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hehe, i know the feeling sometimes! All I know is EIN have four A320's on wet lease to Virgin, so I'd assume the other two Irish registered ones are theirs... Can probably find out for definite if you really want to know!

Technically speaking the first four are Aer Lingus' not Richard's - he's only borrowing them Lovely looking paints, nicely captured! Sent from my HTC One X+ using Tapatalk

Is there an option to tune to Shannon Centre once you're cleared to change frequency? Try asking them for flight following.... I can't remember whether it was any different using it in RoI (I suspect not), but I know I've never had any problems accessing it when I wnated it!

It depends. REXe does two things, it installs textures into FSX and it runs as a weather engine. If all you want is the textures you can just install them into the sim, close REXe and work away. If you want it to provide the weather too, it needs to be running. Opus (another weather engine) injects the weather into the sim and the sim will display whatever textures it has installed, so to use REXe with Opus, just install the textures, close REXe, then run opus and FSX as normal... REX textures stay installed until overwritten with different ones or restored to the default. Sent from my HTC One X+ using Tapatalk

That and AI... I've got WOAI and MAIW installed in individual folders within the simobjects folder, so I can switch them on and off via the FSX.cfg... Without AI FSX loads in about a minute, with both enabled it takes about 7-8 minutes...

FTXG>GEX but not by too much, the biggest upside of using FTX is that it covers the whole planet. If you plan on doing much flying in out of the way areas then it's well worth it!

I'd be looking at your monitor anf GFX card settings to see if you accidentally enabled 3D mode (upgrade your GFX drivers or anyhing recently)... AFAIK there's no 3D elements in REX4 (I certainly haven't found any!)

The islander has a gps, it's just rather old fashioned... You could always just not use the gps where there is one... Nobody'll force you to switch it on! Sent from my HTC One X+ using Tapatalk

Typing as I'm taking a break from repainting an FS9 aircraft with far too many separate texture sheets, I can safely say that anything beats fiddling with DXTbmp! If only there was an extended-bmp plugin for photoshop :(

Interesting... Didn't know that method, cheers! That's the great thing about PS so many ways to accomplish your goals... Normally I create a normal image layer with the greyscale alpha image I want and copy/paste it into the alpha layer... Sent from my HTC One X+ using Tapatalk

Try PlanG it's a far better planning tool than the built in one. Gives you a good map interface and of you have fsupic installed (free version is fine) you can plug it into the sim and it'll track you on the map, display traffic and give you lots of flight information enroute. Only snag is you have to alt-tab to view it while in game if you're running fullscreen... Sent from my HTC One X+ using Tapatalk

Aye, true that.... Must be working too hard!

sounds like you texture needs to be flipped... There's a checkbox when you're saving throught the plugin to automatically flip the texture, make sure it's checked (or rotate your canvas 180 if you're working on a nupside-down texture sheet!).

Well, I've spent a while browsing the screenshots on ORBX... The only POI that's stood out to me so far is the Poolbeg power station - missing those would be as bad as omitting the H&W cranes from Belfast... hmmm EIDW looks extremely basic - apparently they didn't bother doing much with it as Aerosoft are working on one.... The mountains appear soft and rounded which says that, like NI, there is no upgraded mesh for this scenery. The ground textures, like with NI, look extremely good and highly appropriate for the Irish countryside. EICM looks pretty good, but the terminal building seems to be a large hangar now, there's a fantastic freeware offering out there. EIKN looks pretty basic, but I'm not familiar enough with the airport to know what's right or wrong.

No mesh = no buy, wasn't pleased with NI Wonder how many landmarks and custom objects they've included... Sent from my HTC One X+ using Tapatalk

Now install GibraltarX and make it look pretty! The autogen growing out of the side of the Rock kinda spoiled the default for me! Sent from my HTC One X+ using Tapatalk

Word on SOH is he's considering doing a suitably vintage vc for it... Fingers crossed he does, as great as it looks, the modified basler vc (which is what it's got) spoils the dakota experience for me... Sent from my HTC One X+ using Tapatalk

There's a separate sound pack on sim outhouse by Ted Wolfgang which is nothing short of incredible.... Sent from my HTC One X+ using Tapatalk

Looking good! You picked a great subject and colurscheme for your first paint! Does the nvidia plugin not work with PS elements? That way you could do away with the need for dxtbmp and having to remember to flip stuff (you can set it to automatically flip them for you)... And yes, I'm a compulsive pixel counter - nearly drove me mad working on paints for the jf dc3 - I just have to fix every single misplaced pixel... Sent from my HTC One X+ using Tapatalk

Bottom line is you've got someone with the knowledge to offer a service (no idea of his level of knowledge but I can only presume some...) that lots of folks are unable/unwilling to do for themselves - what exactly is wrong with that? You wouldn't bring your car to a garage and expect them to work for free would you? It'd be a different matter if this guy were charging to do the work and making the problems worse, or failing to get any results, but I'm not seeing anyone claiming that... Perhaps ye feel that all addons should be provided for free and users pay as much or as little as they think it's worth? It's the same principle... Sent from my HTC One X+ using Tapatalk

.. Though it is worth pointing out that Adobe have made Photoshop cs2 available for free, and with the nvidia plugin it eliminates the problems with flipping textures (does it automatically) and will save the texture and alpha l together in one go... Sent from my HTC One X+ using Tapatalk

Ta muchly, seems I've got a long weekend ahead of me... Sent from my HTC One X+ using Tapatalk

Right, I'm looking to re-skin an FS2004 aircraft for use in FSX, it's textures are pants, so I'm basically having to redraw them from scratch anyway. I want to change a few things up, but first I need to know that it'll work and I won't be wasting my time... The textures are currently 1024x1024, if I simply make the new textures 2048x2048 (without mip maps!) will they load as usual or is the texture size coded into the model or anything? I know that in FS9 the max texture size if 1024, but I'm assuming this is set by the sim, so it won't be an issue in FSX? Similarly if I change the texture format will they work ok? They're currently in extended bmp format and I'd rather use DXT-5 (simply because then I can save directly from photoshop without needing to use DXTbmp). Lastly I'm guessing that I can't add the likes of a bump map unless it's been built into the model and it's expecting to find one?

There's one for V1 which can be easily converted... The conversion kit is included with the pack of repaints iirc... Sent from my HTC One X+ using Tapatalk

Bought it, binned it, went to Woai..... I had issues with airports being out of place (though nothing close to 8 miles), traffic appearing at all the parking spots and not moving, landing traffic disappearing because there was nowhere for them to go, old models/liveries appearing at the wrong time despite setting up their cutoff dates... 2 weeks of back and forth with their support people solved nothing, in the end I decided not to waste any more time on it... Sent from my HTC One X+ using Tapatalk