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

[rustic charm]

Gonna have to deliver a DC-9 too

Soon as I fucking say that everything is going good…

For some reason CIVA decided to not automatically switch to the third leg after reaching the second waypoint, so it just sent the plane in a circle

Now I have an S-bend on Idaho-Montana border

[rustic charm]

Did the same thing after the 3rd leg, except I left for a brief moment and didn’t catch it as quickly

It’s still flying fine but the automatic waypoint changes don’t work

What’s weird is it worked absolutely fine after the first one

[rustic charm]

Welcome to Minneapolis-St. Paul

And that's also a welcome into service for this plane

The landings weren't all that smooth, but I don't quite trust Volanta readings. They indicate that this was worse than my Sterling 727 landing in Halifax, but it definitely felt much better than that

[full plank]

sponsored by norton antivirus

[trim harbor]

How is it

[full plank]

Very fun to fly

[rustic charm]

Some Air Florida

This is still a delivery

Started that one on March 4th

Did KRNT - KBFI and planned to get to Miami in one leg, but was low on fuel when approaching Florida (I wonder why...) and decided to cut it short at KPIE

[rustic charm]

Hey look, GTA 6

[rustic charm]

What are the benefits of flying a 727 you say? Well, which other jet will be able to slow down in time for T4 when landing 09 in Miami while not even using the brakes?
I did touch down slightly early though

T4 doesn’t even act as an exit from 09, I think the thought is no jet will slow down in time for it anyway

[full plank]

off to Philly this afternoon from Dublin

perfect time for a drink, or two, or 5

[rustic charm]

Just landed at Stansted

Ngl playing with BATC is a bit more complicated, considering that in busy airspace you do get late clearances and everything too

[rustic charm]

Just started another flight

Also to Stansted

But from Canada this time xD

[hollow oracle]

comfort plane time

though, ive only done freight landings in the MD-11, so im not responsible for any spilled tea or coffee

[hollow oracle]

its funny, i still have no issue landing the MD11, but i struggle with everything else

the most infamously hardest plane to land is the one i find easiest

[hollow oracle]

this is also the first MD-11 PAX flight ive done, surprisingly

[trim harbor]

742 time

toobad kai tak doesnt work in xplane

bit of an L

[reef isle]

I have Kai Tak in XP11

I had to download a free scenery, but it's excellent

[trim harbor]

it doesnt work for 12 sadly

[rustic charm]

Woah, just 5:30 from Tokyo to Anchorage is quick

Guess the winds do really help in that direction

When I pushed the 727 in the other direction, I had a shorter flight too and it was 6:30 in the air

Well, the sun is setting, will be landing in Stansted at night

Over Ireland right now

[rustic charm]

Approaching Stansted

[rustic charm]

And now setting up for the fourth flight in a row, an overnight delivery of a 777-300ER to Aeroflot

Except I decided to do it in the other direction

Going over the Pacific and all of Russia

[rustic charm]

Around an hour until landing

Just started descending

[rustic charm]

And a beautiful landing in Moscow. Now I have 2 Aeroflot 777s

Uhh, got myself into a bit of a problem...

Guess the taxi's over then

Having not flown into Sheremetyevo in a 777 for a while I forgot that this area is most definitely not 777-proof

Was supposed to take a turn a bit earlier, these remote stands are a bit confusing

[hollow oracle]

volanta has easily been the best flight sim subscription ive ever used

constant updates and support, they just recently finally added offline tracking, so if your internet dies it still records your position

[hollow oracle]

love me some wingflex

[hollow oracle]

cool, xplane crashed midflight

at this point i want to upgrade just because 12 is probably more stable

[reef isle]

Hmmmmm

I wouldn't be so sure

[dusky leaf]

Both 11 and 12 will crash, but the reason is always a bad plugin

[proven umbra]

Я

[reef isle]

after departing from Beech's factory and paying a visit to these nice people nearby

https://funplacestofly.com/funflydetails.asp?id=2474

I'm going to KMQS to get the plane painted with my own livery (which I'll have to create one of these days)
https://www.sureflight.com/about-us/completion-specialists

After that there's only the atlantic crossing left to get to Europe 😬

[echo gorge]

It's super cool how you're doing flights as if you'd just got it irl

[agile oak]

plön

[runic hare]

xp 12.2 is very very cool

[trim harbor]

here we go

[rustic charm]

742?

[trim harbor]

yup

[rustic charm]

Nice

Meanwhile me

Going from Fairbanks to McGrath (aka Middle of fucking nowhere, Alaska)

Why? Because I can, now that the plane is finally out of maintenance (not scheduled maintenance, repairs after the last landing in Fairbanks...)

Whenever flying this thing I just hope that I don’t have to send it for repairs again after the flight…

Out of 4 flights it had, 2 resulted in unscheduled maintenance

100 miles to go

[trim harbor]

after having some major skill issues on the waz

i think i got the hang of it again

approach is gonna be quite interesing as ill have to vector in without any waypoints l o l

[rustic charm]

Well, shit…

[trail monolith]

Though you were flying inverted for a sec lol

[hollow oracle]

is that 12?

[dusky leaf]

Both DCS and IL2 have sales on right now. Piddly little discounts on DCS stuff, decent discounts on IL2. Might buy tank crew

[trim harbor]

yes

[untold finch]

Goddamn, that looks good

[dusky leaf]

The Felis 742 is class

[rustic charm]

13 and a half hours in, around an hour to go I reckon

Maybe an hour and a half

Will be my longest flight once done

And it will break the satisfying Aeroflot rankings

Cause for now, my top 14 flights in terms of flight time are all Aeroflot

[runic hare]

I like it

New Stansted airport logo

Slightly weird as well so it’s an octagon

[rustic charm]

95 miles to top of descent

[agile oak]

eats the plane

[rustic charm]

And I’m on the ground in Dubai with a total flight time of 14:42

[reef isle]

what do you think? Didn't necessarily want to create the most beatiful think even, just something that was very late '80s 😆

[full plank]

looks nice tbh

[young hazel]

24 not in the summer sale is a decision

[hollow oracle]

Xplane 12 isn’t either

[hollow oracle]

these sales were top tier garbage this year

[hollow oracle]

i really want to try autoland on any aircraft at some point, but it never seems to work at all

you're supposed to use autoland every few flights IRL anyway, but ive never found it to work on anything in any flight sim

[hollow oracle]

God fucking damnit, I am done with flight sims

Tried flying the FF 757 again, my PC was fucking dying during taxi and takeoff, I almost lost it on the takeoff roll from overcorrecting, and then for some reason VNAV disarmed without me realizing so I was trying to figure out why the FD wanted me to nosedive while also troubleshooting my PC and my controls

Every single flight sim is nothing but issues, it’s literally a heads/tails coin flip if your sim is going to break or crash during a 1 hour flight

[trim harbor]

It works well in the fenix and pmdg

[untold finch]

Yeah, I've used it once or twice in both, feels surreal to watch but it worked okay

[rustic charm]

Yeah, landed both the 737s and 777s in auto, it works absolutely fine in those

[static mango]

Should I buy the PMDG 737-800? I've been looking at it for a while but I'm not overly familiar with such sophisticated aircraft and how to fly them

[honest ether]

not unless you really really want to fly what is basically the closest you'll get to the real deal

