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Hi All, Just wondering your thoughts on the professional line up, their LSGG is the perfect airport for me but i hear very mixed review about some airports. I know EDDK is a masterpiece, but was wondering about thoughts on the rest? I have EGLL, EDDF and LEBL, they are all fine, they do the job with nothing too special. I heard negative thoughts on things like EDDT, LIMC and LSGG, I was wondering what you all though of the "professional sceneries" Stay safe, Canine

How is the FPS hit please, in v4 or preferably v5? https://orbxdirect.com/category/ftx-global/esp Annoys me that I have to pay for better textures but regardless, thanx for any responses, brothers.

Hi all, Has anybody the safegates working at Larnaca (LCLK) Cyprus. Cannot find the SODE file for it. Please advise. Pieter Veelo

Hi all, I am glad LM has decided to go with DX12 - this time they are really planning for the next 2 years ahead. After slewing around the new default freebie Orbx airport in the jet....my mind got blown away with TrueSky and the performance of the sim. My settings are slightly pushed ahead from P3Dv45HF3 but this is truly evolution of the sim. I can not go back; sure there might be some app here and there, I have 2 sims on the computer. Looks like they added some new mesh to this new sim; the install size of v5 is 45gb vs 26gb of P3Dv4.5 approx. Finally my card acted in Super mode (RTX 2070) that is - my VRam did not even go over 5gb, but with t…

Hello all. In anticipation of more hotfixes and future versions of P3D V5, I would like to ask some questions. Since about 90% of addons are now implemented using the Addon.xml method, how does one go about re-activating all addon.xml after a clean install of P3D? I recall an instance when I had to use the delete generated files command. I had to manually uninstall and reinstall everything for the files to be read again. Even though I think that was totally unnecessary since 90% of my addons then were installed using the xml method. Just recently I discovered that ORBX Central has a one-click option "Sync Simulator" in order for the packages to be recognize…

Hi I read with interest the various threads on v5 setups but wonder if anyone with a greater knowledge that me could advise on the v5 setup for a lower end computer & Graphics card. Windows 10 with AMD FX 6300 six-core processor 3.50GHz, 16gb ram, 64 bit, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 6gb I have a lot of payware airports, such as FDST, Taxi2Gate, LatinVFR, UK2000 and use mainly Aerosoft Airbusses or Qualitywings 787 Thanks for any help and suggestions Rob

In the FMS under Simulation, Page 11, there's an option for Weather Radar to use Rex or Active Sky. It's greyed out and defaults to Rex. How can I change it to Active Sky?

Just did a test at KSFO. Without exterior lights my fps range is between 19-23fps. With them all on I get 9-10fps! I was expecting that this issue has been fixed, especially with the new updated PMDG 747. A loss of about 10-11 fps on my system with them on.

Does anyone know exactly what these settings change? Does this only affect the default airports? I'm assuming it doesn't do anything for 3rd party airports since they're using their own custom textures. RUNWAY_LIGHTS_SURFACE_SCALAR=0.30 RUNWAY_LIGHTS_VASI_SCALAR=0.20 RUNWAY_LIGHTS_APPROACH_SCALAR=0.10 RUNWAY_LIGHTS_STROBE_SCALAR=0.30

Hi, I would like to install my copy of A_A_Sceneries WMKK into P3dv4.4 and would like to hear if anybody is using it? what is the best way to install it? as it certainly doesn't look like it will be updated for V4 or is it worth it at all in V4. Cheers Rod.

Just seeking opinions on if there is any technical benefit between using the new Beta for P3D v4.x, or just use the latest Stand Alone AS P3D 4? I haven't used the latest AS P3D for v4...only v5. What do you the reader think? Is there a compelling reason to now only use the new Beta for v4 weather?

No telling when Honeycomb will update it's button mapping software for v5...so what are the alternatives? is it just FSUIPC or?

