Recently purchased the Aerofly FS 2 on Steam. It is amazing in graphic rendition and outstanding in aero-dynamic and physic performance.
On the good side, it proves itself to be one of the directions where the future flight simulator should be heading. On the bad side, unfortunately, there is still a big room for improvements before it can turn itself from a niche product to a real competitor to FSX, Prepar3D or X-Plane.
Even worst, my GTX Titan card Continue reading
During my recent system recovery, many trivial issues found on my computer before the crash are also fixed. That’s a good thing. But unfortunately, there are new little issues coming up that didn’t exist before.
For example, I used to leave my Switch Panel, Radio Panel and Multi-Panel with power-on all the time, so that whenever I start the simulator, they could be put in operation immediately. But now, I have to load the simulator first and then plug in the USB hub on which the Panels are connected. Otherwise, the display on the Multi-Panel won’t turn on. Fix is yet to come.
Another issue is also Saitek related. Continue reading
Besides backing up my system images, I also make individual copies of important files on my computer regularly. Orbx addon registry is certainly one of them.
During installation, Orbx addons firstly performs an online-store verification and then creates a corresponding entry containing the serial of the product in the registry. With this information in place, the verification process is no longer needed, no matter how many times the product is again reinstalled onto the same computer.
This principle similarly helps in my recent system break-down incidence. Continue reading
Although there are still some fine-tunings to do, my computer is in general up and running again after a few days’ reinstallation and updating.
Over the rehabilitation process, I had a chance to tidy up my system a bit and get rid of many useless stuffs from my SSDs. I guess it is one of the good things I get from the broken computer.
Like many others, I have Multicore Next and P3D Fiber Accelerator from FSPS (Flight Simulator Platform Solutions), which I occasionally use for testings and other purposes. During a recent search for Continue reading
Updating driver regularly is a good practice, especially when it comes to video cards. However, doing so may risk us to install unwanted features that come with the driver as well. One of these is the Nvidia GeForce Experience.
GeForce Experience is Nvidia’s proprietary software in which separate applications, including Game Optimization, GameStream, ShadowPlay, Battery Boost and LED Visualizer are included. They are designed to automatically adjust the configuration of the GeForce graphics card based on the games we play.
It sounds good, doesn’t it?
A couple of months ago, I mentioned there would be updates to the existing C172 Series. Here it is the first for the Navigation set.
This update is an important one. It not only includes graphical enhancements but also resolves more than a dozen fixes in programming and rendering.
Existing users should have received an email containing the download link in their mailboxes by now. If not, feel free contact me directly.
This is the first wave of the C172 gauges updates. The next will come soon.
Steve in Texas in the US said that
Most people that fly in the real world start their training in a 152 in preparation for their PPL
in the comment section of the last Post regarding Piper Cub gauge set announcement. Couldn’t agree with him more. So here’s the Carenado C152 II gauge set brought up front per his request.
Although the C152 II gauges look simple and similar to the C172 siblings, most of 
the gauge components need to be reworked in order to match better in design. In addition, many gauge responses from programming are different from their bigger brothers, too. Continue reading
In the past ten months, I had failed to upgrade my older computer to Windows 10 numerous times. Various google-searched solutions were tried but futile in the end. The upgrade process always stopped at 20- or 70-somethings and reverted 
back to the original OS. It was quite frustrating.
Last weekend, I was finally successful to upgrade the computer to Windows 10. The optical drive was the key! Continue reading
Since somebody asks and it’s for my own personal record as well, followings are the settings of my Prepar3D settings for version 3.2 system.
Anyone interested to see the details of my Prepar3D.cfg could click on the Realism Image at the bottom. All changes I made are highlighted in red. And manually changed items are further bolded.
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