Christopher Low

It had better not, as I plan to have a few flights in the PMDG 737-600 over the weekend.

Yeah, that train had a lucky escape.

Over 50 years after landing twelve men on the Moon, NASA have pushed the boat out once again, and.....er.......landed a small tub on the Moon. Congratulations, I guess

Cheer up, Pete. It's nearly the weekend!

What the hell is the matter with the MS Marketplace tonight? I purchased one airport at 17:40 (35 minutes ago), and currently it has dropped back to zero for the third time. That is totally ridiculous

I have heard that Robert Randazzo owns a Dassault Falcon business jet. If he does, then the team would (presumably) have full access to this for 3D modelling/systems/audio recordings etc. That sounds like a reasonable bet to me.

What is it about FlyTampa that concerns you, Erich?

Psion Flight Simulator for the ZX Spectrum 48k - Christmas 1982. Where have all of those years gone?

He probably means that it plays like it's in Beta

That's my age, so yeah.....young

I assume that having AI planes active has a much bigger hit on framerates/stutters than having lots of static aircraft at the gates?

Everything works fine once it has loaded, and framerates are good.

Does anyone else experience long load times for the buildings and objects at FlyTampa EHAM Amsterdam Schiphol? After the scenario has loaded, it can take up to two minutes for all of the buildings to appear. I am thinking that it may be a VRAM issue (I have 6GB on the GTX 980Ti), but I do not have the same problem at (for example) IniBuilds EGLL London Heathrow, and that is also a very dense scenery area.

Interesting registration on a British Airways plane. I assume that it was "borrowed" from another airline?

All I want is the ground handling and those "land bars" to be fixed

You have to be kidding? My 737NGX and 777 (the older version before they updated the ground handling model) in P3Dv4 felt like they had plenty of weight. My current 737-600 in MSFS feels as light as a feather in comparison.

I did not need differential brake settings in P3Dv4. The brakes also reacted instantly in P3Dv4, rather than the one second pause, and then effect that I see in MSFS. The latter is rather annoying. Almost as annoying as the stupid wheel skidding.

I just want the kind of ground handling that I enjoyed in P3Dv4. I don't need it to be real world realistic. I just need it to work.

I am being perfectly honest here when I say that the clouds do look good close up on my PC. Cloud surfing looks so realistic, with wispy tendrils floating past my window. Some of the clouds are partially transparent, but lots of them are totally opaque, and I can see nothing when I pass through these until I emerge on the other side. The experience can be quite breathtaking at times.

The name should be Goldenred49

My clouds do not appear grainy, although I have only used the "Few Clouds" and "Scattered Clouds" options to date.

Are the ground handling improvements in the PMDG 737 mentioned by others just an illusion then? It is absolutely certain that this needs to be corrected, because having the nosewheel skid when turning at 10 knots is definitely not realistic, and extremely annoying.

Looks like you are cleared for the root canal, Bob

What about the nosewheel "skidding" during turns on the ground. That is something that needs to be sorted out, even if it is forced.

I am disappointed that there is no Valentine's Day sale (as I am keen to buy some more airports), but I did notice one airport on the MS Marketplace that I had not seen before at a 30% discount. This is EFKI Kajaani by a developer called BIGBEN, and it looks pretty good in the screenshots. Not a large terminal or apron, but the terminal building itself looks very nice, and it has detailed interior modelling. The runway is 2500 metres long, and the airport is located in a rather nice area of Finland next to a large lake with plenty of interesting arms and backwaters. I snapped it up at the irresistible price of just £5.79.