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Noted, thanks for pointing it out. I'll fix that when have a moment; the rules have been updated since my sig was created years ago, and I received no notification of the changes. I see they also now allow only two images and five links, so we both need to make updates.

Just stumbled on this project, definitely looking forward to US coverage at some point in the future. This would be a great complement to Megascenery Earth!

I spoke with them by email, and they apologized for the downtime. They'd told me they were expecting to be back online by 5PM today, but obviously that didn't happen. They also told me they would be repeating the 10% Tuesday deal on Thursday instead, but it wasn't clear from their response if the 50% discount would be extended too. I'm certainly hoping so, as I was planning to buy another six states to go with the one I already own.

AirDisplay is definitely not worth trying. Splashtop when I tried it some time back wasn't any good either, but I am not sure I've tried version 2. (That said, it has trouble smoothly streaming video across my network when older versions were fine, so I have my reservations.) Not honestly sure about XDisplay or Splashtop 2, though; I'll try to give them a spin soon. But yes, there are definitely drawbacks. At the very least it will consume resources on the PC running FSX, and will require use of windowed mode. Still, it may be worth putting up with that if it is smooth. The CDU is the most painful VC feature to deal with, unless you expand it (which rather takes you out of the whole "virtual feeling").

We're at cross purposes here; I saw mention of AirDisplay, not XDisplay (which seems to be a variant of Splashtop). I dived in to reply to quickly and should have read more; my apologies. Sent from my Transformer TF101 using Tapatalk 2

No, because as I said, I am not going to judge lag from a video. It's not possible to accurately judge lag from a video, so I won't be trying. The lag will vary depending on your setup. Add complex scenery and other addons, high graphical settings, etc. and it will be more than two or three frames per second difference. In my own setup with a more powerful PC than your own (except for the graphics card), I was seeing up to something on the order of an 8-10fps difference, enough to turn smooth flight into stuttery flight. You're not talking about AirDisplay. I was not talking about Splashtop. They're two completely different products; no wonder you disagree. All of this is beside the point, though. It is beyond dispute that a built-in mechanism for displaying the CDU on an external device would be far, far preferable than a simple screen-sharing app. It would take far less resources, waste far less network bandwidth, and be a significantly better experience.

Yes, I think that, and multiple others have reported the exact same problem in a thread specifically related to AirDisplay. Or are you perhaps referring to a different app; not AirDisplay but XDisplay? If so, these replies will not be relevant, but I was talking about AirDisplay in the post you replied to. There is also a very significant frame rate difference -- not because of AirDisplay itself, but because that setup forces you to run FSX in windowed mode to get the CDU on a secondary display. Compare FSX running full screen to FSX in windowed mode and you'll see a significant reduction in frame rates. I prefer to consider my own experience on a powerful PC (see signature for specs, though it's been upgraded a bit, now has dual SSDs for example) than trying to judge lag from somebody's random video online. The lag is there, real, and could be erased almost totally by a setup that was designed by PMDG instead of a third-party kludge. It's my opinion and that of many others. I did more than that. I spent several hours trying to find a way to turn it into a usable setup. It was not physically possible to do so, unless I greatly dialed back my expectations of what "usable" meant. You may have different expectations.

So far, I've not seen one where the disadvantages don't outweigh the advantages. Sent from my Transformer TF101 using Tapatalk 2

AirDisplay is simply not a solution. As I said in another thread, the issues are twofold: you have to have the CDU screen slightly overlapped from the AirDisplay monitor to the main monitor, or it stops updating. You're also forced to use windowed mode, which kills your frame rate. And that's not to mention the fact that you're basically transmitting the entire resolution of your tablet display across the network, rather than simply transmitting button presses and screen text. That could be near-instantaneous, and could be made to update in real time with minimal load on the host PC or network. (Ideal would be for the SDK to provide access to both screen text or rendered screen images for the CDU, and rendered screen images for the other displays, allowing all controls and displays to be mirrored on a tablet app for a more tactile experience.) The AirDisplay route is anything but instantaneous, with significant lag even on a powerful PC and tablet. I really, really hope PMDG considers opening up access to all of this, or builds the apps themselves. (But if the latter, it needs to be Android as well as iOS; lots of us don't let walled garden hardware in our houses.)

I'm going to have to seriously consider renaming my existing one. ;-)

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Registering a hope, probably, more than a guess, but could it perchance be the ability to control things like the CDU, autopilot, radios, etc. remotely from an Android or iOS device? :-) Please? Pretty please? :-)

I'd love to see this functionality supported. I'm on Android and tried the AirDisplay route, but it simply isn't usefully usable. The issues are twofold: you have to have the CDU screen slightly overlapped from the AirDisplay monitor to the main monitor, or it stops updating. You're also forced to use windowed mode, which kills your frame rate. And that's not to mention the fact that you're basically transmitting the entire resolution of your tablet display across the network, rather than simply transmitting button presses and screen text. That could be near-instantaneous, and could be made to update in real time with minimal load on the host PC or network. (Ideal would be for the SDK to provide access to both screen text or rendered screen images for the CDU, and rendered screen images for the other displays, allowing all controls and displays to be mirrored on a tablet app for a more tactile experience.) The AirDisplay route is anything but instantaneous, with significant lag even on a powerful PC and tablet. I really, really hope PMDG considers opening up access to all of this.

