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I see Carenado have today released a new XP11-only C208. It looks nice but most of the panel pics on their site are at night! I'm wondering if it's essentially the same VC as in their 2010-released C208 for FSX, or whether it's been re-modelled at all. http://www.carenado.com/CarSite/Portal/index.php?accion=product&correl=199 Quite fancy a Caravan in X-Plane :)

Hi Sorry bit of a dumb question,but I want to uninstall and move my xplane11 install to a different drive. The problem I have is I cannot see either an uninstall option in the unistall options of windows or from within xplane itself Any idea how i uninstall? Do i just delete the folder !!?

I have both XP11 and P3Dv4, and both simulators provide about equal performance in frame rates. One key difference is XP11 is always pushing my gpu (nVidia 970) temps to 80c with the fans running at high speed. In contrast, I can fly the PMDG 737 in Orbx scenery in P3Dv4 and the fans run at a very low speed with cooler temps. Any computer guru's here understand why XP11 is so much more demanding?

This is just a quick heads up for those who don't follow the vFlyteAir forums. Our old Cirrus SR20 (original release was 2015) has received a huge update to version 2.5. Among a lot of other stuff, the update includes completely new flight & engine modeling with custom airfoils (by aeronautics engineer Alan Shafto) flight planning improvements, incl. a basic support for SIDs, STARs and approaches (with several limitations, which are pointed out in the new user's manual you can read online here) improved PFD and MFD (custom tapes & horizon, bigger map icons, independent electrical buses etc.) sounds now using FMOD engine + new sounds f…

I have not been on in a couple of years. So any input will help. I have P3DV3(runs well) and I am on a ASUS republic of gaming... INTEL CORE i7-3630QM CPU @ 2.40 ghz 2.40 ghz 16gb memory 64 bit operating system x64 based processer. My question is if I upgrade to XPLANE 11 will it run the same as the p3d V3 or will there be degredation on my system that works well already? I do not want to upgrade to stronger LAPtop if I have too.

Started to play around with XP11 a couple of weeks ago and so far I've only used the default airports but now I figured time has come to get some really good airport scenery and wanted to ask what airports you guys recommend? I'm interested in both freeware as well as payware but I do prefer airports that are designed for XP11 or will at least work in XP11 without any issues. I will be flying the Bombardier Challenger 300 and I mainly do my flying in Europe so that's the area I'm most interested in but might be interested in really good airports also in other areas. My home airport is ESSA so would have been great to find some good ESSA scenery like the Orbx ver…

Hi, I just forward what Greg (developer of wt3) wrote at the .org forum. Tom

Hi folks, I recently paid the upgrade fee to go from the XP10 to the XP11 version of the JAR A330. When I loaded the plane the first time, I got lot's of red SASL errors, and when I tried to enter my serial number I got "activation error". I then learned of a manual way of activating (via the SASL website) but when I generated my activation key and placed it where instructed in the A330 root folder, I get exactly the same thing on loading the plane - the activation window still appears, along with lot's or red error messages saying that the "A330 aircraft systems (SASL) have not activated!". Before I start the process of going through JAR's support wit…

914 new 3D airports since 11.00 bringing us to a grand total of 4817. Bug Fixes & Notes Fixed shadow issue with planes that have their physical hull offset from the 3d model’s bounding box. Includes Mc Carran International Airport (KLAS) with extensive Las Vegas Strip landmarks.

I've been playing around with Ortho4XP and in some areas the result is amazing as we all know but in some other areas it's looking really bad. In order to find these bad areas it would be very convenient if there was some smart way to get a top view where I could quickly zoom out a lot allowing me to get a good overview and identify the bad areas without having to find them while flying. In FSX/P3D there's something called 'Spot view' where you can do exactly this. Have been looking for a similar view in XP11 but so far to no avail. The closest I've got is using the free camera 'C' and then move up in the air panning around but to get really high to get a good o…

Hi, I fly helicopters and normal planes, and the use of joystick buttons differ a lot between these. Is there a way to have more than one joystick setup so I don't have to remap a lot of keys every time I switch planes? This is in X-Plane 11.

Hi all, Well I have fiddled with this forever it seems. Tried all the internal settings, but cannot find the stability. I have even watched many XP videos on diverse subjects, which many do contain taxi and takeoff runs and you can see the instability, so it's not just me or my equipment. I went back to p3d and was able to nail it (no attacks please). Is there a 3rd party addon that can help stabilize the nose wheel steering? Thanks - Bob

...ARC is giving me some good test candidates for the rest of the Gold Coast! For full screen size pics...left-click once on the pic, and then left-click once more to full screen. Much more detail can be enjoyed. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Have been playing around with Ortho4XP building photo scenery for a couple of weeks now and I'm still struggling getting the perfect result seen in lots of YouTube clips etc. My problem is it looks really nice in one area but word not allowed in another and often with very sharp borders where the color can be very different which I've learned is because the photos were taking at different times. Sometimes complete areas are all white and I've even seen an icon which looks like a camera which is crossed so I guess that means 'We don't have map data for this area' or even 'We're not allowed to show you what's on the ground in this area'. I've heard before my huge …

Is there a setting to automatically create a higher zoom level around airports? Or do I have to go into each tile individually as I build it and draw the boxes for the areas manually?

