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The Dreamfoil Schweizer S300CBi Revision1 is now available (the chopper only came out last week). There's a great review at Helisimmer where it's one of the top rated helicopters there and scores slightly higher than the DCS Huey (which I also love). If you are a virtual chopper pilot, then do yourself a favour and check it out. I nearly passed up on this one because it looked so insignificant ... boy was I wrong, it's a ton of fun to fly and great for honing basic helicopter flying skills.

This! The REP modules are fantastic and I believe they *may* be bringing a REP of the Carenado Baron 58 next.

Some people did. You obviously don't. Hip hip for FloB.

That seems to be the case, but when I ran my Updater I swear it said b5a lol.

Turn the checklist off in the settings. I think it's mouse gestures or something similar that I turned off because that was annoying. As far as failures go I get very few and many of the messages are hints (if you have hints turned on) reminding the pilot of best practice. I don't seem to get the vacuum lock message that often tbh.

If you've never run an XP beta before, run the "X-Plane 10 Installer.exe" which should be in the root directory of your XP install. When you run the installer there's an option to download the beta (tickbox). If you're new to XP, I'd recommend that you explicitly setup a separate X-Plane install first and only apply the beta updates to it so you will always have a stable version running (you can do that with the installer as well ... or just copy and paste your existing XP install and call it something else e.g. "X-Plane Beta"). If you don't have it you can download the latest installer from www.x-plane.com Caveat - I don't know about Mac's ... I'm running Windows 10.

I will only by REP-ed versions of Carenado now; well except for the Navajo, but that's only because I really hope the P31 get's REP-ed.

As per topic title Have no idea what it's like yet or what the changelog is.

According to their facebook page, the new upgrade is out and I'm downloading from the Org Store now! If you don't know what REP is, it's an acronym for Reality Expansion Pack and it improves the realism on the aircraft that it's been designed for. It's a fantastic product and turns the Carenado planes (mediocre in terms of fidelity completeness) into high fidelity beasties . It's changed my flying for the better (made me a better pilot) and is hugely satisfying; once you go REP you can never go back lol. I believe it's similar to the A2A addon but as I don't own that addon I can't vouch for that. Here's the announcement http://www.simcoders.com/2016/06/30/rep-v2-5-0/

You just run the installer and if you have a previous version installed it will uninstall that first and then continue installing the new update. Always keep a copy of the latest installer (SkyMaxx_Pro_3.2.1.zip) somewhere safe in case you need to re-install.

Works well for me too. Very happy with it and with 10.50b4.

That looks amazing!

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As long as you use stable 10.45 ... RTH has issues in beta4 (even with the fix .. night turns Kodakchrome disco for me with RTH in beta4)

Thanks Silver Dragon. I guess I'm a bit OCD that way, I like to know that it's at least AFM or better . I know that 3rd party devs get access to a part of PFM, which they are able to use to augment their own FM logic.

I use X-Camera set at default pilot viewpoint + 2 notches elevation head panning (TrackIR) appears perfect to me i.e. no fish lens effect.

I am really looking forward to this. Will it be proper module or will it use an adapted fm?

I keep coming back to this helicopter lol. Just something about the lines of the Gazelle; she's a beauty alright!

Ok ScramJet . .. I gave you a +1 completely by mistake. I meant to hit the selective quote button ... roflmao You said this .. " I just felt that requiring to have a plane in a particular directory was strange, and completely uncalled for at that point in time. I've used X-Plane for six years now, and this was the first time I'd ever encountered such behavior." That's elitism right there lol. I'm done with this thread, your sense of entitlement is staggering. Grow up kid.

I read the thread ... and thought Cameron gave you a reasonable and polite response to your first query. Then what followed was despite the fact that he said that he didn't want to debate about it you went ahead and did that anyway. They make the IXEG product .. it's their product, their rules and you're licensed to USE it the way they designed it. They are not obligated to X-Plane nor are they obligated to explain why it's designed to work the way it does. If you don't like the explanation don't use the product.

Cor mate, they're flight sim retailers and coders ... not the Evil Empire. It's probably a technical requirement or sumpfink and not an attempt to control and challenge your file structure agnosticism. I'll be the first to jump the barricades to fight the good fight for the proletariat but even I think you're being a bit of a muppet. Thanks for the entertainment though, because it IS a wee bit funny and all . The EDIT .. Please note that X-Plane recommends you install on to your desktop. If you have issues with something X-Plane related and you're running Windows, and you ask for help on the Org, the first thing the old timers will likely ask is .. where have you installed X-Plane, So there goes your XP agnosticism straight out the window (no pun intended). So no one is undermining anything really.

I'd be VERY surprised if it did interfere with anything. XP with Gizmo & Sasl is a lot more *harmonious* in that regard imo.

I hope this becomes a fair-dinkum DCS module. I love the old crate, so reliable and gets in and out of amazingly impossible spots. Also able to fly as something other than combat in DCS .. I fly the helo's in casevac, resup and scouting roles in DCS ... I'd like to shape my DCS flying into a DCS:Bush-Flying experience (I just need to work out how to convince someone to create DCS:Alaska terrain) ... so this plane would be brilliant!

I'm hearing you John (about the sorta understand bit) ... but the bit I really identified with was " If I had a time machine, I’d go back to 2000 and kick myself in the &@($* ..." (quote Ben Supnik "Anatomy of a Crash").

Thanks Paraffin, I'll give that a shot.