• Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

    Post 16 Update

    Post 17 Warning old domain name stealing credentials

  • Special Server Maintenance

    Just when you think you have everything running some what better...

    You get a message from the Hosting company. Short story they need to move us to a new server. I have been working with them to plan a good date for all concerned. Here is what we have come up with as a schedule.

    1. November 4th 17:00 -5UTC shut off the forums and start backup proceedures. During this time there will be no access to the forums or the Resource Section.
    2. November 5th Continue with Backups and download same until complete.
    3. November 6th 7:00 turn over server to hosting company to move system to new server
    4. November 7th - 8th restore backups and upgrade forum software.

    If all goes well we should be back online on November 8th.

    To keep you updated we will post updates on AVSIM forums.

    Thank you for your support.

Stupid question

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Lawman

SOH-CM-2026
Question: if you want to use a livery created by one of our fine repaintersđź‘Ź, do you have to download the aircraft to your own harddrive?
 
yes - you can't use repaints on AI aircraft in MSFS as you can in DCS - repaints can only be used on aircraft you have purchased, or freeware you have acquired, and installed to your PC
 
Honestly, I'm not sure. My guess is that, if you own an airplane, even if it is in the cloud and not downloaded, you can still use the repaint. You will only download the plane when you select that plane and repaint.

Personally, I plan on downloading everything I own when installing the sim. If there are updates, good, I'll download them again. It will bloat my disk, but I'd rather save bandwidth for the gaming experience.

Call me old school, but I'm not convinced by the streaming stuff. M$ will have to convince me.

Priller
 
My guess is the plane can be in the cloud if it’s on Marketplace and you can still use a repaint. If it’s from SimMarket, OrbX, etc you will obviously need a local copy.
 
From all the pieces I've gathered, if you're flying the plane, then repaints in your Community folder will work because you're temporarily downloading a copy of the plane to your Official folder with which the repaint can be paired.

I'm trying to work on my grammar...
 
Thanks everybody for your feedback(y). I guess we'll have to wait and see;). I've pre-ordered, but will not install on day one.
 
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