Flight Sims (MSFS, P3D, X-Plane, DCS, FS98...)

[untold finch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3uvo2Ohesg
finally

It's a race between the launch and my pre-order stuff arriving now

already on the second set after the first set got lost in the post

[trim harbor]

HYPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

oMGGGG I CANT WAIT

[mortal furnace]

100% delayed

They just should say may

If it dont release 21st haha they will go mad

[trim harbor]

fr

ini really has t work on the a300 performance

this is miserable

[untold finch]

I imagine ED are probably going to halt patch submissions quite early this month to make sure that it's 100% ready to go on May 21st

they'll be testing the absolute bejeezus out of this patch so that they don't suddenly find an issue 3 hours before they're planning to go live

https://forum.dcs.world/topic/233848-patch-status/
Patch status is updated, at least

this is probably the biggest release of the year for DCS, anyone who stuffs it up is getting fired lol

[mortal furnace]

Oh yea this cant go wrong now

[trim harbor]

batc just broke entirely for me

it let me transmit and then gave up on my mic

how

and the center freq it gives apparently doesnt exist

tracon decided to give me FL170 about 200nm away from the airport lol

[hollow oracle]

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/sim-update-15-delayed/640816

4th delay, now over a month

[untold finch]

yep

apparently this one was rumoured for a while

[wide zenith]

the dx12 fix is huge if for real

[mild zenith]

Which airport is this

[untold finch]

Rijeka Airport (LDRI) in Croatia

think it's the World Update 14 handcrafted one

[hollow oracle]

https://tenor.com/view/xqc-slam-slam-desk-desk-slam-xqc-slam-gif-19145485

i fucking always forget takeoff and taxi lights when flying

i only realize right after i take off too, and im like "shit, i didnt even turn on my taxi lights

[hollow oracle]

i somehow managed to crash during an ILS approach into KEWR

i think i might have accidentally put it into single AP, and took manual control way too late, and it put me into a right turn straight into the taxiway wing-down

it actually gave me a full inverted red master warn light too, usually its just the red text master warn

The PAPI lights were showing I was too high too, which was unusual, and there was an extreme crosswind on the approach but not on the field

[eager moon]

If only there were some sort of way you could sort of...pour your vision over the cockpit, kinda like a liquid FLOW. Or even better, some sort of LIST you could CHECK

[hollow oracle]

I use checklists, it’s just the one I use doesn’t have lights as part of it

So my brain sees that I’ve done everything and I move on, even though I didn’t actually do everything

[reef isle]

Why didn't you go around? 😦

[crisp adder]

As Malakhit said, that´s Rijeka airport in Croatia. Cool little airport with an interesting approach.

[tired pond]

Huge news beta wise, people on reddit are reporting the DX12 ground texture bleeding issue is fixed

Handy that SU15 got delayed as this wouldn't have been in it otherwise

[untold finch]

Oh, neat!

[hollow oracle]

(Secretly I did have a successful go around started, but I did absolutely strike my wingtip on the taxiway, and beyondatc is not equipped to handle go around vectoring)

[wide zenith]

it is

see here

I hope this means they fixed gatwick and heathrow director sectors being called approach by batc

[untold finch]

They're really cranking out the updates

Good to see

[wide zenith]

testing batc out in america today, first flight in america too in the msfs :)

first impression since my first flight with it is speech recognition is much better, it understand my paragraph america clearance first time which shocked me lol

[eager moon]

Sounds like you need a new checklist.

[hollow oracle]

definitely, its hard to find one that balances useful information with just way too much info though

[wide zenith]

The entirely realistic Delta 339 into Milwaukee :)

[wide zenith]

I used to create my own, might be worth trying yourself if none of the community ones satisfy your needs

used to take certain checklist items from various ones from the community and then compile it into a google sheets file

as well as making sure certain software was launched ect ect

I had a habit of forgetting to launch VA software loads :x

[eager moon]

For large complex airliners, I tend to make my own based off r/w ones

I have some IRL airline procedure documents, but they're meant for 2 crew so I try to boil them down to single

Get the general cockpit flow memorized, and the checklists should be only items that are necessary for safe and correct flight

[reef isle]

I usually only change flows, and keep checklists the same with airliners

I often find and use real ones ones, and they're fine for me

[dusky leaf]

Supply drop IL2

[trim harbor]

i can give u the real UA 737 or 777 checklist and flight manual

but

they're prob no use for sim tbh 💀

[hollow oracle]

I’ll take the 737 one, I don’t fly Boeing often, but I do know how to fly the 737

[trim harbor]

just checklist?

[hollow oracle]

I’m interested in taking a peek at the flight manual too

[trim harbor]

alr give me a second

btw these r the actual things united use so uh

try not to share them everywhere ig 💀

[hollow oracle]

Holy shit 3000 pages

[trim harbor]

si

[trim harbor]

apache so hot#

[untold finch]

just wish George worked in track files

[trim harbor]

i never learned how to use george 😭

my CPG joined BSD

it jover

[untold finch]

the track files aren't capturing at least one of the inputs sent to George, so he never gets the "fire" command in the replay

infuriating when i want to capture cool missile shots 😄

[untold finch]

Blackwell?

[trim harbor]

nah

09

ka 50 loser

[untold finch]

ahhh ok

[trim harbor]

thats actually funny

is this known

[untold finch]

yeah, we've reported it a few times (happens with Petrovich too)

at least with George it just changes missile mode from LOBL to LOAL and back
with Petrovich it brings up the whole damn countermeasure menu, and that blocks half the screen even in external cameras

[trim harbor]

uhhhh

[tired pond]

I'm finding the US seems best for BeyondATC flights tbh

All 3 flights there I've had and no issues, has been a few updates now though

[hollow oracle]

ive done 2 with beyondATC and havent had any issues

im going to give a speedbird flight a shot though, so that might change

[trim harbor]

The EU is a hit or miss

I hate how they say „roger“ instead of „identified“

Small little ick of mine i guess

[hollow oracle]

theres definately some jargon that it doesnt recognize, which is annoying

like, often youll hear both ATC and pilots say a frequency omitting the 1, but BATC doesnt recognize it

or even just like, "ground point x" for frequencies that are the same but with different decimals

but then theyll say "contact departure" with NO frequency, which is probably realistic but annoying both irl and in-game

[trim harbor]

hate to self love myself but that landing was nice albeit WAYYY to low coming in

https://medal.tv/games/microsoft-flight-simulator/clips/2c0ptTXKivpFm_/d1337mCxvyY3?invite=cr-MSxVbWosMjY0NTM3NTQs

[trim harbor]

they do?

i never experienced that

[wide zenith]

in America they give it in the clearance

[trim harbor]

even then, i still recall getting sent over to any controller with a frequency given

i used to both fly and control in canada and the us

one icky thing i also noticed with batc is that it makes u use decimal instead of point

it's realistic but annoying

[wide zenith]

In the two flights in usa today I just got told to go to departure, no freq. I listened to kden tower for a bit and thats how its done irl too it seems. Just callsign contact departure

[wide zenith]

its cool it simulates the difference tho in air space phraselogy

albeit inconsistently

[trim harbor]

i know but

mfg

annoying asf

im used to saying point and i get confused to why it doesnt just accept me using it

[wide zenith]

mfw when batc wont accept my landing clearance cause i said 09R and not 9R

[wide zenith]

also big agree with this, usa flights are so much smoother

[trim harbor]

i feel like the us is also less complicated kinda

and also 'lined up and cleared for takeoff'

why not just say 'cleared for takeoff'

thats saving me a few characters for premium voices fr

[hollow oracle]

ngl, writing a checklist for my own needs is kind of satisfiying

because i can just, make it to what i forget the most and not have a shit ton of excess info

[hollow oracle]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6ZM6RmxQn8/?igsh=ZTQxazVqN2Z2OGVt

microsoft

We got the team together for a Microsoft Flight Simulator landing challenge. 10/10 would do again.

