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Discuss and review! I just bought and installed it but won't get to try it until tomorrow.

Does anyone have functional jetways at Flightbeam KSFO for the latest version of P3Dv5? I updated Flightbeam, GSX and SODE to latest. Not sure what else to do. Thanks!

Does REX no longer respond to support requests? On their site I can not find a way to open a support ticket. Been awhile since I have needed any support. Re WX Advantage Just removed P3dV4 and now V5 hangs up during start up and makes a comment about WX Advantage not being activated or activation invalid. I realize it's no longer used and to be honest had forgotten about it till now. Thanks.

Hello, So, for awhile I had REX skyforce installed but deal with massive stutters and FPS issues with it installed, mainly clouds, so i have uninstalled it. I use Env Tex / Env Shade but yet still get massive FPS hits in storm areas, my clouds are set at the lowest setting in Env Tex (DXT5 512). I have a pretty powerful PC, I9-10850K 4.8 GHZ, RTX 3060, 32 GB DDR4 Ram, P3dv4 is running off an SSD. Is it possible that Rex textures are still lingering eventhough its uninstalled?? I feel like sometimes this is possible because of the massive FPS hit I get in storm areas with clouds. My cloud draw distance is set to 60 MI and coverage is set to max. …

Just bought the new Pro ATC SR, and I am running into the following error: To make things more frustrating, there seems to be nothing in their Help section about this error. Has anyone gotten this to work? I tried installing FSUIPC as some googling suggested, but that didn't solve it. Pretty disappointing experience for $50

anyone has issues with their sounds on approach? when i'm descending the ambient external sounds seem to fade and become very muffled and tinny, and the cockpit aural warnings and sound fx are disabled, RA callouts are muted etc. I start to notice this as I get closer to 10k feet, then it gets even wrose when i'm on final. I'm new to P3D so the only aircraft I have so far is the PMDG 777, i don't know if it's a PMDG issue or a P3D issue or maybe even an addon issue. Does anyone have a similar experience and has a fix for it? or do I just need to reinstall the whole sim?

So I had in the past purchased a plane from Milviz being the Turbo Otter. Which is quite a nice plane for what it is, although it did take some effort to manage, e.g mistreating the engine would cause it to blow and it was very easy to blow the engine. Essentually flying was not without consequences and whist i was learning just what that meant, there was many a time the engine died and I had to glide into the nearest place to land. Other Milviz planes were enticing, however at the time were quite expensive purchases and due to budget limitations I never bought further. Anyway their dropping of the price by 50% and then another 30% for their trading name ch…

PMDG models require Dynamic Lighting in order for your lights to see the tarmac. Why do they insist on only making their lights work in this fashion, when Dynamic Lights is so heavy on performance? Does anyone know of an alternative to get PMDG lights working on the tarmac without Dynamic Lighting enabled? That would be awesome and I would never have to worry about turning on that performance hurting setting on again.

I usually love the fact that my fps in P3d is excellent; however, occasionally, I see a significant drop that seems unexplainable. I try generating a new config and I try changing my Nvidia drivers to see if that helps. I can honestly say that for me, neither of those solution attempts seems to really work well. I was getting such low fps at Montauk, NY, yesterday that I couldn't believe it. My fps hovered around 15-16 regardless of the plane that I placed on the runway. What gives? I tried the latest DDU to delete all my driver issues, loaded new drivers and nothing seemed to work. The one thing that absolutely DID work was this: I went into my Control Panel …

Is it just me, or is the intensity of dynamic lighting way over done at some addon airports? I do not want to sound like I am providing a free advertisement for UK2000 airports, but I find the dynamic lighting at UK2000 airports to be much more "comfortable" to the eye when compared to some other airports that I have installed. In complete contrast, the dynamic lighting at (for example) ORBx EGPN Dundee seems to be rather harsh, and I also noticed the same at one or two of the freeware Scotflight airports (EGPL Benbecula springs to mind). Maybe the "harsh" ones are more accurate? All I know is that the more subtle dynamic lighting at some airports feels better when I…

Hi all, What are y'all using for VolumetricClouds.cfg? I've found one online from DrP3D that kills my performance. Whatever I had installed with ASCA before looked absolutely atrocious with warping clouds, highly pixelated messes during daylight transition. Does anyone have something that's performance friendly and looks alright? Running VC at medium with EA on, v5.3 HF2.

I bought pmdg737 and 777 recently. When I retract flaps after take off, speed doesn't increace. Then the nose of airplane is -3° and nearly 0FPM(level flight). Flap indicator shows retract(0°) but the behavior is lake flaps down. This phenomenon happens both 737 and 777. I already tried reinstall PMDG,but it didn't change. What can I do for inprovement?

