Must-have plugins?

[redskeletons]

So, I have a few hundred hours in XP10, used tons of plugins and "aftermarket" planes in that sim. Can anyone suggest, and link to some must-have plugins and addons for XP11?

[🐉 Ðŗąçø 🐉]

X-Life is pretty good for sprucing up your airport. You can have up to 150 aircraft, but there are a few select airports that this works at.

XRAAS2 is good for notifying you of where you are. Whether your landing is too long, or need a gentle reminder to change the QNH, it will do nicely.

eBag is good for in-game flight charts.

Reshade is perfect for adjusting the lighting, bloom and loads more, but isn't very compatiable and crashes the sim upon Alt + F4. Not exactly a plugin either - it goes in your root folder. BluFX is another simplistic one, and is a plugin.

XFMC is a universal FMC, but I don't think it works currently with X-Plane 11.

FlyWithLua is a must with any simmer; you can effectively have hundreds of plugins, in one. It loads scripts and processes them, so you can adjust advanced settings not available in the default settings of X-Plane 11.

HeadShake by SimCoders is a MUST. I tend to keep the taxi lookahead off, and stopping can be quite irritating (jerks the camera), but it enhanced turnulance and touchdown so well.

X-Camera is helpful for adding loads of camera views, but is not too user-friendly unfortunately.

I hope you can use some of these to enhance your flying experience greatly (if that's even a word). Have fun!

[Fox]

> I have a few hundred hours in XP10, used tons of plugins ... Can anyone suggest ... some must-have plugins and addons for XP11?

I suggest you use all the same plugins you used fo xp10 on xp11.

[redskeletons]

Thanks to both. I'll check out the suggested addons. And XP10 plugins are good with XP11?

[Fox]

I haven't found a single xp10 plugin that doesn't work with xp11.

The one's I use are xraas2, fseconomy (not really a plug in), and xchecklist. I had atc125 and xlife but removed them. xlife needs to be coded for each airport which is no good for me flying GA at regional airports.

ATC is just aweful - full stop. Vatsim is best for this.

Edit: Oh, and there is an progressive braking plug in that stops the "on/off" motion that brakes currently have.

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Originally posted by Fox:

Edit: Oh, and there is an progressive braking plug in that stops the "on/off" motion that brakes currently have.

Do you know what it's called/a link to the plugin?

[Fox]

It's called "Progressive braking"

http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/9487-progressive-braking-plugin/

[GingerBreadMan]

Hmm nice list guys I too was curious about good plug-ins...what about using Acars? is there a xcars?

[redskeletons]

All of my planes from XP10 will work just fine in XP11, correct?

[🐉 Ðŗąçø 🐉]

Originally posted by Fox:

It's called "Progressive braking"

http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/9487-progressive-braking-plugin/

Cheers!

Originally posted by redskeletons:

All of my planes from XP10 will work just fine in XP11, correct?

Most of them should. Search for them on the tinternet to see if they have been updated for X-Plane 11 as well.

[redskeletons]

Most of the planes I've purchased are from x-plane.org

[🐉 Ðŗąçø 🐉]

Originally posted by redskeletons:

Most of the planes I've purchased are from x-plane.org

I only just started getting payware. That all comes from the same website too. Some might have a version history on their store page or an update thread on the X-Plane forums.

[Stars-N-Stripes]

reshade 3.0.4 seems to be working, other versions not so much

[Fox]

I'll add that I also use NOAAMS weather (or however it's spelt). Free and provides MUCH more complex cloud formations. Causes a small stutter when it hits servers and redraws clouds - sadly - but I tolerate that. I suspect that is more an engine problem and not the plugins fault.

Another one is PauseForMe that will pause the sim when certain triggers happen - like you're making a coffee while on autopilot and your craft runs out of fuel.

(Not saying that's ever happened to me ... often).

[redskeletons]

Originally posted by 🐉 Ðŗąçσ 🐉:

Originally posted by redskeletons:

Most of the planes I've purchased are from x-plane.org

I only just started getting payware. That all comes from the same website too. Some might have a version history on their store page or an update thread on the X-Plane forums.

I'll double-check, thanks.

[redskeletons]

Originally posted by Fox:

I'll add that I also use NOAAMS weather (or however it's spelt). Free and provides MUCH more complex cloud formations. Causes a small stutter when it hits servers and redraws clouds - sadly - but I tolerate that. I suspect that is more an engine problem and not the plugins fault.

Another one is PauseForMe that will pause the sim when certain triggers happen - like you're making a coffee while on autopilot and your craft runs out of fuel.

(Not saying that's every happened to me ... often).

Is this to say that the live weather in XP isn't really, live?