coastaldriver

Well thought hard and long about this and the actions of that organisation. Realised that i had uploaded for free - probably 30 or more liveries (countless hours of work by me) not to mention other numerous contributions to designers and users on technical aeronautical issues etc, helped modify and fix several XP11 models for XP12. That is now over and finished got better things to do than make XPlane.Org look good. If I need something (which I doubt now) then I will go to alternative outlets, if they cannot be had that way then bad luck- my wallet is now closed to the Org.

Already done! Sad but true. Guess I come from a different way of doing business - you did not diddle your customers nor be dishonest about intent or functionality! It is actually a long standing commercial law contracts standard all over the world. Fit for purpose! Anyway really enjoying XP12 at the moment - no org means I keep working on a number of paints and improvements to some really nice models - the X-Hangars Cessna C404 Titan - has all the bells and whistles just not the stylish Alabeo textures - but great twin for the sim!

FWIW a mention of not to seek answers or criticise payware suppliers to XPlane.org. I recently posted twice - on two same but similar topics - updates or the lack thereof and the lack of communication from the developer about that. Were they definitely offered - depends on how your read the cryptic responses and I might add always on the discordant discord not the Org. So apparently asking as I did that it had been over a year now are they to be considered legacy (XP11) and left. I also complained on a separate thread about the lack of response - namely - customer service or the lack thereof. Apparently this is now classed as trolling and got me a one month ban from doing anything. Fine by me. time that organisation got an alternative venue in competition. Glad I have purchased my main stuff mostly via the developers directly. A few force you into the org. Anyhow just a mention - no to go on about it at all. Find this sort of thing and it has happened to me before with another developer who put out a broken model and banned me for raising it. Maybe the proprietor of that place needs to look at their loyalites - customers or suppliers!

The reshade thing is a hangover from MS systems and DX9. No longer applicable with XP - all your doing is adding a filter. Lossless scaling - sceptical that there is a magic fix for multi-core threading! Map enhancement or ortho - sure for those dedicated enough - I will wait for some proper scenery changes via base stuff - that get it as good as Global Vector was with FSX - mesh dependant on satellite data will always be gaps in good mesh! Don't know why Laminar just do not get Orbx to do all their world landclass sets for XPlane - would not be that hard - I would pay a fee for it. VFR without Ortho is my bug - you can but not well not in the way I could say look out the window in real life and compare it with the detail on a WAC or ONC. Just do not get that picture. Simple Ground Services is a must as is Live Traffic both take and enhance for very little overhead at all, SGES is very clever, they are good tweaks. Oh and the traffic volume and speed needs to be turned down and get rid of those stupid lamp posts on any place you care to name - and what about dirt roads? So no tweaks on my system at all runs just fine. Pleasure to use and remarkably high quality optics and flight characteristics.

Spoilt for choice it seems sir!

MrBitsFlyer - here is a perfectly good rendition of a light early twin the Beechcraft BE95A TravelAir by Maudic - freeware. As it stands all systems operable and simple. Accurate flight dynamics couple of good paints now available - its free.

I think you would find the model you want if you reframed the question. So in real life which aeroplane would I really want to fly about in - private class, aerobatic, STOL, multi-engine, seaplane? A point was made earlier that all GA aircraft are basic in terms of systems - correct! One size fits all if it is a piston! The basic Piper Cub which Laminar provide is a perfect reproduction. get the small wheel modded one if your not into big wheels. In the twin department - they are all there and all excellent. Cessnas, Pipers, Beechcraft, Britten Norman, de Havilland and some odds and sods (like the Morava) And they are not all payware - lot of very good private developers who put out some amazing stuff - Like Flying Tak's Subaru a Cessna 170 and quite a few others. Any duds? Not sure some are a bit basic in terms of texturing but flight fidelity is all good. Check out the AWX Tiger Moth as an example! Have fun!

Probably cannot see the light snow in the air from the shots, All up superb! Looks like its nailed to me!