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[hollow oracle]

sometimes, i question why the fenix a320 is as highly regarded as it is

i cant even reset this IRS alignment error too, and only the right flypad is working

[hollow oracle]

the best part of landing screenshots is that you cant see how absolutely horrible the landing was

also, i just found out that the displays on the fenix literally render individual pixels too

[eager moon]

Reinstall? Some other pos addon conflicting with it? B78X mods are known to do that. And the garbage salty 747 too. Either way, these are not common issues on the Fenix.

[hollow oracle]

it ended up going away after they aligned normally, i have no clue why

[abstract mural]

Woops xD

[mild zenith]

Very nice, you made me go into the sim after a long time 😂

[dusky leaf]

Is DCS create fast mission borked for everyone? invalid stoi argument

[abstract mural]

Haven't tried but I can ask someone

Or, if you're german I can invite you on a relatively large server where you can get professional help

[untold finch]

Black Square Dukes are out, glad they gave up on waiting for SU15

You just won't be able to use the WT430/530 if you don't have the beta installed

[untold finch]

between these, the DA-50RG and DCS, I've got way too much to fly lately 😄

[dusky leaf]

Some say I need professional help 😆

Opened a ticket

[untold finch]

Major bugfix patch for the 146 too

Just Flight are on fire lately

[eager moon]

I'm waiting for that F70/100 and Avro RJ

[reef isle]

aren't we all?

although I'm looking forward to the A300B4 the most

[tired pond]

Fokkers for me lmao

KLM cityhopper time

[reef isle]

NLM Cityhopper > KLM Cityhopper 😛

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/NLM_CityHopper_Fokker_F28-4000_Volpati-1.jpg

[eager moon]

Yeah an a300 from a better MSFS dev than ini would be great. ini stuff in xplane was great but their MSFS stuff lacks a lot

[trim harbor]

Widebodies where :((((

[untold finch]

The A300-600R is pretty solid now honestly

[tired pond]

First flight on beyond atc where it's given me an entirely new star and runway

Flying KLGA to KBOS

[reef isle]

It's just that I don't really care about the -600 😅

The B4 is a lot more interesting to me

please, someone, anyone, do a good one for either Xplane or MSFS

[trim harbor]

Performanc eis still horrid

Is

[agile oak]

L-1011 my beloved

[untold finch]

I may have caved and bought the Kola map. The initial surge of disappointed and angry bad reviews seems to have worn off, and some more balanced takes have since come out which swayed me.

[reef isle]

landed in Atlanta

[tired pond]

It had me too high for the first visual annoyingly but second went well

[wide zenith]

I present to you Istanbul airport

[trim harbor]

sorry what

[wide zenith]

idek

truly one of the airports of all time

[trim harbor]

LOL

is that istnabul again

[wide zenith]

yuppp

the workforce to staff that must be insane lol

[trim harbor]

i cant believe that's real

it cant be right

[wide zenith]

it might be a bit exaggerated by batc but

the ground is at least accurate

and a lot of the approach plates have varying approach freqs too

[trim harbor]

what the hell

'contact ground 9'

[wide zenith]

on 121.875 or 129.925

[trim harbor]

have fun taxiing from one place to the other

going thru 9 ground frequencies

[wide zenith]

I wish BATC simulated it 😔

[trim harbor]

not yet

[wide zenith]

imagine

god it would be so funny

[trim harbor]

rip premium voices

gonna be an expensive flight

[wide zenith]

traffic intensity 10 + istanbul

100 pound a flight ezpz

i hope they can also add it in so you switch to tower when you cross runways

ground giving clearance to cross runway and not tower

[trim harbor]

please change the roger to identified 🙏

[trim harbor]

god brother

i hope they add the option to make AI use basic voicelines

and basic atc

[wide zenith]

pls

[wide zenith]

FR

they better make it so the controller also replies to the traffic in basic not premium

fuck the traffic

[trim harbor]

yes

actual 100 pound/flight

@reef isle what happend there

[reef isle]

Oh right now?

ahahah

yeah...

don't worry about it

I was just leading so that a friend of mine could follow, we were doing very basic formation aerobatics (just a couple of wingovers and stuff) then we did a break to land, and I only did the former hahah

[untold finch]

https://tenor.com/view/asteroid-earth-destruction-explosion-armageddon-gif-26592167

[reef isle]

ahahah yeah, I've no idea how to fly the Tornado

[untold finch]

I have had the same issue, the manual describes what is happening quite well

You have to flare quite early, because the tailerons are so effective that they will actually push the whole aircraft down if you flare late/hard

Both mine have been more akin to carrier landings too

[reef isle]

Interesting, but yeah, I was just too slow, and I think pretty much stalled at 10 feet or so and died

but it's not a problem, I'm not planning to learn how to fly the Tornado properly, I only got it for model matching, and I've been persuaded to do a bit of leading from a friend of mine... so yeah, I stopped caring after we did the break to land 😅

also thanks Volanta for not asking me wether a want a flight to be tracked 🙄 sometimes I forget to kill it

[trim harbor]

man

it really has problems with the 3s

[reef isle]

Can you try and say it more like "tree" instead of "free"?

I think that would be the correct ICAO phraseology

also does it care about nine/niner?

