joaopaz

So far I'm just playing with the XP11 demo, going through some tutorials. Also love the aircraft handling (although I'll need to calibrate my JS) The price is right, too! ....but I can see the "bug" ahead, just waiting ... Cheers!!

Coming in late, but I've been considering X-Plane 11 myself. I'm still flying FS9 and don't intend to abandon it Also have FSX but am comfortable with 9 and all the addons and tweaks so hardly gathered through the years; and a big plus is to simply fire the sim and fly! But always wanted to try X-Plane; I downloaded the demos and 11 runs smooth on my machines while 12 is off limits. The big plus about X-Plane (the way I see it) is the cockpit experience. Out of the box they're so much better than anything defaulf from FSX or FS9. And the way it zooms smooth to the gauges, the moving shadows inside the cockpit - all seems to make it a lot mroe immersive than the MS sims I know.

Let me clear up a few things: I'm not venting. This thread was meant as feedback for admins, reporting that the most basic query of a database wasn't working - didn't even cross my mind this was a long known issue. I don't need this file, I have it safe in my HDs since long - you may confirm that easilly since on my first post here I quoted another older post of mine linking to that file. I came here to check if there were any updates. I found the results odd, so I looked for the original files. (BUT thank you very much, Flattermann, for taking your time to search the file for me.) And that is not only the filename that can't be found. If you search for a specific author you will get many files from other authors that may have referred him/her in their text. I could verify this first hand as, after replying to FlightSim.com's request to authors to claim their files (not exactly these words) I saw many files put under my name/profile that don't belong to me - but made use of my work. I'm sorry, but the current state of the file library looks like a big mess. I'm not a paying member so I am very aware that I get what I paid for. I'm also aware that there are other flightsim portals.. I've been using them alongside flightsim.com for decades - and also because there seems to be a common reply here: "if you don't like it, go somewhere else". Not very kind, so most probably I will.

Ant that makes it even worse. Why can a system find some files and not others? Not to mention that the file you searched is outdated and superceded by the one I mentioned

Again I thank you for your positive thoughts. But if a file system can't find a file by it's name something is fundamentally wrong.

I know you're well intentioned, and I cherrish the positive attitude. But this is absurd. There is nothing more concrete and specific than the exact file name. You were able to find it because you understood the contents... you identified the word "otter". But what would you do if the file was named "a56bz37.zip"? And about content creators... I'm a content creator here, maybe since 1998? I uploaded many files more than 20 years ago. So past content creators have nothing to do with the current inability of the search function.

Hi, I searched the site for otterttc.zip It produced 0 (zero) results in the file library. It produced 1 result in a post I had written myself a year ago or so... From that post I could follow a link and, suprise, the file is still there in the library....

Thanks again for your answers, guys. It's been very interesting and enlightening, too So, since you mentioned aircraft... what would be the best page to check what freeware is available for XP11? Here at flightsim.com or elsewhere? Me too, I'm so used to tweak FS9/X and that's wonderful, but at the same time the flight experience itself seems to be very different (better?) in XP... so I'm thinking I'll keep them all and have the best of both worlds

Same here. I'm using REX Fs2004 and FSrealWX Lite, the free version. Gorgeous skies every time!

...with a bunch of nice people at another forum https://fs2004.team/ If you ever have the time to do it, Sir, that would be awsome - but I still have plenty of your other sceneries to install and enjoy! If it wasn't you Northern Alaska would be such a lonely place in FS9!

Dear Roger, thanks for your reply! No worries about it. Yes I remember Holger Sandmann and of course all his freeware work and with the Misty guys Wonderful sceneries up to do this day! If you didn't use/included a texture I reckon it must be on one main folder. But you gave me an idea, I'll check if that's the same texture on HS's work. Thank you! Incidentally, I was talking today with friends about Whitehorse Intl and of how there's almost nothing done for that airport.. and someone mentioned something like "surprisingly not even Roger Wensley did something there.."

Hi, guys - I'm hoping that Roger may see this Roger, I'm using all your 3 files on this subject - and they work great (just the LOD lines are a bummer but I know that's FS and not your work!) Two things... a) just to confirm.. The Norton Sound isn't frozen.. correct? b) would it be possible for you to let me know what texture is in use for the frozen bodies of water? In my system it comes out "brownish" specially since I changed most scenery/world/texture winter textures for a much brighter tone.. so in comparison is quite a contrast. I'd like to edit that texture if possible. It's not on your zips so must be something from FS9 itself. Thanks, and thank you for your work! (impressive!!) Joao

This thing in action is quite impressive

Never tried it but always read great things about it. Do you have experience with it? I was always put off a bit by the funny characters but KS always pops up in the best space sim lists...

+1 cat for the roster Mine is an expert in finding the most obscure FS key assignments!