The freeware Bowerman Airport (KHQM) from Orbx was my “home” base during FSX and P3D simulation times. It was missing in MSFS until vbazillio who revived it a few days ago. It’s pretty well-done and I don’t see any anomaly from it.
For those who love this airport could download the addon from here.
A big thank to vbazillio.
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Here’s a short video preview of the EDM-830 Engine Monitoring System being developed for the A2A PA24-250 Comanche as mentioned before.
The overall structure is done. It may still need another week or two to complete the work, however, as the implementation of the panel is not only complicated technically but also in layout and design.
Roland (DuRo55) is a member of the well-known German flying community FRIESENFLIEGER, which is a large group of enthusiasts flying VFR and GA planes or helis only on VATSIM. He is actually the one who suggested me the development of the newly released A2A PA24-250 Comanche Gauges. Following is his cockpit with the Comanche set.
Builder: Roland (DuRo55)
Location: Bonn, Germany
ICAO: EDDK, Cologne Bonn Airport & EDKB, Bonn-Hangelar Airport
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I managed to have a break during the summer months. Althought trivial things to take care of were still unavoidable, it was good.
During the period, I received a suggestion from Roland, who told me that the PA24-250 Comanche by A2A was hot and asked if I would develop gauges for it.
Frankly, I am really not a fan to any airplane needing SPAD.neXt to run gauges on the Flight Instrument Panels (FIPs). I am not saying that SPAD.neXt is no good. I just want something install-and-go.
Anyway, here’s the Comanche gauge set just completed, in which many new features and operations are just possible with SPAD.neXt. For example, assigning multiple functions to a single button to imitate a more realistic operation, etc.
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Some major changes have been done to my last ReShade Settings made in February according to various trials over the last few months: 
Tint (Sepia.fx) and Vibrance (Vibrance.fx) effects used previously have been removed. Yet, Continue reading
My last update to the current nVidia driver version 536.23 reminded me about this:
It’s advisable to check the 3D Settings again after the update, even though I have chosen the Express Option which is supposed to keep the last settings intact.
It’s because I encountered many times my settings were somehow changed or reverted to default after the updates. Continue reading
The latest nVidia Driver version 536.23 claimed that it had fixed a potential random crash error in MSFS running DX12 with driver 531.41 and after.
I couldn’t confirm if the fix works or not since my MSFS crashed to desktop (CTD) during startup after I changed to use DX12 with the new driver.
Anyway, here’s how I fixed the startup failure caused by moving to DX12, after confirming that the error couldn”t be solved by rebooting, etc. Continue reading
Just informed by a friend about the annoucement of FS2024. Probably many of you have read about the news.
Last week, I came across an addon called Swiss TLM3D Forest MSFS by Taburet. The company claims that the addon is based on the swissTLM3D datatset, which is the most extensive 3D vector dataset covering the whole of Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein from Federal Office of Topography swisstopo. Since Switzerland is one of the places I frequently flightsimming most, I purchased it without much hesitation.
Followings are three sets of pictures I captured on the runway 26 of Saanen Gstaad Airport (LSGK), showing the surrounding trees with and without the addon (click images to enlarge). 
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