Flight from Punta Arena in Chile down to Port Williams in Tierra del Fuego-Patagonia. Cloud presentation and ambient lighting was simply totally believable, even got light snow on arrival at Port Williams fine drifting snow which began accumulating in patches as you watched. No more StarWars in the rain either looked pretty realistic too me as well. Tailwind of 29 kts all the way turbulence well modelled, so

I have been amused lately at the stream of posts advocating mods and various tweaks to XPlane 12. Not sure why on the technical aspects other than scenery issues (that will get fixed up eventually) - I have been more than happy to ride along with XP12 and the various beta updates and found no reason to tweak or adjust anything - so I run a bog standard sim setup as Laminar makes it - works fine for me. No shortage of claims that x does y or this will give you this or that and ah yes the elusive supercharged FPS and miraculous scenery. Though about lots of them, they run from graphics manipulation to basic OS manipulation with everything in between. Yet to be convinced any of them do anything worthwhile. I remember this game from FSX days where MS left a half finished product out there which called for endless tweaks and mods and even Lockheed Martin need 5 iterations to get it to work reasonably with modern CPU's and GPU's. Just cannot see that with Laminar - the basic release of XP12 was so impressive I ditched FSX and P3D and have avoided the MS world ever since (You want me to download 400GB of bloated code -to do what?). Going to sit them all out - maybe a lot of us should take a deep breath and get to appreciate what a word not allowed good job Laminar have wrought with bits and bytes across all OS (Mac. Linux and Win) still that need to tinker is an interesting compulsion.

Yeah needed some spice before it got frozen solid in the big white of Antartica! According to the dictionaries Chile is a variation in the spelling of Chilli, some reckon it means child, others the Chili you eat and some an cold lands end or a country in South America! Take your pick! Either way some really interesting flying to be had in that country - highly recommended. Good pick Litjan - I need new glasses!

Someone complained about no cumulus clouds in another thread. This is how the sim looked for me today flight out of Punta Arena in Chili to Antartica - I guess these are not cumulus. Not sure you can ask for better than this!

Yes a lot of developers who did JF work never went to XP and they were not the only ones, the pull of sales early on in MSFS was just overpowering as for upgrades of other stuff to XP12 we can see heaps of stuff done for XP11 that has been left to rot so to speak and will not be redone for XP12. I think some of this development work was simply opportunistic to get a market of any sort while the MSFS thing was kicking off. Like PMDG and the DC-6 did for FSX/P3D and then XP11 and now it is pulled completely (Got burned with that one so PMDG is last on my list for anything any more) Many and various reasons for this happening too not related to it being too hard or not cost effective but simply one man band developers just stop doing it for all sorts of reasons. The uptake of XP12 BAE146 seems healthy enough given the number of screenshots etc being posted about the place.

OFT but relevant - re Just Flight. They had minimal inhouse developers and most of their stuff was done under contract by other developers particularly earlier sim stuff for FSX/P3D. A lot of it was actually done by Aeroplane Heaven (AH) and they said they built to price and deliberately dumbed down stuff for JF. Some was quite sophisticated or detailed as well but some was well shall we say basic and who did them I have a few clues but not definitively. So the issue there is the conversion to XP problem - you cannot just rework these older models for XP the design architecture etc is different. I was a significant customer for JF for years and still buy for XP if and when I can there - they were a reputable honest provider to the sim world. I miss the VC10 that was a real gem - cruising at M 0.92 and extremely detailed but alas FSX/P3D only.

Waited over a year for this one to finally be finished. That said so far so good (Sound is a bit disappointing) Had the Pilot version in FSX/P3D and like all my flying boat stuff (extensive rebuilds of classic flying boats like the Imperial C Class etc) went the way of being parked in the box for good when P3D FSX was booted for good by me and XP12 became my go to Flight Sim program. . Anyway another era in aviation, no GPS , basic Sperry autopilot and no plug in to do celestial navigation (yet). Representative of an amazing era that was over before it began really. I give them 10/10 for doing this - got to be dedicated to build this for the sim with no extant real aeroplanes in existence anywhere. (The Foynes one is a mock up)