[trim harbor]

i say niner by default so idrk

it cares alot of point and decimal tho

[reef isle]

sound really annoying, often on VATSIM I get this "regional variation" things wrong and nobody bats an eye

[trim harbor]

as do i lmfao

i use point in the eu as well

[reef isle]

Pfft, I sometimes use decimal in the US and point in the EU... I try to do use the correct phraseology, but it mostly depends on wheter I've been flying the most recently ahah 😅

The biggest thing I always look out for is to not group numbers together in the EU and to call for P/S in the US

but other than that I think everything I could have got wrong I did at some point

[trim harbor]

wuts p/s

[reef isle]

push and start

[trim harbor]

oh

i group numbers together

sorry EU controllers

[reef isle]

ahah, it's a lot more convenient but it's just an america thing

[trim harbor]

they're more grumpy usually anyway

[reef isle]

I don't even know if they do it in Canada

[trim harbor]

the same as the us

[reef isle]

Fair enough

[trim harbor]

the only real difference is that u get the qnh in ur taxi cleareance

and u have to read that back too

other than that it's the same as the us

[reef isle]

oh I always read it back 😅

it's just ingrained in my brain that you always read back the QNH/Altimeter

[trim harbor]

oh

idrk thats jsut how i learned it when controlling ig

[reef isle]

no, that's probably fine, now that you say it I've often hear pilots not read back the altimeter

oh well...

the controller isn't going to die because I take 2 seconds longer for a readback

[trim harbor]

no

unless u fly in the uk

where every milisecond matters

[wide zenith]

all the night stops in Athens tonight

[trim harbor]

ayo colored cabins

bruh

why do the center frequencies never exist anymore

when u restart batc

have to go to approach and they send me down to Fl190

mad glitchy

guess i'll be stuck w warsaw depature until i descend in albania l o l

[hollow oracle]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4FqWFIpCB9/?igsh=ZDRjYnMxbWlwaHlr

ana.japan

💫🌛Perfect night 🌜💫
#そらっち #SORACCHI
#perfectnight #perfectnightchallenge
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More regular aviation related than flight sims but I fucking love him

[dusky leaf]

If anyone comes across the DCS create fast mission error above renaming dcs/savedgames folder fixed it so was likely a mod caused it

[dusky leaf]

Was the seahawk variant that caused it

[hollow oracle]

star wars squadrons is fucking insane, because its seriously on the level of like real flight sims but its just star wars

[hollow oracle]

my favorite feature is how if you blow up the fighter infront of you, youll hit the debris cloud and hear the parts hitting against your hull

[eager moon]

Dukes are great.

[crisp adder]

I did a ~3 hour flight with the COWS DA-42 yesterday, enjoying the fantastic weather in Northern Germany. Very relaxed, MSFS really was pretty.

[reef isle]

A friend of mine is also using that Diamond a lot

Seems to be a nice aircraft

[untold finch]

It'll get even better shortly, the beta version has a bunch of failures and stuff modelled.

When that hits the full public release I'll be flying it a lot.

[crisp adder]

Oh, that´s cool! Do you have a link to read about those upcoming features?

[crisp adder]

It is really nice. Flies well, sounds and looks fantastic and is overall a very good "daily driver".

[untold finch]

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l75IaUxqRdaJUfPoZbWVFmffzGQSmHkVU
F-4 Phantom soundtrack is out on YouTube, hopefully on spotify later

[reef isle]

niiiiiiice 😄

[trim harbor]

i can fly again

[trim harbor]

@reef isle i've remembered this now, yes, theres a difference if u say three and tri

it detects or accepts it better

[reef isle]

Cool

[rustic charm]

The LVFR A340 is out, if anybody uses their stuff

[wide zenith]

Ibiza send

[abstract mural]

https://store.heatblur.com/collections/apparel

Remember, it's only there 'till Monday

[dusky leaf]

Freeware OH-6A, only done a quick traffic pattern, but seems pretty nice

[reef isle]

Is it realistic the way torque seems to "jump" from time to time?

[dusky leaf]

🤷‍♂️ cant say I noticed, only had a 5 min run

Torque will fluctuate with blade loading though

Or rather disk loading

[reef isle]

yeah that makes sense, it's just that sometimes it will quickly change

in the Hind it's a lot slower and predictable, but of course it's a much larger helicopter

[dusky leaf]

The new x-trident AW109

[trim harbor]

ayo they made a aw109?

[dusky leaf]

https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/forums/topic/246655-new-bird-aw-109-sp/&page=39#comments

[trim harbor]

oh shit

thats sick

[dusky leaf]

Hovering from external view with popouts

WN35

[trim harbor]

how much si it

[dusky leaf]

$45

[trim harbor]

seems acceptable

unlike flyjsim

who upped their dash price from $80 to $100 😭

[untold finch]

and has a much newer+smarter governor

[dusky leaf]

Did an approx 2000ft vertical descent into here just to see how she handled it with autopilot and SAS off. Absolutely lovely

[hollow oracle]

https://youtu.be/FaiAIkMQhMQ?si=VgNAckgdTGGDIhf7

god bless digdug

im glad im not the only person that fucking hates the install process

its actual hell

[rustic charm]

Oh installing wasn’t actually that bad

I just let it download overnight

The only issue was I forgot to turn off the sound on my laptop so MSFS menu soundtrack was playing half of the night

[mild zenith]

It's only a nightmare if you have it on disc 💀

Also does anyone else have to alt + enter to get msfs to full screen since it doesn't launch in full screen after game restart even tho set full screen in settings

[hollow oracle]

For me it took over a week

On both my PC and laptop

It kept crashing out of nowhere

[eager moon]

yeah that's not normal lol

most of the time it's just crazy long install times for me, and it requires constant babysitting

download speed normally runs at 200-300mbit/s but occasionally drops down to ~1mbit/s and never recovers. I have to close the installer and restart it, then it goes right back up to the 200-300 again

Happens on both the systems I have it installed on too

[alpine coral]

Same

It still took a while cause the speed was inconsistent

[green egret]

installing the su15 beta took me 5 hours

[reef isle]

on what product?

[green egret]

this one

[agile oak]

plen

[trim harbor]

Absolute ripoff for that price

[untold finch]

AzurPoly (who make the great C-160 and that new OV-10 that everyone's raving about) are working on a SEPECAT Jaguar

that ought to be fun

[trim harbor]

https://www.reddit.com/r/hoggit/s/WiqpXaYCzo

Hype

It didnt copy the yt link

Pain

[shadow burrow]

not really

its just as if not better than the majestic honestly

[trim harbor]

No plane is worth $100, not even dcs

I can see to why but

[reef isle]

Challenger?

[trim harbor]

xplane is $60 right

Or wasnt it upped

I forgot

[trim harbor]

I still find it really expensive, albeit more willing to purchase for the features u get

Is flyjsim better than majestic

Yes

Waves better

Unless a plane/heli is on the level of the C650, I find it hard to justify $100+ , $80 is the maxium imho

[shadow burrow]

70?

idk weird american rubles

[trim harbor]

Idrk myself

I forgot the price they updated

[green egret]

its quite high but the aircraft is insanely good

xplane addons in general are quite expensive

i dunno why they increased the price though

[trim harbor]

ehhh it's fine

im not too much of a dash fan myself irl but

the flights i've flown with it went great

the performance is absolutely horrible though

[hollow oracle]

blue raspberry flavored united

they call it boing because thats the noise it makes when it hits the ground

[trim harbor]

they need to go back to either one

[agile oak]

Battleship

[reef isle]

Well, those are the last 2 united liveries

It's been Continental, just under a different name since 😅

(in terms of liveries)

