Steve Dra

I'm Rebel Scum...I'll NEVER join you! And as to the small lettered caption at the bottom of your sig...I reply :TOO LATE!!

You know...if you aspired to be just like your boss and took the time to learn the ways of the force, you could have just did what his master did (Obi Wan of course) and waved your hand at us and said "These are not the FPS rates you're looking for", and we'd all see this post as someone who gets 100 FPS at 8k with all settings max'd at KJFK and AI Traffic maxed with 4k texture maps on them. To which we'd say (in our best, static'y Storm Trooper voice) "These are not the FPS rates we're looking for, move along, move along"

LOL....Captain Sim had the audacity to think they could release a payware TIE fighter and Lucas Films, Disney, et al would be okdokie with that. That thing got pulled off the market so fast it made Jar Jar's head spin, me tinks. Isa bad bad juju for meesa Captain Sim fo show. I wonder how they handled getting the ones back they sold? Anyone reading this actually get to buy it before it was pulled off the market? Then every scrap of evidence it existed just disappeared....the ecommerce page, the forums regarding it ...everything. Even the posts in other forums that asked WFT happened. They vanished too...fast. It was hilarious!

What? Flying the Executor not enough for you? You have to muscle in our earth-bound vehicles? I guess you're looking for something in a TIE Fighter size to putt around in the Earth's atmosphere in. You Empire Elites...not happy unless you own everything! Can't wait to see you forget it needs an atmosphere to fly in and try to take it into space! And....you can't bullseye Womprats with it like Luke used to. It has no pew pew guns.

Hey Helmet-boy I don't want to hear it. You're not even in the SW universe, rather the Mel Brooks universe. 😉 One of his best movies I thought, and its a regular on my TV when I want to laugh. I know every line, and his cameo role, next to Blazing Saddles, was one of his finest. Of course, he was fantastic in History of the World.... "Its good to be the King" Classic line! But IMO, Young Frankenstein was his best work.

Spoken like a true officer in the Empire. I saw Star Wars when it 1st released...enjoyed the series very much until we were Jar-Jar'd. Even could tolerate that series...but I lost interest pretty much after that. You can consider me rebel scum, and I never met a Wookie I didn't like.

Hey! No Stars Wars cross-talk! You people are almost as bad as the folks with PDS! (besides, we all know the Empire is finished, and Luke kissed his sister...on the lips...and liked it! Ewwwww.)

Hey Dave....not even shutting a thread down....just not even letting one start that concerns PMDG. If a member tries to interject their PMDG bias in another, unrelated thread, I say they get warned once, then permanently banned the next time. I think we're all just about done with their nonsense...I surely am.

I'm wonder why the mods at Avsim, knowing the absolute word not allowed-show every thread about PMDG (or in this case NOT about) turns into, have not implemented some sort of auto delete of any post containing those letters....or RSR, promise, or any other thing that inevitably leads to a word not allowed-show. Just flat out ban all posts about PMDG at Avsim, period. ....take it to their forums and discuss there. Long gone are the good old days here where you could openly bash Pappa Tango, PT, Peter Tarishma<sp?> because they were in fact the enemy of the community, and nobody disputed that, LOL. Tom absolutely hated PT with a passion, and rightfully so. Now we have people openly bashing a company that has brough us so many great planes...for trivial, ridiculous things that in light of current world events, seem insulting to even mention. A lot of you are negatively impacted by Russian and Ukrainian devs in the flightsim community who'd love nothing more than to join in conversations about our tiny, obscure, insignificant hobby, than to be dodging bullets and suicide drones. Get some perspective.

It always reminds of the great Randy Travis song with these lines... As long as old men sit and talk about the weatherAs long as old women sit and talk about old men Then the chorus...and the title of the song: Forever and ever, amen We can now add PMDG Derangement Syndrome to this list of things that are inevitable in life: Death and Taxes, and PDS

Not sure...but I know the guy painting this one said It will be on flightsim.to when he's done...Don't think he's able to get it on the Fenix livery app...that is for special painters. 🙂.

Id have no issues going with microcenter. Their staff is very knowledgeable and when you go to pick yours...they will probably let you bring it to the bench and open it up and ask questions about it. I'd go with the AMD 1000%. Best processor hands down (I have one and love it) and you get at 4070 super to boot.

Sad to realize that I'm a pretend painter as well. That is why I adopted the nickname "Pixel Pusher" decades ago because I realized in 20 years of painting virtual aircraft, I've never picked up a paint gun, sprayed the aluminum of an actual aircraft, or sniffed the toxic fumes of aircraft paint. Pushing pixels however, I've probably push enough in my time that if I had a dollar for every pixel I pushed...I could easily pay off the current national debt of the United States (esp since I'm pushing them at 8K now, and one swipe of the smudge brush on an 8k map pushes 68,108, 864 pixels. 🙂

Hey Jim! Great to "see" you! Hehe...we enlisted folk just called you LCDR's "light" Commanders. 🙂 Check your Flight1 email box.

