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Dear friends who are all still happy with P3D! Today I just wanted to introduce you to my work of the last few years - yes, years. Some time ago I even created a thread here - somewhere - but I can't find it anymore... 🤐 First of all the following: I'm not the type who likes to advertise his stuff. The reason for the post here is actually that I was told again and again (actually, also more than years now...) that I should do more advertising. For example here, because there are still many P3D fans active here who might be interested... That's why I'm just going to do that now! So, what have I done? Well, what many others have already done - created photosceneries. With autogen, of course! Very briefly, how does one get the idea to create photosceneries? Well, back then, nearly 10 years ago (remember the time back then, that was before ORBX released something like TE Netherlands!), I wanted to enhance the approach area for my home airport EDDM a bit. After a lot of reading, trying, deleting and trying again, I had created an area that covered about 40x20 km around Munich Airport. Everything was created completely manually, every autogen building was placed by hand. Many people were enthusiastic about it at the time and asked if I could create something like that for XYZ airport . And yes, in fact I wanted to do that. Shortly after, I visited Namibia (and that was really great!). But I didn't like the flights in the sim (remember, at that time there was no openLC Africa!). And that's when I had the idea to create a photorealistic Africa. It was a huge project, I never thought I could finish. I have to say the following about this: I was in my geography bachelor studies at the time. And an important part of it is, of course, the use of GIS software. I wanted to combine this so that the creation of the sceneries would be easier. And that's what I did, and created all of Africa photorealistically - in high quality and with accurate autogen. After I had 800 GB of photosceneries for Africa, I thought - why not other regions? In the meantime, a lot has happened here. I now use Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8 OLI data to detect vegetation, which I refine with vector data, including OSM. For buildings, I have chosen an AI approach, so that I can also extract building footprints from the RGB images using a convolutional neural network (with the restriction that it only really works well in Africa, as I have trained the model here). Therefore, in the meantime there are more than 10 Python scripts á 1000-5000 lines of code with which I can create my sceneries - semi-automatically. In the meantime, I have created all of Europe and Africa, and I am working on South America. The server storage space is still a problem. Due to the increased costs, I had to remove Central Africa and all my Asian sceneries from the server - even though I am working on making everything available again. So, a lot of text... It's probably best if I just show pictures - across the world, so to speak. Athens Marrakech El Oued Algiers Cape Town Ouagadougou Somewhere in Ghana Somewhere in Sierra Leone Bulgaria Currently working on Brazil France Frankfurt Serbia Tirana Naples Poland Germany Namibia In the meantime, my sceneries - of course! - also come with comprehensive night lighting. Furthermore - and I think this is not unimportant: How big are the sceneries? Well, I have installed a 4 TB HDD for my sceneries (whole Europe, Africa, half of South America, part of Asia, altogether approx. 60 million km²), on which approx. 2.7 TB are occupied. A lot of information - including a current overview map - can also be found HERE and HERE. For questions regarding the download, please write me a private message (preferably in the FSXForum or at FSDeveloper)! Now, in conclusion, I have no other option but to wish you all a wonderful weekend!

How do I remove this green texture? https://imgur.com/FnSm82f

Hello members, I have an issue with the Orbx Base Pack. This is Ganderkesee (EDWQ) and in my there are houses, while in real life there shouldn't be any. I already verified the files via the Orbx Central also posted my Scenery priorities, as I fly a lot of VFR this is a really big problem for me. The solution would really make my day.

Back in ALFG returning from Edinburgh this evening, half my screenshot folder for this month is this aircraft now! Loading up Taxiing to 24 Back to Frankfurt we go. And back in Frankfurt. Might need to go back to narrow-bodies again to mix up my screenshots folder a bit.

The Grand Prix was held over the weekend, not that I had opportunity to go, but it seemed like a nice time to gather a few Melbourne pics together. Melb Airport YMML - All those planes just awaiting a chance to get back in the air... A couple flying in from the East in a Cabri G2 Heli, didn't manage very far, need much more practice flying a Helicopter. The MCG (Melbourne Cricket Ground) is the stadium with the lights.

