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Just picked up the Orbx S43 and W16 pack - about 20 USD. I was a little skeptical because their P3D ported airports looked pretty bad (BUR/SBA etc). These ones are new native MSFS versions and while I haven't looked at W16 yet, I am very impressed with S43. They really did a nice job and if they continue this trend I could easily see myself picking up more PNW packages as they come out. Here's a fun VFR flight I flew via the mountain passes from S10 to S43. Cruised anywhere from 130-150 mph over the ground between 4500 - 8500 ft. I was just on the northern edge of a cold front which honestly made for some spectacular views. I hope you guys enjoy! Oh and of course a shameless plug for me and Tim's paint scheme hah! The moment I lift off we're already greeted with lovely views... Untitled-1 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr Untitled-4 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr Initially we'll follow this river towards EAT VOR Untitled-5 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr Then we turn NW towards 27W (over the town of Wenatchee, WA here in this pic) Untitled-6 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr Wow the views... I think that's Rainier on the far right of my frame Untitled-7 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr Over flying 8S2 Cashmere-Dryden (beautiful freeware from Windhover at the usual place) Untitled-8 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr Went a bit off course to look at this awesome glacial lake Untitled-9 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr We're nearly half way through our trip - still clear of the rain Untitled-10 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr Untitled-12 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr Looks wet over there (free plane washes!) Untitled-13 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr Over S88 Skykomish State Untitled-14 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr I love this view of the dark and light of the Skykomish River approaching the town of Monroe (W16) Untitled-17 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr I'll have to check out that strip some other time Untitled-18 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr Chart calls for RP runway 15L so it's an over the top at pattern altitude entry Untitled-19 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr A bit high on base but speed was good... Untitled-21 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr I ended up with a forward slip out of necessitythough the Comanche doesn't really slow down much more even in that configuration Untitled-22 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr Untitled-23 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr Can't be too noisy here Untitled-24 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr I spy something red that I need in my life! Untitled-25 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr This airport pack I highly recommend! It's like quality Orbx products we've always known and loved for the PNW. Untitled-26 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr

As it is with a lot of P3D airports, their afcads are way out of date. A lot of the time you can just download an updated one that someone has so generously created. Unfortunately my local airport isn't that lucky, granted it's had quite the renovation done to it in the last 10 years. Looking for someone who has the talent of creating and editing afcads who can update my local airport!

Hey, I don't know how I missed this earlier while flying in PNW, but are these KSEA lights normal? Is it normal that they are floating in air? I have reinstalled PNW (with .005 patch - which my installer has), and the latest Jan 2013 libraries. Thoughts? EDIT: IMAGES VIOLATE OUR IMAGE SIZE RESTRICTIONS. Before you post images anywhere on AVSIM again, you need to read and then adhere to our image policies. Please do not upload images until you do so. Thank you.

Just loaded Orbx's Creswell into the FSX and PNW. This is a wonderful addition and a great destination for flights from Stark's Twin Oaks. Nicely done painted names on taxiway, freeway overpasses, the lumberyard, all blended into the surrounding scenery seamlessly. Enjoy.

Hey, How goes it everyone. I have been using PNW and Carendo planes lately, and recently I tried low level flying - my question is about PNW ground blurries, is this normal when flying under 1000 feet (I think I was flying at 300 feet) - on close up shots - the road and river is blockly, but far away shots looks so real. I am just trying to make sure everything on my system is running in tip top shape. I do get super smooth frame rates with Eyefinity at 5670x1200 with 6970. I will posting my fsx.cfg soon, it took me many installs and tweaking in order to get this - so it will be great for AMD Radeon users on this site (stay tuned). Please let me know your thoughts Thanks, Skywolf PS - I was goofing around but after few tries, I managed to land a Cessna on top of a carrier (had to glide to it with flaps down and engines at idle to land)

Hey guys and gals. This will be a crazy funny thread and the settings may work for you only if you have an equivalent system. SLI is a must. Before I begin I would Request that this thread be kept Civil and fun. We all know that KSEA area in Orbx FTX PNW is a resource hog. I wanted to see if I could figure a solution which works for me. These settings are probably not needed when not using full fat FTX regions with a heavy airplane addon like PMDG. My Idea: Yes, I want to fly the PMDG 777 as a GA aircraft on top of all those FTX regions and payware aircraft I have. Why would I want to do this: Because I can and this is a virtual world of all and I have the hardware for it. If I can get the system loaded with this much scenery, then all my other addons will act like a breeze. Especially over Orbx KFHR and FSDT CYVR on top of Orbx PNW. These sceneries are resource intensive Specs: I have oc i7-5820K to 4.3Ghz, 16 GB DDR4, 2x980 SLI. And lots of 4K monitors. But sim is set to 1 4K monitor as Primary SLI monitor and other 2 4K monitors are all work 2D related. Addons Installed : Flightbeam KIAD, KDEN, KPHX, FSDT CYVR, KJFKv2, GSX Orbx: Global, Vector, OpenLC Europe and NA, FTX Regions: SAK-PFJ-PNW-NRM-CRM-NCA-SCA and few Orbx NCA P3Dv3 Airports like KFHR, KSTS, KTVL MyTraffic 6 with latest patches OpusFSI: For Cameras Active Sky Next: Default Settings for Weather FSUIPC for VAS info in the title bar Rex 4 Textures: Clouds are at 512 and rest is 1024 Resolution: 4K on SLI Prepar3d.cfg Tweaks to reduce blurries when flying PMDG 777 (newly updated one with better VAS) over PNW at altitude 10K Feet or 15K feet. Need 4 Cores for VAS Management [JOBSCHEDULER] AffinityMask=340 You can also use 30 if HT is off. See which one saves you VAS [GRAPHICS] TEXTURE_MAX_LOAD=2048 Need to ADD THIS (and these are stated in the LM performance tuning guide) [DISPLAY] TextureMaxLoad=12 (You can try 9, 12 or 15 etc, needs to be multiple of 3, but higher number can induce stutters - for me 9 or 12 works smoothly) [TERRAIN] SWAP_WAIT_TIMEOUT=10 (I am running unlimited frames, with this settings I did not really see any slow texture loading when I am panning like crazy on spot view, I didn't really any drop in performance at all --- especially for KSEA area). You can change this to values which suit your system LOD_Radius is set to 4.5. I can not go above this when using PMDG 777 over FTX regions. FFTF [MAIN] FIBER_FRAME_TIME_FRACTION=0.40 (even though this high, but I don't see any issues on my system with SLI graphics) GlobalTerrainView is set to True from False UseGlobalTerrainView=True Once the P3D runs. You need to this VERY IMP TWEAK to get all the cores running at full activity. There is a weird bug in P3Dv3.1 I do see that my Core 2 for example is running but at lower task activity vs Core 1, 3 and 4. I was like why is this core low performing. And then I did this simple trick. I open up Task Manager in Windows 10 and go to Prepar3d, right click on affinity and let the menu show up. I do NOT change anything and just hit ok to the window which shows that I can enable Core 0 and Core 5 if I wanted to. I do NOT enable any other core as VAS spike will happen. Just click on "oK" and viola the Core 2 is now running on full power. And the lowly rendered frames are gone. These are very weird and bizarre issues. Free VAS Menu Trick Another Tweak is if you are running low on VAS - Just click on Options and go to a Settings and wait few seconds and then hit cancel. You will see some VAS free in FSUIPC counter if you have one. I usually get to save somewhere between 50-100MB depending on the location or scenery I am in Flight Plan I did to Land at FSDT CYVR with VAS. Here is what the FMC had. KSAN-OCN-SLI-LAX-SFO-STS-CBU-TCM-SEA-PAE-FHR-CYVR STS is Orbx KSTS CBU is KPDX - Orbx standard KPDX FHR - is Orbx newly released KFHR. I really can go over KFHR at 15000 Feet with PMDG 777 and it renders very well. Slightly slow but as I get there, it does show itself very well. This is also at .65 mach speed. Result is when I finally landed in FSDT CYVR - I had close to 250MB to 300MB VAS Free. That is good enough for me. Summary: 1) Get the updated PMDG 777 2) Texture size to 2048 - trust me some of those photoreal areas of NCA/SCA work better with 2048 3) TextureMaxLoad=12 4) SWAP_WAIT_TIMEOUT=10 5) FIBER_FRAME_TIME_FRACTION=0.40 6) UseGlobalTerrainView=True 7) Mandatory - CPU core affinity trick using simple windows task manager. Just click OK when you see all the cores. You can see the activity in the CPU graphs. 8) If need some VAS free on the spot - just open up a menu like the settings menu wait like 1-5 seconds and hit cancel. Use FSUIPC title bar settings for VAS calculations. Now can someone tell if there is a VAS Leak with Car traffic or not. I can't figure it out. Here are the pics of my settings Hope you enjoy it. Again - this may not work for you. But the CPU Core Menu and VAS Menu Trick work really well. If you can tell where I can improve my experience please let me know Thank You, Skywolf PS (I do apologize for any spelling and grammar checks, I am typing this quite fast)

Still, after all this time I manage to find new ways around the mountains while test flying my new addons; Carenado's CT206H here. Went up from Hope CYHE to Lytton CYLY following the BC-1 Trans-Canada highway. Beautiful scenery when you stay low :smile:

The Phoenix reborn - and looking good while showing her heritage... :dance: Thanks for looking

From Mt. St. Helens over to Mt. Adams

It's another PNW flight....in the Comanche! 13W - W16 Untitled-1 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr A gusty day....should be a fun landing Untitled-3 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr We're direct Untitled-4 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr The lovely San Juan Islands in the background Untitled-5 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr Untitled-6 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr I-5 which continues down to Seattle Untitled-7 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr Paine Field KPAE in the upper left of frame Untitled-8 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr Harvey from the air! Untitled-9 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr Our descent into W16 Untitled-10 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr Looks like a direct 15 kt crosswind....could be sporty for a runway of 2100 x 34' Untitled-11 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr Untitled-12 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr A little high...a little fast....and a big breeze.... Untitled-13 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr An easy choice for a go around! Untitled-14 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr Gear down again abeam the landing point Untitled-15 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr Still the crosswind but an easy landing when you have a stable approach Untitled-16 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr Put her away Untitled-17 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr Oh - W16 is part of the S43 Orbx package for about 20 USD - both airports are excellent value! Untitled-18 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr