Dave_YVR

Intercepting the loc at more than 30 degrees is certainly possible, but isn't recommended. As for being under the glide path, you generally want to aim for 3000' agl so that you are nice and stable for the approach.

Just a layman's explanation as to what you could do here. Descend on the 140 heading towards EDDYY which is a transition on the ILS28R and that will take you right the LOC or you can stay on the 140 hdg descending being mindful of where you plan on intercepting the GP altitude wise (4000asl at 15nm final, 3000 at 12nm etc). Plan accordingly and turn base 010 and then approx 2-2.5nm from the loc make your intercept turn 315 (30 degree intercept) to join, just make sure you are below the GP.

Just pick an ILS to the one of the 28's and self vector to final once you are low enough. Just remember 30 degrees or less to intercept and that no one wants a 16+nm final.

Garmin in FS2020 maybe, it's nothing compared to what the real G1000 can do.

In the US VFR is allowed up to but not including FL180 (Class A airspace), in Canada VFR is capped at 12,500'ASL or the MEA whichever is higher. They can get controlled VFR above that upto but not including FL180.

It happens quite frequently having a vfr encounter ifr conditions and request ifr clearance with out a flight plan on file. First and foremost, issue an ifr clearance when able and then once the aircraft is safe again and if required have them file the ifr flightplan with fss or their flightplan agency.

Just got them completed this afternoon!

There have been times in the past when YVR would run both runways for departures. They call it SPIDS (Simultaneous Parallel Instrument Departures) but it actually slows things down and makes it all more inefficient due to restrictions in place on who gets what runway. The South runway gets offload arrival traffic when the north is loaded or when there's a gain to be had in doing so, it all depends on who's working arrival at the time.

I was just flying around Kelowna today with the fsimstudios version and didn't get a frame rate hit at all.

Make sure your add-ons.cfg in your C:\Users\XXXX\AppData\Roaming\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v5 folder is set to ACTIVE=true and not false.

The layout is 3 years out of date! Sure the default MSFS CYVR is horrendous and I really want to get this, but come on?

It's not so much the accurate altitudes but everything at the same altitude regardless of their direction of flight is a major dropped ball. As long as you fly with your blinders on and TCAS off, you'll be alright. 😉

Going from Nvidia to Nvidia is easy, just uninstall the current drivers before shutting it down and then run the new driver installer once you are back up with the new card in. There's really not much to it.

I installed the new version yesterday to have a look-see out of curiosity. To me, TG is good and simple if you just want to add traffic to your sim and not care about any sort of realism. Right off the bat, and I'm not sure how this made it past beta testers but EVERY airline flight operates at FL350 regardless of their direction of flight (the cargo flights seem to use random 3 numbered altitudes). Then just looking just at North America for example, the United, and Alaska 737 fleets are still all non-winglet B737-900's, there's lots of various missing types. If you go to LAX, SFO or any other large airport, there's still essentially zero international traffic. The airlines schedules are also very bizarre, every aircraft repeats the exact same 1-2 return flights a day, 7 days a week which results in massive fleets of dormant aircraft. Looking through the cargo schedule just for a few examples. It looks as though almost ALL of the city pairings seem to be random, I see a Nippon Cargo B747-8 that operates daily just between Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas to Mountain Home AFB in Utah? Or a China Cargo B757 that operates only between Long Beach California to Miramar MCAS? A FedEx A300 that only operates only between Bogota, Columbia to RAF Mount Pleasant in the Falkland Islands? They also have Cargolux operating 23 B747-8F's (they have 14 irl) and NONE of them operate to/from their homebase of Luxembourg ELLX. FedEx and UPS while are sort of included are very random and non existent at KMEM or KSDF. Just a very odd assortment of traffic overall.

Mesh can be a good thing and it's very different to LC or Global Base. Personally I choose NOT to use extra mesh outside of what is included in the ORBX FTX regions as it commonly causes elevation plateaus at airports. Sure it looks better when flying high above the terrain, but where it matters to me is on final when you are close to the ground.

If the AusV2 YSSY airport files aren't disabled, the sim could encounter issues even if you don't think you see any. edit : It's even in the FlyTampa YSSY manual to disable the offending YSSY files from AUSv2 as FlyTampa says it makes a big mess. I would have posted that earlier, but I didn't yet have the new FT YSSY v2 installed. Generally though you should really do this for ANY add-on airports that you have within any ORBX regions.

I'm certain that it would be, YSSY V1 worked great with Orbx Australia V2. You will have to disable some of the AUS V2 YSSY files though as you should with ANY conflicting add-on airports.

More likely they just don't have permission to use the Trademarked Delta and Alaska names/font.

You'd be FAR better off installing your OS on a new NVMe drive. Let the whole system actually take advantage of it.

World of AI, similar to FLAI was a group that recieved the proper permissions from the freeware devs (AIG, AIA, FAIB, TFS etc etc) to package their products and release them to the public with installers. What AIG has done now with OCI etc is more like skipping the middleman.

AIG's free OCI is by far the best route, it does take time to install all of the airlines. It's work that the computer does though and not so much input from you. Just start with the larger airlines that you really want to see and then add from there as you go. It's well worth it. UTL on the other hand is easy to setup and doesn't take much time but is lacking up to date liveries and newer types/fleets etc. While you can add them in yourself, this does take considerable time from the user. The main benefit in UTL is that the traffic flies airways and actual routes, not just direct airport to airport. Traffic Global is an option if you really don't care about what you see in the sim and just want to populate airports with airplanes. Wrong types/liveries, and oh so many missing carriers etc. The TG schedules are also super basic. Every airplane does the same 1 return flight a day, every day which creates loads of dormant aircraft to clog up gates and parking.

No, and they also have never operated A330's.

Even when you set the icao_airline = to the correct airline, the AI still doesn't use the correct livery. I've got all of the correct codes set for the 300+ A320Neo liveries and while they do show up as AI it's still very random. Will have to wait and see what Asobo do down the road to help us out on this one.

Looking good!!

No, not really. The AI traffic is just randomly assigned to the liveries you have added to your sim. While it does look better than default, it's not realistic in any sense at all.