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No offense, but ask ivao/vatsim controllers how they distinguish x-plane flights from the rest and how much headache this brings. I wouldn't take that for free. Freeware 738. LOL

Simmer since FS98 here. Reasons I'm not even considering trying X-Plane 11 (currently upgrading from FSX to P3D V4): 1. Reduced FPS lead to reduced flight progress, making it next to unusable for proper on-line flights such as with IVAO in frames-heavy environments. 2. No season changes. 3. Weather simulation inferior to ActiveSky. 4. Daylight graphics, especially clouds look appalling in comparison with P3D V4 +ActiveSky+CloudArt/REX (yet most people tend to compare mountainous areas and night city environment between P3D and X-Plane, but actually count how much an average simmer spends in those two environments...). 5. Limited tweaking functionality - no Fsuipc equivalent. 6. Less airport sceneries and less quality payware airport sceneries. 7. Not largely supported by serious vendors such as PMDG, but dominated by amateurish developing teams. Highly subjective and arguable, my perception: 8 - mostly preferred by eye-candy type of simmers claiming that it is "realism and physics" that they are after, while actually not caring about airmanship and procedural stuff too much (again, subjective, but my observation over many years, and yeah, I know that real-life pilots also use X-Plane sometimes.). Nice to havs: 1. Sloped runways (Developers of P3D say it's on their list already) 2. Runway friction model and icing effects (achievable in P3D with external mods/software, I've been using FSPS SimPhysics for years in FSX) 3. Slightly better FPS performance & optimization (get a new PC) 4. Night environment (achievable with tweaks and mods in P3D) The principal claim about "realistic physics" and it's superiority over FSX/P3D is next to anecdotal. Honestly don't see how claims about "million light years ahead of P3D" can be justified, it is equal, at most in terms of visuals, but falls behind in other areas.

Hi! I'm considering getting a new rig, but have last minute concerns whether 4K monitor (looking at Samsung U28E590D, TN, 28", 3840x2160) will actually impact fps heavily, below acceptable levels. Planned config is I7-8700K (slightly overcklocked, maybe), MSI GTX 1080 Ti Aero 11G (slightly overcklocked too, maybe), 32GB (4x8Gb) DDR4 3466Mhz Corsair Vengeance, M2 SSD 1TB SAMSUNG 960 PRO, NZXT Kraken X62 cooling and some decent Z370 motherboard. Win 10. Prepar3d v4, expecting maxed out settings, activesky+cloud art, pmdg, orbx, photosceneries and usual heavy stuff. For both IFR and VFR flights. What FPS will I be roughly looking at (minimum base) at dense locations such as EHAM/KSFO & IMC, etc? Is it worth getting full hd monitor instead? Also, is VR [reasonable performance] an option with such specs? Currently not considering SLI and second 1080ti. Thank you

I'm looking for specific performance data which is not published in FCOM and FPPM..

harrry, unfortunately what you are referring to is FCOM, which is quite different from AFM.

Good day, I'm looking for AFM (airplane flight manual) of B737NG (specifically B737-700), in particular performance sections. This is not FCOM, which is easily found on the net. If anyone would like to swap, I have AFM for B744(various sub modifications), B772, B763, as well as many other up-to-date Boeing docs (FCOMs, FPPM, QRH, etc), except for much needed B737NG AFM :) Please PM me. Thank you George

Having tweaked FSUIPC (increased elevator null zone and ticked "control spike elimination") and completed 3 flights, it indeed seems to be yoke issue. Another reason always to be on guard and take over. Not an ASUS motherboard, btw.

I suspect it's failing yoke sending input signals, as CWS mode persists on FMA throughout. I increased null zones for elevator through FSUIPC, going to check in the coming days.

In the last few days I've been experiencing sudden and rapid uncommanded nose dive in excess of 5000 FPM with either VNAV or APP engaged. Happened twice during descend, final approach and once in climb (three separate flights, PC rebooted in between). AP follows FD bars (!) during this dive (so rather it is "commanded nose dive"). Following AP disconnect and subsequent engagement, aircraft follows normal vertical path. I have service-based failures engaged, but they show no active failures. I'm very experienced user of PMDG B737NGX, so I doubt this is caused by mismanagement on my behalf. Has anyone experienced something of this nature too? Thanks