[rustic charm]

@reef isle the C919 is actually released now I think, although I’m not too sure whether it can actually be purchased outside of China

[dusky leaf]

They are very easy to start up and fly

[static mango]

I'll probs wait for a sale then

[hollow oracle]

PMDG really doesn’t do sales unfortunately

[trim harbor]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvzee7Z4yu0

new banger dropped

[rustic charm]

Well, they do, but very rarely

[reef isle]

Cool

I think I'll wait until it's a bit more complete though

[rustic charm]

Fair

Just thought I’d mention it

[reef isle]

Yeah appreciate it thanks

[static mango]

Shame 😦 me like bargains lol

[hollow oracle]

https://www.reddit.com/r/aviationmaintenance/s/Z5PPogZ7MW

I love the face on the damaged panel

[trim harbor]

Perks of working at a hospital

Wubba wubba everyday

[trail monolith]

Maybe not the best thing then

Usually means something bad

[full plank]

back in the new engine option

[trim harbor]

Thats part of the job

As grim as it is but going up to the helipad pickikg someone up is forever cool to me

Jealous of the damn pilots

[hollow oracle]

My house is right under a lifeflight path, so like every few hours (especially overnight) its helicopter noise

Sometimes it’s extremely loud, sometimes it’s not

They must have been a few hundred feet over the house one time, it was so loud that the windows were rattling

[echo gorge]

Same for me, took a bit of getting used to when I moved in, but you get used to it pretty quick

[trim harbor]

I live over an airport approach

Terrible fortune when its a hub cargo airport that mainly operates at night

Praying to the wind every night so its a diff approach 💀

[hollow oracle]

When I was in welding school, the shop was literally right under one of the approach routes for KPIT, so i would listen to the approach ATC during class to hear what was flying overhead

It was probably only like 2 miles from the end of the runway too, it was extremely close

[hollow oracle]

wtf???

the VNAV keeps switching off in the 757 right after takeoff

which means the autothrottle cuts back

and then if i re-engage VNAV, it just holds altitude even though its on the altitude climb mode

nevermind, boeing SOP has you arm VNAV at thrust reduction altitude, usually 1000ft AGL

i just love it when aircraft do non-standard ideas for things, it really makes flying fun :)

[hollow oracle]

the bluebird 757 shadow dropped for the 4th of july

yaay, i also got the sounds fixed finally, so now hte 757 is 100% ready to go

[full plank]

putting my new GPU through its paces, had the Nuuk scenery installed so fancied a flight to there

then maybe a long haul later

[trim harbor]

beauty

[trim harbor]

24 is a glitchfest and keybind hell

although

it runs way better than 20

[trim harbor]

i take it back guys

it sucks hot dog

[hollow oracle]

i still havent been brave enough to move sims

once they officially introduce downloading content instead of streaming it though, im 100% moving

[trim harbor]

isnt the 24 dl big af then

[hollow oracle]

shouldnt be any different than 2020 i dont think

"big" is subjective in this sim anyway, i think my community folder is like 1TB

[trim harbor]

wtf

how does ur sim still load

@hollow oracle apparently its 400gb base game

holy shit

wasnt msfs like 180

[trail monolith]

FS24 isn't that big just like 50gb or less

[trim harbor]

no if you were to install it locally

without streaming

[hollow oracle]

i do not like streaming

[trim harbor]

aerosoft/toliss a340-600 coming

i did NOT expect that

[hollow oracle]

aerosoft

[echo gorge]

Toliss is good, shame they're partnering with aerosoft though

[reef isle]

Yeah, if the A330 was simply bad I wouldn't mind, there are lots of bad planes and lots of understandable reasons why a plane might turn out to be bad

but the fact they were actively trying to use their name and brand to basically scam people with that dogshit A330 has sent me over the edge

if we didn't have that creator that broke the NDA to show how bad that thing was, I guarantee A LOT of people would have bought it immediately as it launched

[full plank]

I actually forgot the A330 existed till now

shame cause I was actually kinda excited for it too

landed at Nuuk without any fuss from the pc, thank you rx 9070 you're my best friend

[trim harbor]

[trail monolith]

Luckily there is a Ini A330 now

[full plank]

yea if you use FS24

which I don't, not yet atleast

[hollow oracle]

its funny, i could never work for an airline irl or even fly a plane, i am in the worst mental shape of my life right now yet i can fly in a sim

[hollow oracle]

tried doing a proper 757 takeoff without VNAV and it was still extremely bad, for some reason it doesnt climb until you hit 240kts

unless if you're supposed to hand fly it all the way up until 240kts and then you engage VNAV

its prioritizing speed 100%, it will stop climbing until it meets the speed it wants, then it climbs, which is extremely bad for departures with altitude minimums

outside of like 10,000ft when it levels off again to meet climb speed, its not that big of an issue but still annoying

attempt 5

this time i remembered to turn off the winglets

is it like embraer where you have to hit the takeoff button on the throttles???

[trim harbor]

clouds weee

[hollow oracle]

apparently sort of, you hit the thrust mode button on the glareshield for takeoff, which is like every other aircraft's TO mode where it keeps an EPR set rather than trying to use autothrottle to keep your V2

and then it goes EPR all the way up to 240, and then at that point its a continuous climb without trying to match speeds or any garbage

[hollow oracle]

as they say, 6th times the charm

[trim harbor]

descend is gonna be interesting

[hollow oracle]

nevermind, i tried this, but the same thing happened, it hit climb, it cut the throttles, i had to keep 0 vertical speed to match speed before it would start climbing again, and that was all hand flown

i even got a GPWS warning this time

as they say, 7th times the charm

[trim harbor]

somethign tells me my runway doesnt exist

[hollow oracle]

the flight sim classic

get to your destination and find out that the ILS frequencies are fucked up, or your runway doesnt exist, or the entire airport doesnt exist (RKSI)

[trim harbor]

this damn ils is stresisng me out

[hollow oracle]

KLAS is fucking awesome, i love how the airport is literally right on the strip

[hollow oracle]

as they say, 8th times the charm

doing takeoff, gear, and then flaps 5 on takeoff worked significantly better, but for some reason it went from TOGA EPR mode, to disarming VNAV and pulling the throttles to idle, so i got dont sink and GPWS warnings until i manually clicked climb thrust

i have literally no idea what im doing wrong either

tutorials for the FF 757 are nonexistant, and every airline and sim pilot has their own SOP where they activate different systems in different orders

[echo gorge]

I miss twa and pan am so damn much

[trail monolith]

I miss the old KLM 747s

[trim harbor]

Goated airlines and liveries

Truly the golden era of aviation

[echo gorge]

https://youtu.be/nHTxhu4jdZA?si=Pnc9OmC8FZQzXYd-

[runic hare]

Better pushback is this you?!?!?!?

[full plank]

🗣️ starting pushback & you may start engines!!

