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What a great time to fly in X-Plane. Hello everyone. Following the recent trend of ultra-high quality add-ons for X-Plane 10, I am excited to announce my new project—the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (KDFW) scenery. Although the scenery is currently a work in progress, you can check out the completed Terminal D in 1080p in this video: Sprawled across 18,076 acres of land—an area larger than the island of Manhattan—DFW is the world's third largest airport. With 681,244 aircraft movements in 2015, it is also the world's third busiest airport. 7 runways, 5 terminals, 165 gates and 3 control towers help accomodate the 1,845 daily flights. DFW is the headquarters and the largest hub of American Airlines, the world's largest airline. Planned features (not a final list): Up-to-date scenery with all airport facilities 30 cm/pixel orthoimagery and 1 cm/pixel custom ground detail/markings Airport lighting and pavement markings closely follow FAA/ACI standards Terminals with interiors modelled using actual architectural drawings Modelled aircraft overpasses crossing International Parkway Ray-traced ambient occlusion, local illumination and specular mapping Uses advanced X-Plane features such as decal shading and 3D spill lights Animated passenger boarding bridges and Safedock® A-VDGS at all gates (using the freely available AutoGate plugin by Jonathan Harris) Animated apron vehicles, road traffic and Skylink APM Compatible with the static aircraft features introduced in X-Plane 10.50 Complete taxiway network with traffic flows for use by ATC and AI aircraft Volumetric Grass Scenery features can be individually turned on/off to optimize performance Designed using efficient modelling techniques for maximum performance Uses 4K textures to maximise performance by minimizing draw calls Flexible Performance Users will be able to individually turn scenery features on or off in order to optimize the performance of the scenery for their respective systems. For example, if volumetric grass is too much for your system to handle, you can simply turn it off, thereby increasing performance. Some other things you will be able to turn off are terminal interiors, terminal details, animated vehicles, apron vehicles, parked vehicles, etc. Other features, such as the number of trees, road traffic and 3D lights will be controlled by X-Plane's built-in settings. This way, users will have complete control over the balance of performance and quality and will be able to use the scenery on even the slowest systems. Dynamic Static Aircraft DFW will use the new dynamic system for static aircraft that will be introduced in X-Plane 10.50. Details of the new system can be found here: http://goo.gl/pLb0O2 Release Date: Expected Fall 2016 KRSW: Also check out my previous project, Southwest Florida Intl, here: http://goo.gl/R5g0l4 -- Click on each screenshot below to view the full detail of the scenery in gorgeous 1920 x 1080 pixels -- 30 cm/pixel orthoimagery 1 cm/pixel ground detail Ray Tracing, Ambient Occlusion, Specular Mapping Details, Details, Details Animated PBBs, Safedock® A-VDGS, 3D Spill Lights Swing Gates, Holdrooms, Concessions Atrium, Admirals Club®, Sterile Corridor

Probably the best released scenery to date for XP10. Please people remember to donate something for this scenery if you can so that he can keep them coming, MisterX's work is so much worth it. Combine the surrounding area with world2xplane (mass pro) and g2xpl photo scenery ground textures and you have a masterpiece plus extra.

Hi all, a first look at PMDGs DC-6!

Those moments when you realize you haven't posted anything even though you pressed "submit reply" but you have butterfingers...So Im not going to try and retype everything I did originally, haha, DTW is in a constant state of progression. Everyday I am knocking out tasks which get me closer to showcasing something. Here are 2 pics of the Flight 255 memorial. Located here via Google maps https://www.google.com/maps/place/Northwest+Airlines+Flight+255+Memorial/@42.2418294,-83.3274813,61m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x883b4928f7ac5441:0xa80ec1c7c6100361!8m2!3d42.2418388!4d-83.3273424 ---Visiting the memorial it was a somewhat rough experience for me. I have never been to the site of an air disaster or it's memorial and it was a very humbling moment. Really neat If you are in Detroit and have the chance to check it out.

