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A very cloudy day at Heathrow. For the hawk-eyed among you, the clouds still have some banding. Cloud improvements and fixes should be coming in 12.1

Hi guys, When I summon the ground service window, it changes my VHF1 frequency. Is there a way to turn this off? It’s driving me absolutely mad, as I only fly on VATSIM. Cheers all

As the title says https://www.thresholdx.net/news/taiman

Nimbus release for X Plane 12 details on are on the link below. https://www.thresholdx.net/news/nimjfk

Good morning Who is in charge to install missing airports into X-Plane 12? Laminar or private individuals? The several years old airport of my home city (Jember) is still missing. It's already in MSFS 2020 since a long time. Airport is WARE located in East Java Indonesia. Thank you Regards JP Reuland

It looks like we will be able to test a new ATC utility very soon. https://sayintentions.ai/ Designed for both XP11/12 and MSFS it will cater the VFR crowd. Requires a subscription but there will be a free demo area to play with Initially limited to US territory only and not interacting with other traffic The videos and sound samples shared so far are amazing, let's see how it develops.

I don't know if anyone here has seen this utility but has been out since Oct 9th 2023. What this does is add the missing navitive seasonal and soundscapes to your existing Orthos tiles, below is this the description. "o4xp_2_xp12 is a converter that includes XP12's native seasons and soundscape into your existing ortho tiles. It does this by extracting the relevant raster data from the global scenery and merges them into the ortho .dsf (by Ortho4XP, OrbxTE or autoortho). User @krisbee has created a nice video with before/after comparison and the conversion process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PORIL2hQ0nw" Below is 2 links with the details h…

Anyone out there who frequents Oklahoma City in the Sim and uses Sim Heaven combined with Auto Ortho: I've noticed downtown Oklahoma City is missing. Oddly, I'm not having this issue with other cities. Has anyone noticed this? Any idea what could be going on here? Any tricks to fix this? What I'm using: XP12 w/lastest update 12.0.9.rc-4 as well as scenery update. Windows 11. RTX 4080. i9 139000k. 2 T SSD. Thanks!

In case you didn't know, Verticalsim releases Ontario for X plane 12, details are in the like below. https://www.thresholdx.net/news/ontx12

I switched from P3D to Xplane 12 with Toliss airbus, works OK, but still using one main monitor, i want to add 2 monitors for outside views. Can someone point me to how-to manuals ? In P3D i had more view options, but i think also in Xpl12, but i only find a few interior/exterior views in menu.

If you're on the beta channel you'll get a notification when you start XP12... Still looking after the release notes...

Usually I don't fly with real weather, but today I did. It was raining and after some time I noticed something like soiling. It's not at the windows, but at the wings. Has anyone else noticed that already?

I am eager to try it later today or tomorrow... As anything by Nahdrian, it should be cool !!! https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/89448-ask21e-experimental-by-nhadrian/ (Thx @Humpty !!!)

My Saitek rudder pedals are OK with FSLabs, but not working with Xpl12 (Toliss), i did configuration; the blue lines are indicating the pedal movement, i assign this to YAW, but rudder is not moving. Toe brakes on top op pedals do work OK, but not the yaw. On sidestick i have no assignment for rudder, only on pedal unit. I saw similar issues on forums that needed config files to adapt ?

Here is video from Skymatics that covers the autoloading function and necessary setup requirements. There is a new installation guild with the provided links in the discripent below the video. In it has all of the recent setup changes of the Zibo mod including new setup requirements for the yoke, rudder pedals and throttles along with the autoloading setting necessary for this version going forward . Links to the latest version of the Zibo mod https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/forums/topic/271942-zibo-b737-800-modified-in-x-plane-12/&page=255#comment-2660432

Airbus A320 Level D Simulator – Full Flight (youtube.com)

Today i started an update with SkunkCrafts Updater. The versionnummer didn't change but some new files was installed. After updating i load up the PA28 and got the message that i installed an XP11.acf an if i want to change to the XP12 .acf. After this change the PA28 worked very fine in a testflight. Also the problem with the GTN750 is solved. Thanks at JustFlight. Greatings Dirk

Can you advise me here please…I start up virtual desktop in my Meta 3 headset and run XP12 from within there but when XP12 has loaded the VR box is kinda greyed out and won’t let me click in it….what am I missing here….do I need quest link running first or at all??? Any help wud be appreciated. Thank you. regards Paul

Hi Everybody, I just started seeing these warnings in my log.txt file for X-Plane12, any ideas where they are coming from? There are many more than what I've shown here. I have no errors in my log would like to do the same for these warnings. WARNING! hs_time_sec < replay::s_manager.record_start_time() WARNING! hs_time_sec < replay::s_manager.record_start_time() WARNING! hs_time_sec < replay::s_manager.record_start_time() WARNING! hs_time_sec < replay::s_manager.record_start_time() Thanks

Here are the results of the last navigraph-survey: https://download.navigraph.com/docs/flightsim-community-survey-by-navigraph-2023-final.pdf This isn‘t really a big surprise, since we saw quite a lot of users switching to XP this year. There are now 76% of people who used XP 11/12 at least once (compared to 64% last year). If we count only the users using XP as their main sim, the numbers have increased from 16% to 20%. This great results have been achieved despite the fact that the participation to the survey hadn‘t been published on the org-site, that may have lead to many XP users having missed it. This shows that XP12 did a fantastic job…

I'm looking for some advice on AI Traffic addons for X-Plane 12 from people who have used or own them. I had a look on X-Plane.org and there seem to be 3 options, X-Life, Traffic-Global and WorldTraffic 3. TrafficGlobal is incredibly expensive, and WorldTraffic3 looks like development has stopped on it. I'm looking for something that will run on Mac OS M2 and Windows (they all seem to have Mac versions), but TrafficGlobal makes you buy it twice if you want it on Windows as well. In addition, I have some questions: 1) Do these programs expect you to manually create routes/AI, or can it just work by itself in the background without needing to set anything up …

If you want to see XP weather in action, the video demo the snow, de icing and cold temperature procedure and the affect before and after.

Hello, I bought the X-Plane 12 steam version. In this version I cannot enable the yoke mouse. In the demo version (not Steam) this function works perfectly. In the steam version it shows an Xbox controller connected, but I don't have any controller connected to my computer. How do I resolve this issue and enable the mouse?

My Steam just downloaded an update and it looks like 12.0.9... but I see no mention of it anywhere or a changelog... Anyone aware of anything?