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It's really great to see that there's still some people wanting to make content for P3D these days. I am also learning to make content for P3D as well. I want to learn about both aircraft and scenery development. For me, it will be a slow process though, because I live a pretty busy life outside of my computer as well, but I am learning little by little. I wish both you and @Vapor the best of luck. Please I hope that when you guys start making content, that you both will come back and keep us all updated on what you're making.

I hear ya. I know that the majority of P3Dv4/v5 compatible airports are just FS9/FSX airports with compatibility updates and they do not have P3Dv4/v5 specific features like PBR and dynamic lighting, etc. If someone were to create Hawaiian airports that are up to P3Dv4/v5 standards, I would definitely buy them. Like you, I really enjoy flying around Hawaii.

The FSDreamteam Hawaii airports are pretty nice if you look at the screenshots. They are old, but so are most P3D compatible add-ons. The two Hawaii packages gives you a total of 4 airports: simMarket: Flight Simulation Add-Ons - MSFS, P3D, FSX, XPLANE Then there's the Hawaii Complete freeware package by Flight Sim Jewels that includes high quality photoscenery, mesh and custom autogen, as well as many airports that cover all of the Hawaiian Islands (you can just install the airports package if you don't want the rest of the scenery). The airports are not quite as nice as the FSDreamteam airports, but they are all fully custom renditions made to look like the real airports and there's a lot more than 4. It's much better than default. Hawaii Complete Photoreal & Airports Scenery for FSX & P3D

I've never used this site before because I never noticed that they sell add-ons, I used to think they mainly sold hardware and stuff. Now I realize they have a bunch of add-ons that I want to browse and maybe buy but I am unable to create an account, go to the login page (in case I already had an account I forgot about), and I am unable to browse the full selection of software because when I click on the next page, it just goes to the home page again. According to a chatbot, it told me that the site has been partly broken for a long time and people get no responses even when they can log in and make a ticket. I see there's a phone number, but something tells me it will either not work or go straight to voicemail. The chatbot had me try several things, like disable all by browser extensions, disable tracking prevention, made sure all cookies are enabled, manually setting the site to allow all cookies and I also tried three different browsers; Edge, Firefox and Opera and I get the same problems on all three regardless of what I try. Is this site completely broken now?

Do you use the default AI aircraft or some other kind?

The secret truth is that there's many people out there in the world that still use different versions of P3D and even older legacy simulators, like FSX and even FS9 still. The reason forums for legacy sims are not as active as forums for newer sims is because the legacy sim users are not nearly as loud and noisy as people that use newer sims. There's plenty of people that still quietly use older flight simulators. There's plenty of reasons people still use older sims, for just a few examples; because they have older or lower end hardware that cannot run MSFS 2024 or X-Plane 12. If you think about it, the majority of PC/laptop users either just do not own or cannot afford higher end gaming rigs. Or they don't have access to high-speed internet that is required for streaming in sims like MSFS 2020 & 2024. And some people are just happy with what they have, they know what they want and don't feel the need to invest in a brand-new simulator just because there is a new one. Older sims also have much larger libraries of content available for them (add-ons) on the internet than newer sims. These are just a few reasons, I'm sure there's many more.

I could never stand the look of the ugly and unrealistic color palette of the speed trees in P3Dv5 so I use Orbx's Trees HD or Terra Flora V2. Another great option is Zinertek's Natural Tree Environment X. I switch it up depending on my mood. One good thing about Zinertek's trees is there's more color variation than Orbx trees which are all the exact same color. simMarket: NATURAL TREE ENVIRONMENT X FSX P3D

Personally, I would love to see a quality version of KOSH. I would pay good money for that. I find it surprising that in all of the years that FSX and P3D have been around, nobody ever made a rendition of this airport that is better than default. All I've been able to find is a couple old very minor improvements to it for FSX and that's it.

People are finding out that Windows 11 is causing all kinds of new bugs with FSX and some FSX addons. This may be one of them. If you don't have FSX: Steam, I recommend you get it, it has a lot less problems than the box version of FSX. If you wait for a sale, you can buy FSX: Steam for $5. It is worth it because FSX:SE has a lot of bugs fixed that the box version doesn't have, and it has less problems on Windows 11. It is more likely that your A2A planes will work fine on FSX:SE.

