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Purchased this for FSX but the main page will not recognise my password etc. Help please?

I didn't know FSDG had these lite airport series I just got Bangalore.. if its good I'll get the Bodrum, Turkey too Awesome they are doing these small aiports that no one else will. $9 http://fsdg-online.com/home/55-bangalore.html

I just bought Ultimate Traffic Live in preparation for Cross the Pond as my WOAI was just barely working with v4, I know it is not meant to be used with it but what other choice did I have before hearing about UTLive? Anyway, I just installed it and hopped on Vatsim real quick to test it out in observer mode, and I found that the models were represented the exact same way as WOAI, so I went into the settings and unchecked WOAI from vPilot, and still the same thing. I did some digging and found that there were some xml edits I had to make, and still nothing. I can easily tell there is a big step I'm forgetting but I just can't seem to find out.

Hi, I'm new and I do not write English so well. I recently installed Prepar3d V4 with FTX Global Base Pack, Global Vector, LC Europe, NA, SA and Trees. These are the only addons I have installed. Why when I make a flight I see the scenario divided into large blocks with obvious color differences? Is it normal or is there something wrong? Thank You for the support!

I think the PMDG aircraft (737, 777, and 747) are modelled extremely well. I have landed at several airports, mostly in the 747, and, after setting up for the landing (landing lights, gear down, flaps down, landing speed set, speedbrake armed, App enabled), I can go to my 2nd Class window seat and watch the approach and landing there completely until the aircraft stops. Then I hit F1, lower the speedbrake and raise the flaps and then go back to the cockpit. I can do this even in heavy weather. Just amazing to watch the landing from there. Next time I will go to the seat behind the pilots and watch the landing from there. Fun stuff! Jim

Is there a Traffic Add-on for P3D V4, than one can just install without having to do a lot of tweaks? I am not that computer savvy when it comes to the real technical stuff. Would like to have a good add on that I can just install and use. Thank you

I've heard the announcement about this at the Flight Show on October 7th, but other than that haven't heard much about this new amazing feature. Does anyone know if it's available in the latest beta build yet? I would love to try it out. I heard they are working with 3rd party plane developers to make sure this replay will show everything from planes such as PMDG and so forth. I really hope thats the case, because thats one annoying thing is watching your replay to see some of the effects not show up or out of sync or showing up weird.

Can someone walk me through how to remove old/outdated liveries in UTL? I am trying to figure it out in their application but can't find where. I see where you can remove airlines completely but nothing to specify an aircrafts paint. For example, I want all United to be the current paint and not have the gray paint and the tulip paint to show up at all. However, when I search in their app, I don't see anything other than United that specifies the paint. Thanks

With the idea of P3Dv4 and its 64bit finally allowing the idea of being able to fly with high eye candy and near no chance of OOM, I started planning a trip to visit all the great addon scenery I have once they are all ready for v4. In doing so I created a google map and keyed them as follows: Blue are uncontrolled airstrips Green are Class D airports Yellow are Class C airports Red are Class B airports Being an active member of Pilot Edge I also added pin marks for what will be all the controlled airports once their Western US area is all manned with their already SoCal area. This is what that map looks like: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1RwavzKwoWkz7…

https://earthsims.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/articles/235619-i-need-the-autogen-compatibility-files anyone recall this issue that if you install these sceneries (Orbx and Earthsimulations and VFR Scenery) they overwrite the files within the p3d folder \autogen? default.xml AutogenDescriptions.spb Materials.spb RoofDescriptions.spb So after each addon install it messes up the autogens of the previous installed addons. Was this problem ever solved? Did P3Dv4's file structure changes help solve this issue? If not what is the solution? Earthsimulation once gave a solution for this issue (above link on m…

Greetings. Trying to figure out how to get rid of or reduce flickering lights at night at the distance and tearing as well. I use 2 graphic settings, one for day and another for night flying. For day flying I use 8xSSAA and for night I use 2xSSAA. If I use 8xSSAA I see less flickering, but for my night settings with 2xSSAA flickering is pretty bad. I cannot use 8xSSAA at night because of the dynamic lights kills all fps, so 2xSSAA works a bit better. If I use MSAA tearing is even worse. Day settings: Night settings: This is short video (sorry, poor quality). https://flic.kr/p/YdccrP Thx for looking.

