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Pilots ready, chocks secured, GPU disconnection... ready to go in......

Not long ago LES provided us with a new version of their Beechcraft Duchess. I could not withstand the temptation on laying my hands on the "Lady" Giving the bird high-res-textures and normalmapping including speculars.................I think its kinda "rebirth" This plane is still a "must-have" for the serious X-Plane-GA-Pilots .

Yes, the folks at Tapatalk have not yet released a compatible plug-in update for the new software update on the forum side of thing. As such, the first page of posts is displayed as every page in Tapatalk. We'll be sure to get this updated as soon as they release a fix.

I get the point that eye candy is more important to you. No need to be snide. As for Carenado, they have a Cherokee PA28-180 for FSX and FS2004. Their plans are to convert most of their fleet over to X-Plane. I don't know if those plans include the Cherokee.

I admit I like photorealistic textures as much as the next guy, but when it comes to flying a model that "feels" and flies like the real thing, I jump into one of Jason's Pipers. I'll be real world flying a freshly painted Cherokee this Friday morning with a friend of mine. I'll post some pics this weekend.

You mean like this? http://www.c74.net/xplane/_a_cherokee_140.html http://www.c74.net/xplane/_piper.html Jason Chandler's Piper series is probably the best payware aircraft deal in all of X-Plane. 14 planes for $14. Not bad. The textures may not be up to LES or Carenado standards, but the flight model is a good as it gets....and you can't beat the price. And they're super frame rate friendly!

One of the things that made the wait for the CRJ more bearable were the wonderful videos that Javier made. I know that with the arrival of the little copilot and the extra work for laminar your schedule must be tight, but if you could find the time to put a preview video for this work of art showcasing not just the excellent model, texture and lighting, which we can enjoy in the screen captures. A video shows the animations, effects, sounds, etc. I am already drooling over this and can't wait to buy as soon as it comes out, but will definitely love to see another great video preview.

In terms of speed (FPS), it won't have much effect. It'll allow you to load much more texture space and maintain a high FPS. This could come important when running XP or FSX, but not so much in games such as COD or Battlefield.

Pretty much what Chris said. The PCI thing is just space taking. I havent plugged anything into my PCi slots in years as everything is motherboard bound. My nVidia card is made by Gigabyte but there are others around that will do the same thing for a fraction of the price. My system cost NZ$1500, and its plowing along nicely with Win7 64 and XP 64.....and I only have 2Gb of ram!!!!!! Definitately go with the i7, the GTX680 and the 8Gb of ram. Its a no brainer! What monitor are you uysing or are you getting one of those as well? Slainte, Andy

I've started to populate the area around the signal building with planes, gas tanks and small huts. The objects I've placed are as close to the real buildings that populate the airport as I could find. I have one more hangar to make for that area as well as the control tower. I wasn't pleased with any of the towers available to me, so I'll be making my own! Once this area is finished about half of the airport will be complete!

Yep - Basically this is what you want in term of a direction to take: CPU: Quad Core i7 / Ivy Bridge / Around 3Ghz-ish GPU: nVidia GTX 680 with min 2 Gb of VRAM RAM: 8 Gb DDR3 at some reasonable speed (1333/1666) Everything else is just case/power supply/hdd/lights/plastic to hold it together. You could probably build a system simmilar to this for $1000-$1500 depending on the source of the parts. i.e. $769 for a GX680? You can get the 2 Gb version for $600-ish $AUD here in Chatswood or Crows Nest in Sydney - CK.

A little glimpse into our debug screen as we refine the electrical system. When the APU is started, the APU starter uses the battery and induces a really heavy load to the battery. Anybody care to guess what happens to the battery and the annunciator lights attached to the battery bus during the APU start?

hope so.

Ok please tell me X-Plane hasn't somehow morphed into the real world. that looks FREAKY real. Scared me a bit.

well the work is going slowly, because I work in the little time I have. I have made the phisics model and I like it.. so I can start with the modeling of the OBJ. not to much to show, but is an start!!