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Laminar's website is but one point of reference . The OP is entitled to canvas opinions from others who use P3D for training purposes, whatever they maybe . Not unexpectedly, the LM website promotes it's products virtues not so much its weaknesses. In my opinion OP, P3D is not great as an IFR trainer ,as an example, no matter what the website says. Reason; the ability to reproduce side view traces of the flight path to determine how well an approach was made , how altitude was maintained what the trace of the holding pattern looks like are not as well done as Xplane. OP keep asking your questions , someone sooner or later will have the good grace to reply with a useful answer.

Jimmy RFR's points summarise why I use Xplane, especially the comments on heli flying. I also find the reproduction of the flight in graphical mode very useful for studying an IFR flight . P3D and FSX are sorely lacking in this area. So for example you can examine how well: altitude was maintained , holding pattterns executed, and most important how well an approach was flown. Paradoxically , weather modelling in XP, as others have mentioned is not brilliant for an IFR sim.

Any of the ISDG scenery is superb . I run Sydney Kingsford Smith YSSL , with the recommended addons and its my sim home base airport for helicopter flying. The runway detail is phenomenonal as far as textures , repairs , line markings , lighting is concerned.

Might be worth running some simple free utilities like CCcleaner which will check for remnants of partially installed files. I've used ccleaner for years and it often finds something left behind by the "official " uninstall utility supplied with whatever program I've just erased. In particular I would run the registry component of ccleaner. This may not solve the problem however if the tree download /install modified prexisting files , CCleaner will not find them.

I bought a GTX 970 using the oft stated advantage of these cards for flight simming. This after many happy years running flawless multimonitor FSX., xplane and any number of games using AMD and eyefinity . With Nvidia surround , my middle screen of three , on the display port always fails to switch on at cold start. It needs a restart to fire up. . I found It harder to setup nvidia multi monitor vs eyefinity .These are minor quibbles with multi monitor nvidia setup which I can overlook if the performance is there. But, I'd be pleased if someone found an advantage to AMD cards in P3d coz I'd be happy to buy one .

Excellent discussion on simconnect proplems here, especially in the second half. http://forum.avsim.net/topic/463120-stutters-vsync-simconnect-a-possible-source-of-the-problem/

Like MickeyJ dodosim works for me as well. I followed these instructions. http://www.hovercontrol.com/cgi-bin/ib3/ikonboard.cgi?s=642961e12b68df3b051783dec8c92844;act=ST;f=46;t=22665 3rd last post on page 1 , then installed legacy version of simconnect . The simconnect files are in the redistributable folder of the LM installation folder. You can check what version of simconnect you have installed by going to the control panel in windows and go to the uninstall programs folder. The simconnect version installed by p3d 2.5 ( i have no previous versions of p3d ) does not allow full functionality of dodosim on my system .