TurboTomato

Not sure I agree that they look the same, I think the scenery looks vastly better in AFS2 when you start to look at the detail.

2 hours ago, kamaz74 said:

You took a free addon, ported to the new version of Prepar3d (let's be honest, that was not hard) and then slapped a $17 price tag on it with the promise of new features in the future. Thank you for giving back to the community. 

You want something for nothing? Go develop the shaders yourself then.

I, for one, have paid my £15 and am perfectly happy. Good on you, Matt.

What sky and cloud textures are you using there?

What scenery are you using there?

Nice natural looking tones there :)

Hmmmm. Looks just like TP. I'd also question whether they actually have the rights to effectively supply photo scenery for the entire world. My first guess would be no considering the rather amateur website.

Superb once again.

I'm playing Assetto Corsa at the moment, rather than P3D but whenever I see your pics I keep getting tempted to fire it up again!

Stunning!

Great shot - someone needs to keep P3D looking good in the face of XP11! 

I disable them for load times and frames - no point in loading something like LFPG if you're passing over it at FL360. I just using the freeware scenery editor to enable/disable before launching P3D.

I have a Navigraph monthly sub and use my Samsung Note 10.1 (no, not the one that sets itself on fire!) to view the charts view the app. It's just about perfect as it's a nice big tablet with a clear, good quality screen.

Nice. Just up my street.

I have to ask though - being UK based - any plans to do the equivalent for Europe? And what is the likely cost per state?

Worked in software involving interfacing with programmers for multi  million dollar commercial simulators, for military and commercial customers. If something was malfunctioning we may reload software. We only do that with the section of the program that is problematic, not wiping everything, which is usually not necessary. We try not to fix things that are not broken. 

So essentially you're agreeing with me then. I agree that a full re-install should not need to be done. But that's not the same as realising that a clean install will always be less prone to error than a updated one. Especially when you consider in our particular case the first thing we do is go and throw a load of software into the application folder that may or may not alter swathes of the application files.

Been working in software since the early 90's. 

Really?! Any experience in development, installers and fixing client issues? Can you not think of reasons why a clean install might not be more reliable/stable than an updated one?

 

If the AF447 pilot in the right seat had conducted stall recovery as it's taught in even a Cessna 172, he wouldn't have killed everyone on the aircraft. There's no great systems knowledge required for that.

 

He could only conduct stall recovery if he firstly identified the fact that he was indeed stalled. That, in a nutshell, is why AF447 crashed.

Digital data is digital data. If you overwrite a working file with the same file downloaded at a later time, the result is exactly the same. 

That's the theory. Reality however, tends to throw you some curve balls. You don't work in software, do you?

In theory yes, but I don't think it always translates that way in the 'clean' vs 'update' scenarios. For what it's worth I've clean installed my 3.4 and have no issues whatsoever at this time - since the day it was released.

Quite

On Facebook there are many, many  people that updated client only and are not having any issues. That is the way P3D was designed by LM, , so that one does not have to do a total reinstall each time an update is released. Now if someone wants to format their HD, reload their OS, etc. etc, and reinstall everything, I guess they like doing things like that. I don't like fixing things that aren't broken. 

That's how it was designed, yes, but in reality it doesn't always work perfectly because of any number of different reasons. A full, clean, install will always be less prone to problems than an install that has had various different bits updated over time.

Full re-intstall of 3.4 for me. No issues whatsoever flying in the AS Airbus. Seems smoother to me, but perhaps that just placebo.

Fantastic clouds - what are you using for them?

Since August, British Airways no longer uses the 767 on longhaul flights. Most of their longhaul 767s are retired now.

I think at least some of them are used in heavy load short haul - from what I remember routes like Heathrow/Madrid etc

Nice. I work right under short final for 26L and I knew Cathay were starting a service soon with the A350, but didn't realise it had actually started.

I echo the others, great news

My humblest apologies for bringing up this very very old thread but are you saying that POSKY and

Skyspirit freeware products work well in P3D??

 

Aharon

Well that would have been an early version of P3Dv2. Not sure on P3Dv3 as I've not tried to use them in it - I bought the Aerosoft Airbus a while ago and haven't used anything else since!

Awesome!!

I've got bored of waiting and don't want to fork out 100€+ so I'm creating my own Austrian photo scenery using FSEarthTiles