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On Saturday, for the tenth year in a row now, the Aerosoft-hosted annual German Flightsim Conference was held at the Oberschließheim Airfield, near Munich. The conference program included a very flamant introduction to X-Plane 10 by Frank Willfeld, Lufthansa Systems, former German distributor of X-Plane 6-9. Robert Randazzo from PMDG announced their product lineup for the FSX for the next years, and stated that there is not yet a final decision on which airplane will be first ported to X-Plane. After that, I had my presentation about high-quality X-Plane aircraft, and of course showed off the CRJ, for which the box-sales at Aerosoft started on this day. There will soon be posted more pictures over at Aerosoft Sim news, currently a few are already online http://asn.aerosoft.com/ These are a few of my impressions: Guess which aircraft that went on sale this day was the portrait of the conference? Hint: It is not an aircraft for FSX! Aerofly FS on display at IPACS. Mac version is out yet, and it looks awesome! Flight dynamics are actually "not bad" according to Austin Meyer who tested it on my Notebook. X-Plane-driven Diamond cockpit simulator, unfortunately they had an ATI-equipped PC driving the sim, so the lighting was buggy. But flying from this cockpit is definitely impressive! "Force X-Plane" Frank Willfeld and me, promoting X-Plane 10 to the FSX users. X-Plane 10 global and CRJ box for sale Late in the evening, after the official dinner, with some folks from simflight, Aerosoft, and Robert Randazzo from PMDG (in the center). Next morning, after having endless conversations with other developers (went to bed at almost 2:00am) and after being almost deprived of breakfast because of the stupid switch to DST at this weekend in Germany: Watch out for more photos over at the Aerosoft forums. Philipp

Thanks for trying. Unfortunately, I don't have this problem neither on Ubuntu nor on Suse Linux. So it might take me a while to find the root cause. This is always hard when you can't have the problem yourself. As Javier already suggested: Have you tried with an english locale? I use english locale on all my computers, simply because I don't like most of the german translations, and if I get any error message, googling the error message in english always gets me a lot more information than googling the german message. Philipp

Hi Kyle, you have Gravity XFLOW open when you start to taxi. That's nothing you would do under normal operating conditions. snippet from the CRJ-200 FCOM page 13-30-2 So here is what happens to you: Because the gravity xflow valve is open, I calculate the flow from one tank to the other based on the sideslip angle. When taxiing on ground, side-slip angles become HUGE, because you can't counter the centripetal force with gravity, because you have no roll (aileron) on ground (i hope you taxi with all three gears firmly on the ground ) Simple solution: Don't use gravity crossflow on the ground. Philipp

Stefan, 1. The MFD will show rubbish if your PPOS and INIT POS disagree. That is, when you are in MKJS, and initialized in MKJS, and then enter a flightplan from LOWG to LOWK, the distance shown will be nonsense, because the first leg will be the IPOS-PPOS leg with some thousand miles of distance. If you reposition, delete the flightplan and re-align the IRS. 2. Live distance calculation needs an active waypoint. The active waypoint is first selected by entering a departure runway (or a runway with associated SID). So before you selected the departure runway, distance calculation will be meaningless because the first leg is undefined. 3. About the different distances to the destination airport in the MFD, please save a flightplan in a situation where you get the disagree, and post the saved flightplan here. That's the only way I can get hold of the problem. Philipp

Do the boxes persist after you once tuned a VOR so there was once a valid indication?

Hi Alex, we had several of those reports during the early beta-phase of X-Plane 10, and some time in 10.03 or 10.04 this was fixed (it occured with other planes as well). However, most users had to delete their preferences to reset all settings, which helped anyway with a lot of problem during the beta-phase. So I suggest you make sure you are using X-Plane 10.04 final and start with a fresh set of preferences. This has worked for 100% of the reported AP problems so far. Philipp

Talking about two different things here: 1) DME-Intc waypoint in GRZ1K SID: This error still exists in the windows version, reason see here 2) regular waypoint with overfly restriction in TLS3A SID: the @-sign before the waypoint denotes a fly-over restriction on the waypoint (waypoints without @ are fly-by waypoints). That means you have to fly EXACTLY over it, not just pass it. This might be tricky in manual flight. Because I just tried TLS3A fully on autopilot and it overflew D329N and sequenced to the next waypoint without problem. I guess it is rather tricky to trigger the fly-over sequencing when trying to chase the waypoint manually, the margin is REALLY small. If you miss it, simply DIR-INTC to the next waypoint. Philipp

Okay guys, found it. Combine this problem -> with this problem -> https://twitter.com/...762214361575424 and you get the idea why I ended up with stuff in my Mac backup that I _thought_ I had pushed to the server, but hadn't. The windows version doesn't contain the same code as the Mac version, where the HOLD PAGE works as intended. Well, we have to cut another update anyway when Aerosoft has finished typesetting the new manual. Then I will push the updates to the Windows version also. Sorry guys, but as long as my office is still cluttered the way it is now, I guess things like this just happen.

