Flying online on IVAO Network and Virtual airlines

[scubajuan]

Hello everyone, I used to fly on IVAO long time ago on FS9 and before that on FS8 and FS7, but for work related issues switched to Mac OS and all my virtual flying got caned. Then I discovered X-Plane 8 and its compatibility with Mac made it my sim of choice. Then came X-Plane 9 and I started flying again but the poor ATC in XP made me fell really quite lonely up there so I wanted to retake the online flying experience and found the X-IvAp. One thing I noticed, other than the obvious misalignments due to different sceneries, is that other traffics don't show the corresponding planes, usually is just the default XP planes. Is there a way to tweak X-IvAp to show the appropriate planes with the right liveries? This would be really nice.

Thanks for the help

Juan

[Ben Russell]

There is a Common Shape Library or CSL for short.

It can sort of half work, but it's not perfect, and you need a wide variety installed.

Actually creating and installing them is a black art, no idea if or where any of the file formats or install locations are documented.

You will always have CoG alignment issues too, other sim clients will always show up with wheels off the ground or sunk or w/ever.

[scubajuan]

Thanks for the reply Indi.

Have an other related question...

I just joined a virtual airline: AeroMexico Virtual, but when looking at the software downloads i appears that is windows only, it uses compete VA to report the flights, and this requires a software called FS-FDR which needs FSUIPC. The question is: is there a plugin for mac or a work around to use CompeteVA in a Mac OS system?

Thanks