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Agree. It seems one person dominates this thread that makes understanding this thread much more difficult for everyone else. Perhaps that person can save all their valid questions and make them in ONE post, please. I admire your patience Kevin.😉

Hey Kevin Quick question for you.. Will there be phaseology differences when transiting different geographic regions e.g tower comms in the US vs Europe?

It's a shame there's no wxr on the Synaptic A220. What about other features? I just learnt the A220 has no opening cockpit windows. Apparently a safety design feature so I wonder if the Synaptic A220 has the roof escape hatch modelled when you want some fresh air in the cockpit?? 😃

Hi Ryan, Preflightly is in beta and a freeware app in which the developer is adding new functionality all the time. The latest beta will build symlinks if you want it or you can now point/map it to multiple folders (Community , etc) where your add-ons are stored, so it will not disturb what you have set up. There's a nice update video by BritishAvGeek here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-bi3Or5ECQ In addition, it has the ability to enable those airports that you are flying between in the sim, will detect any airport conflicts should you have multiple versions of the airport installed and also includes GSX profile matching to make sure your entire sim environment is active prior to start the flight of your choice.

Sale going on until 15th June for: Stuttgart airport A340-600 CRJ v2 Frankfurt airport Some titles are also MSFS2020 compatible https://www.aerosoft.com/en/shop/sale/fsexpo-sale/

Very good news to see SP1 hit the streets. Good job iFly!! I need to delve into my wallet now and see if the few pennies I have will stretch that far for a brand new MSFS2024 Max! 😁

Steve........what are you doing???.... LOL!!! I guess if you dont ask, you dont get. 😄

OK, thanks for the update. Ill be sure to look at the list once the system is back up. Good to hear about the Icelandair liveries. 😎 For the Flyr livery I am not sure whether it was done for MSFS2020 but I was flying that livery in P3Dv5.

Never touched Rebar myself and have left it on. I'm running a RTX4070 Super with 12Gb and so far did not experience any VRAM issues. Been flying MSFS for almost 1 year now with various aircraft addons and scenery.

Great work Steve as always! Thanks for posting the screenies. Looking forward to the new SP1 update. Is there a list of liveries that will be available? I am interested to hear if anyone has or will be doing the Icelandair liveries? I love those particular liveries, especially the yellow/blue one! I am assuming Flyr wont be done as its now defunct in real life and probably not so much demand for this one?

I second that view Andrew. I don't have the 737 max installed in 2024 at the moment (saving up my pennies!) but my experience with the 737 Max in P3D was really good and I had a number of very positive interactions with their Support team who were not quick to judge and asked more questions. In some cases it was a misunderstanding on my part and other times a legitimate bug was found which was logged, evaluated and fixed in a future release. I enjoyed participating in their forum. SP1 will be the trigger for me to purchase the 737 Max for MSFS2024. There's quite a bit of new stuff to learn including from what I have heard a very capable EFB. In the meantime, I am starting to get to grips with the Ini A350 now that I have built up some flight time on the MS/Asobo A320Neo and more recently their default A330-300.

I am curious to hear how many people will purchase the MSFS2024 compatible version versus the native version that is expected to come later? Is there really that much difference? OK there's the LOD system that's specific to MSFS2024 and the walk-around mode that MSFS2020 does not have but apart from those 2, any other major differences that determines if compatible vs native should be chosen? Anyway, I am hoping for good things and while it may have taken several years to come to fruition, perhaps that's a better omen than some of the add-ons that are churned out in quick-time fashion and then have bugs galore that render the add-on unusable. Fingers crossed this will be a completely different and more positive experience. One can, but hope. 🤞

Hi, Bluebird posted some new screenshots of their 757 and looks like they are taking requests for various liveries. They also mentioned on their FB page that a full feature list is coming soon! More info here: FB page for Bluebird 757 Enjoy!

Thanks. Did they mention in which combinations of lower and upper deck jetways?

I need to ask a clarifying question here on what's coming as I see different things being shown under the umbrella "multi jetway" support. First, the GSX vid shows 2 lower level jetways connecting to a 777 at the same time. Great! The Inibuilds screenshot shows 3 jetways of which one is an upper level jetway connected to the A380 upper deck. Even better! My understanding was that up 'til now GSX only ever supported the lower level jetways and upper level jetways were not possible. Does this mean upper level jetways will now be supported by GSX or maybe I lost the thread somewhere along the line? Does this now mean we can connect a dynamic jetway to the upper deck door of a 747-8 (e.g. the default MS/Asobo aircraft) using GSX? Anyone care to clarify???

