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When I converted to P3Dv4 for some reason I didn't get much AI aircraft even though the AI was turned up in Options, so I purchased UT Live to add some non default Airline AI. I also have ORBX EU England scenery which adds some more detailed airfields. When flying out of Gatwick (EGKK) I noticed the AI are landing and taking off from runway 26R/08L which is not a normal active runway. UT Live support says this is an AFCAD issue and I need to speak to ORBX and when I contacted ORBX they blamed UT Live ?? Has anyone else noticed this at Gatwick, I normally use UK2000 but they don't have a 64bit version yet.

My hats off to the crew at FS Captain. Not only did they have quite a job converting this, it is a FREE update. Thanks Dutch, Travis and the team. Always have my support. http://fscaptain.proboards.com/thread/3069/fscaptain-1-public-beta-released

Usually I get solid 30 fps in P3D V4 on my 4K TV running at 30 Hz.. At great Hubs with heavy weather fps drop to 20 sometimes BUT when I put another programm in the foreground of the screen, i.e. AS16, P3D is way more solid and fluid without these huge drops down to 20. Frames doesn't stay at 30 in this moment, but the drops are not as big as without the AS16 window in the foreground. Same behavoiur when panning around in the cockpit: more stutters and greater fps drops without a window from a different application in the foreground. You can also put the task manager or file explorer in the foreground...it doesn't matter, it's only important P3D is running "in t…

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It's an odd question, I know, but I'm getting ready to 'switch over' from P3D3.4 and it would help if I knew what to avoid. My current P3D3.4 build has Utilities: EZDok, FSUIPC, AS2016, EnvTex, GSX, Topcat, PFPX, LORBY-SI, SimStarter Orbx: Global, Vector, Europe, NA, all regions except Ireland and a lot of their airports Airports by: FlyTampa, FSDT, FlightBeam, Taxi2Gate, LatinVFR, TropicalSim, MexHighFlight, Aerosoft, Richer Simulations (good stuff!), JetStream Designs, Digital Designs, NewSceneryStudio, RFSCENERYBUILDING, DRZEWIECKI, DREAMFLIGHT, The Airport Guys, ImagineSim, Most PMDG, Dash8 Q400, RealAir Dukes, a few Carenado, Aerosoft A3x…

So I have MT 6 up and running in P3D v4. My question is in regards to the amount of parked vs moving/airborne traffic. I have my Airline slider around 22%. I just landed in DFW around 11pm EST and nearly every single gate was taken. I kept scrolling through the GSX menu to find one available. Finally an aircraft pushed back and I was able to take its gate. For the amount of traffic I see thats just parked, how come I'm not seeing much airborne? It seems these aircraft never push back and its extremely rare to see one arrive. I was previously using UT2 in P3d v3.4 and it seemed to be a bit more balanced. It was just a bit of work to get it working and now that Im …

Dan Downs has released Logedit 3 here on Avsim. I highly recommend this log book program. https://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?CatID=p3dutil&DLID=200466 Thanks Dan! Your work is appreciated. Greg

That might be a little ambiguous so what I'm looking for is something that as you for example start veering leftwards during taxi your forward view pans nicely to the left just ahead of your actual direction at that moment like you would do in the real world. It is very unnatural to have your view stuck at straight forward. It would be important NOT to have it be a fixed and rigid pan but instead a soft sort of floating pan simulating what you might actually do while doing this in the real world. I use mouse-look now so I will do this with the mouse but seems like it could be automated and done just right.

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I have been using the default ATC to do some flights when I am less motivated However, say I pick in the setup screen flight number 1234 callsign Speedbird I'd expect ATC like in FSX to say ''speedbird 1234 contact'' but they say ''1234 contact'' I can't get them to say the callsign. this goes for any call sign, not just speedbird all defaults no not work any help would be great

I had to uninstall P3D v3 off my SSD to get v4 installed. So I literally uninstalled just about everything I could. So when I try to install SDG's Cairo Scenery, I get a prompt saying it cannot find P3D ini. I guess I could try to reinstall v3 on my spinning rust drive to get past the error.

https://fsxtimes.wordpress.com/2017/07/20/443-as-cloud-art-or-soft-clouds/ Now I know why my soft clouds look so flat with no details after adding them to ASCA. Tom Tsui shows why.

