dave2013

I find it hard to believe that one of these can be built for $300. The materials cost alone is at least that much and likely more, and then there's the labor, electrical, plumbing, and HVAC cost. These are certainly more economical than the expensive public housing cities have been building for decades, however. Do you think corrupt city officials will go this less expensive route when they can get kickbacks from their buddies in construction firms to build more expensive public housing? Can pigs fly? Is the moon made of green cheese? Dave

I was basing my opinion of Xplane scenery on several videos I've watched over the years. It simply didn't look as realistic as P3Dv5/6 with ORBX Global and openLC textures and landclass. However, I just checked out the Xplane 12 map enhancement and simheaven addons and must say that I'm impressed. I didn't know that all these scenery addons existed for Xplane. I am seriously considering getting Xplane 12 at this point. It pains me to have to learn a new sim and spend money for addon planes and scenery all over again, but I think it may be be worth it as P3D is becoming a "zombie sim". There's almost no activity on the P3D forum any more, and most developers have abandoned it. I've put so much time and effort into making freeware planes and scenery for P3Dv5/6 and hate to leave all that behind, but sometimes one just has to move on and begin a new chapter. Dave

I've pretty much given up on LM. It seemed for a while that they were working on a v7, but from what I understand it will be a completely new platform and only for military customers, at least for the time being. If MSFS 2024 finally matures into a sim without so many problems and constant updates which fix some things but break others, then I'll end up switching to that. Now, before anyone gets all indignant that I've criticized MSFS, all they have to do is head over to the MSFS forum and read through the many and varied posts about all the problems. P3D has its drawbacks, but it's reliable, and I've rarely have any significant problems with it since v5. Someone mentioned X-plane 12 here, and I've considered that, but I just don't think the scenery looks as good as P3D. I know that other things are better, but scenery has always been quite important to me. Dave

The Brits and Australians have their version of this, called Weetabix. Dave

Did you install Carenado's P3Dv5 patch? I don't know if it would fix the specific problem you're having, but it's worth a shot. Also, are stock aircraft still not starting as well? If not, then I wonder if something is getting messed up during installation. When you install the sim, do you disable your anti-virus/anti-malware software? You have to troubleshoot these problems step by step, eliminating possible causes one by one. You need to try starting a stock aircraft with a fresh install without addons and see if it works. Then install planes one at a time and try again until you find what's messing things up. Dave

I'm guilty of sometimes saying "get" in that context as well. BTW, does anyone say "may" I have any more? It is actually incorrect grammar to say "can I" when asking for something. I had an English teacher who used to drill that into our heads daily. If a student asked "can I have xxxxx?", she would say "I don't know, can you?". Dave

In Italian, the toilet, water closet, lavatory, etc. is "bagno", which literally means bath. So Americans aren't the only ones who refer to it as a "bath" room. Dave

Oh, yes. Being called "you guys", especially when there are females in the group, has always perplexed me, let alone being addressed that way by a young person - a bit too informal. Dave

Performance in V6 is better than v5 IMO, but Ray is right that a lot of addons don't work, and both payware and freeware airports for V4 and V5 must be edited to work right in V6. If deleting the prepar3d.cfg file and letting the sim build a new one didn't work, I would suggest going through these steps before doing anything drastic: Set the sim Realism to "Easy" and try starting up an aircraft Adjust all your graphics and display settings to low or off and try again Uninstall all your aircraft addons and try again Uninstall all your scenery addons and try again If all else fails, uninstall and reinstall the sim. Dave

Sure, I understand that there are regional dialects and slang. However, I've seen a lot of Brits use the word "sat", as in "I was sat", instead of "sitting", which is incorrect English. Same goes for "I were' instead of "I was". One time I even saw a british guy use the word "learned", as in "I learned him how to do that", instead of the correct word "taught". That happens here sometimes as well with poorly educated people. In the U.S. South we can really do a number on English. For example, we sometimes say "I'm on" which means "I'm going to", "I'm fixin to", which means "I'm about to", "git!" to mean "shoo! or "get away!", and "idn't" instead of "isn't". We use "ain't" instead of "aren't" or "isn't" a lot, too. However, I know that's slang and not correct English. The junk food and fast food is definitely an undesirable American export that if consumed in excess will make you fat and unhealthy. Dave

That's General Zod, an arch enemy of Superman. Dave

Ooops. Thanks for the correction. Dave

Agreed. This is just due to ignorance(not in an insulting way), however, and not the American version of that phrase. Same thing applies to the phrase "should of" instead of the correct "should have", which I notice people using all to frequently. I've watched Brits routinely mangle English pretty badly as well. Many say "I were" instead of "I was", or "I was sat" instead of "I was sitting". Just a few examples. Dave

I wouldn't replace the ORBX lclookup.bgl if I were you. It is specially modified to work with ORBX textures, so if you're using ORBX global base scenery, a different lclookup file will mess that up. I don't know if it affects ORBX openLC. You can certainly back up the ORBX lclookup.bgl and install Aime's, but I'm betting ORBX covered areas won't look right. Dave

Well, now that I think about it, if you can't start the engines, then saving the sceanrio won't work because you need the engines running. This worked for me when I had some planes where the engines wouldn't start. Loading a stock aircraft and starting its engines fixed the problem. Try opening the Key Assignments menu and using the keyboard shortcut for Engine Fuel Valves(open/close). Then load the stock Maule aircraft and use Ctrl+E to start the engine. Ctrl+E should do this automatically, though, so if none of your aircraft engines will start, then you may just have to reinstall the sim. What version of P3D are you using? What addons are you using? Another thing to try. Delete the p3d.cfg file and let the sim build a new one. Sometimes this can miraculously fix all kinds of problems. Dave