It is – it’s being worked on now. I’ll post more about this in a week or two.

There was talk some time ago about being able to turn static aircraft on and off in the rendering options – is this still on the agenda? I can see that becoming an issue if the new ATC is good and more people start using it – and even more of an issue if people decide to take the next step and fly on-line with VATSIM or IVAO.

In the wonderful (!) world of FSX, the default textures and autogen are absolutely awful and the first add-on most people buy for FSX is usually one of the global scenery systems that completely replace all the textures and autogen. These add-ons are not cheap and I imagine it takes the developers a long time to tweak the textures and objects so everything blends together seamlessly.

I wouldn’t like to see LR’s limited resources being poured in to improving the default textures and autogen when they could be expanding the scenery engine to do whatever interesting things the 3rd party developers might want it to do.

For me, the only time X-Plane ever paused during weather loads was when I used Skymaxx 2.

Using X-Plane default clouds or using 3rd party cloud textures there are no pauses even when using a weather injector like the freeware NOAA plugin.

I also think this is a good idea; I emailed Austin about it and had a two or three email discussion with him about it. Bottom line, no dice, he didn’t see the utility of it (and/or not worth “cluttering up” the interface). Perhaps if he hears from someone else he might reconsider. I’m looking forward to the PMDG DC-6 and all those engines, controls, etc.

Please file a bug with screenshots, maybe it is one. I think I know what you mean with transparency.

The above post should be a comment to :
http:/2015/10/some-work-for-10-50/#comment-12016

This might be a little off topic, but here goes anyway.

Would it be possible, in plane maker, to have an option where one could “tie” left side engines together and right side engines together to facilitate flying aircraft with more than two engines? I have a throttle quadrant with two throttle levers (and it seems that many others do too) and in order to fly in 4 engine aircraft (B747 for instance), I have to create another instance of X-Plane with both tied to “Throttle”. If there could be a plane maker check off, it could easily be done without having multiple instances of X-Plane installed. Seems simple – probably isn’t!

Thanks,

John