James Britnell

Hi brucek, Another thing you could try is to disable SkyMaxx Pro whilst you are using the JAR A320. In the MENU BAR select Plugins From the Drop Down Menu select Plugins Admin Select Enable/Disable Here you see a list of all the PLUGINS installed in X-plane 10 Look for the plugin SilverLinning and uncheck the box to the right. This will disable SkyMaxx Pro and you will revert to default clouds.

Hi Everyone, I've posted a Topic in the Tips and Tricks Forum called Views, Buttons and Keys which I hope people will find helpful.

Hi Tony Thanks very much for your reply.

Hi Everyone, I'm trying to get an overlay image into WED 1.4 and I keep getting a blank white image. I have used the snipping tool in windows to cut an image from Google Earth and have tried saving it as a jpg, a png and a gif file but the result is the same. I've used this technique before with good results but for the life of me I can't figure out why it isn't working. I am just wanting to use the image to trace around some awkward taxiway areas. Thanks very much for any help.

Hi there, according to a post by danklaue on X-plane.org, The dataref for the water rudder is sim/flightmodel2/misc/custom_slider_ratio[21] You can access that dataref via a keyboard or joystick button assigned to the following command: sim/operation/slider_22 Hope this helps.

Thanks again for the indepth explanation Ben. It saves a lot of spiff balling from people like me. Cheers!

Well there's you answer Sesquahtoo, straight from the horses mouth, so to speak. Thanks very much for the information Ben.

Ok, a few suggestions about what might be triggering the re-activation. When you upgrade SkyMaxxPro it will require re-Activation. If you happen to delete you Preferences folder, which contains you licensing information, you will need to re-activate the product. If you shift your X-plane 10 folder to another machine.. possibly even another location on the same machine, you will need to re-activate the product. Although X-plane "out of the box" will allow you to shift the X-plane folder pretty much with impunity, the addons are a very different matter. I would imagine this is a genuine "request" to re-activate the addon, but if you are still uneasy about it perhaps send an email to Cameron at X-aviation and I'm sure he can allay any concerns you have.

Hi, this sounds like the standard X-aviation product activation box to me, but it is curious that you haven't seen this before. A product activation box appears the first time X-plane 10 is started with a new addon from X-aviation installed, eg. SkyMaxPro, LES Saab 340a etc. You didn't see this box when you first installed the product?

Hi Bruce, Yes the knobs to the various controls can be awkward and a bit erratic to control at times. The direction to "CLICK and DRAG" the dials will be different depending on your view angle, and your zoom level in the cockpit. Generally, I have found the more you zoom in, the slower the dials will change. Keeping the knobs centered in your field of view makes things a little easier. Do you use MOUSE VIEW in the Cockpit? if so, you will find that even small subtle changes in your view direction can make a big difference to the ease of manipulating the knobs. It is certainly a feature of X-plane that can be rather trying, particularly if you happen to be in a busier phase of flight. Carenado have released some aircraft to Version 3 that include Scroll Wheel support for manipulating the knobs and from the limited experience I have had with them so far it seems to work very well. If you happen to have some Carenado aircraft for X-plane it would be very worthwhile for you to look into it. Regarding cloud shadows, I understand that yes, X-plane 10.31 has cloud shadows. If you have Skymaxx Pro installed it will override the cloud rendering in X-plane. Skymaxx Pro 2.1 supports cloud shadows but previous versions do not. Since you are not seeing cloud shadows, perhaps you have an earlier version installed? If so, there is a free upgrade to 2.1 available. You can also try disabling Skymaxx Pro thus handing the rendering responsibilities back to X-plane itself. Hope this helps.

Hi John, If I'm reading this correctly you are going into the UPDATES AND PATCHES section? Try this, log into your account and go MY PRODUCTS. Use the link under CLICK TO DOWNLOAD. In other words, download the whole product again. As for determining version number, go to the PRODUCTS page and a version number will be shown there. Hope this helps.

Hi, CTRL E is the command in Flight Simulator to get the Aircraft to an engine(s) running state. As far as I am aware, no such command exists in X-plane, only the " Start each flight with engines running" option which I presume you have found and disabled. The CTRL 1 command, found under SETTINGS / JOYSTICK and EQUIPMENT / KEYS, is called STARTERS / ENGAGE_STARTER_1. This command only engages engine #1s starter motor. Make sure that the aircraft Battery is ON and the fuel mixture is set to RICH. It may help to advance the throttle a little. Engage the Starter motor ( CTRL 1 ) and hold the keys down until the engine fires. It may take a few seconds for the engine to start.

Hi there, the keys for starting engines are CTRL 1 for engine number 1, CTRL 2 for engine number 2 etc....

Just to cover the bases, You have turned on Aviation Traffic under the display settings menu and have it set to a reasonable amount and you can see other traffic moving around. You have your avionics / radios turned on and you have opened the ATC window and contacted Ground / whomever. You can hear the voice of ATC and " your " voice. You're not operating out of Southeast of Nowhere Regional where the daily traffic movements are next to non-existent. As far as I'm aware ATC functions exactly as it does in FSX, which I believe, you are completely familiar with. There is dialog between ATC and other aircraft in the ATC window, but you just can't hear them?

Well.... I've really tried.. honest. I purchased prepar3dv2 when it was first available. As a long time FS user, I have grown accustomed to "treading carefully". When I first started using it, I couldn't complete a flight between Anchorage and Fairbanks without an OOM. I'd make it about 60nm out of Anchorage in the Carenado A36 and BAM... that was that. Tried numerous times, couldn't make it work. After updating to V2.2 I completed the flight no problems. Loaded up Just Flights 727, flew from KJFK to KPORD... no problems. Purchased Flightbeams KDEN and KIAD. Flew the route, Airline and General Aviation AI set at 50% Settings-Scenery all the way to the right, even called up ATC, got vectored onto final, opened another window to watch the landing, landed, taxied to the gate, used the ACE tool to reconfigure the aircraft, called up ATC for departure for clearance, taxied, opened another window again so I could watch the departure and flew back to KDEN where I again watched the landing in another window....... did my turnaround just like at KIAD, taxied back to the active using ATC, took-off and flew back to KIAD. Contacted KIAD Tower for landing clearance and......... hey, that looks like my desktop...... But I think I had to try pretty hard to achieve that. :lol: