jason99vmi

On 1/16/2018 at 9:05 AM, scianoir said:

The cost of upgrading many of my existing aircraft is one of the factors that has made me reluctant to migrate to P3Dv4. I think some price reduction for existing users would be reasonable and also promote customer loyalty.

Bill

Yeah its called the Captainsim sale annually when everything is $10.  Thats how i repurchased for P3D when i switched from FSX.  

On 1/16/2018 at 11:24 AM, Aharon said:

Hoping for new airline type modern panel for C-130Js used as Hurricane Hunters.  Has Captain Sims made it yet?

I think its far down their list of aircraft to work on.  

BUT Milviz is working on a brand new C-130J.  Probably can check it out on their forums.

Change Winter to Summer and ta-da!  It magically turns green.   Selecting simulator time will send it back to the current time and season.  

For example if you fly in Australia right now its summer and Orbx textures will be Summer textures.  

Unfortunately neither the default sim nor Orbx can predict on a daily basis if the ground is covered in snow or not.   

4 hours ago, Christopher Low said:

You misunderstand me. It seems that the P3D v4 version will not be added to my ORBx Direct account until I have that version of P3D installed on my PC. I was hoping to be able to download the package in advance so that I am ready when I decide to upgrade (I am still using P3D v3 at the moment), but it seems that this is not possible.

Yeah you'll have to wait then.  I could provide you the model folders you seek via Google Drive.  But whenever you get P3D v4 installed and then get the v4 selection in FTX Central it takes about 30 sec to download so not a process.  

All the Orbx folders have FTX in front of them so easy to distinguish.  Then its just copying the FSX model from say FTX BAE 146 folder to your other AI folder that needs the FSX model.  All done.  

On 1/14/2018 at 5:28 AM, Christopher Low said:

 

 

I assume that I need P3D v4 installed to be able to access this package? I have tried to add it to my account, but it is not visible when I load FTX Central v3.

I think Orbx had this package for both v3 and v4 but yes the one i'm talking about is under the P3D v4 part of Orbx under Oceana tab.  

9 hours ago, jotafl said:

I did install this with the P4AO and everything works except I am seeing the transparent taxiways. Do I have to use the ADE to fix this?

Thanks

Yeah if taxiways are missing just use ADE to Reset the flags and save.  

48 minutes ago, Christopher Low said:

So I will be OK if all of my textures are currently P3D v3 compatible?

Yes.  If they worked in v3 they will work in v4.  Its just the FS9 Models need to be FSX or P3D.   Which is what I was talking about.  

2 hours ago, Christopher Low said:

Is that a free download? If so, then thank you for the tip. However, that still leaves all of those military AI models....and I have quite a few knocking around the virtual skies in P3D v3. I just hope that they are converted sooner rather than later!

It is a free download under the Oceana tab.  All their model folders will start with FTX.  

yeah trust me i'm disappointed as well since I had a ton of C-17s, C-5s, etc tooling around.  I know the items John Young at MAIW are FSX models like the F-16s, A-10s, and a full set of blackhawks.  HTAI aircraft work as well like their C-130s.  

Its getting there.  Faster than i thought actually.  

3 hours ago, Christopher Low said:

There are far too many red "X" symbols in that list for me to even think about upgrading to P3D v4 at the moment.

Almost every commercial airline model is covered.  Like i said in my previous post every commercial model works in P3D v4 except the ERJ 135, 145 and CRJ 200 which is already being done by RAVEN AI.  So you will have full traffic.  

The only FS9 models I have remaining are all Military models and even they are being worked at the moment by MAIW.  

And if you are savvy enough like myself and AIG guys you can download the Orbx FTX AI AU package.  This package has every GA model usable in P3D v4 so its just copy and paste.  I think most of us at AIG are just waiting for a good GA flightplan to take advantage of those models for NA and Europe etc.  It also has some models we were all missing like the BAE 146 and Avro models for P3D v4.

Raven AI are updating their models even though the old ones work.  Raven AI is also doing a new CRJ200 that is almost done.  I think that takes care of all the ERJs and CRJs in P3D v4 except the EMB 135, 145.  

I agree Chris it does suck that people produce stuff and then walk away.  Should be a rule if you produce something and then walk away from the community said item should be able to be manipulated and used by the community.  Like maybe a 5 year moratorium on all freeware items.  

But i also think its important to respect those devs who produce items for free.  We certainly don't want people to steal their work and call it their own much like SKAI and some of those other pirate AI package groups do.  The pirates sometimes sell the freeware as payware.  But i also thinks its reputation.  If someone produces a good piece of freeware and then someone changes said freeware aircraft which then has a major error or issue, the original author will not only get pinged for support but also the community will be like blank aircraft is a piece of junk.  While yes the person who changed it should have to deal with support or bad rep, we all know that doesn't happen.  

