He who is not welcome!

UPDATE: Karma is down to -2. ;D Keep going guys, because the more you hit that button, the more you prove right everything I've said about this odd forum, and more more you jam your door closed .........

Hi Goran, Thanks for your constructive post, and I do hear what you're saying. (Unlike Theo's post which has no reasonable basis and is simply a case of "hey you, don't you speak up against the amazing support of x-aviation!! ... it's just not possible you got treated crappy and the support was poor!".....) All emails I send to Cameron's support channel are ritually ignored (despite having no offensive or rude content whatsoever), despite my being a paid up customer of X-Aviation. So you see I can't confront the situation with Cameron behind closed doors or less publically as suggested. The last email I sent to Cameron suggested we'd got off to a bad start and to wipe the slate clean. It was polite and well-intended; but went without reply. Although you've made the statement "I doubt your posts will be deleted"; that is exactly what happened, but as Cameron and I are the only ones that truly know that is the case, I doubt the truth will become transparent here. This is clearly a 'closed room' and Cameron is obviously revered here, as equally as he is castigated over on the .org forum. Fair enough, if this is Cameron's protection zone, then obviously I have no place giving any feedback whatsoever that goes against the 'wonderful support' he offers. It seems to me that Cameron is one of those guys who is polite, nice, and appreciative when all the feedback, praise and views are going his way. But come some negative feedback, BANG, it's the delete button. You clearly believe otherwise but my experience is genuine; based on deleted forum posts (none of which were what most people would deem unacceptable in term or manner), and deleted reviews, which again were just honest and balanced. Regarding the Karma; it really is a pathetic system don't you think? ... purely based on those who speak out getting castigated and publically humiliated. And equally, those "in the club" look after eachother and get some sort of pleasure from their double digit Karma score. .....it's hard to argue that it's not a silly, childish system, that encourages the very bullying and stone throwing that you say does not go on here. I'll stick with my -1 .... in the knowledge that as a paramedic, and voluntary counsellor for victims of abuse, that my real 'Karma' is hopefully a little higher than my 'X-Pilot' Karma. :-[ ;D I won't upset your close group any further by contributing in this forum. It seems few new posts are made here daily so (and I'm genuinley not flaming here), I would have thought you would be more open-minded, and welcoming, and less quick to judge and dismiss people's genuine feedback. Otherwise all you will have here is a closed door and a declining rather than growing community. Mods*: Feel free to delete this thread. And we can all go back to our happy closed views on what does and does not go on around here. *Go on Cameron, you know you want to!

Bizarre. 'Lose Hearsay' = would be things like "I hear Cameron did such and such". I am giving a first hand account of how I've been treated by this person, consisting of facts. Actual things that happened, all of which I can prove. (How about I re-post the review of the Florida product and we'll see if it sticks around this time huh?). It's very strange that you jump to such defensive and baseless assumptions yourself. Why do you assume that what I am saying is not true? Are you suggesting that I never placed the Florida review and have invented this ? ??? That's pretty unlikely don't you think. You are simply exacerbating the perception that a lot of people have that the X-Plane community is (a) unfriendly, ( a 'closed door', and a © clique. (I know these aren't true, but that is a lot of people's perception of it. Just because you don't know me does not mean I am 'stirring trouble' or making baseless accusations. All of what I said above is FACT. I am not stirring, I am exposing an unacceptable case of censorship. Why provide a reviews system if you're going to delete reviews. Don't assume new people on this forum are trolls; I was a AVSIM Staff Reviewer for 6 years, if you search the reviews section under my name you will see my reviews, most of which were for high profile add-ons, such as the Level D 767 for FSX. I am only making this point because you seemed to feel it appropriate to talk down to me and baselessly suggest I was stirring for trouble. The fact remains; I placed a fair and objective review, and it was deleted. That is bad behaviour for everyone. Ooh, and a -1 Karma from TheoGregory. Ouch!...how childish. That's right, you just keep up the censorship and try to crush anyone that speaks out against the BULLYs here....

Hi all, I wanted to give some feedback about what I feel is truly shameful and unacceptable behaviour by Cameron, from X-Aviation. It concerns his blatent deleting of reviews and posts about his products, and I am under no illusion that this post will probably also be deleted. I was under the impression that this forum was set up due to censorship and politics on .org but the actions and behaviours of Cameron are worse than anything I've experienced on that forum. Firstly, let me say that I love X-Aviation's products and I have no history or nothing against Cameron. I 'take as I find', and my first dealing with Cameron was when I purchased the "Florida" product from X-Aviation. I had major issues installing the product and when I dared to talk about these on this forum, Cameron posted mis-information, stating publically that I had received email support from him, but had still made a post about the issue on the forum. This was wholly incorrect; I merely requested support by email, and made a post about my issues on the forum before I'd received Cameron's email response, in case they were common problems and other users could help. Cameron was exceptionally rude by email and communicated with me in a way I've never been treated as a paying customer. Further posts of mine on his sub-forum (none of which were rude or unfair) were deleted by Cameron. More seriously, I completed a fair and objective review of the "Florida" product, on the X-Aviation website. My review was immediately published (as all reviews are), but the following day was deleted by Cameron. The review was fair and balanced. It did not reach a particularly favourable conclusion regarding the product, but remained fair and balanced throughout. If you read the reviews of the excellent aircraft available at X-Aviation, you will see they are all favourable. (Most deservedly so). However if you look at the scenery products available at X-Aviation, you will see no reviews at all. No doubt because, like mine, all reviews that contain even constructive criticism are deleted. Cameron, you have a very heavy handed approach to running your business and in how you treat your customers. I have purchased 4 products to date from X-Aviation, and LOVE three of them. But it is unacceptable to provide what you present as a free and objective reviewing system on the website, if you are then going to delete the reviews that you don't like. Please, prove me wrong in this case and do not delete this post Censorship of this type is bad for X-Plane, bad for developers and bad for us all as hobbyists. Cameron, I have just left a 5 star, very positive review for the CRJ on the X-Aviation website, but I did state that the only area for potential improvement was in the sound; are you going to delete this review too? If you do decide to "make this one go away" too, by deleting this post, people will know you have done so, as it's also referenced here:- http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?showtopic=52585 I don't know you Cameron and you may be a nice guy in some regards, but your actions towards me have been the actions of an arrogant bully, and well... bullies are out of fashion these days. Regards, David Rogers

