twharrell

Depends on how you define tedious. I use Alpha India Group flight plans. And there are many FSX/P3D AI models that are quite exceptional (FAIB, for example). The free AI Flight Planner Utility makes installing these flight plan packages a breeze. And it's free.

Aaron, I typically check flightaware.com, which typically gives altitudes fir most flights. I use whatever PFPX or Simbrief recommends but I sometimes crosscheck it with flightware, because you may get an unrealistic altitude. For exampke, when flying from KLAS to KLAX (a 40 min flight), FL380 is not very realistic since you'll reach top of descent well before you ever hit FL380.

If you are into short long-haul flights, there is always the FSLabs Concorde.

Eaglesoft Citation X, Flight 1 Citation Mustang, Flysimware Learjet 35A, Lionheart Learjet 24. I would say those 4 are the best if you want excellent to reasonable systems modelling (listed in order of systems complexity).

I think another big reason is many developers have full time jobs and families. Any free time away from the day job goes to family first. The rest of their free time is spent developing rather than giving updates.

Lots of good flyfishing in those waters!

Yup, that's the link I am having issues with. Anyway, I found a way to get to it through the NATS website and clicking in the pdf directly works. Go figure.

There may be better places to ask this but I figured this is where most of the long haul folks hang out, so.... Is anyone else having difficulty accessing the NATS SRD? I used to have no issues but lately I've been getting an error message when I click on the link. Something about a Robot.txt thing. Strange.

Are jetways animated? Aerosoft really needs to detach itself from the AES teet.

The Milviz 310 is second to none IMHO.

Damian, P3Dv3 was updated well before the ASN update. I'll submit a ticket. Thanks.

Hi, folks. I posted my issue on the ASN forum but so far I haven't gotten an answer. I use ASN with the new service pat h that allows you to disable multi layers in P3Dv3 (sorry, I forget the version number). It seems this has fixed a lot of the issues for a lot of people. For some reason, I am not one of the lucky ones. What happens is about 1-2 hours into my flight, I start to get stutters and these get worse over time. If I close ASN, then restart it, all is smooth again. This is repeatable. Before the latest build I was having zero issues - smooth flights from start to finish in any weather. Here's the crazy part. I reverted back to the ASN version that gave me no issues and the problem remains. This makes no sense but ASN is definitely the culprit. I'm starting to wonder if the latest build messed something up during install. I have a feeling it's going to require that I do a complete reinstallation of P3Dv3.2, but I am hoping to avoid that. If someone has been having the same experience and has a solution, please let me know. Just FYI, I have blocked firewall and malwarebytes from accessing my P3D folder and ASN folder. Thanks, Todd

That Aviation Week article that was posted was very informative. Thanks! Flights from KLAX to NZAA: http://i.stuff.co.nz/travel/news/73911913/American-Airlines-to-fly-Auckland-LA-route ANZ 1 and ANZ 5 (777-200/300 service) PRCH1 FICKY 3000N/12300W 2500N/12800W 2000N/13300W 1500N/13700W 1000N/14100W ANJJE 0100N/15000W 0500S/15706W 1000S/16100W KINAG 2000S/16800W 2500S/17200W 3000S/17700W 3435S/17738E EXOPI AA

Patrick, I have all of MisterX's sceneries and they are quite good. I was talking more about the area around the airports. I expect LA, for example, to look more like a city than open pasture. Upping the autogen either barely helps or crashes the sim if I go too high. Uwespeed, I realize RTH only affects shading, etc, not the actual scenery. When I try and tweak the blue color, for example, nothing happens. I can load one of the provided sets, however and can see a difference.

So, I'm giving X-plane another go since my first try was a little frustrating (long story). I have the North America version only as I want to use it mostly for Pilot Edge. My biggest issue right now is LA, San Diego, and other cities look like farmlands. I thought installing W2XP America and the world content library would change all that but I guess it doesn't because I don't see any difference at all. The LA Basin and San Diego still look like a giant pastures with a few trees. Is there a way to make cities look like cities or is this just a short-coming of X-plane? Also, I installed Real Terra Haze, and I can open the RTH window in the sim, but when I manipulate the various parameters I see no change in the scenery at all. Add to that I have no cloud shadows, which is odd. Although I did install a different cloud set (Clouds HD) so that might be the issue. If it is, how can I get those shadows back? So, I'm thinking there has to be something I am doing wrong. Any help is greatly appreciated because I would really like to make X-plane work. Thanks! Todd

And if by any chance you don't get the info you want from flightaware, ifly.com has about every terminal map you need. You can at least find out what gates are used by each airline.

Thanks guys. That's kind of what I thought but just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything.

I've read quite a lot about NAT tracks and flight planning for flights over the Atlantic, and I've read a lot about flights uisng PACOTs in the northern Pacific region, but have been having a hard time finding any info about routes in the Southern Pacific. On SkyVector, I see there are "tracks", or airways that link the western US to the Oceanic region, yet when I look at flight plan on flightaware, it seems many airlines have their own preferred routes rather than using those defined airways. I'm curious if there is any documentation or guidelines for flight planning flights from the Western US to Australia/New Zealand. Thanks.

The thing is P3Dv3.2 was very smooth for me with ASN and REX soft clouds before that update. I haven't made any other changes to the sim. I uninstalled ASN, and then installed the previous version that was working just fine, but that didn't help, which makes me wonder if that update messed up something in P3D.

I still have problems even with the new ASN beta and clouds at 0.5. Decided to revert back to the ASN version prior to 5921, which was working great for me. However even that didn't help. Something about that update really messed things up in my sim. Flights start smooth but end choppy as hell. If I close ASN, all is smooth again.

Any chances of getting this for the maybe soon up and coming FSL A320?

Excellent thought, Rob! I'll second that!

Yup, I know how to go direct. I was just wondering if there was a way to activate a leg that you are going to intercept. I thought you just highlight the next waypoint and hit "enter" to activate that leg. I haven't tried "Menu". I'll try Ryan's suggestion next time.

Interesting. I always thought the 1900D was the first. At least it was the first product that I ever purchased from them. Parts of me wish they would release it for P3D. The 1900D was the first "complex" commercial aircraft I cut my teeth on in FS9. My first flight was from Denver to North Platte, NE. Good times.

I'll reserve final judgement on DTG Flight School until after it is released next month. What I will say here is I am hopefully optimistic it will be more than it is being portrayed here, especially after listening to an interview with Jordan King linked on ADX. Flight School could end up being a great jumping off point for people who want to take simming more seriously. I don't remember the gentleman's name that King interviewed, but he did mention the possibility of building on the Flight School premise to include more "ratings" in the future, like instrument and commercial. If DTG does go in that direction, expanding the product over time, then it could be very successful. If it ends up being another "Flight," well then it will have a short life. Until we know for certain, I'll remain optimistic and wait to see what April offers.