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12 minutes ago, Jammin16 said:
Hi every one and Aerosoft.
Now I'm really annoyed that I can't use Bali X for P3D v4. But it also makes good sense that when I go to the Bali X purchase page that it says this is for FSX, FSX: SE, P3D v3.
But honestly, I think it's bad that this doesn't turn into P3D v4. I like to pay $ 199.99 extra to get some airports made compatible with the P3D v4.
It's really sad that you lost so many good airports when you switched to P3D v4. I know it's not Aerosoft that makes P3D v4 but I honestly think something needs to happen inside this.
I'm not blaming aerosoft for anything, but I'd say I want some airports to be updated to P3D v4. Aerosoft are not the ones who got this message I intend to take it to Flytampa and Taxi2Gate.
But I would also say that P3D could make it easier for you aircraft and airport programmer.
Thankfully there is an abundance of airport and other scenery available for P3Dv4.... my hard drives are full of scenery!
Now don't kill the messenger.... but I believe that P3Dv4 will likely be all but dead within the flight sim community in about one year due to Microsoft releasing the upcoming sim. As such, most larger developers have all but stopped development for P3Dv4. I would not be surprised, I would be absolutely SHOCKED (with flames coming off it) if Lockheed Martin didn't move from P3D to a commercial version of the upcoming MS sim. But until that happens, flight simmers like me will still be using P3Dv4 and still buying addons for it because we love to fly!
This has happened many times over the 40 years the flight sim world has existed, and it will happen again as well.
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1 hour ago, pierre fsx said:
Sorry I wasn't to clear in my request.
With the A318-19 A320-21 the overhead view look's like this:
I use a separate screen, located over my wide screen to display the overhead panel.
Like if you were sitting in the cockpit.
I do not know why, but with the A330 the overhead panel view look's like that:
the view has an angle to it, and it doesn't look like it should if you were to sit in the cockpit.
I would like if you could straight out the camera like it is in the smaller bus, or do a second view .
Pierre
This was brought up early in the Beta and it was decided to keep the view as it is and that will not change. If you'd like, you can create different views in P3D view manager. I've never done it, but many people do it.
Best wishes.
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Just now, Mathijs Kok said:
Why would your post not be allowed? And where have I said people protest too much?
I am sorry you do not agree with our ideas and call them 'silly' is not a problem for me. There are many companies who do add-ons for your sims and I am sure you feel happier with other.
Boss,
He's talking about a comment I made to SOMEONE else on something that WAS NOT related to anything he posted. I gave the post all the time and effort it warranted. Otherwise the outcome was rather certain.
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4 hours ago, Captainboon said:
Skyteam livery plz
Please DO NOT post photos for which you do not own the copyright. Breaking the copyright by posting photos you don't own enjoins our company in breaking the copyright.
Given how serious an issue this is, we have now started giving people formal warnings for doing this which is the only way we can track repeat offenders. Too many formal warning will lead to a ban, so please take this as serious as we do.
Instead of posting a other people's copyrighted photos, you can instead just paste a link to the website where the photo exists and the photo will still show in the forum.
Thanks for understanding my friend.
Best wishes.
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9 hours ago, Thomas Hao said:
i read that and when will release the new installer
We are testing the new installer. Once the tests are complete, it will be released. Can't give a date because it depends on the tests.
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2 hours ago, Thomas Hao said:
when gonna relwase the a320/a330's update
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1 hour ago, Zhenche said:
Hey there,
I just saw Mathijs posting the changelogs of the new builds coming up for the busses in the updating sub forum.
Previously in this post, Dave talked about a update coming up shortly with updates for the A330s Connected Flight deck, however nothing like that is mentioned in the changelogs.Any chance we can get more information regarding cfd
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He did mention CFD changes in the Change log, so there actually is something like that mentioned. I'll bet you two Aerosoft Scenery products against you buying two scenery products by the end of this week. Deal?
However the change log does not do justice to the CFD changes that are included in this update. The A330 is almost fully CFD capable, I did a flight two or three days ago and it was a real pleasure. If memory serves, everything was sync'd except there was still a small issue with heading in selected mode and a little flashing on the V/S indication for the FO (long standing issue). The APU related functions are fully sync'd in the A330. Overall CFD worked really well in the A330.
I have not done test flights in the smaller buses, but the CFD Captains did a test flight in the A320 last week and they reported the following:
HDG Bug pull not synced
APU start push button not synced.
ECAM Actions for LDG displayed on the ECAM during departure. (Happens during CFD and without as showed in the attached pictures)
Cabin Pressure & Alt not synced.
ENG values desynced (very small difference).
GND CTRL not synced.Otherwise everything else synced.
I don't know what CFD fixes have been added to the smaller buses since the test flight last week as our devs don't always provide a complete update on all CFD fixes, meaning that we often have to test to know what's been fixed. This being the case, the issues listed above may or may not be fixed for the smaller buses in the coming update. From my perspective, the CFD is further along in the A330 than it is for the smaller buses, but again I don't know this for sure. I understand that's not ideal, but that's the unvarnished truth and let's appreciate that until we have more time to focus on CFD.
