraft and one of the best! Experimental Download links: FS2Crew Animated FO PMDG 737 SOP 1: https://downloads.fs2crew.com/fs2crew_experimental/FS2Crew Animated FO PMDG 737 SOP1 Edition.exe FS2Crew Animated FO Fenix Airbus: https://downloads.fs2crew.com/fs2crew_experimental/FS2Crew Animated FO Fenix A320.exe FS2Crew Animated FO FBW Airbus: https://downloads.fs2crew.com/fs2crew_experimental/FS2Crew Animated FO FBW A32NX.exe Experimental Versions Changelog: PMDG 737 Animated FO (v1.1.95): * Improved: Outer Market Audio trigger. * Improved: "Gear down. Flaps 15": Gear is now selected down before flaps are selected. * Improved logic so the autopilot doesn't accept invalid heading, altitude, or speed values from voice commands. * Improved: When using FS2Crew/GSX integration, the preflight sequence now waits for GSX to complete/finish the Catering/Refueling before the FA asks to start boarding. This is done by adding +2 minutes to the Preflight timer (the same system where the FA asks if she can close the cabin door). * Fixed: User settings retained after software updates. * Fixed: Battery switch issue during Electrical Powerup procedure (flow). * Fixed: Animated FO isn't reaching the checklist paper during the Secure Checklist. * Fixed: The main UI freezes when a checklist is started, causing the entire application to freeze and eventually dropping the SimConnect connection. * Fixed: In button control, the "REQ GSX PUSHBACK" secondary button is not showing because the "FO ATC REQUEST" option is checked. Fenix Animated FO (v1.3.97): * Improved logic so the autopilot doesn't accept invalid heading, altitude, or speed values from voice commands. * Improved: When using FS2Crew/GSX integration, the preflight sequence now waits for GSX to complete/finish the catering/refueling before the FA asks to start boarding. This is done by adding +2 minutes to the Preflight timer like it does with the stage where the FA asks for closed doors. * Fixed: The main UI freezes when a checklist is started, causing the entire application to freeze and eventually dropping the SimConnect connection. * Fixed: In button control, the "REQ GSX PUSHBACK" secondary button is not showing because the "FO ATC REQUEST" option is checked. FBW Animated FO (v1.3.131): * Improved logic so the autopilot doesn't accept invalid heading, altitude, or speed values from voice commands. * Improved: When using FS2Crew/GSX integration, the preflight sequence now waits for GSX to complete/finish the Catering/Refueling before the FA asks to start boarding. This is done by adding +2 minutes to the Preflight timer like it does with the stage where the FA asks for closed doors. * Fixed: The main UI freezes when a checklist is started, causing the entire application to freeze and eventually dropping the SimConnect connection. * Fixed: In button control, the "REQ GSX PUSHBACK" secondary button is not showing because the "FO ATC REQUEST" option is checked.
  5. hmm, those download images seem to be just .webp files which Irfanview can easily convert to .png files (using "save as"). And GNU or photoshop can modify that .png file. Such as changing the height and width of the person or pasting a face over on top of the old face. And then back to Irfanview to convert the .png back to .webp, taking care to have the same parameters as the original. This would work and be relatively easy. Yourself. A celebrity. Your favorite politician. Kids could make one for their school teacher. The coach of your team's rival. And then carefully fly the plane so that it doesn't crash. Or not.
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  7. It's really up to you and the only way to find out is to try it. If you are concerned about clouds switching quality all the time, note that they (currently) only switch quality when you are at TLOD min and your FPS is still lower than your target FSP, ie as a last resort, and you can set the minimum TLOD level at which the clouds recover so the higher you set this the less likely you are to see cloud quality changing very often. In a soon to be released update, I will be expanding the cloud quality reduction feature to be trigger-able based on GPU load and act independently of TLOD automation.
  8. Not if one of them has a large belt or wearing a belly shirt lol. Either way, that is pretty cool you can do this in the sim!