Could someone please explain the reason why FSDT's afcads have all gates set to RAMP GA?

Hi everyone I realise this may seem a bit obvious, but I was hoping for some help in choosing a new scenery for v4. I never owned many airports for FSX (most of my budget went into aeroplanes) and those which I did are not v4 compatible (for now at least). What I'm looking for is a major European hub with multiple runways and ideally a bit of 747 traffic (for now, PMDG's new 747 is my only v4 add-on aeroplane). Despite having had a good look at multiple developers compatibility lists, all I've found which really takes my fancy so far are FlyTampa's Schiphol and UK2000's Heathrow. Of those, I'm only really considering Schiphol since I've heard Aerosoft's Heathr…

I tried an Oculus Rift with P3D. I tried it in P3D itself and also using Flyinside FSX. It was a great experience except to read the displays of the aircraft (PMDG, Majestic) was impossible which was annoying. The text on displays and also next to buttons is very blurry. I have an I5 3.9 Mhz processor, 8GB RAM, and an RX480 4GB graphics card. I tried to adjust every setting but the readability did not improve. My own thoughts are that the resolution of the oculus rift is not yet high enough to be able to read the aircraft displays. Is that correct? Does anyone else have the same experience?

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Am I the only one who is unable to load a saved situation with the Carenado B1900D in P3D (either 3 or 4)? I can load a situation with a different plane and then load the B1900D, but only that way. What could that be?

Hi everyone, I have started my first flight on V4 and I am currently in a flight from VHHH - EGLL. When I left VHHH i was on a solid 50fps on the ground and 80-90 in the cruise. However 9 hours later and my frames wont go above 25. Any ideas? Conrad Collinson

Hi lads, I'm having some trouble with P3D at the moment, the program starts up perfectly and loads like normal gets up to 100% and the scenery loads but then crashes. I've looked up the app crash and the crash is caused my Kernelbase.dll. I've updated my drivers to the latest version, restarted the computer and still nothing. Any idea what is happening here or a fix for it? Thanks, Greg

Hey guys, Maybe one of you out there can help me. I am having some performance troubles in P3D V4. I don't get why my FPS are so terrible with the PMDG NGX in V4. In Version 3 I can run the NGX with 55 fps or more, but in V4 it's down to 10-15... with just the NGX! I don't have the best graphics card on earth, (GTX 580), but it's not terrible, and I don't know why there is such a difference between the 2 versions?? I have played around with every setting there is in the sim, just nothing. Can anyone offer me any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Is there a mod to make the lighting more...realistic? I mean so that it's much, much darker - like XPLANE? Thank you.

Anyone have a tweak for the Orbx lights popping? I tried searching but didn't see any particular posts regarding this so maybe it's not normal? It's nice having pretty much everything in v4 load at great distance with no popping, yet coming in to an area at night and seeing the lights pop is annoying. I may even just disable them at this point if there's no fix.

Hi all- In the UTLive aircraft folder, they are listed as 73G, M80 etc. How can I identify which is which? There are .bmps in the texture folder but I can't open them. As I recall from a ways back, Photoshop would open them for viewing but I no longer have that app. Thanks, Mark

The suggestions would be really appreciated in the light of recent ORBX SA LC release

I'll try to be brief. When I have the latest P3D v4 loaded with no addons, I have no issues. When I install Orbx Global Base or Vector via FTX Central 3, I get a g2d.dll error and P3d crashes. This happens when the scenario is loading the terrain. It doesn't happen all of the time. What happens is I'll choose a default aircraft, choose a random airport and it will either crash while the scenario is loading the terrain or it will load successfully. If the airport I choose crashes, it will always crash. If the airport I choose doesn't crash, it will always not crash. To me it sounds like certain scenery files are getting corrupted. I then have to reinstall P3D. I have …