The Prepar3d Forum

I recently bought the Boeing 314 The Clipper flying boat by FS Pilots and I've been using LittleNavmap, scanning every inch of the map trying to see how many routes I could find for it and I have to say I'm quite disappointed with how few seaports there are in P3Dv5. I only found them in North America and mostly just in the U.S. as well as some parts of Canada. The entire rest of the world is completely devoid of them. I just want to know if there's any seaports out there, payware or freeware that I can install to add to the P3D world? I did some searches but came up empty. Maybe my Googling skills just suck but I searched seaports and similar terms for flight simulat…

My default Bendix_King radios went AWOL. All I have are black areas on the panels where they should be and a big black rectangle where they should be a pop-up radio stack. They've been working ever since I installed P3Dv5. All the gauges are in place in the gauges folder. In any case I replaced them from my FSX gauge folder but they still don't show. Noel

Hi everybody, has anyone Aerosoft Rotterdam X running in the newest P3d? I've some issues with the Ground Textures. Thanks Urmel

Ok, just to add to this re. EnvDir not opening.............. I reckon I have this sussed, at least in my case anyway. I use "Wisecare 365" as a junk cleaner and it removes a file called "Changelog.txt" from "C:\Users\YOURNAME\AppData\Local\TOGA projects\Envdir\Documentation\" .If this text file is missing, then EnvDir will not open, and so I have set Wisecare to not delete it and EnvDir has been behaving itself for over a week now. So make sure that "Changelog.txt" is present in the above named folder. To all my fellow sufferers, let me know how you get on.

I was wondering what other tools are out there that will rate your landing -fpm, etc. Currently I use Projectfly but was wondering what else is out there. Thanks!

I have a new Win 11 pc, with a clean install of P3dv5.3. My default start up scenario is with the Money Ovation with G1000. Today when I started P3d, the G1000 displays were flashing. I tried to restart the pc and P3d, but nothing changed. I also deleted the client and content, and installed it again, but the displays are still flashing. I have not done any changes in P3d the last days, and this is the first time I have seen this flashing. Has anyone seen this, and have a solution to stop the flashing? Tor Arild Danielsen

hi Guys. for troubleshooting various issues i went back to the built in weather theme "major thunderstorm" to see what is the LM endorsed way the weather should look like any kind of (theme included) setting/layer that contains wind gust the wind jumps from the lowest value to the highest without any gradation (???) shifts+Z info line shows the same, winds speed only takes two values, the min or the max the angle of precipitation jumps from one angle to another that looks very unrealistic. fsuipc ver 6109, and NoWeatherAtAll=yes what gives? which of my setting or cfg file could be screwed up? ty for any help 🍻

Hello everyone, I'm new to the sim world and I wanted to prepare for my sim so I wanted to get LTFM scenery. However, I needed to know if all the fms/ils frequencies would update and come with that scenery or not. If someone could explain, that would be greatly appreciated.

Ive been trying for 2 days to get Lawrie Roache sceneries to work in P3D V4.5. The VLC library objects all show, but most if not all of the scenery objects in his scenery files dont show. I cant figure out why...FSX objects should work in P3D? I did a test in FSX and sure enough, all of the objects show perfectly. Whats the difference!

I was just wondering what people are using for water textures in P3DV4.3? I have Rex4 TD installed but are only using it for water, its ok but the wave action is very cartoonish, weird looking waves going sideways and what not, the actual water itself doesn't look too bad, is this a Rex thing? or is there some other water addon that can be used as only using Rex 4 for water seems to be taking up a lot of disc space for, well, just water. Regards Rod.

I would be in cockpit view then when I switch to spot view my AI planes and some building would be black. I would wait 15 to maybe 30 seconds then the textures would return to normal. Is there anything I can do to speed up the textures loading?

For a while now I've been in a constant pursuit of the "best" sky textures for P3D, from REX Skyforce to freeware packages from Pascal and Lucas Cavatoni, however I've always ended up being somewhat dissatisfied with the result as I personally feel none of them are 'perfect' for me. They're all just very close. At the minute my sky textures are Google Earth Sky Textures V2 from Lucas Cavatoni, and they're pretty good on the ground! But once you get to cruising altitude that's where the imperfections begin to seep in for me. Mostly about the grey band at the horizon which just feels too dark compared to the clouds, and more often than not ends up contrasting t…

Hi I'm looking for some advice. I have ORBX NA Southern California and LatinVFR KSAN v2. I recently landed there and missed the Coronado Bridge. I tried to shift the sceneries, LVFR KSAN on top, ORBX all down but so far no luck. Is this some kind of incompatibility between the two sceneries? I couldn't find any advice how to configure the two, which obviously both depict downtown San Diego. Which one should I choose? The ORBX scenery also has KSAN files, which I set to .off except for the *KSAN_PLC.bgl, which I don't know what it contains. Does someone know what PLC means? I read, the ORBX KSAN airport features the Carenado bridge. So maybe Southern Califor…

Hi Please can anyone advise me the registry paths in P3Dv4.5 for : Terrain SDK and BGL Complier SDK Thanks

I have been flying in Australia/NZ (with Orbx) and recently my colours are changing with different views. By that I mean that I set up the colour intesity etc. outside the plane, then go into the cockpit but when I go outside again the colours are all completely washed out ( as in ultra bright). If I just touch the brightness adjustment, they revert back to what I want. But if I change views again, the are all messed up once more. This happens with both manual and auto exposure. I have deleted the normal shaders and re-installed the graphic driver and verified the Orbx files but it makes no difference. Any idea as to what is wrong?

