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Your gizmo plugin is not running correctly, something went wrong during the install. Please install again and make sure you read the instructions/options during the install process thoroughly. Cheers, Jan

Hi guys (and girls) Did a flight from ENAT to ENKR (Alta to Kirkenes) a few days ago in the IXEG 737-300. Its full flight from cold and dark to shutdown. Take a look if you have nothing better to do

nice one, good flight, enjoyed tagging along....

Well there's a Flight Operations sub forum.... .... and we've been moved there

Try sandwich tactic: Praise the product first, place your input, praise again

These days, many airlines opt to take off with packs off - this puts less strain on the engines and you can reduce take-off thrust even more. One method is to simply turn off the packs - this will cause the cabin to be not pressurized, which is not a big deal...unless you forget to turn on the packs again. Another disadvantage is that it gets warm in the cabin pretty quick, so I would not do that in the summer or if you expect to wait for take-off clearance more than a few seconds. A second method is to keep the APU running and supply the packs. The engine-anti-ice needs to be on during taxi already if you encounter icing conditions (<10C, moisture) - and you should turn it on for take-off if you expect to enter low clouds with the TAT <10C. Wing anti-ice is only used if you can visibily see icing on the airframe - so you would not turn in on in anticipation of icing. You need to include it in your take-off calculation if you could possibly need it while climbing out to a safe altitude, though. It does not work on the ground anyway - you could turn it on already, then the valve would open up on lift-off. Jan

Well I am able to get it to work just fine with xEnviro. You just have to inject the xEnviro weather into the xPlane weather for it to appear on the IXEG radar. IXEG takes its info from the xplane weather page. xEnviro is a separate engine and does not interact with xplane weather. However, if you set xplane weather to use custom weather and point it to the xEnviro generated METAR.rwx file, it will use this to generate rain and rain echo on the radar. Of course this relies on the METAR info and might differ from what xEnviro shows, i.e. the xEnviro engine might be outputting rain at altitude when the METAR shows no rain, so you won't see it in this case. Hope this helps.