So these screens aren’t necessarily representative of the ORBX package because I also have the Icarus San Diego package applied…so the detailing of the airport is higher probably than what is in the ORBX package. With the same graphics settings above, whereas I was getting 60FPS in Moreno Valley, I’m getting about 30-40 in San Diego - probably owing to the detailed airport scenery package, and perhaps the autogen density. But even at 30 it is smooth, but that probably wouldn’t fly for VR flying…so I’d have to nudge a few sliders back to the left (as I normally always do for VR)… Also, my weather settings are 25 miles and a scattered cloud layer. In typical oddball X-Plane weirdness, I just tried upping my visibility to 50 miles and my FPS went UP to 50. 
You know, that’s probably why they’ve included the option. Clever devils. I moved my XP11 install to a new 4GB SDD drive, so have room to spare for the moment.
You ever try the BBQ place there? I’ve heard good things but only driven through once or twice.
What’s your GPU and RAM?
Fired up the stock MD-80 (one of my favorite planes in X-Plane)…out of Santa Barbara (one of my favorite California airports I’ve been to in real life…just stunning approaches into there). Solid 65-80 FPS with all those above graphics settings and 50 miles vis… Goes from 65 at the airport to 80 airborne. MD-80 is probably not very FPS intensive either. I’ll try the Rotate MD-80 and Ultimate Airbus to see what they say…
I have not. I’ve almost always done a post-hike binge session at the pizza joint there in town - the Pizza Factory. Beer and pizza after multi day hikes…hard to beat…
2080ti and 32GB RAM and an i9-9900k…sorta went whole hog last year in anticipation of my HP Reverb… 
Couldn’t be happier with the decision to adopt early last year, even at the premium price.
That is a weirdly short plane? I mean it’s probably a FoV issue but … looks weird. 
No, it really does look that odd in real life. The cargo pod makes it looks sort of…abnormal…LOL…
Even with the relatively complex Rotate MD-80 (which is an absolute masterpiece might I add…) out of Palm Springs I had 45 looking out the front of the cockpit. After liftoff that quickly went up to around 60 FPS and wandered between 55-70 during climbout…
So I’ve been wondering about this - @smokinhole - do airliners have Hobbs meters? The reason I ask is that my wife read me a crew alert notice thingy yesterday. Apparently some planes have recently been picked up out of those short term parking lots and uh…the crew got on the wrong plane. And, according to reading between the lines, maybe some of those planes actually made it to a gate before the error was caught. And maybe some of those planes actually took off before the error was caught. 
Anyway - I’m assuming that each plane has like what we have an “Aircraft Reporting Form” that is a book that has all the MEL items, current engine/airframe times/cycles…stuff like that. Even in our small fleet I’ve often walked out to the flightline and had to do a double take and make sure I was stepping to the right plane. Is the Captain/FO supposed to check the book against the airframe registration placard I assume? Would there be any type of hour meter in the cockpit to compare the “OUT” time on the paperwork to what is on the meter? Curious how the airlines do it.
Something like this is probably why we paint numbers on the sides of our ships in the Navy…just saying. 
Yeah - actually all the civil airliners do too…they are sorta buried back there on the fuselage though…
I can think of more than one occasion when someone started up the wrong jet
I am sure that they all do. But not all are necessarily visible in the flight deck. Honestly I’ve forgotten the setup for the 737. In the 757/767 there is a flight engineer tribute panel (my term) and the meter is located there. I can safely say that not once in my career have I ever looked at it. But I can see how it might be easy to grab the wrong machine. Airline pilots are accustomed to having our hands held. MX flights are often a comedy of disorganization and you are pretty well on your own getting everything you need. It can be hours before the plane is ready. It might take another hour to talk a mechanic into driving you out there. Then you gotta get gas. Then the release expires and you have to get a new one. And on and on. You’re so worn down that obvious mistakes like confirming the tail number get overlooked.
Kern Valley (L05)…probably not envisioned as a 727 operating base…haha…but the 727 can stop on a dime at light weights…
“The plane should be ready when you get there…”
If I had a dollar for each time I heard that one and it wasn’t true…
I think one night I was having a particularly rough evening. International flight, weather, nurses were changing out - which meant we had to redo all of the international paperwork, customs, APIS, etc… Finally I got to the Risk Assessment and gave myself an extra few points and wrote a note at the bottom that the Risk Assessment was adding points to my Risk Assessment for having to fill out a Risk Assessment when so many other things needed tending to.
