Paul K

I understand your point completely. I am making the assumption that since backward compatibility with current add-ons has been emphasized by Asobo and Microsoft, the payware Twin Otter will most likely work in FS24. I will therefore have something I paid for, while it also comes free with FS24. That is the primary cause of the regret about purchasing it. But there is more to it than that. I'll be perfectly honest with you - I have found the Twin Otter for MSFS a little disappointing, and historically not Aerosoft's best. I won't go into the reasons - that's a different discussion altogether. But I would have been more inclined to overlook its perceived shortcomings if I'd waited and got it for free. That exacerbates my regret at having paid for it. A bit mercenary, I know, but that's the feeling I am left with. I'll say no more on the matter. I sincerely wish Aerosoft great success with the forthcoming A330.

If ( note that I stress IF ) Aerosoft's Twin Otter becomes a default aircraft in MSFS2024, I shall strongly regret buying it. I know we don't live in a perfect world; some commercial decisions are going to have awkward consequences no matter what you do. Aerosoft would not have known about Microsoft's intentions at the time I bought the model, so I can't really hold anything against them. Aerosoft did the right thing by taking it off sale, but it just came a little too late for me and no doubt others. Not a happy situation for Twotter owners.

It is a matter of record that Aerosoft likes unusual aircraft. So, after giving us some odd looking aircraft ( Wilga ), a flying boat ( Catalina ) and a couple of turbo-props ( Bronco and Twin Otter...making four turbo-props in total ), this is your destiny...the ShinMaywa US-2. Please?

You have to be kidding , surely.. RIP Neil.

Will do, Eric Thanks for reminding me about Nvidia Inspector...with all the deleting of v1.3, downloading and installing v1.4,, then getting REX Essentials sorted out..I had forgotten about Inspector! Thats the next thing to work with.

Eric, I have Nvidia Inspector, and used it with that old long-gone sim...let me think...what was the name of it..ah yes, I remember now...FSX! I have yet to use it with P3D, but are you saying that the settings for FSX are good for P3D ?

Installed v1.4 this afternoon, did the REX Essentials thing with textures and also installed this frame rate limiter; http://janvaane.org/prepar3d/?p=96 There are slight problems with Orbx scenery and v1.4 at the moment. They can be worked round, but I'll wait till the new migrator tool is released.

Have you tried their website ? http://www.flytampa.org/

Thanks Joe. I'll wait till the rush on the servers dies down a little.

No image showing there Matt - just a little rectangle with 'Posted Image' text in it. BTW, saw an L1011 at Cambridge airport about three weeks ago, stripped to bare metal with its engines running; an RAF TriStar, obviously, getting some TLC from Marshall Aerospace. How I wish I'd had a camera

No I said because its Lockheed Martin. Think...Lockheed...Electra, P-38, Sarfighter, U-2, SR-71..P3D Martin...Marauder, Maryland..Martin Mars..P3D Microsoft...erm...Minesweeper, Flight..

Ah okay Mathijs, well, time will tell. In the meanwhile, there is v1.4 to download. Yes, the complete re-download and installation come every new version is going to be a pain, but what I am seeing in P3D makes such effort worthwhile. Very pleased and very optimistic for our civilian flight simming future!

Matt, there is a kind of kudos to flying a flight simulator by Lockheed Martin, no ? Lockheed...Martin...gawd, think of all those famous aircraft! Boerries, no worries! You are right, and I'm not doing anything more until 1.4 is installed. Luckily, Orbx's FTX scenery migration tool makes the transfer easy ( though the original files remain in FSX, and must stay there ) and Rex Essentials requires a $4.99 P3D license fee, after which, Rex Essentials works perfectly with the new sim. I've done nothing else as far as transferring FSX add-ons, and will wait till the new version is installed.

From last weekend, when I finally bought P3D v1.3; the default Maule, which FSX fliers will be familiar with, over some Orbx FTX Australia countryside. I've stopped any further transferring of files as v1.4 is out in a few days, and I'll start again with Orbx's migration tool. Downtown Melbourne off to the far right;- The teeming suburbs. You can smell the barbie smoke even up here;- Heading towards the mountains;- Closer still;- Into the red heart of Oz, and Orbx's YBAS Alice Springs add on, which gives you the airport and the town;-

Yes, but isn't DX11 going to leave a lot of current add-ons unusable ? I believe Sharrow ( Konrad ) said this a good while back.