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Enjoying Ant's wonderful drifter, which I bought and downloaded from Justflight. It is a great Ultralight to fly, great detail and nice flight dynamics for those of us who want to diss the autopilot and hand fly our aircraft. It doesn't go fast, but what a view from the front seat! John

Scenery: MSE California V2 Aircraft: Alabeo Cessna Conquest

Enjoying a nice flight inspired by the video below....

The standby indicator below the MCP is not visible to me. All I see is a square grey blank where the indicator should be. It has writing on it that reads "ISFD heading from left IRS only", I reviewed the manual which shows the indicator in section 10. How do I get this to display? Thanks Dom

In 1984, when I bought my first computer, the "portable Commodore SX-64" with a built in five inch screen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_SX-64), LOL, I dreamed of what flight sims might become. I bought the computer at my oldest brother's urging for $500, he told me over and over again how important it was to learn computing. I did NOT want to become a computer nerd or video game Nut. But my brother insisted. I had just come home from a month long trip to Europe in 1984, which tanked my bank account leaving about $600 left over. I made the plunge, and bought the computer simply because of Sublogic's stencil graphic flightsim. As time went on I studied simming in earnest. I switched from a Commodore to an Atari ST, a color knockoff of the Apple computer. I got the Atari ST for the next version of Flightsim, which had framerates that jumped from the 4-8 fps of the C64 to over 18fps, so "fluid", LOL! To backtrack, in 1983 I interviewed at a hotel, I wanted to move from a low paying retail, part time job to a higher paying, full time job at a hotel. I was asked if I worked on computers, I said no, and never heard from them again. Two years later, after my brother had me buy a computer, I was still fresh and learning, I went back to that hotel. Once again, I was asked if I worked on computers, to which I replied "I own one". I was hired on the SPOT. I became their Rooms manager, and programmed all their sales and marketing data using code similar to Fortran or RPG. I was not, and still am mostly not, set out to be a programmer. I became a business systems teacher, traveling worldwide for the tourism industry, and along the way joined Avsim and got to know Tom Allensworth. During my brief visits at home, and picking up a beautiful bride during my journeys, who worked for an airline (of course but we did not join the mile high club), I passionately simmed and eventually was asked to be a forum mod. I was given high privleges but due to my work at that time, I just could not handle the dual pro bono roles. I pleaded with Tom to make me a Muggle again, and he did. Maybe I will become a mod here again if asked, I believe in fair and open exchange of our community and hobby. To get to the point, I just love Xplane11 and P3DV4 to death. They both have different approaches, but great hands holding up us student pilots, wannabe pilots, and real pilots in simming. Simming is not a "shoot 'em up" hobby, although I love the way some warbirds like the Spitfire, Mosquito, Mustang and Lightning are commemorated in the hobby. The other day, when I saw that Austin was including a FAR 103 ultralight in his sim, I was in sim heaven and rushed to get their beta. I have already put an ultralight trike out their for FS9, FSX and P3D. Now both sims have come full circle and they compliment each other. I think a hard core simmer must try both, even the other sims that are growing and out there. Thanks for letting me rant about simming and being a bore. WARNING, DO NOT READ THIS POST MORE THAN ONCE, MY BORING ALLITERATION MIGHT HYPNOTIZE YOU AND MAKE YOU THINK YOU ARE HARRISON FORD, PILOTING THE MILLENNIUM FALCON, AND LANDING ON THE TAXIWAY TO AVOID JABBA THE HUT AND THE BOUNTY HUNTERS...

UPDATE REPORT After applying the Client update version 4.2 I can confirm the following: AI Lights Reborn Free Edition is fully compatible with Prepard3D 4.2, no issues found. Ultimate Traffic Live (UTL) works fine with version 4.2 EZDOK has issues with nose steering, the work around until an updated version is available is to disable the Fuselage Shakes effects. An update is now available to make it fully compatible with 4.2: http://www.simforums.com/forums/ezdok-for-p3d-v4-2-here_topic59674.html ASCA will not run with 4.2, you will need to install the ASP4 Open Beta Update 021218 from HiFi directly as the ASCA update will not notify you about it. Flight1 GTN version 2.04 don't work with 4.2, You need to install version 2.05 of GTN Complete which is now available on the flight 1 website. PMDG 737NGx loaded without any problems. Bets Regards, Simbol

Using Digital Design EDDP - Leipzig /Halle PMDG P-8 Poseidon REX Skyforce for sky and cloud textures and weather.

Dear members, I am using 1PC with 3 video cards to run P3Dv4.2 with PMDG 737 for my home cockpit setup. I have main outside view running from gtx1080 on the projector screen and use other 2 cards for PFD/ND/EICAS views, 4 monitors in total. I am getting very good FPS (around 50-60) but I do get some stuttering, especially while taxing. Have tried many solutions, NI, vsync, locking fps in sim and in NI, 30hz screen, etc and no solution so far. I have tried running the same system but without using the monitors for instruments views and all is very smooth! As soon as I get PFD/ND/EICAS on separate monitors I don’t get FPS drop but I lose the smoothness. Anybody has any experience with this kind of setup? Processor is i7 7700 running normally at 60%, GPU is neither loaded, any suggestions what could be the cause or possible fixes? Many thanks for your help! Kind regards, Sergej

Between Aerobask's Eclipse for Xplane11 and Carenado's Citation, I have two great sims, and two great all mission capable aircraft when I want to fly in the flight levels. There are so many routes to fly in my MSE California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico scenery, along with my Oregon and Colorado homemade scenery from FSEarthtiles. And I enjoy P3D's and Xplane11's rendering of the rest of the world as well. Please enjoy my screenshots!

Scenery, MSE California and Nevada V2 Aircraft, Carenado Seneca Carenado's Seneca now works in P3DV4 and my FSX license was accepted for P3D, always good legacy support from Carenado!