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I would throw down money for a high quality C208 with deep systems modeling.

I have discovered that turning the large, outside NAV knob on the center chin panel will bring up various screen selections on the MFD (map modes, TAWS, etc.). I have also discovered that if I click "FPL" and then "FPL" again and then turn the big outer NAV knob, I get a NAV window selection on the MFD with two options, one of which is (IIRC) "Flight plan Catalog". What I have been unable to discover is how do I select that "Flight plan Catalog" item? I'm assuming this allows me to load saved flight plans. If that's not the case, can someone give me a quick rundown on how exactly to load a flight plan? Many thanks in advance!

Hey, Cameron. I was just thinking about the B300 again last night. Or maybe it was the night before. Regardless, I know the Duchess (or is it the Sundowner?) rebuild is in process, and the updates to the Mu-2, Saab, etc. just came out, but...man do I want a study sim B300. Can X-Aviation help me out here?

An oldie, but still a goodie. Ferrying the COL3 out to the PilotEdge coverage area:

That brought back some memories. The first flight sim platform I bought was subLOGIC FSII on a C=64. Man, I'm old! I have the Duchess. Would like to fly her more, but the MU2, JS32 and BK17 have spoiled me. I would pay for an upgrade to a full-on update.

I had problems off and on yesterday afternoon getting flights to log. One in three would fail. The way the X-plane FSE plugin works, it only tries once and never again. The FSX/9 clients will re-try after a period; wish the developer would implement that for XPX.

I'd really like to have a nicely done B300 or B1900C instead of the 350. In case any developers are reading.

I believe the airport data is based on FS9/FSX. If it's in MSFS, it's in FSE. Airport sizes are based on runway lengths, IIRC. I'm coming up on 9 years in FSE at the end of this month. Crazy.

By way of updating my initial issue, I managed to squeeze out a couple of hours this past weekend to fly with the new (v1.3.1, I believe) SkyMaxx Pro installed. I did several short, local hops in the BK-117 before switching over to a longer flight in the MU2. In the past, this has led to a crash, usually after about an hour of total flight time. This time, however, I was able to complete the flight. I enjoyed the splendor and beauty of the SMP environment the whole time. Especially the 'magic hour' sunset period. Gorgeous textures, lighting and wonderful cloud effects. All without negatively impacting frame rates. This is the experience I had expected initially. Thank you, John, for sticking with it and making it possible. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD

Click on the Settings Menu, then Data {whatever it says}, find the row about five down from the top, on the left that says "framerate" to the right of the columns of checkboxes. Put a check in the checkbox on the right, closest to that "framerate" label. Sorry if that's not clear enough, but I'm going from memory (i.e., don't have XP installed on this system, let alone open). When you exit out of the Data settings panel, you'll have a text box at the top left of your screen. The FPS info will be there.

I'm pretty sure once the FPS drops below a certain threshold (20?) the sim starts running in time dilation mode. Meaning one second of sim time takes two or more seconds of real time. I've had this experience on my Macbook Pro with long flights and when I've had rendering options cranked up past what my hardware could reasonably handle.

You either want to develop the airplane or you don't. If it's a passion, a drive you have, an itch that absolutely must be scratched, then it doesn't matter whether or not someone else released a competing package. Are you doing this as a means to make loads of cash? I'm guessing not, and besides pay-ware development is probably not the most lucrative form of modeling and programming. I've read lots of pay-ware developers posts where they claim they're not in it for the money; it's a labor of love. Maybe you're one of those, right? If that's the case, don't you feel compelled to ignore the competition and simply outperform and out-deliver them? I think I would. You sound like you're invested in your project. It appears you have the support of the real-world manufacturer. Why quit now? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD

I thought I had it narrowed down to a conflict between Xsquawbox and SkyMaxx Pro, but then I realized the only time XP10 crashed to desktop (immediate, no crash log generated, oddly) was when I was flying the MU-2B. I could fly the BK-117 for more than an hour with no crash, but about 15 or 20 minutes after changing to the MU-2B, right after a weather update, it would crash. I began pondering if it could be a Gizmo related issue, as both SkyMaxx and the plane rely on Gizmo. But, I have already sunk enough time and money into this to pursue it further. The final resolution for me was to uninstall SkyMaxx, as all other combinations of my few plugins play nice together, regardless of airplane chosen. In doing so, however, the SkyMaxx uninstall broke the MU-2B. My guess is that the uninstall removed Gizmo completely, despite my having four other X-Aviation packages installed. A re-download and re-install of the MU-2B brought it back to working status. Since removing SkyMaxx, I've booked a significant amount of time--for me--in XP10 without a single crash.

