Nick Cooper

Hello, thank you for your feedback. I have checked Orbx Central and find that both the card payment and the PayPal payment systems are working.

Hello Rodger, a frighteningly large amount, within the context of my income. I justify it to myself as having had thousands of hours of entertainment, having made new friends, both online and in the real world, who share an interest in flight simulation and having a very good computer. This takes no account of the addon aircraft, scenery and utilities that have been bought and installed on successive computers since 1996. I am quite happy to avoid sitting down and adding it all up. What do you mean "its memory was full"? If you mean disk free space, that is one of the least expensive parts of a computer and as a rule, one of the most easily fixed.

Hello, I am sure that some kind person at the PMDG forums might answer you, but the Orbx commercial forums are not the place to discuss other developers' pricing policies. Thank you for your understanding.

Hello, the best thing to do is to enable the in-game tooltips, which are all in English.

Hello, it's just a matter of choice, unless any of these functions are of interest:

Hello Bob, there are very few MSFS addons that need their files to be in the Community folder. The Addons Linker is the best way to keep your addons away from the Community folder. This has two advantages: One, which has now been shown to have been redundant, is to protect addons from being deleted when MSFS is updated. In fact, this has only ever happened due to user error. The other is the ability to switch addons on and off at will. MSFS can only see Community addons when they are in the Community folder. If you think of the Community folder as the switch, then ON = in the Community folder OFF = not in the Community folder. The Addons Linker will work best with Orbx Central if you do not move any files. If you do move files and folders that were placed by Orbx Central, it will no longer be able to work with those files. The Addons Linker can see an Orbx Central Library, so if you have installed into one of those, you need only to tell the Addons Linker where it is. The easiest way to organise your other addon files is into categories, as chosen by you. They might be by region, aircraft type or any other parameter that suits you and makes them easy to find and identify. This is my way, there is no right way or wrong way, once it is understood that the files outside the Community folder are the storage and the links, inside the Community folder, are the place where MSFS can see and use the files.

Hello Rodger, as Doug says, short answer, you can either go with the flow, or put up with the inconvenience. I am only a mere 70 year old and I do remember what seems to have been a simpler time in the late 50's and 60's, but without the rose-tinted glasses, life may have been more simple but it was not as easy as it is now, as I am sure we all remember. My grandfather and his peers lived through two world wars and numerous local ones, not to mention TB outbreaks, influenza that killed and so on. Very few families of his generation did not lose someone to one of those and I guess that it is much the same over there. My father's generation had it easier and mine, easier still. My youngest daughter is just turned 24 and is a nurse. She works a strange shift pattern but for 37 1/2 hours a week and considers that to be long hours. She didn't get much sympathy from me, when I was her age, I was working between 60 and 70 hours every week, driving a lorry, or truck, as you may have it. I have a smart phone because I need one for other things, but I honestly have no idea how to pay for anything with it. When I do finally need to, I will ask my daughter to set it up, using the skill set that her generation has, that mine and yours do not have.

Hello, it can't be done, they are two entirely separate entities. Here is a fuller explanation:

Hello, please take a look here: Flight sim credits question - General Discussion & Interests / General Discussion - Microsoft Flight Simulator Forums

Hello, all of the Support Forums were made read-only some time ago, when they were replaced by a Support Ticket system. Instead, there are the "Community Help Forums" where you can sometimes find peer to peer support. I am sure that the Orbx Products Reviews forum has always been only for Orbx staff to post into. It was never intended to be an opportunity for customers to post their own reviews. Customers can indeed post comments into existing posts in that forum.

Hello, welcome to the forums. You need only to enter your email address and password and you can log on. You will also need to respond to the forum registration email. It may be in your "Junk" folder.

Hello, CYEG is a Partner product and not an Orbx product. It is therefore not included in the Orbx sale.

Hello John, no, I wasn't joking. Because I can, I usually just upload a picture to the forum, like this: Blurry mess, unless clicked on. but I can also add a link from postimage, like this: Less blurry or imgur, like this: As clear as Iain's. So I have learned something new for today, from Iain, if you want your images on the forum to look like they do on your PC, use Imgur.

Hello, In this case, Orbx EGLC is acknowledged to be well and truly due an update and I have been told that one is scheduled. I have not been told when it might be complete, or whether it might be free of charge or not.

Hello, as it appears that you have not received it, I have sent you a copy of the response in a PM.

Hello Ian, in the specific case of EGLC, which flight simulator do you use when flying with Vatsim and do you know what version of EGLC that the controllers and your fellow Vatsim pilots are using that does include the new taxiway and apron that you mention?

Hello, is this link from the topic of use to you? https://developer.x-plane.com/article/how-to-programmatically-locate-x-plane-9-or-10/ Once you have found the x-plane_install_1x.txt file, the process is identical.

Hello Rodger, I have been very lucky with neighbours over the years, though it is 45 years since I lived as a single man in an apartment. These are known as "flats" in the UK, though (Real) Estate agents have long used "apartments" because they think that makes us all think that an apartment is grander than a "flat". Since I married, I have lived in a total of five different houses and my neighbours have all become friends. Sadly, by coincidence, tomorrow we are attending the funeral of a delightful 89 year old lady who had lived with her husband and family in the house next door to us since 1956. We have only been here for a mere 25 years and soon became friends with her now late husband and her two sons.

Hello, it's back, you can once again edit your own content for 60 minutes.

Hello, I saw and allocated your support ticket and I have now added a note to it for you to read. Most of the Orbx staff do not work at weekends but it is already Monday morning in Australia, albeit, only 0430 so far.

Hello, There are hardware requirements, that are most likely not fulfilled. Virtualization-based Security (VBS) | Microsoft Learn

Hello, you have to use the advice in the linked topic to tell Orbx Central that X Plane 12 is X Plane 11.

Hello Carlos, If the developer wishes to retail the products at Orbx, in the first instance, please ask him to send in a support ticket. It will then be passed to the right person to deal with.

Hello, "VBS" appears to be system specific and if you want to see a new catalogue of unpronounceable acronyms, just take a look at this article: Virtualization-based Security (VBS) | Microsoft Learn Out of interest, I disabled it, rebooted the PC and found an extra 3fps in Microsoft Flight Simulator. As this was an increase from 31 fps to 34 fps for the identical scenario, around the promised 10%, I was not able to get excited. I have ordinary eyes, that without a frame rate counter, cannot tell the difference. It certainly seems to be a "thing" but whether it would be enough to prompt a move away from Windows 11, or even Windows 10, if you have it, is another matter. The internet is very good at creating storms in teacups. In this case, it seems that Microsoft are in fact acting in the Windows users' best interests and not, as some of the articles seem to be tacitly suggesting, conspiring to ruin a gamer's experience.

Thanks Smudger.