[trim harbor]

i know alot of people are gonna hate it but

honestly

very cool of them to do it

it adds variation thats needed

[echo gorge]

Yeah I think it's quite cool

[trim harbor]

i love flying classics but not love doing all the classic shit all the time

depends on the price though

[echo gorge]

As long as the price is reasonable yeah

[echo gorge]

Nwa my beloved

[trim harbor]

i agree

need a 737-200 asap

[trim harbor]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEk_gK3jPkE

[hollow oracle]

i lost track of what # attempt this is

i dont even need to check my OFP for this flight anymore, i know everything from weights and fuel to cruise and SIDS/STARS and runways

i got OBS figured out at least, so i can finally record a takeoff

[trim harbor]

descending

[untold finch]

https://youtu.be/wY4lHUJ1ft0

[trim harbor]

it appears one of the points has invalid coordinates

ohwell happens

[hollow oracle]

this worked better at least, i wasnt paying attention to flaps because i was trying to keep an eye on what VNAV was doing

i tried clicking CLB EPR mode a few times too early because i was scared that it was going to kill the throttles on me again

[hollow oracle]

see, this cant be correct

it completely levels off to increase speed

[trim harbor]

that doesnt seem unnormal to me

[hollow oracle]

i dont think ive ever seen an aircraft go completely level to increase speed like that, usually its just making the climb a bit more shallow until it gets up to speed, not stopping climb completely

[trim harbor]

Looks so good

[echo gorge]

The new terrain looks so good

[untold finch]

it's an absolutely incredible achievement to go from 1998 graphics to that

[hollow oracle]

good flight

i did not realize that i didnt have a KLAS scenery in xplane, so im going to come back eventually to get some better screenies

i blame lewdnekos for making me interested in the 747-200 again, specifically the TWA one, they have a flight from JFK to LAS that im probably going to do with the new KLAS scenery

i doubt im going to do it today, that UPS flight was almost 4 hours

[dusky leaf]

I had the original. Came with an airfix model and the famously big paper manual. Wish I still had it

[reef isle]

Select vertical speed, +500

[runic hare]

I also blame him for making me install the 2 engine mods plus freighter interiors over the span of about 40 min last night

At least I have literally every single one now

[reef isle]

https://youtu.be/TEPVeqD3iNY?si=7OCN4FetYQ6XHGoD

Speaking of TWA, this is the newest Aviation Commercials upload

[trim harbor]

ayo send links to the mods

i only use the window mod

[trim harbor]

i did that flight

felis 747 is bang

im abit of the boring side tho

i love using the LTN

[runic hare]

• Install window mod first and make preset views
• Copy the PW ACF and follow the manual for this https://forums.x-plane.org/files/file/79311-felis-747-200-cf6-50-mod/
• Install this https://forums.x-plane.org/files/file/78307-felis-747-200-rb211-524b2-visual-mod/
• Make a copy of the 742 folder (rename it to cargo or something) and install this for each ACF changing the aircraft to cargo in the author tab of plane maker https://forums.x-plane.org/files/file/90041-daves-freighter-interior-for-the-felis-747-200/

done

It’s worth it for the engine mods alone but the freight interior is fire as well

The manuals for each are pretty good

You do have to install the freight mod twice tho

No 3 times

For PW, GE and RR engines and there respective ACF files

[trim harbor]

mfw

why volanta

trsh

[rustic charm]

Beautiful plane

[runic hare]

Old Etihad livery

Ain’t seen this in fucking ages

Also BA club Europe is good

[rustic charm]

Does anyone know which plane could be marked as “AIR” in a timetable? It can’t be an Airbus - not an A320, too many flights for it considering the timetable is from July 6th, 1988; not an A300/A310 as it operates into random regional airports. Not that I need to know too much, just curious about what could it be

[runic hare]

It’s an unassigned aircraft

So it could be anything

AIR isn’t any specific type

[rustic charm]

Ahh, thanks

[trim harbor]

it is

PLEASE a proper 707

[rustic charm]

Yes please

Aerial Simulations are working on one for MSFS, granted there weren’t any updates on it since they initially revealed it

But iirc they still say that they hope to finish it within 2025, so I guess they are making a bunch of progress and just not sharing much

[rustic charm]

Going for KMSP - KMKE in the 727 now

With BATC

Hopefully ain’t gonna get RNAV…

Traffic is fun ngl

A Delta 320 behind me is waiting cause I’m still starting up lol

Sorry but starting 3 engines just takes longer

[rustic charm]

Radar vectors, works for me

[rustic charm]

Thanks MSFS

This thing teleported me underground

The first time the sim glitched and ruined a flight for me, but oh well

Eh, will redo this tomorrow then

[hollow oracle]

Glad I didn’t sink more money into DCS

ED is apparently dead broke, they reached a settlement with razbam and are dragging their feet on paying it out

[reef isle]

https://www.justflight.com/in-development/f70-100-professional#entry20250703

[echo gorge]

Where was it posted?

[echo gorge]

It's looking so lovely

[rustic charm]

Yay!!! More Fokker news

It’s been a while

Hopefully we’ll hear about the A3B4 soon-ish too, I think the last post about it was back in December

[trim harbor]

To no suprise

[trim harbor]

When is it releasinggggg

My god i want

[reef isle]

Probably around August

(maybe later because JF planes always get delayed)

[rustic charm]

Well that, I’d say around September-October tbh

Also JF can really drop them out of the blue, iirc RJ basically had no announcements. I follow JF news quite closely, and all I remember was my friend telling me “Hey streamers have the RJ” and like 2 days later it got released

[reef isle]

Yep

[trim harbor]

dont make it even worse for me

[hollow oracle]

Primarily in the razbam discord, but I came across it through the DCS Reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/DCSExposed/s/4iQO5RjTBK

There’s no reason for ED to refuse to pay out a settlement, even if it is unofficial, I don’t know European law but in the US any lawyer would be chomping at the bit to get this easy lawsuit win

[full plank]

Avro RJ my beloved

[trim harbor]

@hollow oracle md11

[hollow oracle]

yes

in the next 60 days though

[trim harbor]

quality takes time i say

[hollow oracle]

not complaining or anything, just saying that its still a few months out

and to be completely honest, i dont have anything really against th current modelling

i hate how slow the 742 climbs, it feels like something is wrong

im barely getting 500fpm climbing in cruise, its really struggling to get past transition altitude

im also 700,000lbs going across the US, so thats not helping either

[hollow oracle]

okay, its definitely a bug, because my standby altimeter is broken, as well as the FOs speed gauge, and its not icing

[hollow oracle]

its not a flight if the sim doesnt have 8 catastrophic failures before the flight starts smoothly

[echo gorge]

https://fselite.net/content/black-square-reveals-previously-unannounced-twin-in-development/

Some of the coolest business props

I'm super excited

[trim harbor]

You‘re doing something wrong

I fly the 742 quite alot now

It climbs well

[reef isle]

https://youtu.be/g7R7jZmliGc?si=zewxK3GK1olmIq1r

[rustic charm]

Somehow I totally missed it, but it looks like FSS now decided to make the 727-100s as well

[dusky leaf]

Absolute nutjob! some skills though

Obviously I will have to try it out in sim 😆

Makes my one engine landings look tame af

[untold finch]

https://fselite.net/content/aerosoft-updates-the-crj-on-msfs/

[runic hare]

Some pretty good sales on the .org store if anyone wants to pick up some cheap scenery

[trim harbor]

hey guys

i say we start a investiment pool

they're selling so many omg

yoo

[rustic charm]