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Just now, Love_Aviation said:
Is there a way to find out when will the next update be released for A-330 and what will be fixed/tweaked?
Thank you
Hang in there my friend, the update shouldn't be that far off. We'll publish a change log along side the update.
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34 minutes ago, marcusjm said:
I expect to fly P3d long after I bought MSFS2020 so hopefully they support that one too. For one, there will be at least 2 years before all my fave airports are converted. Not to mention all Q400/AS/PMDG/QW stuff. FS2Crew is a must too nowadays :).
You don't know how much I agree with you! Anyone who removes their existing flight sim software when the new sim is released... well, I think they'll regret doing so. I'm still buying an enjoying P3D addons.
Best wishes.
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3 minutes ago, Love_Aviation said:
Is there a way to find out what sort of serious issues. Just out of curiosity.
Thank you
This is all development stuff, and we don't share that publically unless there is a major bug that affects users. What we do is find work arounds for the issues that Mathijs is talking about so that they don't affect customers, but such works arounds are also problematic for our programmers and force us to do a lot more changes to allow them to work.
In order to share these we'd have to stop developing to write them all up, re-verifiy them, and then 99.9% of those who read it simply won't understand what we write and they'll then ask for explanations, which pulls us back off of writing code again to answer, people still don't understand and aren't satisfied so they then complain, and the cycle starts itself over again.
So in short... no, until we go completely insane we aren't going to engage in this! LOL!!!What customers should take away from this is that P3Dv4.5 has a lot of unfinished thigns which cause developers a ton of grief and cost us more money to work around rather than our relying on the proper code. This by the way is a VERY, VERY, VERY old conversation that I remember having back before the FS9 (FS2004) days and FSX days, so it's really nothing new.
Best wishes my friend.
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1 minute ago, Volkerschwarz said:
Correct, that was the time of changing the runway. Otherwise, I started the realtraffic addon with PSXseenconTraffic. But it occured with runway change.
But Im flying since than without any issue and hope for a safe landing in Rhyiad
regards
This may well prove to be the most important clue in tracking down this very elusive issue!
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6 minutes ago, Volkerschwarz said:
Hello, Its my first issue with manage speed. I try to reproduce it.
Operating System: win 10 pro
Simulator version: p3d v4.5
Airbus version: 1.0.0.7 latest update from updater
Add-ons in use: Active Sky, Chaseplane, Project Fly, Real Traffic with PSXseencon addon
System specs: i7 8700k, 16GB RAM
Today my flight from EDDF to OREK with simbrief. After setting the star arrival for OREK , speed was automatically set to 140 knots. But on fmc there is 0.82 mach.
It was happend with arrival setting I think. I didnt change to approach phase
Its not possible to go back to automode. The speed decrease to 140.
So i tried to change the runway from 15R to 15L ( 15R was set from the simbrief flightplan )
The autospeed worked !!!!!
Very strange but it works now.
That is a very good report, thank you! What you are describing is actually different than the Speed issue in this thread as it occurs during the Cruise phase. But we still want to take a look.
Can you please provide the Simbrief Airbus and P3D flight plan files as well as the OFP file?
If you have not made another flight since the flight you reported, would you be good enough to zip the Airbus "Data" folder and upload it here? It will provide us with some good information to look at.
Many thanks!
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Regarding Connected Flight Deck, we are pushing an update (hopefully this week) which brings A330 CFD into the Final Beta status. I took the A330 up last week with one of our testers and everything worked just fine. We are looking to relocate the CFD server in the somewhat near future to allow better PINGs for those outside of Europe.
So as Mathijs said, we are working on CFD and several other things!
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1 hour ago, jay907uk said:
I'm extremely disappointed to hear that you aren't doing any other A330-300 variants. This means we are stuck with one engine type, what's the use in that?????
I admit you don't charge as much as PMDG & QW..........but you get all the engine variants for the relevant aircraft.
At the end of the day you have the base model for the A330-300 why can't you just adapt any changes needed. Even if it mean't we had to wait, I'd be more than happy waiting. I would happily pay for them.
Had I off knew this first hand I wouldn't of wasted my money. I just feel like we have been Shafted !!. I appreciate your a business and your time & effort is pain staking long plus you need to make money.
As for P3Dv5 who knows if half the scenery shall work for it!
Thanks
We (Mathijs and the entire staff) have always been crystal clear that we were only developing the -343, and always said that we would evaluate the possibility of other models later, but that we had no current plans to develop them.
Me thinks you doth protest too much my friend.
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42 minutes ago, ahuimanu said:
If Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 turns out to be our "No Man's Sky," I'll at least be entertained.
Its a shame that P3D4x didn't take us where we thought we were headed. I remember the heady days of the 64-bit onset of P3Dv4 in 2017 and thought we'd finally have a settling in period. Then XP11 took off. The add-on market feels less settled as a result. MFS2020 is being made out to be the second coming, I hope all eggs aren't going into a single basket. Microsoft is certainly going to deflate P3Dv5 and I can't see how folks will shell out to realize their sim dreams in Prepar3d, XP11/12, and MFS. That'd be like getting the same game for Playstation, Xbox, and Sega (or whatever).
