X-Plane Releases Thread (2020)

If you still have the “rubber banding” with the latest beta and new drivers…you may try this…it might help:

Nvidia Profile for XP11 changed VSync from “Use 3d application setting” to “Force on” and unchecked Vsync in the XP11 graphics menu and it worked.

Refresh Rate = Highest Available / Max Pre-rendered frames = 1 / Threaded optimization = off / G-Sync = ON

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As you all are probably aware, I love the vintage aircraft more than the latest jets. Today oliXsim (never heard of them before today) released their Lockheed Lodestar. A few clicks of the mouse later and it was in my vitual hangar. :grimacing:

I have only had a quick flight around the pattern at Austin but it seems nice enough to fly. Definitely an airplane that I would be happy to fly on a vintage trek, and a nice alternative to the DC3.

I think it is priced about right at $25. It comes with a number of liveries and two interiors (military and airline).

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YES! We can do BFM, with me in my Twin Beech :grin:

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VSKYLABS has released an update to the R66. We can now remove that awful moving map. Yay!

I know it makes no sense…but I just can’t fly Robinson helicopters. I know they are hugely popular…but…just…so…ugly. I know, I know…this from the guy that flew the Embraer 110 for 6000 miles in one of our Christmas challenges.

The Schweizer S300CBi is just such a more civilized looking machine.

I’ll show myself the door.

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I know, right? That hanging cyclic handle…? What’s up with that?

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I’d not say “civilized” so much as “honest” looking. The S300 is classic first gen helo “you see what you get”; all the ‘stuff’ is exposed more or less. It’s 100% function, 0% form.

Robison makes helos more or less in the same league; ie small lawn-mowery enginged buzz birds, but tries to dress them up like you’re in an AW109 or something. It’s like putting a ferrari body kit on a pontiac Fiero.

Edit: And yes, this even applies to the Turbine R44. For a case study in how to make a small-turbine helicopter look sexy, please direct your attention to the Aérospatiale Gazelle.
Note the turbine is covered by as small a shroud as possible; the G-string of engine cowls, as it were. Heck, even the tail-rotor drive shaft is mostly exposed.

All that said, I do actually like the Robison trade mark rotor mast, which I presume is measured in stories, not inches. Even then though, they cover it in a dorkey fin. It’s like, “Whoa, slow down there Airwolf, where do you think you’re going so fast in your robinson?”

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I agree. I hate the R66 (although I do think VSKYLABS have done a decent job with it). It’s slow and unresponsive. I flew an R22 when I was a kid and loved it–very light and easy. Dreamfoil’s S300CBi is damn near perfect. There is a flight school a few hours away that teaches with one. I am hoping to get together with them once COVID settles down.

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This one looks like an interesting one…with “events” that happen throughout the year (?) (airshows and stuff?)…

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Been to a few airshows at Riverside airport. Most surreal moment was the year the Collings Foundation F-4 Phantom was there performing. I was standing on the tarmac near the control tower along with several dozen other spectators and after a slow speed pass the F-4 went vertical and lit the burners. It seemed like it did it right above where I was standing and the only thing other than that was darn cool I thought at the time was if those engines fail I will have nowhere to go since I was backed up next to a fence.

Wheels

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When you go out of town for a week and come home to see there are no new offerings for X-Plane…(freeware or payware)…

where3

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Turn around! is behind you!!!

Look here:
https://www.x-aviation.com/catalog/product_info.php/torquesim-sr22-series-p-175

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This looks pretty good. Might be the ultimate Air Hauler bird…well…that is arguable of course. I love the A300 with the old style panel though…

More on the product itself:

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Beat me to the punch! Just saw this, I don’t think I’ve ever purchased an Airbus addon but this does look quite good.

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ini A300 tutorials in progress. Can you say study level? :nerd_face:

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Wow i had no idea an A300 was in development. If the price isnt too high, Im in!

That cockpit looks awesome! Thats old school airbus if Im not mistaken, possibly before FBW?

Airbus always has been FBW.

EDIT: Nope looks like I was wrong, wikipedia says it was first introduced on the 320!

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In a time long ago in a far away place I wrote a long article about the A300 - it was the Simulation Software Workshop version for FSX…probably one of the better planes at that time for FSX…

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Nice looking freeware KAVP - Wilkes-Barre/Scranton PA…

Nice looking EGLC (London City) as well…

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ToLiss Announce Next Project

And its a big one! 2021 delivery but should be worth the wait. With the A300 just released, if we can get rotate to release the MD-11 in between we are in business.

And with Ini working on the A380, this should round out the Airbus lineup,

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