Yes thank you that is it. I’ve added to the thread, hopefully orbx do something about this, seems to have been a known issue for a long time.
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Getting Rid Of Roads In SDK
Yes, I managed - the secret was not to try to mix getting rid of vegetation at the same time. One exclusion for the road, and separate exclusion for the vegetation.
I have been a fan of the LongEZ since the early 80’s when I lived in Colorado and saw something weird passing overhead. I had several homebuilder friends that helped me learn all about the “marriage killer” effort to build a LongEZ. I never built one, but have always “owned” one in my flight sims. Back in 2018, I rebuilt an X-Plane 9 version for X-Plane 11, updating the avionics with a new panel layout and a personal livery. And also built a custom livery for the vSkyLabs x-plane LongEZ (which is an absolute pleasure to fly with much better flight modeling than MSFS, but I am enjoying the MSFS LongEZ none-the-less.)
I haven’t added any “homebuilt” mods to the indiafoxtecho LongEZ, but would love “0 trim” and “Takeoff Trim” marks in the cockpit. (I’m not sure the lever moves though when I or the autopilot adjusts the trim.)
I have several hundred sim hours in X-Plane LongEz models, and about 20 hours in the MSFS LongEz as I get to know its personality and handling.
I’ve looked at the Velocity, but prefer the “fighter like” canopy visibility of the LongEz since I sim alone most of the time. I am sure passengers would prefer the shared experience and visibility of the Velocity.
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Where did you get those updates from, especially the Long Island updates?
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I’ve been touring the Scottish coastline in the Icon A5.
As it was getting dark I decided to land in Loch Don and set up camp for the night. In the morning I shall set off for Loch Ness, and stopping on route at Oban airport, North Connel to scrounge some fuel.
It is however a shame that the save doesn’t work. When I load from a save, the game always places me on the nearest runway to my camp location.
Settling in for the night.
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How do you set camp? Is that some addon?
The annoying part about “saving” is that MSFS actually knows how to do that properly, at least on bush trips, you get to continue exactly from where you finished the previous leg.
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It’s the Campout Utility addon by Parallel 42. It works with any aircraft.
I have discovered that the save issue that I’m having is caused by this addon.
MSFS isn’t able to save the camp. So to save, the in game camp needs to be removed from the scene, then the game will save and load the aircraft position on the ground.
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Ref:
https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/what-did-you-do-in-msfs-today-part-2/553275/3071
This is not the trivial “MSFS 2020 flight sim” exercise it might seem to be at first.
During the Second World War, and later on during the Korean War, this was a matter of life and death.
Literally.
Trying to tell a 3-star general, (who knows nothing of flying except where to put his martini next to his seat on the plane), that a DC-3 flight:
- at “
” hundreds of pounds/kgs overweight. . . - using crummy gasoline instead of avgas because avgas wasn’t available. . .
- flying through “
” weather, over mountains that you’re lucky to not crash into in the best of conditions. . .
. . . . that it’s just not possible has cost many an aviator his life, the loss of an irreplaceable aircraft, and millions of dollars worth of valuable supplies on many occasions.
My heart goes out to all the poor souls who gave their lives doing what anyone with half a brain knew was impossible before they started.
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I keep forgetting that’s how army hierarchy worked in WW2 and before. I guess it’s different now. At leas I read somewhere an interview with a new school general “I know some old school generals, who used to think like in WW2 times. Missions used to have acceptable losses. Now the mission is not approved, if it is not at least theoretically survivable.”
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In a way it makes sense. Do pack up before you want to go 
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Reminds me of something I read:
Another:
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I think you can actually beat the sunset in that. If I remember correctly the daylight terminator moves at about 1.3M ground speed
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Certainly can, the sun unsets from the west. It’s quite something, worth flying.
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Unfortunately, I lost 
. My flight time was 2 hours and 13 minutes, with the last 13 minutes at night. I beat the simulator’s est flight time by an hour and 45 minutes though!
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The big issue isn’t the 15 or so community add-ons, it’s the seven-hundred-or-so “official” packages, world updates, and airplanes that came stock and/or were subsequent purchases by me from The Marketplace.
Short of shotgunning this, and possibly borking my install beyond all recognition, how do I know which “official” packages are drop-dead dependencies that shouldn’t be touched, and which can I muck with? My gut feeling is for me to keep my cotton-picking fingers outta the official folder.
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I wouldn’t touch any of the Official addons. Just use the addon linker with the Community addons.
If you want to remove those, use the “My Content” page within the sim to uninstall them. If the sim won’t let you, you can’t. There aren’t many of those, some are used in training or bush flights for example.
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That’s what makes me wonder what Add-ons Linker will do for me.
The only thing I could do is disable all the Russia-specific add-ons when not in Russia. (which is about half.)
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Well one thing is if you were having some issues with your sim, and you easily wanted to disable only certain kinds of addons. Because it’s hierarchical you could easily turn off all airplane, all sceneries or even all GPS addons.
To put it another way, if you are happy to have a massive monolithic Community folder, never turn anything off, and happy to have the impact on loading time that comes with it, then no you don’t need it. 
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What do you consider “massive[ly] monolithic”?
My community folder is less than 1% of the size of my Official folder since the lion’s share of all my content is in the official folder.
If I could selectively trim the official folder, that might make a difference. I don’t know if deselecting five Russian scenery packs will matter that much.
I’m not trying to argue, I’m trying to understand and manage my own expectations.
You’ll get as much out of it as you put in to it. It sounds like you aren’t convinced so I would just drop the whole thing if I were you.
As I said, if it’s the Official folders you are most concerned with, just remove them from the “My Content” page.
For me, what it lets me do is organise a structure to my addons that exists elsewhere on the disk, and that is than transposed across to my Community folder. The Community folder doesn’t allow for this, and has to be a flat structure.
The other thing it lets me easily do is swap between versions of planes. For example, if I wanted to test two different versions, I can now just tick one box, and untick another. No copying or moving folders around, just toggle between them.
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Actually, I really don’t want to “remove” anything. I was hoping to be able to temporarily remove/hide aircraft and scenery I’m not using.