Hello, if anyone would be so kind to make the modern CSA skin I would be eternally grateful. Unfortunately I cannot paint myself if my life depended on it Someone already made the older style livery which is also lovely but I'd like to have the new one as well. Pretty please. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/Csa_b737-400_ok-dgm_arp.jpg http://www.petradasek.cz/wp-content/uploads/B737-500-%C4%8CSA.jpg

Hey guys, just to let you all know that the forum for EFASS NG is now available. You can view the progress of development and hear about the upcoming beta tests. Register here: http://forum.froom.de/member.php?action=register&referrer=15

Spoilers are Coming up because you applied reverse thrust. "Flight spoilers (2 -1/2/3/4/500; 4 -NG's) augment the ailerons and are powered by hydraulic system A (inboard) & B (outboard). Spoilers will continue to operate with speedbrake deployed. Ground spoilers are also from hydraulic system A. Only the outboard flight spoilers are powered by hydraulic sys B On landing, if armed, all spoilers will deploy when the thrust levers are at idle and any two wheels have spun up or right gear is compressed. If not armed, the speedbrakes will deploy when reverse thrust is selected." http://www.b737.org.uk/flightcontrols.htm This website explains it.

Hello, Well, this forum thread got me curious.. so I decided to try to find out in the real plane. (Cruise flight can get boring sometimes..) The approach shown in this video is the Barcelona ILS Z rwy 02, with a vector leg to the northeast. First, you can see that I try to look around Milano.. increasing range, the vector leg just barely becomes visible passing across the screen, still going strong northeastwards. Then, observe how it ends right about the NIGSI waypoint (close to SNU VOR, in the Vienna (Austria) area) Now - how far is it from Barcelona to NIGSI? I have no idea - I didn't think of putting it in the LEGS page and check. Can be done easily enough in IXEG, I suppose. Or using some spherical trigonometry formulae, if you've got a few hours to spare ... or in this case, a nice quiet place in the countryside of Austria. Certainly a lot further than we would have wanted to fly after a go-around Ken vector3.mp4

If you go into reverse and wheelspin is > 60 (on the ground), the spoilers will deploy (a few other caveats for RTO though), the plane thinks you are wanting to stop...and if you're going over 60knots and have the reversers actuated (not necessarily fully deployed), then its a good bet a pilot wants to stop. The whole concept of "arming" for landing is simply a way to get the spoilers out as quickly as possible as it takes precious runway real estate before you can get the spoilers out from reverser actuation alone. If you are wanting to do touch and gos, then simply advancing the throttles past 40% of travel for the "go takeoff" will cause the spoilers to to retract automatically...again, because the plane now thinks you are wanting to takeoff (lots of throttle and increasing wheelspin) -tkyler

First : EDDF FAOR Second : KBOS KATL (MisterX's kbos, wow !!)

It is normal. The sun is actually below the horizon there (your DSF's just dont extend far enough to obscure it), and unless there's a moon out, clouds will look very dark in that situation in real life.

As an engineer by training and no aviation background, this subject was very confusing to me so link had just enough info I wanted. Here are a few things that helped me get a grip. As previously mentioned, DERATE is just like having a completely different airplane with different FAA certified performance rating charts that pilots have to reference. You are not even allowed to cancel the derate and go full power (may cause too much asymmetrical thrust) unless it is a dire emergency (wind-sheer or going into the side of a mountain). No wonder Jan says he never used it- why give yourself a less capable aircraft? There are good edge cases- heavy cargo loads was mentioned. I guess the engine instruments do not indicate a DERATE cause you are already using a different set of performance charts etc. as if you had a different plane. The engine instruments don't tell you it is working with GE 20K engines in the actual case, you have to verify this on acceptance of the aircraft I believe. The "fool the engine to think it is very hot outside" explanation for the Assumed Temp REDUCED method, although simple, was very confusing to me. A hypothetical example was easier for me to understand. Engines can generally produce max thrust up to 30 degrees Celsius. Beyond that performance starts to degrade for reasons already give prev. Makes sense, GE designs an engine to work well in all parts of the world. At 50 degrees Celsius, though, the GE 20K engine is only able to produce say 15K thrust. So presuming it is actually only 20 degrees Celsius outside, the FMC reads the Assumed Temp value of 50 degrees Celsius and calculates a Takeoff throttle setting of 75% N1- thus the engines will produce 15K of thrust on takeoff- the same amount as 100% N1 but 50 degrees outside. The pilot by the way, is free to increase the throttle to 100% N1 at any time. So the main question in my mind, was why doesn't the pilot just pick a reduced takeoff N1 percentage directly? Well, as I understand it, it has to do with workflow. For a given runway length, altitude, etc. the pilot looks up in the performance charts (since DERATE has its own performance charts, you could also combine REDUCED with DERATE) and finds the maximum temp that falls within the safety margins. This maximum temp is the largest assumed temp you are allow to set. The Assumed Temp method is conservative too because the plane performs better in all aspects at 75% N1 at 20 degrees than it does at 100% N1 at 50 degrees. In addition, this method is good because performance drops off linearly from say 30 degrees to say 50 degrees so the Pilot has pretty large range of values to select from and know what he/she will be getting. Finally, I learned that the throttles only command a percentage of N1. The engine in turn sets a value for N2 and you get some not exactly known amount of thrust depending on altitude, temp, engine age, etc. So why not use a throttle that sets thrust? Some planes do but it is hard to measure accurately with a low incidence of instrument failure.

