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I used to fly over a lot of Ortho scenery in Xplane11. But I decided to give the default scenery another try. I have just fallen in love with it, for me, the landclass, the autogen, the moving vehicles, they all are immersive. The Aerobask Eclipse and the Carenado PC 12 are great add-ons for me, plus I have Jason Chandler's Velocity XL single engine experimental add-on, a wonderful, niche canard aircraft that gets one there in a hurry. Today I flew the Eclipse from Orlando to New Orleans, and even without photo scenery the landclass and roadways are spot on, and look like what I have seen as a passenger in the flight levels. For slow flight they added the aerolit…

What is the best way to improve the light brown ground textures and what is WED? Thanks,

Hello, I installed US orthophoto scenery v1.1 California package from here: https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/36327-us-orthophotos/&page=4 All works and looks fantastic. Unfortunately there's one 100% repeatable problem with XP11's G1000 GPS: soon as I start playing with the zoom, particularly increasing it, the zoom at some point jumps to weird 153km and XP11 crashes. Happens in all planes equipped with G1000. Outside the orthophoto scenery G1000 zooms in/out ok. Has anybody seen this? Any ideas? Thanks

One aspect that I really do not like about X-Plane's lighting is the way it renders sky lighting near the begin / end of the day, when the Sun has just set or is about to rise. It is usually too dark, a lot darker than in RL for the same situation ( date / time of day properly adjusted for LT ). At another forum someone suggested editing "skycolors.png" Has anyone tried it? Suggestions? Screenshots of the mods? Thx!

free: https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/45966-hawker-hurricane/

Just to check with the crowd here, what's the range of economy/maintenance add-ons available for XP11? So far, I've found: - FSEconomy (community) - Air Hauler 1 (offline; via XPUIPC?) - Fly The World (community) - ProjectFly (?; community) - XPFLier (community) - Countless virtual airlines (community) I'm looking for something that lets me do stuff on my own any plane I want (regardless of size) and no fixed route system. Offline preferred.

I really enjoy all of MisterX6's airports... have all the freeware and payware (except the most recent KLAX) and love them all! The only nitpick I have is that the human objects are a bit "odd"; they kind of remind me of scarecrows. Does anyone know of a way to substitute them with more life-like models?

Hello. Would anyone in the know be able to help? I am pressing the NAV/GPS button on the cockpit beside the Garmins to get the autopilot coupled to the GPS but it will not shift out of NAV mode. I have the Flightplan loaded and have pressed the CDI button. Any thoughts what I am doing wrong? X-plane 11.2 and default Cessna 172 floatplane. Thanks.

How do we convert our X-Plane installations to take full advantage of coming traffic add-ons? WT 3 is about to be released, so I am facing the daunting task of removing all static aircraft from my X-Plane installation. WT 3 will easily fill up all airports with actually living planes, so there's really no need for static AC's anymore. Actually, they will quickly become a disturbance due to spawning issues. I identified three categories of airports: 1. X-Plane Gateway I will do nothing to these and hope that with time, all updated airports will support turning off static AC and thus be static AC free at one point without me having to do anything. 2. Freeware …

So little by little I've figured out many of the eccentricities of xplane and quite like the 737 and the night skies. But the ATC ? I though Xplane was a little iffy, but this is just rough. Is this because its a beta or does Xplane consider this to be of little importance?

Hi there Is there a way with a script to move the general data output screen on another side of the windows it's annoying when checking message on Xsqawkbox or maybe the opposite? thanks

Q1) What are the best linux distros for running X-Plane and why? Q2) Can I expect compatibility issues with 3rd party developers like Flight Factor when trying to install addons? Q3) Can I expect frame rate hit under Linux? Q4) Can I expect a frame rate hit using Linux NVIDIA drivers?

Hi, just moved yesterday from Prepar3D v 4.3 to XP 11and have tons of questions but the pressing ones are: I am missing many buildings (not specific ones) in cities in S. Cal, it just looks empty despite that I maxed out the elements tap in settings. Also it looks very hazy despite that I moved the slider to 100 miles in view settings. Do you have any ideas what I can do? Is there any guide for new guys? Thanks so much. Bernd Jablonka

I'm flying the Bell 407 by Dreamfoil Creations. However, on startup of the sim, I'm getting the error about the aircraft may not look right and to check the log file. I checked the log file, and this is the only line that looks like an error of some kind..... 0:01:09.104 E/ACF: The manipulator type used has been deprecated. Please update your file. Anyone else get this, and how do I go about "undeprecating the manipulator type"? John in Indiana.

Have you ever sat down to do something, then to discover that things do not work that used to? You then start looking on the web for explanations as who else may have had your same problem, only to find crickets to those who may have had your problem but no one responded, especially those that are selling or creating the product that you paid for. Case in point the Duke 60 I purchased and immediately after loading could not get the gauges to function and the props did not spin, not to mention no sound. I even contacted RWDesign and nothing. Three months later I purchased a ToLiss A319 only to have the main landing gear missing and all the doors open. Again I look …

I have been trying to install the PC-24. The instructions say to put the key file in my personal_folder. There is no personal_folder in the download though the developer says there is and to use my eyes. Has anyone installed this and the PC12 and can tell me as the support though quick is lacking. I will be generous and say because of language difficulties.

Nice scenery gift: https://propstrikestudio.com/products/fisheries

I'm curious For FSX, I wouldn't touch any of their aircraft with a ten feet pole because virtually all of their aircraft come with extremely large model files and tons of high resolution textures which drag down performance. Are things any better with their X-Plane releases?

I got an email about their newest XP11 release and I'm interested. But I don't see any shots with the RXP GTN 750 in it. Did anyone purchase and also owns the RXP units? I'd like to see some screenshots before I buy.

So as the title states, whats everyone using for weather these days? I was a XEnviro user and pretty happy, although some of the latest versions I haven't been happy with and having some graphical issues however. Plus I have some VR issues. I switched to SMP with the weather connector which isn't bad, but I don't feel like there's any wind. With Xenviro I could sense gusts and such and turbulence. SMP seems to have none of that, not to mention I saw some rain when none was in the forecast for the local area I was flying. The performance also doesn't seem that great to me on SMP but I may need to tweak a bit.

Due to feedback from users, we've merged most of the X-Plane separate threads into this single topic. Hopefully this will make posting and navigation a bit easier and more intuitive, and matches the P3D forum layout. The Tips & Tricks forum remains and any posts posted here that are really useful will be moved to that forum and made readonly. This way, we can hopefully keep an archive of useful information.

I've been trying helicopters lately. Because of that, I've also been playing around with the various headtracking software out there ... facetracknoir, trackerxp. When I returned to regular flying the Baron to get away from the stress of learning to fly a helicopter, I noticed that the horizon wasn't level anymore. I switched airports; however, still slanted. I got to mucking around in the XP settings screens and noticed that the "visual offsets" boxes had some weird numbers in them. I reset them, and voila, horizon is again, well, horizontal. Anyone else noticed this? And could that facetracking software had altered them, either by something they did, or I…

Is XP11 in the FS doldrums? Where are all the native XP11 aircraft addons? Does anyone know of confirmed upcoming addons?

Just found this update.

I need to talk to that person who has the definitive answer to antaliasing and how to get it in XP11. Before I take a screenie I advance the game graphics to far right on antalias and you can see the difference. If however, I leave it there, my machine starts to grunt until I return to the workable but jaggy setting. Neither Nvidia inspector nor Nvidia control panel seems to do anything (I've been known to screw-up). If I'm missing something, I'd sure like to know it.