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Greetings. I have the NORTHERN SKY STUDIO KETCHIKAN PATK airport. While I think the airport is excellent, I have areas across the river on shore just behind the cruise ships where objects such as cars and buildings do not get developed. They remain flat blobs. Has anyone else seen this? I see no way to contact Northern Sky Studio. I have played with the scenery ini file every way I can think of but those same areas remain messed up. It's possible I am missing a third party file maybe? Thanks, Alex

about those data outputs that show up on the upper left of the screen...like AP settings and compass and many more if you check their boxes...has anyone found the font setting for those in the settings menus or editable text scripts that you could change the font to larger on those info boxes..?

Good morning This is not a critic message! I am convinced that X-Plane 12 is an excellent program. But how comes that there are so many steps described in several videos and checklists that I absolutely do not consider to follow and the planes just take off and land perfect ILS or RNAV ? Are those steps just add-ons to "pretend" to make the flights more realistic? For instance, I use LNM for my flight plans instead of Simbrief, which is an excellent program, I use Navigraph for all the charts and my checklist is a very basic one extracted from a video on YouTube. All goes all the time perfectly! Thank you for your expertise JP Reuland

I've been using a Logitech 3d Extreme Pro since I started using helicopters a couple of months ago. I may have been unlucky, but mine has already started being very noisy in its signal - holding the joystick in one place sees the signal jumping up and down leading to very jerky control response. I have decided to splash out on better controls, both for helicopter and aircraft flying. I have the Honeycomb Yoke and Throttle and am quite happy with them for aircraft that use yokes (although I am tempted by the Brunner yoke). I can't spend as much as required for helicopter specific controls, so I'm looking at a Hotas solution. The Thrustmaster Warthog Hotas looks re…

I have been trying to use the HUD on the Zebo 737 in X-Plane 11 but it is to dim for flying on a sunny day. I have turned up all the normal light rheostats but no help. I understand from the documentation for the Zebo 737, it appears the HUD control panel was not modeled in. Most likely this would be where the brightness would be controlled on the real jet. Any ideas on how to make the HUD brighter or have I overlooked the controls? Thanks Terry

Hi all, Yesterday I faced a strange issue with my XPlane12 in VR and I wanted to ask if it was a known issue or something new... For info, I'm using XPlane12 on Windows10 with a i7 8700k coupled with a GTX1070ti and a Pico4 VR headset. VR mode goes through SteamVR beta and Virtual Desktop. Basically, while the first switch to VR went very well performance-wise, I realized the FPS was getting worse and worse (down to 1 frame per second at some point) each time I switched from 2D to VR and back. In 2D, no performance problem at all at any point in time, but each time I switched back to VR, it was worse than the previous time. Such a performance issue is nor…

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First I have an NVIDIA RTX 2070 Super, This has been a solid good GPU. Now this update referred to above is the second driver update from NVIDIA in as many weeks. I am not sure what NVIDIA is doing here but they may be fine for 30 and 40 series NVIDIA cards but both updates on the 2070 series card have played havoc with my monitor and the way other applications use the driver to show video etc. Basically the updates blow the brightness of the scale and muck up my colour settings. I keep a number of backups of earlier drivers so reverting back and fixing this is not a problem. The previous update had me fiddling with the colour settings etc on the monitor for days trying t…

for Mac users...can you run 3 monitors on an M1 Mac 16 gig,? One 42 inch and two 32 inch or similar?Not 4K but 1440 on the main and 1080 on the sides is ok.. I wonder because even some add ons like X Camera seem to freak out the M1, even with 16 gigs ram.The M1 can run resource hogs like DAWs without any problems... Anyone know about 3 monitors and how do you have yours set up? I mean only using one M1.... thanks

Xenviro 1.20 for XP12 users is out. Free upgrade for customers. http://www.xenviro.net/

Good morning Something new occurring to me! Never saw this before until today. Why does this pop up? Any suggestions. I read to disable windows virus defender which obviously I will not do! JP Reuland

Release notes: Bug Fixes Public Beta – 12.05b3 Bug fixes for X-Plane 12.05b3: XPD-13983 – acf_tmax dataref broken – sets only first engine. XPD-13989 – Old and deprecated Aerosoft EDLP Paderborn-Lipstadt airport still getting installed. XPD-13986 – Assert during flight load at EGLD. XPD-13985 – Discord rich presence shows wrong aircraft name. XPD-13992 – Custom map layer can trigger OpenGL matrix stack error. Installing now.

