OnCourse Software

Hi Dave,
I'm sure this has been asked before, but have you ever considered doing a version of PFE that was compatible with X-Plane?

Regards,
Mike W.

No, but I did hear somewhere that someone had achieved it.... I believe there was a YouTube video about it.

There has been some discussion about it being done but I'm not sure how well it works.

dmarch wrote:

No, but I did hear somewhere that someone had achieved it.... I believe there was a YouTube video about it.

Hi Dave

Indeed.

It is now possible to use Pro Flight Emulator with X-Plane 10

You just need this plugin that installs into X-Plane.

http://secure.simmarket.com/fs-limited- ... lane.phtml

Gerald

Interesting.

Please email me Gerald

Interesting indeed, not having PFE is a major reason for me to not use X-Plane.
(another is UT2, everything else might be negotiable)

dmarch wrote:

Interesting.

Please email me Gerald

Your response here seem to indicate surprise! FS++ has done this also with Radar Contact, but I believe they had the developers consent on that one. That doesn't seem to be the case here judging from this response. Do you have any problem with FS++ selling a plugin to get PFE to work in X-Plane? Obviously OnCourse holds all copyright to PFE. I myself could see a potential support headache for you. Ie: Is a problem caused by PFE, or FS++ plugin..

No I don't have any problem with F++ developing a plugin to use PFE with XP and I will be glad to offer any help they might need in the future.

As for giving me a headache with regard to support, it won't, because I can't support it if you're using it with XP!! I don't have XP so there's nothing I could do. If you experience a problem with PFE running under XP my first response would be to ask you to recreate it using FS, if you couldn't then I would assume it was a problem with the plugin and redirect you to F++

Simple

I was fortunate enough to be a beta tester on this plugin and I can tell you that it works very well in X-Plane. I believe the plugin just allows PFE to communicate with X-Plane. there was no reverse engineering of PFE to get it to work.

I am using this as well and it works nicely. I even have to say that some of the interface dialogues are a bit more elegant than in the original.

One thing that bugs me, however, is that in XP it doesn't register A.I. traffic (at least not from the payware Worldtraffic add-on) so basically all there is to it is the communication of your own plane with ATC which is of course only about 20% of what PFE can do. This is a huge disappointment.