John Dow

Time and time again the slow connection posts pop up. If you read the old support forums you'll see time and time again the explanation that it's the ISPs and other network aspects that are causing the problem, which generally resets within 24 - 48 hours. Nothing Orbx can do about it.

Preview Announcements, Screenshots and Videos. The word preview might just be the clue as to why.

Saw this headline in my news feed. Old timers here should understand why I did a double-take!

I don't think London is being included, however, if you have any specific issues with any of the buildings in London, let us know what you are seeing and we can test the product and if there are any problems that aren't MSFS related (not all LOD problems are fixable especially when photogrammetry is involved) I'm sure the team will be open to having a look at a fix sometime when resources are available.

Search forums for similar topics going back years. You'll see that it's not Orbx but the internet ISPs and servers that are the problem. Problem sometimes clears up with a reboot of Orbx Central etc, otherwise it generally resolves in 24 - 48 hours

Because it's not a simple taak. By the time all the work has been done it's almost as time consuming as creating an airport from scratch. That's why.

When Orbx was new and Koorby was king and scenery development was a battlefield!

You can test your own setup by renaming the current community folder to something like XCommunity, creating a new Community folder, and moving EDDT into it. If MSFS runs normally then it is likely to be a conflict with another add-on.

Almost guaranteed there would be all sorts of temp files and the like sitting on your c drive. There's a program called tree size free that let's you quickly get a visual representation of all the folder and subfolder sizes. There are also many programs that can detect unused files and delete them, I used to use one called ccleaner. They allow you to choose categories and files to delete. When space was a problem for me I used to get a lot of room by just locating the temp files for internet Explorer, that folder was usually GBs in size.

Since it sits in the appdata location of your Users folder I'd say it needs to be there for all sorts of reasons. I guess you could research whether you can use some sort of linking program to move it somewhere else and point to it, but my gut feeling is that would cause more problems even if you could do it. Unfortunately some things have to be in the Users folder and that sits in the C Drive and I think you'll have to live with it.

I thought you were supposed to use screenshots for the competition! 😉

My initial reaction to this idea is that under the current sdk for MSFS it's not possible. An airport has to be installed for it to be accessed and once installed I don't know of any way that Orbx could uninstall it remotely. For the purposes of a rtw flight the default airports are surprisingly good, most blend in as they should and most have at least some buildings to give a semblance of reality, unlike the old fsx and p3d airports that were often just a flat bit of tarmac whacked down on to the scenery.

OK there's been movement at the station. But don't hold your breath it's just the preliminary files, but to answer the above questions... yes it is in development as we speak.

Another point that might be relevant, Orbx is mostly still based on the original business model of a collection of independent developers who are mostly responsible for choosing and developing products that they are interested in, using the resources of Orbx shared resources and knowledge base. There are some products that are commissioned but I believe this is still the exception rather than the norm. As a result, development is unlike other companies, and over many years, the roadmap model has caused more trouble than it's worth, despite the best intentions.

Then maybe the solution is to download a free screenshot program that saves to a smaller size automatically. Plenty of options out there.

I always resize screenshots down to 2000 pixels wide or max 3000 for a panorama shot, and set the jpg quality to a Max of 90%, that's all you need to show off even the best shot. Plenty of free resize programs out there if you don't have a graphics program.

With bout 25% of the possible products installed my OC takes about a minute to display content. If it is taking forever it might be a problem with your ISP or somewhere up the line throttling the download for the app, thinking it's a torrent or P2P site. Almost all problems with download speeds from the Orbx servers have been found to be network issues totally outside the control of Orbx. But it's probably worth a ticket just to check.

That's how long it took them to code the Comanche for MSFS. Future releases will no doubt be a shorter development time but each one probably takes months of work.

I'm not aware of anything in the pipeline, in the meantime there's a freeware version at flightsim.to that looks like a good rendition.

No, maybe you've got a freeware or other scenery that is conflicting?

I've been informed that as yet nothing has been received from Blackbird. You could give them a prod perhaps?

I'll alert the team, they recently had a staff changeover so although unlikely, it's possible something was missed. Equally it could be that Blackbird may have not have thought to send out the update files to their distributors.

The other day I bought some garden items from my local Mitre 10. Happened to be in Bunnings a couple of days later and sure enough, I could have saved about 30% if I had bought from Bunnings. But what I had bought was fair products at a fair price. I certainly didn't think I could ask Mitre 10 to refund the difference.

I guess if you wanted to test, you could grab those three files and move them to another folder as a temporary change, start P3D and OK the missing files warnings and see if it makes much difference. If it does and you want to have the option to untick them, then you would need to change them from the library location to the P3D scenery location. I think that would work anyway.

A good way to practise is to do a 'carrier approach'. Set up a descent profile that approaches the pad at a flattish angle, similar to a runway approach, and reduce speed by raising the nose and reducing the 'power' and flying into the pad without trying to actually hover before settling down. As you get more approaches you can balance the approach speed more precisely to land at just a few knots, then at zero knots. Just like the one foot rule in golf, I allow a couple of metres of slide after touchdown as a successful landing. Better that than copping a ground effect rise and the dreaded backwards momentum.