FSX Steam Edition, Aerosoft F-16 missing liveries

I am having only 3 liveries after re-installing Aerosoft F-16, I checked the "best answer" on Aerosoft forum and it looks to me to be incorrect or though it will appear to work it will give an incorrect configuration.

The problem is that a lot of the F-16 liveries reference the "Aerosoft F-16A 9\Panel" folder and if you look in that folder, there is no panel.cfg, but there are Panel.cfg.SP2 and Panel.cfg.Xpack. So I would conclude an installation step is missing when Aerosoft installer does not recognise Steam Edition and so does not rename one of those files. I simply make a copy of the Panel.cfg.Xpack file and rename it to Panel.cfg. As the other liveries reference this panel, suddenly they are all available to FSX once more. If you edit that file you will see it is not exactly the same as the one in "Aerosoft F-16AM Display\Panel", there are also other files in this folder, so the correct solution is to just copy/rename the single file.

The F-16 Fighting Falcon can be downloaded from FlightSim Store here:

Virtual Point Break, Beechcraft King Air over Lake Powell

Remember the sky-dive scene from that classic Surf movie, Point Break (1991)? It was filmed with a Beechcraft 65-A90 King Air over Lake Powell, Utah.

Point Break Beechcraft King Air

So I took my Carenado Beechcraft C90B, chose a paint job closest to the Point Break one and takeoff heading north-east from Page Municipal KPGA. I think in reality, the scene was filmed from much higher than the 4000ft mentioned in the script. Unfortunately FSX/Carenado does not render the correct registration (N50JJ) on the tail.

So here is my scene:

Carenado Beechcraft C90B King Air over Lake Powell

The aircraft can be downloaded here: Carenado - Beechcraft C90B King Air HD Series FSX/P3D

VFR France Bretagne and FSX Steam Edition Compatibility

I have only just taken a route over Brittany to discover my VFR France scenery (version 1.1), does not seem to be working. I have tried disabling all my addon scenery and it is still broken. The files are sitting in the correct folder and in the scenery library, but the photo textures are not in the game. Things like harbours are there. Here is a screenshot of the approach to Quiberon:

I have tried un-installing them and re-installing them and to no effect. I can only conclude there is some compatibility problem with this scenery and the Steam Edition. The only one I have found so far. Would be interesting to know if version 2.0 of the scenery works. Still, I have a lot of addons installed and I am not sure I tested the scenery when I first installed it. It's a shame as I really liked the Bretagne Photo scenery.

Flying cross-country toward Quiberon, nice autogen but not Photo

So, I sent an email to France VFR support and they said yes it's not supported but recommended I try installing to a dummy folder (I pointed the installer at the old FSX folder, it requires at least the FSX.exe in the folder). This seemed to do the trick and Quiberon was back! Apparently version 2 of the scenery is compatible with Steam Edition.

Update: It is still not quite right as the Autogen is missing. When I try to add the Autogen, the Photo texture disappear!

Round the World, Mount Snowdon, St Athan to Jersey

Lately I have been a bit distracted my FSX Steam Edition and some new Addons. Getting back to my round the world flight. So my last flight ended up at Caernarfon, I chose the scenic route through Snowden National Park, VFR toward Brecon and then landing at St Athan Air Base on the South Wales coast.

Flying up the valley and over Mount Snowdon

Landing at St Athan RAF, EGDX

Next up, I am learning to use the Autopilot and GPS/Flight Plan to get me to RNAS Merryfield EGDW, It turns out to be a quite unremarkable default airport. My route to Jersey takes me over Charmouth, that I visually recognise from journeys I have made through the town by car.

Flying over Charmouth, Portland Bill in the distance

For Jersey Airport EGJJ, I am using the free version of the Jersey Xtreme by UK2000. My initial approach was too fast and steep and the runway is fairly short, so I had to go-around and try again. Not totally realistic that I changed the paint job during the flight!