You are both on Windows, right? I think I forgot to merge in a last-minute change. Can someone with a Mac confirm that he can edit the holdings? Philipp

For any reason, you have the autopilot stuck in Mach mode. Load a X-Plane default plane. Make sure the speed selection is KIAS, not Mach. Load the CRJ. Philipp

Wow, I like that If X-Plane only would have cross-platform force-feedback support, we could make a stick-shaker for those with FF-capable joysticks. Philipp

Thanks guys ! I saw Cameron already brought my present to you. Wait, isn't birthday supposed to be the other way round ? See you next week at the FS Konferenz in Munich (I suppose Andras will be there?)... Cheers, Philipp

Not a bug - a feature. You need at least 80kts GS for a reliable TAS and wind indication. During takeoff roll, you will see the indications appearing. Philipp

The CRJ-200 has a similar rain effect as well. Philipp

None of the "auto routing" tools I have seen, either for MS Flightsim, nor for X-Plane, produce any routes that would get accepted by Eurocontrol (or the US equivalent) as an IFR flightplan. Personally, I get my routings from flightaware, vatroute, or vataware. Entering them into the FMC is not that hard, and if you have a route that you fly regularly, just save it. I never got much of tools like "FS Navigator" or "FSBuild" in my active FS time, and I'm not aware if any tool that has remotely as many capabilities as FSBuild exists for X-Plane, so I didn't bother picking up a flightplan format from any of these tools. Philipp

Just tried it, works perfectly on my Mac. Please try to explain the step "goto flightplan and type either SORGA, MIKSI or TUKTU. Alle wpts cause a CTD." -So you entered MIKSI 1C. Did you EXEC or not? -Then you press FPLN, and type SORGA in scratchpad. What LSK do you press that causes CTD? You are on Mac, hence a crash report wil have been generated. Go to Applications/Utilities/Console and look under "user diagnostic reports". Those reports are sorted by date, so look for a crash report from X-Plane, dated today (or whenever you had the problem). Post it here. Philipp

I guess we'll be seeing a HUGE amount of high-quality airport sceneries soon.

The guys of McPhat (upcoming ATR-72) recorded the Friday and Saturday sessions. Unfortunately not the Sunday "grilling Austin" session. The video will be published through Aerosoft. Philipp

Over at Aerosoft, the first photos of the conference have surfaced: http://forum.aerosoft.com/index.php?/topic/53412-x-plane-10-conference/page__pid__364211#entry364211 Note that Ben is really not drinking beer, but a kind of fig vodka popular in Germany, where the ritual is to put the cap of the bottle on your nose before drinking, so this the yellow spot ... Philipp

Please post your Log.txt from the X-Plane main folder.

X1550 is a DirectX9 card, right ?? Note that it is not DirectX9 that matters - because X-Plane doesn't use this technology - but the feature set of this generation of cards, and those features reflect in the openGL compliance as well. Please go to the ATI website and download the latest driver available - perhaps it's a simple matter of you reinstalling your OS and just forgetting to update the graphics driver. If that doesn't help I fear you are out of luck though - because the newest drivers are usually optimized to get the maximum out of the newest chips, and don't care that much about hardware now 5 years old. Philipp

Have you installed the most recent drivers for your GPU? Do you have any program doing openGL in background (this includes a browser trying to render a hardware-accelerated CSS3-animation)? Philipp

The method has changed in 1.4 and now works like the real one: The first waypoint goes into the RLSK4 position on the FPLN 1 page. After you inserted the first waypoint, the secondpage will become available. The same happens, as you already noticed, when you select the SID first. Philipp

On this page http://www.navigraph...www/fmsdata.asp it says .... vasFMC Flight Management vasFMC Flightmanagment/JRollon Planes - native** .... the second one is the right one. Philipp

Sigh. I have to move my setup again, because the sun is so bright (my window points roughly to southwest) in the afternoon that I'm blinded and can see almost nothing on my screen. Dammit, another room-reorganization is necessary. So far, we made great progress with the kitchen. The appliances are connected, the fridge is full, the plates and forks have found their place. The lamps are in place, the bathroom cabinet is on the wall, her clothes are in her wardrobe (I checked the maximum allowed area loading of the floor before) and our network printer is working (this IS a geeky household). Now re-arranging my room to solve the sun problem. Philipp