55 minutes ago, KL791 said:

Hi

If you follow the support thread on the Global AI Ship Traffic it has been mentioned several times that an update to latest version of the AI ship traffic is necessary in P3Dv4. I will repeat it here and hope you will help spread the message. You should install the Global AI Ship Traffic V1 and subsequently the 200 AI Ships & AI ship Traffic V2. This will resolve all issues regards to AI ships from our project - there are four ships in the original packages done for FS9 AI_Calypso, AI_AC_Sailboat, AI_John_T_Essberger and AI_La_Recouvrance. These are corrected by installing the 200 AI Ships & AI Ship Traffic V2 on top.

The above mentioned Veh_Destroyer Fletcher and Liberty ships are not related to the Global AI Ship Traffic - the Liberty ships inclueded in the Global AI Ship Traffic project are native FSX models with no problems in P3Dv4.

Henrik

Yeah, Henrik would be able to tell you if any of those ships he mentioned are near Labrador.  By the way, sorry Henrik for calling you Nils.  I think I was on Flightsim.com earlier reading Nils Anderson and it sounded close.  lol.  

By the way if you don't have Henrik's Global AI Ship Traffic, i'm not sure you can call yourself a flight simmer.  Best freeware around.  I spend more time looking at tankers in and out of ports than worrying about my Dep or Arr.  

What, you mean pilots haven't enjoyed using the old FSDT O'Hare X and playing the wonderful game of which ILS freq works with which runway.  lol  

On 12/20/2017 at 4:18 PM, Petraeus said:

...to which I would add, as per my earlier post, 'bad ships' in the otherwise superb AI Ships and AI Ship traffic. Definite cause of two NTDLL.dll crashes for me.

You all might want to listen to Petraeus.  I recently had similar CTDs near San Diego over the water.  Every time i got close to San Diego boom it crashed.  Having no appcrash report i decided to just make sure there were no FS9 models in there.  

Using Lorby's great ThumbnailExporterX tool you can easily check if a SimObject is MDL8 (FS9) or MDLX (FSX/P3D).   

Checked AI Aircraft and there were no MDL8s since i built the AI myself and have all my old FS9 models in a separate folder. 

Checked the AI Ships and there they were....about 4 models that showed MDL8.  VEH_Destroyer Fletcher I think was causing the issue at San Diego.  And some Liberty Ships etc.  Not sure if these were part of Nils Global AI Ship package.  Pretty sure they aren't.  I had some custom military AI from the FSX days so probably left over from that. 

13 hours ago, WR269 said:

You guys seem to have missed the update from magnitude3...

 

http://leatherneck-sim.com/magnitude3-new-years-update/

 

Nope didn't see this post.  While the F4U shots are nice it doesn't really give an outlook or roadmap for more WWII aircraft like they did with ED post. 

Pfffft button pushers. Where's the drama?  Where's the skill? TFC stuff is funding the F-18. 

Hornet looks great though.  Definitely will pick it up. 

WWII aircraft get no love in 2018....... I thought I saw the P-47 on an older post.  

But as a recent purchaser just wanted to say DCS is top notch!  Kudos to ED and the devs!  

Hells yeah. I'm all in. 

57 minutes ago, scottb613 said:

Hi Jason,

I believe so - the 2.x version requires a terrain purchase to use...

Normandy you need 2.x...

I think you get the Mustang (civilian version) for free - at least in 1.5 version...

Regards,

Scott 

Thanks Scott!  

So no free or inexpensive aircraft in 2.x?  

Just daring me to buy the Spitfire...lol

Noob question from someone wanting to dip their toe in the DCS water. 

So if I wanted to check it out for free I need to download the 1.5.x version, correct?    Does it come with any aircraft? 

If I want to jump in and get the Normandy Map though I need v2.x, correct?  Are there any aircraft to try in 2.0 or do i need to drop $ on say one of the WWII aircraft?

Thanks!  DCS looks great!

That stinks with no discount for previous owners.   

 One of the most untrue statements I've read in while.  

Sitting at Dulles last night for the vatsim event. I saw 3 CRJs, a couple 717s and 3 or 4 787s. 

And that was only a 30 min period. 

Just because your having issues doesn't mean everyone is.  

PMDG is still updating the 737 NGX and it's how old.  Devs are doing their best with everything from old systems to titan x. And then cover 3 or 4 Sims. 

No aircraft in fs is perfect. CRJ has some minor issues but it's still fairly new to the community.  

the QW team will scold you for using an aircraft in a SIM it wasn't built for.  Much to everyone's dismay it does not quite work in v3. Issues with either gear, flaps or spoilers. I have managed to get two of the three working.  

Check their forums.  Some have had success with full version of FSUIPC setting controls. Most haven't. 

Ewwwww no.   Mesh issue?

Or you could wait like everyone else for CS to upgrade it to v4 which the 707 is on their list.  

http://www.captainsim.org/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1496506789/0

Funny i just did the same thing.  Usually when i load in C&D the pins are already pulled.  You can do it through services or click the bag behind the F/O seat.  Will show the tags hanging out when they are pulled.  Also you usually have to have the main cabin door open in order to pull them

I circled and landed.  pulled the throttles back to idle.  threw on parking brake and opened cabin door.  I pulled them luckily didn't have to shut down completely.   Unfortunately when i took off again.  I forgot the ACARS showed i landed and stopped recording.  Ugh if its not one thing its another.