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  1. Posted

    5 minutes ago, Cubs105 said:

    Orbx is definitely not working on this, I was at FSexpo this weekend and they were at the bar at the hotel when the news broke. I was there and saw their reaction to it all and I know for a fact they said they had nothing to do with it and were blindsided by it, along with every other developer at the expo

    Which kind of put's doubt about Microsoft's claim to have engaged with the community during the development. 

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  2. Posted

    Technically, you cannot even distribute them for free if you read the EULAS for most providers. You can download them for your own use but if you modify and distribute then you are breaking their rules. 

    They tend to turn a blind eye to home users but if too many people start distributing even as freeware, they may well start clamping down hard on us. And that would be sad.

  4. Posted

    When you say photorealistic, do you mean from satellite/aerial imagery? If so, presumably you had to pay a significant licensing fee to use it commercially. If it were me, I would be basing my pricing structure on how much the licensing and man hours have cost me, not asking the community. 

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  5. Posted

    As an X-Plane user I had numerous Carenado products for XP10. I took them for what they were, pretty graphics, basic or default systems. They were fun to fly if not entirely accurate. Then XP11 was released. Every X-Plane aircraft developer eventually released updates for the new XP version. Many such as IXEG were free, some requested a small but fair upgrade fee, usually around $20. Carenado wanted you to pay full price again. They stated that huge amounts of work was required to update the planes to XP11 standards. 

    A number of highly respected XP aircraft developers publicly disputed this claim, saying that whilst there was work to be done, PBR texturing, flight model tweaks etc, but that work did not justify full price again. At that point I decided never to buy Carenado again.

    I buy a lot of X-Plane products, reviewing my downloads at.org tends to make my blood pressure rise, but I will not buy the same product again purely so that I can view a shiny fuselage. It was community gouging at it's most blatant. 

    Fortunately there is an increasing number of much better products such as the Hotstart TBM900 filling my GA void. 

  6. Posted

    On 1/18/2019 at 9:49 PM, trisho0 said:

    I have a question, please …...

    Let me explain further here first. From fs9, FSX and P3Dv4 the keyboard commands have a default for Throttle Cut =  F1, Throttle decrease quickly = F2, Spoiler Arm = Shift+/ and Spoiler extend/retract = /  If you don't have any of the mentioned sims then you can't help me on this but I appreciate that very much.
     
    So, example, Spoiler Arm command, what is the command for X-Plane 11?
     
    From XP11 I don't know what will be the same functionality commands.
     
    Last night I assigned as a test the "Toggle Thrust Reversers = F2, Toggle Beta Prop = F1, Speedbrake extended one = Shift+/ and Speedbrake Retract one = / 

    I flew the Boing 777 Pro from OMAA to OMDB, later preparing the descend I applied Shift+/ and the speedbrakes worked as extended. At touchdown I applied F2 and the plane deployed spoilers and at 80 knots I applied F1 which it did nothing. I had to apply F2 again to stop the 777. The bird stopped after the end of runway (lol).
     
    I think I am not assigning the proper/equivalent commands accordingly on keyboard. 

    Again, what are the commands naming meaning exactly the same as in FSX? 

    Throttle Cut =  ???
    Throttle decrease quickly =  ???
    Spoiler Arm =  ???
    Spoiler extend/retract =  ???  

    Sorry, but you seem to have completely hijacked someone else's post. The original posters question has not been answered. Its common courtesy to make your own original post to ask a question that is unrelated to the thread you are in. 

     

  7. Posted

    4 hours ago, kevin7898 said:

    I am 98% sure navi graph didn't do a survey persay, but pulled their data from their own servers on who is buying and using their products and services. 

     

    Kevin Stuparyk

    So I guess that makes the 20 minutes I spent filling their survey a figment of my imagination. 

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  9. Posted

    The crux of the matter here is whether a serious and important debate should have been closed down due to a few members making off colour comments. Suspending them, perhaps deleting their comments would be the prudent thing to do. However halting an entire conversation means that those that have contributed in a well meaning and reasoned way have no way to further express their views. It should also be added that there is a direct conflict of interest when the moderator is also directly involved with the company being discussed.

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  10. Posted

    17 minutes ago, Von Target said:

    Is it Goranized ? 🙂

    Meaning, extreme in details and in accuracy in as far as it is possible given the underlaying platform ?

    I will not be able to buy it right now, but plan to, so, please keep feeding us you lucky owners, with all of the possible feedback 😉

    It's definitely Goranized. I accidentally found the retractable cup holders whilst changing fuel tanks

     

  12. Posted

    I spent a not inconsiderable sum on their full Boeing suite back in 2004. Despite a few attempts to contact them through their website to re-activate the software over the years, I never heard back from them. Your post just reminded me of their existence so I tried contacting them again through their online email and it just gave me this message "Illegal characters in POST. Possible email injection attempt" despite using my registered email. 

  13. Posted · Edited by yidahoo

    I was interested by this survey but wondered if it would be skewed by the fact that forums are generally an older crowd and social media attracts a younger crowd. I run a big XP11 Facebook group with close on 9000 members and decided to do a similar poll there. The results suggest there is a much higher percentage of younger users than the poll here shows. In my experience of running the group we have a huge number of young enthusiasts. These are the results, although its an X-Plane group I would expect similar results in a P3D or general flight sim group on social media. 

    10-20  - 68

    21-30  - 101

    31-40  - 101

    41-50. - 117

    51-60  - 49

    61-70  - 28

    71-80  - 5

    81-90. - 1

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  16. Posted

    16 hours ago, StefanH75 said:

    Not me. Reading the update thread for XPL users, I feel the XP users being patronized by PMDG, I feel the PMDG fan base (or should I say word not allowed?) are making fun of XP users who wanted to convince PMDG to make an update for the DC-6. PMDG does not acknowledge that XP is a dynamic developing flight simulator platform. They simply can't follow the continuous changes and improvements by Laminar. Everybody knows the DC-6 was released for XP10.51, just a few month before the XP11 public beta release. Now the DC-6 is broken at various aspects and can't be used anymore for the XP users which have jumped on the XP11 train. I'm afraid if PMDG would ever port another plane to XP, they would do the same like they did with the DC-6. Develop for a certain version, then abandon it for an unknown period of time. And as a result you may not update the simulator, you can't benefit from new features and improvements of the simulator, if you want to keep on using any PMDG product. No, I would never purchase again a PMDG product for XP, if they are not willing to change their development attitude.

    I agree with you. Some of their replies to genuine XP queries have been downright rude. Whilst we know PMDG are famously tight lipped about developments, some of their put downs when asked about future plans and updates to the DC6 smack of arrogance. They don't have to tell us XP users anything but they could say nothing in a nicer way.

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  17. Posted

    Living in Ukraine I was at the receiving end of that ban. For quite some time I was not able to access Avsim directly. But the thing is I just used a VPN which is what the bots and trolls would do anyway. Banning entire nations from access is a sledgehammer approach that alienated a lot of simmers. Its no surprise that they decided to go it alone. The sites mentioned have some very good Eastern European freeware that I have not seen at Avsim and I have never had any issue with their downloads. 

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  22. Posted

    And here we ago again, bashing someone for posting screenshots (in a screenshot forum) Now heres the thing, you can see the title and name of the original poster before you open the post. So to come in and comment on the post you must have made a conscious decision not to ignore it. Odd given your obvious dislike for Filou and his images

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