So now I'm wondering are there plans for LORBY to make a WAMA version that works with MSFS 2020?

This thread  has been created to collect suggestions for and configurations of suitable fire fighting aircraft.

Please post good finds and configs here for all aerial fire fighters to enjoy.

But please remember - FireFighter X can make use of every aircraft that you have in your hangar. No need to limit yourself to those that actually have a fire fighter livery or smoke effect - both are not required.

Best regards and many thanks

Freeware:

Canadiar CL-215: FlyAwaySimulation

https://flyawaysimulation.com/downloads/files/4886/fsx-canadair-cl215-v3/

Recommended settings:

Tank capacity: 12000 lb

Single drop 6000 lb & duration 3 seconds or 12000 lb & duration 6 seconds

Scoop time over water: 12 seconds

Fuel: 30% in left&right tank, external tanks empty

DC10 "10 Tanker": FlyAwaySimulation & repaint

https://flyawaysimulation.com/downloads/files/1815/fsx-swissair-douglas-dc-10-30-er-pack/

http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/threads/tanker-910-repaint.8143/

Recommended settings:

Tank capacity: 48000 lb

Single drop 12000 lb & duration 2 seconds or 24000 lb & duration 4 seconds or 48000 lb & duration 8 seconds

Scoop time over water: 0 seconds

Fuel: 100% in left&right tank, center tanks empty

Conair Turbo Firecat: Simviation

http://simviation.com/1/browse-Props-62-22

Grumman S2Turbo CDF Tanker FSX Package

Recommended settings:

Tank capacity: 10000 lb

Single drop 5000 lb & duration 3 seconds or 10000 lb & duration 6 seconds

Scoop time over water: 0 seconds

Fuel: 100% in left&right tank, external tanks empty

Payware

Milviz/Nemeth S-64

You will have to add a payload station for the tank, use the FFX payload manager for this

Recommended settings:

Tank capacity: 20.000 lb

Single drop size: same as the smallest unit size (150)

Duration of drop: 0.1 - 0.5

(these two settings will make the water "spray" down as long as you press the trigger)

Adjust for height: -20

Majestic Q400

Recommended settings:

Tanksize: 19600 lbs

drop size/timing: as convenient

Be careful though, this thing is quite difficult to fly when loaded up like this. Due to the external FDE the loading sometimes results in somersaulting of the plane - just restart the sim if this happens.

QualityWings RJ/146 collection

Works right out of the box

TankSize: 22.000 lbs

This one is really nice to fly and quite the challenge due to the speed of the thing. Keep that FMC turned off :o)

Virtavia Martin Mars

Although it has a large carrying capacity, the distribution of the payload stations is less then ideal - if the FireFighter X loads it up, the aircraft falls on it's nose.

Here is a suggested solution - change the payload stations in the aircraft.cfg / section "[weight_and_balance]" to look like this:

max_number_of_stations = 3

 

station_load.0 = 200.000000, -17.740000, 2.000000, -2.020000, Crew

station_load.1 = 200.000000, -17.740000, 2.000000, -2.020000, Crew

station_load.2 = 5.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, Center Load

//station_load.1 = 200.000000, 33.560000, -2.080000, -3.960000, Station 1

//station_load.2 = 200.000000, 29.360000, -0.820000, -4.430000, Station 2

//station_load.3 = 200.000000, 39.860000, -0.190000, -7.870000, Station 3

//station_load.4 = 200.000000, 33.520000, 1.900000, -4.030000, Station 4

//station_load.5 = 200.000000, 32.270000, 2.730000, -8.960000, Station 5

//station_load.6 = 200.000000, -17.740000, 2.000000, -2.020000, Crew

//station_load.7 = 200.000000, 32.290000, 2.350000, -8.910000, Station 7

//station_load.8 = 200.000000, 29.360000, -2.770000, -1.750000, Station 8

AxisAndOhs is now available in the flightsim.to store too. 

