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Hi ladies and gents... Doing my second ever flight with this bird... There was an update to it today that I downloaded and I keep having VNAV issues. Relatively short flight - PAJN to KSEA, so it's not too heavy - loaded per SimBrief. FL390 was difficult to achieve, it seemed to stop climbing almost altogether after about FL330. FLCH didn't do the trick either. N1 was only at 86% or so. LNAV/VNAV were engaged. I climbed up there in VS mode but the airspeed got a little too low for my liking and was approaching the yellow zone, so I disengaged the AT with the two switches on the MCP and manually moved the throttles forward to try to catch up to the profile target spe…

I see people ask about TE in XP 12 from time to time. And we talk about ME and all the other methods to improve XP scenery. I just picked up Oregon in the last sale (dunno why I didn't get it long ago, but...). Only cost me $25 bucks and maybe 30 mins to install just under 100,000 sq mi of beautiful scenery. And while, yeah, it would benefit from an update to match XP 12's First Principles lighting, it still runs great AND looks great! Can hardly wait to explore!

Not speculation by me but from the FJS man himself: https://fselite.net/content/flyjsim-727-abandoned-and-a-look-at-the-future/ Sad but true draw your own conclusions.

Much frustration looking to increase default traffic (no plugin) in XP12. AI Assist says there should be a volume percent slider in Settings/General. Nothing there except a flight models per frame that has nothing to do with AI traffic volume. In the XP12 manual still no joy. I see plenty of stationary models at airport gates but nothing moving. Also TCAS picks up nothing on Tollis busses. Is a traffic addon essential for this? No AI traffic by default with XP12? Anyone?

I noticed that after my Mac M1 sat for a few months the scenery in X 11 was not as good....anyone run into this? How do I reload it from scratch?

I have MSFS2024 (and XP11) and thought about XP 12 since it is on sale. But I have one concern. I have seen information that performance in XP 12 is worse than MSFS2024. I use VR in my simulators. How well will my system handle XP 12 in VR ? My system CPU 5800X3D Graphics card NVIDIA 4700Ti RAM 32 Gb VR headset HP Reverb G2 Will performance in VR be an unpleasant surprise compared to MSFS2024 ?

The title, and why you recommend whichever you do, please 🙂 (In a moment of "weakness", I decided to take advantage of the unprecedented 50% discount on the plane and see what all the fuss is about 😉 )

Chaque vol est unique avec X-Plane 12.4.0 Graphically, too, Xp12 offers 2nd to no other sim representations of the Real World ... This video enhances it. Sometimes the approaches aren't being flown with the "professional" care, but heck! we're simmers!!! I strongly hope that X-Plane and the LR team can continue to support our dreams along the New Year 🙂

https://www.thresholdx.net/news/lux12r The whole serie is out! B737-600 737-700 737-800 737-900 737-900ER All in great textures-quality and ZIBO-systems!

https://forums.x-plane.org/forums/topic/340940-mango-studios-atr-72-500-aircraft-development-official-announcement/

I recently tried some Zero G Parabolas in the Boeing 727 GeForce one and had a blast! I made a short lua G meter script using datarefs if anyone else wants to go Zero G 🙂 Happy new year in advance!

Hi Everybody, I've tried numerous Nvidia drivers with the latest XP beta and have had stutters/flickers with every one of them, didn't make any sense to me as I was running real nice for some time and nothing changed on my end. Now even going back to drivers that were nice gave me flicker/stutters. Well, looks like I found the culprit... If I uncheck the V-Sync box in XP12 my stutters are all but gone. Anyone else try XP12, latest Nvidia drivers without v-sync checked?

I have XBOX controller that I use for camera/view position/look but it comes up "uninitialized" ... I calibrate it and all clear (aka blue) ranges and hit done, but still shows as "uninitialized"? All my other controllers work fine (Thrustmaster, etc.) and recognized, just the XBOX one is not. I can assigned/map to the controller but would be nice to have a different name show? Is there some file (pref or something) that I can manually edit the controller name? Also can't seem to use any of the XBOX axis controls to position the camera/view ... the camera up/down doesn't actually position the camera up or down and acts like a view look up/down. 12.4.x bet…

Wishing ya allzzzzz Happy Season, with lot's of Joy & Love & Health for the upcoming New Year 2026 !!! In the plane of Flight Simulation, my 2025 has been one of the most memorable years of my already longish simmer life 🙂 Since we're at the X-Plane forum, I will not refer to the other platforms that have also brought me so good moments of joy / pleasure / realization, and instead will say that X-Plane 12 has been steadily growing strong and "sexy" 🙂 This last update was remarkable in terms of performance. I have tested it for a couple hours in my desktop, even without any controllers attached to it, and was surprised by it's performance and for how…

A quick thank you and best wishes to all you XPlane simmers who frequent the halls of Avsim. Hope it is pleasant and happy for you all. Indulgently I gave myself a Xmas Present - I replaced and rebullt my PC with Linux as my one and only operating system. Windows is now banished to the dustbin of history. No simming for a little while as I get XP12.4 sorted and running on the PC. So far has been relatively trouble free just getting used to Linux again after many many years. I went the Ubuntu distribution because that is what LR use and it works nicely for me too. Great way to start the new year. Guess it will make me a welded on XPlane driver for good now! Think I n…

Installing my first scenery ever, Taburet Hawaii. Its really being the only scenery i wanted because its nice for VFR flying, done many GA flights there, good excuse to do more, good thing we have high speed BB having to download all the openx scenery. Hope xplane doesnt get upset. 🤫

The IniBuilds Beluga ST for X-Plane 12 is discontinued but still impressive and fun to fly for those who managed to get it in time. Here's a full review & tutorial

i think it would be great if XP12 supported historic real weather, up to say a year ago. oh, btw, XP12.3.0 will support historic real weather up to a year ago.

Their site is down right now, and under maintenance message coming up and YouTube is flooded with Q4XP videos. The level of details is beyond belief. Every window shutter, overhead bin, down to food tray is controllable! Apparently you can flush the toilet but don't think it is using 3D water + physics to move the payload 😁 . Q8 Pilot (who is doing the official promo video) said it is likely to be out this Sunday. Get ready to write the sick day off letter to your boss on Monday...

Since I stated using XP12, I have had what I guess would be called standard addons - SimHeaven, Global Forests and ortho. In the last few days I haven't been able to complete a single flight because XP12 is crashing. Looking at the Log file I see many messages about a RunLoop - Runloop is backed up. Current task count: 495, estimated runtime: 23.938s I see a lot of errors reported from SimHeaven regarding roads missing. So I decided to install a fresh XP12. I then installed SimHeaven USA and Global Forests (freshly downloaded), with Ortho4XP v1.4 zoom level 16 tiles between departure/arrival airports. No plugins were installed. The same result on the first flight …

Posting this thread to capture the upcoming deals and see if anyone has any suggestion on where to burn some money. ORBX has already started and soon the other shops will follow Suggest anything from airplanes, scenery, hardware, books, etc. everything is welcomed here as long as is applicable to X-Plane

C'mon, @GoranM!!! 😁

Another nice vid by Vlad. A. :

https://forums.x-plane.org/forums/topic/339274-airfoillabs-king-air-350-xp12-back-in-active-development-v200-v201/