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I'm out. I am 68 years old and been around this hobby for almost 40 years. I know where this topic is heading. Sad

Why on earth would anyone happy and content with 2024 be trolling this topic. Lowest common denominator.

This is all about the money. We loyally thought, not that long ago, that our sim would keep being developed and a new one wasn't coming. Then they saw the dollar signs. Now we have a new half baked sim with beautiful graphics to lure in the masses. I have never been an X-plane guy but I know that Austin is an avid pilot and flight simmer and would never let his platform degenerate into a game for X-Box, which brings up the age old argument. Game or Simulator.

If X-plane can actually get some better graphics it may be time after 35 years of simmimg to change platforms. Its sickening to think that. I had a bad feeling about all this the day XBox was first mentioned.

It is Saturday and thousands of kids on XBOX want to crash planes into buildings. I guess that is what happens when something becomes popular to the masses. Now we need a new sim with a subscription fee every month just to be able to fly without the kids.

I purposely decided to hold off for 6 months or so on 2024 to let the bugs and usual problems work themselves out. 2020 has been great for me and if a new sim never came I would have been good with that. I"m sure many feel the same. Now it seems we are going to get dragged into their problems anyway. Can't win.

Same issue on my end

I find the PSS panel merged with project airbus still the best compromise. I have several hours in my company's Airbus A-320 simulator so have something to compare. Auto trim works with the project airbus but not with the IFDG airbus. Also the project airbus flying characteristics feel quite accurate. I had a few years of the airbus in FS2002 and FS9 before ever getting in the real sim,which made the transition less intimidating. Also sitting there for the first time in the sim everything felt quite familiar. I have a close friend who flies the 319,320 and 321, and have had him simming with me many times. He has been flying commercially for over thirty years and has said he wished there was a program like this available when he went from an old school 737-200 to the bus several years ago. We will never have the real aircraft at home with us but what we have ain't bad. Until airbus will collaborate with an fs developer things such as all the fbw control laws won't be there so hopefully some day they will agree to collaborate. Cheers

Me again, well if you read this post again David all is good now.The main thing I had to do was turn user controls off before attempting to edit any files in vista.I did this and reinstalled the sceneries and all is as it should be.The only thing I can figure is somehow before the entries were hidden.I knew it would be a Vista thing.I will be adding a ton of scenery files,so I didn't want to proceed without a proper looking scenery config.I don't think Vista is as bad as made out but there is a bit of a learning curve as I am finding out.Also I am running 64bit so that I can have more ram available to me.Thx Bo

Hi Dave,believe it or not,that is what I am saying. My last three sceneries I added are working perfectly in the sim but are not in my scenery config. The config shows the first three I added in sequence at the bottom but the next ones are not there but are working. I,ve been a simmer for almost twenty years,but this one really stumps me.I forgot to mention that when I added the scenery that needed the flatten(YUL)and couldn't find the entry at the bottom of the config I added the whole thing manually.I have since added three more sceneries that are working perfectly,but are not showing at the bottom of the config file. I know this is hard to believe but true.I know this must be a Vista thing and the entries are somehow hidden so I will spend time today trying to figure out more on how this Vista really works.I have tried to attach my scery config.If it is attached you will see the enries at the bottom. There are more sceneries added that are working but do not appear here.Thx Bo

Thanx David for the input, The only scenery config I can find is the one in the main Fs folder.What stumps me is that my first 3 addon sceneries show up in the config file as normal,but the last three I added are not there.Like I said in my original post though,even though I don't see them in the scenery config they are working properly in the sim.I am logged on as administrator and have "show hidden files checked off in folder options.Thx,any other thoughts.Bo

Hi All,I have just loaded fs9 on my new rig which runs Vista 64.Scary in itself, but up till now everything has gone quite well. I have just begun to add addon scenery when this occurred.The first few addons went on as normal,however this morning I added a new scenery that required a flatten switch to be added to the scenery config. When I reloaded the sim after adding the scenery it was indeed there,however when I went to add the flatten lines to the scenery config,there was no entry for the scenery in the scenery config?Also there are no entries for the last two sceneries I added in the scenery config but they are showing up in the sim and working also. This is a stumper for me and any help would be greatly appreciated.Thx