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As Ed says, it does take a while to load - I have about 800 flightplans (God knows how many liveries!) from AIG and their contributors, plus of course all Henrik Nielsen's shipping, but once it's loaded I don't notice many performance problems, except for EGLL which is a bit of a slideshow with UK2000 and FTX England installed. Everywhere else is acceptable. Jack

I think Ed may be talking about flyable aircraft rather than AI. My FAIB 737-800 Winglets folder has over 600 entries in the cfg with no problems. Cheers Jack

J van E, I did a quick circuit or two at lunchtime in the RealAir Legacy. I run P3d 3.3.5, have FTX Norway and was using AS16 weather, which was not too clement in Narvik today! I had used the control panel for ENNK to set just about everything at medium, and then loaded up the scenery with some trepidation as I had the same thought as you about performance. I was astonished to get a butter smooth flight with frame rates hovering at the 70fps mark - I don't get that anywhere normally except over totally unpopulated areas! I don't know what or how Tore has done what he did, but the performance here is absolutely amazing, and the town and airport are simply beautifully modelled. Go for it! Cheers Jack

Installed it a couple of hours ago and have been sitting with a big grin on my face ever since. I was in the RealAir Legacy, sitting behind 5 AI aircraft holding at the runway, looking back at the terminals and was still getting a solid 30 fps. Overhead the airport, looking down once I had taken off, I was getting 40+ fps. This is in P3D3.1, and I'd just put in a 980Ti card last night and had been testing that with pretty high settings, which I left as they were before trying out ESSA. So I am more than happy with the performance and the airport looks gorgeous. Jack

Sounds like Don Grovestine's excellent AI Flight Planner is just what you need. You'll find it here: http://stuff4fs.com/ Cheers Jack

Yes, you have to load either an individual traffic bgl or else AIFP has an option to combine all traffic files and scan them (this takes quite a few minutes though if you have a lot installed). Then click on the timetable option. I just arrived in Jakarta on day 1 of a 2 week business trip and have no access to my desktop with my sim and AIFP on it. However, if you have a look at www.alpha-india.net/forums, and go to the subforum called AIG Product Support, the thread at the top of the page called "AI Flight Planner 2.1 and AIG!!" is regularly read by Don, so if you post there chances are he will answer you himself if none of the other regulars do. Cheers Jack

Why not try Don Grovestine's excellent AI Flight Planner to see if it meets your needs. There is a function to show a timetable for an airport, which lists arrivals and departures and you can dump it to a text file in notepad. You can find AIFP at http://stuff4fs.com/ You'll find the timetable function under the tab Flight Plans in the menu. Cheers Jack

Jarrad Marshall the developer of KPSP had this to say last December: "The Jetways at KPSP are static at this point, though I am hoping to animate at least a couple of them for an upcoming service pack. In lieu of animated versions (which to be honest do chew up a lot more performance resources than the static versions), I placed all static jetways to roughly line up with many of the more popular addon airliners - you will find a couple suitable for 737NG/A320/A321, one for Q400/E135/145, B757, B767 etc." Hope this helps. Jack

Far as I know, AI planes will show up on the aircraft selection screen if they have a panel folder in them. You need to check through your AI aircraft and delete any panel folders and reference to the panel folder in the aircraft.cfg Cheers Jack

With the ORBX SAK, PNW, NRM, CRM and NCA (Northern California) regions installed, you get a huge area of the western US to fly over - can strongly recommend this. The only gap down the coast then is Tongass Fjords, and the good news is that the Tongass Fjords X scenery (made by Holger Sandmann but sold by FSAddon) also installs easily in to P3D2. So you can get great coverage all the way from Alaska down to Monterey. And with SCA (southern California) in development, then pretty soon almost the whole West Coast will be covered. Cheers Jack

hey Rob, Global and Vector will not have any effect on the full ORBX regions, as these are already more detailed. So if you always stay in the full ORBX regions you will gain nothing by having Global and Vector installed. If on the other hand you fly outside of a region, then without Global and Vector you'll be back in the land of default scenery Regarding your query about PAKT and some of the other airports, the problem is not that Russ White no longer works for ORBX, but rather that there is a problem with P3D2 and elevations that needs to be solved by LM before these airports can be ported to P3D2. PAKT is of course special in that it has the sloped taxiways, and that apparently does not play well with P3D2 yet. Hopefully LM and ORBX will find a solution, since this problem also affects KJAC which is one of my favourites and I'd like to see it in P3D2. Cheers Jack

Just a heads up to say that Steve's Fixer seems to be available again for purchase at his site: https://stevesfsxanalysis.wordpress.com/how-to-purchase/ Cheers Jack

I can get on to the Fullterrain site (main product site) but can't get into the forums at all today. Was working fine for me last night (European time). I know JayKae was doing some maintenance over the last couple of days, maybe this has something to do with it. Cheers Jack

The fixer was certainly good and I did enjoy my last time with FSX, but I have to say that I have now fully moved over to P3D2.4 - am really enjoying that, getting fantastic frame rates, no OOMs, and all the goodies that come along with it Cheers Jack

Sorry Rob, I didn't realize Steve had taken his programme off the shops again at the beginning of January. It was back online in December, and I got notifications from FSS about upgrades to version 2.6, but after your post I had a look at his blog again and see that he took the programme down again at the start of the year, but with the message that it should be back again very soon. Cheers Jack