jason99vmi

I highly doubt they have 10x the freeware. P3D has most of the FSX freeware that was created over years and years. Cattaneo's military aircraft, AI packages, military AI, mesh, airports, photoscenery. While I like XP11, like Ray said it would take too much money to get to the amount of addons i have for P3D that transfered from FSX. Payware that covers almost every major airport around the globe. Orbx regions and airports. XP11 also is missing a lot of aircraft we have in P3D. F-18s, F-14s, actually most military payware. Not to mention the ton of commercial aircraft its still missing. It will start to catch up and many are happy to switch. If i was starting from scratch i'd probably pick XP11 but there are those of us who have a lot invested from the past.

Might wanna try a few things. Using AIFP (if you know what that program is) to scan and check if you have any FS9 traffic files in your sim. There is another program by Lorby in his downloads called ThumbnailexporterX. This program as well can scan your simobjects folder or other folders to find FS9 files. Just tick the model and model type boxes. Anything with a "=MDL8" is an FS9 file.

Most common cause is an old FS9 traffic file creeping into the sim. This will cause this. Hence AnkH questions. Usually changes made since last use is the cause. Did you add anything scenery, AI ships, copy/paste files, etc? Also if your simobjects.cfg does not recognize the folder you have your AI in or the path is not correct.

Agreed. Does seem like XP11 is starting to come on strong. I think the Orbx True Earth updates are a great step. A much better user interface would be nice. Maybe to appease DTG they buy their UI code.

NA Airport pack (FTX enhanced airports)...yes. AI models, traffic flightplans for NA...no. They haven't done it for v4 yet. i really hope they do. Their GA models for the AU/NZ pack are a nice set.

Not for P3D v4 though. Only the AI AU/NZ works in v4 last I saw.

AIG has a plethora of models and flightplans for GA including an extensive Bizjet section. I'm sure you can add AI separate of whatever software you bought. Probably best to keep your GA AI models and flightplans in a separate location then the payware. Then just point the sim to the folders. Or add via .xml method. Orbx FTX AU AI package you are referring to is for Australia only but the GA models and aircraft are very nice and can be used separately after downloading. In fact HTAI payware Cessna package is included in this FTX package so its a nice to have. http://www.alpha-india.net/forums/ https://aibizjetproject.weebly.com/

Well yes default airports will cause this. Might want to look into downloading Robert Catherall's scenery files he has converted from Ray Smith's great FSX airports. Those are mainly just the large airports. Tons of other FSX airports will work in P3D but you may need to fix the taxiways in ADEX. You can also fix this via ADEX. This way you can assign gates for larger sizes and even adjust the gate size by wingspan. But i think if there is no suitable gate parking for large aircraft then they default to like Cargo etc. I could be wrong, but i know smaller aircraft default to other non gate parking spots automatically.

Yeah there were bad thunderstorms yesterday in DC around 6pm or so. But looks like you made it out before hand. Recently flew into DFW near a thunderstorm with REX Skyforce and ASv4 it looked as real as it can get with big thunderheads and curtain of rain isolated.

Yeah mostly fly in US so doesn't work as well for us I guess. But all that aside what PSXseeconTraffic doesn't do is provide models and repaints which is what I think the OP was looking for.

While i've always kept my eyes open for programs that could provide a robust and up to date AI traffic set up, i've yet to see anything worth while or money. Yes building from scratch takes some time but its well worth it and completely rewarding. You can also customize it however you want. Don't fly in Asia much then don't download and insert many of the regional Asian airlines. Love military aircraft at near by AFBs or ANGs, then MAIW has you covered. AIG, FAIB and many others have made it as simple as they can, but yes its up to you to do the work. Its not a one click process. Hell even MAIW who were clinging to FS9 up until about a few months ago have now converted most of their aircraft to P3D v4. And are creating a program where it installs the military aircraft you want with one click. Just saying if you are unhappy there are alternatives but depends how much you want to put into it. PSXseeconTraffic is a fun program and I like it but like Dave said I didn't have any aircraft at gates so kind of ruined the immersion. AIG updates the seasonal flightplans constantly so you can have up to date flightplans using AIFP with minimal work.

The AI will use basic calm conditions when determining a runway when you first load in. So if you have a weather engine that injects the weather right after loading, and the wind direction says you should use the opposite runway it unfortunately doesn't correct the AI runway in operation since they were already given the instructions for runway in use. I think you can after loading in and letting your weather engine inject the weather to pull the sim time to the left or right 15 min. Then AI should correct based on real weather conditions. But i may be wrong. Default ATC also does not know special airport instructions i.e. said runway at airport is only used for departures. AI will land on this runway. Don't know if Pro ATC or RC know these as well.

always the problem with gift cards they are nice but online purchases prove to be a hassle. Just use your own card and use the gift card for something else you buy like food etc. its still a wash and will save you the headache.

Yeah I second what Kay wrote. A few of the aircraft configs were missing Radio sections. I think either AIG or maybe it was MAIW have a tool you can download that will search your AI folder to see if configs are missing this section and let you know which ones. then its just a simple copy paste to fix. Another way to tell is if planes are at the gate but not moving at all.

