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  1. Here's a link to the FAA Chart User's Guide, which explains every chart symbol in use for VFR as well as IFR charts. Non-US charts use generally similar symbology: Aeronautical Chart Users' Guide (faa.gov) . Under the Introduction section, you'll find links to current downloadable versions of all FAA VFR and IFR charts.

     

    Here's a link to searchable IFR approach, departure, and arrival procedures, plusairport diagrams: Instrument Flight Procedures Information Gateway (faa.gov)

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  2. 18 hours ago, wain71 said:

    ...looking at various charts now I can see it quite clearly in most cases, I couldn't see what was in front of me for some reason...

    We've all had that experience where what we were looking for was right in front of us and we just couldn't see it. Glad the community was able to help.

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  3. 23 hours ago, Flyer2022 said:

    I wonder, is it safe for now to purchase any scenery from Digital Design right now? I previously had they Leipzig-Halle and they quality standard is among the best in line - but they appear to be a Russia based company. And considering the current situation I don't want to give my taxes to Russia (oo offence to the Developer or anyone else. I know they are not in the control of this situation). 

    I always thought DD was Polish. Their website is in Polish, and Stanislaw and Martin show their location as Warsaw. It could well be some of their developers are from a neighbor country, but (treading carefully here) DD appears to be to be good guys. 

     

    Here's their address from their webpage: Drzewiecki Design (drzewiecki-design.net)

  4. Thanks, John. This is proof of why that's a necessary approach for testing. Having to always have a clean sim with no add-ons for beta testing (besides the test add-on of course) is why I stopped. It also makes me appreciate even more those that add to the community by diligent testing instead of getting into a beta solely to have the latest software. Proper beta testing is hard and mostly boring work, doing the same profile over and over to look for bugs or validate bug fixes worked while not introducing new ones.

     

    I see there was a small update this morning to the sim to incorporate the AIRAC that took effect last Thursday. I won't be able to check it until later today, but I'll report back when I do (unless someone beats me to it). 

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  5. On 1/31/2022 at 1:47 AM, John Burgess said:

     

    That would be interesting (I feel rather envious!).

     

    It was a nice surprise to get access to the plane and get back flying again. You can see the tail number, N2700P, just peeking out from under the glare shield in the above two pix. It's what can happen when you do something helpful for someone without expecting anything in return and they respond way beyond your imagination.

  6. I just flew this with Navigraph turned off and was able to duplicate the OPs observed issue. My thought is that the Orbx KTIW is fine and that the error is caused by incorrect navdata in the sim. This is with the released January 31 version as well as the prior one. The issue is easy to create as well as fix by turning Navigraph on (correct alignment) and off (incorrect alignment). Here's what I see with Orbx KTIW and default sim navdata:

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    Oddly, while I centered the heading bug just before takeoff and its centered here, you can see the runway is now misaligned.

     

    With Navigraph active, it looks like my previous screenshot:

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  7. Navigraph is a subscription-based add-on that replaces the sim nav database with its own. It also includes a chart app and access to high performance flight planning. As a noob (and welcome to the hobby!), I suggest Navigraph a little way down the road for you unless you want their IFR charts for the world.

     

    It now seems entirely likely this is actually a bug in the in-sim NavBlue nav data. I'm done flying for the day, but if no one else reports the same thing you see with stock nav data, I'll disable my Navigraph and see how things look tomorrow night. My bet is I'll see what you see.

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  8. Just back from a sim flight and the KTIW localizer looked pretty good, especially with real weather. I use the stock G1000 172, WT G1000NXi and current Navigraph database, so that may be part of the answer. And of course the Orbx KTIW add-on. As you can see from the screenshot, that right 24K crosswind puts the airport well off to the left (yellow arrow) and me a bit off to the left as well, but correcting to the right more and localizer centered, I was looking right down the centerline. If you know what to look for, the Garmin/WT flight path vector is parked right over the approach end of the runway (left side of the airspeed tape) on the display (the FPV is a great tool for managing approaches as it tells you exactly where the present energy state will put you). The localizer was also aligned with the runway centerline on short final.

