nanosour

I have the Carenado BE58 from my XP10 days. I fly it regularly in V11.11 and the only issue I have with is the starter switches don't spring back to the "BOTH" position during engine start. I have to manually move them to the "BOTH" position. Other than that, this add-on performs awesome in XP11 and I will not be paying for an upgrade to an XP11 version. This goes for all my Carenado aircraft. (FA33, BE58, C337, C172) I wouldn't hesitate to purchase a current Carenado aircraft if I wanted to fly it. Even the XP10 designed aircraft are at the 98-99% solution IMHO. Sim Safe.

I'll throw my $0.02 in here as a very experience pilot and XP simmer. I have lived with both SkyMaxx Pro (all versions) and xEnviro for extended periods of simming. Lately, I find that the current default weather is the best option of the three. The default weather has gotten better that either payware weather generator at this time. There is an occasional loading of new weather, but it hardly takes away from the incredible sim experience that is XPlane. I actually feel sorry for anyone who wouldn't take this journey purely based on the weather engines. Sure a inexpensive hobby for hours and hours of wondrous entertainment. My brother-in-law just bought a $45K Harley Davidson to feed his hobby needs. I bought the Dreamfoil Bell 407 for $34.95. And I don't have buy insurance for it.

Well there you go. Nicely explained. Lots of folks see this phenomena.

Much thanks for the replies. I will investigate to exclusion zone option for specific areas, although I do have over 270 tiles so that's a lot of area to work with.

I've been using OrthoXP for well over a year now in both XP10 and XP11. I've also installed w2xp sceneries and in some regions of the world (GB Pro/Mass Pro) they are an outstanding combination. However, in many areas I've still seeing what I believe is XP autogen houses that line the road where there are clearly no houses on the photoscenery. It just looks bad. Rome, IT for instance just doesn't look good even though I have photoscenery, simheaven VFR landmarks, w2xp_europe_mix My question is, is there a way to remove all the default autogen objects and just have the photoscenery and the airport sceneries. I know I can turn down the objects slider to the lowest setting, but then I'm losing my great airport scenery packages and landmarks. I have viewed the "remove roads" thread on here and that was pretty good. Is there something like that for houses/buildings? TIA, Nano

The vast majority of payware outperforms the defaults in XP11 by a wide margin. Usually you'll find the price curve mimics the quality curve. Here's my list of payware mostly purchased in XP10. A couple are holdovers from XP9, but surprisingly are still functional in XP11. IXEG B-737 (best of the best in XP10/11, truly a great piece of work by those guys) JRollon CRJ-200 (my first and very nice aircraft. Great exterior, bad sounds, 85% systems sim) FF B-777 (98% system sim, nice exterior, wing flapping is comical, 98% FMS) FlyJSim B727 (all around great model) B787 (Don't waste your money, akin to XP8 default) DDenn Challenger 300 (excellent model and great support, I too can't wait for GLEX) ND BK-117 (Superb helicopter) Carenado F33A (excellent model, gear doors hang in XP11 for now, should be patched when out of Beta) Carenado BE-58 (again excellent, way better than default BE-58) Carenado C-172 (suprisingly not up to Carenado quality, default 172 way better) F-16 (Marginal flight model) T-38 (Slightly better than F-16, but still not that good) DC-3 (Very nice aircraft and nice flight modeling) Q-400 (FlyJsims first effort and not as good as his B727, some really like it though, I rarely fly this one) ERJ-170 (low budget modeling but flies OK, don't fly this much) The only default that is worth starting up IMHO is the C-172. Flies nice and looks even better.

I've completely made the switch over to XP11. Although it's basically the same sim with a more "modern" GUI, XP11 is the future and I happen to like the new atmospherics compared to the overly green world of XP10 or the brown world of XP9. BTW, that cockpit setup is wicked.

Need help from a scenery expert. I've tried to remove the ramps and taxiways using the WED program, but they still appear at the airport even with objects fully set to the left. There are no object at the airport, just the ramps and taxiways which I want removed to be able to see the xOrtho4XP underneath them. I used WED to edit the custom airport file, but I'm wondering if there is a file in Global Airports that needs to be modified to make this happen. Hopefully it's clear what I'm trying to accomplish and there is somebody who has a solution. TIA

Had two main issues with PB5 and they both appear to be fixed in PB6: 1) FPS would steadily drop after about 1 hour into flight. Yesterday I flew the CL30 from KSEA to KBOS (4.7 hours) and no drop in fps. Constant 30 fps while steaming. 2) My BK117 helicopter would do 360's on the tarmac once you started an engine. Complete lack of friction between the rails and the ground. I performed several flights yesterday in the BK117 and the problem appears gone. Overall, all my plugins worked (xSquawkbox, IVAO, xEnviro, ChasePlaneDeluxe, GIZMO) and the flying was very smooth. Very happy with this release and believe we're on the cusp on launching out of Beta. I'm hopeful as I want the payware developers to start fixing the nuisance bugs; i.e. gear doors on my Carenado aircraft.

This is just conjecture, but I suspect ORBX chose not to continue with XP development b/c it's just too easy for users to download photoscenery nowadays. With applications like xOrtho4XP, it takes all of 5 minutes to download a ZL 16 tile and only 2-3GB of disk space. I downloaded to entire country of Ireland yesterday in 3 hours. VFR flights are simply amazing throughout the country. I also had all of Ireland downloaded for XP10 through zonephoto.fr website some 2 years ago. The xOrtho4XP scenery I downloaded from Bing is so much better and uniform. With xOrtho4XP you can go all to way up to ZL 19 and it is incredibly sharp and clear. I highly encourage any XP user to check out this video and explore xOrtho4XP. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhr4xYosVvI For me, I prefer no autogen roads or buildings when flying over well presented photoscenery. The autogen takes away from the realism IMHO and also lowers your frames considerably. I only want buildings/objects at the airport when I'm on the ground and can therefore run objects on low. Once in the air, I just want the ground to look as it actually does when flying. I get the most joy from simming by looking down on places I've been during my life and recalling the memories from my time there. Your nautical miles my vary

Really Jimm...because one doesn't specifically say "thanks" in a post it implies you are not grateful for the work someone has done. OK, I'll have to remember that. BTW, thanks for bringing this to my attention.

I upgraded to SMP4 and sprung for RWC during the XMAS holiday. One week later bought xEnviro and not looking back. I've been a supporter of SMP since Ver 2, but xEnviro is so much more of what I'm looking for in a weather engine. I'm 50/50 tube driver/GA and XE hits the nail on the head in both environments. Not perfect, but much closer than SMP has been.

I too have noticed this. I don't know how to turn it off so that there are no airplanes flying around with me. This was also true of B3. I have AI aircraft turned off on the "Edit Flight" menu.

Ventura sky may be "free", but the other plugins come in a $80. I have SMP4 and RWC, but can't get the Flywithlua to work in XP11pb3 :(

Merry Christmas all...and a wonderful 2017!