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  4. Posted

    26 minutes ago, DChockey08 said:

    I'm struggling to understand the question...Is the question "are they worth it?"

    I had the products for earlier versions of P3D but have since abandoned them for the ORBX suite of products. UTX/GEP are far superior to default and well worth the price IMO.

    I think ORBX is much better personally, but if you aren't interested in that then I would say UTX/GEP are worth the price. 

    That being said, I have no idea if they work in v5. 

    Sorry, I guess I was a bit unclear in looking at it again! I own GEP3D and all UTX regions. I was asking if there is still a reason to install both in 5.3? It seems to me that they may have been rendered obsolete with v5.3 but was asking if anyone still uses it.

    Bill

  5. Posted

    Sorry if this has been answered but in my search I couldn't find any recent posts concerning the use of those products with 5.3. Is there any need/advantage for these to be installed on a "virgin" v5.3 install with a new SSD? I am not interested in buying ORBX products, just want to know your thoughts on those two products. Thanks!

    Bill

  9. Posted

    On 10/16/2021 at 2:59 PM, Ray Proudfoot said:

    That, in a nutshell, is your quandary. If you want a monitor to play the type of games mentioned in the video go with his recommendation of a 140Hz 1440p monitor.

    But if you want a monitor for flight sim the priorities are the exact opposite. As low a refresh rate as you can get. Usually 30Hz. Why? Because you’ll never get 150fps in flight sim except when viewing a clear blue sky and nothing else. And your graphics card will be working flat out unless you can lower that refresh rate.

    A 32” or larger display that supports 30Hz is ideal for flight sim. The resolution depends on the graphics card. A 1080 is fine for 1920*1080. A 2080Ti or 3090 is fine for 4K.

    Ideally you’d buy two monitors one for games, one for flight sim. GSync is useful for both but outside your budget. The decision is yours.

    Ray,

    So, I have a 32" monitor that will support 30mhz refresh rate with a native resolution of 2560*1440. My Graphics card is a 1080 and I use P3Dv5.2 exclusively. Are you recommending I should use a 1920*1080 setting over the native recommended?

  10. Posted

    Simbol,

    You nailed it! There was one leftover from P3Dv4 in my registry. CCleaner missed it and while I am not one to mess with registry entries a whole lot, I did find and deleted the one key under P3Dv4 and.....voila! AILRP installed perfectly and I was able to re-activate it without any problem. P3Dv5 now shows in the top window and I can configure my AI fleet.  Thanks again for your support and a great product.

    Best,

    Bill

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  11. Posted

    I am unable to reinstall AILRP after changing to P3Dv5 from v4.5. I had to change the drive AILRP was previously installed on for P3Dv4 to a new SSD due to failure of the older drive. I have uninstalled all files (that I can detect) and cleared the registry using CCleaner. When I try to install v1.28 all I get is the spinning blue thingy for a long time and then a couple of .net errors (can't find P3dV4 camera.cfg) and one that says cannot find P3D.exe source. When I finally get to the config page there is nothing in the box up on the top to show which P3D version I want. No V4, No V5...nothing...blank.

    Obviously something is keeping AILRP from finding my P3Dv5 installation or there is a corrupted file which I can't seem to find and either delete or repair. I have disabled Windows Defender 9 (I am on Win10x64) during download and install so it isn't an anti-virus block. I am at a loss on how to proceed.

    HELP!!

    Bill

  16. Posted

    One reason is that a landing clearance, using your scenario, would not be issued until the arrival is over the approach lights or very near the runway threshold. Pilots get nervous and keep asking if they're cleared to land as they don't want to risk landing without a clearance. When we were able to get two departures out in between arrivals we also had to use minimum runway separation (SRS....6000 feet and airborne) so it left VERY little time to issue a landing clearance. It was all about expediting the operation and reducing freq clutter.

