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I don't think it was always, it was around the time after MSFS came out and there were Airbus's that they locked down their forums. So my guess is they didn't want people to learn how to fly other Airbuses from their forum.

seems like you have to buy the product to see the post ... what do they say? i think having the virtual "helpers" is a pretty reasonable for the broader market MSFS release but hopefully they allow the full functionality for the hardcores

The cockpit lighting doesn't seem to work in the A2A C172 or MilViz planes so even if the cockpit is brighter the lighits that could be illuminating the panel are not working so the planes are pretty much inop during darker times of the day. Was very much looking to the TXAA (which seems to work quite well) and the new weather engine, but it's a shame the new lighting engine requires tweaking for old add ons and I feel the "presentation" of the terrain seems much worse than default P3DV5. It's uninstall time now ... might not be going back to P3D for a while 😞

Trying it out for a month with a developer's license, fresh install without P3DV5 on the system Maddog has some installation error (it says SimConnect v5.4 needs to be installed) A2A C172 seems to work MilViz 737-200 seems to work MilViz T-38A seems to work RealAir Lancair Legacy - A few installation errors relating to effects but still goes through, seems to work General comments: Cockpits do seem a bit darker but brighten up with direct light so maybe it is the lighting engine Did they try to make the autogen better? It seems to be much worse, there are clumps of dark looking buildings The patch took a really long time, it seemed to be spending most of the time on validating the install For people who really like to fly some planes without alternatives this seems to be good Default airports are a bit better but still no where close to X-Plane default and it's not going to make you not want to try to install add-ins TXAA seems alright with me, the image quality is much nicer than previous iterations of AA

This new soundset sounds awesome https://store.x-plane.org/KOSP-PROJECT--A321-CFM56-LEAP1A-Soundscape_p_1773.html

I do agree this could be handled and communicated better, especially with the earlier "complaining" earlier by the devs, but ultimately any price would have generated complaints anyways "CUZ IT'S SO LITTLE WORK!". They noted before the reduced the price after MSFS released and that didn't really boost sales so maybe a lower price doesn't give them much of an upside. edit: Can I ask what "loyalty" you mean here? you paid a fixed amount (which wasn't that high) and then maybe you used the software a lot.

People wanted ChasePlane we get ChasePlane and then of course the complaints about the price. ChasePlane was initially launched October 2016 so almost 6 years of support on the original license, 5 versions of P3D support and FSX support. People want infinite support for free. Tough crowd can see why no one wants to develop for P3D anymore.

Captain did another video with the PMDG 747-400 and some responses to items posted in this thread :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzoFaqNjYJM

i recall it was described in the talk here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4d0Xj3XUH4.

so many RealAir vibes in the cockpit screenshot

The bigger concern with the TE california packages is the scorched earth red look all the orthos have. Pretty unplayable and kind of shocking they acknowledged but they didn't bother to fix.

It's more of a first look with a flight

cool looking forward to seeing how you worked that out

Some of my comments on the video: Like Adam said he wasn't sure about all the best settings to use but he does have a top of the line machine He was using TAA but I couldn't tell from the stream if it was much better Dark cockpit for the NGXu is probably the biggest issue - have others resolved this? NGXu weather radar didn't work with how his ActiveSky was setup Lack of ChasePlane support makes the camera change views difficult - a lot of right click menus on the stream The lighting on the terrain actually looked pretty good with Orbx Global and OpenLC Captain commented that the turbulence was quite good Cloud depiction is definitely better His conclusion was that it's not worth it to make the move if the big add-on makers provide some support

That's great you'll do all that adam but if the major airliner add-ons have dark cockpits than it's kind of a no go for a lot of potential customers.

Captain BlackBox will be live streaming P3D later today, should be fun to see how this turns out!

I would wait until the 12.06 release which should have better graphics performance and much better clouds

bumping this one ... anyone tried?

So the 747-400 works but not the 747-8?

To clarify, can we have both the Volumetric Clouds and the precipitation radar for add-in planes at the same time?

edit: removed as same question better written above by Biology

FS2002 and FS2004 is still surprising high according to FlightSim Community Survey Results 2022.

It's a bit optimistic to expect a huge visual upgrade in a point release (i.e. you want it for free) and also maintain all add-on compatibility.

you can trust PMDG will not do anything for P3D!

Hopefully you got the MSFS credit at least. Me on the other hand bought it after that offer expired 🤦‍♂️.