Okay I’m ready to spend some

I’ll be able to pick them up too xD

That seems awfully cheap too

Well tbf maybe with those hours not really

But well, an Il-76 is basically the ultimate transport plane, so I think it’s worth it

[trail monolith]

I prefer the Antonovs instead

[rustic charm]

They’re nice too, and of course lift more

But an Il-76 is much easier to land on some random shithole of a runway

Dirt? Easy. Gravel? Easy. Ice? Easy

[tardy hedge]

todays flight is from heathrow to gibraltar

if anyone wants to track me on vatsim im BAW471

[trim harbor]

Is that the toliss

[tardy hedge]

yes

nvm my gpu overheated

😭

time to invest in some tower fans

[mortal furnace]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb6j8IMKUmM

[runic hare]

Ngl they are probably fucked for that price but nothing a bit of elbow grease can’t fix

[tardy hedge]

weather when it does a troll

[dusky leaf]

Not paying attention 🔥

[dusky leaf]

Blackhawk is a fantastic freeware aircraft

Not quite the sophistication of the DCS one, but v good

☁️

[alpine coral]

[trim harbor]

https://fselite.net/content/my-hands-on-impression-of-the-synaptic-simulations-a220/

[trail monolith]

There is coming a A340 by inibuilds if y'all didn't already know

[untold finch]

https://msfsaddons.com/2025/07/07/flying-fries-announces-mi-24p-hind-for-msfs-2024/
Oh hell yeah

Honestly was one of the most fun helicopters to fly in DCS, I hope the MSFS one does it justice

[full plank]

haven't flown the 772 in quite a while, so figured i'd get it out today

[dusky leaf]

I suspect you will be disappointed but happy to be proven wrong

[untold finch]

I imagine so too, but who knows

[trim harbor]

interesting flight ahead

[trim harbor]

korea hilly af

[rustic charm]

Try not to get shot down pls

Wish we had a Tu-204 in MSFS though, I’d be constantly flying hops between Pyongyang and Vladivostok

[trim harbor]

il62m :(((((((((((

[rustic charm]

(Or even better give me an Il-62 for that)

[trim harbor]

il62 is probably one of my all time fav retro planes

i love the looks and sound of it

[rustic charm]

Tu-204 just would be quite nice cause they still fly outside of Korea too

I’m pretty sure there even is one “in development”, but that’s like, really slow and unfrequent development that can be cancelled at any time as usually is with open source freeware projects

[trim harbor]

i can tell im flying in nk

theground textures r terrible and theres 0 houses anywhere lol

also since when does it have two runways

[rustic charm]

Makes sense

[rustic charm]

Uhh no idea

Tbf there is actually a Pyongyang scenery & airport enhancement out there iirc

[rustic charm]

What surprised me quite a bit though is that there actually are charts available for it

[trim harbor]

i too was suprised

i didnt think i would actually get a ils ffreq

i think my scenery is broken for it though

pity

it does have two runways loool

thats crazy

[rustic charm]

That I didn’t expect lol

Though tbh the airport most likely acts as an air force base too

[trim harbor]

yea it broken

[rustic charm]

Not surprised xD

[dusky leaf]

👋

[trim harbor]

y

[trail monolith]

Wouldn't you get shot down if you were flying above ukraine then?

[rustic charm]

Maybe not on purpose

[trim harbor]

no way hes flying a modern aircraft

[reef isle]

at least I still found a way to fly a dead airline

[hollow oracle]

i forgot that its navigraph upgrade time

[hollow oracle]

hm, the CSS 737 got its official paintkit last month

im still waiting for a BAW livery though

god fucking damn the new flightsim.to search function is GARBAGE

[agile oak]

real

[trim harbor]

what did g'ole kim do to my plane

[dusky leaf]

The Hughes 269 over Kodiak. Squirmy but fun and agile

[rustic charm]

Welp, just arrived back to Sheremetyevo after a holiday in Turkey

Weirdly there were 2 Il-62s and an Il-96 standing there, and those planes now never venture away from Vnukovo

Also we got parked at the freight apron, and I then got questioned more than usual on passport control. Guess I look suspicious today 😅

[hollow oracle]

didnt they completely shut down sheremetyevo recently?

extra security might be related to that

[rustic charm]

Complete shutdowns are common by now

Any time there’s a drone attack, the traffic gets stopped

Although the last one was over a week ago, the day I left. All the flights to Antalya after the one I was on were either delayed for hours or cancelled, got lucky there

They did close both arrivals and departures yesterday too, but that was due to bad weather

[trim harbor]

im trying to learn how to do gliding

shit is actually complicated

[dusky leaf]

Playing with boats

[rustic charm]

Welp I’m home

And while I was away a major thing happened

Alaska 727 liveries

So it’s finally time to go back where I started, back where I should be

[trail monolith]

Like glide plane or gliding with throttle in idle?

[trim harbor]

proper glider

[reef isle]

Where are you flying?

Weren't this helicopters used for airport<->city center routes?

Or am I misremembering?

Ah no

Disregard

It was mainly known for providing a passenger service connecting Penzance to the Isles of Scilly, and for flights servicing North Sea oil and gas platforms.

I got confused with something else

[dusky leaf]

Flying near PANC, just makes a change from the drab military liveries

[reef isle]

Oh 😅

Cool

Sorry sometimes I forget that there are sane, normal people

[rustic charm]

Delivered the 727 to Alaska

This thingy decided on startup that engine 1 doesn't want to work, so staying true to myself, I just took off with only 2 & 3 running

[rustic charm]

MSFS crashed after I started descending on a flight from Moscow to Sochi 🥲

[hollow oracle]

it has been so long since ive flown airbus

my throttle and stick dont work with my new desk so i have to go back to controller temporarily

of course KLAX is fucked up, i hit a lip in the runway and instantly skyrocketed to like 500ft

the fenix controls nicely with a controller at least, the only real issue is that the incremental throttle is too slow and the notched throttle is too quick

i dont know what i have to uninstall to fix KLAX

[rustic charm]

Planespotting 101: if you see an active 747, you must take a picture, no matter how bad the angle and how low the quality

[hollow oracle]

finally giving this hunk of junk a shot

[hollow oracle]

that wasnt half bad

(ignore takeoff horn, its a replay obvs)

[untold finch]

Is that X-Plane or MSFS? I genuinely find it hard to tell the difference visually these days

I'd guess XP from the ground?

[hollow oracle]

XP11

[rustic charm]

From Aerial Simulations:

Hello everyone

We’re excited to share the first renders of the cockpit for our upcoming 707-320C add-on for Microsoft Flight Simulator.

These images showcase our recreation of a late model cockpit configuration that was installed in production Boeing 707s. Alongside this version, we’ll also be including the more iconic cockpit layout that has the fire handles mounted on the glareshield.

It has taken a little bit longer than originally planned but for good reason. We were able to laser scan a real cockpit, which provided us with highly detailed reference geometry. Our cockpit has been rebuilt to match the scan to make sure it is as accurate as possible.

With it already being July it not looking likely that we will be done before the end of the year, but from this point on system integration will be beginning.

