Installing Aircraft into p3D

[Aviator 1]

Hi, I just wanted to look into this before I started. I plan in p3d to buy some Carenado aircraft. Regards installing them do they usually the go strait in ? Or do you have to move files around like some ?

[cowpatz]

The Carenado products have an installer that requires no moving of files.

[BruceR]

Depends which Carenado aircraft you're intend buying. Some have installers for earlier versions of P3D only, and some include installers for the latest P3D version. If you have P3D V3 just double check on the Carenado/Alabeo website that the aircraft you wish to buy has V3 installers. I'm led to believe they intend to include P3D V3 installers on all their aircraft but are working their way through the G1000 equipped aircraft first.

Cheers

Bruce R

[Aviator 1]

Cheers Guys, is v3 free or does it cost extra as I am currently running v2 ? Also if v3 costs what advantages does it have ?

[BruceR]

V3 is not free. If you want it, you will have to purchase it as you did with your previous version. Updates within V3 are free.

Advantages over V2; I never owned V2 so I can't compare, but if you look at the rather large list of improvements and fixes in V3, there must be some obvious advantages.

Bruce R

[toprob]

Yeah, if you are happy with v2, then you could hold off on buying v3, but the general consensus is that v3 is 'the one', where everything starts to just work, including FSX's old memory issues.
And v3 is still a work-in-progress, so it might even get better. But the way their licensing works, it can get expensive to go with every major version change.

EDIT: I just went from here to Avsim, and saw this post. There are a lot of posts like this, and I don't really recall seeing this sort of thing with any previous sim/version.

[Aviator 1]

Many thanks I will take a look.