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

[trim harbor]

the sonobuoys have actual animations n stuff

im amazed

i've yet have to try to it with an actual sub

sonodipper works too

patternwork

[full plank]

just the flaring & taxiing that were big issues for me personally, rest of it was fine in all honesty

[rustic charm]

Tbh I did not notice too much of a difference in flaring, but really I’ve only owned the Fenix for 2(?) days before the update lol

But I do agree that taxiing is much nicer now

Before the update it just felt weird

[full plank]

felt like the whole world was covered in vaseline

now it actually sticks to the ground

[dusky leaf]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c1mSlmLjLi8

Multi crew

Looking well advanced

[hollow oracle]

Wait, they’re seriously opening pre-orders on a product without a release date? WTF?

[mortal furnace]

Standard in dcs you know anything theres not even a release date on the mig29

[trim harbor]

one of tfhe bst UAL liveries

[rustic charm]

Ngl, never quite was a fan of it

It’s definitely not bad

But just definitely not my favourite either

Meanwhile I'm trying out another Airbus

[rustic charm]

Past Warsaw now

Around 1:30 left

[rustic charm]

Orange

Only issue is I don’t actually remember the ILS frequencies for Sheremetyevo lol

[untold finch]

That's the reason they aren't allowed to do pre-orders on Steam any more

[untold finch]

I heard it was Q2 2025 or Summer 2025 or September 2025 maybe possibly

[mortal furnace]

Keep guessing lol

[hidden needle]

Another Horde of drunk germans has landed in Mallorca

[rustic charm]

Looks like the ATC ain’t doing too well with traffic separation

[full plank]

Average unicom moment

[reef isle]

Saul Bass, Battleship Grey and Blue Tulip I think are all very close at the top, but I think Blue Tulip is my favourite by a tiny margin

followed very closely by Saul Bass and then even more closely by Battleship Grey

then Continental came and replaced everything with the most boring livery imaginable

[full plank]

been a while since I flew to Copenhagen, was alright I guess

[rustic charm]

So the first flight I did earlier today (well technically yesterday, it's 4am), a delivery from Hamburg to Moscow

And a second flight I did now, Edinburgh to Heathrow

This one was fully hand-flown

Didn't even enable the AP

Not for takeoff, not for approach

Not for cruise

[runic hare]

I don’t want to be the one to make the joke that’s it’s a standard Russian western airframe now

CPT PFD INOP

[dusky leaf]

Thats how I do most of my flights. Only use AP if Im online

[rustic charm]

Oh yeah, that plus also some fuel system fault and a flap fault xD

I might’ve accidentally pressed the button that triggers a random fault in the plane… several times…

But you’re not wrong either. Aeroflot tbh keeps the planes in wonderful condition, but some other airlines will just fly with half of the cockpit being inoperative

[dusty sky]

anyone play flightgear?

[dusky leaf]

Years since I last tried it. Was a decent flightsim but lacking in the UI

[dusty sky]

there's a really good A320 and it's got simbrief integration but it's complicated to import the flight plan without a navigraph subscription

and the mcdu does double imputs a lot

[hollow oracle]

https://x.com/FlyANA_official/status/1952671635007561969

All Nippon Airways (@FlyANA_official)

It's a bittersweet farewell to our R2-D2™ ANA JET. R2-D2 has flown countless missions across the sky.

Final flights: August 6, ANA flight NH 102 from Haneda to IAD, August 6 ANA flight NH 101 from IAD to Haneda.

Details may change. More at https://t.co/d8HVxbvr54

X · Aug 5, 2025, 10:02 AM

[runic hare]

https://store.x-plane.org/CH-Eclipse-Yoke_p_52.html

Anyone know if this is any good?

I’ve been tempted by a yoke for a while and this price is kinda shifting me

[dusty sky]

can someone explain this because I am so confused

no sids and no stars

[rustic charm]

What exactly confuses you

I might be able to help

[dusty sky]

what do I do from here exactly?

[hollow oracle]

that's the one i use, for a cheap yoke it's pretty good

though mine is the older one, so it doesnt have the rudder pedals, or the extra switches and stuff on the face of the yoke

[full plank]

looks like you're missing your entire flight plan & have just put in the SID & STAR

[trim harbor]

@untold finch u got any experience w cowansim for choppers

https://fselite.net/content/cowansim-releases-sikorsky-s76c-for-microsoft-flight-simulator-2020-2024/

looks interesting

[untold finch]

I have most of their stuff, it's decent flight-model wise but not quite as good as Taog's Hangar, which was the closest I got to DCS in MSFS (still some way to go but oh well)

I do like exec type helicopters...

