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Mamu Designs just released a tool that does a lot of miscellaneous stuff, mostly related to exploring on foot, but one of the things it does is let you place objects down, save their locations, and share that info with other users of the addon so they can see what you've placed. https://www.fsexplore.com/
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One common cause of short pauses/stutters is Navigraph's EFB app or toolbar panel with moving maps/plane location turned on. The EFB version can be more mysterious because it can keep running even when the EFB is hidden.
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Parallel 42's Campout utility comes with camping-related objects that you can place wherever and it saves that state. FS Fire sounds like it has an "any object in the sim" placer feature: Simobject (Props) Scene Builder Browse the MSFS simobject catalog — hundreds of default objects, direct user entry, or MSFS 2024 file system scanned simobjects — spanning aircraft, ground vehicles, boats, animals, humans, and landmarks. Spawn any object by map-click or coordinate, rotate its heading, and drag it to reposition. Save and load entire scenes including fire layouts, with optional prop-only or fires-only saves.
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Ah I see Haha, yeah, unfortunately, that "little experience" is a huge wall. Never even heard of "affinity." 😛 Although I actually can't say whether the actual graphical-text editing part is hard, because I've never gotten that far. Every time I've looked into editing liveries, I've ended up stuck at the "how do you deal with KTX2 files" step. My most recent failed attempt ended with me staring at the message "VK_FORMAT_BC7_UNORM_BLOCK not supported" from the umpteenth KTX2 conversion tool I tried downloading. The tutorials are written with assumptions of knowledge I don't have and it's like I'm trying to fake my way into a secret wizard council. 🧙
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I think your N14CL or N508DB would be great for it. Could optionally recolor the burgundy parts of the livery to blue or something if you'd like to distinguish it as a fictional one. I forgot about the cockpit side. Can the registration simply be left off/blank there?
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This plane seems fantastic, but the one thing stopping me from buying it is the lack of dynamic tail registration. I gotta have my M-LINE tail number! At first I thought it might be coming later for the Lancair, but looking into it, it seems Flysimware's other two FS2024 planes also don't have any dynamic registration liveries?
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A couple of days ago I had the sim randomly change audio output devices in its own settings. I had to switch them back to what I wanted them on.
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Moving map addons like can cause this, e.g. Navigraph EFB app when plane-location is turned on.
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Sounds like the beta update instructions. Doesn't apply to non-beta updates.
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BATC seems to be a small group, but it's not solo dev, as far as I can tell from their videos. The VFR programmer and IFR programmer can work at the same time, semi-independently.
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Technically the ability to save in flight still exists in FS2024, though it's obfuscated. I guess they hid it since it had a lot of problems (in 2020 as well) with not everything getting saved (avionics, etc.) I've tested it and it works. I believe you need filename extensions set to visible in Windows if you don't have it that way already. https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/fs2024-might-have-got-in-progess-save-load-flights-working-on-pc/683107 It even saves the state of the wear-and-tear system which normally isn't persisted for free flight, so that's neat.
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The taxiway/parking requirement is for FShud For P2ATC, I seem to have remembered it being more automatic than it was, but it looks like to get all of FS2020's airports into P2ATC, you'll need to use a program called MakeRwys (link is lower down on that page) to generate a database from FS2020 that P2ATC can then import (using the Import button on the Taxi tab in the Data Mnt function inside the Utilities tab in P2ATC's Settings). Unfortunately I don't have 2020 installed anymore so can't quickly test this process at the moment. (MakeRwys doesn't work with FS2024, though you can keep using the airports extracted from FS2020) There's also a "display non-AIRAC airports" setting in Display settings but I think that's already on by default?
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Since you want VFR, P2ATC and SayIntentions are it for the moment. BATC VFR is in early development and will probably be a bit limited for a while even if you pay for experimental version access. P2ATC's main limitations are: It's the only one of these ATC addons that still lacks NPC/AI traffic injection, so you won't ever hear other aircraft interacting with P2ATC. (Though P2ATC does see AI & multiplayer traffic in the sim if you have them by other means (such as the built-in MSFS settings) and will at least give you traffic alerts.) It uses old-school Windows voice recognition instead of modern solutions, so isn't as good as understanding people. (Obviously won't matter to those who'd rather select by menu instead of talk.) --------------- Even though you emphasized VFR, I'd still like to bring up IFR for future reference: P2ATC is the only one of these ATC addons that allows you to file an IFR flight plan to/from any airport in the sim. BATC, SI, and FSHud all currently have limitations on what airports you can use in IFR flight plans. For BATC and SI, IFR requires creating a plan in SimBrief, which is missing most tiny little airstrips. FShud doesn't require SimBrief, but unfortunately it has its own limitation of only allowing airports that have at least one parking spot and a taxiway connecting that parking spot to the runway, which again cuts out all of those little autogen airstrips in MSFS that don't have parking spaces. (Manually installing/creating new airport scenery can work around this, but you probably don't want to do that for every Neofly job.) The reason this matters is because Neofly will generate lots of jobs for those little airstrips. 😄 You can choose to filter out those airstrips in Neofly by using the settings to only show you jobs with destinations to lighted runways or airports with a control tower, or such, but of course that will limit the number of available jobs. This won't matter when/if you upgrade to bigger faster planes later that you wouldn't take to those little airstrips anyway, but I ran into this issue a lot in my early days of Neofly trying to use ATC addons with it. Having said that, BATC is implementing some additional ways to create flight plans besides SimBrief, first for VFR, but supposedly for IFR eventually, so in the future BATC may become the next ATC addon after P2ATC to let you IFR anywhere. ------------------- SayIntentions is still my favorite at the moment for a couple of reasons, but BATC is slowly catching up to the features I personally care about. In another year or two I might not need my SayIntentions subscription anymore.
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I wonder if the "Fixed an issue where some lists were not fully displayed resolutions small than 1080p" entry in the patch notes for SU4 beta is about this phenomenon
