Mallcott

It's not unstable as long as you are within CG and weight limits. It's just a little `trim happy`. What you DON'T do is chase power settings. Not ever. Every power setting change triggers pitch change and also yaw/roll coupling. 5,000 shp a side will ruin your entire day if you let it get ahead of you. Set power, then adjust trim to suit, then fly the profile dictated by the settings. Mode settings can be your friend, reducing Np after takeoff likewise. If you minimise hand flying, allow the electrickery and the me-can-icals to do their thing, this is a high performance turboprop without equal. The real thing is renowned as being a handful, especially in the aproach phase, and you don't use full flap unless you have to - we really need more idea on what you are doing to tell you what you should, or oughtn't be doing. Hand flying a stabilised approach is actually quite easy. But only IF you have the settings right. Spool times for those turboprops is slow at low power settings, but the flaps and gear provide plenty of drag to enable a stabilised approach without ANY setting adjustment until touchdown. If you are making constant changes to the power levers then you are doing something wrong, and predicating those trim changes and instability.

I really need the Irish set to complete things - but then we will be waiting on updated airports. It never truly ends, the waiting... :Whistle:

What install technique did you use? After installing, you run the FTX Central v2 and choose Global and Apply. Then install FTX libraries, run Central v2 again and reselect the Global and Apply buttons, verifying the HD Trees option is checked in the menu options. If you missed ANY of these steps you need to revisit your installation and do it properly. Also, we cannot help without full system details. Add those and any other addons installed in the sim. Also might be useful to tell us if you have any strange tweaks or mods to your Prepar3d .cfg.

Can you show the METAR ? It is entirely possible that the effect was not exaggerated..! A serious weather front arrived last night across the North West. Gusting 40+mph at ground level.

The patch is a new installer, available from the vendor http://www.flightsimstore.com/product_info.php?products_id=1314 Log in to your account to redownload the installer

Some addons will work with symbolic links. Others won't.

Alt+ Enter or menu - views - full screen There is no true full screen in the simulator. It's a pseudo-full screen.

1: Cannot be done. The license will fail. 2: That's the way to do it. While it might be nice to be able to say that addons will port, the fact is that some will, some won't. Others will, but with issues. Better, by far. to just start from scratch.

That's correct Mike. Two purchases, one for each sim. No discounts, no appreciable differences or advances for the P3D version that I can see. I keep FSX installed with a few aircraft like this for just that reason. Interestingly, I haven't opened that sim since P3D V3 came out. Guess I'm not missing them as much as I thought... :wink:

I'd be only half joking if I said that you can't really call yourself simmer if you aren't using a registered copy... Pete Dowson has done more for this community down through the years with this seemingly infinitely adaptable tool than just about any other aftermarket developer. And it's continued development and adaptation to new uses means it's the `go-to` interactivity tool for all MS and ESP-based sims. And increasingly as a standalone tool in its own right. Never found a better calibration tool, and the LUA scripts are a must have for many of the complex sim products- although I must admit I thought the rolling friction in the sim had been addressed by L-M! We really don't praise him often enough - especially with his knack of choosing vacation times when updates are coming out. You can set your watch by FSUIPC. You can probably set your watch WITH FSUIPC!

Just search for .bmp files on your computer. Latest will probably be where your screenshots are being saved.

Can't be done I'm afraid. FTX Global lights are autogen objects (including the Vector street lights). Visible distance for autogen objects are controlled internally, within P3D itself. AFAIK, there is nothing much we can do about it. I also wish we could increase the visibility distance!

Should be on every simmers bookmarks for two good reasons: 1: The FSUIPC module will often have unpublicised updates and they nearly always relate to the P3D use. 2: Pete takes frequent holidays and the sim community has noted time and time again how updates from Lockheed-Martin seem to coincide... 'tis a conspiracy i tell ya.. :Nail Biting:

As it should be Ed. As it should be.

I had FTX Global and Vector installed under 2.5, and I didn't notice this conspicuous change then - but I had added England, Ireland, Wales and Scotland a long time back, so maybe I just missed it. Or maybe it's a function of UTX Europe, which I only installed in FSX. Either way, it's interesting as it must mean the called textures themselves are being replaced as there's no way FTX installers can affect UTX landclass.

That is NOT hat you have been told in the Aerosoft forum. It is not correct and needs to be commented upon There is a list of currently compatible sceneries What you were told only a few hours ago is (and I quote the reply in full) That is a very overt and unequivocal statement - so you are wrong when you state as you do above, so you should apologise for your error. This topic cannot accommodate such inexactitude.

http://www.orbxsystems.com/forum/topic/105483-wales-scotland-new-installers-p3dv3/ Wales and Scotland now updated wth V3 installers and a switch option for frozen water in winter. Now here's a funny thing: I had England already installed and use UTX Europe for Landclass and vector features, not FTX Vector. Flying out of Bellegarde (LFBL) in France, with no changes whatsoever to scenery library or sequencing I now see many more cultivated fields, far less scrub, and better definition of townscapes and cities with Wales and Scotland added. My guess is that Wales and Scotland added those textures, which are then picked up by the landclass UTX Europe uses. It's simply stunning ! If you are going to install these, and already have FTX Global and/or Europe (England) already installed, it might be worth taking a VFR check flight around your known patch in Europe, observe the landscape, then install Wales and Scotland, then take the same flight again and see if you also see changed landclass (textures).

FTX Wales and FTX Scotland now updated for V3 http://www.orbxsystems.com/forum/topic/105483-wales-scotland-new-installers-p3dv3/

There are NO GPS/RNAV approaches in the default sim.

Thanks. I also note that Pete is away until November 9th. We all know what that means... :wink:

Fortunately, many of the FTX textures are replacements, supplementing the originals, so it's not quite as simple as doubling the size, but they certainly do still exist in the main folders. :Shame On You: The key is make the ORBX folder a symbolic link and remove it from the base v2.5/v3 folders and place it on another drive. In my case, currently 32 gig not on the sim drive...

Not under P3D v3, I thought too.

Yes, all lights are working as advertised. The only issue is that the rear cockpit door light doesn't actually cast any. Light, that is. As you describe for the dome. But both overhead spots work perfectly, all the variable lighting knobs work. Still like to see some accommodation for HDR under P3D for the dome and storm, as they can be a bit bright and wash out the panel a bit, but it's a very minor thing. Thought: You do have pilot controlled lights checked in the P3D options in the sim? Second thought: Rebuilt the Shaders file lately? Might be worth trying.

I think you'll find that the bulk of simmers are from the developed world, and from limited parts of that. You won't get the whole database updated. And we're back to mix and match again...

Concur. the 4-gig limit is per 32-bit application, not per operating system. Good advice from Komplik.