[hollow oracle]

the continental livery is where they peaked, but i feel like its kind of lame just to copy another livery and paste the new name on it

the new one is too corpo logo simplification-y for me

[echo gorge]

very much so, evo blue is mid

[hollow oracle]

the continental livery is very pleasing, with the blue and gold

[echo gorge]

really though battleship grey and proper COA are peak

[wide zenith]

I have a deeper appreciation for irl and vatsim controllers, this was not easy

[reef isle]

I'm a bit torn between Battleship Grey and Blue tulip, but definitely they're both better than United/Continental, I always thought that was really lame :/

[hollow oracle]

battleship grey is horrible

the tiny tail logo, the font, the grey, red, and navy blue

the tulip is a little bit better, but still not really great

gradients are an issue, they made the tail logo TOO big this time, but i like the white and blue, plus the new font and the inclusion of the original logo

[trim harbor]

@shadow burrow

https://www.x-plane.com/kb/x-plane-12-1-0-release-notes/

[shadow burrow]

nice

[dusky leaf]

Remember its a beta

[trim harbor]

performance needs to be better

for me to install xp again

idk why but the unsharp textures that i get r a real dealbreaker

[reef isle]

[echo gorge]

L

surprised they didn't get yeeted

or fall out of the sky

[trim harbor]

https://youtu.be/iBvU5OkIUcs

No pilot customising at release

[shadow burrow]

I’ve had this happen before in the rotate

1.1-1.3 had awful autoland/autopilot systems that worked about 10% of the time as they should have

Just turn AP off, stabilise and continue

The Hager 388 was the same for xp10

Had the same issues with tracking but that might have just been the default 9/10 FMS being fucked

[reef isle]

I think the most likely explanation a friend of mine come up with is that after overflying the destination it must have gone in CWS mode, and somehow start to oscillate like that

[neon juniper]

Finally back to flying after my exams (and with some new equipment) :3
(shoutouts to @neat stirrup for being the PM)

[wide zenith]

Better have had the aer lingus boarding music 👀

[neat stirrup]

about that 😅
we had none

[hollow oracle]

Why even fly aer lingus if you don’t have their boarding music

[neat stirrup]

because we freaking can

[wide zenith]

hell yeah, besides the livery is good already. the boarding music is just the cherry on top

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9T59WvLF1U

[untold finch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVfWW-QC9ks

[untold finch]

it looks great
but the exterior sounds are horrible

sounds nothing like any footage i've ever heard

[neon juniper]

Noted for next time

[trim harbor]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4m8lyxbCVw

omg CREAM

[untold finch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFNid61IR44

[trim harbor]

it looks great

idrk the sounds irl, they sound fine to me

[untold finch]

listen to 1:55 - 2:05 of Tricker's video

then listen to this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyxB-mm_E2E

it should be a real screechy noise

[trim harbor]

oh lol

i see what u mean now

thats actually quite awful

[untold finch]

yeah
but honestly, if that's the only bad thing i can find to say about it... it's looking like it'll be quite a good release

not like i fly it from the exterior 😉

[trim harbor]

im just happy for another CW airplane really

toobad its blufor but technically its redfor too ig so

[untold finch]

Iran always provides

[trim harbor]

i dont think i ever flew the IRAF F14 now that i think about it

they use the A right

[rustic cedar]

damn that sky pretty

[untold finch]

They use an earlier A model that we don't have yet, but is planned. I think you can get close by taking the wing root pylons off.

[rustic charm]

MSFS has real pretty skies indeed when you look at it right

Helped me a bit. In my school I passed a photography exam with just MSFS screenshots as “photos made looking out of a plane’s window”

Everyone believed those were real photos

[tired pond]

Lmao

[wide zenith]

Down in chitose

[wide zenith]

Doesn't surprise me, I have to double take so many pics I see on volanta

also can batc stop not recognising my landing clearance on short final >:( very rude

[rustic charm]

I’m gonna have to buy batc at some point too

[trim harbor]

its great

needs abit of ironing out though

and mazbe a price adjustment for the future

[trim harbor]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIIcYEbJGUk

[shadow burrow]

I guess? Seems like a really standard oscillation pattern tho

[green egret]

5 hours to gran canaria

[trim harbor]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmrVKzvA8Ho

seems like it'll finally comes out to the greater public soon

cant wait

[untold finch]

yeah i'm quite excited for it

[trim harbor]

i hope they fix the flightmodel

it flies like the 787

imho feels super shit

thats my only complaint

[untold finch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5oJUPPo8zQ

[trim harbor]

omgg yes

engima www

[reef isle]

That's really cool 😄

[trim harbor]

when msfs :(

[reef isle]

yeah... not anytime soon I don't think

[trim harbor]

i mean they got other planes on their plate so its understandable

[reef isle]

and now that they're doing the XL I can see most people being happy with that

[trim harbor]

wut xl

[reef isle]

Beluga XL

it's coming out with MSFS 2024

[trim harbor]

oh wait are they?

oh yeah i totally forgot about that actually

[reef isle]

yeah 😄

[trim harbor]

whens msfs 2024 coming

[reef isle]

not known, most people guessing around August/September

[trim harbor]

man i totally forgot about that

[reef isle]

Yeah but A300 Beluga is cooler 😎

KLM 73 got eaten

[rustic charm]

I will probably get a lot of backlash for this but I don’t really like the beluga

[trim harbor]

its a unique aircraft

thats about it

i just find cool to what it can haul

[rustic charm]

Yeah it’s unique, and indeed the transport capabilities are kinda cool, but it’s not got much more than that

[trim harbor]

yes

dats very true

[reef isle]

I just think the aircraft is cool and it gives you opportunities to do routes and visit airports that you usually wouldn't do since I do real routes 99% of the time

This one in particular is a bad example as I just did LFBO - LIMF -EHAM

But EDHI, EGNX, LPLA are cool airports, and the Beluga is definitely one of the biggest aircraft that operates out of those relatively small airfields, it also went to NASA's Shuttle Landing Facility (and other destinations in the Americas) with some very interesting routings, since it can't cross the Atlantic in one trip if loaded)

Also it has unique and interesting flying characteristics and systems (for example it doesn't have VNAV)

I sent this a while ago, and I think it's a good example of what I'm talking about, overflying EDDH while on the ILS to land at EDHI, with what other big transport category aircraft would you have the chance to do that 😄

And it's fun because it's still somewhat analogue, unlike the new 330 based one

I can see that being really boring, especially with the flight dynamics in MSFS 😬

[dusky leaf]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1072974190778519594/1240548075010002975/Cessna_CitationX_-_2024-05-16_14.12.43.png?ex=6646f5ed&is=6645a46d&hm=03982545439333b0d236bfc9b7486b23b258c6ccbfe00520601804ad51c8bea3&

XP 12.1

[trim harbor]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u2yLEM1iHM

[trim harbor]

holy shit

[shadow burrow]

Jesus Christ

[dusky leaf]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1073261205550006302/1240711938728656947/image.png?ex=66478e89&is=66463d09&hm=6197e7af513762d191e3654ea3296e2e383bb06d24cb7a3419216bb1a81347f5&

