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Good 12.4.1 is stable release it seems. Little bit of model adjustments here n there varies. Find this iteration very smooth, high FPS, lights and lighting good. Sticking with default scenery for foreseeable future. I can have maybe 24 airliners of varying complexity and some 100 plus general aviation aircraft. Load time is quick (acf dependant) - license activation applications continue to be problematic all developers - on Linux platform. You know every time I start and run this simulator - I think - WOW! Hard to believe a PC based simulation could be so impressive! Whats there to addon?

I think this is a stranded mod - Good intentions - especially the EFB other than that nothing better than Laminars default A330. Few minor texture mods. Tried it - engine mods are well shall we say style only and carry no underlyings acf data for the selection. Liked what they did but think actually the Laminar Default is at a very high standard - why bother?

MikeVI - I rebuilt to Linux - from WIN. Default scenery (Gateway etc) and texture all the way now. No Sim Heaven or Global Forests. Out of 30000 poss airports the scenery addons I have put in amount to 211 thats it. Performance has got better and better - real time weather is real and lighting is as well. Details - depends what you want. What you like to fly - again completely catered for bar a few - but there is stuff in the pipeline as the model ecosytem picks up. You can get excited about study level this or that but there are some superb light aeroplanes covering almost the history of aviation - spoilt for choice really. Peripherals - all will be good. Try the demo see whats what they get to work - few hours of download and setup and your off - whole new experience.

Simulated session yesterday pm real weather, Dash 8 100 Tindal for Darwin about 1600 local. This section of Northern Australia is coming under the influence of the leading edge of a Cyclone - Narelle. The sim depicted cloud, bases, groups along with atmospheric moisture. The wipers really did wipe a windscreen. The weather radar portrayed a detailed picture consistent with a Cyclonic formation, turbulence and sheer predominated, very rough and wet in flight. Now the post above shows the Dash taxying at Tindal for departure - note that the moisture slip stream particles are flowing in helical pattern rearward around the tail section and after, Spoilers deploying accurately. Arrival Darwin via ILS in heavy rain showers and turb -night lighting balanced and dynamically believable - the default airport lighting system was outstandingly replicated. So Day - Night and the online weather delivering a cyclone. Tindal was down at 995 hpa for departure. So weather, model, display, lights effects and in summary - totally accurate rendition of flight based on real time weather anaylsis and a highly accurate simulator model. The Dash 8 a public project made possible by Manky. Accurate systems, controls, switches, electrics, alarms, automated flight, navigation systems, lighting. Prop and engine controls including autofeather test and all fire tests. APU or External or both. Autoflight system has all the quirky or basic de Havilland Canada 1st Generation logic. Central to it all is a flight model that is accurate aerodynamically and power! So thanks to the base simulator architecture - you can simulate the real aeroplane - so what you see is accurate - This is how a Dash 8 responds and performs - and the instrument indications are accurate! May not have some flash cabin textures but it is pure gold in every other aspect - it is an accurate flight simulator model and environment. Level 4 yesterday! Gentleman and Ladies - your Simulator is now here!

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One thing is for sure as a Shensee - it will be to gold standard. I am glad his passion is older jet airliners. Makes you wonder where he may go next! The 720B is 5 stars - with 3 nav sytems options weather radar and all non commercial - amazing.

Ah the Maltby BAC111 - remember that one well authentically British engineering at its best! Still for the late 1950s a T Tail twin turbine med range liner - thirsty Rollers though!

Shensee who did the masterful and brilliant Boeing 720 had let us all know what he has been up to - the British Aerospace or BAC 111 -400. Here is a taste it is just about done. Given the standard of Shensees B720 - little doubt this will be a cracker as well! Wow. https://forums.x-plane.org/forums/topic/344804-bac-1-11-for-x-plane12/#comment-3015813

Sorry spoke to soon - Balloons are still there a few less but at least they are not operating in Thunderstorms and non vmc weather. Alas.

I noticed that the Balloons seem to have disappeared. Yay!

Quick input here - just my experience after the update loaded the sim and used the Skylabs C-47. That all worked until I selected the radio tuners then it froze or hung and CTD. The issue there is reported elsewhere the Laminar crash report dialogue box that could not complete and did not report. Second load went to default Laminar C172 - no issues, no CTD and completed short flight sucessfully. Third attempt just for interest Toliss A319. Loaded fine no issues no problems but some weird stuff happening with the FMS did not seem to respond. Other than that all fine. Note check all graphic settings no OOM issues and stable FPS in fact has gone up again all over. So looks like a few developers may have some scripting issues they will need to look at - as I said not widespread and otherwise this Beta is stable and even Live Traffic was behaving itself. FWIW.

