Bjoern

Certainly better than the flow on Concorde, which isn't much of a flow at all.

The LU test team includes several real world 737NG drivers and none have noticed any oddities on takeoff. The display code between variants is 100% identical, so it can only be down to some operator specific setting in the EFB. From Discord:

This is caused by a data drop out on the ADS-B feed for this aircraft, not a LiveTraffic bug. Could be that the real crew simply switched their transponder to STBY or ALT OFF after landing.

V2.S1.50 is now available, which fixes some prominent bugs. https://forum.thresholdx.net/files/file/4108-737ng-series-for-x-plane-12/ https://orbxdirect.com/product/levelup-737ng-v2-xp12 (Read the readme.) There is also an app to keep it and Zibo's 737 up to date. https://forums.x-plane.org/files/file/101018-x-plane-737ng-maintenance-toolkit/

Looks like what X-World Pro does with some polygons like golf courses and meadows (drape their polygons over the underlying terrain), but in a more extensive fashion. If available globally, this could be a more storage space efficient way to improve the scenery than orthos are. Kudos for the quality of his Patreon posts though. They all read like professional work without any AI aftertaste, including the whitepaper. https://www.patreon.com/cw/orthographic/posts

LiveTraffic for me. It's free and some feeds are free, so I'm not complaining.

Fedora is absolutely free, otherwise I would not use it as a backup distro.

FYI, Armin, the lead dev is on holiday to watch the total eclipse in Spain. The rest of the team is working on ironing out bugs though. Got a reply to a bug report, but did not test any of the advertised hotfixes yet.

Feel free to try to convince SimHeaven to implement better building objects, but I do not think you will have a lot of success, because SFD is a dead product and a Next Gen Scenery is not too far away, which means a new shuffle to the entire deck. The only way for you to get your dream buildings is doing the library thing I've outlined above. I bet SFD brings its own library, so all you do is edit library.txt to also point all relevant objects in there to the equivalent DSF path used by X-World. Something like: EXPORT /lib/global8/us/ind_sq_60_30r.obj objects/SFD/mysuperduperSFDhouse.obj EXPORT simheaven/houses/house_20x30x3.obj objects/SFD/mysuperduperSFDhouse.objAs long as the modified SFD library has higher priority than X-World's in scenery_packs, you should see SFD's objects instead of X-World's. This has been done before for X-World 3.0, btw: https://forums.x-plane.org/forums/topic/324639-integration-of-sfd-global-buildings-with-simheaven-x-world-sceneries/?page=1

No need. I'm already having a hard time caring because the discussion has now definitely crossed into (barely warranted) nitpicking territory. 🤐 Hint: You can override any object assignments with a library that runs on top of the original library. So if you want Cape Cods at Freedomville, but Euro-Style brick stuff at Barbecueport on the next terrain tile, you can simply cook yourself up a library.txt with region definitions that assigns your desired style of houses to the corresponding, underlying DSF file. Put it on top of X-World and voilà, your favourite style of houses where you want them.

@UrgentSiesta , are these houses american enough for you? https://ibb.co/GQgZR0PR Also note the missing roads. Missing data (in the DSFs) seems to be prevalent in the initial X-World release, as there are no highrises as well. Layer 05 Details is a FPS hog. I've also disabled the smoke stack effects, the 3D people and the railway cars on shunting yards. After that, FPS were around the same as with X-World 3.0. I've tried that with the test scenery, but wasn't convinced. You still have many of Laminar's default textures, no matter how many polys you drape over it.

Yes, all continents are individual packages.

Get it at the X-Plane.org store: https://store.x-plane.org/X-World-Pro_c_558.html The price of the world package (commposed of individual continent packages) is $35, which is nearly half as much as the cost of all individual continent packages combined ($68). Download sizes: Africa 4.8 GB, America 10.3 GB , Antarctica 1.2 MB, Asia 13.6 GB, Australia/Oceania 1.3 GB, Europe 16.1 GB, Library 500 MB. Total: ~46.6 GB. Installation sizes: Africa 8.4 GB, America 18.8 GB, Antarctica 2.3 MB, Asia 23.6 GB, Australia/Oceania 3.2 GB, Europe 48.3 GB, Library 2.1 GB. Total: ~104.5 GB.

Time to ditch Mint for a properly maintained Linux distribution then, like Fedora or Cachy or Endeavor. Because Mint apparently does not seem to cut it for X-Plane 12, at least on your end.

Not sure if it's still just in the rumour mill, but CIS' next one could be a Cheyenne 400 - which is when their portfolio will get truly interesting for me. You always have experiences completely opposite to mine. Even at version 0.34, the entire aircraft is a 100% functional and authentic masterpiece already, almost on par with Felis' 747. I have zero problems flying it. Rico is an IRL pilot and paused development (and his Patreon, which is very fair) for left seat training at his airline.