Good afternoon, Purchased the AS-355 from Nemeth this morning, There was supposed to be a paint kit - either with it or as a download from their website. Wherever it is, I can't seem to find it. Does anyone have one (I believe the one for FSX or FS9 should work) available? Thank you in advance. Colin

Hello everyone! Does anyone know if it's possible to turn the sound on in the iFly 737 MAX8 when using another application on the computer. I just hate feeling of the sound suddenly cutting when not being focused on P3D anymore and e.g. surfing the web. Thanks in advance. Cheers!

Hi Everbody.... Been on P3dV5.3 for a while...but something new has just arrived !!! I've searched the P3d Manual and found nothing to solve this problem Whenever I switch 'views' ....be it outside the cockpit.....I must press the 'left mouse button' before switching to another view !! This has bothering me for a while,and I don't know what started it...or how to get rid of it.. Any help would be appreciated.. Skip d

First, I should say hello. This is my first post as a new member to AVSIM. I've been a flight simmer, off and on, for a very long time (mid 90's), but I just recently really dove into the hobby. I'm curious by nature and I really like to try out different hardware when I find deals on eBay. Just recently I came across a graphics card that peaked my curiosity. I won the bidding and got the Nvidia Quadro M2000 4GB graphics card for $36. The card itself is advertised as a professional graphics card but has the same architecture as the GTX960 I believe. I wasn't expecting much when I bought it, especially since I'm using a computer setup from 2017. AMD PRO A8-…

All the aircraft "float" a bit above ground lever at the Memphis Airport (KMEM) from FSDT. I tried to elevate the ground level and that seemed to fix the situation where the tireswill come in contact with the ground however, a lot of the concrete disappears when I do this. This picture shows when I elevated the ground level (ADE) the tires contact the ground but a lot of the concrete is gone even from the runways - spotty at best. This is the stock view and the tires are off the ground and the dude appears to be floating as well. But, all the concrete shows. So is there a better way to make adjustments so that any an all aircraft do not float ab…

This one gives me headache. I have SODE all over the place and no folder and addon.xml in the document/P3DV4 addon folder. Yet 1.5.1 is installed in programfiles ( x86) 12pilot/SODE and simobjects in c:/programdata/12bpilot/SODE along with others. There is also two sub folders in the x86/SODE folder here with these addon.xml. for P3DV3 and V4. Looking inside them and the link to the engine. exe and animation.dll starts with path .. /instead of actually location like c:/program files (x) 86 etc... Aerosoft ENGM also does not install simobjects to c:/programdata folder but instead to P3DV4/Simobjects/misc? ohh my god ☺️ I have uninstalled SODE …

Hi Guys I have noticed that at high altitutdes I am getting some clouds popping into view in the distance. I wonder if anyone can share their active sky settings with me so i can get a good baseline. I am running with default clouds and using 3 cloud layers in Active Sky but there are some many options I find it all a bit confusing. Kind regards Darran

Hey all, I just installed ORBX Global+Vector into P3D. Prior that I did not made any other changes and configured FSX to be used as dual sim (according to simmershome.de instrcutions) But now after ORBX installation some lakes and parts of rivers are black. But not all as you can see in the picture.

I am curious to know how many people still use Earth Simulations scenery packages in P3D. I have the Isle of Man, Guernsey and Isles of Scilly installed in P3Dv4, and I regularly visit the first two in my PMDG 737NGX. Earth Simulations were ahead of their time in the field of P3D regional scenery packages back in the day, and their products remain visually impressive to this day. I would love to be able to say thank you to Darren and Vicki Vincent in person for the thousands of hours (and over a decade) of pleasure that I have had using their scenery packages. Thank you, Darren and Vicki

So I've seen this [TERRAIN] section option TEXTURE_SIZE_EXP=10 for some time and have read the setting will improve the LOD radius (via increasing the ground texture resolution x4) for everything apart from PhotoReal according to LM on their forum. I did give it a go back when I had a lowly 1070 Ti GFX card, however with only 8 GB or ram the card would run out of available memory and thus the frame rate would died a sudden death, nor was the card's internal mem transfer rate high enough to transfer around such large textures, so I put it aside in my mind and left it at that. First a few snips of info from the LM website to better understand the function and how …