Flightsimulation

Orthotopic scenery for X-Plane 12 can be a definite improvement over generated scenery; and if you’re on Windows there’s no problem. On macOS, neither AutoOrtho nor Ortho4XP installs easily on macOS. This post is just to get the word out about a successful approach to installing the latter on macOS running on the Apple Silicon processors. The credit goes to ZackPlonk is a post on the X-Plane.org forums. This is just to get the word out about this successful approach.

Some airports in X-Plane have terrain issues that can be quite entertaining.

This Delta 737-800 got lost in the maze of cargo ramps at PANC and was trying to taxi back to the terminal when it encountered a steep icy taxiway. It required 65% N1 just to get up the slope.

Clearly a fix is required. It turns out to be quite simple. In the global airports file apt.dat, find the offending airport. In this case, it’s PANC where its entry looks like: