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Just got X-Plane earlier today. Did my first landing in this

back on topic: I enjoy that plane!

I AM LOVING THE PIC!!!! It is my favorite airline and one of my favorite planes!

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! This makes me a very happy man!!! I still do most of my flying in 9.7 even though I have V10 and keep it updated. The changes to the views controls still irritates and frustrates me to no end. 9.7 for me is still a much more pleasing experience.

I don't bother with it anymore; performance with my ATI5870 is just too low with HDR enabled.

Well that would rather negate the reason for upgrading my computer to 16 gig ram and the graphic card to a 7850 radeon HD. If I wanted to fly in 32 bit mode I would have stayed with FSX, 6 gig of ram and my 550TI nvidea card. I also use Windows 7 64 bit. It is not crashes I am having as I would need to get my realistic payware craft out of the hangars and into the air to be able to crash. I purchased X-Plane because of all the 64 bit hype and it seems to be turning out to be that, just hype at this time. Perhaps the future will change that, we will have to wait and see. But ask yourself this, if you want X-Plane to be No. 1, you will need to entice flight simmers from older sims that are still stuck in the 32bit stone age, does it make sense if you want to get that user base to X-Plane to ask them to use X-Plane in 32 bit mode? By the way I never bought from a shop or an online store, I purchased direct from X-Plane by going to their .com website and seeing the wonderful (cough) advertising blurb and hype that didn't mention 9. I did notice there was a 9 so I am not totally gullible but I saw nothing to suggest that 10 was still in some form of prepubescent beta. Silly me eh.

Seems to be affecting the Bombardier Challenger 300 Captain Edition Seems to be affecting the Bombardier Challenger 300 Captain Edition in a similar way. The green information digits disappear as does the background colour of the PFD display whenever HDR is enabled. In 64 bit since the new SASL 64bit plugin was updated a couple of weeks back that is, as regards 32bit the same problems apply. It isn't intermittent either it is every time HDR is enabled. Sigh! This was the only one of my top rated payware planes that was flying without problems. Think I will go sob quietly in a corner.

Thanks! And, yes: I will produce a version for X-Plane 10. I have already taken an earlier alpha and modified it for X-Plane 10 to understand the differences. The basic changes to enable the electrical, hydraulic and autopilot systems to work properly are very easy. There are some small but important changes to the object files, mostly to do with how things are lit. The Rolls-Royce Avon Engine plugin will need totally different thrust curves and an independent test programme to make sure they are accurate. It will take time, but days or weeks rather than months. The biggest nuisance will be the need to maintain development paths for two parallel products, which is why I have decided to develop the primary model for X-Plane 9.70, and only split them at the last possible moment. Guy.

Your first assumption (or impression) is somehow correct. A user without prior experience in X-Plane buying an X-Plane version in a store or online shop will of course expect it to work as stable as theoretically possible. However, it has always been the case like this with X-Plane, and X-Plane is around since many many years. So your second assumption, based on your experience with other software companies, is not entirely applicable to X-Plane development. In the past it has always been the case that announced features eventually were all working and stable. If you are in the mood, search for the development history of X-Plane 9 -- and how different the final 9.7 version was from the initial versions. Of course, this is something you need to get used to. And it is something that should be communicated much clearer by the X-Plane developers and publishers, I think. Kris' comparison to open source software is good: You could say while FSX is similar to Windows, X-Plane is similar to Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu, for example. Of course the comparison has the caveat that many open source projects are not just free, but also "free as in beer", while X-Plane costs a good amount of money you need to spend, and trust that the original developers will do the needed work, while in open source you could fix it on your own. You have always the option to use 32-bit mode. I don't know which OS you're using. I use Windows 7 64 bit with 8 GB RAM, but flying in 32-bit mode and everything works perfectly fine. I don't have any crashes, even in dense scenery like YPAD or New Zealand Pro, or even the extremly heavy San Diego conversions I'm using.

My first attempt at video with narration.

A DC6 would be awesome. Multi radial engines and NO FMS. I just want a darn DC-6 as well.

