Glynn

Complete out of the box ?, not even close Seasons, Ai, ATC, Weather, all missing or poorly implemented. compared to P3D it lacks so much. And lets be honest the number of really good payware addons is miniscule even after all these years Xplane really only has a hand full of decently modelled aircraft.

They are both made by the same person Dino Cattaneo. I would guess that his payware version is more advanced than the one he donated to LM. http://indiafoxtecho.blogspot.co.uk/ F-35 LIGHTNING II PROJECT/ V3 For Prepar3D v2.5/v3.X with Tacpack This is a new version of the F-35 project that improves the freeware version in several areas including new visual models, additional avionics functionalities (with TFLIR, DAS and ASR imaging support) and new flight dynamics.

In the section dealing with Simconnect.xml it may be worth adding that you can also use your machines name rather than the IP address, this is a much simpler method than using the IP address which can change if using DHCP <SimBase.Document Type="SimConnect" version="1,0"> <Descr>SimConnect</Descr> <Filename>SimConnect.xml</Filename> <Disabled>False</Disabled> <SimConnect.Comm> <Disabled>False</Disabled> <Protocol>IPv4</Protocol> <Scope>global</Scope> <Address>desktop</Address> <MaxClients>64</MaxClients> <Port>6811</Port> <MaxRecvSize>4096</MaxRecvSize> <DisableNagle>False</DisableNagle> </SimConnect.Comm> <SimConnect.Comm> <Disabled>False</Disabled> <Protocol>Auto</Protocol> <Scope>Global</Scope> </SimConnect.Comm>

I5 2500K here since 2011 running at 4.7Ghz using a cheap Corsair A50 air cooler. There is absolutely no need for AIO water coolers, you just need to be lucky with the chip you buy.

P3D releases the VAS much better,

Bob, As far as I know for the Ai generated chatter to work two things need to be in place. In the Aircraft.cfg there needs to be an atc_airline defined and then the relevant call sign WAV's to be present in PF3's recorded voice sets. The GA aircraft both in PF3's aircraft models and the default GA stuff do not have this line so there is nothing to call out. You might like to try adding an atc_airline=CESSNA to the cessna's in MyTraffic aircraft and see if any of them will generate chatter. as I am sure cessna is in the PF3 WAV files. Hopefully Dave marsh will rely on the PF3 forum with a better explanation. [fltsim.0] title=B773ER_MyPaint00 sim=Boeing777-300 model=FSX texture=My00 atc_id=F-GSQE atc_airline=AIR FRANCE atc_heavy=1 ATC_PARKING_TYPEs=GATE,RAMP ATC_PARKING_CODES=AFR ui_manufacturer=MT Boeing ui_type=777-300ER ui_variation=Air France

The Learjet also suffers from bad window reflections in DX10 and that was originally an FSX only product. Looks great in P3D v3 though.

The clouds and fog layer still flicker against mountain tops in P3D, not only that but terrain shadows can also flicker and look odd at certain angles. It is still a better looking Sim than FSX + DX10 fixer in all aspects other than the water though.

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Yes, Windows 10

You do realise you can turn that stuff off don't you ? My start menu has no adverts, just much more functionality than I had in Win7

Stephen, they will build whatever it is that they want to build and then claim that we were all consulted. Just look at Flight School, DTG took nothing on board from the feedback here and actually released a product that had less flight training lessons than FSX

Exactly Heimi, worrying that they need to ask these questions at all. More worrying is that despite all the negative comments about Flight schools clouds and sky colours they still went ahead and released it with no attempt to correct the colours. Maybe they should have got the answers to these questions much earlier, possibly before they licensed the code in the first place.

Which Aerosoft Schiphol AFCAD are you having problems with, the addon comes with five different Afcads and a utility to select the correct Afcad for the Star you are going to use.. Try selecting one of the other supplied Afcads.

Amazing how some folks are so resistive to change even when the change brings usability improvements. Sometimes you have to give new things some time while you discover what the possibilities are. No way could I go back to the old W7 start menu style after using this new one for a while.

The Windows 10 anniversary update is light years better than Classic start menu, why ruin something that is near perfect with a third party hack ?

There might well be a great Freeware KA350 out there but I am too lazy to look for you. Do you see how this works ?

Great reason to move to a more thoroughly tested OS then, that's why the insider program has these different release rings so folks like yourself get updates that have been through many different stages of testing before being rolled out to the stable release. Which is also part of the reason for the telemetry built in to the OS, MS gets continual feedback from your machine and refines the OS based on all of this info from the installed customer base (350m devices). Still your next PC will be running Windows 10, The next generation of hardware will not support anything less, so you will get to enjoy all this whether you like it or not.

I am talking about the fast lane build released to the MS W10 insider group, there are two lanes for updates, fast and slow. The latest fast lane build looks to be essentially what will be in the anniversary release. Why would you want to disable automatic updates on an OS designed to be an always evolving piece of software, are you happy to live without bug fixes and new features ?

The new start menu in the latest build is the most functional that I have seen on any version of windows. Better than classic shell, finally MS gets it right.

A couple of weeks ago I would have agreed with you, however after using W10 I have to say it really is very nice once you get used to the new look, In operation it seems much snappier than W7 and the new start menu in the latest fast lane build is very functional, much better than the one in Windows 7. Best windows yet, by far.

Settings > Recovery > Go back to Windows 7, works perfectly

No need to delete W10 to get windows 7 back, the roll back feature in W10 works perfectly you will be back in windows 7 in minutes.

No your addon airports afcad will then be the one used, Ai will still work properly. The purpose of the Mytraffic afcads is primarily to give the default airports the correct airline gate assignments, your third party afcads should already be set up to place the correct airlines at the right parking spots.

It's a Weather engine Bob, it's going to use whatever textures you have in your Sim just like ASN did, But if you want your cloud textures updated dynamically you will also need the cloud art package