Tried to forward the announcement from their server, got this

(Probably cause there was an everyone ping)

[trail monolith]

Happened me like 3-4 times lol

[trim harbor]

Sadly

Long away

Sob

[rustic charm]

Well, not too long

They initially planned for it to be done this year

With now that “not looking likely” I reckon it’s gonna be a couple months into 2026

And they only revealed the thing a year ago

So if you compare it to like the Bluebird 757, which I’m still not sure we’ll get this year either, well this doesn’t seem like too far away

Although I heard it’s 2024-only sadly

[echo gorge]

I really hope it's good

I'd love a good 707 or dc8

[hollow oracle]

im departing out of cleveland, and i was so confused why they have a PFLYD1 departure

its because the rock and roll hall of fame is in cleveland

they also have a really cute matching pair of arrivals, "ROKNN3" and "ROLLN2"

heh, the points on the PFLYD departure are literally "wish you were here syd"

the northern departure waypoint is NNUMB

[echo gorge]

Oh, that's sweet

[hollow oracle]

i love it when they theme SID/STARs to local things, pittsburgh and boston are the other few i can think of

and i think its either JFK or LGA that has FINEST or something as a departure, as in the NYPD

[echo gorge]

Boston has some good ones too

ATL is star wars iirc

[hollow oracle]

why is that? i think ive seen that before but i never made that connection

[echo gorge]

I don't know, it's very odd to me

[hollow oracle]

also HOBTT and GNDLF

my first thought was ILM or lucasfilm or something, i dont know if they did all of those movies though, thats about the only connection i can come up with

[echo gorge]

Maybe because Georgia is now a big filming location? But neither star wars nor lord of the rings were filmed there

ILM is norcal iirc

[hollow oracle]

apparently it's just because they wanted themed ones, and they chose star wars for no real reason

KMCO has some cool disney ones atleast

[rustic charm]

That’s nice

[trim harbor]

DC8 man

yes

[echo gorge]

Fair enough I suppose, weird though

[rustic charm]

Well the 707 does look like they’re taking proper care of it, so I reckon it’ll be good

[trim harbor]

i find it sad that theres not alot of people doing older good planes

[rustic charm]

That’d be a godsend

[rustic charm]

Yep

So many ones to be done

And don’t get me started on “There are also eastern planes”

[echo gorge]

I honestly think the dc8 is more interesting than the 707, though I'll admittedly happily take either

[echo gorge]

Soviet airliners and transports are so cool, it's a shame they get so little attention

[rustic charm]

It would probably take ini like 6 months to produce an An-124, considering how much it would just reuse from the 225

[rustic charm]

Yep, I can wish my hands weren’t as useless as they are for creating anything… an Il-62 would be so cool

But we’re getting a Tu-154 at least so that’s already something

[echo gorge]

Proper airline proper livery

[rustic charm]

Tbh a DC-8 is more interesting, plus it was a better freighter than the 707

[trim harbor]

this is so true

[rustic charm]

Tbh I’d take a DC-8 if SkySim made one, considering they have the DC-9 it’s not too big of a stretch imo

On the topic of older planes, the fact we don’t have a 737-200 even on the horizon is criminal

Where’s my gravel kit and beautiful reversers

[hollow oracle]

the flyjsim one is so dissapointing

[echo gorge]

Isn't blackbird doing it for msfs?

[rustic charm]

They are but tbh I don’t consider that

[echo gorge]

Oh why? I really liked it back in xp11

[rustic charm]

It was announced like several years ago and no further word on it at all

[hollow oracle]

ive never been able to get VOR navigation working, its horrible

[echo gorge]

Oh weird

[rustic charm]

Plus I think they were only planning modern Nolinor-spec ones

[echo gorge]

Oh eww

[rustic charm]

So semi-glass cockpits, retrofitted VNAV/LNAV all that sort

[hollow oracle]

it hunts the VOR radial really bad, itll overshoot, then correct, then overshoot the other way, then correct the other way, its not pleasant

[rustic charm]

And I don’t mind that being included, I like Nolinor, but I think that original condition should still be the priority

[hollow oracle]

i love the cockpit style of the 737 classics, those displays are so iconic

the NG and max have too many screens

[reef isle]

It's realistic

As far as I've been able to tell from old aviation forums

I just keep it in heading all the time and correct myself

[hollow oracle]

eh, just might not be the aircraft for me then

feels like a house of cards, everything is extremely delicate and barely working

[reef isle]

this is discussing the Trident, but same navigation

https://www.petermcleland.com/trident/Trident010.jpg

this is the picture

https://www.pprune.org/tech-log/printthread-434496-trident-autothrust-system-autoland-2.html?pp=40

[hollow oracle]

minorly related, pink floyd has a song about flying

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjBptvqB68A

[hollow oracle]

the ixeg 737 really does not like descending it seems

the altitude targets are all over the place, at one point it was commanding 6000fpm down, which is almost 10 degrees nose down

i still havent managed to kick off any of the speed from that, im at like 280kts at 5000ft

we got it figured out with plenty of time to get configured for landing thankfully

didnt even end up mattering anyway, i crashed

2G landing

i floated hard last time, so i wanted to not do that this time, and instead of getting a firmer landing, i smashed it into the runway

the ixeg 737 really also does not like slowing down, both times ive needed to take up the entire runway for a 737

i just hate landing in new york, the winds are always horrible, and then 22 at LGA is right on the water with no extra space whatsoever, so you always second-guess how your descent is going because you dont want to accidentally fall short

[hollow oracle]

just how flight simming goes nowadays, spend 6 hours troubleshooting the sim, do the flight, mess up the landing so bad that you cant keep the flight, lose interest in flight sims for another few days

[rustic charm]

Well, troubleshooting for a while doesn’t really sound right to me tbh

As for losing interest after a crash, well oh well, that’s so real

After each of my crashes (in recent times there was only one thankfully) I promise I’ll write a full report on it, then abandon that and don’t touch MSFS for a week xD

After that last one, which was my Sterling 011D at Halifax, I only got back for another flight 14 days later. Delivered a FedEx 77F and got my best landing to date as the next one after a crash

[full plank]

this weekend i'll probably get MSFS up & running again

was meant to set up P3D aswell for the Concorde but for now the sim is just installed & nothing else

[reef isle]

Oh yeah I found the IXEG a little bit awkward to land too

I noticed that tendency to float as well, although I've heard it's reasonable, and the real 737 is somewhat prone to it too

I think the way I ultimately "solved" that was to force myself to not flare myself too early, which is something I do very often unfortunately

I've no idea how I've picked up this terrible habit but I usually do the flare in kind of "two steps", I first reduce a bit of engine power (I usually halve my throttle amount) and start pulling very gently at about 50/80ft, and then at about 30 I do the "proper" flare (engine idle and arresting descent rate), which always pushes me towards long landings - fine most of the time, but not on the planes that like to float or on short runways

And yeah, doing that on the IXEG is a very bad idea - same for the MSFS just flight planes

At about 40/50ft, engines idle then just a little pull, and then just let ground effect do its thing

[rustic charm]

I usually idle the engines at 50 (or if I’m slightly fast, at 100 even) and only pull the nose slightly up below 30. Perfect? Nope. But I do get reasonable landing rates within the touchdown zone. Though at the same time, account for it being MSFS with its imperfect physics, maybe in other sims it won’t work

[dusky leaf]

I only fly airliners very occasionally, but what I do with any aircraft I feel Im not that familiar with is set myself at my destination runway and handfly a few traffic patterns. It works for me, I have an average landing rate of 290 ish

