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**Rev** · June 22, 2015, 10:42 PM

I connected fine... only two barons on the ground, yours and msflights.net... it was a lonely airport

Do you guys have a schedule for some activity?
am a noob really when it comes to prepar3d ... and computer simming in general, wouldn't mind getting a little up to speed over the coming months...
cheers, Rev.

**ROBERT DUNN 2** · June 23, 2015, 06:16 PM

Thanks for your multiplayer connection report, Rev. Additionally and separately, I have changed your forum usergroup from registered user to verified user, an administrative step necessary to fully enable your forum participation. You are now a full fledged community member and the assignment to verified user group adds an ability to read and post external hotlinks.

Rev, at this time there are very few PREPAR3D pilots active. It is my hope and the hope of those P3D enthusiasts to augment those pilot numbers and get something viable going in P3D both here at msFLIGHTS.net as well as in the broader simming world. I encourage you to seek out user ATPJet (who's computer was donated to the community for this P3D hosting purpose). ATPJet is on our TeamSpeak regularly. Additionally, Alex-N5024P, JOSH, Oz-Flyer, Captain Redneck, Waterman and myself have connected successfully to this P3Dv2.5 server. I will personally attempt to expand knowledge of this fledgling P3D multiplayer server more broadly in the coming weeks. There exists several private P3Dv2.5 servers of which I am aware but this msFLIGHTS.net P3D server is intended to be open and public, not restricted to msFLIGHTS.net members and available 24/7. Aspire simming community runs a private P3Dv2.5 server. FsFlyboys runs a private P3Dv2.5 server with unique port forwarded configuration (not our default 6112-6122). Easy Airways runs a public P3D server listed on FSOpen.co.uk/sessions listing but they operate in Espanol and I have never had any luck connecting to Easy Airways' server.

Rev, please post an introduction of yourself, your needs and intentions on our forum introduction section. I'll look for your words there and further attempt to integrate you into our community. In that introduction, please state if you have any other flight simming platforms available to you besides P3D, such as FSX classic boxed edition, FSX Steam edition, the now multiplayer incapable Microsoft Flight or Digital Combat Simulator. All these simming platforms are supported and active within our community. We also have an active Elite Dangerous space simming contingent that is becoming very popular.

**ROBERT DUNN 2** · June 24, 2015, 01:24 AM

I have broadened our community's beta testing of this P3D server with the invocation of some of the tools of FSOpen. However, currently, I do not choose to run the FSOpen text and command bot until I am in personal attendance to the computer hardware on Tuesday, June 30th. This P3D server is now viewable on the FSOpen servers list The listing brands this P3D server as an msFLIGHTS.net facility. The FSOpen TeamSpeak link is to our own. The hotlink URL is our homepage.

This FSOpen server list can be viewed here:

http://fsopen.co.uk/info/sessions/

The FSOpen map hotlink button is correctly connected and that map can be browser-viewed here:

http://www.fsopen.co.uk/maps/index2.php?HostID=3954

The FSOpen pilot list and flight plan hotlink button can be browser-viewed here:

http://www.fsopen.co.uk/gwt/shared/p...e/?HostID=3954

In FSOpen Server2 configuration settings, there is NO ban list. I do not intend to incorporate the community's current FSX classic ban list unless I am counseled otherwise for either philosophical or practical reasons. Except for spawners, no aircraft is FSOpen software blacklisted. In order to facilitate the sometimes packet intensive training aid of cockpit sharing, the packet kick limit is set to NEVER kick. There exists NO runway spawning kicks. In-game voice is DISABLED. Client-pilots can pause their game, slew and completely manage their own realism settings.

As P3D does not have a real world weather feature built into its sim, the weather theme is set to fair weather. Real world weather can be fetched to game client-side only with Active Sky Next or other free and pay weather engines. Your results with third party weather engines may vary.

Server time is set to the community's default of minus 7 hours from real time. The host airport is currently Vancouver International, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada CYVR. The host role is a Baron 58 sitting at GA parking 12 at CYVR.

It is my intention, after another week of open beta testing and refinements (based on pireps) to more fully announce this P3D server's existence on other relevant websites and forums. This includes, but is not limited to, FSXMultiplayer.com (that bot currently in use on our own FSX classic main server), PREPAR3D.com forum, AVSIM and several of the major independent simming communities' websites (I am registered most places).

I solicit both member and staff comment on the general nature, configuration and proposals regarding this platform's multiplayer use. I have generally received affirmative comment on this effort by those concerned within our community, both member and staff. I continue to be fully aware of the contraindicating arguments on the creation of yet another platform within our community such as pilot numbers dilution, fragmentation of existing and new members and additional cost. (The P3D software is sixty bucks US.)

Thanks for reading. This day I have created a thread of announcement on FSOpen forum viewable here:

http://fsopen.co.uk/forum/posts/list...?threadid=3630

**Oz-Flyer** · June 24, 2015, 11:56 AM

Great work Bob,
Thank you for putting in the time to set the P3D server up and making is work for the community to use.
This will add to your community name in the Flight sim world of being one of the leaders.

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msFlights PREPAR3D v2.5 server is now active in open beta test

msFlights PREPAR3D v2.5 server is now active in open beta test

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