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Are there any plans to add procedures to this Garmin 1000?

Me four (too for it)!

Cool. Keep 'em coming, our credit cards are ready. I am no expert either, however would beta test if that can be of any help.

Amazing!

A320Neo by JARDesign is 64-bit ready. Look for their 64bit beta update.

Amazing. HOT, HOT, my credit card is burning in my pocket....

Keith, I do practice listening to the ATC recordings, however in-flight ATC communication is yet a little different. PE operating hours is an issue for us, European pilots. I can easily catch PE morning hours, but the traffic is taking place more in the evening US time I suppose. I know many fellow pilots (forums, VAs, friends) from Europe who are quite interested at least to try PE. The operating hours is not the only factor for them, I think the other is kind of known environment (and rules to fly in. Therefore an area somewhere in Europe would bring some of these on board for sure. You are right the UK has great coverage on IVAO and VATSIM. However IVAO has a lot of problems with their servers and many pilots are looking for alternatives. VATSIM is one of them, but it is far more suited to a bigger metal / airliners. And that is exactly the reason why I've suggested UK. There are many people in the UK who are VFR or smaller planes IFR pilots. The other viable regions in Europe would be France or Germany (forget the rest), but here comes another issue. Many pilots (not all) from France or Germany may be hesitant to join PE due to the language barrier. Most of them are quite comfortable on Vatsim, however the communication demands are higher on PE. I know many American sim pilots who are hesitant to join PE just because of this, and for them English is a native language.

Great!

Keith, thanks for your response. For me, the traffic on PE is not important for a "visual effect" as it can go other way than I do (and the drones would satisfy the visual needs). What I however like for training purposes is to listen to an ATC communication with other traffic while flying. That is maybe the only reason to have more pilots online from my point of view. Staffing is not an issue on PE as you've mentioned. What is more important for the future, again from my personal point of view, is the coverage. I believe we will se regular NorCal soon and maybe other interesting areas for GA flying (Alaska?). To draw more people to PE, I would also consider some parts of Europe. UK would probably be the best. There are many IVAO users in the UK and with (recent) problems of their network, these people might be looking for an alternative. The other thing is, that there are many GA sim pilots in the UK who would appreciate PE model and professionalism.

Keith, that's OK, I am still primarily using XP 10.11, which is 32bit. However you know how it is - there are already many good planes ported to 64bit, the scenery looks so much better in 64bit (as I can max out the settings) and one is getting inpatient to enjoy all this for a nice VFR flight Nevertheless I understand that first of the XP 10.20 is still in beta, secondly that there are certain difficulties to move everything to 64bit and also that you may have other priorities on hand. I am sure I can stay in my inpatient state a little longer... BTW - does your big project means there are to be commercial pilots connected to the network = more online pilots present? That would be great. And of course, I wish you good luck with that project!

Thanks for the heads up. Will look into it.

I am installing and can't really wait to try her in 64bit...

I do, however the J32 is my favorite! BTW, I hope the 1.0.3 version still works in 10.11.

Allright. There are anyway many aircrafts already compatible / working....

64 bit, wow! Downloading right now. Thanks. Does this mean that you are no longer waiting for 10.20 final, 10.20b11 SDK can be considered final and we can expect other add ons being upgraded as well?

+1

Any update on this?

And I will be buying as soon as it is out... NorCal + Oregon + Washington = awesome. Above + SoCal + Arizona = dream.

+1000

Now the question remains open: ETA on 64bit for MAC?

When I've started I haven't checked the number of online pilots. I've seen so many planes around me and I said to myself - it cannot be. So that I've checked the website and there were 8 people online. That was the first time when I've realized they have about 500 drones flying around. They are drones, but still make the skies busy.. What I like? Well first of all it is guaranteed service for 14 hours a day (I believe). So that I do not have to catch the controller or wait for an event like on Vatsim. It happened to me many times (on Vatsim), that before I was ready with my preflight, the controllers went offline... PE is guaranteed - I know they are there when I fly. The other think I really like is the professionalism of their controllers. They really follow the rules yet they are helpful if you make a mistake. The only drawback is the coverage area. I was also very skeptical at first, that is what the trial is there for. You should do the trial first as well and see for yourself.

I will actually prefer to fly on PE even if XSqawkbox is ported to 64bit. Can you imagine VFR with some good photosceneries with rendering maxed out on 64bit.... To complete the dream: PE expands to NoCal, Alaska and some region in Europe. I wish them financial success which will allow this dream to come true.

Happy Birthday Javier, it seems we were born the same day! I am celebrating my day in your J32 as of now...

Keith, any update on the Mac ETA? Thank you

You can always run nDac (or any other Win software) in virtual machine on Mac (Fusion, Parallels). That is how I do it: I run XPlane o Mac and have VM open on second monitor, where I can run Win specific software like nDac, FS Commander, Topcat or other.