Of course you can still do that, then do your flight and make a dogs dinner of the landing 😆

[rustic charm]

Oh yeah practice runs are important

Whenever I get a new plane I don’t know how to fly, I just do laps around an airport I’m familiar with

Whenever I want to try to fly to some challenging airport I’m unfamiliar with, I first do practice runs around it in a plane that I know well (usually it’s just a 738)

Like when I wanted to fly to Kai Tak, I first did several touch and gos there in a 738

Still haven’t done an actual flight to there cause the A310 scares me

[runic hare]

It really doesn’t

I’ve found it’s best to slow then decend

For landing just drop the throttles to idle as you flare and you should butter pretty frequently

Cool vid from yesterday

[rustic charm]

London City is cool

[reef isle]

It depends, slowing and then descending might help if you're really desperate, because of the way feet per minute and ground speed play with each other (you'll lose a certain amount of altitude descending at 3000ft/m at 200kt ground speed in less track miles comparing to descending the same amount at 3000ft/m at 300kta ground speed).

But unless your energy state is really hopeless , just increasing vertical speed and and letting the speed increase might be enough, simply due to the additional drag at higher speed

[rustic charm]

Welp, this is fun

Started a delivery from Paine to San Francisco

I forgot to switch to lbs in SimBrief

And I forgot that this plane is an American

So I input 18k as the flight plan said…

Slightly past Portland I get “Fuel quantity low”

Now trying to make Portland work, with under 3.5k lbs left total

[full plank]

I sometimes just do the gamer move & switch it from lbs to kg in the plane settings whenever I cba redoing the simbrief crap

[rustic charm]

Usually I just switch it in simbrief, takes one second, but today I totally forgot about it

Only realised when the warning popped up

And I could’ve just “refuelled” in-flight, PMDG planes allow that, but decided to actually land instead

Now on descent into San Francisco after refuelling at Portland

[rustic charm]

Which airport is that?

I can only assume something in Canada

[runic hare]

i fucking hate the magknight 789

shit

[trim harbor]

Its dog

Is it even being deved anymore

[runic hare]

yeah

at is fucked

hes saying the next big release will have custom FMC, Flight Dynamics and the 78X

tbf the models are good

[reef isle]

Still not enough dopamine

Assuming he's also watching Tiktok on his second monitor while having Instagram on his phone

[runic hare]

mmmm tasty

[rustic charm]

That looks really fun

Is that the maddog?

[runic hare]

IXEG

[rustic charm]

Today's delivery flight. This little guy is just a gulf away from joining the fleet.

Welcome to the city where apparently there is a house

Now these 2 screenshots I will not comment on

(The landing was -102fpm at 1.01G)

[hollow oracle]

i have done so many approaches like that

for some reason i keep getting cabin pings, i cant figure out what's wrong

[runic hare]

Spam the cabin ping button

The chief flight attendant will die

And no more pings

Keep spamming it until you hear the voice line

[hollow oracle]

finally, he is dead

[runic hare]

Yeah

I like that feature

Feels like I’m killing some of my cabin managers

[hollow oracle]

im guessing it might be something related to cabin comfort that i forgot to set, but everything is fine, temp, pressurization, utility bus

oh, for some reason i have a failed ground power connector

i dont know why the cabin would ask me to fix it though, especially after takeoff

[trail monolith]

https://www.flightsimulator.com/msfs-presents-flightfx-cessna-citation-x/

[hollow oracle]

wtf does "lifetime exclusive" mean

[echo gorge]

I expect it means it won't ve sold elsewhere

[hollow oracle]

why does it have a "lifetime" in the first place

i dont want to buy a digital product with a "lifetime"

[hollow oracle]

well that was mildly terrifiying

i managed to do a landing in the 757 with autothrottle on, for some reason my button command did nothing, and the throttles were locked, so i just landed it with the throttles on approach speed

it ended up being pretty good at least, -155 and 1.08G, i might have been a little bit uneven on the wheels but im not mad at all

wtf, the AT did disconect, but the throttles were stuck, testing after landing it seems like bumping the throttles up and then down unfreezes them

[trim harbor]

@rustic charm

[rustic charm]

Yep, seen that

They plan to do it once per month

[trim harbor]

only once per month?

that seems abit weird

[rustic charm]

Yeah

Well for now they’re just testing the demand I think

So if there is demand for more, they’ll do more

Once per month just means that you’ll take that flight one way, while the other way you’ll still have to get Air Koryo

But I have to say, this is very interesting to see anyway

I’m pretty sure it’s the first ever direct flight between Moscow and Pyongyang, it’s the first time North Korea gets traffic from a foreign airline, and I think it’s the first time a western airliner will go there too

[trim harbor]

its not the first, back in eastern blcoc times they did fly that

with an il62m

[rustic charm]

Oh well, fair

I did think that might’ve been the case, just wasn’t sure

Gotta say the price is a bit steep, I haven’t checked specifically now, but usually Moscow - Vladivostok would be around 17k, and last time I checked Air Koryo their tickets from Vladivostok to Pyongyang were around $200, so 15k

[rustic charm]

Still the first time since the fall of the Soviet Union too, so it’s an interesting development nonetheless

I am quite surprised Nordwind were the ones to do it. Other airlines could follow, will have to see, but if someone told me beforehand that one airline would announce such a flight, I would’ve said it’s Rossiya

[trim harbor]

buttt youre probably paying the NK tax for being able to enter the country

i think all things considered its not TOO bad

[rustic charm]

Well when flying Air Koryo you should be doing that too technically

[trim harbor]

i too thought rossiya would do it first

[rustic charm]

Plus tbh, I expect taxes would be separate

[trim harbor]

but nordwind is a charter airline, isnt it?

[rustic charm]

You’ll most likely pay the tax when getting the visa

[rustic charm]

I think so

[trim harbor]

https://css.aero/post/news230725

[hollow oracle]

I’m honestly still just waiting for more liveries to come out for it

[trim harbor]

this honestly seems like a good deal

i dont like it being marketplace only though

[dusky leaf]

https://virpil-controls.eu/cdt-aeromax-r-flightstick.html

Virpil doing entry level

Looks decent quality

[rustic charm]

There was a crash in Russia today, an An-24 went down after a goaround at Tynda airport

[trim harbor]

@untold finch might be interesting?