Cloud shadows 12.1

[trim harbor]

tfw xp look better than msfs

[shadow burrow]

XP night lighting has always been leagues ahead of any other sim

But fucking hell

This is beyond anything

I was saying they would have to pull a massive one out the bag for them to even come close to competing with MSFS but this looks like they have

Holy fuck

[alpine coral]

Woah 👀

[untold finch]

That is really rather good

[tired pond]

I'm really surprised how good xp is looking now

Might tempt me to dust it off and get the ixeg update

[neon juniper]

bwoah

[tired pond]

The issue I'll end up having is telling the difference between xp and msfs screenshots now lmao

[wide zenith]

I've been wanting to redownload xp for 757 and 767 but effort

[rustic charm]

Hopefully we'll have a 757 in MSFS soon

I'd also really like a 707, 717 and 727

[trim harbor]

cl650

[untold finch]

B-52 is on the way as well

Just need a Tu-95 to compare

[wide zenith]

luv this

[rustic charm]

Don’t even mention Soviet/Russian planes. They were very good, and to add to that I’m also way too biased

[wide zenith]

honestly cant wait, don't think ill stop flying it for at least a month

[untold finch]

https://tenor.com/view/tupolev-white-swan-ussr-soviet-bomber-gif-26844920

gib blackjack

[rustic charm]

A month? I’ve been flying one same plane for like 6 months already and it’s not even new

Once the 757 comes and I learn it (it’ll take s while probably) will fly only it for like 6 months too probably

[wide zenith]

tbf I used to be like that in xp11 with the zibo

I used to constantly do RYR ops out of EGSS

[wide zenith]

https://tenor.com/view/cr1tikal-penguinz0-meme-woo-yeah-baby-gif-19316511

[reef isle]

I'd love a Tu-95 or a Tu-114 😄

[trim harbor]

better not be a lag fest

[rustic charm]

Don’t forget the 154

[dusky leaf]

Thats one of the big things (the main thing ?) xp is effort to get good, msfs is plug and play

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1144529656402432000/1240764547737063545/SayIntentionsTrailer_4.mp4?ex=6647bf88&is=66466e08&hm=52c32113d658af03ac0be6701fb0ccdfe3941bbb22d4475b6c7a38216420f453&

looks interesting

Scrub that, £30 per month! no chance!

[hollow oracle]

jesus christ

[eager moon]

Same price as pilot edge. AI shit is expensive. It's back and forth for me, they're updating it literally daily and are very responsive to fixing things

But the experience is far from perfect right now

Given a few months, I think it will be worth it

They're also very focused on lowering operating costs and Brian has mentioned multiple times wanting to reduce the subscription fee

He also gave the time frame for lowering the sub costs at a few months as well

So worth keeping an eye on. And making use of the free trial (which they reset every now and then) as well.

[hollow oracle]

i think the more bang for your buck is beyondATC

its not as developed, but its cheaper and functions probably about as good

[wide zenith]

It'll probably just come down to which is just more accurate. BATC has a long way to go for me to consider using it on as a default program when I launch the sim

I can't trust it yet, and whenever I fly I'm using it as a suggestion more than an instruction. which sorta defeats the purpose >.>

I'd also love to see one of these programs take a shot at implementing SRA approaches😅

[trim harbor]

$30 a month jeez

rich people program

[reef isle]

Pilotedge is cheaper

[trim harbor]

PE is based

i been wanting to try it out since the quality is probably realllllllllllly good

[reef isle]

do it 😄

[trim harbor]

is there any demo stuff or

[reef isle]

Controllers are not afraid to point out any mistake you make though 😬

[trim harbor]

which is good imo

[reef isle]

there is

[reef isle]

agreed

[trim harbor]

cant get better if u dont know what ur doing wrong

i feel like id need abit more practice in my aircrafts before jumping into PE, theyre very well trained and i really dont wanna mess up

[untold finch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ9ZfxhzEUg

[trim harbor]

heatblur pls drop early

[untold finch]

it's not in their hands now 😄

[trim harbor]

ed pls drop early

idk if i can wait any longer

[dusky leaf]

Pilot edge is great if you are happy with the price and the area. The difference is that the controllers actually know their stuff. Night and day compared to vatsim. I only stopped cos I got fed up with the area

Active times is a thing too, need to watch their times fit in with you

[trim harbor]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXz41sNfD9U

[dusky leaf]

In those jets things happen a bit too quickly for an old bugger like me. Tempted by the phantom, but I think I’ll stick to IL2 for fixed wing

[trim harbor]

what would be a good airport to store a bizjet at

in the us

[untold finch]

Dupage

KDPA

[trim harbor]

2 hours till nicaragua

flying to the southpole is a 3 leg trip one way

[trim harbor]

f1444444444444

goodman

[trim harbor]

locked her up for the night

[trim harbor]

lol

[full plank]

the pasta I had Prepar3D to consume during this flight indeed went quite hard

[reef isle]

❤️

[dusky leaf]

Ventillation

[rustic charm]

Aer Lingus

Gotta start flying their stuff just for that boarding music

[wide zenith]

The ATR is great too if you ever wanted something different

I need to do some Canary islands hops in it soon 😅

[lethal jasper]

How do you even maintain cruise speed with it?

[rustic charm]

The only correct way to fly into Canary Islands is in a classic Boeing 747

[trim harbor]

https://stormbirds.blog/2024/05/19/preview-first-impressions-of-heatblurs-dcs-f-4e-phantom-ii/

Quite a good read

[reef isle]

Does anyone here fly the Tu-134A3 on Xplane?

https://github.com/VYLL864/Tu-134-Churchella/releases

This one

[reef isle]

Sorry I need to vent, I've been trying to start this effing aircraft for like 1 and half days straight (my foolish past self though "oh now that I have some more free time I'll finally learn the Tu134), no matter what manual I followed or what video (everything was in russian btw ) I just couldn't, and I don't want to brag or anything but I have never ever struggled to start an aircraft before, not in DCS, not in Xplane, not in MSFS, Tu-154, fine, MiG-21, fine, Dassault Mercure (in FSX), fine...

So I finally found a person on reddit that was still active and that flew this aircraft so I could ask for help, I sit down, try to start it for what must have been like the 50th time between yesterday and today (the only difference was that I was recording) and of course it fucking starts perfectly as the manual describes

like,

I think I would have been less frustrated if it just didn't work at all

I'm not a superstitious person, but things like this really make me question myself sometimes...

