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@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.

@Aamir Does the usage of the LIDO charts mean the aircraft will be able to use the Nav data natively in MSFS? not requiring Navigraph?

I might actually purchase this aircraft finally, lol. Love they are adding the ability to use the LIDO charts.

So far no issues and a bit better performance. Flying RJNK to RJTT in the default a320. Just entered decent phase, so we will see how approach goes. Not getting those pauses when I mouse look like I was before the patch. Seems they added features to the EFB from what I can tell to. I see export and import as an option when I loaded my saved plan from the web.

I did, but my god that isn't long to test something out. Is also a very small area that it is contained to, if I started anywhere else it was under water. All-in-all I felt my PC didn't get near as hot. Was able to program the included a330 and get it airborne after a bit of orientation. The first obstacle was the sim setting toe brakes on, on non-existent rudder pedals. Once I fixed that I was able to actually move. Controller set up was actually fairly easy. I can see it would need some add-on love to look decent. I believe I saw something for streamed satellite imagery? and I'm not sure if something for weather wound be needed. Will think on it for sure. Hate to spend money on tons of add-ons again. Thank you all for your input thus far. It's been appreciated.

Thanks for the replies so far! It's much appreciated. I forgot to mention I also have 64gb of onboard ram. I also currently use Riva tuner to limit MSFS 2024 to 30FPS which helps keep it much cooler than if I let it run free. My case is a Mid tower with a radiator that cools the CPU, all-in-all I have 5 fans keeping it cool. Now it isn't over heating and is operating within limits I just don't like it when it heats my room up which it does with the other sim. If I reach down and touch the glass and its super warm to me that's 'to warm'. I can play Balders Gate 3 maxed out with no issues or Final Fantasy XIV maxed out. It's just flight sims that do this. I cant remember if xplane 11 made it a hot box lol. I do remember having 3 screens operating at once made it very hot but that was 6-7 years ago when I tried that and back when I had a 1080 graphics card. After I posted I also found the Zibo mod which seems very good. Any other recommendations for a freeware study level airliner? Edit: Downloading the demo now.

Been thinking of purchasing X-Plane 12 since I have 11. However, I wonder if it would heat up my computer like the 'other sim', I have an i9 10th gen processor with a 3070 and only use a 1080P monitor. Flying during the day right now heats up the room something fierce and I was hoping this one may not do that. Another question, is a navigraph sub needed for navdata? And lastly, are there any quality free study level airliners out there for xplane? Thanks in advance for any info you guys can give. It's much appreciated.

Is that bottom pic also in X-Plane? Those clouds look amazing.

Wish they would update on where they are with 2024 compatibility.

Thanks for sharing. Watched the a320 take off video and found it interesting he turned off packs just before taking off and turned them back on during climb. Never seen that before with any of the checklists I have. Had to google why and found the reason quite interesting.

I’ve still got to figure out how to get this installed. I have 3 gaming rigs and neither of them will allow me to update the drivers or the app. I can’t even uninstall it without it giving an error. Thinking of just deleting the folder on my C drive and using ccleaner to mop up what’s left behind. I only worry I won’t be able to install it even after that.