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All of this is no issue. The 737 has a selection window to select cold and dark, turn around, or engines on and irs aligned.

I like cheese.

I just wanted to give a high five and some kudos to the team that developed this beautiful plane. While a SAAB turboprop isn't the most sexy plane around, this implementation is beautiful. I love how nearly every switch works. It looks great, sounds great, and includes a lot of great documentation. I hope this sets a new standard of quality expectations for other vendors. Good job, I can't wait for your next release!

A macro is something that goes and does a task for you. In this instance Jan speaks of a system where you would press a button and watch the plane go through the startup sequence. Something like this is not implemented. What's implemented are user preferences to start immediately at a selected state. Not a macro.

Hi! I was a little bit disappointed when I saw that, because I though I had understood before that it would be in. But just a question, will it be possible to quit X-plane and save a "cockpit configuration state"? Because if we talk about realism, I think I'm not the only one that had the problem with PMDG's 737: for what I remember, what take the most time, is the initial part of the cockpit preparation (preflight procedure if I remember well) that you only have to do for the first flight of the day. And that takes a very long time, if you want to make a flight with a minimum of realism. But I think that there's something between the "ready to flight" (very unrealistic) and the total cold and dark (realistic, but takes a very long time), and that is the state when a pilot finish his day and you take over his plane (without the shutdown procedure) which would permit with realism to gain some time. And that would be possible if it is possible to save the cockpit configuration from time to time or with macros. Thanks for reading and for your answer!

Hello Captains, Since the release of SkyMaxx Pro v1 one of the most requested features was to be able to see cloud/weather formations in the distance similar in a manner to what X-Plane default clouds are able to achieve (but at a huge cost of performance running those default clouds). Unfortunately, the X-Plane plug-in Software Development Kit has not made such a seemingly trivial concept very easy to achieve, as the weather "radar" X-Plane draws is actually only available to default X-Plane's own cloud system at a root level. Laminar has stated that allowing this same information to be accessible to plugins would require a certain amount of work they are unable to provide at this time, so we've sat in limbo contemplating what we can do to improve this (or how). It is with great excitement that we announce Real Weather Connector today after lots of work and research on how to tackle a perceived issue for the SkyMaxx Pro series. To be precise, Real Weather Connector will further enhance your flying sessions when utilizing real world weather from sources like NOAA, FSGRW, X-Plane's Real WX Download option, EFASS, etc. It will parse the METAR data downloaded from these applications and grid the SkyMaxx Pro v3 clouds to their respective locations. Don't think of it as a replacement for whatever you use to get real weather from. It enhances the experience by creating a more direct link between these apps and SkyMaxx Pro - and it also works great with X-Plane's built-in real world weather or any weather engine that drops METAR files. As an example: If you flew without Real Weather Connector installed right now your SkyMaxx Pro v3 clouds will draw clouds from METAR data download from apps like those listed above and create weather based on your EXACT aircraft location while you fly. What happens here is what some refer to as clouds popping in and out, miraculously changing from one extreme to another (like broken clouds suddenly disappear and overcast comes in out of nowhere). You won't see weather systems ahead or behind you, but instead the same type of cloud systems everywhere you look until you move to the next closest METAR location. With Real Weather Connector you will see weather systems in the distance! You will see systems behind you, to your left, and to your right all based on the real weather data you download. It makes for an amazingly immersive experience, and we're really excited to have achieved this! The finer details: Real Weather Connector will create weather systems based on downloaded Real World data from programs like those listed above. It will require SkyMaxx Pro v3.1. The version 3.1 update will be free to all existing customers and contain other enhancements we will announce soon. SkyMaxx Pro v3 will recognize when Real Weather Connector is installed and a new menu option will become available to select whether you'd like to use real weather data or not. Real Weather Connector will be its own product, but is dependent on SkyMaxx Pro v3 to run. A lot of R&D has gone into this to make this work. As usual, all SkyMaxx Pro v3 updates will be free for that respective product, but we need to be able to pay the bills for the development and time it took away from our families to create this Real Weather Connector add-on. A price will be announced at a later time. To be clear, there are more lines of code to produce Real Weather Connector than there is in SkyMaxx Pro v3. It's been that big of a project! We are currently in beta and trying to catch any bugs we can find (and we expect to find some with such a complex way to draw these clouds). We do not know how long this process will last, but we are working diligently to get it into your hands. Screenshots are below a few posts down as well as HERE! Happy Flying, and thanks for looking!

A new video from Nils has been posted showing off flap vortices for the 737 Classic! Check it out below!

Cheese meaning money right?

Ok perfect! Thanks for the answer. But that's what macros are in my mind, but anyway, that's perfect. EDIT: thanks for your answer in the next post

Its a sign people.

Actually 50% are! 70% seems a bit low, though. ~90% of drivers think they drive safer than average. Depends on how it was measured.

Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. 14% of people know that. --Homer Simpson

I love the 330s' belly. It's so cute I just want to cuddle it.

The 767 is a marvelous plane! But so is the A330!

I can't decide who is dumber, the dumb for saying dumb things or those around laughing at the dumb person for saying dumb things?

You're not fooling us. We know that there is a deeper more meaningful reason.

I presume, both.... but who cares?! While you're 'sitting' up front, does not make sense if those conditions are met or not. It llooks nice on replay session. It really does though! Are we there yet? )

Amazing ... really can't wait to fly this birds

amazing

In answer to your question, air molecules don't flow straight over a wing linearly from fore to aft. Instead, the air passing under the wing tends to curve outboard, whereas the air flowing over the wing tends to curve inboard. Combined with the fact that the pressure on top of the wing is lower than the pressure under the wing, the air under the wing is going to be sucked up and over the wing at certain points, typically at wing tips. This interaction between the two air flows causes a spiral motion. As the angle of attack of the wing is increased this interaction becomes more pronounced. Extending trailing edge flaps increases the effective angle of attack and some aircraft will experience vortices from their flaps, whereas by design others don't. Aircraft with winglets are less susceptible to wingtip vortices and indeed the purpose of the winglet is to reduce the vortex effect as it causes induced drag which costs fuel. Vortices are more visual on aircraft approaching to land in moist conditions. ie, conditions where the air temperature and dew point temperature are close. The accelerating air within the vortex causes the pressure and therefore temperature to drop to that of the dewpoint temperature and the vortex becomes visible. (You can test the theory of pressure and temperature dropping in accelerated air by clenching your teeth and sucking in quickly-your teeth go cold). I hope this answers your question. For the record, I fly the real thing professionally.

Click the gear button bottom right and change quality to 720p. That will give you HD in full screen (EDIT) Why on earth would someone dislike a post that is meant to help someone with a request?

Fantaswtic, now do it again in HD, full screen at low res doesnt do it justice!!!! My first ever flight was in a 733 to Dunedin, turbulence all the way! Slainte, Andy NZCH

Very realistic looking!

"I would say you are more fck up than serious if so.." is definitely a judgment on a person who spends their time how they choose if I've ever heard one. You have no idea what one's circumstances may be, and it is neither in your place (nor mine) to judge any person in such a manner. Many people read these forums, and that can certainly be offensive to some. Please be considerate of feelings before you write.

Interesting weather is just hard to find in the winter! I did notice that Geneva was having some rather crappy weather at the moment, so here's a shot near LSGG. You can see there's a bunch of clouds bunched up against the mountains with some storms forming:

Was doing some more testing today and snapped a high-altitude shot for you. I've also lightened up the clouds as promised:

cool, so it's a getter?

This is awesome.