• Which the release of FS2020 we see an explosition of activity on the forun and of course we are very happy to see this. But having all questions about FS2020 in one forum becomes a bit messy. So therefore we would like to ask you all to use the following guidelines when posting your questions:

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Sim Director

Just for some context, I think it's only fair to disclose that I actually work for Lockheed Martin here in Australia, specifically as a Prepar3D courseware developer making SimDirector content as part of air force pilot training. As such, whilst I have a fair bit of experience within SimDirector, it's only in the scope of procedural training, (emergency procedures training, familiarisation, aircraft handling demos etc.) While I have run training sessons on SimDirector, there's so much more to SimDirector than my skill set currently covers and I'm always learning.

I'm not 100% on using SimDirector as a scenery placement tool, though if you need details on creation of missions, adding objects, AI entities, and other funky stuff, I'm happy to help.

Basically, I know enough to be dangerous lol.

David.
Hi David,
I'm an ex-Embraer ground school instructor and very interested in knowing more about SimDirector. To explain my objectives and if at all SD is the correct tool for me, it would be difficult for me to explain precisely in writing. Would it be at all possible we chat via whatsapp? If so, I'm at UCT-3 and my number is +55 48 99829 7387.
Thank you in advance!
 
nbrettoner - I have exactly the same issues with V5.1.12. Only once have I managed to get SimDirector up and that took over 90 minutes wait time. I might add I have V5 Professional. I have few aircraft addons maybe a fair bit of ORBX not a lot and a little bit of other addon scenery or libraries outside P3D in a separate directory - seems to make no difference.

I too would really like to hear from LM or anyone else who may know why this or is this an issue that we are going to have to wait for a fix or something from LM. Very frustrating given that the rest of the sim works flawlessly (well some of the submenus such as Flight Planning can be a bit clunky as well) but other than that very impressed with this True Sky and EA etc handles everything fast slow big city or bush fine BUT SimDirector is a bust!
 
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