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Except it doesn't recognize things properly and when I used it I spent forever re-sorting the ini file again. As a stop gap strategy, people can post their ini files as attachments and I'll be happy to sort it out. PM me if you like, I've nowt else pressing!

I'd also add that as a rule of thumb try and allow three times the space the instructions say you need. And make sure your drives are fully defragmented.

Your scenery_packs.ini file is a bit of a mess with important things renamed so they probably won't work as they should. I'm attaching mine. It's not perfect, but everything works perfectly! scenery_packs.ini

X-Plane does this by default. It's not ORBX's fault. However once correctly ordered, it stays that way until the next new item. It's something you have to keep a handle on right from the start.

Just cut and paste - it's a simple text file.

Only if you spell my name right!!

Have a drink on me - but not just before flight!

Yes John and there are some good Orthos for X-Plane for it. However, as I understand it, you're a P3D man so you'll have to wait for that version of TE! Best wishes.

Dear Nick I was a moderator of several fora back when Compuserve was the only place to discuss IT stuff and trying to keep everyone in order, and not go off topic, was a nightmare. So my respects to you. I apologise for my ill-informed comments and I won't respond similarly again, although the post you consider as "fine" was not, in my book. Anyway, you're the boss, so I'll not react to (what I consider) to be "political" comments in the future. So saying, and to put this into context, is the link I'm showing below not political? That's the last you'll hear from me on this subject. Sorry once again.

And we'll defend your right to say it Rodger! I no longer browse other fora now for exactly the reasons you state. It's all "my sim is better than yours" etc etc and I'm fed up with it. I wonder why (kids?) people get so possessive and dogmatic about flight simming? I mean it's a pretty innocuous subject on the face of it, and I don't really understand the processes going on. ORBX's is like a breath of fresh air, and long may it so remain!

And to bring things back on track I'd like to tell you a true story about an experience I had 2 weeks ago. I went to the Isle of Arran for a week (gorgeous scenery BTW) and was idly glancing skyward as I heard an aero engine flitting overhead. Focussing (difficult with reading glasses), I spotted what looked like a SR20 or SR22 not sure which. I actually said out loud, in a moment of real-time rumination (ie speaking without thinking first), "I wonder if that's the P3D or X-Plane version." Twit! Anyway for those interested in the scenery etc, take off from Prestwick (EGPK) and fly to Campbeltown (EGEC), as I am pretty sure that's where the aeroplane was heading. Campbeltown is, of course, famous for Machrihanish Golf Links, designed by Old Tom Morris himself.

I agree Nick. The world is indeed simpler when we are just chatting about aeroplanes!

All this talk of Thermo-watsits etc makes me remember my old maths teacher who had two immortal sayings: If you use the quadratic formula all the time to solve quadratic equations it's like getting the Air Force to shoot down a fly; and, An erg is the amount of energy a fly uses to do a push-up Much later in life I had a hard time trying to get a class to understand the difference between mass and weight. Mind you, that was in the context of explaining Prof Einstein's General Theory of Relativity so I cut them a little slack!

Reefer? Holy smokes, I'm gone man, just gone..

Well Ian it sounds like there are a good few benefits to Senior citizenship in the land "down under". A business friend of my father moved to Melbourne back in the 1970s and kept in touch until he died. He often said we should all move out there as everything was incredible and his two teenaged children couldn't get enough of it. And my Geography and Fencing (foil and epee) teacher was Maj. John Laffin who hailed from Canberra, and there's a statue of him there. He was always banging on about how great Oz was, especially in whupping the Poms's ass at cricket. Link here if interested to Wiki..[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Laffin }} I, on the other hand, hate spiders! Do I need to say more? One upside to England is I have yet to meet a grumpy NHS nurse! As to being overstretched and underfunded, yeah!

Well Dale I'm a mere 15 years younger than you but it's nice to see you're not alone as you put it. My wife died from cancer at 70, and I am living with it now but I too, feel much the same as you - sharing memories and comforts with like-minded old codgers. Who'd have thought flight simming could be so beneficial in a mental sense! To mix my metaphors: "Keep on truckin' there's good rockin' tonight..

Which reminds me of a story in the music paper "New Musical Express" in the 1970s over here in the UK. A journalist spent all day in a record shop because he wanted to see how many people were still buying Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" - it had been number one for over a year. Anyway two teenage girls came in and one of them picked up an old Beatles album and was busy looking at the sleeve notes. She exclaimed to her friend, "Oh look! I didn't know Paul McCartney had left Wings". Ah the innocence of youth sometimes!

Nice to reflect on marriage sometimes. My first wife would say to me (in the days of early flight sim), "I wish you'd stop playing those silly games and do some jobs around the house". While my current wife says "Oh that's lovely scenery, we'll have to go there!" Well done ORBX. You made a girl very happy, which means a nice quiet and peaceful life for me!

Already have one! To be even more bitter, some town car parks here are now charging blue badge holders for parking - used to be free mostly! However in Skipton recently, I was pleased to see the Council gave disabled badge holders an extra hour free parking, once the original high charge has been paid. At least it's free parking in all the stations round my part of the world!

Love it Ken. In England nowadays cops don't write tickets any more. It's done by trumped up people called Traffic Wardens, who now wear personal body armour and body cameras. Wonder what they're afraid of..?

Love it! Essentially not a lot of difference - apart from the horse!

Here - how could you miss that huge arrow in the road saying sharp left!! D'oh PS We've all done it. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@36.5551429,-121.9294008,3a,75y,255.95h,76.66t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s9rI7nK0Nt1Ch7e7LDxUM-g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en

No and well spotted Ian! Yorkshire is, as owt will say, God's Own Country - innit! I hope ORBX won't take too unkindly to my posting the short YouTube video below - Yorkshire Airlines. Sums it up really! Enjoy.

Indeed!

Stoppit!! You've just awakened my nostalgia (is that even English?). When I was 17 (back in 1969) I bought a Triumph Thunderbird 650cc and coupled it up to a Watsonian sidecar and spent all that Summer in the SW of England - Devon, Cornwall and Somerset. Stayed at campsites, and the noise that bike made as it roared back between the tents at 2 in the morning earned the ire and wrath of campsite owners and campers in equal measure! The best part was travelling into Truro at 3 o' clock one morning. The exhaust fell off at the edge of town so I stopped, put it in the sidecar, and drove through those narrow walled streets at full throttle in second gear, just for the 'ell of it! Hey I was "Bad to the Bone" in them days, not the sweet white-haired pussy I am now!