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Not yet. Next to do. Tried here first to make certain it wasn't unique to me.

The latest P3d V5 doesn't play well with the Dino Aircraft carriers that used to work so well. Has anyone found a work around on the glitch where the program declares the aircraft in the water as soon as it clears the deck on a cat launch? I couldn't find anything on it in the forum, but I imagine I'm not the only one having the issue. P3d V5 version - Prepar3D_v5_Academic_5.3.17.28160. I also have Orbx mesh installed along with Dream Teams GSX though location doesn't seem to make any difference. I may have to do all my carrier landings in V3. Let me know if you have had the issue in V5 - the latest release. I wish I hadn't deleted the previous release.

This freeware file has listed some of the best freeware aircraft add-ons and in addition the guy has picked aircraft and liveries that fit the locations. He does tons of flight plans which chart a course around the world top to bottom eleven time's. (thus the name weltspirale) Quite fun really and well done. He includes the filenames of lots of aircraft to download and test fly on the courses provided. They are area aware. . . ie you will fly a stealth over Russia. All the freeware is found here on Flightsim.com. I am just starting but it gives an interesting course to test available freeware and provides hours of fly time over different landscapes. To use in P3D version 3 and below (the aircraft downloads are FSX so most won't work in the version 4 & 5) you will need to recreate the flight plans with P3d unfortunately. https://flyawaysimulation.com/downloads/files/24760/fsx-weltspirale-around-world-mission-adventure-pack/

Interesting! When set at "live weather" it creates snow even if all the sliders are set at null. If I take it off live weather we go to the experience you gentlemen were talking about - summer textures. I guess the "Live Weather" function is dysfunctional atm. It also doesn't do that everywhere. Queenstown is nice and clear. Thanks for helping me clear up the mystery

Fairbanks and Talktena

Where would I Look for that? I also took some shots of Fairbanks and Takotna about to go into the dark of winter. Snow there too. I do have "live weather" turned on. I have no idea where to find a menu that selects seasons. I don't have snow in (most) moderate climates. If you are thinking "presets" then the answer is 'no'. I am set at live weather. Is there another place you might be referring to?

Those are the weirdest looking summer textures I’ve ever seen. I pulled the community folder if perhaps some add-on was adding textures, (though I know of no add-on that adds textures to stock landscape.) All but one of these came from today. The other was on the 21st. Milford Bay frozen to the ocean in late spring. Not sure why I have seasons, but also, I had some serious icing out of Canada when I was flying in February. Had to drop down pretty low to get free and skim the melting snow on the ground. I guess my MSFS didn't get the "summer only" memo. As an aside, I've flown Milford Bay in what should have been the dead of winter and nice summer textures were displayed back then - thus my take on their misunderstanding the seasons.

Thanks for the link and the clarification, loki.

I just read your post a bit more accurately and saw something I missed. You actually sort of made my point for me. You're making the same error their AI is making. April would be mid-fall with dead of winter just a few months off. Ireland green isn't a real presentation of mid-fall season accuracy I'm afraid in any part of New Zealand. Southern hemisphere runs contrary to the northern hemisphere, with dead of winter being the northern hemisphere's mid summer. Again - I would expect a techie program to be in touch with the reality of the planet. End of November in New Zealand is approaching their summer months so an arctic weather presentation is WAY off in any part of New Zealand. Surrounded by the ocean it's winter temps are pretty mild also.

Interestingly enough it is late spring over the entire thousand plus miles. However my favorite flight is Milford Bay to Queenstown on the South Island. I keep hoping they will rework their Milford Bay which is gorgeous year round in real life though it tends to fog in some. OrbX does a decent job with it in P3d It has deep winter temps in the low 40's (F) and 60's - low70's in the summer. Bay never comes close to freezing. Take a look at how it's portrayed now in MSFS 2020. [NZMF] Hardly late spring.

Anyone else notice that late spring in New Zealand is in the dead of winter? Not to mention way below real winter weather even if it actually was winter there. I was a bit surprised as its a pretty techie program so I thought their AI would be more robust. Still if you stay north of the equator you're okay. But still waiting for them to move into Lockheed realism world wide. Couple of decent planes in the update though.

