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Nice shots! This. How can I do this? I am afraid of reducing traffic in UT2 because of exactly this - flying to smaller airports which are then deserted..

29Palms SKiathos it was indeed. Fabulous addon, great airport to fly to for practicing your radio navigation and manual landing skills. Thanks all, will see if I can upload some more tomorrow.

Hi guys, I recently came back to flight simulation after a pause of almost three years. Bought myself a Lenovo Y500 with a fabulous full-HD screen and a SLI videocard setup, which comes to its full potential using the DX10 fixer. If you have any questions with regards to addons used or settings, just let me know. Herewith just some shots I took over the last week while flying or testing. Enjoy! Kind regards, Erik

All, I use Ultimate Traffic 2, with some additional repaints installed. I only add FSX-native models to the UT2-line, e.g. the UTT 787, 748, FAIB A32S and 737 series. I found that all the native FSX AI textures were 1024x1024, 4MB in size and in DDS format. In UT2, a mix of DXT3 (non mipped) and DXT1 (with mipmaps) are used. My question is - what is the ideal texture format for AI-traffic. Should I convert all textures to a standard format? If so, which one? Is mdl able to handle any texture, regardless of format or compression? Basically I am asking if there are some FPS to be gained by having all my AI textures converted to a certain format. I could not find a conclusive answer anywhere else. Hope to hear from you, Erik Brouwer

Yes, you can. I passed a fictional checkride on a 737NG sim (real sim, real examiner, real MCC) without problems, all memory items checked, with 'only' about 2800hrs logged on the PMDG 737 for FS9 and the NGX and about two yours on the moving 737 simulator before doing the checkride-stuff. I must admit it wasn't easy at first. Especially the speed at which everything happens and the pressure this puts on you is much higher than it occurs to you while sitting behind your desktop. But I, and many airline pilots with me, consider it doable. That said, William is right it doesn't help you much while doing PPL. The perspective at first is completely different, and the most important difference for me was that in flightsim, one flies by the numbers. Your instructor on the real world C172/Pa28 will teach you to fly with nose pitch and so forth, something you don't learn in the sim and that might actually make it harder to learn proper VFR flying, at first. Furthermore, the hours spent on the Carenado SR22 helped me nothing the moment I actually flew the aircraft for the first time. So I guess it doesn't work for all airplanes. But for the 737, while not having a rating on it, I am fully confident I will land a 737 NG safely in real life, especially since I know how to set-up for autoland ;-). EDIT: I want to add that the difficult part is the landing of course. Remember the 9/11 hijackers who flew the airliners to their targets with only cardboard mockup training. The landing is the most tricky part. Flying a Cirrus or a 737 isn't difficult. Doing a difficult approach with turns short before final and touching (not bouncing!) on the numbers is what makes your armpits wet.

Ah, nice, we're getting personal after the first post already. Must mean my post made some sense. Ey, ey, easy on the guy who has a bachelor in journalism. (yep, that's me) This is not about free speech. It is about the free market. You get what you deserve. Offer meets demand. You know, the basic stuff. It goes for cars, airplanes, but also for newspapers and other media. In which case PMDG could say: We never published any delivery date on said project, and refrain from further comment. That is how you deal with trashy tabloids. You don't actually call them that. Because they have customers who might be offended, and that might be your customers as well. Since he is in the DEV-team as said by his signature? I just wanted to make clear that as a part of the PMDG company, anything he says in public (especially with the signature attached) is seen as official PMDG messaging. Yeah, because they are not my customers. I, however, am one of theirs and expect to be treated as such. I know, but that doesn't mean you should lose basic skills when it comes to customer treatment. They are still your customer. Whatever kind of moron they may be. If you offend them, you may offend many others as well. Especially when you are so stupid to do it on a public forum. It has been building up over the last weeks. AirDailyX played a big part in getting updated on the latest flightsim developments in the last few weeks, as I tried to catch up with what happened the last three years. Just getting back into all the flight-sim-stuff and I am amazed every day by what happens in the forums. It stops me from buying. Important reason of spending money on flightsimulator addons was contributing something to the community. Coming back to that community, I more and more ask myself if a. I want to be part of it and b. if I want to spend money keeping it alive. Erik I am not a contributor to AirDailyX, where did you get that from?

I am sorry, but how is estimating a release date on a flightsim product irresponsible in your view? Does it bring the world to an end? Get back to reality, please! If we would be talking about a tabloid putting a story on the front page that the POTUS has been shot, or that HSBC or Citibank is on verge of collapse, that would be irresponsible. We are talking about a flightsim addon for ***** sake. One major rule about media in the free world: Every nation and every community gets the media it deserves. So if the one of the most accurate and informative blogs about flightsim on the web is a trashy tabloid as said by mr. PMDG, that actually tells a lot about mr. PMDG and his customers. I have been involved with Flightsim in the past, and have just come back after three years where I had no time for flightsim because I was bizzy doing real flying. Coming back, I am amazed by the total lack of customer friendliness of most developers. At ORBX, they are arrogant pricks as they showed in the whole FTXG-DX10 debacle. Every bug report at FSDreamteams' is always approached with the greatest scepticism and mr. Virtuali is never at fault. And now this from PMDG, it all amazes me. I have spent thousands of euro's on flight simulator software during the last ten years. I have bought sceneries I only visited once, just to try. I have bought planes that only left my virtual hangar once. I used to buy addons from certain developers, just to support future development. I would be willing to spend the 90USD on the 777, however I would most likely never fly it. But for now, I have given up. Screw this. Erik EDIT: Come to think of it: I am going to announce the imminent release of the 747 v2 on my Facebook and G+ streams. Lets see if the world comes to an end. It just feels so good to act irresponsible now and then. It's just like drunk driving. Oh, wait..

Out of my head: Boeing 737-300/400/500/700/800/900 Boeing 747-400 Boeing 757-200/300 Boeing 767-300 Airbus A319 Airbus A320 Airbus A321 Airbus A330-200/300 Airbus A340-300/600 McDonnelDouglas MD-11 Bombardier Dash8-Q400 Fokker 50 Fokker 70 Fokker 100 ATR72-200/500 BAe RJ85 BAe RJ100 Cessna C150/C152/C172/C182/C206/C208/C337/C421/O-2A/CJ Mustang/CJ1 Piper Pa18 Cub, Super Cub, Warrior, Archer, Meridian Socata TBM700/850 Beechcraft KingAir E90 Generalavia F22.C Lockheed C130J Douglas DC-3 Douglas DC-10 PBY Catalina Antonov An-2 Extra 300L Pitts Special Cirrus SR22 G3/G5

Yeah, I've run into this problem too.Solution:Create a new folder named AMSafcad, and within it create another folder named scenery. Put the AFCAD you want to use in it, and add the folder AMSafcad to your Scenery Library ABOVE the Aerosoft Amsterdam folders.Good luck!Rgds,