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Is there any way to get msfs ai traffic to use fsltl and justflight models? I have them installed but they dont show up.

Lots of wasm crashes since the -700 update. Try deleting your panel states and wasm cache. It helped me.

All that and I still have to wait for the tug to connect before I can tell them what direction to push

If you want realistic flight models check out the A2A stuff as well, if you like the blacksquare products you will love the a2a products. If you want to try another sim give XP12 a try. I bought it recently jus to fly the hotstart challenger, Its a million miles ahead of p3d and gives msfs a real run for its money, and if you care about the flight model its in a class of its own.

It sounds like a bright future for xp for sure. For now having map enhancement is great until the new scenery solution is implemented. Right now the new weather system and its effects on the aircraft, combined with the improved flight physics really give xp a huge leg up. Dangerous Weather, realistic thunderstorms, turbulence and realistic icing is something that the competition is sorely lacking at the moment.

Its fantastic so far. And wow, the weather and lighting has come so far since I last used xp in v11. Been reading up on some of the v12 blog posts regarding the flight model improvements they made, very detailed and impressive stuff. I think the fact that the xp devs are rw pilots really gives xp a stong advantage in terms of its flight model. I may be spending a lot more time on this sim than I thought! If they can get dlss working and get the night lighting a little bit better xp will be unstoppable.

Ahh ok. I tried turning it off mid flight but it game me an error. Ill try without it on my next night flight to compare. I did get some extended night textures but i found that there was a mismatch between the intensity of the close lights and the extended ones, with the extended lights being too dim.

Its great, really love it so far! They are the fenix of xplane for sure.

Thanks for all of the advice, I ended up buying the challenger, man what a cool addon that is! Ive found that map enhancement + simheaven + a snow cover plugin gives seasons and graphics comparable enough to msfs. Heck even msfs seasons dont work perfectly. Lighting and colors are indeed more natural in xp. The biggest downside for me is the night lighting and lack of dlss. Popping in of night textures, cities are barely visible. Clouds are not lit by aircraft or city lights. It looks good at 1000ft but above that its pretty poor. But at least its dark when it should be unlike msfs which is always too bright. Having dlss available would also help greatly with perf. Fps are lower overall but i do find it less stuttery than msfs.

Oh no! Thats a big problem. Is there any way to get streamed ortho like msfs with xplane and not lose seasons?

Does that include seasons too? I think Simheaven changes tree colors, but will map enhancement shade the ortho tiles different based on seasons?

I havent touched XPLANE since MSFS2020 released, but i've always had the itch to try the hotstart challenger, and with the new weather and lighting enhancements that have come to xplane recently I am thinking more and more about buying XP12 and the challenger. I want to dig into the systems and fly that puppy all over the world. Its a big investment in time and money, if it weren't for the challenger I would be perfectly happy and busy sticking with pmdg and fenix on msfs2024. Not trying to start and xp vs msfs thread, but I only have so much time and Im happy with what I have currently and don't want to spend too much time tweaking the sim. So I have a few questions about certain features that I don't really want to live without. 1.) I need to have photoscenery with accurate cities and building placement, WITH seasons, including ortho textures and trees. I want to be able to fly all over the world like I do with msfs without having to build terrabytes of otho scenery and have it look correct for the time of the year and wx conditions. Can this be achieved with map enhancement alone + simheaven? 2.) Accurate snow cover that works with live wx and photoscenery streaming 3.) Is night lighting at least on par with msfs SU4? I have bad memories of night textures popping in with distant cities being invisible in xp11. Do cities illuminate clouds from below? This effect is very apparent IRL and well done in msfs. I do know the darkness level and overall night lighting is more realistic in xp but dont want the light popping. 4.) I only fly in VR, i tried the demo version but couldn't get it to work. Can I use the pimax crystal light without steam vr in xplane? In msfs it works flawlessly with only the pimax software. I really dont like steam VR. 5.) I have a beefy system but in VR its always a struggle, can expect similar performance to what I get with PMDG aircraft in fs2024 without having to lower my settings too much? 6.) Does xplane have water colors or masks yet for tropical areas? 7.) Is it stable? Since SU4 I haven't had a single crash in msfs, even with the sim running for 48 hours + with multiple turns.

Thats one of my favorite things about it lol. Do you really think you would be able to hear the heading bug at cruise in the cockpit of a 737?

unfortunately I still get them with dynamic mode one

I get great performance overall but bad stutters after landing turning off the runway.