I have been having trouble for few the past few days downloading the Airbus Fleet. First the FSL Libraries will start downloading and the bar showing the percentage complete will disappear never finshing. Then since the Airbus A320X is next to download it will start but about 30% do the same thing. I already tried asking FSLabs for support but they keep telling me the servers are working on their end and to turn off my antivirus, but all i have is windows defender and that is turned off. Tried downloading using Wifi , Ethernet and VPN with the same result.How to fix this?

Article P3D with Unreal Engine Seems they are heading towards a fully new direction. Incl...Photorealistic Models! Marcus

A few pics of my recently installed the Porter PC6 from Milviz, bought during their flash sale @ 30% off. Quite a fun plane to fly, and one where you need to be careful with the engine so as to not blow it. I'm liking it 🙂 Cheers Pretty sparten in the back. Lots of nice gauges at the front end.

Nice cold and clear skies over Valdez (PAVD). Then after landing, saving the flight and coming back to the sim later, the weather was quite different. Moments after this screen pic it was a white out, quite disorientating. Cheers

Alexei S Khlobystov's Tomahawk is a great plane from the A2A stable, very challanging to fly and quite difficult to keep straight on take off. Also requires absolute gauge scanning as the engine is easy to kill if not careful, as my pics series shows the results of. Last night I was practicing flying between the islands of American Samoa's Ofu and Ta'u. Wasn't properly scanning the gauges and (due to being not that familiar with the aircraft) and ran into problems. Made it onto the runway @ FAQ although not without a fair amount of damage. And besides what is shown in the pic, an engine check showed the main bearings were also shot. Good repair crew though... heh. Back in the air and cruising to Ofu (Ta'u is the island below). comming up on Ofu Island. And successfully landed and on the ground @ Ofu Village AP. Cheers

I came across this eyetracker which works with MSFS2020. Does anyone know if it is compatible with P2D? I have trackIR, but wearing the IR emitters really bugs me. Thanks, Jeff Callender

I am requesting for scenery designers who may be looking for a new project to take on. King Khalid International Airport (OERK) has undergone significant changes over the past few years including a new terminal 5 which was completed in 2015, and terminal areas as well as changes in parking just to name a few. There are a few well done AFCAD's as they pertained to repairing the ILS and appropriating some of the aircraft parking, however, these are in themselves significantly outdated. There was an excellent project done by ARMI PROJECT, however, it too has become outdated with the recent construction. A grand scenery project would be great, but I know that is time-consuming as well. I would be very pleased as well as it would be doing the community a service by updating an outdated airport in FSX/SE/P3D. (etc).

Browsing through my aircraft list on Volanta, looking for some long-haul returns, and I find one of my 747's resting in Chicago waiting to come home to London Pushback from stand, starting the clock. Taxiing to 10C, giving a wave to the tower! And we're off to Heathrow! Foggy skies at FL110 Some time later.. She's back home at London Heathrow after 7 hours and 10 minutes. Here's to her next journey.

Tuning for my new GFX card and I can still max it out 🙂 I'm sure the promised next gen will be 2x to 3x even better... That said it does take a bit more effort to do so than my older card - a 1070Ti. Pic shows 4361 mem use, but have taken it up to ~10000 and it's oh so easy to get to 100% GPU use, I am enjoying it. Cheers 11S in the background Walter Sutton's farm USA Taking the 737 out for a spin.

Beau Hollis, from LM posted this on LinkedIn. I do not have any further information. But it is interesting:

Hey Folks, Just a couple of the Aeroplane Heaven Betty Boop C140. Pretty cool little airplane, I added the GPS 2020 and am testing a fix for the disappearing pilots on take off. And the flight is outback Australia heading from Longreach to Alice Springs with lots of stops on the way. Cheers