Hello. I´ve been using PACSIM RCTP in P3D v4.5 for a while without any issues. However, all of a sudden, there are no RWY/TWY Markings displayed anymore! No other add-on airport is affected, just PACSIM RCTP. Even PACSIM´s RPLL & RKSI are just fine. I´m having ENVTEX installed, but I didn´t install the Airport Textures of ENVTEX. Furthermore, I´ve got ORBX FTX Global installed. I´ve tried to uninstall/reinstall several times without any luck... Also tried to move RCTP in the scenery library to the top without joy... Would be very happy for some assistance. Best regards, Toto

Hey, some of you might already use "AIG AI Manager" others might never heared of it. Alpha India Group (AIG) has been developing flightplans for many years now, World of AI (WoAI) has used them in their packages a long time ago. In December 2018 AIG has released a extension to AIGAIM called "One Click Installer" (OCI). It allows users to downlaod and install all needed files for a flightplan with one single click. AIGAIM will download the flightplan, models and repaints from the internet and installs them in a own AIGAIM-OCI Addon. Beginning in December 2018 with just a simple release announcment in the AIG Forum we have currently around 1700 Users testing the l…

So, I have several airports with ANG areas and P3D has a number of default military aircraft. Specifically, I use KMDT often, my local international which also houses the PAANG 193. They operate C130H? models (the propaganda broadcast C130s). I would love to learn how to inject the default C130 into the AI selection and possibly see Hercies at the ANG end of the field. Can anyone give me any guidance? Thanks Good day

Hi all I'm not sure what to make of this issue. I use AI traffic from Alpha India Group. While a bit confusing for me I have everything I want installed and it works fine in P3D V5.3. At some point AI Manager has asked if I wish to deactivate the default traffic .bgl present in Scenery/world/scenery folder and I have done so. For the most part it has disappeared but lately I have noticed that at some airports - mostly of the add-on variety some of the default traffic is once again showing up. I can find no other file where it might be still present. The traffic.bgl shows that it is still disabled and the AIG AI traffic shows up along side the default AI. I'm not sure…

5.4 has got to be around the corner, right? I don't use P3D much anymore but would still welcome updates to the platform for use with the aircraft/airports that haven't made it over to MSFS yet. Usually we get some hints from the beta testers but nothing yet...

Also two others available, just tried it, looks good, and the engine sounds are great. At simviation: https://simviation.com/1/browse-Prepar3d-143-0

Hi Guys Here I am sitting in the cockpit of the Airbus A320/A321 professional for P3D V4.5 and I must admit as a GA/ Turboprop flyer I am feeling quite overwhelmed. Programing an MCDU is something I have never done before. I know this aircraft does have interactive checklists (one of the reasons why I went for the Airbus rather than a Boeing) Can anyone recommend a really good tutorial videos for a complete beginner like myself for setting up/ flying and landing this lovely aircraft for a simple flight. I have had a look on Youtube but most of the videos just rush through things without really explaining them and i find myself getting lost and a bit disheatened…

I have just completed a quick circuit of FlyTampa Amsterdam Schiphol in the PMDG 737-600 NGX (the original version), and I noticed that the flightplan that I had constructed in the FMS did not correctly calculate the Top of Descent location. It was displayed at the landing runway threshold! In short, I had to use LVL CHG to start the descent. No major problem, but I am curious why this error occurred. I have completed literally hundreds (probably thousands) of these short flights, and the FMS always correctly calculates the ToD position on the ND. Can anyone shed some light on why this may have happened? I tried it several times with slightly different routes, but it fail…

Just wondering if anyone could tell me whether installing Rex Texture Direct (with soft clouds) and/or Worldwide Airports HD is worth installing in v5. I purchased both a while back and haven't migrated to v5 yet. Thing is, the sea, advanced atmospherics and some other textures are already in improved in v5 out of the box, so curious to know if installing Rex will kind of just get 'in the way' now? Thanks for any advice.

I already posted on the RC forum but maybe someone here can help. Thanks Link to post

Last Feb 2022 my PC and Sim went into storage as we moved house. Six months later our new apartment was finished and I set up my PC and P3D simulator. I now have a distorted view as the Zoom has somehow gone to a value of 1.27 wheras prior to Feb and for years I had a zoom of 0.30 I have three monitors.to I had P3D rebuild Camers.cfg and Perpar3d.cfg. The Virtual Camera in the cfg. had the desired zoom at 0.30, all good. I could not find any line in the Prepar3d.cfg relating to zoom. The Top RH corner of my monitor says 1.27 Zoom, where does ths 1.27 come from and how do I change it to 0.30? Help Thanks Ken

They are having a sale today on their website and it comes out to $28. Wondering whether people that own it like or not.

Hi... I've managed to install Aerosoft MYNN in P3D without any problems (I know it was built for v3). However, when I try and get the jetways to move to either 1L or 2L on a 777 I constantly get the 'Aircrcaft door out of jetway elevation' or 'Aircraft door too high'. Is there any way to correct this to make the jetway dock at the aircraft? As you can see, I am very close: https://imgur.com/D0Sl4vt Although it does look like the jetway is quite low... https://imgur.com/7sk6GO9 Can I manually raise it up? Many thanks, Ben