Hell yeah been looking forward to this bird. The workhorse in WWII. Maybe one of these guys can help with the flight dynamics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_surviving_Republic_P-47_Thunderbolts#United_States

Or wait and get it on PCAviator when available for 10% off Tues and if you have a $5 off coupon its even cheaper. I did really enjoy flying this in FSX and P3D v3. So i'll bite but only with those discounts. Paints were downloadable from their site but also can be found in AVSIM library. Most are pretty dated though.

Great example is that Aerosoft puts out monthly if not weekly updates. And they get crucified by every fs pilot in the forums who meticulous pick over the images or videos. Or if they put nominal release dates and decide to take longer to add in functionality like TrueGlass and RealLight, they get smeared as being liars and terrible developers. So like Kyle said its damned if you do, damned if you don't. I really enjoy previews and never understand those who choose to post and pick at every little thing until release. Kind of ruin it for the rest of us.

Yeah gets even harder when you get parts of your plane blown off like i recently did when a P-51D blew the tip of my wing off in the FW-190. I did land safely but the gear and most of the plane was finished. lol. At least i got 2 B-17s

But just FYI, QW is updating their 757 now and supposedly it will release after the 787 for v4. Also Level D, during the fall of last year unveiled their 757 for v4 which is supposedly in Beta but haven't heard anything since. I was going to wait to decide between the 3 but these two above may take too long. Idk.

Isn't this what Orbx TrueEarth will accomplish for P3D or am i a bit off?

Yeah but say AS did the simple port then when the FSlabs Airbus offering came out people would have said "This is wayyy better than AS airbus because AS needs to update their series, their systems suck, blah blah". so they lose either way. But in the end they provide different experiences. If you want a somewhat study level sim then go with the FSlabs A320. If you want a full set of Airbuses that are great for the FS world but not super technical then AS is the better product. AS is far more open about their products than probably any other dev. We don't hear about PMDG until it releases, same with level D, same with Captainsim, same with FlyTampa, same with QW. Seems like you made your decision a while ago so why rehash it.

I guess what part of "they are porting to 64bit but also decided to really enhance the aircraft and rebuild the systems from the ground up, add other 64bit enhancements like TrueGlass etc" didn't you get. All PMDG did was make the gauges 64 bit. As stated many times above AS, as a good dev should do, decided to make their product better. Could they have taken the time to port just the gauges and whatever else broke moving to v4...yes. But why spend precious developer time making a middling update when you can really make the product better. So flightsimmers don't have an Airbus series for 6+ months or however long its been. In the end they get a better aircraft series. So if AS is rebuilding the aircraft from the ground up with almost 80% new code why is an upgrade fee unjustified. Hell feelthere, Captainsim, and many other devs charged for the simple port over. AS is redoing almost everything. I guess I don't get the angst towards devs. I'm not an AS apologist but i don't think any of us know what its like until we are in their shoes. Especially when flight simmers have an infinite combination of hardware systems, 4+ flight sims, multiple update versions in those flight sims, compatibility among other addons. I know i wouldn't want to deal with that nightmare.

Well thats because they didn't say it was a plain 64bit port. I think that was their plan initially when v4 was a rumor but then decided to do the much needed work on the aircraft series as a whole to incorporate a ton of enhancements to take advantage of the 64bit arena. Better FMC, systems, TrueGlass, lighting, etc so that is a much larger coding effort. And as a coder then you should know anything with the FMC is a nightmare. I'm guessing they wanted to keep pace with FSlabs but each aircraft provide a dfferent experience but it will be a much improved set of aircraft.

Lol nice one! Well i've actually posted numerous times on this thread so maybe YOU should read it thoroughly. My posts were just replying to Tooting who you seemed to jump on me to defend his bashing of LM. So feel free to scroll back and see who i quoted and where you jumped in. The point is I am trying to help. Like I said and others have said "have you tried plain vanilla P3D v4, no addons, no addon aircraft, and seen the crash?" If no then start adding addons back in. I know it sucks and its BS but to noodle a problem like this it might take that kind of method to figure it out. Try asking Umberto on FSDT forums but he'll defend coautl so be prepared for that. While coautl has caused crashes before, usually running the standalone manager or the Live update clears those up.

because exactly what Dan said and I have said this before as well if you can't prove its the sim then don't spend time [REMOVED] on the dev when its not their fault. I've said before to remove all addons and i mean all addons. Basic sim and if it doesn't crash then its an addon. then you put addons back in one at a time until it crashes again. And yet the reply i got was "no one has time for that". Well if thats the reply don't spend time blaming the dev for an issue you can't pinpoint or not willing to. Especially when above posts claim this might be a coautl issue. Which yes coautl can cause crashes. I was experiencing hanging sim crash for a few days but i didn't come on here and tell LM they are trash and terrible devs. I fixed it by running down the last addons i updated or installed. And turned out it was the SODE update. AVSIM admins will tell you to do the same thing and they have been doing this longer than most of us. [REMOVED]