Comments on: X-Plane 10.30 Beta 6 – a Hilights Real

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 15:28:04 +0000

As of 10.25, earth_nav.dat will only be in Resources/default data.

10.30b8 will introduce a second location for earth_nav.dat; Philipp will have a tech note when this happens.

earth_nav.dat cannot be in scenery packs.

By: Udo Thiel

Udo Thiel — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 10:37:19 +0000

In reply to Ben Supnik. Just one more thing: In my default installation, there is the only one earth_nav.dat file, stored in Resources/default data/. Can Custom Scenery include an earth_nav.dat?

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 14:28:26 +0000

In reply to Michael. No! And the reason it will not is because _xplane_ can't handle polygonal exclusions. So this is an _xplane_ feature first...WED can only write data that X-plane can read!

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 14:26:49 +0000

In reply to Ben Supnik. Hey Ben, will WED 1.3 enable polygon exclusion zones? The rectangle only shape makes it akwardly difficult to place them in the right spot.

By: Tony Barone

Tony Barone — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 13:31:51 +0000

It may just be a lack of knowledge on my part of the FMS system, but are there any plans to update it to work with GPS approaches as well?

By: Ben Supnik

Ben Supnik — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 13:27:21 +0000

In reply to Udo Thiel. For what it's worth, that search path has been the same since X-Plane 8 or so...

By: Udo Thiel

Udo Thiel — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 10:02:32 +0000

In reply to Ben Supnik. Thanks Ben for the clarification, I didn't know that, consequently my apps did ignore everything located in the "Custom Scenery" dir. Well, more work on the to-do list...thankfully, at least, this came up well before the release of the next major version of my apps.

By: Caruso

Caruso — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 09:40:57 +0000

From X-Plane 10.3 Beta 5 to Beta 6 I get a frame rate improvement of 10% 🙂

My specs: iMac 27″ Mid 2011, 3.4 GHz Intel Core i7, 24 GB 1333 GHz DDR3, AMD Radeon HD 6970M 2048 MB, OS X 10.8.5

By: Pepel81

Pepel81 — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 06:02:53 +0000

Ben,

I havent understood how airports are updated in xplane and i would know just where can i find the complete list of airports new release in the world xplane.
The link of Mike Hollander is broken above.
Sorry for my english but it is difficult for me to translate in French the comment’s and by this way to understand well … 🙂

By: TJ1376

TJ1376 — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 03:02:21 +0000

Ben/Philip-

I just flew the CT206H with the GNS530 through IFR conditions into KAST.

The descent into the clouds was truly beautiful.. Best descent into clouds I have seen yet… And then as I exited the cloud base, there was “scud” from the clouds that was wispy and hanging low and I kept flying through them with a beautiful rendering happening that made it feel.. well feel so very lifelike!

Needless to say, an aweinspring flight into KAST and I cant wait for 10.30 to go final!

Keep up the awesome work!