The Prepar3d Forum

This is for those of you who fly GA aircraft and find trimming an absolute pain, like I did. Back in the FSX days there was a tiny little program, Realtrim. It was free. You set the pitch attitude (actually the airspeed) you wanted, pressed a button, released pressure on the yoke, released the button, and violard - the aircraft was in trim. To me it was one of the best addons in history. The original designer updated it for XP11, but he said the coding was too laborious for P3D. If you fly GA aircraft in P3D, you know what a pain trimming is (unless you have the Saitek panel with trim I suppose, or the Cessna trim wheel). Otherwise it's an exercise in futility. I ca…

LM states that in v4.4 the scenery draw distance can be configured. I have looked in the config menu but cannot find this option. No doubt I have been overlooking it, but can someone please inform me where exactly this feature can be configured? Thanks a lot. Scenery draw distance, including airports, can now be configur

Hi all I thought I'd post this here first before taking it to the FLAI guys. Perhaps someone has had the same issue. Last weekend I updated my FLAI from v12 to v14 using the automatic updater in the Ops Centre utility. Update went fine but a few annoying issues noted. The update installed a number of duplicate aircraft.cfg entries. So when I start P3D, I now have to clear down about 150 warning messages telling me i have duplicate entries in my aircraft folders. So then I wanted to clear out the duplicate entries in the cfg files but when i opened the files, the entries are all one continuous line of text. There is no logical separation of individu…

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Hi all, I know this topic has been discussed so often on this forum, but all those topics won't help me solve my problem. When I want to load a flightplan into the fmc on the PMDG 777/737NGX, and I hit the ''co route'' or ''route request'' button, nothing appears. The fmc will tell me 'no routes available'. Yes, I hit these buttons after my clearance request. Also I noticed that all the paths towards the PMDG FLIGHTPLAN folder are correct. But when I save a flightplan, nothing appears in these folder.(PROGRAM FILES/LOCKHEED MARTIN/PREPAR3D V4/PMDG/FLIGHTPLANS/777 or NGX) Very strange to me. I used to use ProATC X on fsx, and there everything worked perfe…

Good Evening guys... happy V4.4 day! just got myself a new rig with two 1080Ti watercooled, and I was wondering if there is any specific settings I need to be aware of on Inspector or prepar 3d itself? I would appreciate any feedback! @Rob Ainscough Any idea/suggestion dear guru? :) Thanks!!!

P3D V4.4 is finally out, let see its performance

does anyone else have the problem of the reshade me configuration menu not responding in p3d v4.

Hi Getting a new PC with Samsung EVO 970 M.2 1 TB installed. I have three other 500Gb Samsung SSD drives. One of those three SSD drives will be for the Win 10 Pro 64 bit system Any recommendations on where's the best place for P3DV4 and Add-ons? Thanks Ray

Dear all, Planning to move this weekend to P3D......I got myself a new computer and since I almost know nothing about P3D except it's a 64bit development for the ancient FSX (I am going to miss....Really) I have some questions I hope for a straightforward answers, I already have the following add-ons for FSX so getting them for P3D will not a big issue since most of them are working for both platforms starting day 1......OK here we go: 1- Do I need a weather engine (I use AS2016 I have it for FSX) 2- Do I need REX TD/SC ( I already have it for FSX) 3- Do I need REX SF ( I already have it for FSX) 4- Do I need REX WW airports ( I already have it …

Does anybody have a working link to the aerosoft a320 FBW fix mentioned in this thread? Thanks!

https://fselite.net/news/fselite-exclusive-p3d-v4-4-releasing-november-28th-pbr-confirmed/

Hi .. I am getting a problem with log .. today I just run the tomato shade and this has showed " P3D folder could not be found " .. have you got any solution ? I can't apply any preset I use p3d v4 and tomato shede v23 . It was working before . :(

Hello, a youtube video that I have seen is actually showing a VAS memory usage in percent left to the the primary flight display. Unfortunately on my computer the memory usage is not shown. Does anyone know where I can activate this feature? Thank you! Best regards Andi

