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Unglaublich, was im MSFS heutzutage möglich ist! Und schön, dass Du dich solchen Neuerungen widmest. Früher hat ORBX mal solche Killerfeatures eingeführt, aber die Zeiten sind lange vorbei. Viele Grüße, Michael

Thanks you for your replies, Winfried and Mathijs. Looking forward to more Prepar3D compatible products. I really acknowledge you are taking your time to communicate with the customes. With kind regards, Michael

I am very sorry, but I have to disagree to the statement Prepar3D will not become a successor of FSX. I certainly would not go so far to say it will become the successor, and I do admit there are inherent issues around Prepar3D, however, in my eyes it is the best prospective successor at hand. Respected firms like ORBX and FSDreamTeam show strong support for Prepar3D (and not for X-Plane), and polls indicate more and more FSX users are migrating to Prepar3D (while FSX no doubt will be dominant for a number of years). I think I know what I am talking about, I have been Flight Simming since 1991. FS4, Flight Unlimited and the like are still on my shelves and I tried several trial versions of X-Plane over the years. But time will tell. Anyway, I for one spent a four-digit number of Euros for FSX software (including a considerable percentage from Aerosoft). Add the hardware, parts of which only work with FSX/Prepar3D. I wan't complain as long as I am able to install all Aerosoft products into Prepar3D (which I could do now, most of it via the Estonian tool, though). However, Aerosoft will loose me as a nearly 20 years loyal customer should they decide to leave the line of Prepar3D compatible products anytime soon. With kind regards, Michael

Hi, at first, I think all new Aerosoft releases should include a Prepar3d installer. I never made friends with X-plane after trying 4 evolving versions over the last 20 years, but that might be just my fault. However, there's an idea that occurred to me. Newmanix mentioned the Aerosoft Simulator which may have been a project too ambitious. As far as I understand, Microsoft's ESP engine is still around. I don't know it LM got an exclusive license for P3D, but I doubt it. Anyway, LM's license conditions explicitly exclude usage for the game market in general (please, no argument here). Besides they well might have plans for developing it into a direction further deviating from the MSFS Franchise (e.g., by including native weapon systems, favoring commercial usage etc.). Now, that Flight! crashed, wouldn't there be an option for Aerosoft to try to get an ESP license from MS and developing it into a civilian simulator for dedicated game/private use with a wide distribution, including boxed versions, localized versions etc. in parallel to P3D? This still would be an ambitious project, however much less ambitious than starting from scratch. The both of them, i.e. P3D and this future AS, might well coexist and be compatible using some or all of the same add-ons which both might benefit from. There is certainly more than one loophole in this approach, and I foresee a few of them, but it well might deserve thinking about. Just my 2c, Michael

ENB sind modifizierte Shader, die die Beleuchtung der Szenerie verbessern. Wenn Du nicht weißt, was das ist, hasst Du es sicher auch nicht installiert. Also muss es an etwas anderem liegen. Beste Grüße, Michael

Hallo, hast Du evtl. den ENB-Mod installiert? Wenn ja, verschiebe einmal die d3d9.dll-Datei (ich glaube, so heißt die) aus dem Flugsimulatorverzeichnis. Es muss nicht, kann aber daran liegen. Es gibt inzwischen wohl etliche Versionen dieser ENB-Datei und zumindest manche davon stehen in dem Verdacht, CTDs zu verursachen. Ich hatte auch eine Zeitlang CTDs und bei mir hat es geholfen (was nicht automatisch heißt, dass es immer daran liegen muss). Beste Grüße, Michael

That would be really great, Mathijs. Living less than half an hour of Cessna flight from Erfurt, you can certainly count me as a customer. Regards, Michael

I recall having seen screenies showing a finished scenery around two years or so ago. It's a sad story indeed. Well possible, the real airport will be closed before the scenery appears. Regards, Michael

Hello, I think the exact hint was not in the manual. However, the manual mentions the Victorian houses under the extreme dense setting, which I believe were the issue. However, I don't want to take the slider back for I'd go on to further areas like Napa Valley etc. The Victorian houses (and maybe some more frame-rate dropping objects) probably were in the three files I mentioned but don't recall. Kind regards, Michael

Hi, may I ask for help? After re-installing US Cities San Francisco, I get quite poor performance (on a new i7 based system). I recall the same issue on my former (weaker) system, which could be solved by renaming (I think) three files, if memory serves me right being related to hyper-dense autogen. After renaming I got decent performance without any noticeable visual penalty. The hint came from some forum, but I have been unable to find it again. Would some kind soul help me by giving a hint to the three (or so) files? Thanks a lot, Michael

Hallo, zunächst: ich habe inzwischen alle bisherigen German Airfields und wäre als Kunde bei neuen dabei. Dass Entwickler manchmal andere Prioritäten im Leben setzen müssen, kann ich gut nachvollziehen. Dass die Schiene Kleinflugplätze kommerziell an sich uninteressant wird, fällt mir schwer zu glauben. ORBX - sicher einer der sehr kommerziell orientierten Anbieter - baut gerade die Palette amerikanischer (und künftig übrigens auch neuseeländischer) Kleinflughäfen rasant aus. Sicher ist die USA ein anderer Markt als Deutschland, aber viele der jetzt veröffentlichten Klein(st)flughäfen in PNW kennt dort an der Ostküste auch kaum jemand - die Detailtreue und das Marketing bringen es. Da greifen sogar Deutsche zu, die kaum wissen, wo Monroe Firstair liegt. Falls - gut möglich - ORBX in den nächsten Jahren Deutschland ins Visier nehmen sollte, kommen die Kleinflughäfen, da bin ich sicher (dann mit Bee's Flow). Viele Grüße, Michael

Hallo Detlef, ich glaube, derzeit ist Ostern. Ich bin sicher, dass danach eine Antwort kommt - eigentlich schätze ich den Aerosoft-Support hier sehr. Viele Grüße, Michael

Sorry, perhaps I was unclear. My point was not the SDK but that they are wiling to grant 3rd party certifications at all. The other point was, that they certify a tool which is obviously less geared towards game kiddys than to simulator users. Concerning a publicly available SDK I am in doubt, too. Regards, Michael

Hi, just to add that accidental finding from the Saitek Website http://www.saitek.com/uk/prod/tpm.html (i) obviously MS is willing to co-operate with and certify for at least "certain" 3rd party developers (ii) it's even more amazing as this is probably not the standard gear of game kiddies Regards, Michael

Klasse Matthias, egal wo Du es veröffentlichst, sollte es auf die Flightport-Liste: http://www.flightport.de/index.php?id=373&PHPSESSID=380cbd08e3a70dbae4aaae51bbf4be77 Danke schon einmal für Deine Mühe, Michael