Ray Proudfoot

What’s your weather program? I use Active Sky. I’m away from home currently but can’t think of a reason why that would be broken.

I doubt you’ll see anything significantly better. If you want to boost your frame rates the most effective way is to buy Lossless Scaling on the Steam platform. For under 10 euros it will double them. https://store.steampowered.com/app/993090/Lossless_Scaling/

@Emile , why do you want to do this? I’ve never used anything other than a standard shortcut with Admin privileges. Anything more than that is unnecessary.

@donet , nice story. 👍 It reminded me of the two sessions I enjoyed in the Concorde simulator at Brooklands Museum, 20 miles south of Heathrow. It was used by the trainee pilots at Filton prior to getting into the real one. There are various packages available and @Pete Dowson and I opted for lunch with two former Concorde pilots and four other paying customers. After a Concorde lunch we walked over to the static simulator. The options were a circuit out of Heathrow flying under Tower Bridge, departing JFK and flying under a bridge I’ve forgotten the name of before the curved approach and landing on 22L. The other option was the approach and landing onto Rwy 13 at the old Kai Tak, Hong Kong. I opted for the first two and enjoyed hand flying through the Bridge whilst the Concorde pilot in the right seat handled the throttles. A marvellous experience. If you or anyone else finds themselves in London a trip down to Brooklands is well worth it. Multiple packages are available but booking for the sim is mandatory. The software used for Concorde was written by Andrew Wilson known here as @MachTwo . Now working for FS Labs.

Maybe he’s not around any more. The latest version is still available on SimMarket. https://secure.simmarket.com/pilots-fsg-fs-global-ultimate-2024-ftx-p3d.phtml

Assuming you’re referring to the FS Labs Concorde this video may be of interest. https://forums.flightsimlabs.com/topic/40753-interesting-concorde-video-everything-done-manually/

I don’t see why not. The higher you have your terrain mesh setting the more pronounced difference there’ll be between default airports and the surrounding area. Runways on a plateau hundreds of feet high is the worst case scenario. But with all my 3rd party airports I’m not aware of any annoying height differences. Have you tried contacting the author here? [email protected] Proof of purchase may help.

@skip d , it sounds like a corruption of graphics files in P3D. Well done on finding the cause. Regarding the PSU hold fire for now and use monitoring software for the GPU. A quick search should identify something suitable. Watch the temperature and load. If you get another BSOD consider a more powerful PSU but I think you’ll be fine with a 750.

Right-click Start and select Event Viewer. Look at the Error entries. That’s a good place to start. I usually copy and paste error descriptions into Google for an explanation. BSODs are sometimes hardware related. Google “BSOD reasons” and go through the recommendations. Finally, edit Prepar3d.cfg and remove the startup scenario. Save and exit. Start P3D and it will keep your preferences but start with default aircraft and airport. That may help.

Orman, I thought there was only one set of waves. Haven’t used FSX in years.

This seems like a good starting point. P3Dv5 utilizes the Triton Ocean SDK for its 3D water effects, and you can manually adjust how waves behave using its configuration file. [1] Navigate to your P3D installation directory and open the Resources folder. Open Triton.config using a text editor like Notepad. You can adjust values for wave cresting, splashing, and overall wave scale. Note: Adjust these settings cautiously, as pushing values too high can cause severe drops in FPS. Always create a backup of the original configuration file before making any edits

Well done Roy for finding the solution and also for still flying at such a great age! Flying keeps the brain sharp as you prove. Yes, too warm to fly for a few days but being England rain won't be too far away.

Hi Roy, I only have the default LJLJ so can confirm 12/30 are the default runways. The file you need to check is runways.csv in the main P3Dv5 folder. Open it with Notepad / Notepad++, definitely not Excel. Search for LJLJ. I have just two entries for the two runways. I suspect you have the same. Report back with your findings and we'll take it from there.

I took a short flight yesterday from Liverpool down to Bristol in the Carenado PC12 at 4,000ft. Nothing jumped out at me as being false. The many areas containing trees looked entirely natural. What a pleasant change and for so little outlay. Next target are the false waves around coastlines. After that maybe the ASCA clouds need looking at as the absence of anything threatening when cumulonimbus is present is disappointing.

If you’re using Lorby’s Addon Organizer this topic may help. https://fsuipc.com/community/fsuipc6-support/make-runways-error-p3dv5-4/

Did you run MakeRwys with admin privileges? Search the file it produces for LJLJ. I think it’s called Runways.xml from memory. That records every BGL read so you should be able to see which LJLJ has been read.

I was completely unaware of the trees packages on ORBX until this topic.

You need to use an image hosting service where they are visible to all including the UK. See below.

Given how little I’ve spent on my setup in the last year I bit the bullet and got both. Installed but not had a fly yet as summer has arrived in the last couple of hours. I’ll give you some feedback after a fly. Those grotty default trees were really grim. Looking forward to much better ones.

According to ORBX Central they work together. However, at over £20 each I’m not prepared to pay that. They offer a deal if you want FTX Global and another product. I already have the former and don’t want the latter. So I’ll write to them and see if they’ll do me a deal for both.

Searching this forum for opinions was agreed by two other people so both packages seems the best way to go. https://www.avsim.com/forums/topic/574708-orbx-terra-flora-v2-for-p3d-v5-vs-hd-trees/page/2/#findComment-4229894 Gruel for the rest of the month given the hit on my wallet. 🤣

Actually it doesn't. See attached image taken near Glasgow. Those are the ones I want to remove and replace with ORBX Terra Flora ones. Will that solve things?

Agreed. I haven’t updated mine this year.

I’ll check later but I have a feeling I may have already done that. I don’t want to remove all trees. I just want them to look more natural.

Dave, one of my bugbears in v5 is the luminous green trees. They look bloody awful. ORBX offer two tree packages. The Terra Fora package looks more recent as it’s designed for v4 and 5. Would that solve my problem?