The baby buses seem to be in good enough shape and provide more value than other alternatives.
There are still quite a few of us 40 year flight sim veterans around, and we've seen this play out MANY times before. Its a good thing.
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7 minutes ago, FWAviation said:
@DaveCT2003 The assumption that it will take considerable time until we have a comparable range of add-ons for MSFS as we have it now for P3D is an assumption I share. But this assumption is actually also a very good rationale why it might be a good idea to develop additional A330 models and engine variants for the P3D version while P3D is still very much in use and MSFS hasn't caught up completely yet.
If ours was a freeware product then surely, but alas it's not and we have to pay for the work involved via sales and as Mathijs said we don't like to saddle our customers with having to pay for updates. Even if we were to do an expansion package for P3Dv4/5 MFS would have been out for a good while before it was ready, and of course our developers would need to be working on products for MFS instead of a sim that many people would be moving from. It's just too much to go backwards especially when the crowd is moving forward. For this reason, we likely won't see new engine variants for P3Dv4. It's far more work than people realize and we'd have to obtain the real world data to model it as well.
Second guessing the experience we have behind the scenes and the decisions we make is something we have to live with, but we have to take into account many things the general public never considers or aren't aware of.
My very best wishes!
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4 minutes ago, FWAviation said:
Thanks for the quick reply, Dave!
You are most welcome.
I think the point that Mathijs makes about moving into the future of Microsoft Flight Sims (MFS) is a very important one. My take on this is that we've leave our P3Dv4 Airbus products as excellent and stable as we move into the future of Micrsofot Flight Sims.
There was a post today elsewhere where someone made a great point. At this point Microsoft would have to fail on may promises for the upcoming Sim not to be a gigantic leap forward for us all. But you know, even after the new sim is released some considerable time might well still be needed before fixes are produced (because they are always needed) the addon products catch up to the new sim... so it may still take some considerable time before we'll have the same capabilities as we presently do with P3D. I'm not talking overall sim visuals, which is what most people in our community seem to be focuses on.
So.. I'll likely be using P3Dv4 / v5 for my serious simming for some time to come. But have no doubt, Aerosoft will step into the new sim in a Big way, and with Mathijs leading us it will be a great experience for our customers (sincerely).
Best wishes!
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3 minutes ago, FWAviation said:
Does that include that there will be no new engine variants for the A330-300, at least for the moment?
Yes sir.
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On 12/31/2019 at 9:16 PM, Sabretooth78 said:
Back to the A320 - I just had every flavor (that I've ever experienced so far) of this error both during climb (invalid but ignored target) and cruise (invalid but honored target) I was able to repeat on the same flight plan. (I only repeated because an unrelated issue prompted me to just want to start the flight over.)
After seeing your post, I tested the A318 today and on departure the commanded Indicated airspeed was down to around 145 knots when it should have been much higher. The A/TH wanted to keep this speed, so I manually commanded the airspeed to 250 knots and eventually put the speed back into Managed Mode and it worked fine after that. I will include this into our bug tracking system.
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6 hours ago, balus said:
Hmm, not sure, I always check for discos after entering a SID and there weren't any, pretty sure it did fly the SID
I can't get the SID or STARs to even show up in the MCDU for KORD.
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Did the SID populate in the flight plan page for you?
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1 hour ago, roryalpha4 said:
I know i'm only wishing here but could this be done?
Sir,
I had to remove the photo you included in your post as you uploaded a copyrighted photo to our forums, which in addition to you.violating the copright you enjoin Aerosoft in violating the copyright as well as. The result of this could means that we have to raise the prices for all our products to cover the legal fees and any award a law suit might saddle us with (you would be on your own for your legal fees and award). This is a very real concern.
You can avoid copyright infringement problems by inserting link in your post instead of uploading a photo from another.website.
Thank you for understanding my friend.
Best wishes!
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3 hours ago, steve dra said:
Working on the bump maps for the Freighter....a lot to do but you can see where I took the window bumps off the nose section (as this part is reworked by the cargo conversion process and the window holes are pretty much removed).
Also took the bumps and reflections off the L2 and R2 doors since they are non-functional on the freighter (plus removed the stickers)
And added a "bump" for the rain gutter above the new cargo door. Of course I added depth to the door itself to give it a 3d appearance.
Looking FANTASTIC Steve!!!
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1 hour ago, Ray Smith said:
Post updated with file.
The distance is not an issue as the FP had not been followed. Corrected with a DCT and the distance is correct but the EFOB at destination is still showing -1.8
EFOB is not currently accurate, we're currently testing a fix for this and it will be in the next update.
Repaint requests (A330)
in Repaints \ Liveries \ Livery Manager
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Ah, isn't that for the CRJ? Are you asking about the CRJ? I'm asking because this is a A330 topic my friend - and if you're asking about the CRJ then no harm/no foul, I've mis-posted in our forums here myself a few times (few more times... LOL), so I understand. Just let us know and I or one of the mods here will move your post. Hans will be happy, he doesn't get enough feedback on his livery manager.
Best wishes.