LOL...I don't think anybody knows how to spell lewtenent. 🙂 Without otto-korrect and Goggle weed miss-speel many thinks!

Correction Sir...that is technically Lieutenant Commander Data. 🙂 They commonly drop the Lieutenant when addressing Lt Commanders...but his actual rank in the show was Lt. Cmdr. Capt. Picard and others did address him as "Commander" though.

I sure hope so...I had "some" interest in their 747s back in P3d and FSX. 🙂 Anyway...I digress....as this post is about the MAX in MSFS...which I'll also start posting pics for...when I'm allowed to. 😉 (That Singapore screen was my desktop for the longest time back on the day.) For now...just imagine this P3d version of the iFly MAX....in MSFS:

Twotone Murphy did a very nice video showing how you can speed up load times and reduce the stuff you never use that gets installed with MSFS updates. Check it out here

Have you taken FlowPro out of your community folder and see if it helps? Looks like its calling the virtual keys (Escape key, TAB key, etc)...and can't find them for whatever reason

Hehe....I was thinking the same thing...love that phrase and mad I didn't think to use it here in a prefect example before you did. 🙂

I find it more hilarious than annoying....Its much like Pavlov's theory that they are so conditioned to complain here almost subconsciously whenever there is a new PMDG post. Here is a quick flowchart documenting their thought process when a new PMDG post comes out (or doesn't)

Be still my heart! I enjoy freighter ops much more than passenger flights....and both your upcoming beauties have pretty much take that role in the skies these days. I'll fly FedEx all over the US and DHL in the EU with the 757...and take the mighty 767 across the pond when she's released. One of the few passenger 767's I'll fly often (and paint) is the last one I flew on a few years back...to the depicted airport below from Dallas....(this is one of my favorite angles to shoot a "glam" shot of a plane...rocketing off the runway, gear tucking up on her way to destinations in our dreams) 🙂 When I was setting up this pic, I made sure to capture the iconic landmark that makes this airport easily recognized. Very excited about these Boeings....will bring back fond memories flying them back in the "old" days of flight simming...but with much more fidelity that MSFS offers us...what a time to be a simmer. 🙂 Speaking of iconic background scenery....this older American Airlines classic landing in this shot leaves no doubt where she's touching down. 🤣

I just realized that I was actually sitting at the computer...eating popcorn (kettle corn to be exact) while browsing this and the other PMDG post, LOL. Sometimes life imitates memes these days....but it made me laugh when I realized I was doing it. 🤣 (being able to laugh at yourself is a vital life-skill lost on many these days) Having a very different perspective than many here, concerning PMDG in general...I'm glad I have another hobby to keep me busy while the rest of public waits for the next PMDG release, and not get too drawn into these PMDG posts that always seem to degrade into personal insults to the point the mods just close it. It's not touching grass, but it is very relaxing, rewarding, and has served this community for the last 20 years. Almost as fun as flying, but just as rewarding as flying down to mins in bad weather....and just above the DH, see the lead-in strobes in the center of your view, and you put her right on the centerline in the TDZ perfectly. 🙂 Speaking of that hobby...I just saw in the comments on one of my recent releases at flightsim.to that I made a mistake on it....who can spot it? Proves that ever after painting for as long as I have, I still miss stuff occasionally, LOL This one was definitely one of those "Oh I know this livery well...this is the 2nd one I did (well 4th if you count my iFly 737s)...I'll just add the logo at the rear doors and push it out." Hehe...I actually missed on my 1st Germania paint...and its been wrong on all of them!! This was just the 1st time someone pointed it out. Boy do I feel silly (laughing at myself again at this bonehead mistake)

Not directed at anyone in general in this incredibly diverse Avsim thread....but for the matter of RSR's aviation credentials, accomplishments...etc....One should only have to browse the internet to get to this little video where he discusses the DC-3 that he used to own, manage, maintain, restore, oh...and take back and forth across the Atlantic to participate in a little D-Day celebration with dozens of other DC-3s/C-47s. In my book...that is all the aviation "cred" he needs...and yet this is only one of his aviation accomplishments (he also owns and manages one of the highest-rated flight sim companies on the planet). I'd say the guy deserves a little respect in that area, don't you? Looking for others here who've doing something similar in their aviation careers. If you're the impatient type, go to to 4:40 for the start of his walkaround and history of his Tabitha May. Just wanted to share this story...regardless of your opinions of him...this is a very interesting, up close look into his DC-3. Any aviation enthusiast should find this video fascinating.

Yeah Chris, I've been pretty lucky (well...I do make sure my configurations and hardware setups are pretty tight) that I too have had no issues with the rudder and nosewheel...but I know others (including beta testers I work with) that have. You just have to be willing to work hard to identify and troubleshoot your issues on your specific hardware, while working with the developer (through their helpdesk system) to get it resolved.