After re-installing, I flew ten flights with no issue. Today was the first time since the 24th that I've had a chance to fly. Second flight resulted in a CTD with this in the log.txt: XSB Weather push for: KMOPXSBWeather data: vis=10.000000 alt=29.830000,rain=0.000000,thun=0.000000XSBWeather wind: 0/2500/310/13/1/0 2500/10400/239/6/0/0 10400/22600/250/41/0/0 22700/90000/242/83/0/0XSBWeather temp: 100/-5 10000/-17 18000/-28 35000/-61XSBWeather clouds: 2300/4400/5/1/12 6500/9500/8/1/17 -1/-1/0/0/0Push complete.--=={This application has crashed because of the plugin: SilverLining}==-- Right before the CTD, the entire sim froze; not even the mouse pointer was responsive. Frustrating.

Flew a 1:12 flight in the MU-2; VATSIM (xquawkbox) and FSE. No problems at all. Downloaded and installed the new SkyMAXX Pro 1.2. Started X-Plane, opened the SkyMAXX preferences, turned down the top slider (cloud size I think) and the crepuscular rays, hit apply. Immediate CTD. Final entry in the (useless, I know) Log.txt: --=={This application has crashed because of the plugin: SilverLining}==-- Running the uninstaller. EDIT: Uninstalled. Restarted X-Plane. Restored my "full screen" setting, which was lost in the CTD (that's annoying; I wonder why Laminar does that). Reinstalled SMP1.2. Looooong pause on startup (no mouse response, no pointer even), but I can change the settings and return to the cockpit without CTD. Will report back on how the flight goes. UPDATE: Flight of 1:21 was uneventful and even included a pause of about 20 minutes while I grabbed dinner. Five flights in the BK117 of approx. 15 minutes each, all without problems and with multiple weather changes (real weather via VATSIM). So far, so good!

I just watched the Hitler video. I laughed. I cried. I feel a renewed desire to try again. Maybe tomorrow.

Cameron: I know you guys are willing to help. I just don't have the energy to deal with application issues right now. I do appreciate that support after the sale is offered here. Ointment: I didn't even realize that Goodway plugin was in there. I installed Goodway, but it won't even launch on Mavericks (no response from them on the issue, either). I will delete that out (the app was removed previously) and see what happens. I suppose that means I have to reinstall SMP, though. <sigh> Thanks for the suggestion.

That is unfortunate. Time is a precious commodity (for all of us) and I have little of it available for flight simming as it is. I have neither the free time, nor the desire, to start pulling plugins out of an environment that worked prior to the installation of SMP. Thank you for offering me the option of expanding my role, but I politely decline at this point. I have no idea what the RAM usage was at the point SilverLining crashed XP. I don't do any sort of system profiling while flying, in the hopes of debugging a plugin that may--or may not--crash the application. Frankly, if I have to fire up utilities in order to help figure out why (non-business-critical) commercial software is causing me problems (albeit these are definitely first world problems), I'll conclude that it's a better use of my time and resources to remove the offending package and avoid future purchases from the same publisher. I re-ran the installer, thinking it would give me the option of uninstalling. It seems to have uninstalled SMP, reinstalled Gizmo and then installed SMP again. I have manually deleted the SilverLining folder from ./plugins. Is this sufficient to remove it from my system or is there some other process that needs to be followed? I do appreciate the very fast reply, Cameron. It's unfortunate we couldn't help each other out. Perhaps SMP will work better in the future; maybe I'll reinstall it a couple patch levels down the road and see if this issue is resolved. (edited out the snarky part; being frustrated, surrounded by unruly children and crappy weather momentarily clouded my judgment)

Twice in the last handful of flights I've had XP CTD with the final entry in the log file being: --=={This application has crashed because of the plugin: SilverLining}==-- I've attached the Log.txt. I looked in the SilverLining directory under plugins, but don't see any SMP specific log file there. If there is one somewhere, let me know and I'll dig it up and attach that. This is mildly infuriating, as I only fly on VATSIM, ferrying assignments for FSE. I love what SMP does for clouds and the sky, but am very dissatisfied having a 1.25 hour flight cut short 2/3 of the way into it. Related to the memory leak issue? Conflict with XSB? Just bad juju? Log.txt

I didn't know there were rockets in Xplane. Your shot reminds me of the Kerbal Space Program, which I've spent far too much time screwing with. Lol. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD

Ah. I will keep an eye out for it. Has the Archer been released? I may have missed it! :eek: Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD

Which airplane is that? How did you get/why is that Gizmo logo in the bottom right? Just curious. I flew four hops in the BK17 over lunch; same snow here (VATSIM weather). The last leg home was dicey with all the icing. :S

BK17, ferrying charters between 48D and 3BS (now KIKW). That's US10, which actually does have an S-curve in it right there. Man I love XP at night.

This shot is from yesterday afternoon, actually, but I just got done flying the BK17 so I'm technically OK as I did fly it today, too.

Same issue. The download speed is incredibly slow (11 hours for a 1GB file from flightsim.com vs. about an hour for me to download about 10x that from ableton.com grabbing Live 9 packs) and horribly unreliable. I don't have a complaint about the throughput, as I just let it run overnight. It's disappointing that the connection is flaky and unstable, though. Maybe I'll try this out in a month or so after the mad rush (?) has ended. I do appreciate the effort that went in to creating the scenery, though, and look forward to checking it out later.