Lotharen

@Bjoern Thanks for sharing those freebies. I knew about the Zibo mod but I'm not great at airliners. I'll learn to use it but fly piston engine mostly. That Evo looks really nice and I will totally take that one up. I was meaning more something like a Cessna 182 and or a turboprop. Also, might want navigraph for updated navdata.

Loved reading this. I've been considering upgrading to xplane 12 but haven't convinced myself to do it. I think the variety of clouds and the atmospheric effects (lighting, cloud variety, and horizon haze) are better done than MSFS, grated it can be hit or miss at times. I just dread dropping more cash to get a collection of study level aircraft I was to fly and possibly wanting more add-on's for QoL reasons.

Interesting discussion. I have been thinking about switching to an AMD processor myself. Any flight sim heats up my room unbearably (it's not overheating and well ventilated) and I just can't fly in the summer because of that. So, anything to ease that heat production is welcomed. Perhaps upgrading the processor and gfx card would help. Glad you having fun again and let us know if you decide on the new processor.

Awesome, thank you very much!

I believe they said LIDO charts would be available from within their EFB. Has anyone tried this yet? I don’t own it but it would be a plus for when I do purchase.

I have protection for stuff like that. Lol

From what I've seen you can't go wrong with Fenix but they have been rather radio silent since they announced the big update that was suppose to be released.

Ahh, my imagination envisioned something more grand lol.

I'm curious about the openstreetmap integration they talk about.

That looks VERY nice!

Isn’t the Fenix suppose to have a big update soon?

This is very nice! Would love to learn how to do this just to make something for myself lol. Great job!

Who the hell is Virginia? 😏

Thanks for the update jcomm. It's nice to hear Austin is making improvements. In my little test, when I was considering getting xplane 12, I noticed the night lighting looked so much better. Mainly on the runway and how they illuminated the area around them. Looked very realistic. The only thing keeping me from pulling the plug is it requires Navigraph to have up to date navdata and I would have to drop a lot of money to get passable scenery. Not to mention shilling out a lot for an airliner, they cost so much more from what I can see. I will say if any flight simulator goes subscription based I believe I would stop flying. The ONLY way I could see putting up with a subscription model would be if I didn't have to purchase any addon's, so it would need great weather, ATC, at lease one included study level aircraft for GA, Airliner, Business jet, etc. Other wise I can see paying out roughly 120 a year for a sim.

Well, I think it's safe to say that the 737 line will be a full purchase price with all the 'improvements' they say they are going to make. How many devs work at PMDG to warrant the 'few thousand man-hours' claim? That seems a bit overly embellished.