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While putting the Saab 340 through some testing, Theo captured this screenshot climbing to 20 000 feet. It's definitely getting there!

Well, I just cut the rope and kept on moving, too. I also just got banned from the so-called "org" - more like the Borg. Unless you are willing to drink their coolaid all the time, that in and of itself is enough to get you banned. And, don't even think about asking intelligent questions about X-Plane, or make any intelligent (patently obvious) critiques of X-Plane on the Borg Collective Forum, as that will get you nothing but a collective "Go fly the demo to get your questions answered," or it will immediately get you labeled a "troll" by a pretend Cop wearing a "Moderators" uniform with the crack of his butt showing each time he sits down at his computer. I posted some very direct questions about the "Application Architecture" of X-Plane, and was rudely interrupted by the very same Trollish Attitude that I got labeled with, merely for asking intelligent questions. For the Moderator and his Borg-like Minions to behave that way, was just flat out stupid. What's the point? What's the point of even having a forum with the name X-Plane.org. What - did they really think that having a name like that and allowing public registrations for membership would lead to no one asking questions based on their observations of X-Plane? How absurd a notion is that. The Moderator temporarily suspended my account - merely because I levied the truth on their forum about how I was displeased with the difference between what the official X-Plane Sales Video shows -vs- what you actually get out of the box when you install the product. You don't get the nice looking scenery, high resolution ground level detail, precise surface topology with respect to major landmarks, etc., with X-Plane 10 Global. My X-Plane 10 Global, looked absolutely nothing like the video and all I did was echo what I've seen others say before about their Out-The-Box experience with X-Plane Global and the apparent discrepancy between the polished video -vs- what ultimately gets installed on their HDD. The level of rudeness, arrogance and total blindness on that site is beyond my ability to cope. I wrote back to the Traffic Cop (moderator) and told him to not just temporarily suspend my account - but DELETE my account entirely, as I had absolutely zero need for such an arrogant environment. I also made it abundantly clear that I LIKED X-Plane, even more than I liked FSX. So, I'm not some FSX Vendor Water Boy. I went there to learn - but apparently, you can't learn a damn thing inside the Borg Collective, unless you agree with every hallucination they can fathom. It was an unreal experience to say the least. The arrogance on that forum is palpable. I suspect this forum is a whole lot different? I've also seen a number of other forums with a lot more traffic, a lot more learning going on and a lot less ego to throw around. What is it with arrogance on forums anyway? Why do people lose their social skills when they enter a forum? Why bring that kind of obnoxious anti-social attitude into a forum, when you know darn well you won't have that same arrogant attitude standing directly in front of someone? What you see, is what you get with me. I'm polite and courteous in-person and I'm the same way online. I don't attempt to over compensate for some kind of weakness, merely because I go online. Yet, I see this time and time again on forums. What's the deal? Weren't these people reared by parents who taught them at a young age, how to conduct themselves in public places and how to remain consistent in demeanor, whether in public or private? I was taught that by my parents. I'm so sick of all the online idiocy and Group Think Mentality. Drink the coolaid so you can get along with the "Borg," or you will be classified as a Troll. And, we ban Trolls. We don't ban ourselves for acting just like trolls, but we do ban others who we say are acting like trolls. In other words, we are total HYPOCRITES and we like it that way (with a stupid grin on the face, no doubt). Oh, man! I am SO sick of that online attitude! When does it stop? When do people stop acting like this online? When do we get down to some intelligent discussion, rational debate, healthy challenges and some actual learning without all the Borg'ishness behavior? Why can't these be real places of learning, sharing, cultivating, knowledge transfer, understanding, development and growth? What - am I asking for too much for people to be civil with each other? PLEASE tell me that this forum is different in its approach and its overall attitude? I brought my own beverages, thank you very much. I don't drink coolaid, but I am willing to share what I do have. I've got some chips and salsa, too. I can't cook very well, but I can roast the heck out of a chicken (lol!). I'm also getting better making Lasagna, and once upon a time, I made a stir fry dish with 100% fresh ingredients and it was just as good, if not better than anything I've ever experienced in a nice restaurant. Thus, I have developed a whole new level of respect for Professional Chefs - how they get it perfect every single time, I will never know. But, I have to watch what I eat, or my blood sugar levels will get out of whack - don't want that to happen. Like I said, what you see is what you get. Now, I was saying something about X-Plane....