Taxiing to parking at Jersey Xtreme, Freed edition

Aerosoft German Airfields, Volume 1, Island Hopping

As a diversion from flying round the world, I took a quick tour of some German Islands, in of course my German livery, BN-2 Islander. I was really impressed with the Autogen German houses and the photo-real textures. I think the scenery is good value as it's not just the airports that are included but also the detailed island scenery. Some very short airfields, so recommend either the Islander or Twin Otter. The package includes 15 high detail airports and VFR charts.

Takeoff from EDWI, Wilhelmshaven

Beach front on Wangerooge

Spot the train at Inseldorf station on Wangerooge Island

The West Tower and Lighthouse on Wangerooge

FSX Steam Edition Upgrade

I just noticed that the Steam Edition is on special offer at the moment, so for 5 Euro I now have the Steam Edition. I downloaded it while I still have access to broadband as I may only be on 3G soon. Even by carefully following instructions to wipe my old FSX Gold/Acceleration install, I still must have had some left over bits that confused Steam Edition when it installed. The problem being, installing Addons, they were still looking in the old FSX folders. I kind of fixed things by running a special FSX registry fix, the result works, but it's a bit of a mix of FSX/FSX-SE folders. Very confusing where the actual scenery.cfg now lives, so I only update it via the program.

It took quite a while to re-install all my add-ons, but they mostly worked, although some required manually adding the scenery folder. This all going into my new 120GB SSD I also purchased. I probably could have done with a bigger one to be honest, but budget is tight. It does seem to improve the loading time significantly.

My impressions of Steam Edition, is it maybe has slightly better frame rate and not so many bugs e.g. the texture popping. Of course it also includes improved Multi-player and lower use of Virtual Address Space, so less Out Of Memory errors for those with lots of addons.

It has some annoying Steam things like the adverts and having to launch Steam, which then checks for updates. The Steam Client service sneakily will modify Windows Firewall settings if one attempts to block it, but it can be blocked by adding advanced rules in the Firewall to block steam.exe and the TCP/UDP port ranges (Google Steam ports).

I also added all the Steam URLs into Windows host file. I did this, as I cannot afford the 3G bandwidth to update the game or be bothered with the adverts. It's a shame Steam does not allow the user to control this, as FSX is mostly a single player game and should not require updating as a priority.

So this is the lines to add to the end of hosts file (c:/Windows/system32/drives/etc/hosts):

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Round the World flight, start Sligo, Ireland

I have been reading up on some round the world flight ideas, inspired by randomly exploring remote islands such as Easter Island, South Georgia, Kerguelen Islands, hulhule island (Maldives), Ascension, Edinburgh of the Seven Seas, Pitcairn Islands, Totegegie. So I come up with an idea to fly around the world, mostly Southern Hemisphere and link up with some of my installed scenery.

Having to chose aircraft, I am looking for one with a good range for the long distance legs between islands. I chose the Carenado Beechcraft B200 King Air. I am also going to alternate with the Carenado A36 Bonanza, as I really like flying this little one.

I am starting in Sligo, as it is the nearest airport to where I live, giving me a chance to test out my recently installed Orbx Ftx Ireland scenery. The freeware airport I have for Sligo is still an improvement over the one included in FTX. I have to say I am dissapointed that some of the landmark mountains in this area are not well represented, Benbulben and Benwiskin.

I fly over to North Ireland, Enniskillen, then head south to Abbeyshrule Aerodrome EIAB (no landing), then fly east to Casement Airbase EIME on the edge of the Wicklow Mountains. I chose this route to familiarise myself with the navigation systems.

First Leg, flying out from Sligo in Beech Bonanza 19 June 2015

From Casement, I am flying King Air to Holyhead and landing at Caernarfon EGCK.

Taxiing to parking at Caernarfon (FTX Wales)

For maps, I have found a great free resource at University of Texas Libraries, where there is an extensive collection of high quality Tactical Pilotage Charts.

I am flying in real-time, for the moment using fair weather settings and quite realistic light model.