Does anyone know of an AI BAe 146 and/or an AI RJ85, that works in P3D, preferably P3D v4 ? Thanks Michael

Hi all I just installed some FAIB traffic, and noticed one problem, the strobe lights are missing Even though they are in the aircraft cfg Anyone else with this problem? love vic

Hi everyone, i want to ask if there would be an performance advantage using external traffic tools like UT Live over the .bgl driven AI Traffic by P3D itself. The idea is that maybe i could relieve the stress from the P3D core engine and let UT inject the traffic running on a different core or even on an client machine. Thx in advance for more infos!

Too often the Airbus checklist stops working during engine start and pushback and there is no way to fix things. I can load the taxi state but then I can be sure take off will be screwed up or cruise. Is anyone else having the same problems with that checklist? I just restarted a flight from scratch two times (so I tried it three times in a row, starting all over again everytime) and everytime the checklist failed. Never been as bad as this. Sometimes I really utterly totally hate this hobby. A nice evening screwed up by an addon that refuses to do what it should do. What a total waste of time.

Hi everyone! I have been a fan of FSX for quite some time and i recently decided to give P3D V3 a go. So far so good, everything looks much better than in FSX and it even runs much faster. I do have a problem tho, I am not sure if I am really getting the entire eye-candy that I should get, because I do see videos on youtube of people who managed to make the entire sim look almost perfect. Right now I'm having one particular problem I have seen in other threads for P3D V2 and V2.5, basically, SimObjects are just too dark at night, you almost can't see them, there's just a black silhouette where the aircraft or simobject is supposed to be. Allow me to illustrate…

Anyone had the free version of SPAD working in P3Dv4, or know if it's going to be possible?

I am new with V4. Just changed the default weather to gray and rainy. Rain looks more like snow; very white streaks. Is there a way to tone this down to look more like real rain? Thanks!

Hey guys, I'm running P3Dv4 on win10x64. I can install all other addons compatible, including the skylane. Just when I double click on the texan installer, the blue circle above the mouse cursor pops up briefly, but other than that, nothing happens. any suggestions? I already tried to redownload from the flightsimstore with AV turned off, ran as admin, ran in windows safe mode. Nothing works. Funny thing: The v1-3 installer works just fine.

Hello, New to P3D and noticed that with the "Enable Force Feedback" option checked I am still not getting any of those effects on my joystick such as feeling the bumps when taxiing. I have a Logitech Force3dPro and the force is still there, just not any of the effects. The joystick is from circa 2005 so it is older software as far as the installer goes, so do not know if that could be an issue (it works fine in p3d in every other way though). Did my forces checks when installing the joystick and everything worked. Any thought? Anyone else having the same issue? (if so maybe its a software issue that needs to be fixed in P3D). Thanks, Joel

Browsing through P3D v4 scenery library and came across TwentyNine Palms, I know they are scenery developers, but what exactly is this in the default P3D library? Is there a reason it is included? I've found two files in the scenery folder under Cities, they were labelled Range220lmage.bgl and TwentyNinePalms_SELF_image.bgl. Since I deactivate scenery that I don't use, just curious what this actually is as it doesn't appear to be an airport as such. Search didn't turn up anything, hence my curiosity. Thanks, JD

Hello all, I've been a lurker for years, and have gained much insight from reading posts (thank you all). With P3Dv4, and the explicit setting for Dynamic Auto Gen vegetation, I have seen a number of posts concerning speedtree...and it seems that many are unaware of the middleware or what it does speedtree is a middleware software used in cinema, games, etc. that enables easy creation of vegetation assets (trees, shrubs, grass, etc.), and easy authoring into those application (for developers, VFX houses, anyone creating content that can benefit from the middleware) http://www.speedtree.com/ I feel that many have seen the name and believe i…

Noticed this while flying into KCLT this morning (P3Dv4). There are 3 parallel runways at KCLT (36 L, C, and R). I was cleared by ATC to land ILS on RW36L. Terrible visibility, but that's what ILS is for. When I finally gained some visibility, THERE WAS NO RUNWAY! Overhead view (I circled my location as you can barely see the crosshairs). Notice 2 runways FlightPln Go screenshot, show's my position and where the runway is in real life I should have been getting close to the threshold at this point. I was lined up properly. It's clear KCLT is missing a runway. Has anyone noticed this?

Just a little sneek in GTX970SC x 2 SLI Layers 3 General killing my GPUs . Anyone have a twich to this (or a click :- ) Thanks Michael Moe

Does anyone have any information regarding this? I know they announced it at Cosford but I haven't heard anything about it yet.