     

    Bill

  17. Posted

    Yeah I understand that they're anticipating separation, what I don't get is why? What advantage does it provide over waiting until separation actually exists, given the reduction in safety?

    Because it makes airport capacity acceptable to the airlines. Without it, there would be double the amount of aircraft in line on the taxiway waiting to go along with a reduced arrival rate. Like the previous poster also stated the frequency congestion is also reduced tremendously. I worked at KMSP for several years and without anticipated separation the place would have turned into a parking lot. The reason being that each runway was used for both arrivals and departures unlike some airports where a runway may be designated only for arrivals or departures. When runways were dry arrivals were spaced 4 miles apart at 170 kts crossing the FAF which gave us time to get a departure launched (sometimes two if we had just a wee bit more space) between each arrival. As soon as the landing aircraft crossed the threshold, a departure was put into position on that runway (LUAW these days) and told to be ready, traffic on a 4 mile final. Instructions to each landing aircraft were to turn left/right at the first available turnoff, no delay exiting, for departing traffic. Next arrival was then cleared to land and advised traffic in position would be departing prior to arrival. As soon as I saw the nosewheel of the arrival start to turn off of the runway I cleared the departure for takeoff. By the time the engines spun up and he was starting his takeoff roll the previous arrival had cleared the runway and the next arrival was about a 2 mile final. And over and over and over the sequence went.

     

    Just like a fine tuned machine.....it was also likened to stuffing 5 pounds of crap into a 4 pound bag!

     

    Best,

     

    Bill

  21. Posted

    First, let me say thank you to all of you who provide us with so many wonderful repaints. I wish I had the talent/knowledge/time/resources (pick one or more) to learn how to produce such realistic work. I know your efforts are greatly appreciated but rarely acknowledged!My question/request is this: I see there are several Frontier/Republic Airlines repaints in the library for the FT/Wilco 170-190 ejets but I haven't been able to locate any for the 175/195v2. I'm assuming the 170/190 paints won't work on the v2 birds but is there a reason the v2 repaints aren't being done? I would love to see the entire series of Frontier/Republic's "a whole different animal" fleet....especially "Flip" the dolphin. I love their ad campaign (for those who haven't seen it check them out on You Tube)....very entertaining.Again, thanks for all of the time and effort you provide.Best,Bill

  23. Posted

    Gents,Looking at a new system for home as my 7+ year old rig just isn't cutting it anymore. Here's what I have put together at N***gg but question if the CPU and/or Graphics card will be good enough. I am running FS9 with REX2, 80% AI Traffic, and use several pretty intensive payware flight models.Here are the specs:OS: Win7x64Mobo: Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD3,LGA 1156 Intel P55 SATA 6Gb/s,USB3.0 ATXCPU: Intel Core i5-760 Lynnfield 2.8Hhz 95W Quad-CoreRAM: G.Skill Ripjaws Series 8Gb (4x2Gb),240-pin DDR3 SDRAM 1600 (PC3 12800)GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX470(Fermi)1280MB,32o-bit,GDDR5 PCI-E 2.0x16,HDCP Ready,SLI Support HD: WD Caviar Black 1TB,7200RPM,SATA,6Gb/sPS: Corsair CMPSU-750TX,750W,ATX12V/EPS12V,SLI ReadyCPU Cooling: Cooler Master Hyper 212 PlusI plan to OC the CPU a bit but would an i7 be the better choice? Would the new GTX570/580 be a huge improvement over the GTX470? Obviously dollars are an issue but would I see a significant upgrade in performance by adding the i7 and/or the newer GTX card?Thanks for any and all advice, thoughts, etc....Bill

  24. Posted

    What is the proper format for entering ATC parking codes in a FS9 aircraft config file? I want to add DALX and NWAX parking codes for several aircraft. Do you put a space between the codes or a comma with no space? The AFCAD already has both parking codes so I'm just trying to change the aircraft .cfg file. Thanks for any help,Bill

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