Feature wise cowansim is pretty good

[full plank]

MAX gaming

[rustic charm]

Can’t wait to fly lots of Icelandair once the 757 is out

Hopefully it’s before 2026…

[reef isle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvVsn-PzRBs

I'm taking part togheter with a group of 4x MB-339s, you can see a snippets of our thing at 1:42

[hollow oracle]

https://youtu.be/cxMDu5i9jEE

[tired pond]

Some people will moan about Orbx doing that but I see now issues

Bush flying seeing dinosaurs I think is really cool

[rustic charm]

I mean, I’m not much of a fictional enjoyer myself, and I only fly airliners, so probably the only plane I could potentially use that with is the DC-6
But at the same time, I don’t see any issue with that being a thing. I won’t use it, others will though

[untold finch]

I dabble with the fictional stuff from time to time. The Halo Pelican was nice, the Dune Ornithopter was really fun to fly too

[hollow oracle]

i like it, definitely want to do some bush flights there

especially if they have landmarks and stuff, that would be really cool to explore

[hollow oracle]

https://x.com/flightradar24/status/1953253695711240477

Flightradar24 (@flightradar24)

United Airlines mainline flight activity right now compared to same time last week.

United is currently holding all mainline departures at their origins due to a “technology issue.”

X · Aug 7, 2025, 12:35 AM

another IT airline ground stop

[dusty sky]

from what I saw in a video it looked basically complete but apparently it wasn't

[hollow oracle]

nothing like flying in china to remember why i hate flying in china

[hollow oracle]

what the fuck, it happened again, my gear came down mid-flight

for some reason the 787 REALLY wanted to do a -10000fpm descent rate as the regular VNAV descent

[rustic charm]

PMDG’s turned 28, so they’re offering 28% off until 10th August for everything

Can’t fucking wait until they turn 100

And past that? A couple days when they give you the plane and then pay you part of the price? Don’t mind if I do xD

[alpine coral]

[rustic charm]

Sooo

Now I have both -200s

(Well technically we have 3 -200s cause F is also a -200, but I mean the ER and LR)

Which means I now have all triples

[agile oak]

plön

[dusky leaf]

They originally just did manuals and flightmodel (no visuals) in FS98

[rustic charm]

Fair, the name makes a bit more sense then

[dusty sky]

it was a lot easier to program the A320 MCDU than I thought

[dusky leaf]

https://store.x-plane.org/Jetson-One-manned-eVTOL_p_2075.html

Looks fun

[trim harbor]

as much as i hate dcs rn

the f4u looks mad fun

[dusty sky]

I tried doing a flight just now

no clue what happened but I crashed after takeoff

so that went well

[dusky leaf]

If that sort of thing happens watch the replay so you can learn from it

[dusty sky]

don't think there is a replay in this sim

A320 works better

[untold finch]

it's apparently a massive work-in-progress

despite taking something like a decade to get to this point

[trim harbor]

i was gonna say

its been in dev for YEARS hasnt it

kinda sad

pacific theatre is madly undersaturated

[untold finch]

I just hope Combat Pilot will be our saviour

[trim harbor]

thats the new IL2 right

from the devs

[untold finch]

it's from Jason Williams, who was the executive producer behind IL-2 Great Battles, but he's since left 1C to do Combat Pilot

There will also be an IL-2 Pacific after they have got Korea done, apparently

[hollow oracle]

huh, 6 out of my top 10 best landings are all in xplane

the ground effect simulation in xplane is really a massive factor i think, it makes landing much more easy to handle

i just wish that xplane had the control customization like MSFS or DCS, that is the sims biggest drawback by far

[hollow oracle]

and all 6 are the top 6

[primal herald]

Guys do you think msfs is worth the money for a beginner?

[trim harbor]

prob yes

get gamepass for a month and try it out

get the fbw a320 with it

it's free

[dusky leaf]

As an X-plane preferrer I would reccomend msfs for a beginner

[untold finch]

Just a shame that they don't have Rod Machado doing the flight instructor stuff any more

I remember that from FS2002

[dusky leaf]

showing your age there pal 😆

[dusky leaf]

FS 2000 was what drove me to X-Plane, came back to msfs in fs2004, loved that sim and the rod machado FI stuff. FSX drove me back to XP

