On Prepar3dV6 on a GPS approach with vectors to final using the Garmin GPS the needle and cross track distance near the bottom of the GPS show as 0 (needle centered) prior to the first fix regardless of where the plane is relative to the first fix (after the first fix it works fine). In most of V5 t...

I am using Prepar3dV6. Has anyone figured out a way to beat the 148 maximum olsonlandclass limit? The documentation says that this is a hard limit but Orbx appears to have figured out how to go beyond it since they have higher entries in it. If i add mine and create the appropriate .bmp files in sce...

What determines what bitmap P3Dv6 uses for the supplied LandClasses? For example (in terrain.cfg):
Name=LandClassPoly_Dry_Woody_Scrub
Color=FF00C000
guid={65C30B4C-C922-4696-94C7-2ABC27B5C702}
Textures=DRY_WOODY_SCRUB

What controls what bitmap is used for each season for DRY_WOODY_SCRUB?

Is there some way of setting up bodies of water to freeze over in the winter i.e. have a texture that does that? I could presumably have a regular water bitmap for non-water seasons and a off-white bitmap for the winter seasons but it would still have water effects.

I have P3D version 6.0.30.30926 and fiy the Mooney Bravo using the VR cockpit using an Oculus Quest 2. Except when sunlight is on them (when they become bright) the radio frequency numbers on the radio stack are not very bright and barely readable. The issue can be seen without a VR headset by selec...

I can adjust where the front wheel is located in contact_points in aircraft.cfg, but that makes the airplane unstable on the ground.

What determines where the fork of the push back vehicle attaches to the airplane to start pushing it back? I have a case where the airplane starts moving back when the fork of the push back vehicle is 10-15 feet away from the front gear.

I have Prepar3d V5. I am looking to create a wind turbine with rotating blades. I cannot afford 3ds so what I have to work with would be GMax and Blender. Can I do what I want with these 2 and if so is there a tutorial? I have gotten fairly decent with creating static models with GMax so the concern...

I have a boat I am controlling with SimConnect. I generate a set of points for it to traverse and send them to a stock boat. When the boat makes a turn it oscillates significantly in heading back and forth trying to go to the desired course for 30 seconds or so before settling down on the correct co...

I am using SimConnect_SetDataOnSimObject to send a set of waypoints for a non-aircraft object to execute. Is there some way I can get a notification when the object has completed traversing the waypoints so I know I can send another set? I do not see any events that correspond to completion of a way...

I have an old flaky Oculus Rift (probably has a bad video cable) and am considering replacing it with a Quest 2. I have P3Dv5. Has anyone been able to compare the two when flying with P3Dv5? I suspect I probably will have better video quality with the Quest, but am concerned with having to use the O...

I am trying to get the rough altitude and density of cloud layers around an aircraft using SimConnect. It appears that SimConnect_WeatherRequestCloudState does not really give that and the best I can do is divide the area around the aircraft into cells and the altitude into bands and make a call for...

Disregard the missing base, I was looking at my mostly uninstalled P3dV4 directory. I put the p3dv4 magdec.bgl in place of the V5 one and I am back to where I should be. Apparently the V5 magdec.bgl is bad for this part of the world.

Looks like based on what is in P3dV4 I am missing the scenery\base folder which has magdec.bgl. Is there some way of getting it back without an uninstall/reinstall?

I am flying in the south pacific area to the east of south New Zealand and to the west of the dateline. The magnetic variance is around 0 and it should be in the 20s and was in V4. I have tried disabling all be the LM scenery to make sure add-ons are not causing it and that did not help. As an examp...