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I'm too busy for walkarounds Well I like to risk it sometimes in the sim as it's neat when it fails and you experience the unexpected. I like seeing what A2A have developed too. Obviously in the real world you would always do a walk around but in the sim your life is safe. Thanks

I had to put flaps back up to stop the plane pulling to the left, then land without flaps. Luckily I was at EGNX with a good long runway and plenty of time to land too. Then the aileron failure - unfortunately could not show this in flight, but I had full left yoke and no movement at all - so hard to land when all you got is rudder

I am still favouring P3D, but XP11 is so close too to be honest. It's good how you can tweak and use addons easily I guess. So much free stuff out there, you don't have to spend anything if you don't want to. Let us know how you get on and also post some screens

reminds me of XP11 weather

Hi, So all Active Sky is going to do at the moment is inject real live weather, or custom weather you create into the sim. Likewise, letting XP11 get the weather will do pretty much the same - although Active Sky has a few more bells and whistles in terms of settings and improvements. You then have things like Ultra Weather XP and xVision that gives you fancy graphics using the injected weather. So this helps the sim draw the weather in a beter way etc. I would alway stick with what is given for free before purchasing, but if you're not happy with the results then go purchase

Nice mate thanks for sharing

Looking good and nice you are back on board flying again. Don't worry about cat hair - it just shows you have got a life Too clean, means you have not lived

You should, I created a few now one being the twin otter - I don't really know what I'm doing but it works lol.

Never tried it mate, I think the reflection maker application is stand alone and as far as I'm aware it does not depend on tomato shader.

No problem mate another time

Great shots of a great plane. Looks cold though

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So for a long time I've been using PTA tool and preset. Obviously this is a paid tool and is great, but when I heard of Tomato Shade I thought 'ah it's just the same Tomato Shade can also use PTA presets, so why would I swap? Simple fact that Tomato Shade is being developed all the time. It also has additional features One of them featured is the model reflection maker. This adds more detail to the airplane models reflections using the P3D dynamic reflections. Here is a before and after...

I do love it but it needs quite lobg runways to take off and land, in comparison to the Comanche or 172. Still super plane. You should join me on my live stream some day mate it be good to talk. Thanks bud

The v-tail is so good - great shots

Very nice mate

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I don't think I said it was a weather engine mate? If I did then I must have been half asleep But yeah it's just a shader tweak tool like PTA. I did email regarding my issues and got a response, but it was just a 'wait for next version' kind of response. So I will wait and see what that brings. Hopefully all will be sorted, as it is a great tool

Yes you can get xPlane to use real live weather - you go into the weather customisation on the flight configuration page - then at the very bottom (under all the 'layers' of clouds) there is a dropdown that lets you select live weather and then select the update intervals. I would recommend Active Sky XP for live weather and at least then you have the option to setup some scary weather too I loaded up xEnviro again last night and went straight back to Active Sky, just didn't like it. It is a lot of money for what it is, and you can get better for cheaper with Active Sky imo.

Great shots - I never fly the helicopters in XP - maybe give it a try one day The contrails are a nice addition but yeah, only when they work when you want them to.

You can get lots of weather injectors for XP - I have tried xEnviro and Active Sky XP - both of these have real world 'live' weather. Active Sky however lets you create your own custom weather too, so that is handy. xEnviro does not allow for this, only real live weather all the time. NOAA is a good freeware weather injector, this is a little fidly to setup but should be up and running within 10minutes or so. UWXP and xVision are both programmes that render the weather (not inject the weather) - so these things are the plugins that makes things look shiny You may also be inte

True, they do have alternate textures too in ASXP, quite good ones too. I am just trying to get a good mix of UWXP, XVision and Reshade at the moment - can spend hours just tweaking and making it look just right lol. Back to the days of FSX Still, it is all good and looks fantastic when all set up nicely.

Looking good - I purchased this as well and used it in conjunction with Ultra Weather XP - but I might just try it on it's own and see what I think. Also, I am looking at reshade to go along side this too. May I ask, what weather plugin/addon are you using? (if any) The one issue I have with XP11 at the moment it the fact clouds do not draw to the horizon. I have xEnviro and that does, but it does not have the functionality for custom weather. Pictures look fab though mate!!

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