Out of KBOS to CYYZ. Second flight UMMS to EFTP

@Cameron could you close this thread before I get hundreds of dislikes?

I (think) I get it Ben. Your software has been pirated a lot and your angry about it, but why accuse me of something before you know if it's true? The correct thing, in my humble opinion, would have been to reply with something like ”Jonas, you can’t use our software on both your own and your brothers computer, even when they’re used simultaneously. For this you need to buy another license, sorry that I couldn’t help you”. Then, since I find your software attractive enough, I would have purchased another license without complaining about it. Being treated like a criminal, however, isn’t a very nice experience Ben. Probably the worst thing you could do to a customer... P.S. If you're hungry I gladly share the food in my fridge with you Ben. D.S.

There are so many places to download free charts. All it took for me was some google time to find then. Some sites you need to sign up but all these are free. Eurocontrol- Every country in EU and Others http://www.ead.eurocontrol.int/publicuser/public/pu/login.do Australia- http://www.airservicesaustralia.com/aip/current/dap/AeroProcChartsTOC.htm New Zealand- http://www.aip.net.nz/NavWalk.aspx?section=CHARTS Japan-https://aisjapan.mlit.go.jp/LoginAction.do England-http://www.nats-uk.ead-it.com/public/index.php%3Foption=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=6&Itemid=13.html Netherlands-http://www.ais-netherlands.nl/aim/index.html And if you can't find what you are looking for try http://www.opennav.com/ Not the best organized, but they have everything it seems. And one last gift. If you only need certain airports in the us-http://www.chartbundle.com/ Tell it what Airport, or State, or Region and it will combine all the charts into1 PDF ! have all the downloaded charts on the cloud(MEGA 50 gig free) so I can access them anytime with my tablet. One last thing If you havent checked out www.simbrief.com, You should! Gary

Hiya, Move your Min/Max cloud size slider all the way to left Change soft to Fast Put Cirrus down to Low (you'd be surprised how very good they still look) Then try and then just try adjusting your Cloud Area Covered slider ######################### You can go here dl that, and run as admin if needbe ... https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/processexplorer.aspx If stuff's running in the background that you don't need, stop it auto starting on boot, or use a start-up util (can't rem the name of one i used to use, and don't use the windows option msconfig) It will show you what cwap's running on your rig, and then you can set to work if needbe stopping it If you have W10 i would suggest of not already got it ....... Spybot Anti-Beacon, and set all to Blocked, unless you use certain items I don't know how advanced you are with windows and the registry etc, so the above you may already have/know Here's an example of my nephews rig i built up for him a few years ago ............. Power on, takes around 3mins to hit windows desktop !! Then it's like a slide show until every auto start item does its thing From Messenger to Audio stuff, if i ever have a net outage and have to use his, i always go through it and stop all the 'loas on windows start' cwap He's 34 ffs lol, i've been showing him to do this basic housekeeping for 20yrs, then he's amazed as his pc boots fast and is responsive when it hits windows lol Then monthts down the line he's got the same cwap running again on lmao !! Anyways ............ i do run HD Mesh v3 fine n dandy too, had it almost from the day i got x-plane last december, and i only had 12gb ddr3 then and an old i7 920 If you have plugins you don't use or can do without, i would remove those too I have always been anal about background cwap running for no reason and it's stood me in good stead, if you're one that has stuff auto loading with windows then do yourself a favour and dig deep and get stuff off until you require it W10, man that installs and you've got the whole bloody App Store running Anyways, info and rant over (bad day here lol) Hope ya get it sorted Tony ps: Even a Titan X can't run stock x-plane 10 fully maxed, and i very much doubt pascal or two generations after will either