Glenn_C

You can get X-Plane to download real world weather then just call up the metar of your destination and that's it. That is usually quite accurate, I use http://en.allmetsat.com. People know the weather is not perfect when they purchase I would hope. Buying something these days especially for flight simulation without reading reviews etc is just asking to get burned. There are enough add-ons that are not worth a dime that sell for a hefty price. The best thing I can say to people who want a 'perfect' weather system in their flight sim is go buy P3D and Active Sky, X-Plane at the moment is not for you.

And another topic that chews over the same thing that's been chewed over 100 times before (just run a quick search on this forum and you will see what I mean :)) ... Keep repeating the same thing over and over and it will get fixed? Vent your feelings to Laminar, if enough people do that then they might do something about it.

I gave up a long time ago saying which sim is best. There is no definitive answer on that, everyone has their own opinions and ALL sims have there good and less good sides and we should respect that. Let's just rejoice in the choice we have these days. I am just happy as an X-Plane user we are getting more choice and better products for the sim. By the way Chocolate smoothies are way better than Strawberry smoothies ;-)

Are you clearing the V speeds first when changing the weight? Maybe that is the reason. You need to clear the V-Speeds fir it to recalculate. ZFW 45 tons ZFW 45 tons (vr 125) ZFW 61 tons ZFW 61 tons (vr 143)

V1 is not calculated anyway in the real bus. Blackbox explained that a few times in his streams. This is due to the fact the V1 can be influenced by factors such as contaminated runway / wet / icy and other factors. Pilots manually enter that on prevailing conditions or it's calculated by flight ops. But yea strange about the weights as if I do a 50 ton ZFW take off and a 61 ton ZFW take off I get totally different V speeds for example 125 & 138 for example. V1 is then always the same or a few knots lower than VR as a general rule.

That's is not the case with mine. When I have set the load Fuel / Pax / Cargo I send it to the MCDU from the EFB and I get a different Vr each time if I change the weights.Maybe you are missing a step or loading it incorrectly?

1. Textures are mostly a personal thing. One likes it dark the other likes it light or it's the wrong kind of blue etc. You cannot just adjust cockpit textures within X-Plane. 2. Set a button on your joystick or throttle for - Parking brake = Toggle brakes maximum effort - medium braking = Hold brakes medium effort

Actually you can save up to 20 views now in the 3D Cockpit. Keyboard -> "Go to save 3-D cockpit location #1 through #20" Some additional info on this subject -> https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/forums/topic/132289-quick-look-views/

This looks absolutely fantastic. Would this scenery be good for gliding?

Select the data output you want :)

Comparisons are all well and good but I can only afford one sim and that is X-Plane and try as I might I just can't get FSL A320 working in X-Plane ;-) A proper comparison in this case would be the ToLisS A319 and the FFA320 as both are avaialble on the same sim and both should be the same in most part system wise.

Is this the complete log as it does not say much. Maybe send it to Laminar support to see if they can help. Maybe the zip file is corrupt. Did you try downloading again and starting the installer as administrator? Turn off anti-virus during the install might help?

SimToolkit still seems to be in early Alpha phase. I would email the developer and ask them if IXEG is supported or better still what exactly is supported at the moment.

Totoritko is also the creator of BeterPushback plugin.

Is it detected outside X-Plane? In other words do your NVidia settings detect it or does other software you use detect it? Is there anything in the log file from X-Plane that might suggest a problem?

You can play this sound slowly to distinguish the sound better. X:\X-Plane Folder\Aircraft\Rotate-MD-80\plugins\MD-80-core\res\sounds\alert\to-flaps.wav

Did you read what Murmer suggested? Sounds plausible to me.

Thanks for the update. It is one of my favorite planes in X-Plane. The textures and sounds are top class AND the fms is pretty good and hand flies really smooth. More info from Rotate http://rotatesim.com/rotate-md-80-v1-40-pro-is-out/

Perhaps you have not really looked into how much work has gone into the detailed texturing and flight modeling that has gone into this release. The FF FMC's are not that sophisticated to be honest, they cannot even to proper holding patterns or vertical navigation. Pricing is all relative, for someone with a large wallet it is cheap, for a student with less money it is expensive but everyone has the choice to buy it or not and the developer had the choice to set the price to what they think will give them the best return on the investment in the amount of time they have spent creating the plane/add-on.

To be honest I think you are overly complicating things. Why not just use folder shortcuts to the tiles and place these in the Custom Scenery folder? Yes symbolic links and junctions work but in my experience folder shortcuts work just as well unless you have some specific reason for not using them?

Carenado still need to update many of their planes to XP11. They also have a policy of charging the full price again when going from XP10 to XP11 so if you buy an XP10 plane that gets update soon to XP11 you will have to rebuy it. Most XP10 Carenado planes work in XP11 but maybe the flight dynamics might be off a bit. I would wait if I was you until the XP11 certified planes come out if you really want one.

I downloaded Europe and North America in 45 minutes from Aerosoft site:) Testing now. Thanks alpilotx!

No release notes yet but they can be found here soon. http://www.x-plane.com/kb/x-plane-11-00-release-notes/

Congratulations on reviving an 8 year old thread :)

Does your current version work okay? If it does why bother upgrading? If they cannot supply a reasonable change log then I I would not spend my money on it. I have the previous version too , works fine with my XP11. Maybe for 64bit P3D? I do not have or have used P3D so no idea to be honest. I use the internal X-Plane weather engine at the moment as well which suits my need.