Actually, there's nothing wrong or illegal at all with 'hooking on' to a ILS while flying a visual approach. The pilot remains visually responsible for the approach but the ILS can still be used. In good weather and low traffic, airline pilots are often cleared for visual approaches, but if a ILS is available, they'll often fly visually onto the ILS and still use it. It's the other way around that would cause a problem; being cleared for an ILS (or other instrument) approach and inseadt just flying visually. Controllers will be factoring your exact position on the ILS, when vectoring other traffic. Cheers, David

Cool, I have tomns of FS9 scenery but unistalled FS9 years ago, (still have FSX installed) so will be good to get some further value from my FS9 scenery ;D Cheers, David

I can understand why the question is being asked here. When I read Ted's AVSIM review I thought "what!.... those VC textures really look poor. I've seen a lot of freeware that achieves a higher texturing quality". When I then saw the quality of textures in some other X-Plane addons like the FJS Dash 8 and the CRJ, it again highlighted how poor some of the texturing is in the Shade Tree PC-12. But I then bought it ........ and I love it! It really flys nice and is more immersive in the VC, than the screenshots suggest. I do certainly hope they improve their texturing, but equally I don't regret buying the PC-12.

Hi all, I tried 'FS2Xplane' scenery converter but it didn't work too well on the scenery I chose. (Perhaps I was choosing bad examples). Anyway, I found exactly what I was looking for! ; I downloaded OpenSceneryX and the 'OverlayEditor' and this is working fantastically for what I wanted; placing objects in some airports to make them a little more 3-dimensional. David

Cool thanks, I'll try that. I wonder if there are any 3rd party textures available for the common (asphalt. concrete) runways. Cheers, David.

Hi Mdmax, I've just installed that runway texture but it replaces gravel runways only.... bizarrely, I looked at 30+ random airfields in X-Plane and just couldn't find any with the gravel! ..... literally dozens of grass, asphalt and concrete but yet to find any that use the gravel textures. Thanks, David

Thanks for the reply Florian. Ah, that's a shame. I have tried maxing out all the settings, and setting AA/AF to max but it doesn't improve the jaggies/shimmering of the runway in the distance. It's strange because it's the only object that is shimmering. I remember having bad shimmering in FS9 with an old ATI card, but everything shimmered in that case.... in this case the only object letting the visuals down is the runway (towards the end of the runway). I hope Austin can fix this in an update, or in XP10. Cheers, David

Hi, I wonder if anyone can offer any suggestions or knowledge on this; I have applied various AA and AF settings in X-Plane itself, and in my nVidia Control Panel. I have currently settled on AA set at 8x and AF set at 8x (set to "enhance the application" in the nVidia Control Panel). Generally speaking the textures look good; certainly the aircrafts are as smooth as I'd expect and the scenery is not bad either. What is really letting my visual experience down, is jagged edges and what appears to be little or no AA/AF on the Runway textures in X-Plane. It's very hard to make out what I'm referring to on this picture, as the main problem is with shimmering (but only on the runway textures), which obvioulsy doesn't translate on a static image. Is this just a weak spot in X-Plane or do you think anything is wrong here? Is 'nHancer' recommended for X-Plane? I've tried two different nVidia drivers (with the same results); 260.99 and 182.5. Would I better off with different drivers? (These two were always best for MSFS). Many thanks in advance for any help! David.

Thanks guys, I'll look into all of your suggestions. Cheers, David.

Thanks Goran, I'll check that out

Hi all, I'm new to X-Plane, but not to flight sims; I recently made the move from MSFS to X-Plane, after 20+ years of simming. For me it was about; FSX taking 14-17 mins to load and be ready to fly, versus X-Plane taking 24 seconds! ...also things like the native ability for FL CH and SPEED (pitch) modes in the APs, flight realism, but more than anything, the eventual arrival of some of the high level payware aircraft that we're starting to see. I have a question, I was hoping the experienced X-Planers could help with; Is there a relatively easy way I can get some 3D objects (primarily building) into some of the larger airports? ...... I'm thinking something like the "EZ Scenery" approach (for FSX), where standard library objects can be placed individually into the sim, where required. I would be eternally grateful if anyone could tell me if this is possible, what add-ons would be required (payware or freeware), and (pushing my luck!), some links to these if possible. Thanks so much in advance! David R