A few of the F-35. Cheers

Hey Folks, As the title says "Collection of Pics from Recent Flights". Includes some recently installed planes I've fixed/modded. First up is the Jabiru 160, seeing this post and video linked here prompted a Jabiru flight, it's quite a nice easy to fly sport type of aircraft. This is one of Iris Simulations they gave away during Covid, noting it did need a bit of work to move from x86 to x64. Next is a Carenado Pilatus PC12, which I installed a week ago. Now normally with a Carenado aircraft there are a host of errors to fix, these being mostly the result of copy/paste errors, typos and the odd bit of poor logic, however this one only had the one prob so far and that is a duplicated pitot_static section in the aircraft.cfg. Still getting the feel for flying this machine. A jet is next in line, being the Quality Wings 757, bought an at amazing price of $14.95 and that price includes many variants and even actual airline safety briefings to match liveries. This one took a bit of troubleshooting effort as I couldn't get the glass gauges to work, they just displayed an error about not being able to start and QW757-0. A search of the QW forum wasn't that productive with most stating resolved by reinstall and reactivate, however they were old posts and this one I knew was working prior to a recent Win7 to 10 update and I've already tried a reinstall but it lacked an activation prompt. Eventually traced the issue (via Microsoft's process monitor) to not being able to find the license file in C:\QualityWings and once dropped in it was all good to go. This version includes PBR models I've added. The Carenado TBM 850. I found the G1000 to be problematic and failing to use defaults, meaning for every flight the setup values had to be entered... a somewhat tedious process, eventually problem solved by via edit of the G1000_config.xml, cleaning up the xml code and removing all the comments which were barfing the loading of the file (I did keep a commented version for reference). Quite enjoyable to fly now. This is a pic testing star night lighting as I was tweeking the Stars.fx shader and was working on resolving a few shader math issues. Now here's something you don't see every day 🙂 a sinking ferry under the Sydney harbour bridge. My Fav, the Lancair again, had just installed Jeansy's Australian Oil Rigs with his updated stock oil rig model and was heading out from Gippsland to take a look. Was lollygaging and crashed into the sea, unfortunately this plane doesn't bounce back at all and I could not get it back in the air. Swapped planes and here it is, it's got birds, dophins, animated cranes even the burnoff has a loud cracking sound. Acording to Jeansy he built it for some rig pilots who operated a simpit and were using it to practise. Lastly an retractable undercarrage Cessna 210 Centurion II, nothing special about this one, I bought it to replace an 182RG with a custom photoreal HD VC, unfortunatelly the 182RG had only x86 gauges and was just no fun to fly with the majority of it's intruments missing, I do miss the custom HD photoreal VC though. Cheers

Decided to take the PC12 out and up to height, 28,000 in this instance and where else but some nice high mountainous area like the top of the world. Approaching VNLK after having dropped height and still dropping speed. I's a tiny little landing strip, no go around here. And on the ground (with a thump - need more practice...). Nice panoramic shot coming into the parking area. There's always cats.. or dogs 🙂 Hard to believe the original airport as compared to that of today (pic taken in 1977 - credit Cliff Bancroft). And another from 1964 (credit Jim Fisher). In the air again, this time heading towards Everest. Everest It's really like a wasteland - a desert of cold. Heading over the other side dropping height for VNPL Phaplu airport. Looking for the airport, the GTN750 failed somewhere after Everest. It's software froze and I had to rely on the secondary GNS530 GPS to find the airport. and on the ground @ VNPL Phaplu, another "thumping" landing... Interesting airport, I suppose they are all pretty much the same style in the area. That's all folks. Cheers

Hey Folks, Just sharing a couple of "Opps" pics where things didn't quite go to plan... Opps #1 So I'm flying along in my C182 - when I start to lower the flaps for landing and there was a bang. Just managed to put it down without crashing, although it was quite the struggle with a broken flap on one side. Lesson... must not misstreat the flaps and also do more inspections heh 🙂 Opps #2 Had been flying my modded 690B Commander, also a great plane to fly, quite fast but fortunately easy to slow down. I'd been flight testing a new auto cabin pressurisation gauge function I'd written, along with having added an RXP GTN 750 with bezel control mapping and Roland's WX Radar as an embeded unit in the Avidyne bezel for integration with the Active Sky weather API. I'd landed, parked and shutdown the aircraft, reviewed my test flight logs and notes and decided to take it up again. But in my haste I neglected to follow the checklist... resulting in an engine fire - opps ! Lesson... don't skimp on the checklist... some aircraft are just not that forgiving 🙂 That's all folks. Cheers