Please remember to check out the DEMO version before purchase!

Downloads - AXIS AND OHS

I been using WAMA to track and place my aircraft in P3Dv4.5 for quite a while and wouldn't fly without it! 

I have several planes of the same type, but with different liveries, at several airports. When I view the airport in Little Navmap it shows all of my planes by type but shows MyAc for the name. Is there a way to show the livery instead of MyAc? Is this a function of WAMA or LNM?

Thank you for a great program

Ed

I am transferring fsx over to a win 11 pc. Fsx se works fab

I have installed fireworks x no menue comes up when I launch the icon?

Firefighter x worked on my win 10 pc 

Cheers

Rhys

I want to reinstall live traffic

But of the versions in the folder which one should I install

Fsx or fsx se 

My appdata/ roaming/ Microsoft  shows the folder as fsx but I assumed it would say fsx se as I have not installed the box version 

Cheers

Rhys

CameraPositionX, CropDusterX, FireFighterX and AiTrackerX have been discontinued effective immediately. They are no longer on sale in the shops. The update path is still in effect, and bug fixes will be provided to existing customers if required.

Please note that this does not mean that these apps are free- or abandonware now. The license terms are still in effect - which includes a ban on all commercial or government use.

Today Just Flight advised there is a update to Axis and OHS

Do I need to uninstall the old version or simply run the installer over the existing install?

Thanks in advance if you can help.

Best wishes.

Bob

here are the version numbers of the Lorby products that are currently available on SimMarket and JustFlight:

• FireFighter X (FFX): 1.95 b03
• CropDuster X (CDX): 2.05 b01
• AiTracker X (AITX): 3.04 b01
• CameraPosition X (CPX): 1.52 b01
• WhereAreMyAircraft (WAMA): 1.31 b04
• AxisAndOhs (AAO): 4.56 b19

Being an old WAMA P3D customer, I thought I'd fire up WAMA for MSFS2020 from Sim Market and give it a go!

Here is my feedback:

What it does do!

• Save the position of the current vehicle without issues
• If the position is in a parking spot, the "I want to fly this aircraft" option will load the aircraft in the saved position in a cold and dark state. Excellent!
• If the position is not in a parking spot, the engines will be running (Would it be possible to tell the sim that the current spot is a parking spot to enable cold and dark?)
• The Google Earth Live and static mechanic is brilliant. You can immediately compare your position with Google images and street view in the real world!

What it doesn't do. There are a lot of things not working. Suggest cutting back all the stuff that doesn't work and is not needed for basic functionality.

The critical missing features are:

1. If you try to leave your current vehicle and enter the default vehicle (so for example leaving your plane to enter your car), it will send you to the middle of the ocean.
2. If you want to select a saved aircraft and "I want to fly this aircraft from my current position" it will send you to the middle of the ocean.

Desirable features not included or working:

• If you use drone view to walk from your aircraft to your car and get in the car and then "I want to fly this aircraft", WAMA will CTD because you are not in cockpit view.

Thank you for at least uploading the beta of this product. It is still very useful in its current form. There are work arounds even if nothing is updated on WAMA. You can save your aircraft position in its parking bay using WAMA and instead of using WAMA to switch to your car, you can use developer mode which works perfectly.

Cheers and thank you again.

Glider

In the Prepar3d V4.5 Academic version I use, under add-ons, I see the plug-in from AiTrackerX_P3D_V4. But there is nothing there to give information about

because AiTrackerX_P3D_V4 doesn't see any AI traffic. What is going wrong?

The version of AiTrackerX_P3D_V4 = 3.02 b03 I really wonder if AiTrackerX_P3D_V4 is fully compatible with my version of Prepar3d V4.5.

Kind regards

I've just bought WAMA.
Maybe I made a mistake somewhere but I have the following problem.
Every time I want to leave a plane my "default" vehicle whatever it is (a plane or an avatar and so on...), I find myself on the other side of the world systematically at the coordinates: 0°0'41.27 "N 138°33'32.97 "E!
My planes are normally parked at BGBW (Greenland).