[untold finch]

Yes it is

[untold finch]

I still need to buy 2024 and get my simpit out of storage

[trim harbor]

it's for 2020 too

i think?

maybe this is better than the dcs chopper

[untold finch]

It is, but I wanna move forward rather than reinstalling 2020 again

[trim harbor]

very fair

[untold finch]

I doubt it will fly as well but I think it will have more to do long term

Plus making the mission hub user-expandable is a great move

Imagine this tying into some sort of career tracking thing

[trim harbor]

it is but i also think it needs a 'dynamic' factor in it where you dont have to wait for people to create missions

something like liberation in dcs where it was 'sorta' dynamic

it's planned but who knows how long until then

doing ASW will be funny

[untold finch]

Operating off of a Ticonderoga will be awesome

Naval helicopter ops are so good

[trim harbor]

i agree

even like off a wasp

defo a day 1 purchase for me

[rustic charm]

Welp

If someone asked me a year ago, I’d say this could never happen

But I bought the Fenix

Not just the 320, but the full bundle

[reef isle]

Nice

enjoy it 😄

Definitely the best value for money

[rustic charm]

I think I'm in love

(Don't pay attention to the livery, I'm not gonna take it to Paro just yet. It was just the first one in the selection menu out of the ones I downloaded)

[rustic charm]

Welp, got myself some freeware for Hamburg factory

Gonna deliver an A319 to Rossiya

Gonna use it to substitute all SSJ flights too

[reef isle]

Rip Razbam modules

[mortal furnace]

**** ED

just pay them

[echo gorge]

Don't see much point in playing a dcs without the dorito tbh

Pretty much removes any interest I previously had in the mig 29, both for moral reasons and because we'll be loosing it's best opponent

[rustic charm]

Okay I can confirm it now, I definitely am

This is how a plane for a simulator should be done

[rustic charm]

Fenix loading screen tips are the best I’ve seen

Literally every single dev provides some technical or historic data

Meanwhile Fenix: “Did you know that the name Airbus is a combination of words air and bus”

[full plank]

''The A321 is a major trunk road stretching from Henley to York Town near Camberley...''

[mortal furnace]

https://www.youtube.com/live/F7BrLGSCHhY

[abstract mural]

Does anyone have any idea why my screens are that blurry?

XP11, Toliss A321

sorry, XP12

[hollow oracle]

https://tenor.com/view/on-fire-pizza-gif-6074641

every day i am more and more glad that i didnt sink my money into the A-10C

the A-10A is fine for what it is, and im happy to say that i didnt give eagle dynamics over $100

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCA5abtI-Ko

i tried getting my airbus setup working with my new desk, but the desk clamps don't work, and the desk is too small to fit the throttles

i could try lowering the stick so it goes underneath my desk a little bit, but that would be really awkward imho

[hollow oracle]

https://tenor.com/view/monster-versus-vs-alien-monster-vs-alien-gif-16037253809360562033

it didnt have LODs in 2020??????????????

[hollow oracle]

reminder to clean out your liveries, deleting a shit ton of liveries ive never used on the A320 and ifly max 8, i saved like 150GB

[dusky leaf]

Make sure you have FXAA off

[dusky leaf]

The A10c is pretty fantastic. The attention to detail and the character

[trail monolith]

Doesn't FXAA make everything look sharper?

[dusky leaf]

Not in XP, it makes gauges etc blurry

[hollow oracle]

hues is launching their own install manager

if youve ever wanted ANOTHER install manager on your PC

[abstract mural]

that's better but still not fully fixed it

[hollow oracle]

Fenix update is out

[hollow oracle]

at least on the ground, im not seeing much difference as far as anything goes, the battery startup sounds different but thats about it

[hollow oracle]

just great as usual tbh

the internal IAE sounds are a billion times better, its not even comparable with the old ones, they sound great

[full plank]

so far so good

[trim harbor]

dont u have to go o 24

to see most differences

[hollow oracle]

like 30% of the changelog is 2024 exclusive, the other 70% is both sims

i am not interested at all in upgrading until SU3 is out with the local download function

[hollow oracle]

nice, bounced 3 times

you ever get so angry that your legs and arms start to go numb

by all means the weather in NZAA is fine on the charts, 1900ft AGL ceiling, 50/20 wind with no gusts, just a strong headwind landing which is no biggie, but MSFS was like "nah, 300ftAGL ceiling and 50kt winds with gusts"

[trim harbor]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6VYQTtx3jQ

goddamn

am i lookin forward to that

[dusky leaf]

I actually like the streaming side of it

[dusky leaf]

I would so like for msfs to have a reasonable heli fm, but still waiting

[hollow oracle]

the only thing that would get me back into DCS is the C-130 tbh, and even that's on extremely shaky ground right now

that's more my speed, cargo but close enough to be shot at

[trim harbor]

We can only hope

I hope it‘s decent enough on that chopper

[rustic charm]

Well tbh, if the sim gives me 50 knots on approach in any direction, I just don’t land

Having it as a headwind is just too windshear-risky

Having it as a tailwind, well it’ll basically double the runway length you need to land

And if it’s coming slightly from the side, most likely it’ll exceed the allowed crosswind component

And in the 737 you can only guess if it actually does, but the Fenix actually breaks the wind down into headwind component and crosswind component

[hollow oracle]

the last few flights, MSFS' live weather has been absolutely horrible

the flight before my last one was using celsius as fahrenheit for some reason, it said it was 20 degrees F in july

[dusky leaf]

I am quite happy to “god mode” the weather so I can fly. I Just adjust the bit thats stopping me, whether its ceiling, viz or wind

[hollow oracle]

im not against doing that, but then i cant use the weather from navigraph, i have to use the in-sim METAR, which is kind of annoying tbh

[rustic charm]

I just always use windy tbh

And it’s always rather close

Of course not exact, especially in places where weather changes quickly it might differ significantly because the METAR wasn’t updated yet

But usually the weather in msfs matches the one windy gives

[hollow oracle]

the weather in NZ should be good today to give it another shot at least

[rustic charm]

Pretty much all of NZ right now is covered by rather heavy rain

So it’s very much possible you’ll have a low ceiling and high winds again

Another smol bus on delivery

This one is gonna have a unique home

It's cute

Today only going as far as Sharjah, Hamburg to Paro in one go is a bit too much for an A319

[rustic charm]

Welcome to Sharjah

[dusky leaf]

https://store.keyvan.aero/pages/faq-simdata

Came across this. Lovely price point. Navdata only, but you can get charts anywhere

For XP users negates any need for navigraph

[rustic charm]

Welp, I’m going to Paro

[rustic charm]

Well...

I am about to do a stupid thing

Which means I'm about to land in Paro at night

[rustic charm]

Less than 30 minutes until I should be landing

[rustic charm]

Had to change the in-game time for landing because the runway simply didn’t have any lighting at all

[rustic charm]

A321 in its natural habitat...

Don't ask me how I ended up there, it was shit

And if anyone is actually curious how that happened, this is it

[trim harbor]

wheres my mh60

[hollow oracle]

my favorite, 20FPS in the fenix

it might actually be NZA christchurch im realizing

the stupid camera momentum makes it impossible to move the camera in the cockpit, because it gets to the windows and lags, and then the momentum makes it skip completely vertically

so its like i can either look straight up or straight down

going to try the new A320 again, and if i cant land it i might need to buy a new monitor

[full plank]

I've found since the BFU that my performance has improved a bit

alot of people seem to report it performs way better too

[hollow oracle]

mine has stayed the same

[full plank]

not that performance had been bad for me pre BFU

well impressed with how it feels flying though, I used to bin it off simply due it was not enjoyable to fly but post BFU its nice

[hollow oracle]

2kts of headwind and 4kts of crosswind in auckland, if i cant land because MSFS live weather screws me, i might uninstall the sim

[hollow oracle]

success, very good landing

believe it or not, i actually landed just short of the touchdown markers, more often than not i trend extremely late

im not a fan of how you can't fix chaseplane rotating the chase camera with the aircraft

trying to get photos of the aircraft just about to land look really weird because the camera is obviously tilted