My issues seems to be that the clouds that are being drawn, particularly in the distance while on the ground, tend to blend into the sky texture and gives me an almost “cloud outline/transparent look”. They are not thick and dense. When flying closer, they do appear to take a more think and dense look, but fade away as I get closer. Is this supposed to be or do I need to change something in my settings. I am not in front of my PC to take a screenshot at the moment but hopefully my description is good enough to throw some ideas over. Clouds look ok when looking straight up, particularly if they are thin and cirrus, but in the distance don’t look realistic to me. Also…

Can anyone suggest why, or where I need to investigate in P3D4.3, to work out why I cant use a 'Terrain: Level of Detail radius:' value greater than 'High' without having major scenery/tile issues when at altitude? When set to HIGH, scenery appears normal throughout the entire flight. But if I increase this to Ultra, or Max, I start to get large white/light blue tiles appearing/flickering when at altitude. At Ultra the tiles start to appear at mid distance and extend off into the distance and flicker on and off. At Max they appear directly ahead and off to the distance. Changing this value whilst in flight back down to high, removes the flickering la…

Hi, just for interest to those contemplating a graphics card upgrade. I have removed my GTX 980 and put in place the RTX 2080 8Gb. I chose not to upgrade my CPU ( I7 overclocked to 4.0 GHZ) for the time being, and nor do I have an SSD I have a 4K 27" monitor and have set the resolution to 4k within the Simulator. In general I am very happy with this purchase. I am seeing an increase of around 11 to 20 FPS even after tuning up the graphical options - and much more detailed sharper images. I am using the latest NVidia drivers. It runs smoothly with AI traffic set at 80 percent. Orbx scenery, 3rd Party Airports, GSX.. Flight 1 GTN and a number …

Just downloaded latest version of Chaseplane and in changelog it said support for v4.4.

In some early FSX aircraft that have been modified for P3Dv4, plexiglass has a pronounced blue tint. I have screen shots of 4 examples, viz., Milton Shupe's AT-11 Kansan, RCS Panels B-25 Mitchell, LDR Development Ryan Navion B and the Milviz F-86F Sabre. Sorry that I have not figured out how to insert the shots. If anyone else has seen this and has thoughts on how to fix it please reply. Steve P.

With the excitement of the P3D 4.4 update I wonder what is behind this move. It probably is not very important but is a bit odd? It just seems like AVSIM and many other sites have been kind of lost in the dark on this one.

Greetings to our pilots! We are very close to release LIAA airport for P3D A small Italian airport with beautiful and scenic area. Close to the city of Terni and alternative destination close to Rome! Good for IFR and VFR approach.

I have a strange problem with the wake effects in P3Dv4. It happened only with ships on rivers, not on oceans so far. And it happend not the whole way, but most of the course. Has someone an idea, how to solve this. I never found a picture or a post at the net who showed this effect. Here is the link to the picture: https://www.magentacloud.de/lnk/FvAKEC2X#file After try and error for serveral days without any success and after I opened this topic, to get help, I think I found a solution for the problem. I changed the following entry in the particle section of the wake effect file from Ground Decal=1 to Ground Decal=0. Since then I saw no more stripes w…

This reminds me of the jet landings now allowed at London Business Airport. I have been a passenger for a number of flights and can say they are steep approaches, and is now open to jet planes (including Airbus a318 to New York and a number of Embrears'). I have just bought the Madrid Airport and it also seems to have a steep hill before the approaches. Therefore, the only thing I can think of is to configure my a318 for landing, turn the autopilot off long after I see 4 white lights (keeping the aircraft level), otherwise I'm going to hit a hill on approach. The problem for me is that I don't know when to start the nose-down between the hilltop and managing to get …

https://imgur.com/a/oJljDsM As you can see in the photo i want to resize the main 2d panels but the external view to be still on top so it doesnt block the external view like in the photo. In order to achieve this im pretty sure i have to modify the panel.cfg line called " zorder" in the case of that panel is zorder=2 but if i put 0 the FSLabs a320 when loaded will CTD p3d. If i put zorder=99 it doesnt CTD but the panel is still blocking the external view Is there anyway to change the zorder of the external view in p3d itself or am i stuck with this?

So i have been able to install classic spad 0.5.1 in p3dv4 with latest fsuipc. Stock p3dv4 everything Works fine and macros are awesome but when i turn on active sky the macros in my saitek multi panel wont work anymore. Any ideas?