The Prepar3d Forum

Hi all, I have a problem with the nosewheel steering in P3D. So what's happening is that whenever I use my pedals for nosewheel steering (they are mapped) it begins to steer the aircraft but then kind of acts like a brake and so then the aircraft comes to a stop.. this is across default and payware aircraft like PMDG and FsLabs. I made sure they were mapped and functioning by checking outside and the nosewheel is indeed steering fully to the left and right but the aircraft is not and is just coming to a halt. Please let me know of anything I should do to get the steering functioning again. Thank you.

I am having a lot of fun with the Q400 in Aerofly FS 2. I am having so much fun that I am even considering to get the Majestic Q400 for P3D 4.1. Now the Aerofly version offers enough to keep me entertained but I have the feeling it is even nicer to have EVERYTHING working. Not that I might use everything all the time but somehow the idea that absolutely every knob and switch works is nice. I also like the idea because compared to some other planes the Q400 is not a utterly complicated plane, it seems to me. When I look at the overhead I get the idea I know what every knob is for already, while when I look at the overhead of an Airbus, which I have flown a lot, I still don…

There was a long thread in which many were asking if Skyforce dynamically injects clouds into the simulator using another weather engine like Active Sky. Moreover, some were wondering if it only injects *structures* or also *textures* as well. The answer is right on the REX product page screenshot of the Skyforce UI - next to the Real Time Sync Mode On/Off button is the note: "Enable to allow the REX Skyforce weather engine to sync 3D cloud model structures **and textures** based upon specific weather conditions in real-time as you fly within the simulator" Dave

Yesterday, I spent most of the day flying domestic routes in the FSL A320. I used this aircraft, so I could test performance, could not think of a better aircraft to do it in. I flew from NZQN-NZWN-NZDN-NZAA-NZCH without rebooting the Sim. There was no drop in peformance the entire time. No FPS drops to report either. I used 1024 clouds for testing, activated 3D model sync. I used Envtex sky as I found the more to my liking. Now, the weather in NZ at the time of my flights was a real mixed bag, from towering CB's, Anvil shaped clouds, broken cloud, and thick overcast. Ideal conditions for testing RSF. It was not ground breaking, it was "Breathtaking". …

Right now in LKPR storms with crazy rain shafts. Who got skyforce 3D to show us how it looks now ?

This one has me stumped so far and is really strange. For some strange reason my prop pitch lever on my CH throttle quadrant will not work with the Milviz Beaver. It works in every other aircraft and the throttle and mixture work just fine in the Beaver. I checked fsuipc and there is a signal from the prop pitch lever when I look at the calibration tab but the animated lever in the Beaver does not respond at all. I'm reaching because it seems like this is a first as I can't find any answers in any search I do. LouP

All Tested integration between SkyForce and ASP4. Shared a common flight plan. Snips are in the Screenshot Forum: Used PFPX and exported common flight plan to NGX, ASP4 and REX SkyForce. As below: Still assessing at this time :-) Kind regards

Lately I noticed that when I want to load a saved flight plan I have to click outside the flight planner window to have the available flight plans being displayed after I hit the "Load" button. I already uninstalled and reinstalled the client and content modules, alas, that didn't resolve the problem. This mouse problem only occurs when attempting to load flight plans, in all other situations the mouse works as expected. Any ideas what could cause this and how to repair this phenomenon? Thanks, Hans

Lets get straight to the point. FSDT KLAX V2 is a great add-on scenery, but one problem I have is I put my KLAX_V2 folder in the fsdreamteam folder. and when I load my scenery, it works fine. But when I quit P3D and go back to P3D, a message pops up, "'FsDreamTeam Los Angeles KLAX V2' is corrupted and has been removed." When I go to KLAX , its default FSX/P3D scenery. I lost my installer and I only have the contents the installer installed. I can go to Scenery Library and click "OK" but then I have to do this every single time I play the game. Any solutions?

As you all know by now SF comes with 3 Big down sides. 1) The Cloud redraw 2) No weather WX with PMDG/FSL 3) No Historical weather option. After two flights I cannot bring myself to use the REX SF weather engine. The re-draw just kills it. What I would say is if that was sorted out I would switch to SF in full in a blink of an eye, even with no WX the gain is worth it. I'm not saying that like some that say "O my free clouds are better", "Envtex is better" "AS+ASCA is better". I own them all. So I feel am talking first hand not judging something I have no first hand experience with. But sadly and it is sad to say at the moment I cannot use the weather engine an…

Does anyone know of a good vehicle - car, jeep, truck - for Prepar3D (payware quality)? I'm not talking about freeware stuff with poor handling, terrible modelling, dreadful sounds, FS2004-like textures etc...