Today I continued my world tour in X-Plane 10. I was going from Dubai to Linzhi (Tibet / China). As with the previous legs, I've written about it in my blog: http://fly-xplane.blogspot.de/2013/04/4-dubai-omdb-to-linzhi-zunz.html

This is my speculation and that is only what it is, this is not based on any facts, just my opinion. I think PMDG will release the 757 along with Ramzzess help. Seems rather interesting in the time frame of things that Ramzzess was getting close to beta and a release of his 757 and then the project stops dead with no explanation or anything. About that same time was when PMDG came about and they being the Boeing experts they are, I have a strong inclination that they snatched up Ramzzess and his 757 project to release under the PMDG name. At the same time, PMDG gets a great programmer to aid them in the right direction. Since that time, the aircraft has gone under a rewrite and texture spruce up to get up to PMDG standards. With PMDG's Boeing resources I'm sure the aircraft has gone under a whole new level of depth in systems. It really would be a good business plan. If PMDG wanted to do a 757 for X-Plane, they wouldn't want Ramzzess high quality one already on the market. What better way to get rid of the competition is bring him on your team. One can only hope I am right! So that is my hypothesis, the PMDG/Ramzzess 757 is what we will see.

I've taken some time this morning to gather a few screen shots and post them here: http://www.dh-aircraft.co.uk/news/files/26afff15b5a355380e75d62b0917ca57-103.html This is the first time I've had it back together and in any way photogenic since some rather major revisions. The changes were precipitated by adding a periscopic sextant in the roof (which, actually, I see I forgot to post news about here) but, because the sextant required changes to internal and external models, UV maps, new shadow-bakes and textures, the changes were far-reaching. While I was at it, I swept in some other improvements, too. Apart from any truly unsightly aberrations, black triangles, gaps or thrashing I find during testing, that's it cosmetically. I can now clear the decks and concentrate on programming. More on that later. Guy.

a quick update, it appears that i may be getting my laptop back this summer so to give you a quick notification, here are three shots of the 787-9 being worked on right now in FSX!

No, this is not true. When we analyze your interesting dialogue in a strictly logical way, we get the following: 1) Steven says A. 2) Tom recognizes A. 3) Tom has the opinion B that A could be misunderstood as C by others. 4) Tom tells Steven about B, with the intention to avoid misunderstandings. 5) From 4), Steven infers that Tom has opinion C. But 5) is nothing that is implied by 1) to 4). So I suggest to stop this dispute. It leads to nothing and I think nobody wanted any harm. Can anybody tell me more about the Centurion? Is it worth buying beside the good lights?

It is a well-known fact that older Carenado planes get updated with XP 10.21, because they need some XP lighting issues fixed.And their v10 models don't work all correctly, because XP itself has problems with Lua memory management. There is NOTHING Carenado or any other addon developer can do about this! With the same argument like your's I could say I won't buy any X-Aviation product, until they have made the DC-3 and the Corvalis work under 64 bit. But it is the same story: Gizmo uses Lua, SASL uses Lua, both depend on Laminar to work on Lua. Edit: There is currently only one XP version where you can get recent airplane payware for and where you can expect it to behave stable and foreseeable for the future -- and this is XP 9.70. XP 10 will probably change again sometimes, and there is no guarantee that planes working right now will work in later versions. In XP, you will learn to live with these uncertainties.

It claims 64bit compatible and yet the C337 Skymaster is still waiting for its 64 bit plugin. I would like to patronise Carenado again but until they make my existing V10 models compatible with X-Plane 64 bit, I think I will spend my cash elsewhere. I am using my earlier version challenger's SASL 64 bit to be able to fly it at the moment, but it is an unsupported mod and I am not sure if the odd crash I get when using the Skymaster is down to this mod.

WE'RE BACK! I have gotten it into blender and started messing around with it! Not much yet. I would also like to introduce our new flight model manager Jeffrey Chen! Also i am working on a 2d custom panel and you can see some of my practice but that will be a choice and there will still be a 3d cockpit

i will start working again soon but there doesn't seem much intrest right now. But because someone is intrested i will start work sooner than i expected