Same experience with XL b.09, flying A330 on my iMac27.
LFMN: as I mentioned already, taxi ways are false if starting from parking lots! Starting from gate (16B) everything works fine - Flight plan ( to LGAV), ATIS and FollowMe car.
Disabling SMP3 and I gane 30fps stable !
Now on my way to Athens at FL310 .....
In my custom scenery folder I found an older version of LGAV ( 2013, 19.6 MB). Unfortunately I didn't replace it. (now it landed in my trash. In X-Plane.org there is a newer airport version (2015) recommended by JAR, but it has a lot of bugs and lack of taxi ways.
First contact to Center, got order to descend to FL 70, Then contact Approach, got order to descend FL100. This happened on every flight - need to be changed.
Anyway during descent frame rate sank to 1fps after X-Life became alive (traffic). Only after refreshing METAR, frame rate went back to normal. This happened sometimes during flight with the A330 without X-Life. I observed that this occurrence was just as MEATR data appears on ND of the A330. I think it is necessary to cheek the input of METAR data on the A330.
During approach to LGAV another aircraft was in front of my aircraft so I got order to GO Around. At least landing, the FollowMe car escorted me over green fields to my parking lot ....
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X-Plane 11.30r3 | iMac27 OSX Mojave 14.10.4, | Samsung ultra-wide screen 49-inch | Saitek equipment | MFG pedals |Gladiator Joystick | Plugins: GndHandling, RWC, SMP, SoundM, X-Life, BetterPushback, AutoGate, SoundMaxx, X-ATC-chatter, X-Camera | iPad 12.9, iPad Air 9.7 | Airliner: JAR A320/A330, FF A350XWB, FF B767, SSG B747-8 inter, Epic1000 new, TBM900
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