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No, that is not related. We expect our plane to keep working in XP11 - but I am sure there will be a thing or two that needs to be adjusted - or some new features that we can make use of. I don´t think there will be a 1.0.8 - we have enough new content and fixes ready on the sideline to warrant calling the next one 1.1 - we are "just" waiting to get some more FMS fixes in. Once those are done we will need to do a thorough flight-testing, we would like to avoid the "fix two things, break one new" we used to have during the frantic hot-fix run. Cheers, Jan

Something different for a change

Neither am I, and forgive my intrusion on this but I do use Active Sky Next when I have a weakness and need a lazy flight in a slightly cartoonish scenery filled environment with the nice 777 in P3D. For my more action loaded 737 Classic flights I use FSGlobal Real Weather with Real Weather Connector & SkyMaxx Pro 3 (a bit of a long road to have clouds represented in a decent way, but that's the XPlane way for me at the moment) . At first sight, it does provide that weather data needed for this FMC import thingy: FLIGHT PLAN KLAX - KSFO KLAX 128 ft DOCKR 1 770 ft 2 nm 00:01 255° 122°/ 5 kt 23 °C - EVOSE 3 412 ft 2 nm 00:01 264° 313°/ 3 kt 19 °C - MKGEE 7 761 ft 7 nm 00:02 264° 331°/ 4 kt 13 °C - MUELR 12 881 ft 12 nm 00:02 269° 244°/ 7 kt 5 °C M FIXIT 15 286 ft 7 nm 00:01 301° 229°/ 12 kt 2 °C M IKAYE 18 136 ft 10 nm 00:01 354° 246°/ 17 kt -2 °C L SCHOR 22 714 ft 20 nm 00:03 301° 249°/ 31 kt -11 °C - RZS 27 375 ft 24 nm 00:03 300° 242°/ 54 kt -25 °C - T/C 36 000 ft 52 nm 00:07 318° 245°/ 79 kt -45 °C - PEGRS 36 000 ft 13 nm 00:02 318° 245°/ 79 kt -45 °C - ZONAL 36 000 ft 13 nm 00:02 318° 245°/ 79 kt -45 °C - T/D 36 000 ft 45 nm 00:06 318° 241°/ 79 kt -46 °C - BSR 31 761 ft 13 nm 00:02 318° 240°/ 74 kt -37 °C - CARME 25 000 ft 20 nm 00:03 325° 236°/ 55 kt -21 °C L ANJEE 19 700 ft 18 nm 00:02 347° 241°/ 28 kt -12 °C - SKUNK 15 000 ft 16 nm 00:02 348° 229°/ 36 kt -3 °C - BOLDR 11 516 ft 10 nm 00:02 348° 241°/ 34 kt 4 °C M MENLO 4 667 ft 18 nm 00:04 348° 280°/ 15 kt 14 °C M KSFO 13 ft 14 nm 00:05 311° 260°/ 13 kt 15 °C M 316 nm 00:51 AVG TRIP WIND: 246°/ 49kt AVG CRUISE WIND: 243°/ 79kt AVG HEADWIND COMPONENT: 9 kts AVG TRIP TEMPERATURE: -21 °C AVG TRIP TEMP ISA DEV: 13 °C AVG CRUISE TEMPERATURE: -46 °C AVG CRUISE TEMP ISA DEV: 11 °C It would be interesting to understand if FSGlobal is willing to invest further into XP and who knows, it could be a good catalyst for additional sales in the iXEG market for them... I pretend Active Sky Next saw their sales figures increase significantly after teaming up with PMDG for that innovative feature. But then, your statement in brackets... If we end up having all possible low priority features, will we ever use them? will we not overload the sim and hit our performance? on my usual short flights, the differences you will have in the PROG page if you compare times and fuel consumption, will be small, on an eight hours jump over the Atlantic however, that information can be very valuable. I prefer to have all the high priority first, and then why not, adding a few highlights if there is still some head-room just thinking :-)

Hello, I'm running X-Plane on a MacBook Pro Retina early 2013 with dedicated graphics. Currently when XPlane shows clouds it's basically crippling my FPS. Would SMP solve this problem? And would it be possible to give SMP a try before actually buying it ? kr Jan

I would have expected the same Tchou was just stating. From what i thought, you enter an icao Code into the machine and the 737 grabs the metar from lets say NOAA and presents it. From what I remember, the process of recceiving the metar takes some time in the real units, up to single digit minutes. Correct me if I am wrong.

I don't know how he does it but JAR's A330 reads metar from departure/destination, I think it does query on an external website, because sometime the Metar differs from X-plane's one. PMDG use weather from PFPX files or Active Sky

I guess it is doable, coupling it with winds aloft function in x-plane (If I'm correct it is supposed to get data on winds at given FL to anticipate the descent VNAV). But It wouldn' t work everywhere.

Is that it? That's all that's needed to make it cozy??? Some dust and a few scratches on some used leather seats? Gotta be faster than that, Radek. I did that (and a lot more) months ago. Note: Some mesh shown is not accurate and has since been fixed. Disregard the "shine". That's a specular issue that will also be fixed, depending on how it looks with the exterior around the seats and cockpit.

Alot of work has already been implemented for the next release which will contain bugfixes, 3D & systems updates. With XP 10.50, XP 11 coming soon, new OS's etc we also need to coordinate with the Gizmo developers to ensure good release. Work continues

I agree with Frank, I wasn't aware it wasn't on the product page for the new website.....

Alright, I have to take a stand on this one. It's perfectly reasonable for customers to expect to find system compatibility information for a product before they purchase it. We need to fix this. How long does it take to put a message on the checkout page warning users that Linux is not supported?

Here you go... fictional as it's based on the SWISS Airbus A320.

Hi to all! An update on Mykonos Airport. With X-Plane 10.50 and WED 1.5, we are updating our products to the current standards. Mykonos Airport will be, probably, the first ready to release! One of the main features of this update is the performance. During our tests in a medium PC (i5-4440, 16GB RAM, GTX 760 4GB) we achieved increase in performance, looking to the direction we get the lower FPS, by almost 50%! Have a look at the images below. Still there are a couple of things to be done before it will be available for release. Enjoy!

Hi to all! A new screenshot from our work in Mykonos update. Enjoy!