[agile oak]

https://tenor.com/view/top-gear-reliant-robin-space-shuttle-gif-11475267145103612663

[eager moon]

You're missing the Occam's razor explanation of flight sims are just shitty inconsistent programs

[reef isle]

Most likely somehow what I did during that latest attempt was different in some way, although I really have no idea what that is

good thing I recorded it at least... aahah

uff... that's (more or less) 2 days of my life I'll never get back 🥲

if anyone's curious here's the video

well, all that matters is that I managed to do it before tomorrow so I can fully focus on the Phantom 😄

[agile oak]

hot

[trim harbor]

a300 cute

[untold finch]

Phantom delayed by a day

[abstract mural]

F4 is delayed

Classic ED

Found something bla bla bla, needs to be fixed before release, bla bla bla, we'll delay it

[trim harbor]

Ur joking

Oh my fucking god

[untold finch]

ED gonna ED

[trim harbor]

I exchanged shifts

To fly this damn thing

[untold finch]

https://tenor.com/view/james-roday-shawn-spencer-it-was-you-so-it-was-you-psych-gif-10443168

You jinxed it! 😉

[crisp adder]

Never pre-order.||I´m guilty of it myself and should just STFU. 😅 ||

[trim harbor]

Nah, heatblur got all the money

Idrm if they get it for a very good product

The videos dont disappoint

[reef isle]

For me the problem isn't really the preorder, it's just the fact that, unlike early timelines, when you give a release date for a product that has been in development for 2 years, 2 weeks before the release, you are kind of sending the message "we're finally done, we are at a stage where we're 99.99999% sure this is when it's going to release"

Honestly as the guy on Reddit said for me it wasn't unfeasible that the patch and the plane was already set in stone and ready for release when the video dropped, and they were just waiting just to build up hype, and to give CCs visibility.

I'm really disappointed and confused (as a beta tester myself - not for DCS), of how a huge game breaking bug only came up during "final check" as BIGNEWY said, and if it did, surely the builds before that were still playable enough that testers got along fine without discovering that bug.

It's impossible to take decisions from the outside, but it's hard to understand why this was better than a patch followed by a hotfix, if anything, just so that the community wouldn't explode

[reef isle]

Apparently BIGNEWY said this on Discord, which makes a lot more sense

[mortal furnace]

Haha denied F4

[crisp adder]

To be honest, it´s been a while since I was into DCS and its issues (especially since ED still seems to be too deep in cahoots with Russia for my taste) but a lot of these issues come from companies building up a hype that often times under-delivers, leaving consumers in unhappy places. And pre-orders are directly linked to this issue as they are a way to profit from (often times) un-warranted hype, essentially tricking costumers to chip in with their cash without having any sort of review of the actual product they order.

It´s not just a DCS thing, other companies do it as well, teasing content, creating hype and then using a certain trust especially from loyal costumers (or people infected by the hype) to potentially generate more money. Unfortunately it´s often hard to resist, especially when there´s artificial FOMO included, and it takes a lot of effort from the costumers (especially if they´re the loyal kind; been there with DTG) to just patiently wait. Hence my blacked out remark.

As for the Phantom, it sucks but it´s hardly the end of the world. And maybe a good time to reflect on companies and their potentially predatory marketing practices.

[mortal furnace]

Knew it would be delayed quite funny watch that community go skitz 🤣

[reef isle]

I agree, and yeah, as long as the delay is just a couple of days I'm fine. My personal "deadline" if you can call it that would be the end of the month, if it gets delayed beyond that I'm ready to cancel the preorder and honestly stop supporting DCS entirely.

At the same time, while I do not disagree with your message in general, I wouldn't have felt any different if I didn't preorder and I was just waiting for it to release 🙂

[reef isle]

Well, it doesn't really affect me, but feel sorry for all the people that got a day off (or tried to build their work schedule) so that they'd have today as free as possible. I don't really find it that funny 😅

[mortal furnace]

ED and 3rd parties will never learn about giving exact dates

[untold finch]

Yeah taking a day off for a launch is always a risk

[reef isle]

Yeah, I know, I still feel sorry for them

[mortal furnace]

If they have been around dcs long enough they should know this happens

Its one of them

[echo gorge]

sure, still sucks for them though

[mortal furnace]

Id never have or plan for any release on any game but then im alot older now

[untold finch]

Yeah, video games aren't worth it

I only get so many days off per year, may as well use them to spend time with loved ones

[trim harbor]

I was planned to have night shift but traded it for day to play the entire night

Lesson learned

Im doubting it‘ll stay at a day of delay tbh

[mortal furnace]

Same

I know devildog gamer has got to get a copy yet of pre release and that was yesterday i think

I know casmo GR Gs tricker got a copy ages ago

Devildog wanted a copy to

[agile oak]

smol

[untold finch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b6DKfTsc7c

(trailer dropping today, module coming tomorrow, as a way of saying "sorry" for the delay)

[reef isle]

I SURVIVED MY FIRST FLIGHT WITH THE TU134! 😄

this has been the first aircraft that properly challenged me in a very long time

I'm still so far away from being able to fly on VATSIM

(I'm also not using any virtual crew member)

[shadow burrow]

oh damn nice

yeah

I can fly it but it does ever so slightly make me want to top myself whenever I get to anything outside of normal ops

[reef isle]

Do you use the B or the A?

[trim harbor]

das crazy

[neat stirrup]

a while ago

[trim harbor]

finally almost t/d

[wide zenith]

so BMWorld and amsim just sniped another flightbeam product lol

https://inibuilds.com/products/bmworld-amsim-san-francisco-ksfo-msfs

[untold finch]

yeah i can't see this being half as good

i'll save my coins, I think

that said, BMW/AMS stuff is definitely getting better than it used to be

[tired pond]

I quite like their Oakland tbh and their Phoenix is quite nice too

[untold finch]

agreed

[tired pond]

Also everyone being very confused about FlyTampa making Humberside Airport but I'm actually glad as it's perfect for me doing KLM cityhopper flights once the Fokkers come out

[wide zenith]

yup! I think its great to diversify their products too. doing a bit of everything doesn't hurt

looks really good from a stream I watched earlier

[untold finch]

i picked this up immediately, after i saw that they'd modelled Thunderbird 3

[wide zenith]

I'll probably hold off on this for now, gonna wait for FB then I'm gonna invest in the west coast holy trinity of KLAX,KSFO and KLAS

[tired pond]

I'll hold off until sale or when the fokkers come out tbh

[untold finch]

We need a BAe JetStream for it as well

Eastern fly them out of there daily iirc

[tired pond]

Yeah to Aberdeen

3 KLM's a day though

[untold finch]

can only do the occasional Eastern E170 replacement to Aberdeen atm

rare though

I don't think their ATRs cover that route

but yeah, KLM to EHAM is not bad, quite close too

[tired pond]

Yeah, that's what I love about cityhopper that you've got lots of short hops

[untold finch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmU1fzPsq94

[trim harbor]

https://www.reddit.com/r/hoggit/s/RMR7GsVDo3

[wide zenith]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GFMkRu5XmI

EDDF and a330 engine previews

[lethal jasper]

We shall see... xD

[shadow burrow]

B

[reef isle]

Oh nice, I was using the A

[shadow burrow]

Yeah fuck that haha

[reef isle]

ahahahahahhahh

[shadow burrow]

Slightly “less refined” shall we say

[reef isle]

just a bit (it has the navigator station that is equivalent of that of a Lancaster) 😛

[reef isle]

what have you done so far?

