START DATE: 12/1/2025

END DATE: JANUARY 30, 2026

You are cordially invited to participate in the 2025-2026 "All Sims Air Tour", a modern 're-creation' of the National Air Tour of the 1920's and 1930's.

A 3,400 mile Tour encompassing 27 different stops in 20 different States, starting and ending at Willow Run Airport (KYIP) in Dearborn, Michigan.

THE ROUTE:

The Flights range from approximately 55 to 180 miles in length, and the Tour can be flown in any manner you choose.

Although the original 'spirit' of the Tour was to showcase Airplanes from the 20's and 30's, given the Availability of 'Vintage' Aircraft for a specific Sim platform the Tour may be flown with a 'modern' Airplane if you desire to do so.

Because the Holiday season is upon us and participants may have personal commitments for the Christmas/Hanukkah/New Year's Holidays, the Time for the Event is such that Participants may tailor their Flights to whatever fits their Time commitments.

The Tour is structured around two important factors; Having Fun, and Having Fun. Not a Race, no Time Constraints, no complicated Rules other than the Route itself. However, it is highly encouraged that Participants post a Travelogue of your Flights along with a couple Screenshots, describing your journey in whatever manner tickles your fancy; a Story, simple Description, etc.

The Event will be held at Sim-Outhouse (SOH), with a Thread dedicated to the Tour. If you desire, you may start your own Thread documenting your Tour as well. If you're not a Member of SOH you can join here:

https://sim-outhouse.org/sohforums/

So, if you're up to the challenge, and want to join in with a fun group of Flight Simmers to finish off the Year, come along for the Ride!

I have just downloaded 3jcabin sounds and I'm facing an issue because the window never shows when dragging the mouse down the screen center.

Would someone help me?

thanks

Ronsard

log.txt

What I mean is if I start at airport A the AI flies the aircraft to a random airport maybe 100 miles away or nearer, so if I for example decide to pick a large airliner it never flies long distance as perhaps it would in real life.

Does anybody know where the file might be that has this radius in it that perhaps it can be edited to increase the radius I was thinking maybe have the edited file for long distance and not use it for short distance flights?

Col.

Clear your calendars to keep September free. It's that time of year, it's HeliFest 2.

This year we will share our helicopters, our flying skills, and our comradery while flying from Ensenada to  Vancouver. You will fly over ocean, lakes, mountains, deserts, forests, large cities, and tiny towns. Along the way you will have try to locate many different check points based on clues to be provided at the start, and throughout the event. Your chart reading skills mixed with a good sense of adventure, history, geography and more will make this more than just a point to point challenge. Have I got your attention? Good! HeliFest 2 guidelines, routing, and the first clues to be posted soon. 

Reaching out to the experienced X-Plane users here.

Thanks!!!

 

Calling all Rotorheads

It's time for another Rotor Run.

Our Caribbean Island Hop will take you to

15 airports, 15 countries. and 15 islands.

In between there is nothing but beautiful blue skies above,

and sparkling blue ocean below.

Unless you are having problems with your present active version you need to be thinking hard before you try the new version.

In my case I had to delete all my preferences and start over, see pic. All my .sit /s were labeled as Paused and the sim locked up.

Another issue that started about 3 weeks ago is that LR requires that you sign in, verify product code on every start.

This was reset / modified on all my older versions, like 1209, somehow and every version that I did not update, I only update one version. Now all the versions I have on that PC now have to be verified every time I start them.

One of the reasons I used XP was the fact that you could go 1-2 weeks after a product verification before you had to do it again. You could take and demo / use it in locations where there was No internet, which was something I use for training.

Unless I find a way around it I will likely have to turn to the Dark side since there is no longer any advantage for me to use XP if I have to use Inet every time I start.

I've been with them since their inception and I've never seen such a mess. I hope they recover, it seems to me that they are trying too hard to sell other people's product by opening their own store... and they subject their customers  to unnecessary hardship and problems.

Is there anyone in the North West of England who is interested in, or who is already building their own Cockpit ? 
 

I would love to hear from you, even if you haven’t started yet. 
 

I am looking to form a group of like minded passionate simmers in the North West. 
 

Jayden.

Time to turn off your avionics, toss out your GPS, disable your moving map, forget about flight following, abandon ATC, and Get Back to Basics!