PMDG 777 preview: check. Microsoft Flight experiment abandoned: check. Could this day get any better? Well, only if Lockheed Martin announced that they were officially offering Prepar3D to the public without having to pretend to be a developer... :lol: B)

If it could be seamlessly integrated with flight sim along with something like a Track IR, it could be pretty amazing, but you'd pretty-much have to have an on-screen representation of at the very least your fingertips to know what you were touching, and I'm not sure how that would be achieved in a manner that wouldn't take you out of the sim as much or more than using a mouse does. Still, I'm interested to see where it goes...

A sad indictment of Flight: I can't even be bothered to download or install it, now that it's freely available. It just has zero interest to me.

You assume that PMDG will be developing for Flight, but from what I've read, the opposite looks more likely. There's a good chance you'll be stuck with whatever MS decides to offer you, as it's not looking promising for a healthy addon community around Flight.

Sorry, not taking the bait. You're on ignore...

Yes, I've seen that. I've also read the EULA, and it directly and in no uncertain terms contradicts him. He can say it's open to the public until he's blue in the face, but until the EULA is changed, it means nothing.Exact quotes from the EULA with bold by me for emphasis):"YOU ARE AGREEING TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT, PLEASE DISCONTINUE USAGE."" License Grant. Subject to the terms and conditions of this EULA, Licensor hereby grants Licensee a fully paid-up, nontransferable, nonsublicensable, nonexclusive license during the Term of this EULA to use the Software, but only on no more than one computer at any one time, only by no more than one user at any one time, and only for purposes other than personal/consumer entertainment."This is what I referred to as "turning a blind eye" to consumer use. If consumer use was really allowed, it would not be expressly prohibited in the very first clause of the EULA.Edit: Don't believe me? Read the EULA yourself: http://www.prepar3d.com/support/end-user-license-agreement-eula/

I agree completely. Everybody touting the $10 monthly developer license is missing something -- you're buying into a license that is not intended for consumer use. Yes, Lockheed has suggested that they'll turn a blind eye to this right now. There's nothing to say that will be the case next year, next month, or even next week. It's perfectly possible that Lockheed will suddenly decide to enforce the developer requirements for any reason whatsoever, at which point you could lose access to your sim and anything third-party that you've purchased to work with it.I'd love to support Prepar3D, but for me, it's not an option right now, and it won't be until it's possible for a consumer to legitimately buy a retail version which doesn't rely on pretending to be a developer, and doesn't rely on a monthly licensing scheme that means my investment in the sim can be nullified at the flick of a switch whenever Lockheed decides to turn the servers off.

Frankly, I am glad to hear you're not actively developing anything for Flight. As of the current time, it appears to be a dead-end.What I'd hope, though, is that you're preparing for another future, because I'm sure that as soon as Flight's available, Microsoft will stop shipping FSX in an attempt to prevent it competing with Flight. At that point, we'll have a shrinking community, and you'll have a shrinking audience for your products.What I'd hope to hear is not that you've been strongarmed by Microsoft into living with bad terms to develop for what appears to be a bad product, but rather that you're working on moving to another competing platform that offers what Flight Simulator once did.Be that X-Plane, Prepar3D, or something else altogether, I want to see PMDG show the way towards a new future for our community, where you can feel free to develop products of the same quality for which you've become known, on your own terms. (But if it's Prepar3D, please don't take that step unless they make it official that they support the general public using their product, rather than simply turning a blind eye to it -- that's my biggest problem right now with them.)

You certainly could previously, and it was something reviews commented on positively. I've not tested myself in the current release to see if it's really gone (it's awkward for me to do, because I don't have anything like a TrackIR), but I doubt it's been removed deliberately.

Nvidia's drivers have long-standing, known problems with Alt-Tabbing out of FSX. Eg:http://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/285.62/285.62-Win7-WinVista-Desktop-Release-Notes.pdf"Flight Simulator X–pressing Alt+Tab to switch to the desktop does not work. [293729]"With FSX being out of development and as old as it is, I highly doubt they'll ever bother to fix this. My guess is that it's involved in your problem...

Thanks so much, Ryan! I wasn't sure if I could safely assume that (nor did I know the precise date SP1 released, offhand), but now I do. Very much appreciate the quick help with this!

My apologies, I should have said; I couldn't determine from the datestamp on the files, as the dates vary wildly (presumably matching the times PMDG built each file among the defaults, and the times I built my own few. Nor can I tell from the names, as I simply called mine things like "default" when I first got the NGX, before realizing that it shipped with suitable states already. Dumb, I know; next time I'll make sure my own states have a useful naming schema.