Yeah, there's plenty of old payware that is still available if you know where to look. Not all FSX payware addons can be found at the normal online FS stores. It's always good to do web searches when looking for specific addons that you can't find anywhere else. Another tip is to look on sites like Ebay, Amazon, and other second hand marketplaces to look for addons on disk that are more difficult to find if you cannot find them anywhere else on the internet. Btw, I had to turn of Windows Smart Screen in order to download the Eaglesoft Agent, otherwise Windows wouldn't let me download it.

You are right, my bad.

Thank you Charlie!

If you look more closely at the screenshot you took, it says it is 2.16KB, not MB.

The default way of setting up controls in FSX is junk. @scianoir is correct, using FSUIPC4 is the best way to map and configure all of your controls. FSUIPC4 is an essential addon for FSX in my opinion, I probably wouldn't use FSX without it. You can find it here: simMarket: FSUIPC4 There is actually another great tool for mapping and configuring controls called Axis and Ohs which you can find here: simMarket: LORBY-SI - AXIS AND OHS V4 FSX P3D MSFS I've tried both and both are great. They are both payware though. FSUIPC4 does have some extra features that the other one does not, but both are great for controls.

This is where I got it from: I used to have a profile picture uploaded but now it's disappeared. The old image I used was much larger than 245 KB, but now it seems I've been restricted to 245 KB and my old image was deleted.

I've been trying to use a screenshot from a flight sim I took as a profile picture, but I am unable to make it small enough to meet the 245 kb maximum size limit. That is a ridiculously small file size that makes it impossible to use any FS screenshot as a profile picture. I've tried cropping the image, resizing the image and converting the image to jpg but the file size is still too large. The smallest I can get it is 320 kb and I have no idea how to decrease the file size any further without destroying the image quality.

Thank you for the heads up. I've been a long-time user of FSX and somehow I have never heard of this site before. I really wish I would have known about it sooner, but I will definitely be creating an account to download as much as I can. Can I ask, how long before you will be shutting down? Do you have a specific date?

This may be a great option to try to find the CVIA INS from simulfly. The Wayback Machine is a great way for find add-ons that no longer are on the internet.

Here's a much better version. It's called the Delco Carousel CIVA INS and you can find it here: AVSIM Library (First on the list of downloads). I think this is a different link because I double checked the file name, which is supposed to be called CIVA_INS.zip and this one has the same file name. Yes it says it's for the CLS 747 again, but the file name is correct, so it should be the right one. I noticed there's actually multiple CIVA INS unit downloads for the CLS 747, but I think the other one was broken.

I see, that is very strange. How is it supposed to work without the actual panel 😞 I've downloaded old freeware add-ons in the past that were missing files too, unfortunately it does happen.

Yes, it's originally designed for the CLS 747, however, if you know how to properly edit the panel.cfg files, you should be able to add it to any aircraft. Edit: If you don't know how to make it work with other aircraft, I strongly recommend you ask an AI chat bot to help you. They can walk you through it step by step.

I did some searching and I couldn't find the one you're looking for but I did find this one here: AVSIM Library (it's the first download at the top of the list) You should be able to add it to any aircraft I believe. Also, here's another helpful tool for when using a CIVA INS: ToCIVA Flight Plan Converter Utility for FSX

Haha! I've had that happen many times when emailing developers about their FSX products. They usually say something like: "These are legacy products and we no longer support them. We've moved on to developing for MSFS. You should upgrade to MSFS...". As if I didn't already know lol And your right, I agree. They really need to state on the pages for their products that they no longer support them.

What I think is great is that Just Flight still gives support for their legacy FSX products, many other developers don't anymore. Even though they still sell their FSX products, many developers will just ignore you if you have any questions or problems with their old FSX stuff.

You need to contact Just Flight Support again and tell them what happened. They are the only ones that can help you in this situation. Can I ask, which online store did you buy it from? I'm asking because one time, I bought an aircraft from a site that was not the latest version. This is very rarre, because most stores sell the latest versions of their add-ons. The developer did fix the problem in my case. Just Flight has pretty good support overall, so as long as you keep pestering them (in a kind way), they will usually help you as best they can.