Calling all Rotorheads of the flight sim world. Unite for the Grand Canyon Rotor Run.

This rotor run will pit your helicopter and your low level flying skills against miles and miles of deep walled canyon, as you traverse, down close and personal, the glorious Grand Canyon.

Let’s show our fixed wing brothers and sisters what low and slow is really all about.

Join the adventure at...

B4 is out and for most, including myself, there are no visible improvement, see changes below.

X-Plane 12.1.3 Release Notes

Release Date: December 5, 2024

Known Errors and Limitations

General

We are still having occasional out of memory issues when using AMD graphic cards. We are in contact with AMD to resolve this as soon as possible.

ATC

You may receive unnecessarly complicated vectors during non ILS approaches, especially when using smaller aircraft.

Fixes and Enhancements

General

• Some additional stability improvements (XPD-16335 / XPD-16357 / XPD-16258 / XPD-16307)
• Fixed a crash when opening IOS with the F-14 (XPD-16352)
• Fixed an error in the German translation (XPD-16244)
• Some improvements around the X-Plane Identity login screen

ATC

• Provide spoken vectors at the end of a STAR without a runway transition (XPD-16351)
• Pushback request will get cancelled if no pushback is available (XPD-16345)
• Fixed incorrect handoffs on cross country flights (XPD-16346)
• Inappropriate ‘runway blocked’ message after clearing another aircraft to line up (XPD-16348)
• Improved parsing of different STAR formats when entering a flight plan (XPD-16305)
• Wrong APPCH name when arriving on an airway that wasn’t explicitly listed (XPD-16306)
• Fixed several crashes

AI Aircraft

• AI aircraft don’t use displaced threshold for take-off (XPD-16264)

Linux

• Fixed a crash when resizing the X-Plane window and using Wayland (XPD-16358)

Over in the FS2004 Forum, the last couple of days there's been discussion about the AT-6 Texan/Harvard/SNJ. I posed a suggestion about the possibility of a potential Challenge/Scenic Flight event featuring that Airplane. @Airbasil_1 posed the question about a couple of potential Routes that could be flown, so I thought I would ask if anyone would be interested in possibly participating in a Flight or Challenge using the AT-6? 

There are quite a few different AT-6 options to choose from that cover a wide range of Sim Platforms, and it's a pretty docile airplane so it might make an ideal airplane for a Challenge. I'd like to hear your thoughts on the matter to see if we could stir up some interest. I will cross post this in the other Forums so if you've got anything to say, post it either here or over at the Club Chachapoya Club thread. Thanks! 🙂

I'm just getting started with XP12 And I'm stuck on setting an external view.

My experience is with FSX,  in the spot view exterior I can use a hat-switch to rotate the view around the aircraft but I can't figure out how to replicate this in XP12.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Peter

Hi everyone.

XP1212b3 does not respond the same to the .lua script and to reduce / remove some of them, some ghosting still left, needs a different procedure.

There are still the wake / waves, cargo.. that get painted without the direct relation to the boats, see pic. but the body of boats are gone.

Save you r original library.txt located in ….\Resources\default scenery\sim objects

Unzip the library.txt.zip included. just place the unzipped file library.txt in your ….\Resources\default scenery\sim objects

The carriers will still be available and I gained a couple of FPS.

library.txt.zip

It looks like LR finally found something they can handle, maybe?, see below.

If you are having trouble with FPS in XP1212b2 part of it is due to the 149? types of boats...

If you want to try and do away with some, you will still have the waves / ghosts, you can try this .lua script.

It gave me a couple of FPS in my low end system.

Make sure you have LUA installed.

Create a file "kill_boats.lua" with the lines below and place it in:

-----\Resources\plugins\FlyWithLua\Scripts

--Start here:

--kill boats 1212b2

set("sim/world/boat/total_boat_count", 2) --was 149, can select other values

--To here

It looks like they will not be able to do any better and giving up?

If you have 1209rc5 or 1210rc1 hang on to them, assuming you still want to struggle with this useless app.

Using the same Datarefs and every other means that I know of, rc2 cannot be made to be useful.

In addition to the Flight dynamics which is horrible in the C172, the panel unreadable, and FPS performance atrocious, what else is there to say about it?

I suggest everyone stay away from XP at this time. They seem to have lost self respect and respect for the customers.

See pic include with what the rc2 looks like on all my systems.