[trim harbor]

mavs and lgbus

[reef isle]

I've done a bit of formation, dumb and TV guided boms and Bullpups

[reef isle]

Oh nice

[trim harbor]

im going to try runway bombing now

[reef isle]

I'll have to try mavs

[trim harbor]

do u perhaps know what bombs

they r

[reef isle]

errrr

[trim harbor]

mk82s snakeyes?

[reef isle]

I think so

the high drag ones

[trim harbor]

naughty

[trim harbor]

@reef isle

do u perhaps know to why the reticle doesnt wanna move anymore

what button it is

[reef isle]

I don't know

are you in the right mode?

[trim harbor]

i was in ag

[reef isle]

hm, yeah I once encountered a thing where the depression didn't work

unfortunately I haven't figured out why yet

[trim harbor]

lovely loadout

[reef isle]

I just tried to fly the Phantom on 4YA and the perfomance is just unbererable

it's unflyable

is it the server?

I was getting between 5 and 20fps

the weird thing is that dropping the resolution from 4k to 1440p changed next to nothing

[untold finch]

Are you in VR? Using the OpenXR toolkit?

[reef isle]

No

2D

[untold finch]

hmm

I'm hearing weirdly mixed reports about it

it runs perfectly fine for me but it seems like it varies a lot

[reef isle]

I have an i5-12400, 32GB of 4200mhz RAM and a 3060Ti (not the best, but good enough so far)

DLSS makes no difference, resolution makes very little difference, other graphics option also seem to make very little difference?

how is this possible

also Singlethread and Multithread makes little difference

seems like no matter what i do it won't get any better

I'm getting literally 5fps

also excluded DCS from Windows Defender

and set high priority in both task manager and Nvidia Control panel

anything else I can try?

nvidia drivers are up to date

windows is up to date

I'll also try Enigma, maybe it's a 4YA problem

[untold finch]

Nothing I can think of

[trim harbor]

caucasus seems to be running horribly for me

with whatever plane

as soon as i get close to the ground

[rustic charm]

Folks, for MSFS, is MK Studios LaGuardia worth buying?

[reef isle]

I'm trying Syria

for this exact reason

not even 1920x1080 is beareable

I'm doing 4fps at the moment

how?

how is it possible that resolution makes no difference?

[reef isle]

@trim harbor I think I undersetood why sometimes the reticle depression doesn't work

you need to go into the RIO position and turn off AIR to AIR switch

it's lit green and located more or less below the altimeter

[trim harbor]

oh

bruh

jester seems kinda useless rn tbh

[untold finch]

in what way?

[trim harbor]

i know a2a is the biggest focus for most people

but hes not really competent in any a2g things

[reef isle]

you don't need him

[trim harbor]

meh tpod and stuff i'd rather have the wso do it

he also doesnt change buttons at times

so you have to manually go to the back

[reef isle]

ah yeah fair enough for the tpod

I've focused on other things so far

[trim harbor]

it's not like the hornet imo

for the tpod in the f4 you cant just turn around afaik

gotta be on a straight appr

thats just something i noticed which bothers me

[eager moon]

So how is the f4 compared to the f14 for single pilot

Just as or even more reliant on jester?

I should say single crew not single pilot

[untold finch]

So the F-14 was designed to need two aircrew, and for those crew to be reliant on one another

The F-4E has a bit more duplication of roles

The radar and waypoint navigation are still very much the rear-seater's domain, but weapons config and such are much more "front seat" roles now

All the air-to-ground stuff outside of the Pave Tack/Spike is more the front seater's job now

[eager moon]

So more like the streagle

[untold finch]

Kinda, though there's still plenty that the front seater can't do

[eager moon]

With less navigation stuff available to the front

[untold finch]

yeah, you can't do any of the INS stuff in the front, or control the radar outside of ACM modes

[eager moon]

I night consider it one day if all the Razbam drama gets settled

[untold finch]

yeah fair

i bought it way before that went public

[eager moon]

The future of DCS is very questionable in their financial situation right now

Even if you remove the Razbam drama from the picture, their company appears to be in dire straits

[untold finch]

i would agree

even if they're not broke broke, they're not able to pay contractors

[hollow oracle]

WHAT

SU15 IS OUT

AND THE INIBUILDS A320

[trim harbor]

ya

[wide zenith]

Ajaccio 20

love how responsive the menus are in SU15

[untold finch]

How's the performance?

[wide zenith]

I can't say really because I've always locked my frames to 60, but it was a very stable flight. It just felt more smoth overall. I wouldnt say I saw a huge difference but afaik it has helped a lot of people on lower end setups

you know how sometimes menus would freeze before they popped up, or it would take a moment to respond. all of that has gone

aaand not sure about the ini320neo, as I used the FBW. but I'm also hearing its heavy on FPS a bit. and I don't think the model is amazing either on it. The fuselage is a bit wonky but the wings/engines do look nicer

and the sounds 💀

[hollow oracle]

the inibuilds a320neo sits right inbetween the FBW and fenix when it comes to performance

a tad bit laggier than default, but nowhere near as bad as fenix

[wide zenith]

yeah

[hollow oracle]

i love airbus, an specifically the neo, to death, but this is one thing i absolutely do not like about it, its as bad as it looks irl

[wide zenith]

I just dunno, if you're a pc enjoyer I don't see a reason you'd fly the ini over the FBW unless you specificly want the eye candy and maybe to try the new ground handling on takeoffs and landings. The FBW has much more and is probably gonna get supported longer

[hollow oracle]

personally im enjoying the ini one more

my only real complaint is the really weird looking flypad OS

in the fenix and FBW its really nice and clean, but in stuff like inibuilds and default latinvfr, its horrible and cheesy looking

the market on the A320 and its engine variants is definately oversaturated though, we need a good A321

[wide zenith]

Fenix any day now...

[hollow oracle]

didnt the A321 outsell the A320s?

which only hilights how insane it is that the only A321 we have is latinvfr

the inibuilds a320 for free though, you cant beat it

i really appreciate the modeled barf bags in the seat pockets too, my passengers will need it

[hollow oracle]

oslo to hamburger

so far, definately liking it a LOT more than the FBW

[eager moon]

I'm going to put it under scrutiny soon

[hollow oracle]

visually, a lot better than the FBW atleast, im far from an expert when it comes to physics

[eager moon]

A320 is my jam, flight Factor in XP11, FBW on MSFS until the Fenix came out

Never messed with the malware labs because well... Malware labs

But A320 is one of my highest hour airframes in sim

[hollow oracle]

most of my flights are in the A320, but i probably only have like 20ish flight hours

[hollow oracle]

its a tiny detail, but i really like how the fire test alarm is properly timed now

on the FBW A320, the alarm goes off instantly and regardless of if the FCU is started up, but on the ini it has that delay, and only chimes if the FCU is started

[eager moon]

well, I am thoroghly done with this

I was on the beta this entire time with no issues. I left the beta, relaunched the sim, no issues

Relaunched again because I forgot to link the plane I wanted to fly, 2.1GB update

all my video settings reset, some of my other settings reset, but not everything, didn't lose my cloud data (flow wheels still there)

but it's even back on DX11...getting 30fps at best

[hollow oracle]

shit, i had a feeling something was off

[eager moon]

I am used to getting 150-200fps with framegen enabled

and below 40-45 I get ultra motion sick + migraine

so I immmmedddiately realized what was happening

basically seeing individual frames lol

[hollow oracle]

you bought that supercomputer that was up for auction recently, surely

im going along at 25FPS

[eager moon]

5800x3d undervolted, 64GB DDR4-3600, RTX 4070 Ti Super and ?MSFS on a Gen4 NVME SSD

mostly ultra settings, some things turned down to high as per my own visual preference (most notably, I think clouds look better at high than ultra)

[hollow oracle]

[eager moon]

yeahh...like a $2k system

[hollow oracle]

USD?

