It would appear I am unable to post my review. I get a '403 - Forbidden' when I try. I have no idea if there are certain words or initials that I may not use (I described the system I'm using), but I can't post it!

Downloading now. I'll have news in a couple of hours after I've had a good look.

Edit: make that three or four hours! My shed internet is only managing about 3.5mb/s download at the moment...

All agreed, and it will be interesting to see what LM brings in with respect to weaponry. I'd be surprised if they get anywhere near DCS's playability at a game level, or its accuracy as an aircraft and weapons simulator (where the cost is incidental). I reckon my investment in P3D totals something ...

The backward compatibility always implied that it was still ESP. The updates are really all eye-candy. I would love it to be more than that, but hey-ho. As the author says, in the entertainment field (which obviously is peripheral to the product) they are going to struggle against DCS if the weapons...

Well, we won’t have long till we find out! I can’t see that the installed aircraft were mentioned anywhere, but previous experience suggests that they will be carried over from v5, possibly with some textural updates. The screenshots and videos don’t show anything new, IIRC. The change in licence co...

Thanks for your thoughts. You're welcome! I've been doing a bit of research into what was said at the Flight Sim Expo, and the (paid) LM Q&A definitely has given the impression that LM are looking to leave the leisure market behind. There are significant changes to P3D under the hood, and altho...

Which sim? If, as your profile indicates, you're using P3D, I have a feeling that the AIG manager complicates the issue somewhat and may not be the best way to do it. It is undoubtedly more capable than the base system, but I think you need to understand that first. In FS9/FSX/P3D AI traffic is cont...

As I was writing the above post, a reply came in to the P3Dv6 thread at FSDeveloper from Dragonflight Designs where he makes the point that P3D is a simulator and MSFS is a game and that it can't be used to simulate aircraft systems in the same detail. I think he's wrong - there are several MSFS-bas...

Absolutely, Steve. I've always felt that LM's interest in the sim was for its potential as a training aid, but that its compatibility with FSX gave them a useful incidental revenue stream and a hook to keep 3rd-party developers onside. As the professional market has firmed up, LM have contracted cer...

Interesting, Jo. I'll turn it on for screenshots but otherwise don't bother, and my impression - when I last took any interest in the topic! - was that very few over at FSDeveloper used it either. A lot had gone for Rex products when they were still using FSX, and didn't feel that TS had moved the g...

Having watched the video and done a bit of scouting around the nets, I don't think v6 is going to bring us a great deal. The changes may be relevant to the military training applications that the professional product is aimed at, but the improved lighting and weather effects are unlikely to be any k...

I think they are not-so-subtly hinting that they are leaving the enthusiast market behind, and more publicly pitching for the professional military market (which they already have a large proportion of). It's significant, I think, that they chose to focus on weather and lighting effects, both of whi...

Prepar3D v6 is now confirmed for July. It’s not likely to compete with FS20/24, and maybe not even X-Plane 12, but then the enthusiast market isn’t Lockheed’s aim. But hopefully it’s good enough for our purposes, and a step up from v5 which has been a bit underwhelming.

Prepar3Dv6 due in July

https://www.prepar3d.com/news/announcem ... 06/121241/

It does sound like making aircraft will be both easier and capable of far more aerodynamic detail. Also that the visual world will be significantly improved. Live ship traffic sounds like they're going to stamp all over KL791's feet, unless they've made him an offer for his product. The 'living worl...

This is quite interesting:

I don't disagree with you, Steve, except that - given Kai's info above that Asobo have failed to fill the AI specialist role for 3 or 4 years I'm not holding out a lot of hope that FS24 will be a lot better than FS20 in this respect. I hope I'm wrong!

As many here will know, we now have P3Dv5.4. No major new features, but some bug fixes. There was a Closed Beta of P3Dv6 visible on the Prepar3D website a month or two back (you can't see it now), so we know that P3Dv6 is in existence and being tested. Is it the UE5-based sim LM talked about? I doub...

Airfield ICAO codes may have changed in the real world, but they haven't in all versions of our sims up to and including P3Dv4.5! Airfields such as Sculthorpe never appeared in FS9 and later as they'd already been closed for some time when the sim was released. Addon scenery makers came up with a na...

What is the airfield?