How do you set the actual Field Of View (FOV) angles in P3D? There should be settings for both the vertical and horizontal field of view. This is different from the zoom. I mean the actual angles from the viewpoint (i.e. your head) to the image viewing plane (i.e. the screen). For example, if the semi-major ( half horizontal ) axis of the display is a, the and semi-minor (half vertical) axis of the of the display is b, and the distance from the viewpoint to the image plane is λ, then the FOV angles are Ωa and Ωb are Ωa = 2 * arctan( a / λ ) and Ωb = 2 * arctan( b / λ ) If the FOV angles are set properly, then what you see on the disp…

Hi All Been using the QW787 with the jump ahead feature which I’ve found works very well. I prefer this to time acceleration and was wondering if there was a utility that could add a jump ahead feature to all aircraft? Many thanks Regards G

After installing HF1 my performance dropped significantly, however after reapplying the original VR hotfix performance increased by around 65% (18 vs 30 FPS at egll). The original hotfix can still be downloaded here (note this had issues for Windows Mr users who will need to apply vr hotfix 2 instead). https://prepar3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6312&t=136992 Hopefully LM will address the HF1 VR performance issues when they release HF2.

HI All, I was starting to get into Prep3Dv5 for the first real go today. Everything went pretty well except that I cannot display or print the flight Navigation log. The log won't display when I hit F10 nor can I display it from the flight planner. With P3Dv4 I had the habit of printing my flight plan log after making a flight plan and displaying it on screen where the print option is available and I could display the log in flight after pressing F10. In V5 I just get a blank page. Anyone have any ideas what could cause this issue?

hello all i been flying the flight 1 super king air 200v2 is a fine aircraft i have a problem when iim moments from landing i float a lot i end up landing halfway on the runway today i had full flaps and doing 107 knots i thought it was one of my best landings when i got about 50 feet from the runway the plane pitched up and i ended up landing halfway on the runway again but i did kill the throttle maybe that was my mistake.. do i supposed to have some throttle to keep the momentum of the plane going? any experts on the king air are welcome to keep some pointers thanks.

I've always been able to set up ChasePlane when I get a new system, but I see that the I'm getting so many problems now that I'm got P3Dv5. All I want to do set up A for internal views (all of the views get the key assigned so I get moved around cockpit). I then want to set up S to move around the external views of the aircraft. I want 2 views for the cockpit, and 4 for the external views. If I could get that into P3D, I wouldn't need ChasePlane. My settings are here in this link. Gary

All, Looking for a VH-3 or VH-92 for P3D. Virtavia makes a payware VH-3, but there are no repaints to be found. Same issue for Dave Allen's S-92; no Marine One repaints. Thanks!

I recently started using AIG Manager with OCI installation. I did this to be able to upgrade my FAIB models to use PBR textures. The automatic installation of the models was extremely good and simple. The installation of the models also uses an external application for the different AI aircraft sounds. The software is Aitrsp v.1.8. I am having an issue with the timing of some of the sounds, specifically the thrust reverser sounds. For example, in the case of the FAIB 320’s the reverser sound starts 7 seconds after the animation of the cowling movement starts, and continue 7 seconds after the cowling is closed. In the case of the FAIB CFM neo it is even…

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Title says it all. I just went to install an addon plane and the install package directed me to my C drive - my HDD. I thought it was a mistake, that it was just assuming that's where my v5 install was. But no, that's where I installed it. Questions: How bad is it vs. having it installed on my SSD? I'm assuming performance is better on the SSD (not to mention the fact that the whole reason I have an SSD is for gaming). If I want to get it on my D drive (SSD), can I just copy and paste the whole P3Dv5 folder over? I'm assuming the answer to that is no. Which means that I have to uninstall and re-install the whole thing, correct? It wouldn't really be th…

https://a2asimulations.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=65531&start=30 Just incase you are not aware. I was getting CTD's in the Bonanza, hopefully it's sorted now. One less CTD to worry about 🙂

Tried to install the new beta and was unsuccessful plus I can no longer user my previous ASN for P3dV4.5. Has anyone else experience this? Also, now my ASN for XP now will not recognize my "licence key". Any similar experience. I've submitted a ticket to HiFi. Dave

Excuse me if I am being dumb but how can I scroll left/right/up/down etc around the flight deck (PMDG 737 or QW787). I have seen vids where people can do this but my sim just seems to move around the screen in chunks. Obviously there must be a setting somewhere? Brian