MarkHargrove Posted February 19, 2022 Report Share Posted February 19, 2022 I have six PCs in my simulator, 1 of which is the 'master' where I run the full version of whatever airplane I'm flying. The other five PCs provide external views in a 180 deg, wrap-around configuration. When licensing permits, I like to use the same airplane on the external views so I can see a little bit of the interior of the cockpit and gives me landing/taxi lights -- that adds to the immersion quite a bit (and permits night operations). When I cannot do that, I fly a dummy airplane on the exterior view PCs. The problem with the 'dummy' approach is that it means I have no exterior landing or taxi lights, and that means no night operations. It feels like cruel-and-unusual punishment to limit my flying in the CL650 to daytime flights only, but it's just too expensive to buy a full copy of the Challenger 650 for all my external view PCs (and I'm not all sure those 'slave' copies would behave correctly if I did, given the complexity of this beast). It would be awesome if there was a 'shell' of the CL650 that was modeled with landing/taxi lights but no other functionality for those of us with multi-pc simulators. -M. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pils Posted February 19, 2022 Report Share Posted February 19, 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, MarkHargrove said: it's just too expensive to buy a full copy of the Challenger 650 for all my external view PCs X-Aviation addons are limited to 3 concurrent installs anyway, and I’m not sure if it’s allowed by TOS to create more than one account per person. Something you’d have to work out with @Cameron. 2 hours ago, MarkHargrove said: (and I'm not all sure those 'slave' copies would behave correctly if I did, given the complexity of this beast) But, yah, I think that would be messy… there’s so little interaction with the default internals of X-Plane other than for thrust, braking, and icing. 2 hours ago, MarkHargrove said: It would be awesome if there was a 'shell' of the CL650 that was modeled with landing/taxi lights but no other functionality for those of us with multi-pc simulators. Maybe this is something @Goran_M might consider for down the road. Edited February 19, 2022 by Pils Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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