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Tried to get on flightsim.com and it came up with a odd looking "beta" login asking for my account info.  I got spooked and closed it.  Seemed kinda suspicious to me.  Has anyone else seen this problem today??

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-- Just checked it again (an hour later) and seems normal now. 

1 hour ago, toprob said:

But I am very much aware that some places I fly are renowned for beautiful crisp and clear weather, and I've never really seen anything like this in X-plane, it always seems filtered through the haze.

I asked about sky in an earlier post here "XP11 Noob, Questions" and got a good answer.  As for visibility distance, it can be set with a slider, to me 25 miles looks about right for VFR.

This online manual does a nice job of explaining settings and sliders to get a smooth running experience (also confirmed my suspicions that I need to upgrade my GPU).

http://x-plane.com/manuals/desktop/

I tried the demo for a few weeks.  About gave up on XP11 till I figured out how to get rid of the haze.  I was not impressed with the demo.

I've played sims since Flight Sim 2.1 on a 3.5" floppy.  Loved FS9, but that damned money pit FSX burned me out with the constant tweaking and gave up on the hobby about 4 years ago.  I had P3Dv2.5 and never even installed it.... A few months ago I finally installed P3Dv2.5, and realized I really do miss the hobby and purchased P3Dv4.

A few days ago my wife surprised me with Aerofly FS2 for my birthday, tried it for 70 minutes and was bored to tears, so I refunded it and got XP11... My wife hasn't seen anything but the back of my head since I got XP11.  I can't leave it alone :)

43 minutes ago, Murmur said:

1What you could do, is go to the "X-Plane 11\Resources\bitmaps\skycolors" folder and overwrite one skycolor texture (e.g. "sky_colors_clean.png" or "sky_colors_mount.png") with another skycolor of your liking (e.g. "sky_colors_orbit.png").

 

Worked great, thank you!!!!!!!!

What I did was copy sky_colors_orbit.png and sky_colors_clean.png and to desktop and renamed "clean" to sky_colors_clean.png.bak and sky_colors_orbit.png to sky_colors_clean.png.  Then copied both back to "Skycolors". 

I purchased X-Plane 11 yesterday, very impressed, but have a couple questions.

1. how to set sky color as default?   I've been mostly using the Orbit selection, but have to tick it every time I start.

2. rudder/yaw.  I'm enjoying the default 172, but I don't have rudder pedals and find it hard to stay on the runway during takeoff.  I end up "exploring" areas where I didn't want to be.  Is there a way to lessen or even disable the p-factor?