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  1. FSDS 3.5 is still available at PC Aviator for $24.95 US. 10% off on Tuesdays. Not sure how they license it. Abacus shut down when FSPilotshop closed, I believe they were tied together somehow. I bought my copy from FSpilotshop sometime ago and only have the one installer for 3.5. (my version shows 3.5.1) I installed it sometime ago and remembered I had to run the installer and with "Run as an administrator" option. I also remembered I had to run the program with the "run as an administrator" option as well. I am using it in Windows 10 and it seems to work ok, I do not use it that often, but it still started up today ok. You may be able to contact PC Aviator and ask them for some more details about FSDS. Here is link to the product page. https://www.pcaviator.com/store/product.php?productid=18364&cat=913&page=1 John Cottreau
  2. Had no issues for years with FSX and OOM’s until I bought a new computer and new monitors with a higher resolution. Did you change your resolution lately? I may be wrong but higher resolution equals more memory usage in FSX where display graphics uses more computer memory and not as dependent on the GPU RAM. John C.
  3. Not quite sure what you mean, do you want tools to design planes and panels? Are you looking who makes the best planes? If you looking who makes the best plane and panels, general aviation or larger jetliners? John Cottreau
  4. It has been redone and is now called FSTramp and is available for MSFS. You can try it for 20 flights and then you have to pay for it. It has different purchase plans that are only good for so years then you have to renew. Check the new files section, it should show up two or three pages in. I would recommend that you try Little Navmap before taking the plunge for FSTramp. John C.
  5. I did read somewhere else that the logbook will not work in development mode. Not sure if this changed during the new patch or not, I do not have MSFS and do not know much about the modes. Just been following closely here and on other sites to see if i want to purchase MSFS or not. John C.
  6. First of all I do not own MSFS, but have been following these posts carefully to see if I want to purchase someday. My question if Bing gets a new image for an area and the image has clouds covering the airport where the old image didn’t, will that airport disappear? John C.
  7. Gave up on MSFS before it came out. Only have room on my computer for one sim and I needed a new sim because of the OOMs in FSX. Had lots of add-ons and fixes already for FSX, most of which would work with P3DV5 or would work with free updates. Another reason, MSFS scenery is based on Bing maps and I knew there were some limitations in Bing Maps as well as Google maps from using it for work and other hobbies. John Cottreau
  8. Yes you're right, it's not a competition. I will probably stay with P3DV5 for awhile, not because it's better or worst, but because it works for me. All my add-ons work and I only have room for one sim on my SSD. From what I've seen of MSFS from watching over 50 hours of videos and reading lots of posts, showcasing the good and the bad, MSFS still needs work, but where is shines, it's truly outstanding. P3DV5 still needs work as well. Try flying in the Canadian Arctic without ORBX vector. It's a "hot mess" Far as those 37,000 airports, one of the first videos I watch for MSFS was where a MSFS pilot was flying around and seen a pop-up that there was an airport. He decided to land there and it looked like a strip mall next to runway. Did a little research and the airport had closed sometime ago and was now a strip mall next to a road (old runway?). Kudo's to MSFS for being able to determine there was a strip mall from the video that was posted, but there was no longer an airport there. Finally, there are still add-ons in the library being created for FS98, just as long as they're happy, that's the main thing.
  9. Wouldn’t say it’s a “hot mess.” Here is what I have to say, enjoyed a nice flight from EDDS, Stuttgart, Germany to LEGZ, Zaragoza, Spain today enjoying the lovely fall colours in P3DV5. Try doing this flight in MSFS. John C.
  10. A.F. Scrub 1 Milviz 0 Works ok in P3DV5 V2. A.F. Scrub get a one up for making this Beaver while Milviz has not release their Beaver yet for V5.
  11. There are still files being added to the library for FS98. FSX will be around for awhile yet. John C.
  12. My point was Carenado got it right and stand by that statement. I've flown the Realair Legacy with the castoring enabled, the Carenado SR22 and the Alabeo C400 which also both have castoring nosewheels and they behave the same. As you mentioned, one you have some momentum you can use the rudder for taxiing down a straight taxi way or down a runway. The three planes mentioned will do that. To make a sharp turn like doing a 180 degree turn at the end runway or a 90 degree from a taxi way on to a runway, you will need to use differential braking as would be the case in real life and these planes will do that as well. Not picking sides, Carenado vs whoever, just giving credit where it is due. Cheers, John Cottreau
  13. Awesome plane and pics. Carenado actually did it right. The SR22 does have a free castoring nose wheel in real life and differential steering is needed at lower taxi speeds. Works really good with rudder pedals. John Cottreau
  14. The Cessna 337 Skymaster. John Cottreau
  15. Unless I'm missing something with the scenery files, I would have to disagree. The "demXXXX.bgl" files that store the P3DV5 default elevation mesh data, totals 3.27GB of data for the whole world. the complete FreeMeshX files covering the whole world have a total size of 46GB. The mesh in P3DV5 is definitely better than the mesh in FSX which was 1.27 GB in size, but nowhere as detailed as FreeMeshX. Not sure about P3DV1 to V4. Went from FSX to P3DV5. John Cottreau
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