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As I wrote I've always flown in real wheather (NOAA plugin) since the DC-6 is out (since July !!). Now we have summer. The wheather over there it seems almost is very bad ! I have no clue what's coming up in winter. I am new to X-Plane. I've heard some rumors that there is a lack of winter textures. We will see what happen when it is winter ! Thomas Burchard

The DC 6 was my 6th or 7th attempt to conquer X-Plane coming from FS 98..ifLY....FSX....P3D but now I took over this thing. The DC 6 is a big leap forward and shows remarkably what the real potential of X-Plane is!! My result is that X-Plane is a very convincing flight simulation environment where you get a real flight experience as far as you can get it with a good graphics PC, 64bit Windows, a lot of RAM, NOAA wheather, skymaxx and a single screen. It seems that I will stick with X-Plane with in the next future. Very comfortable for example is the feature to control your views with the num key pad very very quickly. This enables you to get around in the cockpit very fast when work load is high while approaching and landing or take off etc. So there is only a little demand to configure a lot of hot keys for essential commands as you should do with the legacy simulators mentioned above. The most commands can be given with the real levers switches and knobs in the cockpit as it has to be done in the real live. No problem. Next models coming up from PMDG to be also released for X-Plane would be highly appreciated. iXEG has made also a very excellent job. Only the FMS has some flaws sometimes. Maybe the real 737-300 has the same flaws ??? I don't know. Both models I'm flying with a lot of fun. It is very funny to fly the routes of Everts Air with the DC 6 in Alaska in real NOAA wheather! Thomas Burchard

Thanks a lot ! What I guessed it was my mistake ! Best regards Thomas

Hi, possibly I make some mistakes, please help: After using AFE for T/O, climb and cruise for a while sometimes I need to gain full manual control over the aircraft for example when I travel through alpine valleys in Switzerland to make a landing at LSZS Rwy 03 (5600 ft) coming from south via Julier Pass . So I need to slow down the aircraft to about 120-130 knots in 9000 ft and manually setting flaps to 20 or 30 to get around the steep curves.. But no movement of flaps and later on gear for landing is possible. The levers move but no reaction ! What I'm doing wrong ? When I wake up the AFE with the "In Range" workflow and set him to sleep again after finishing his work flow then full control is available and everything is fine (????). The AFE is not helpfull in this situation. You have to maneuver through very narrow valleys with sharp curves. For example the Super constellation flyers association's L1049 (http://www.superconstellation.org/index.php/en/) fly this route once or twice a year ! Thanks for help. Thomas Burchard Germany

Hi, at first many thanks for this great landmark aircraft which teach you what a demanding job it was to manage for example a 10 hour long distance flight. As a member of the Swiss SCFA association (http://www.superconstellation.org/) we have the oportunity to make travels through Europe with a Lockheed L 1049 Superconstellation (HB-RSC). So some procedures we are familiar e.g. engine management which you can hear very well as passenger. This addon now finally enabled me after a couple of attempts to conquer the little bit strange X-PLANE as a long term FSX/P3D simmer. It was worth it to do so. Now some questions and suggestions to be maybe considered: 1) I'm missing a clock ! Was there no clock at the DC-6 in Namibia? 2) The SCFA's L1049 has installed an instrument called "ignition analyzer" in the cockpit at the flight engineer's place from BENDIX (Scintilla). As I know a lot of prop liners (Everts Air e.g) had and have installed this device ! I guess to programm the functionality of this feature is probably a little bit demanding. To have this feature including the simulation of fouled spark plugs and other issues in the ignition system would make the experience a little bit more complete. With our Superconstellation it sometimes happened that a couple of spark plugs had to be changed at an intermediate stop! 3) With PMDG 737, 777 there is a feature that you can adjust the throttle leaver at your input device manually so that you can switch off autothrottle without any hazzle and and erroneous jumping of thrust. A similar feature would be very helpfull when you suspend completely the AFE for example after takoff, METO, climb and so on. Now you have to adjust very quickly the throttle leaver to meet the correct thrust setting manually after suspending AFE. Best regards Thomas Burchard

Hi, Sim: P3D V2.5 12946 Environment: W7 64bit, 128GB RAM, NVIDIA K4000 3GB, Intel 8 core Xeon E5-2687W, 3.1GHz Airplane: PMDG 737NGX V1.10.6461 My problem is that the texture particular the texts above buttons, knobs etc. are a little bit too blurry and hard to read with normal zoom around 0.5 - 0.7. In the PMDG Operations Center you can change in the Performance Page between High Resolution and Low Resolution for the VC but there is no difference.. Always the same ! I tried a lot of tuning in the P3D settings and also by directly editing the prepar3d.cfg following a lot of advises from the Internet.but no success. Any suggestion is highly appreciated. Thanks in advance to the community. Regards Thomas Burchard