[eager moon]

yeah

[hollow oracle]

that isnt $2k

thats more like $5k

[eager moon]

I can show you receipts if I cared enough mate

[hollow oracle]

if i could buy a PC that strong for 2k i wouldnt be worring about my FPS being too low for FBW systems in MSFS

[eager moon]

I got the 5800x3d for $290, the RAM on special for $120, the GPU sticker price is $800 (and that's technically what I paid for it, but I had $300 credit for trading in my 3070 ti)

motherboard was $220 I think, right in the 200 range for sure

the NVME drive was $160

call it $100 for a case less over the top than mine, PSU was $69.99 on special as well remembered wrong, that's my old PSU, this one was $110

oh and $60 for the big ass CPU cooler

I don't think I'm missing anything? Of course I have a few extra drives, but those aren't strictly necessary anyway so I won't factor those in. Plus I had them all from previous builds anyway

that's $1820 US

oh and like $50 worth of case fans so that brings us to $1910

[hollow oracle]

i have a whole $100 in my bank account currently

[eager moon]

Yeah, it took me a looooong time to build up this kinda system

back in 2017 I started with an i5-6600 and 16GB of RAM with a GTX 960

but yteah, here's the set of receipts I care enough to dig up. Just to show I'm not blowing smoke out of my ass

[hollow oracle]

definately the best landing ive had in a while

also, the ini a320 does not like it when you land, power down the aircraft, and go back to watch your landing, youll have floating GPU carts and chocks on your aircraft, as well as whatever your last light setting was

after my first successful flight, i think its safe to say that i officially prefer the ini over FBW A320neo

at the very least, it has crucial features like proper programmed go-arounds, and secondary flight plans

[eager moon]

I had a very bad experience just now with it

terrible, terrible performance (30-35fps before frame gen) actually the worst performing plane I've ever loaded

MCDU menus seem wrong/have stuff missning BUT I am not discounting that it could be a different version of the MCDU stoftware being simulated... I'd have to do research on if that's even a thing or not. Specifically init/wind and init/IRS alignment

The MCDU also kept yelling "NOT ALLOWED" as I did things that were definitely allowed (And it accepting them).. set ZFW 133.5/27.1, field populates...it screams NOT ALLOWED. Basically everything I did this happened

And finally when I populated the DEP/ARR on the init page, the MCDU completely froze, entirely unresponsive, no buttons got it back

I'm going to uninstall and reinstall it, see if that helps. It seems my installation of it is quite obviously corrupted

[hollow oracle]

I didn’t have any of those issues with being told not allowed and it freezing, but I did forget that the MCDU menus were wrong at the very top, which did confuse me for a few minutes until I figured it out

As far as performance goes, I’m not the person to have a say in that 🙃

[hollow oracle]

but, it did perform a good 5-10FPS better than the fenix for me, but also about 5-10FPS worse than the FBW, i was sitting at around roughly 25-30FPS the whole flight (also before I realized the game reset back to DX11, so it may be better next flight)

[lethal jasper]

FBW shall be < Ini + Fenix till RNP capable again. 😂

[dusky leaf]

Ryde and its pier in IL2 going to have a look at the railway, see how much of it they modelled

[untold finch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XquqOB8hYfs

[trim harbor]

hypeeeee

[reef isle]

if everything goes well I might try my luck on VATSIM for the next flight 😬

[dusky leaf]

Getting prepared

[dusky leaf]

https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/74696-oh-58d-kiowa-warrior/&tab=reviews&sort=newest#review-127963

This thing is stunning!

[dusky leaf]

Also comes with a 750 odd page RW kiowa manual

[reef isle]

Made it (without any major mistakes this time), so next flight is going to be online 😄

[untold finch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xzbESCUYgk

[hollow oracle]

flying back to oslo

[hollow oracle]

smooth landings in oslo

275fpm landing

i havent logged my flights in volanta for a while, but just from the ones i have logged, i have 16.5 flight hours in A320-series aircraft

15 flights, 5k nm, 20 hours total including boeing

[eager moon]

sim reinstall moment

[dusky leaf]

Some lovely pylons on approach to the pad

[dusky leaf]

Brownout

[eager moon]

After a full sim reinstall I gave the ini 320 another go

Good:

1. Some delay when MCDU buttons are pressed
2. Textures are well done
3. Sounds are pretty nice
4. Hand flies nicely. Doesn't feel like a fighter jet like their A310
5. LNAV works flawlessly, I had it make some tight turns after missing a DISCON troubleshooting SayIntentions
6. VNAV works flawlessly as well

Bad:

1. Some MCDU pages might be incorrectly formatted/missing fields
   a. I say might be as this could simply be down to difference in older/newer versions of software and I have not done the research to back this up. They're simply different from what I'm familiar with flying the Fenix
2. Performance isn't great. It's hitting slightly worse than the Fenix for a far less in-depth aircraft.
3. Taxi gets REALLY fast on IDLE thrust
4. Had to re-cycle HDG to managed mode twice before it started turning
5. Had to re-cycle ALT to managed mode twice before it started descending
6. TCAS kept repeating "CLEAR OF CONFLICT" every few minutes during the flight (FSLTL issue?)

Ugly:

1. Tablet faces EXTREME aliasing making it very hard to read - the worst I've seen in the sim.
2. Scrolling the HDG knob misses half the numbers. Not the only plane I've had do this but it is EXTREMELY annoying in an Airbus
3. APU failed to shutdown after engine start. Tried about everything I could think of but it remained on the entire flight.

[lethal jasper]

Interesting, never had the APU issue 😅

[shadow burrow]

Mach .85 with a GS of 376 😭

[full plank]

back to Heathrow from Dulles

weather caught me by surprise on the approach to Dulles, but down in one piece thankfully

[wide zenith]

salzburg circle to land very pog

[rustic charm]

Salzburg looks rather nice

Haven’t yet flown in Europe pretty much at all lol

[wide zenith]

so many good places to fly in europe!

starbuc

[agile oak]

trijet :D

[agile oak]

https://tenor.com/view/iwin-win-starbucks-galactica-gif-5486962