I've uninstalled/reinstalled several times, and I think I've tried everything for several hours!

Please help 😉

WAMA 1.24b02_P3D_V5

P3Dv5.4 (5.4.9.28482)

Thank you in advance,

Richard.

I have made a model of a Heli dam for filing the monsoon bucket.  I have added  the model and it appears.  When hovering over water I can get the refill tank do its thing but when I hover over the heli dam I don't get the same response . I have adjusted the refill station values 12ft and time set for 3 seconds but its not filling like I do when I hover over a body of water . I have added the brake entry as per manual 

Regards 

Rhys 

If I'm lucky, I only get an Unhandled Exception error, where it says that "Value of '999' is not valid for 'Value'. 'Value' should be between 'Minimum' and 'Maximum'". I find then that some camera definitions have PanAcceleratorTime=999. I never set this. How can I fix these errors?

For reference, I'm running both P3D v5.4 and CPX as administrator. The crash occurs no matter the airport I use.

tc

at the moment we don't have access to V6, we have to wait for the version to be released to assess the changes that were made. 

Nevertheless we will take the opportunity to clean up the Lorby apps lineup. 

• P4AO ("AddonOrganizer") and the SceneryExporter have already been updated and are available as prototypes (as requested by Pete Dowson). Be mindful that this happened "in the blind", so there is no telling if it will really work on day one.
• AxisAndOhs will be updated to P3D V6 specs. But we need the new SDK first before this can happen.
• Most (if not all) of the other payware apps (CropDusterX, FireFighterX, CameraPositonX, AiTrackerX and WAMA) will be removed from the shops. They don't go away, existing customers will still have them in their accounts, but they will no longer be sold. If the interest for a particular app is high enough, a V6 compatible variant will be provided to existing customers, if technologically possible (you just never know). But that will potentially take time, first the new sim will have to be evaluated.
• The freeware apps (LorbyLiveTraffic, PayloadManagerX, LorbyTugDriver, Mooring etc.) will either be culled too or updated, if the general interest is high enough (and if an update is actually technologically possible).

I read in the manual that in order for certain functions to work, AAO must be run as an administrator.  I assume that 3.20 b43 made a change to the installer to force this to be run as administrator which is part of the reason why I am seeing this message now.

The other factor is that AAO is added to my exe.xml autostart for MSFS.

If I take too long to click "Yes" on that dialog, AAO never starts and I must restart it manually.  It doesn't seem to impact MSFS starting up, although I sometimes get a warning soon after about something not being able to get the graphics adapter and quitting, but that doesn't happen consistently.

This is more of an annoyance than anything else.  I'm wondering if there is a way to fix this, either with permissions or understanding better what changed in 3.20 b43.  I am not going to decrease my privilege in Windows 10 just to make this dialog go away (the other "solution" offered by MS).

If this is the way it has to be, I guess that's ok.  I'm wondering whether code signing this app would help things?

Thanks!  

I've been using AandOH`s with great pleasure and without any problems with MSFS and VRI-combo2 for some months now. .  (3.20 b43)
But the past day`s the communication (connection) with my Combo2 stops after a few seconds.

It  starts up fine...but then after a few seconds the combo2 freezes.  

I read in LAAO_log multiple notifications as follows: 
06/26/2023 22:53:31.664 : Exception received: 32 from send id 48 errloc 48

Does anyone know a cause and solution for this?

, Thnx! 

Going to have to move from windows 7 to win10 and wanting to know if Firefighter X and the freeware lorby traffic work ok on windows 10

Cheers 

Rhys 

In order for WAMA to finally display all the saved aircraft at any given airport, it requires several reboots of the WAMA screen.

Does anyone know why this happens and how to fix it?

Thanks

golfacce2

Should this show up? I am trying to assign elevator trim but cannot. Thanks in advance.