Mac6737 Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 1. In an earlier thread, I complained about a lack of diversity in the P3D airplanes; specifically, no commercial jetliners. This morning, there was a 737, and I am positive it was not there before. So I checked in the SimObjects/Airplane folder, and noticed several other planes that do not in fact show up in the sim: DeHaviland Beaver, Grumman Goose, maybe others. Upon further investigation, I see that those 2 planes, at least, did not have a panel folder. What gives? 2. In FSX, a common annoyance was that, at high-altitude airports (e.g., KDEN) the default "Fair weather" clouds were on the runway, because they were situated with reference to sea level, not the airport. There was an easy fix for this in FSX (pull down the weather menu and simply click "OK"). P3D has the same problem, but the FSX tweak does not seem to work. Is there a P3D equivalent? Or must I go to user-defined weather and put in the clouds a reasonable distance above ground level? Tedious. Thanks again all, Mac6737 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRJ_simpilot Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 To be honest, you'd be better off with a third-party weather engine. I don't use P3D, but FSX, and in there I use Active Sky 2016 and thus far it's been pretty good. I also added Active Sky Cloud Art. They do have a version for P3D version 4. https://hifisimtech.com/ As to the sudden appearance of planes in the simobjects folder, I have no idea what to make of that. Do you also have FSX installed by chance? Perhaps there was some unintended cross talk for lack of a better word. :D OOM errors? Read this. What the squawk? An awesome weather website with oodles of Info. and options. Wile E. Coyote would be impressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mallcott Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 The aircraft didn't suddenly appear. They are AI aircraft that don't have a VC or Panel, or lack the appropriate airplane .cfg entry. The solution is to add a VC or Panel and amend the aircraft.cfg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyjohnston Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 FSX is the same, there are aircraft like the MD11 which have no panel folder. That makes them unusable, but they can appear as AI. Spent way too much time using these sims... FS 5.1, FS-98, FS-2000, FS-2002, FS-2004, FSX, Flight, FSW, P3Dv3, P3Dv4, MSFS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mallcott Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 FSX is the same, there are aircraft like the MD11 which have no panel folder. That makes them unusable, but they can appear as AI. And you need to research whether adding a panel is even possible, or whether there are alternatives in the aftermarket. There are at least seven high quality airliners from aftermarket developers for P3D v4: PMDG TFDI FSLabs iFly Majestic Quality Wings Aerosoft There are many others, but you'll need to look at what meets your requirements. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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