RustyFlyer

What a terrific post! I could not agree more- ETS2 is tremendous fun! MFS indeed has the potential to provide a varied and enjoyable aviation experience to a great many. I would disagree with one thing though: I kind of like the scenery in ETS2 lol 😅😎 and I do not think it is "cheesy", but to each his own! One minor difference for me is that, when my wife opens the den door at 2:00 in the morning, my response of late is: "I'll be in in a minute, sweetheart, I have to sink a putt for a birdie..." 😎 [I've recently rediscovered & reintroduced myself to v-golf in the form of PGA Tour 2K21. It's great fun and there are hundreds and hundreds of wonderful & widely varying courses to play... many of them created by very talented members of the community. (I started playing v-golf with Links 386 Pro during the reign of the dinosaurs lol 😅.)] Again, thanks for the great & fun-to-read post!

Hi Luc, This may sound like a worthless piece of simplictic dribble, but hey...it's worth a try, you've got nothing to lose: Perhaps your initial & subsequent aircraft software downloads became somehow corrupted during the downloads and have left their remnants behind. Try removing the Katana and downloading & installing it again after first searching your system for & removing *any* file that contains the string "DA20" ("*DA20*.*"). This was previously the case, and the solution, for me with regard to another FSX addon download. Rusty

Hey there Stephen, This is from Tim Harris regarding that particular issue: - Open FTXcentral - Hold Shift and right click the icon in the taskbar - select 'Maximise', then close FTXcentral by clicking the 'X' in the top right Give it a whirl, and let us know how u make out! Blue skies, Rusty

Hi there, Keep in mind that Flight 1's [ultimate Terrain] UTX series does not actually consist of area-texture packages per se. The primary function of the UTX series is to accurately depict roads, streams & rivers, coastlines, railyards, roadways, etc. While UTX possesses the necessary textures to accurately reflect those specific components only, it is not a true 'area-texture' scenery package in the sense of accurately representing urban areas, cities, farmland, forests, etc. It does *not* contain textures for those types of elements- that is not UTX's function. While UTX does incorporate landclass information (the mechanism by which FSX selects the most appropriate type of texture to utilize & draw for a given situation & area [cityscape for urban areas, farmland for farms, wooded areas for forests, stoneface for rock canyons, etc.]), it does not actually contain the textures for those cities, farms, forests, canyons, etc. That is left to other products. For actual area/region-textures (farmland, cities, forests, golf courses, etc.), I very highly recommend Flight 1's GEX series (Ground Environment X) consisting of GEX North America, Europe, Africa & the Middle East and [recently released] Atlantic & Pacific Tropics. These packages consist of very realistic looking, appropriate and representative area/region-textures & related autogen notation for the respective regions. I believe that they are all available both in DVD and download editions. Take a peek at the following info.: http://www.flight1.c...oduct=gexusacan http://www.flight1.c...oduct=gexeurope http://www.flight1.c...product=gextrop http://www.flight1.c...product=gexafme I find that the combination of UTX & GEX provides for exceptionally realistic, enjoyable and immersive flying, and I consider the GEX series, and the UTX one too for that matter, both indispensable & "must-haves"! Let us know how you make out! Blue skies, Rusty

bumped for Luc...Rusty

Hi Luc, In asmuch as you haven't yet added RXP instruments to your Katana, make the following small addition to your Katana's "panel.cfg" file, and this will resolve the condition you describe: In the [Vcockpit00] section of your panel.cfg file, add two forward slashes immediately before the line beginning "gauge47=rxp..." The line should read as follows: //gauge47=rxpGNS!GNS530, 1245, 1140, 790, 570 You will be good to go upon making this small modification to the file. Why AS hasn't addressed this often inquired about issue is bewildering for sure. I too have the AS Katana, and have made the panel.cfg file modification so that the airplane works wonderfully for me (and it is absolutely a terrific model). However, had I instead been a prospective AS Katana purchaser having read your initial post and unaware of the .cfg file fix, I would otherwise stay away from the AS Katana for sure. Nonetheless, make the 15 second file modification and, once again, you will be good to go! Blue skies, Rusty

Thanks folks! Although I didn't initiate this thread, this is exactly the feedback that I was looking for in my 21 April "Selecting Airports" thread! Rusty

As I understand it, all Orbx sceneries must be installed in the main FSX directory/folder (that is why it doesn't give you an option- it automatically searches Registry for the location of FSX in your system). Now, where that directory resides is another matter. If that directory resides on a separate drive, then you should be golden- Orbx should install itself to *that* particular separate drive (as long as FSX also resides there [it will install to that same FSX directory]). If, however, your main FSX directory resides on your PC's principal hard drive ("C") or on some other separate drive, and you have yet another separate drive onto which you install most of your other addons and onto which you wish to install the Orbx products, then I suspect that you may be out of luck. Rusty

You bet...you're very welcome! Glad that you are enjoying it! One more link for you: http://www.fs-shipyards.org/index.php?ind=downloads There are many categories of watercraft to choose from, and Hama has several other models there too. My wife & I will meet you at the dock...drinks are on us lol. Blue skies, Rusty

Hi there, Wondering if, for both AU and NA, you could advise as to which are the 2 or 3 most demanding airports in terms of system resources and in terms of bringing a non-gaming pc to a relative standstill. Additionally, which AU airports do you enjoy visiting the most and why? If I were to get 2 (possssssibly 3 lol) airports for AU (small and/or large), which ones would you recommend & why (again, system limitations in mind- my system, although not an abacus lol, is not an a_s-ki_king gaming system, so you probably get the drift)? Thanks again folks- Rusty (I'm really looking forward to adding a couple of these to my lineup!)

Hi, Although not kayaks, and although not designed for quiet paddling around and about, the following are sources of some nice watercraft for the FSX environment. The Aquarama is a classy runabout. Take a peek and have fun! http://www.deltasimstudio.com/ http://simviation.co...zip)= http://www.simviation.com/fsxmisc4.htm Happy flying boating! B) Rusty

Hi, The products are very different, and they compliment one another wonderfully. GEX is a texture [replacement] package, and replaces the default FSX scenery texture tiles with much more realistic & area-representative appearing ones. UTX accurately depicts roads, roadways, railyards, coastlines, rivers & streams, etc., and incorporates a more representative landclass component (the mechanism by which respective texture tiles are called into use by FSX for any given area- e.g.: city/urban versus farmland, stoneface versus forest or wooded, suburban versus urban, etc.) than that incorporated into the default FSX. I use both (for all their available regions), and can't recommend them highly enough. Get both, you will be glad that you did! Hope this helps! Blue skies, Rusty

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Hi there, Not wishing to offend you in any way, but this thread contains comments similar to those that you made in reference to the appearance of the textures in Fly Tampa's St. Maarten package (http://forum.avsim.net/topic/369801-whats-the-best-overall-add-on-scenery-for-the-caribbean/). In that thread too, graphic/texture anomalies that you observed were not observed by others. Is it possible, then, that your graphics card may starting to fail? There is no question in my mind that you see what you see; however, because these observations are not also shared by many others, it would also appear on the face of it that these graphics issues must have a cause residing more locally, potentially. Just a thought... Rusty

Thanks much, folks! I look forward then to adding one or two to my collection :). Cheers, Rusty