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Being a military only kind of bloke I looked at DCS world. It was too much mission and not enough simulator for me.

This has turned into a bit of a blog! I will be posting my latest episode in ATWC 7 soon. All of it will have been flown in XPlane 11. In fact all of my flying will be in XPlane 11 from now on. I am no longer tempted by the dark side. The dark side is Microsoft/Lockheed Martin.

I have already spent a lot on XP 11 now but I have to say that it has been worth while. Thanks for al the help guys I have picked up some good pointers. One interesting thing I found out today is that ORBX give a 40% discount on XP purchases if you have the FSX/P3D version of one of their products. Very generous and good for me as I love their stuff. UKJim, I have the ORBX true earth products and Active Sky XP and Ultra Weather XP are on my shopping list along with the Trident Harrier and the AOA F35B. It seems that installing "extras" such as liveries and utilities is so s

Thanks Soaranden you have solved the issue, that was a very helpful and instructional reply. Could I please ask you another question? I have seen liveries that are matt and some that are very shiny. How do you control the reflectivity of a surface?

Bacon

I have just completed installing a livery to X-Plane and I have discovered a problem with the textures I am using. The cockpit glass is missing. Below is the default aircraft: My repaint: The image file is a DXT 1 Bitmap. Note that this image is clear where the canopy is, inline with the black on the Alpha Chanel below (I guess that this is a jpg limitation): with an Alpha Channel as below: Can anyone help?

I have playing with X-Plane for some time now, adding bits and pieces new aircraft, new liveries, various utilities and bits of scenery etc.. My experience with FSX and, and to a lesser extent P3D, is that this kind of thing is asking for trouble, and almost always results in a crash or two. I cant count the times P3D has crashed on me, and FSX was a steady as jelly (jello). X-Plane has yet to crash on me. I know this is tempting fate but it is as steady as a rock...… I am drifting further over to the dark side.

Mariner Three

I no longer know which is the dark side. I am beginning to think it was Microsoft. I have taken a Cessna for a spin around Orbx true earth Southern England an am beginning to wish I hadn't even looked at P3D. The detail is fantastic. I can even see my own house. Time to add a few aircraft and see where we go from there. Thanks Wain. I am having trouble with getting my head around the stuff available in X-Plane. There is so much of it!!!! 50 frames per second with everything maxed out is good enough for me.

Size matters. My original plan for X-Plane has had to be revised. I had 1/2 TB of drive space allocated for X-Plane from a new 1 TB SSD. For X-Plane this should have been enough, but I haddent expected ORBX True Earth South and Central Britian being so big. By the time I has installed just these three things I was up to 1/4 TB. That's half of my allocation with just two ORBX True Earth products on board. I have repartitioned my 1 TB drive so instead of two 1/2 TB partitions I have one 1 TB partition as I want to be ready for other True Earth products especially Britain North when it

Midland RAILWAY

Happy New year Alan! And everyone else as well.

SSD up and running, X-Plane basic install done. Thoughts so far....... It's just as good as a basic install of P3D v4 in terms of looks. Better perhaps, different certainly. Configuring joysticks etc. is very easy with a very clear GUI to do it with. With all the bells and whistles set to max the fight depiction is very smooth indeed. FPS I can't comment on as I haven't found out how display it yet. Aircraft configuration is more comprehensive than P3D as it copes with weight ect. but also includes things like weapons load for warbirds. (A big plus for me with my

Arriba (above), abajo (down), al centro (center) y adentro (in) A Spanish toast.

Happy belated birthday from me as well.

A bit late I know but Christmas is always busy in my home: Happy birthday John, I hope you had a great day and that you had a great Christmas. Oh, and a happy new year as well.

Great way of looking at it Wain. Horses for courses I suppose. I will be fitting my new SSD today and when that is up and running, X-Plane.

Not forgotten Boss (as if I would - I enjoy it so much!). I hope to do it in X-Plane as I have a cunning plan to use some of X-Plane's features to my advantage. I hope it will be worth waiting for, but it does mean me getting X-Plane up and working. If I find that too time consuming then I will P3D it and aim to X-Plane the next leg.

Christmas over and just new years eve to go. House to sort out now everyone has gone, and then perhaps I will have some time to myself. A new 1 Tb ssd to install and X-plane, JF Hawk and Trident Tornado purchased and waiting to install to it. I have been looking at some P3D v X-Plane videos and I am getting quite excited about useing X-Plane. There seems to be a lot more realism and bells and whistles to X-Plane for a military aircraft users even if the choice of add-ons is far more limited than P3D. The other down side with X-Plane is the amount of money I have invested in P3

Can I ask readers of this thread to post their favourite V-Plane aircraft and perhaps any to avoid? Having had a look around the addons that are available it seems that there is a lot of free stuff and it seems to be of mixed quality.

It still is.

Bling

I am not sure about the Oil explanation given for flight inversion. Fuel and and oil cutting out when inverted went out in the early spitfires back in 1940. I cant see why this old issue would still exist on a modern aircraft

I am becoming more and more interested in X-Plane 11. Thanks James for the above, that's another nudge towards the dark side. I have just seen a video of how to repaint an aircraft in X-plane. It seems to be just as easy as it is in P3D. another plus, as is the use of weapons. I guess the next step is to buy it and get it loaded up. Yet another question.... I have a genuine Panavia Tornado undercarriage leave that I have rigged up using some software that allows the integration of an Arduino card with P3D such that it works with the gear. Does anyone know if this can be done wit