Dusterman

The new St. George airport is south of town on the flatland, east of I15. The old St. George airport on the bluff west of town is now a commercial center, was closed quite a few years ago. New airport has longer runway, eliminates the turbulence caused by the bluff. KTRK runway 19 or Blue Canyon or Sedona can provide a similar approach. IRL I never flew out of St. George, but the other airports can cause quite a pucker factor. New St. George is a much safer airport.

A2A Bonanza also shows as available for P3D V6.

I would say it is possible, but unlikely. When Orbx bought Turbulent Designs, Turbulent had two X-Plane 11 airports released, KIDA and KMBS, with KGPI in development. At the time I asked if the X-Plane 11 airports would be released by Orbx, and they replied "sometime in the future". That was years ago and Orbx has never released the completed airports. Orbx did release all of Turbulent's FSX/P3D airports, apparently decided the Turbulent X-Plane airports were not worth the trouble. I purchased KIDA and KMBS from Turbulent, just installed KIDA on X-Plane 12 and it mostly works. When Orbx let go the individual who appeared to be ramrodding the X-Plane activity, I suspected their interest in X-Plane was waning.

I built three new PCs this year with built in 2.4 and 5.0 GHZ WiFi for flight simming. The motherboard WiFi is rated at 2.4 GB per second. All three have X-Plane 11 and 12 on them. I use X-Plane to burn in the PCs and saw no difference in performance when using WiFi or direct Ethernet cable connection. My house has 1 GB fiber and the modem is about 50 ft from the PCs. MSFS is on one of the PCs, but it was using a wired connection, so can't verify WIFi performance for that simulator. PC with MSFS was Intel Gen 9, is now Gen 13. That seemed to have the biggest effect on MSFS due to faster processing within the PC.

Great addition. Now all we need is a Lockheed Electra L-188 in Reeves Aleutian Airways colors to fly to Dutch Harbor. Check out the story of Reeve Flight 8 for the aircraft and pilots who flew back in the day.

Back to X-Plane. Seasons and volumetric clouds are also part of the plan.

FS Elite has an interview with Austin on the future of X-Plane. In it Austin states X-Plane will not go the MSFS route and will continue the "plausible" scenery route, aimed more at real pilots who want the most accurate aircraft simulation. Also showed a short preview of the Airbus A330 that will be part of the base package. Great to see we will continue to have multiple paths for flight simulation.

590 boards are PCIE 4.0, can accommodate both PCIE 4.0 video cards and M2 drives. Samsung 980PRO is a PCIE 4.0 drive and is twice as fast as other Samsung drives. It is about $200 for a 1tb drive. That is the way to go if you want the quickest drive access. The Intel M2 drives (I have both 660 and 665 in other PCs) are significantly slower than Samsung PCIE 3.0 M2 drives, and the cost is not much different. You need the Rocket CPU to use PCIE 4.0. To answer Nick's question about the CPU connected M2 slot: The chipset allows one M2 drive to bypass the common data bus and connect directly to the CPU. That should be faster and that is where my Samsung 980PRO is installed with the OS.

VFR France has five airports for MSFS available through Orbx. I just ordered them as a package at a substantial discount. I only discovered France VFR on Orbx when I purchased Southampton Airport (another pleasant surprise from Orbx).

Great news!. I worked next to the airport in the 1980s, was always a treat to see the B25 parked next to the underpass under the runway. For the definitive story on the airport, watch 16 Right, my favorite airport video.

With the release of Siletz Bay this weekend and Catalina for MSFS Orbx is releasing the kind of airport I started buying Orbx products for. As a GA/business flyer small airports are my preferred destinations. Thanks again for the weekend surprise release.

Is Arlington compatible with True Earth Washington? I have Arlington purchased from another source and it took some manual removal of Arlington files to make it compatible. Seems like Orbx should market versions compatible with Orbx products, or at least let us know if the product is not compatible and what we have to do to make it work with Orbx products. Arlington by Airfoil Labs is one of my favorite airports, but I would prefer a version that does not have compatibility problems.

Just purchased and installed both Perth and KJAC (Jackson Hole). Only issue is that they must be installed in the X-Plane folder, not a library.

Any chance we will see the J230 with the 3300 engine? More power for us high altitude flyers. Beautiful engines in the Jabirus.

Now on sale at Orbx , just picked up a copy for my Australia flying.