  9. Stop the teasing or I will restart flying my Carenado planes!
  10. I don't know if I can resist....must resist....
  11. Chris, Very nice work on LFOX!!!! If I can help in any way don't hesitate to ask. Mitch
  12. Kerry, Absolutely! I really only need photos you have of the terminal buildings as there are very few. Even the versions of KSAV by MSFS 2020 and the current X-Plane are not even close to the real thing. I suspect the authors of those versions ran into the problem of limited material as well. But you would think they’d at least get the main appearance & dimensions from Google Earth. Yes anything you have you believe can assist would be hugely appreciated. Especially night images. Thank you. Mitch
  13. AFAIK, they are no longer using METAR to set clouds in the sim. They replaced it by using realtime satellite imagery to supplement the model predictions for cloud placement. Airport temperature, wind speed and direction, surface pressure and surface visibility still come from the METAR. Around SU7 they greatly reduced the complexity of the clouds in the sim presumably for performance reasons which (along with METAR clouds) made the cloud depictions very poor in many cases. Since moving away from METAR clouds and adopting a satellite “assist” in recent SUs, the cloud depiction is generally better, but not as good as it once was. ASFS and REX show the sim is capable of much more cloud variety when the weather is set manually.
  14. So any of the options I have shown are valid, as long as they are as simplified as possible.
  15. I don't think the beta is that much like 20 GB
  16. Yes when you take lines out of context you miss the whole message. Are you saying there would be no or little difference in initial reactions by an 30 yr enthusiast who had never seen volumetric clouds out to the horizon in a flight sim, by that same person 4 years later if those clouds had not changed with a Sim Update? If that's a YES for you then I don't accept that it defies our nature to adapt to reality and typically to then see faults and aim for higher standards. When MSFS first released I commented here that they were already in the ball park and mainly needed to increase resolution to help support more distinct cloud depiction especially up close and to begin to get sharp edges on those puffy cumulous. But yes, had initial cloud depiction not changed I would in no way be as impressed today as I was those first several months post initial release. It was in part the newness of the entire platform that amped up the wow factor then.
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  18. I wonder if most of the differences we are spotting (and long for) in current live weather vs the earlier days of MSFS is mostly due to the METAR integration in SU7 that reduced the great variety of live weather when it was based purely on global Meteoblue data. If possible, good to see how pre-SU5 live weather looked compared to SU5 or SU6 live weather.. if such comparisons are still around, those will be the ones that show more clearly any differences in *quality* of clouds etc due to performance optimizations, without "polluting" our eyes with the post-SU7 loss of live weather *variety*
  19. Do you know of a video where I can see this done?
  20. PANS-OPS really isn’t a feature of ARINC 424 directly, or any particular FMS. It is an ICAO set of standards used by those agencies which actually design instrument procedures. It dictates (among other things), the amount of lateral and vertical protection that must be afforded to aircraft maneuvering in the vicinity of terrain or obstacles while flying a procedure. From a regulatory standpoint, PANS-OPS can even affect industries or activities that are not directly involved in aviation. For instance, it can put limits on the maximum height of buildings that could potentially intrude into protected airspace that is part of a instument procedure, which builders must adhere to. The US does not use PANS-OPS, but a different set of standards called TERPS in the design of instrument procedures. An aircraft that flies internationally like the 777, could be affected by both standards. If a particular procedure has been designed in compliance with PANS-OPS, then an aircraft FMS and autopilot must be able to fly the procedure “as published”, and adhere to whatever lateral or vertical path limitations exist in the procedure. In general an FMS/Autopilot/Nav Database certified for RNP or (particularly) RNP-AR should be compliant.
  21. The AC electric drive is powered by two 16-cylindar-diesel engines that each have an output of about 1,700 kW. The truck is more than 20 meters long and nearly 10 meters wide. I read that and say what! Those 16-cylindar-diesel engines could use that tech and locomotives operate the same way diesel power running electric motors!
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