This is driving me nuts. In FSX you could adjust your seat position then save it, without affecting the outside world zoom! With x-plane I cannot find anything that works. Best advice so far was to use plane maker which I would like to avoid unless someone here has accomplished the seat position effectively using it. Any help would be much appreciated Bob

Good Day I need some help or direction. I just bought X-plane 11 after all the praise I am always using prepar3d V4 . My Issues are : My all Saitek equipments doesn't work although I downloaded all the plugins per advise over the forum but they are still completely black no light although they work great with prepar3d. I was able to get my 6 FIP to work but not my three equipment from Saitek ( Radio, Multipannel and switch panel ) Also I am not getting the sound on my speakers but they are working with prepar3d . Any help to start to enjoy the x-plane 11 is highly appreciated Thank You Amr

Hey guys, I am having some issues learning how to get the VNAV to work with the FMC and the flight director/autopilot. Everything is working perfectly except it is not auto controlling the vertical altitude even though I can see all of the flight levels in the FMC. The only way I can get the plane to climb or defend to the right altitude is to manually set it on the altitude control of the autopilot. I have attached a screenshot so you can see all of my settings. You can see that VNAV, LNAV, and A/T are all enabled on the autopilot and you can see that the speeds/altitudes are set for each leg.. I can't figure out what I am missing...Can someone help me sort out …

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Hi folks, Yesterday I updated my XP11 to version 11.05. Since then, I am getting missing scenery warnings for "Global Aiports" and "KLAS". I am getting these warnings when launching XP11, and during flights - despite having "Notify of missing scenery" checked off in the XP11 General settings. Can anyone offer any suggestions for what might be causing this? Obviously Global Airports is a default component, so it can't be linked to missing libraries? Here is my scenery_packs list, in case it helps identify the problem :- I 1000 Version SCENERY SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Airport_ELLX-Luxembourg-Findel_V2/ …

Hi all, Would I be correct in thinking that the files highlighted below, are those that store the key, button and axes assignments in XP11? My issue is that I fly between the IXEG 737 and some other planes, all of which have different key assignments (some custom, some default XP), so my idea was to save copies of these files for each aircraft I use, then I can simply drop in the correct files into XP11 before launching it, for each airplane. Does this sound doable? (I'm away from home for a few days so can't test this myself, hence asking Thanks in advance! Bill

Directly from Laminar: "Hello there! X-Plane 11.02 is out with the first round of performance improvements, with even more to come in 11.10 and beyond. We're gearing up to add native VR support to X-Plane 11. The X-Plane 11.05 beta is all about Gateway airports, and below we have a preview of major airports that are included, such as KLAS with new landmarks. New & Upcoming Performance Improvements Laminar Research has a lot of performance improvements on our short term road map. Our goal for X-Plane 11 is to consistently hit 60 frames per second with no stutters. We know it's an issue you're concerned with, and we also need this because native virt…

http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/forums/topic/127217-kabq-albuquerque-international-sunport/ Features: Accurately modeled buildings with baked Ambient Occlusion Fully X-Plane 11 compatible, with ground routes and dynamic reflections Custom vehicles with PBR materials Custom jetways HDR night lighting, including illuminated taxiway signs High resolution ground textures with PBR materials Custom mesh based on Ortho4XP. You will also be able to recompile your own tile with an included patch file Animated traffic in and around the airport Taxi routes and accurate static aircraft placement No release date yet. …

Hi X-Planers! I was operating a Jet2 flight in the IXEG 737 yesterday and immediately at the point of rotation, I saw an amazing depiction of a huge flock of birds right in front of the windshield, followed by two loud bangs, a twin engine failure and getting her back down and to a RTO stop, within inches of the end of the runway! It was a serious adrenalin rush, completely unexpected and good fun ......... but!...... I have limited time and had to completely restart the flight as my electrics were lost, along with all of the flight planning in the FMC, etc! So, I'm trying to turn this feature off but whereas it was easy to find in XP10, I cannot find any p…

After a highly spectacular (and unauthorised), departure through the hanger, control tower and the adjacent farmers' field at EGNL it would appear that I have lost control of the nosewheel steering on the C172? I have tried the usual (unorthodox) fix of deleting the contents of the Prefs Folder - to no avail.... and (short of a re-install), can now only ask as to whether anyone else has ever encountered this problem and, if so, how they fixed it? Regards,