The middle console is done. Some small items left to do (like normal maps, tiny color corrections, text on Flight Data Recorder) but I'm very satisfied with the result. I've learned a LOT this weekend. The last little panels took less than an hour to texture it up fully - with all the dirt, scratches, labels, etc. I think I'll make a clean version too, but as I've seen on airliners.net, none of them are clean... So, it's time to move on. Next will be the overhead panel. Still no date on release, but things getting faster. PS.: I have a lot of ideas how to make this plane more real, e.g.: when you download the plane for first, you get a clean plane with clean cockpit. With every flight, the plane downloads a little more dirtier texture. After about 20 flights you get to the full-dirty version. Of course you can clean the plane - it replaces the texture with the previous clean version. Hope some day it may be done

A little update from Morten. Still a WIP, shes coming along very nicely!!

As some of you noticed that I'm working on a Let L-410 in the past one and the half year. The development slowed down a bit in the beginning of this year, but in last few months I had enough time to care about the plane Here you can find the history of development: http://x-plane.hu/cms/blog/1 - it's Hungarian, but google translate makes a more or less acceptable translation. Lot of small details needs to be fixed and/or worked out, but now I can see the light at the end of the tunnel I hope I can release the plane before Christmas with 2D panel, after that comes the cockpit and passenger cabin's design. The Let L-410 UVP-E is kind of mongrel plane. There are lot of variants: with or without wingtip tanks, with or without "bubble side windows", cargo/passenger version, etc. There are no two equal L410 on earth. So I choose one of them: the HA-LAR. Because it's Hungarian, and because it's crashed on 27. Jan 2005 in Romania, Iasi Airport, giving respect for the crew members. The last state of this plane was without the wingtip tanks and with black propeller nose-cone. And here comes the images:

That's good to hear, thanks! I now tend to agree with you. I just got involved with desktop flight simulators and I had no idea that there were these literal X Wars going on out there, but it is very true. I need two things: -a- A neutral site that won't have a C-Section, merely because I state my own personal opinion about their "favorite" flight simulator, that happens to be unflattering with respect to its "features" and/or "function" - or lack therefore. -b- A neutral site with people having a breadth of experience with both platforms, as I am still in the evaluation phases and have not settled on one or the other at this time. If I can find those two things in one site, I feel I can get up to speed a bit faster. That's would be the two'fer (two for one) experience. The ultimate experience would be the three'fer (three for one), better known as the Trifecta experience which would include one more item: -c- Actually meeting nice people online for a change. Enabling: Trifecta. I was still fuming when I wrote it, but that was just a temporary malfunction and I have no other squawks to report. My pre-flight and take-off checks of X-Pilot are complete. Now, I can go fly the forum and see where it takes me! Thanks for the welcome.

Hi, there, Thanks for sharing your story and telling it in a mature manner. I respect it very much. ...and welcome to X-Pilot! Yes, we are a lot different here. You won't have a hammer come down on you for sharing your opinion. X-Plane has its weaknesses and strengths. The nice thing is having Laminar continuously develop to make it better in the end. That doesn't take away from what we have right now. I think most of this behavior comes from the fact that people are behind a computer screen...it's almost a cloak. Bets have it that in person a majority of these people would never even consider treating people in the same manner (in fact, I'm willing to bet many would appear shy). This aside, I also think this weird divide has been created between FS X and X-Plane so much so that some take their stance very passionately (similar to Apple vs PC). In the end, we all love flight simming and should keep that core concept in mind. I've seen good and bad on both sides and take it for what it is. Enjoy the community here. It's a great place to hangout!

Found: it's a Flight Data Recorder - you can set weight, date, etc. Admins: can you mark this topic solved / closed please? Thanks

Perhaps some sort of barometric instrument? Actually, the "expert" settings in X-Plane where you could set the constants for earth (such as planetary mass), but in real life... the Soviets were way ahead of their time. From the number of digits, possibly altimeter of some sort which measures the pressure of the atmosphere on mars and divides it by the weight of the earth and blows up seagulls to eat pudding or something... that's as far as I got.

The spot is still waitin' =)