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Dear developper

I bought X-Life Deluxe some months ago and it is very nice.
Here's my wishlist which would make XL perfect for me:

• Make XL usable with XP 11.20. Since I upgraded to 11.20 XL is unusable for me. The fps drops to 15 fps. Before I have 40-50 fps

• If there are no dedicated routes at the airport, try to generate it by XL. (World Traffic can do this - so it must be possible)

• Is it not possible to generate airport routes, assign a gate/spot with the message for example "Taxi to Gate A77 on your own discretion".

• When I want fly from A to B it is VERY ANNOYING first check if A and B ist supported by XL. When not, first manualy search these files and download them. If there is no file for B I have to fly to C or I can't use XL.

• Please respect the airport flow. There are many sceneries with good airport flows but XL ignores them.

• When a landed aircraft leaves the runway I should line up. At the moment I have to wait until this aircraft has taxied to gate. (?)

• For example LSZH: When an aircraft landed on a runway ALL 3 runway are blocked until this aircraft taxied to the gate. Very unreal.

Thanks

Arrival:

- allow to change STAR for  active RWY

Hi JAR,

first of all thanks for all improvements to X-Life, its really getting better and better with every update. My wishes are
1. Improvement of SID parsing or logic.

Very often there is no SID and you get message like xinfinite showed in his screenshot "Cleard to EDDM, via departure , Initial altitude ...". Seems like the right SID cannot be parsed from navdata or not found correctly. Also it could be that there is no SID for that runway or for first waypoint of route. Nice Feature if no SID is found would be:  "Cleared to EDDM, after start continue to <first Waypoint>, Initial altitude.." and give verctoring from atc after handover from tower to Approach when departing.

2. Improvement of STAR parsing and logic

Sometimes I get wrong STAR/Transistion for runway like in EDDF. "Arrival PSA07S , runway 25C in use" which is not possbile it should be "PSA25S, Runway 25C in use" or "PSA07S, runway 07C in use" , maybe ist just the handling of transitions which is wrong. Also it seems like there is no radomization of STARS were multiple are available. Only takes the first available STAR for a runway.

3. Facing instructions for pushpack

Just giving facing instructions which direction to push back "left" or "right" would be great.

Thanks and keep on going with your great work!
Devirex

My (maybe not so) humble wishlist for future versions of XL:

- multi-runway operations, make XL able to use more than one runway at once
- user-added airports available for ATC
- user-added airports available for everyone

Hi,

When can we expect Native VR support ? The A320 already works pretty good in VR, almost everything is more or less working, only the sidestick and Throttle are not working at all... Im only flying in VR and its really sad to see my A320 dying in the hangar ....

When will we see VR support for X-Plane, is it a plan ?

If you need help with VR implementation, i know a Great guy who is an expert in adding VR support for X-Plane 11 Planes. His name is Joe Kipfer, he runs "SimVRLabs"  you can find him on Facebook or his website: simvrlabs.com

he could definitly help you if you need some help !

greetings from LSZH
Cudel

Hey friend I have a problem, is that I appear airlines around the world except the local country

- please add option to change manual STAR at arrival airport.
- add option no request check ATIS , I reccomend ATC will inform us what runway in use / QNH / TL and TA, also option request METAR at arrival airport
- welcome message when we arrival (taxi to apron)

hi jar can we please have vfr traffic and atc

Any plans to do an Airbus 220 or Bombardier C300?

FPS drop when updating.

X-Plane has a lot to load when starting.
many processes keep the game from getting a stabile frame in the first sequences of the game.

x-life updates its stuff exactly at this peak time, which is horrifying, since fps drop is not showing its cause.
10 minutes load for the game, 2 minutes additional for x-life, causing staggering frames when trying to push and start or take off with a heli: impossible!

i have asked laminar to put the user in control of such updating processes for non-primary processes or 3rd party products.

JAR could help by letting the user decide when products need update.

Thanks.

Hi Evgeny,

You have an excellent basis to be the standard plugin for all x-plane users.
i like the traffic and the airport sound.
But mainly i anticipate your work as being the best choice for ATC over Laminar's own project, which they struggle with, obviously. I see you move ahead quickly and respond to users request with more flexibility. Hopefully you accept ideas for
content and visual design.

As you are asking for our wishes, and i think i am gonna thank you for that,
as there is indeed things all of us look into,
so let me provide a consolidated short list of the top-topics that i seek improvement for:

1. Nonstop ATC-voice chatter on all channels.
with current version of x-life, i see the traffic, but i hear nothing.

2. A.I. Voice must be more dominant. (louder, male/female variations, electronic background noise)

3. Approved Airports List should be changed into Approved Sections.
    This includes 1 major airport and all the small airports in the respective area.
     Why? i want to take off from a smaller airport with a GA-plane and still want to participate in the overall traffic scheme
     generated by a neigbour major hub. Or i even intend to fly from a smaller (non-approved) airport into a mega-hub.
      With current versions i must launch x-plane from a big airport only. This is so sad. big minus for x-life.

4. X-life seems not considering local roundtrips. G/A-planes, Seaplanes and Helicopters are not doing that kind of flightplan stuff like scheduled widebodies, nor they intend to fly by a given preplan. I want to take a helicopter and depart for a local flight, returning to same airport with no big adminstrative fuzz, but still being part of the overall traffic scheme.

5. traffic segments. from clearance to hold short on runway should be a closely accompanied process whereas appron, tower and ground services push in their messages to all participiants. Of course i should be able to hear them all if on the respective frequency.

6. Current version is a bit static. Overflying an airport (crossing TMA or CTR) seems not even included.

7. Please work on a General Aviation Logic that allows me to define circuits for smaller airplanes and helicopters.
AI-traffic should include helicopters and General Aviaition prop planes too, they should be free in flight path and not be treated as IFR widebodies flying a boring straight line from A to B. Just do like in real life, that's all we want.

8. Updating approved airport list drags down the whole system performance as it runs at the very initial sequence of X-Plane startup where
most resources are needed for the main simulator to load its 10GB-stuff. Why in the world would you set the time for updating x-life at this very critical time? I have never understood that complete nonsense.
Please, really please: Allow Updating by manual user action over the GUI-menu instead. Most users have low- to mid- systems,
and can not afford this kind of catastrophic system overload just for updating a plug-in. Please change this as highest priority. Updating both, x-plane version as well as updating airports list is a good idea to do over GUI, rather than downloading from an internet forum every time.

Thank you very very much for your dedicated work and for listening to requests.