[hollow oracle]

https://www.reddit.com/r/flightsim/comments/1mefacr/miltech_simulations_offers_you_the_ability_to_tip/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

[hollow oracle]

WHY

im sitting on 25C right now

yet it does not exist

what the fuck????

i chose 25C as a spawn point just to see if it existed, and it put me on 25R

i just wanted to do a flight with the A350 to see what all the updates have done, yet both airports do not exist, RKSI and VHHH

[trim harbor]

Thank god I was not the only one who saw that

And went „wtf“

[dusky leaf]

Quite a good idea if you wanted to show your support, Im all for it

[untold finch]

This is just a feature of the webstore provider they use, i've seen this on loads of different webstores for various things

they probably just didn't think to turn it off

i'd say i have no idea why reddit is getting so angry about this, but it's reddit

[rustic charm]

No idea why the anger either

It’s a tip

If you don’t want to, just don’t tip

[dusky leaf]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0q1OVUHWoQ

MOAB 💣

[echo gorge]

I wish I could still actually get excited for dcs

[hollow oracle]

I’m not spending a penny on DCS until ED figures their shit out

Especially from the razbam situation too, it looks like they’re dead broke, I don’t want to be playing an online-only game by a company who is operating at a loss

[echo gorge]

The Rambam (fucking autocorrupt) RAZBAM situation really just utterly killed it for me, I love the dorito, and the mig-23 was the airplane I was looking forward to most in the sim. The cancelation of future products is bad enough, but the recent announcement that the m2k (along with the other razbam planes) will likely be removed from the game itself after the next major core update just sucks even the interest I had in planes not made by Razbam, for example the best counterpart to the upcoming fulcrum is the mirage, as all the other modules are either too early or too late to effectively match it

[hollow oracle]

it sucks too, because a C-130 in DCS sounds insane

that is literally exactly what i like in military sims, im not a huge fan of combat jets, just the transport stuff that might get a little close to provide logistical support to the frontlines

i am no longer pre-ordering anything either

ESPECIALLY from ED after razbam

[echo gorge]

Oh shit I also just remembered the mig-19 was made by razbam, so that's the the f100's best matchup gone as well whenever that releases

[hollow oracle]

i would sooner buy the captainscam C-130 and fly that

[runic hare]

i concur

its a shame that about 12 years ago XP took a turn from military stuff to more civil aviation because back then the weapons system in XP10 was insane

I remember dropping a MOAB when i was about 10-11 on my dads PC with the virtava C130

[abstract mural]

C130 isn't ed

[hollow oracle]

theyre the ones selling it, and theyre the ones who make the sim for it

[abstract mural]

But if you follow that reasoning you won't buy tsg products because you don't like dtg

[hollow oracle]

strawman

[abstract mural]

I'm not wrong tho

[hollow oracle]

DTG isn't at a risk of shutting down because theyre broke, and TSW isnt an online-only sim

if DTG goes under, you can still play TSW, just without dovetail live or whatever

if ED goes down, the activation servers go down, which makes the game a 200GB brick on your hard drive, and you're out several hundred dollars because you can't use any of the content that you paid for

[abstract mural]

Aaaaand that's where skg comes into play

Fair enough tho

[hollow oracle]

yes, but as of right now, that hasnt passed, nor been implemented anywhere

• ED is in an extremely weird situation, it's impossible to say if SKG would even effect them

theyre russian developers with a swiss shell company

[mortal furnace]

Thought the owner was nick grey?

And sidekick wags

Developers are just russian i believe tish had ED before his passing?

Either way i gave up on dcs with its complete buggery (Mind the pun) you need a super computer to run dcs

[runic hare]

@trim harbor opinions on Lübeck airport getting regular flights again

I’m flying there on Monday

*tuesday

[trim harbor]

how the hell is

lubeck gettign flights

thats such a random ass airport

leipzig when :(((((((((((((((((((((((((((((

german gov took a major L with the taxes tbh

[runic hare]

Yeah Ryanair is doing 4 flights a week

[trim harbor]

wtf bruh

[runic hare]

I think it’s weird but cool?

[trim harbor]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/Aerial_image_of_the_Lübeck-Blankensee_airport_(view_from_the_northwest).jpg

i feel offended

[runic hare]

Well no 4 a week to Stansted 2 to Malaga and Palma and there is somewhere else as well

[runic hare]

Yeah but Bergerac gets like 3 flights a day

That’s literally a field

[trim harbor]

bruh

insane

[runic hare]

It’s the same as Orebro getting a daily summer flight to Stansted for some reason

The ground staff are stood around filming the plane as it comes in because they don’t get big jets

I can imagine it’s the same in LBC

[hollow oracle]

interesting, you can pre-order the C-130J from ASC themselves

https://www.airplanesimulations.com/

a significantly better option if you're dead set on having it i guess

[untold finch]

Yeah, they learned from what happened to Razbam

Heatblur did the same with the Phantom

[untold finch]

How is it?

[echo gorge]

How's the mh60?

Also PIE is on sale today to correspond with the release, and while I don't have pie, verticalsim is one the best couple airport devs for the sim

[hollow oracle]

what flavor of pie

[echo gorge]

It's Florida, so key lime I suppose

[hollow oracle]

fun fact: the shortest taxi at charles de gaulle is 3 hours and 45 minutes

also, the A350s landing gear is lower than you would expect

i mean, 1.07G is good enough of a landing to keep, the fpm was almost -500 though

no bounce either, interestingly enough

i landed it like a punted football landing in a muddy field

oh well, there's a reason why im playing MSFS and not out getting my real PPL

and my 5th transatlantic flight too

[mortal furnace]

Thats so ED dont steal there money like razbam

[trim harbor]

it flies like a great imho, of couirse not dcs kind of amazing but good enough, i couldnt tell if there was vrs, i havent tried that out th us far

it's a significant step up from a uh60 mod we have for dcs

u can do alot of stuff with the mh60, albeit i havent tried the hellfires or torps yet

theres a 'fmc' sort of deal in it as well which includes autoflight (this also includes autohover)

the S&R functions are nice and work flawlessly, i bought the mission hub for it too which is an amazing tool may i say

it sounds great and looks great as well

[untold finch]

nice, will definitely pick that up when i get back into flightsimming

[trim harbor]

u should get the mision hub with it so u can do ASW/SAR/firefighting etc

it also gives u quite a few ships / cruisers with it so u can do some ship ops

a niche little detail i enjoy is that it includes actual search patterns for sono ASW stuff

[full plank]

Fenix line up is actually nice to fly now. Would be wrong not flying a bit of Air 2000

[trim harbor]

Look abv

Also

I‘d recommend getting MH60 plus mission hub to get the most out of it

[trim harbor]

sono

[rustic charm]

Ngl I really liked the way it handled even before the update

[mortal furnace]

Well they could seen as we have an f35

So why not

And more important question why would you even give ED money?

[rustic charm]

So ini made an announcement regarding the 340

And it’s 24-only…

[reef isle]

where's the L-1011 man

😭

[untold finch]

Huh, I always wondered what it looked like inside

[rustic charm]

No idea 😭

But if they do make it it’s gonna be 24-only anyway…

[trim harbor]

a great day to fly

woe this is actually cool af

[echo gorge]

Oh that's neat