SimeonWilbury

I'm happy with P3D for the time being. So long as I keep my VRAM usage in check my performance and stability is pretty fab, with the exception of the FSLabs Concorde that tanks my frames more than I'd like. But I'm not expecting third-party content to pick up any time soon. The TFDI MD11 is still releasing for P3D which is nice, but most devs seem to be givng P3D pretty short-shrift these days. It's a shame as I would quite like to give v6 ago, but I spent enough effort getting my v5 install where I like it, and v6 will seem to require exponentially more compatibility-tweaks. Would be lying if I said succession planning wasn't on my mind - MSFS still isn't my cup of tea but depending on what releases there are in the next year or two (and what FS 2024 looks like when it releases) I may end up giving it another look.

Haven't checked on my sim, but to be frank my scenery outside of airports is a bit barebones. As for up-to-dateness... Well... Kai Tak still exists in my Sim World so I'm not too fussed on that front 😅

I will be following this with great interest Am one of those who previously has opted to stick with P3D - partly because I fly mostly in historical weather (and also I fly the 747-400 and FSLabs Concorde a lot). Not 100% sure when I will pick up MSFS, or if I will wait till 2024 has settled in, but this is looking like the main barrier keeping me from upgrading so far being removed finally.

WIth it having been this long I think it's safe to say we've been abandoned at this point.

For an MD80 in P3D I can only recommend the Leonardo Maddog, still a really stellar aircraft.

A few thoughts on my end Iirc the shallower bank-rate was(?)/ is to maintain climb performance on the LHR-BAH routings? Or at least that was the intention. There doesn't seem to be much impact on climb performance with HDG-hold method in your case, but I'd be interested to see this on a heavier-loaded aircraft in case it makes any difference I think you might also be able to do the equivalent to the HDG-hold without engaging the Heading hold by setting the INS to 'manual' so it doesn't change waypoints as early. Same effect I think but no changing modes on the AFCS. I don't use an EFB (beyond navigraph charts) or anything that makes me worry about whether I get registered as 'hitting' waypoints or not so it doesn't bother me (and the curves look nice on the ground-track to me lol), so not much of an issue to me personally, but if they can get some fine-tuning into the next update that makes things more accurate I'm all for it. I've no idea how things were calibrated in the actual aircraft so I'm speaking from a certain level of ignorance.

Well, they intend to make a MSFS version and their dev effort seems to be primarily going into MSFS ports, I think I can gather that much, though they are unclear as to whether the bulk of the effort is going into Concorde or the A32x. With FSL time-frames I wouldn't expect anything soon in the conventional sense; I imagine they will maybe try to push the airbusses out first before concorde but there is already a very saturated market for Airbusses on MSFS so I don't know how well that will turn out.

At least the GPS spoofing would be no problem for Concorde, given it doesn't have one 😆

I'll need to do a few more custom routes to have a look (so far just Bahrain to Hong Kong via Bangkok), though I haven't had too much problem resetting the accel/ decel points, the VCS seems to follow it more or less ok. The documentation does definitely still show the 'original' points, which I ignore.

Supersonic over land was added a little back, you can modify the acceleration and decelration points in the HPLX when loading a custom route.

I had a problem a little while ago having not touched the sim for 6+ months where nothing in Chaseplane worked. If I remember rightly I had something weird going on with simultaneous versions of Chaseplane installed on my PC, at least one of which was completely bricked and wouldn't connect to P3D. It's still a little buggy for me to this day (every time I launch Orbx it wants to update it) but it's worked since I got rid of the offending duplicate. I'm not sure if my symptoms were quite the same as yours, but it might be worth sniffing around your files/ registry in case there is another version hanging around like I found. It is possible that something in ORBX Central is causing it to break in some way.

Didn't have any problems on my end, If you're still having trouble, I can send you the .zip file and the afcad I made with the updated exclusions (assuming a v5 install) if you'd like. If installing for v5 you will need to create a fake v4 install so the installer runs.

Thinking pure stability, v4.5 is probably the best option as it's less prone to using up all your VRAM than v5 is, otherwise I would recommend v5 for giving better performance and slightly better visuals.

Oh wow, I am really happy to see this! Sometimes I'm reminded just how lovely the flight sim community can be at times; this being one of those!

Hm, it does apparently give some custom airport markings and the such, although I can't seem to find that much specifici information as to the airports on there. If it's just changing up the markings and not really changing up the buildings/ textures much I might just go with NZAA