Well said was going to say that myself. Keeps the perspective on this. 38,000 airports is not something you can assign to a batch process. I agree completely the changes are happening continuously - I see them all the time but then I tend to do a lot of out of the way sim aviating. The improvement is significant and impressive. I might be a bit different to some sim users who have their favourite patch or area, I am all over the globe from Africa to Asia and the Pacific etc etc. Recently as an example was in Western Africa environs (Angola, Namibia and South Africa) I was impressed by how good the default airports and scenery was - sure in some places may not have had the rubbish or oil stains but you did have to stand back and say - well why get an addon for here - nothing to change from a sim point of view. I guess the real addons I look at and use (less than a 100 in 38000) are because the scenery builder has done the hard yards creating the 3D objects of extravagant terminal architecture that is about in the RW, That takes time and dedication but even then the default in most cases in word not allowed close. Gateway and the community involved - amazing and appreciated. Some scenery releases stress that this is a Gateway airport updated and released until such time as this stuff gets incorporated - others well they have done the work to build it so and probably the models and libraries used are not easily incorporated into the general gateway and WED process (for instance the size of the data files supporting the airport complex) The vehicles running into you on the ground thing - yes saw that a lot once but as they get the airport environs cleaned up (taxyways etc) and corrected, do not see that at some but now and then at others - not a biggy for me. Few thoughts anyway

Gateway airports are updated in the sim as far as I am aware on a 3 monthly cycle. Laminar advise of any new additions that are shall we say new or major changes. The gateway updates are generally so small in file size that you just don't notice them when the XP updater does its thing. Lot of changes small and incremental and you only notice them now and then. Like the balloons (hate em myself)- starting to see a lot more of them for some reason!

2026 XP12 and Scenery revisit. This thread came up when I was on a Windows OS and XPlane. Changed over to a Linux OS and Linux XP. By this stage we are at XP12.4. Decided to leave default scenery as is first up. Came to the conclusion that Laminar had been subtely adding to scenery and airports (Lot of changes to objects) Marine traffic has been boosted significantly as well. Traffic on roads is orderly and believable with complete field of view coverage. Real weather depiction is significantly better and light management is being handled well as it is seems anti-aliasing, Only scenery addons i have added are the Grand Artic/Antartica And Northern Russian packages (Payware) to give me the North and South Polar regions which are not provided currently in XPlane. Added in a Pacific Package for Tahiti and Society Islands - that also gives excellent reef rendition and quite a few Pacific Islands and airports that do the same thing and are more authentic than the Gateway. Few quirky places with nice airports (Alas Greenland and Iceland) and by the way only XP12 versions with few libraries, some off course are almost works of art like Cami De Bellis airport scenery - outstanding. I find the current default airports all over the world to be very very well done now. There are of course what I call the mega-airports that are about which are down to the tins and rubbish level of airport authenticity only put in one Sydney Australia (Tampa Sydney) simply because the Gateway rendition is dated and needs work and the container bay on Botany Bay is missing in the default scenery which is odd. No SimHeaven, waiting for the Pro version to come. I am sure there are lots of areas where there are non default airport or small area geographical packages available like Alaska and Northern Canada and some parts of South America that would spruce it up but as I rarely go there the default does fine looks good to me! Default textures, trees and forest and water. Change nothing is very respectable.

Just a comment on Linux generally -Nothing to do with Sim stuff at all but for years I have battled with printers/scanner issues with Windows and HP Printers. Today wheeled out the old HP printer scanner. No need for special software it picked up the printer and then scanned for me all within a minute of trying it out and none of the other rubbish that was eternal on Windows of advertisements disguised as help updates etc need new drivers etc etc. It just did it with minimal interfaces. As somebody who has battled with printers for years and years on Windows - it was amazing - made my day! As to why HP well I still have a 18 year old HP PC - back from the time when HP made very good PCs and peripherals, it runs with a WIN 7 system for some other old legacy programs I still want and use - LOTUS, because 20 years later nobody has come up with anything remotely as good in terms of software as a couple of those old Lotus programs and they are still as good now as they were then -anybody remember them!