I've noticed a lot of "glass half empty' guys starting to post on this forum. I'm thinking that if you can't enjoy this new beta product on the way to becoming a mature flight sim with it's bugs worked out, you should probably stick to the old ones you've grown to love and play. For myself there is so much right with it that the lacks are minimal, but then I'm a "glass half full" type of guy. I know. That metaphor is now pretty much a cliche but it does adequately define some of the whining I read here. I started beefing about this program when it first came out and then discovered most of my beefs were user error. It's a rather complex program and takes some time to get to know it. For the other lacks, Yup. Its a beta, but I'm enjoying the beta I paid for as it moves toward being a finished product. Hours of flights in New Zealand and the US. Scenery gorgeous in all the areas and The aircraft pretty much fly as aircraft are supposed to. (I can only speak for the Cessna 172, That flies like the real one pretty much. Course the one I fly is not nearly so up town in the cockpit. I'm supposing on the rest, though they seem to handle as one would expect.) I like it enough that I would rather get the year of use from an early release beta I paid for than wait til they had all the bugs fixed before I could use it. By the way, I fly it on a four year old computer with some upgraded hardware. Still, MSFS flies smoother than some of the older 32 bit simulators. I do enjoy flying my older FS products though as I like some of my aircraft.

Was thinking I would try reinstalling. The exaggerated response to pretend air currents it frustrating. Especially since it was working well before. WIll look for the repair option first though.

That was my thought too. Checked it though and it was still "Modern"

I'm not certain what I need to do but the latest update with the Japan hoorah and 7.9 gig of changes has had a negative effect on the stability of my aircraft. Prior to it, the Cessna 172 and 152 flew identical to the real thing. I have no experience flying the rest in real life but they seemed to function in a fashion one would expect a stable aircraft to fly. Now they bounce around in a totally unrealistic flight experience. I was beginning to enjoy flying MSFS but the new update has totally ruined the flight experience. I haven't notice anyone else complaining so I am assuming there is something in my set-up that now needs to be tweaked. Either that or is there a way to back out the update? Thanks in advance for any help on this

All my aircraft overreactions to input went away when i switched from a flight model of legacy to modern in the general tab/Flight model. I kept all the setting at 100% realistic and it flies nicely All my input devices handle the aircraft nicely and I have the CH yoke and pedals as well as microsoft sidewinder and Thrustmaster. Until someone told me about the realistic to modern flight model change, the aircraft all refused to handle at all. Biggest problem I see here is that rather than ask the questions that bring clarity it's easier to just whine about how bad the program is. I did the same thing until I realized I was the real problem. Almost all my issues disappeared when I figured out things I was doing wrong. And about problems, omg don't get me going about FSX. It was a nightmare in the beginning spending hours tweaking the config file, but became a very enjoyable and stable flight sim soon after. I'm sure this one will get there too. Until it does I am thoroughly enjoying the things it does well.

I see you're new here. Just a little friendly advice. If you are actually looking for usable input, I wouldn't go looking on a thread that starts with "Got My MFS refund" You can search for threads that deal with specifics or start your own thread with a question of your own. Much more productive in finding usable data. These type of threads generally end up being a bitch session or at the very least, combative.

Is there any way to make "unchecked" the default for "Disable Crashes" in options? Nothing more frustrating than flying merily through trees on a botched flight because I forgot to uncheck it. And I know. The easiest way is not to botch a landing or take off, but not every aircraft "plays nicely with others." and there is a learning curve.

Interestingly the newest has always been my favorite starting from the amber screen wire frame slide shows.. When I got this one I whined about a lot of things. Most were 'user ignorance.' To me its pluses totally outweigh it negatives now that I have figured out some of my issues. I'm sure the 'more planes in the hanger' will come. In the meantime I am enjoying what it does offer and flying the P3d for what it doesn't.

Had that issue also. Finally found the solution. Here's the link to the discussion. https://www.flightsim.com/vbfs/showthread.php?325258-Flight-model-stability-has-issues-Thoughts/page2

"Modern" makes all the difference in the flight model stability. All sliders at 100% and aircraft flies normal Thanks for the info! Flying MSFS now seems a decent sim to fly.

Never accidentally. I use a three screen view. 5760 x 1200. Would that matter?

Only one at a time

Yes but did it again to see if the windows update messed with it. It hadn't I decrease sensitivity 35% on x, y, and z and increased the nul zone 35% on X, Y, & Z See response to Loki. Also the offending aircrafts roll just for spite even if I'm not using or touching the joystick. And when I say roll I barely have time to grab the joystick to try to correct before it's past 45 degrees and rolling. And even with the airport windsock at 3 knots the aircraft is all over the place. Oh, and just to add, I also use the T-Flight Hotas x with the same results. I'm guessing its not the joystick.