News just announce that ixeg 737 will be coming coming to X Plane 12. All details are in this link below. https://forums.x-pilot.com/forums/topic/26540-ixeg-737-classic-for-x-plane-12-announcement/

Ok folks so I bought SAM today and I cannot make it work. The plugin loads up in Xplane 12, but once I go into Preflight and click on Jetways, the loading carts appears. Once I have the weights set and I click on 'LOAD' nothing happens. No catering, fueling, baggage nothing arrives. What gives ?

I've just successfully configured the VelocityOne Flight Yoke in X-Plane 12 and it is working just as expected, but now every time I launch the sim I get a BE ADVISED message: Error reading joystick configuration (.joy) file: Resources/joystick configs/VelocityOneFlightYoke - Windows.joy Errors were: Unknown axis (Axis 3) Unknown axis (Axis 4) Unknown axis (Axis 5) Unknown axis (Axis 6) Unknown axis (Axis 7) Unknown button (Button 20) Unknown button (Button 21) Unknown button (Button 22) Unknown button (Button 23) Unknown button (Button 24) Unknown button (Button 25) Unknown button (Button 26) Unknown button (Button 27) Unknow…

Hi. Can anybody tell me where the .exe file is for X Plane 11 on my pc

Well after much trial and error it is clear apart from the odd outlier if it is an XP11 aircraft then it will have major problems in XP12 - namely in the buttons, cockpit controls, automated scripts and other stuff similar. So now my golden rule is if it is not specifically for XP12 then forget it - those older models will always have problems and one will have to wait patiently for an update (if ever it seems for some payware stuff). Rain mapping and window heating etc is also a major difference between XP11 and XP12. You may get lucky with putting the acf file through model maker and then again you may not, then of course the search to see if any kind or enthusiastic si…

I run. X 11, M1 Mac Big Sur. I know on many apps they get loaded down with preferences and saved junk in the containers and other places. Anyone know how to search out un wanted junk in the system,Big Sur, that cleans out un needed folders, files,etc...? thanks

Had an email conversation with Austin Meyer today, he said he was unaware the anti-aliasing was broken..... what the )*)#)_#() after I sent him many screenshots of forum posts from the last few months, to this contrary, he admited it... one was from Ben Sputnick saying how broken it is.....

Bug Fixes Public Beta – 12.05b2 X-Plane 12.05b2 contains the bug fixes below XPD-13979 – Bug report “Ground handling feels weird in 12.05b1 for free-castoring planes that use differential braking”. XPD-13970 – Tops of some Captains-Side MCDU Keys Don’t Depress. XPD-13972 – A330 wipers don’t work. XPD-13967 – A330 meanders around track, failing to intercept and follow smoothly (autopilot constant problem). XPD-13950 – Airbus 330 autothrottle surging power when in CLB notch (AT engaged). XPD-13862 – Ford carrier update: Added circling animated helicopter.

Greetings. Last time I used X Plane it was great. That was several weeks ago. Went to do a flight and started the sim. Got the opening page which stated there was an update. Let it do its thing and there was a lengthy update. Didn't pay attention to the update info and let it run its course. When I stated the program for a flight the graphics were absolutely horrible. Never ever had this problem before or have had X Plane look so horrible. When I checked the program version it said I was running version 12.04r3 Bild 120405. Can someone tell me how to repair X Plane? Something happened with the update that messed everything up. I did learn a lesson though, defi…

I saw that YT video on the Monstertech platform with the QS 220 motion system which is made by a different company. It looks very nice. But no mention of it at the Monstertech site.Anyone know anything about it and the general price?

A new version of xOrganizer V3.2.0 is available at your account at the store you purchase. All information is in the link below with another link for the installation update instruction and changes. https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/forums/topic/286602-new-version-available-in-your-account-at-the-store-v320/

XP12 has fantastic lighting, but I feel a few areas need a tweak - saturation and sharpening especially. The blue 'Rayleigh Scattering' effect is very nice in XP12, but I feel it can be overdone, leading to washed out colours close to the viewers position. This is all subjective of course, but I post my settings here if you are looking for filter ideas or just starting out with Reshade. Here are the filter I use for XP12 (in the order I have them in Reshade) prod80_01B_RT_Correct_Color.fx - this filter serves several purposes, including setting black &white points and removing colour casts. This filter brings out subtle colours and increases overall saturatio…

show the real time of your location😆i was checking out the scenery after my download/install earlier and shocked to see a working church tower, bravo devs👍the hands move but no tick tock sound😁 any other little cool things like this inside the sim?