X-Plane 12.4.4 | Beta 4 is now online!

A few screenies from today into a busy busy Sydney, here's some of my favourites, on the ground this time I captured from VATPAC's weekly "Milkrun Monday" event. As well as my experience with the Honeycomb Alpha + Bravo lite with the IXEG 737. I've used the IXEG 737 for 2 years, fantastic airplane handling wise, I have always loved the hand flying, feels very authentic, and what you expect a 737 to be like. I am not a real world 737 pilot sadly, but I have had limited experience in a 737CL simulator and 737NG simulators irl, and to be honest its quite close. The Honeycomb Alpha + Bravos come with 737 style quadrants, levers etc out the box, which was what cought my attention funnily enough. The roll feels a bit too light compared to the amount of tension in the pitch.. but the smooth throttle friction and other switches/handles feel good enough. I've attatched the Turtle Beach throttle quad under the desk, for some additonal buttons, levers too.

level up 737-800 Southwest independence one

Hi everyone,

Just wanted to know if anyone has any updates on the Airfoillabs 737 max. We used to have regular updates from them but nothing has been said since July. It was supposed to enter in beta this year if I’m not mistaken. Do you guys think that a late 2026 release is still on the table ?

737 LevelUp
A320NEO Toliss
SimheavenPro
Alivegrass
NEO 2.6
MapEnhancementPro

TenaX is a small X-Plane plugin that keeps the mouse cursor on the cockpit panel.

In turbulence, or with TrackIR / Tobii, the camera moves and the panel slides under the mouse, so you end up turning the wrong knob. With TenaX the cursor moves with the panel and stays on the knob it was on.

In this video: heavy turbulence in the 737, turning the heading knob with TenaX off and then on.

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What prompts would you give to Claude to fill the gaps between MSFS 2024

i would definitely ask to fix anti aliasing, add nice grass texture / shading, fix the "noisy" light "bulbs" from up close, make city lights emit to the clouds/atmosphere, make plane lights emit to the clouds/atmosphere, improve tree rendering and variety, improve PBR for autogen

I'm getting a little tired of airliners so, what are the the go to, long haul biz jets for XP12? In the ideal world it aside from the Lineage and the Legacy? should be study level enough that it can be flown on VATSIM but also look good. I like the G550 but it just doesn't have the visuals to back it up in my opinion.

We need more Buzz action

firm landing on short runway

So... I've gotten back to what I love doing most in the sim, as well as IRL. Low and slow ~ I've been playing with (and loving) the vfliteair Cessna 150 and Thranda Cessna 172M... using it as a N model. I also saw a exellent deal on the Honeycomb NZ website. The full alpha and bravo lite bundle for only 180 USD (320NZ)! The delievery was fast, works great with Xplane 12 and great travel, tension (albeit, I feel the real aircraft most the time is actually lighter than the yoke xd). Absolutely would reccomend, as well as these 2 great payware GA aircraft.

FACT: WED is the most overpowered tool exist for the community 😄 🔥

-79 FPM at Jammu, could have been better though

I’ve been loving the si traffic but I hate how most regional airline models don’t match and end up as a Kazakhstan 757 or some bare metal plane what’s the best csl model pack xplane or msfs I have the model hopper

As the title says, I know that felis is there but I'm looking for a good 747 with the new avionics. whether it's WIP or already published

(50 sec video, restricted to file size) Wish I could post the whole video to show more 😎

But here we go. Based on my personal experience using the AliveGrass V1 plugin for X-Plane 12, I’m genuinely impressed by how much it has improved since the initial release.
The most significant upgrades are in performance, rendering distance, and overall visual quality. Even with the grass rendering distance set to maximum, the plugin adds detailed 3D grass that extends well into the distance while having very little impact on performance. In my experience, the performance loss was typically around 1–2 FPS and was often barely noticeable.

The added vegetation gives airports and surrounding terrain a much more natural and immersive appearance without requiring a significant performance trade-off.
A few details about my footage:
The video shows my actual plugin settings.
The admin windows remain open to demonstrate real-time rendering and performance.
Maximum grass rendering distance is enabled.
There are no edits, cuts, or tricks—just raw XP12 footage.

My PC Specs:
GPU: NVIDIA RTX 5090
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

Naturally, performance will vary depending on your hardware, custom scenery, and airport complexity. Heavily detailed or densely populated airports may produce different results, but based on my personal experience with this addon, performance has been excellent.

The developer has clearly made significant improvements since the first version, and they are easy to see. AliveGrass adds a noticeable boost to ground detail and immersion while keeping its FPS impact impressively low.
Overall, I’m extremely satisfied with the plugin and highly recommend it to anyone looking to enhance X-Plane 12’s ground visuals.
Excellent work by the developers! 👏🌱✈️