Chipmunkman

Hi Olderndirt, Yep - born Scottish and live in the north west Highlands. Stornoway is our nearest town as the crow (or sea eagle) flies, but about 20 miles across the waters of The Minch. Thanks for your interest and help. Chipmunkman

Thanks Olderndirt and Soaring_penguin. I will try the tweaks you suggest Olderndirt. I have been reading your helpful comments with interest elsewhere about Orbx TE North Many thanks - Chipmunkman

Why does the default scenery in Xplane 11.30 present EGPO as if it was in the middle of a sandy desert? Even with Orbx TE GB North it remains the same and spoils the otherwise great imagery of flying there. Please advise what plans are there to improve this situation? Thanks - Chipmunkman

Once again many thanks Dean. I will get there with the help of all your tips & tricks. All the best and fly safe! Chipmunkman

Your are being very supportive Dean. When I try and upload Ortho XP4 I gbet as far as selecting about half a dozen tiles and clicking 'batch build' in the screen headed 'Earth Tile Map' but then instead of building it reports 'OSM server was busy new tentative......' and has repeated that line dozens of times to cover the entire screen top to bottom. I thought I had maybe selected too many tiles and deleted all but two and tried again with the same result. Guidance please. Many thanks Chipmunkman

Thanks Turbo. I too downloaded Ortho and attempted to install it following one of the YouTube guides closely, but it just woudn't upload the four selected tiles which is why I turned to HD Mesh. I might try again with Ortho. It's all very frustrating, but thanks for your comments. - Chipmunkman

Thanks TurboTomato - did you find a solution? If so how did you do it? Would appreciate any help you can give please as this is very frustrating. Thanks Chipmunkman

Many thanks Chaps. Here is my list from the Scenery_packs folder. I don't use the custom scenery packs for the listed cities. Can I remove these and the 'Demo area' entries without causing any problems? How should the shortened list be ordered therafter. I had understyood zzz_hd_global_scenery 4 should be below everything else. 1000 Version SCENERY SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/LOWI Demo Area/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/EGPE_Scenery_Pack/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/X-Plane Landmarks - Chicago/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/X-Plane Landmarks - Las Vegas/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/X-Plane Landmarks - Sydney/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/X-Plane Landmarks - London/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Aerosoft - EDDF Frankfurt/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Aerosoft - EDLP Paderborn-Lippstadt/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Aerosoft - EGLL Heathrow/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Aerosoft - LFMN Nice Cote d Azur X/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Aerosoft - LFPO Paris Orly/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Aerosoft - LPFR Faro/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Global Airports/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/KSEA Demo Area/ SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/zzz_hd_global_scenery4/ Many thanks Dean, Bjoern and Soaring Penguin. You are being very helpful. - Chipmunkman

Thanks Bjoern, The HD Mesh v4 folder is already located at the bottom of the list in the scenery_packs.ini . Please advise what else I can try. Thank you Chipmunkman

I have down-loaded and installed HD mesh v4. It is located at the bottom of the list in the Custom scenery, scenery_packs folder and shows up at the top of the list in the Xplane 11, Log text folder. The scenery images are very satisfactory, but the buildings have disappered. Please advise what I have done wrong and how do I sort it? Thnaks - Chipmunkman

Many thanks olderndirt. I will keep an eye on Orbx, but really it is the area of the Highlands and Islands that are the most fascinating to fly over. I had some super VFR scenery for FSX but nothing so good for X plane. Any further suggestions would be welcome please. Chipmunkman

Please advise what good quallity scenery upgrades covering the Scottish countryside are available for Xplane 11. I am confused by the different systems such as Ortho XP4 and others that seem to be available for other countries and the advantages and disadvantages of each system. Some guidance would be appreciated please. Thanks Chipmunkman

Thanks Paraffin. This helped a bit, but it is still a pretty poor representation of the actual aircraft cockpit in daylight. It shouldn't be necessary to have panel lights on for daytime flying. Thank you all the same.

The instrument guages and panel with the Alabeo PA 38 Tomahawk in x Plane 11 are so dark they are imposible to read. How can I lighten up the cockpit and instrument panels please? Thanks Chipmunkman

Thank you jcomm I will tweak my settings as you suggest and so how that improves things. The instability I refer to ocurrs even when landing directly into wind, so its not just a cross wind effect. Thank you for your help Chipmunkman