Mario Donick

How does X-Plane itself remember its settings?

On some aircraft, the unit shown in cockpit is based on X-Plane's "weather" settings (there you can select between in and hpa). Don't know if this works here, though. Although I must admit that even as a German user I fly mostly the in unit; I'm so used to 29.92 as standard that the other confuses me

Oh, so then the problem is that they are simply not in the database ... yeah, that's bad, esp. for online flying where you'd need a current database. :/ Sometimes I use Plan-G prior to the flight to find other waypoints in the area that can be used as replacement. That works for offline flight.

It only works with FIXes, not with other navaids or airports. Maybe that's the reason?

Did you do what Jim suggested in the post above yours?

Thanks for this nice review. Regarding the pictures: Why don't you just make a new line before and after each picture?

Today, some people have posted about the Saab (not me. I'm done with that.) in the shoutbox and the screenshot forum. I wonder how long these posts will last. By the way, .org customers today got a newsletter, incl. special deals on the Q400, the ATR 72-500, and the Jetstream 32. Strange coincidence.

When will it be released? We are waiting for soooo long!! (Just kidding ).

And usually, turning of AA completly also helps a lot.

Maybe an update of the shop website could be done -- since many months, it shows the Blackshape Prime and the Jetstream as newest releases, instead it should mention the Saab

Now, THIS looks EXTREMLY good!

Very good paint kit, very usable. Thanks! Although it's in .psd format, all layers are conserved also in GIMP (tested in 2.8.4), so even GIMP users can use the paint kit for livery creation.

Definitely the torque bug. And when you were in final approach, I thought you'd crash.

Sometimes, esp. if a DRM-protected SASL is used, or the aircraft author has changed anything (such as in the Challenger 300). But the Carenado SASL's are compatible with each other, and also with most other aircraft (such as the planes by Felis, or the KLN GPS, or some others.)

I guess you can replace the SASL by yourself, if you have an aircraft already updated.

So nothing has changed since AWG's first tries to sell freeware as payware, some months ago? Sad.

If I do my maths correctly, the 48 hours should end this evening (Based on my local time of Cameron's post that was September 19th, 7:35 pm, and my current local time September 21st, 12:00 pm). But maybe I'm also missing some time zone stuff. Anyway, I'm excited to see the Saab this weekend )

If I understand this correctly ("fetch"), when we buy the Saab we'll get an installer that downloads the Saab files from your servers? So when I decide to install _everything_, I still can make a backup of the installed Saab's aircraft folder to prevent the need for download again? I have set my texture resolution to extreme, with a 2GB video card and 8GB RAM. Based on that, will your installer suggest the highest texture quality, or a lower one? Can I change texture quality after the installation?

I'll have a look this evening how I got Oahu to work ...

Make sure that your sceneries have correct load priorities, so that photo scenery is loaded first, and after that, OSM/forests, after that airports.

Hehe, you are right, the marketing of this Saab is very well done, reminds me a bit of the PMDG-777 hype some weeks ago

That degree of scenery detail is totally unneeded in a simulation! I bet you only have 5 FPS. You are wasting your CPU/GPU power!!

If I remember correctly, this error message also occurs on Windows systems from time to time, and is then related to some video driver issues. I don't think this is Linux related. On the general topic: This very entertaining thread mixes up many different things and takes some examples for general: 1. Valve's opinion on Linux for the gaming market 2. The support or non-support X-Aviation has or has not for Linux. 3. Laminar's support for Linux. 4. The way how on particular Linux distributions software is found and installed (Software Center, Package managers ...) Comments: 1. Valve has a special take on Linux, because they want Steam to be successful there, even if that requires them to develop their own console. For flight simulation in general, and X-Plane in particular, at the current date, their statement has no relevance. 2. If supporting Linux is not feasable for X-Aviation, because there are just a handful of Linux users who would buy X-A products, then this is totally understandable. It's not just about having a compiled Gizmo version. You have to test it on dozens of distributions. Linux is not restricted to Ubuntu and Ubuntu-based distributions, so if you say "Linux support", you have to support all of them. 3. alpilotx' statement that between XP8 and XP9 Laminar has not removed XP support, because alpilotx is developing on Linux shows how bad the situation for Linux users really seems to be. Obviously even at Laminar, the continuation of Linux support was questioned a long time ago, and I doubt that it hasn't been or will not be questioned again since then. 4. MdMax wrote: Which Software Center should this be? Ubuntu's? Linux Mint's? Another distribution's? In which software center should Laminar put a copy of X-Plane, so that a user of these distributions was able to find X-Plane by default (i.e. WITHOUT adding third-party-repositories)? Should they support only Ubuntu-based distributions? What about .rpm based distributions like Fedora? And given you got XP via a Software Center or package manager: You are then very restricted on installing addons in the classic way (i.e. by simply moving them to the Aircraft or Custom Scenery folder), because you would then interfere with the package manager's database on installed products. Not good. The only decent way of providing a Linux version for Laminar is exactly how they are doing it -- in the "put this folder anywhere you like"-way, because this gives users the most control. But, and here I agree with what you later said, they really could improve the documentation on the install process, esp. on required libraries. I am writing this post, by the way, from my Ubuntu machine which actually was a MacOS machine (Mac Mini) some weeks ago. So I'm quite pro-Linux. (Although one could say that Ubuntu is the Windows among the Linuxes...)

I have to apologize for the criticism I uttered in regard of that 1st colorful screenshot. A day later, the sky over my hometown looked exactly like what you've shown. When I saw that, I just thought: "Damn. Even reality tries to look like a comic."

CIVA is nice, yeah. For the German readers of FSMagazin I did a CIVA workshop just recently (And hope I made not too obvious mistakes ).