Looks good. 👍 Hopefully there's some logic built into this that prevents the two jetways interfering with one another since they move at the same time. I guess this also depends on the initial jetway positions that are defined by the GSX profile.

Standard for me.

Well i have the v1.03 update installed and i am seeing good performance in my sim (MSFS2024) with a pretty much solid 60fps with some slight decreases to around 56fps periodically. Normally my fps does not budge from 60 as I am locked at 30fps and run 2x FSR. Sporadically I see the odd jitter in frames, but nothing substantial or long lasting. No errors so far with VRAM and I have a 4070 Super card installed. Regarding bumpy taxiways, they appear most prevalent on the northern side and have not observed any major upsets of my aircraft (A330-300), but the taxiways are definitely not flat (using the standard mesh configuration)! In general I found myself having to use more thrust and brakes in order to counter the effects of sloping taxiways as you would expect. I did see some flickering of the Delta Fly Jets hangar door mural, but this only appeared to be an issue at dawn when the sun rays hit that hangar door, otherwise appears normal. Overall based on the limited time spent taxiing around the airport, I think Matteo has done a good job of addressing the previously reported issues. Is the airport worth the €30 ($35) in my view? Yes and No. Yes, if you are looking for a detailed, up-to-date layout of KATL but No if you are looking for high quality textured buildings. These are IMHO of lower quality than the taxiways and could be improved, but at the expense of potentially lowering performance. For me it is worth it since I never purchased a KATL scenery before with the previous sims I had installed, so this gives me a new US hub airport to fly into when I am bound for the States.

I don't believe so Chris. I was not able to skip that step so it lacks some flexibility in that regard.

You are reading this correctly. I ran the program and it asks you to define a new folder to host your library. In the FAQ it does say that you should put all your aircraft and sceneries back into the Community folder (if they are located elsewhere) so it can scan them all. It then does the symlink stuff and then deposits all files into the new library location.I agree it would be nice to skip this step if you already have a designated folder and symlinks already created. That's as far as I got but then the program ran into an issue as it failed to either create the symlink for one of the AIGOCI folders or failed to move it from the Community. Unfortunately I could not move forward through the remaining configuration steps so was unable to proceed any further. I have to report this issue to the Dev.

Hi, There seems to be a plethora of different flightplanner tools emerging these days, but this one caught my eye. This is a new add-on (freeware) called Preflightly has just been launched which looks to be quite useful. MSFS2024 is supported, but stand-alone version of MSFS2020 is not. It looks pretty nice with lots of different features. Have not tried it yet, but plan to do a flight this pm to try it out. https://preflightly.app/ This addon has Symlink-based activation to build a central library outside the std Community folders (Community, Community 2024), smart grouping and activation of airports based on regions you are flying in (reminds me of the Lorby addon tool for P3D), has GSX profile handling that identifies airports you have installed in your Library and does some checking that you have a GSX profile installed for those airports. Also provides checking of departure and destination airports to make sure all addons are installed and identifies possible airport conflicts and a Route Finder that first scans what aircraft and airports you have installed in your sim and will then search for real-world routes (~70,000 available) based on selected aircraft, airports and flight time of your choice. Simbrief integration is also included so those real-world routes can be transferred to Simbrief with real world fight numbers and schedule times populated. The other beauty of this (claimed) is that you only need an Internet connection at the start to build the flights database, but after that the flight planning and central library are all functional offline. I think this one is definitely worth taking a look at based on the various features it has going for it if you are a tubeliner captain. Cheers,

Reading from their Discord, Matteo mentioned there is another update coming with a choice of airport elevations where you can set the elevation to "flat". He mentioned this is a patch so I am not sure whether this will be visible as a new version or not. As far as I can tell its not released yet. Stay tuned for more developments on the KATL improvement front.

You need to refer to their Discord, not their forum. https://orbx.to/discord

Umberto, Thanks for taking the time to respond to the observation I made in the change log and explaining the rationale behind the move and what you were seeing as a developer. This is not always transparent to us users so sharing this info becomes very useful in understanding the bigger picture you are facing👏 Based on what you stated, lets hope the Github approach proves to be more effective. 🤞

Don't worry. The very next review i read mentioned a configurator is included, so question answered.