     

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  9. This is a bit of a puzzlement. The Jepp plate also shows 167° for the final approach course, but then 167° magnetic for the runway. There's very seldom disagreement between the FAA's digital flight info (here) and Jepp, but this seems to be one. It's been years since I've flown the real KTIW ILS, but I recall it being perfectly aligned with the runway. Unfortunately, the C182 I have access to is down for annual, but when that's done, I'll have to go fly this and see what it looks like IRL. It's an easy flight from my home base of Bremerton National/KPWT.

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  10. Here's what I think is a stunning video of what the sim can do today: 

     

     

    Regardless of what you think about the value of airport interiors, in fairness, this is amazing stuff.

     

    Mods: I hope it's OK to post this as Aerosoft is a partner and I hope this will become available in due course here.

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  11. There are some things that are best measured in non-metric; altitude and speed are my favorite. Meters is too coarse for altitude, especially for IFR minima. Try a flight with metric turned on and the slow movement of the altimeter will get your attention during climbs/descents. Nautical miles/knots are my preference for distance and speed, especially for VFR. 60 NM is 1 degree of latitude (and nearly so in lower latitudes), so useful for quickly finding rough distances without a plotter.

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  12. 2 hours ago, Cloudhunter said:

    Dear all,

    regarding the updates:

    I had updated to version MS FS 19.9.0, World update VI Germany, Austria and Switzerland,

     

    Orbx I was just checking but honestly I am lost for the time being.
    Frankfurt landmarks are not part of the add ons I had bought and when I check on market place I can't find it either - I have no explanation for that

    It does appear to not be in Orbx Direct but is available in Orbx Central. If you don't have any add-ons purchased from Orbx (which install it for you), here's a link to Orbx Central.

     

    For any Orbx scenery, I strongly advise buying direct from Orbx. When purchased direct, updates are available far faster than in the in-sim Marketplace (which I interpret your "market place" entry to be about). While true you do have to use Orbx Central to manage updates, it will tell you any time you open it if there are updates for your installed add-ons. Also, buying direct from Orbx means you can use third party add-on managers to load only the airports/areas/aircraft you want for a particular session.

     

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  13. 9 hours ago, Studinka said:

    ...Im certain that with the arrival of the Junkers JU-52 in MSFS, the area of the Swiss alps will be even more frequented in the sim and that  there is a huge fan base who could turn Orbx customers for the mentioned (and further) Swiss airports. 

    This reminds me I need to watch "Where Eagles Dare" again, for the scenes of the Tante Ju flying around Alps. Of course, it's Austria where it was filmed, and the airfield at the end is Aigen/LOXI (I read this somewhere) but it's beautiful scenery and flying none the less.

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  14. On 5/9/2021 at 9:04 AM, theother1 said:

    For a few weeks (it might have coincided with the latest LOWI update) I have no more ground vehicles available. The only thing available is the external power, but no stairs, no baggage vehicles, no catering vehicle and no pushback truck.

     

    Any idea?

    Just on the off chance that this might be affected by the default Asobo LOWI, do you have that one deleted through the Content Manager?

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  15. To expand on the discussion a bit, the whole rationale for the renaming exercise is threefold.

     

    One, whenever you update the sim as you note, MS and most experts suggest emptying the Community folder to prevent potential issues with the update and/or add-ons in the folder. After a successful update (and closing the sim), you put everything back in. Instead of moving add-ons out to another location and adding them back, renaming the folder as Nick suggests is easier for most people.

     

    Two, the more add-ons living in the Community folder, the slower the sim loads. If you only have a few add-ons, the slight additional time is worth avoiding the bother of renaming folders when you change where you want to fly that day. With many add-ons in the Community folder however, the loading time increase is quite noticeable, so that's where one of the several ways of minimizing what's in that magic Community folder (the one the sim looks for) come in.

     

    Three, it's well established that sometimes, an error/bad file in one add-on can affect another add-on. This is true even for add-ons in different continents, and especially with add-ons from the smaller publishers or freeware. The universal approach to finding the bad apple is to start with a clean Community folder containing only your new good add-on and methodically adding your other add-ons to see which one causes the problem. There's several techniques for finding the culprit when a lot of add-ons have to be checked. Once found, it's usually safe to have one or the other of the fighting pair in the Community folder at a time.

     

    I hope I haven't overtaxed your understanding, Don. Sometimes a good question like yours leads another to ask for the "why?" behind the first "why?".

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