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Hello Picked up a youtube video with X-Plane 10.50 news and preview from X-Plane "11". Pretty interesting.

Ahh.. My bad, I acually heard about that in some video. Thank you. ^^

For Info in the "Real World" when a VOR is first installed, the VOR antenna is physically oriented to True North, this involved a TELS enginer climbing to the top of the mountain (or where ever the VOR was installed), with a set of screwdrivers and spanners/wrenches, then making a potentiometer adjustment to slave the navaid with Magnetic North. This setting is then recorded as "The Magnetic Declination of Record" or as it is sometimes called the “Station Declination” and the date this figure was set. Now over time the Local Magnetic Variation changes, and the VOR will no longer be alligned exactly with Local Magnetic North. Every so often the controling local Aviation Authority should re-align the VOR antennas to keep then within a few degrees of Local Magnetic North. But given the remote locations, and the fact that all charts & FMC databases would have to be updated as well, lots of VOR's do not get re-aligned as often as the should. The FAA and other Control Authorities continually have problems with "MagVar of Record" for VOR's and other navaids in the "real world". As example: Instrument Landing System (ILS) procedures at Anchorage and Fairbanks, Alaska. and The Review of Magnetic Variation Report. So it was a never ending job, trying to travel to every single VOR ground transmit antenna and "tweek the pot", given that some VOR's are in very remote or mountainous locations. The FAA has tried to keep most of it's VOR's in line, but there are many other VOR's around the world that have hardly ever been re-set more than a couple of times, so now lots of these VOR's are way out. This is one of the reasons Control Authorities are planning of switching off most ground based en-route navigation aids VOR/NDB/LM ect. and replace their function with satellite based fixes. Also Have a look at these old posts on the X-Plane Dev Blog: http://developer.x-plane.com/2015/06/x-plane-10-40-beta-3-is-out/#comment-11146 Note especially what Phillip has to say on the subject: X-Plane NavData records this "Site Declination of Record" in the earth_nav.dat file, Row 3 entry for VOR's as "Slaved variation for VOR". cessna729.

hi, I just saw this thread. I have a gtx980 and I had : 1) issue of low fps when enabling cloud shadow. Sorry no screenshots at that moment (by GPU free ram was ok) 2) low fps when entering clouds : taking off from cyvr (30fps with lots of clouds), and just before reaching the altitude of the lower cloud layer, the fps drops to 10 fps or less. Same when inside clouds (weather of course not changed). Attached are some pictures : - sky maxx pro settings and free memory (out of 4Gb) - shot whith low fps and 'always' selected in RWC (bad fps) - shot few seconds later, still in the clouds whith 'never' selected : very good FPS. What could explain this diffference of FPS ? Hope it helps. This is with latest version of SMP. Version before was working better for me. EDIT : added log.txt and I confirm that when I go out of the cloud layer (when climbing, the FS goes back to normal) Log.txt

Can´t really say anything about how these guys do it - except that I wouldn´t do it . It IS possible that they are running a higher FMS standard that will not allow A/T activation on the ground, I simply don´t know. Jan

Yes - the first push of the TOGA button will set a reduced go-around power. You can verify this by the FMA showing GA. Pushing a second time will give you full go-around power (N1). Jan

No. This is no NG. Don´t press anything on the ground, except for TOGA when you want to take off. The autothrottle will happily go to full thrust for a number of modes, VNAV being one of them. THis is also the reason that the procedures are VERY specific about not arming it until you line up on the runway. Happy flying, Jan

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Good to know - the ground spoiler shutoff valve is connected to the right strut, iirc, so touching down on the left wheels only will not cause the ground spoilers to deploy... Cheers, Jan

Heya Tom, 600 sterling + in england from a quick search !!!!!!!!! Lol, good old uk taxes Tony