I don't know about the rest of you but CaptainSim announced that the 757 that was released yesterday is not a open beta they polled about but a v1.0 release. They of course did not mention this until 24hrs after the sale had started. So if your thinking it's a beta, it's not. It's a very buggy v1.0 release for sure. Especially at the $75 price tag. Announcement Per CS" Just to clarify as some people are a little confused on the 757 release status, and call it "Beta 4", "open beta" etc The Beta 4 was released for in-house testing in December and never was available for purchase. Even after the poll was 87% YES. After the Beta 4 we released for in-h…

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Hello...I have two high end systems that I use for flight simulation for both FSX and P3D. The FSX computer has Nvidia Quadro GPUs for simultaneous multi screen stereo 3D (I'm working on creating my own dedicated 3D stereo simulator -- long story.) It runs FSX at between 30-60 FPS with all the graphics settings at maximum. The other computer has a 4960X six core GPU over clocked to 4125 Mhz and six 3D 144hz displays connected to an AMD W9100 GPU with also a W8000 that drives other displays. After upgrading P3Dv4.1 I'm getting really low FPS in the 4-6 range when before v4.1 on this machine I was getting 20-30 at maximum graphics settings. I've played with the anti…

Hi. I switched to p4d two months ago and wanted to get some of the orbx airports to my collection (lebb/lowi). But to be fair it messed up 99% of the rest of the world with the "aec" thing. For example at As's stuttgart if i turn it on there's a hill at the end of runway 7 and if i turn it off the airport goes underground(no patterns anymore). Since this is so problematic and neither the auto test or the manual zone setting (missing zones for the manual mode) work, did you guys got it at least to work or fully disable? Also i created another thread to be more precise rather than creating a question in a thread in which another question was asked. Btw my potato can easely …

Hey all, This week I found myself suddenly having an issue with lights in the sim. Basically any kind of light on a vehicle that blinks (ground vehicles, AI traffic, my own plane). It mostly seems to happen on the ground. But on and off they will appear with these four large dots around where the light is supposed to be, rather than the light itself. Is this a texture issue of some kind? REX conflicting with ORBX maybe? Anyone know how to resolve? I could only get one screen shot of it successfully, if you look at the wing of the departing MD-80 behind my 737. https://flic.kr/p/EZgkEJ

Yup. It just did. What I want to know is, is it compatible with the first 4.0 release? I don't have the latest P3Dv4 patch installed.. Downloading it.

happy new year all!!! - i just made the move over from FSX to P3Dv4 and so far I'm lovin' it. In FSX i didn't bother with the default aircraft, but i'm intrigued by some of the default aircraft in P3Dv4. My question is - does anyone know where i can find some instructions or information on them. I know I have the CTRL + E option to start them, but I'd like to use whatever start process they have if there are instructions available. I was able to get the F-22 started, the F-16 though, was a no go. Thnx Richard

P3D v4.1 I am noticing something I have not seen before - after loading a saved flight, the screen goes black and then sometimes it CTD and I have to start all over. Other times it will recover from the black screen but goes white and takes probably 20 seconds to load the aircraft. Any thoughts for me on this issue?

V3 is fully loaded with scenery including Orbx, Global, Vector and bazillions of airports AND Ultimate Terrain. Everything is correctly setup and working, scenery layers are correctly setup so that UT overrides Vector in the places it should. V4 is installed, Orbx added for all that is available at this point, Open LC, Global, Regions AND HD TREES. I installed UT using the new installers. I have an issue with beaches nto showing up and am asking over at Sim Forums where its appropriate. However, I don't understand the trees. Why have I got showing these lighter green trees. They are quite annoying. They appear to be part of the base V4. Yet I installed the…

This was just too funny (Posters of Microsoft Flight Simulator scattered around Orlando Sanford Airport) in Prepar3D v4.1.:

Hi, I haven't flown in P3D ever since XP 11.10 was released. I started the sim up today and noticed that after about 10 to 20 seconds my fps get locked to 30 which is strange since it didn't happened the last time I used the sim. If I disable vsync the fps get back to normal, but will lock to 30 again if I enable it. The only thing that has changed is the falls update of windows 10. Is there a fix?

Saw this over at the outhouse http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php/108688-New-freeware-Finland-scenery has to be fairly comprehensive at 6 GB

I’ve been wondering about the possibility of a ship simulator somehow being embedded or linked to P3D. A lot of things would obviously have to be reworked, like coastlines, water dynamics, and weather simulation and it’s effects on the sea but my question is would it be possible or would it be necessary to build a standalone sim and somehow link it to P3D? Like getting the aircraft and airports from P3D but create an environment for ships like we have for airplanes? Just curious.

First of all, Happy New Year to you all! I have posted this thread in the general P3D forum as it doesn't relate to a specific add-on but the general way I manage my files. My P3D v4.1 is generally running pretty smoothly. I have windows 7 on a 256GB SSD, P3D on a 500GB SSD and an external 2TB for various files and back-ups. The three issues are that my addon scenery is all over the place. I have some installed on the external drive such as Taxi to Gate Airports, my FSDT products seem to be in my C/Program Files (x86) folder whilst FlyTampa, Orbx and Aerosoft prodcuts are in the main P3Dv4 folder. The second issue is that my 500GB drive dedicated to…