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In my order confirmation email it said the following: "Your purchase has been recorded in your account. In order to receive access to your download, you must open a Re-Download ticket in PMDG's Support Portal: http://support.precisionmanuals.com"

Although certain people have servers up and running, you will soon find that they do it because they are little dictators who cannot control life so they try to control a server. I personally learned the hard way to steer clear of servers like these but I will allow you to burn your own tongue. I find that to begin with FSX and its derivatives are hopelessly flawed but very few will admit the extent of the issue. Combine that with the game like flight dynamics and you are left with something that is hardly worth the effort. If you are serious about aviation, try DCS. If you can learn to fly the P51 or UH1 on there, then you are serious about flying. Alternatively you can try REX Latitude which does work with P3D but it is plagued with the old issue which is low pilot count and low quality of pilot. If you are any good, you will end up using DCS. If you have the hand eye coordination of a caterpillar, then stick to fsx or p3d. Dont bother spamming me, I dont keep an eye on this garbage.

Most FSX addons will work with PP3D and those that do not need to be tweaked for prepar3d by the developer of the product.

Brilliant brilliant write up sir. My hat is off to you.

Judging form the comments I have hit a nerve so i must be onto something.

FSX is oficially registerred as entertainment, therefore its a game and not a sim. A real sim will set you back alot of money. Just fly a mission or do a race in FSX to see how gamey it really is. As for the comment about multiplayer....FSMP server kills vatsim. It is obvious the swede has no idea what he is talking about. Furthermore the refreshrates are much higher on a gamespy based server. Vatsim was also mentioned which is full of arrogant A-holes and you in fact have to be one of those to fly on vatsim so if you enjoy vatsim, then you fit into that category.BTW my four year old son flies on FSX alot. He flies helicopters better than most adult pilots. Even more evidense of how gamey it really is.

What do you call a flight simmer with two brain cells? Gifted

How many women does it take to screw in a bulb? One How many men does it take to screw in a bulb? Five. One to hold the bulb and four to turn the chair. How many flight simmers does it take to screw in a bulb? 5000. One to hold the bulb and 4999 to turn the house.What do you call one flight simmer on the moon? Pollution.What do you call all the flight simmers on the moon? A solution.

I'm also curious. If they sort the bird out then I would deffo cough up the dollar to buy it. Cant wait to see it on my sim.

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I think this might be gpu related. If all else fails, you could try different drivers or if you wanted to be extreme try different gpu. You could also try changing from 32bit to 16bit color in FSX. This is an obvioius one but worth mentioning for other people...make sure DX10 preview is off.

Fokker Driver is an iFly pilot by heart. What a rediculous comment.

3d panels all the way.

If you fly on the correct server like FSMP the server does all the required work and no additional software is needed. Gamespy is far superior, people just dont want to hear that becasue they are stuck on platforms like vatsim. Check out the FSMP server and you will agree with me.

I dabble in development and believe me when I say that making a product of this quality is not a small task. The amount of learning we do just to be able to make a simple airplane is overwhelming. Then you havent even started building anything yet. Not to mention hours upon hours spent researching and looking for source material. PMDG is in a league of its own. Anyone who argues this really does not understand what went into creating this machine. No I am not a ###### at all. I just call it as i see it and give credit where due.

There are indeed many good pilots on gamespy. Yes there are alot of youngsters also but you totally missed the point. I fly on the FSMP server alot and here is why. The controllers are excellent. The pilots are excellent. Idiots are filtered out automatically with the revolutionary program FSMP mentioned which he wrote specifically for his server. For example, you cannot fly without a flightplan, you cannot spawn on runways, and you cannot use aircraft that will cause multiplayer issues which plagues other multiplayer platforms. The server automatically adresses these shortcomings and handles them accordingly. So in short, FSMP's custom software makes it the BEST (not used lightly) multiplayer platform currently available. Using terms like 90% is complete BS! I have met some of the best pilots and some of my best mates years ago when I started on gamespy when I happened to be one of those newbs u mentioned. Those newbs when not looked down upon and when insctructed accordingly make better pilots than most. I cannot express how much FSMP's server has helped me in the real world while training to become a helicopter pilot. Saved me alot of money in learning ATC procedures etc.