X-Plane for beginners

[EHM-0654 Murray]

I want to have a thread available for asking and answering questions about X-Plane.

My tip contribution will be "if you are running Windows Vista or above, don't install X-Plane into '\Program Files' or '\Program Files (X86)'. Instead, install directly into the root (or a specially made subfolder of the root, \Programs for instance). Windows Vista and 7 treat \Program Files (and ...(X86)) as special places that stop non-administrators from writing. This causes no end of problems for X-Plane plugins."

And my opening question is: is there an Active Sky alike for X-Plane (i.e., a real-world weather engine), or will AS work with X-Plane via XPUIPC?

[EHM-1997 Alexander]

Not to my knowledge, but XP10 will include a major overhaul of the weather system for x-plane.

ActiveSkyX uses simconnect rather than fsuipc to talk to the sim.

There is REXplane for cloud image improvement and it works mucgh faster than REX for FSX, althoug this close to the next version release, it might not be worth picking it up, especially with the weatehr overhaul occuring.

[EHM-0654 Murray]

'Nother question - is there a packaged "American/Canadian Roads" OSM scenery for XP, like the Britain and Irelands package I've already got?

[EHM-1997 Alexander]

XP9 Default scenery already has accurate road date for the continental US.

For Canada:
http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?app=downloads&showfile=7300

[EHM-2625 Jason]

Just received X-plane 9 today, will install later (got a new quad core 3ghz cpu too )

A quick question regarding the fleet, I know the Wild Otter is available for X-plane, how much of the rest of the fleet is available?

I don't expect this to be my last question

cheers

Jason

[EHM-0654 Murray]

We have a fleet repaint of the really rather good x737 B737-800. As to the rest, I really couldn't say (they're the only two aircraft I need to keep me happy )

[EHM-1997 Alexander]

We have:

• [Main Division] B1900d (needs to be repainted to improve quality)
• [Main Division] 737-800 (needs modification to paint to improve)
• [Aeroclub] Baron 58
• [Wild] Twin Otter
• [Eurocargo] 747-400F (Model is actually a 400, so the upper deck is longer than normal on the 400f

However, only the 737 and the twotter are 'available' the others I would need to zip up, and am currently working on another big EHM job. If you want any of those, let me know and I'll get it ready, but they'll be a little rougher than the finished products will be.

[EHM-1997 Alexander]

on a side note, v4.1.1 of the x737 was released today: http://www.eadt.eu/index.php