Cameron

Thanks for the responses, guys! Keep them coming!

Hi, all, In an effort to see where the community stands, X-Aviation would like to find out what type of aircraft add-ons you all are most interested in. Please select a category to vote on from above, and then respond here with a list up to three of your favorite aircraft types that you would love to see produced by us.

It won't be done for eight more months.

Hi, Roy, This is a great contribution to the community! Thanks so much for your hard work, and keep at it! I've downloaded it, tried it, and loved it!

Re-Programming

Great video! I enjoyed the music in this as well. Thanks for sharing it with us...and welcome to the forums!

This is a setting within a given OBJ file to define shine on an object.

Garrett, You were plenty clear. The message wasn't necessarily directed at you.

It's real simple, guys... We added in a feature that was extra eye candy. The wipers are part of the plane, so we animated them...we didn't HAVE to add in the rain, but we did for some form of visual effect. We can only do so much within the limitations of XP, it's weather system, and the datarefs/hooks the simulator provides to us. Sooooo.... Don't like it? Don't use it! Just pretend like the feature isn't there (like on every other aircraft around), and you won't have to deal with it. Plain and simple. You can just use the regular X-Plane weather instead. My opinion is it's better than what we have now as default X-Plane stands, so I'm happy to use it and have it. It's things like this that ultimately tell Laminar where to improve. "Pushing the envelope" as they say... Also bear in mind it's design to work when the rain is "heavy" in X-Plane.

X-Aviation is please to announce the opening of our own forum category here, and the announcement of a new product available as a beta download. You can learn more here: http://forums.x-pilot.com/index.php?topic=567.0 Happy flying!

As always, when we have news, we'll announce it. Until then, please be patient. Quietness = working.

This topic has been moved to General Discussion. [iurl]http://forums.x-pilot.com/index.php?topic=560.0[/iurl]

That's pretty darn cool! The video geometry is definitely crazy!

Hi, Jack, Contrast is actually not that low in sim when compared to these images. Just looking at them compared to in sim now and it appears the RGB export from Adobe vs Web may have played a little here. Even the aircraft is noticeably more vibrant in sim, but you get the idea.

Hi, Jack, KLEE is pretty good overall. It is one of the very few places in the scenery that has a very SMALL amount of single clouds floating in the imagery, but nothing big and nothing widespread enough to really be annoying. Florida is also, for the most part, the only package you'll see this in. Even still, it's actually my favorite package to fly around...often doing flights in the Falco from Daytona-Melbourne-Tampa. It's pretty to fly over! Here are some shots of the requested area:

Hi, there. There will not be a HUD in this release.

Shhhhhhhh.... We don't tell everyone everything, you know! :-p

Leonell, Navigraph is a text based format with an alternate ending instead of .txt to their files just like X-Plane.dat files. You can open these up in a text editor and view the data there for personal changes you feel you'd need to correct.

Hi, Joe, Navigraph AIRAC purchases are cycle specific, not product specific. In other words, if you buy the latest cycle in PSS format, you're also allowed to download it in ALL the other formats free of charge as long as they are the same cycle of data you purchased.

Hi, Martin, Large textures should convert over just fine. It's very odd you're having this problem with an FS9 conversion! I'll try and investigate this further...

Hi, there, Unlike the UFMC, we are going to be working with Navigraph for our own custom format, and as such, will do everything we can to make this Mac and Linux friendly.

Garrett, X-Plane's data that you speak of is mainly airport updates...usually re-alignments of taxiways, sometimes better alignment of ILS fixes that were otherwise incorrect in previous data. In most cases, it's user submitted to Robin Peel and he packs it up and publishes it to everyone on the site you have linked to. To add to this, X-Plane data contains no SIDs or STARs information at all. Yes, what comes included with the aircraft is from 2006. Keep in mind that the only REAL difference here is STARs and SIDs change frequently, hence the reason there are always new cycles released. Waypoints, otheriwse known as VORs and NDB's, etc, are pretty much stagnant and always remain the same, thus such information is NOT outdated. The Navigraph data only affects the use of the FMS, and nothing more. As such, I'll echo your own words and put them out as a statement that your concern is in fact unfounded. Choosing to fly by radio frequencies and charts has nothing to do with the data we are speaking of in this topic. For someone who chooses to fly like you, nothing has changed.

Then your concern is most certainly unfounded. Considering that with your purchase you'll receive a free, older AIRAC cycle that provides MORE data than X-Plane's current navdata, none of your concerns are "valid." You've stated you are happy with what X-Plane provides...we're providing you with more right from the get go. Should you DECIDE to utilize the subscriptions offered by Navigraph to update your SIDs and STARs even more, you're more than welcome to do so. That's a product they offer that we've made compatible with our CRJ. To be honest, this whole disagreement is unfounded. Simply put: 1. X-Plane's current data is "legacy" compared to what we will give you for FREE when you first purchase the aircraft. 2. The subscription is OPTIONAL. No one is forcing you to use it, and the aircraft will run just fine without the latest data.

Kamil, The product list you see there is of development groups. You'll see something similar to that effect for the CRJ once released, unless we choose to share a dataset and we tell you which to download. A cycle is an up to date release. In short, each months worth of data is considered a cylce. For example: January data is cycle 1001, February data is cycle 1002, etc. You have it right...for 10 Euro you get SIDs and STARs along with all the waypoints that are up to date, and that purchase includes the ENTIRE WORLD. It is not region based data.

Hi, Kamil, Navigraph is a company that creates monthly cycles of worldwide navigational data, including updated SIDs and STARs. These are important for FMS navigation, as well as approaches, especially if one may plan to use the aircraft on something like the VATSIM or IVAO networks. X-Plane data, however, is very limited in it's data content when compared to the Navigraph data, and does not come with monthly cycle updates, or SIDs and STARs data. If you would like to learn more about SIDs and STARs, please go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_plan#SIDs_and_STARs In regards, to costs: Navigraph uses a credit system. Each cylce you CHOOSE to download costs 20 credits, and a pack of 100 credits costs 10 Euro. Doing the math, this means you get five cycles of downloads (you can spread the downloads apart if you like...i.e. every other month to last for 9 months...after 9 months unused credits expire) for that cost of 10 Euro. Alternatively, for 30 Euro you can purchase 350 credits. A list of the currently supported Navigraph add-ons are here: http://www.navigraph.com/www/fmsdata.asp As you can see, it is widely used by the masses!