[hidden needle]

i feel young reading this

my first PC sim was FS2020

[trim harbor]

fs2004 was goated

i loved fs2004

ifly 737ng was class imo

with AES back then

yuck

[hollow oracle]

https://flightsim.to/file/95966/css-boeing-737-500-british-airways-g-gffg-4k

FINALLY someone did BAW

[hidden needle]

the CSS 735 is truly something

5$/month 50$/year or 120$ lifetime for a russian virus

and you can only pay via crypto and credit card

[rustic charm]

They added paypal iirc

And

It’s not Russian and not a virus

The devs are ethnically Russian yeah, but they’re based in the UAE

[trim harbor]

Paying w cc only isnt rate

Rare

Fenix had cc only for a while too

[hidden needle]

Oh they did

nvm then

[rustic charm]

Yeah, and it’s available via simmarket now too btw

[hidden needle]

can you buy the subscription there too?

cause 120 dollars for a decent plane is outrageous

[dusky leaf]

Not very often do you see me in an arliner

[rustic charm]

Not actually sure

And I do agree that for just the -500, 120 is too much

But they’re already working on the -300 and -400 at least

You can buy the subscription

But the prices are much higher

With no VAT, simMarket prices are €5.5/€55/€130

Which is already quite a bit higher than $5/$50/$120

And that’s without VAT

[hidden needle]

bruh

[hidden needle]

if they deliver those promises, 120 is a good deal

[hollow oracle]

out of all of the aircraft i have purchased in any flight sim, the felis 747 and the xworks embraers have been the best ngl

felis is ukranian, so i dont mind supporting him and his devs, and the xworks guy is super good at communication as well as making a good product for its price

[hollow oracle]

of course RJTT went IFR, headwinds of 20 kts

[hollow oracle]

once again, weather was the cause

for some reason the sim said 18kts of crosswind, even though it should have been around 18kts of headwind, at points the yoke was going hard over to keep it literally uncentered on the runway

i need to stop using live weather, but then i cant use navigraph's weather panel

just flight sims in general for me lately have been horrible, either i dont finish the flight, or i get a landing so bad that i cant keep it, its like 1 in 5 flights that end up getting kept

i think im going to try another flight this week, but in the E-175, something so modern and small that weather wont be an issue regardless of where i go

[rustic charm]

Yeah, and I really hope they do cause there’s so much to do with classics

Unfortunately as of yet they haven’t mentioned any plans for -400 combis, Alaska had those

But at least we’re supposed to get both freighters

[rustic charm]

Just had my first flight on the Sukhoi Superjet

Moscow - St. Petersburg on Aeroflot-Rossiya Shuttle

Got lucky with overbooking and got bumped to business

[trim harbor]

Hpws russian aviation nowadays

[rustic charm]

Tbh the plane is lovely

A great regional jet

[reef isle]

That looks like rudder trim or asymmetric thrust/drag

There isn't any crab to speak of, doesn't look like wind correction

Reminds me a bit of Dynasty 006

[rustic charm]

Service in business of course is great, especially considering I only had an economy ticket xD

But no, the service is genuinely great

[rustic charm]

It was a flight of less than an hour, they served actual warm meals - chicken, shrimp and some fish, plus ice cream for desert

[runic hare]

ths is kinda regular in business

if im not mistaken the SSJ is still C9 Y78

[rustic charm]

I mean, yeah, it’s regular business service of course, but it’s not bad

[rustic charm]

What would that mean?

[runic hare]

9 Business and 78 econ

[rustic charm]

Well 78 econ could be, but I think it’s 12 business seats

3 rows of 4

[runic hare]

I thought it was eurobusiness 2+3 config

[rustic charm]

Nah, it’s 2+2 business, 2+3 economy

[reef isle]

Look where the plane is pointing and look at your engine #1. The cause is not wind.

"Meanwhile, as the airspeed decreased, the autopilot rolled the control wheel to the maximum left limit of 23 degrees while maintaining level flight. As the speed decreased even further the aircraft began to roll to the right even though the autopilot was maintaining the maximum left roll limit. By the time the captain disconnected the autopilot the aircraft had rolled over 60 degrees to the right and the nose had begun to drop. Ailerons and flight spoilers were the only means available to the autopilot to keep the wings level as the autopilot does not connect to the rudder during normal flight. "

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Airlines_Flight_006

It's exactly what happened to you, just that it was worse in that case. The wind had nothing to do with it.

If wind was the cause you'd have more crab, you can also tell by looking at the slip indicator right below the artificial horizon

[runic hare]

oh damn

yeah they are actual business

also ACDEF is stupid seat labels

[rustic charm]

Yeah

[rustic charm]

Tbf you can’t really fit another seat there

The plane is the size of an Embraer

It’s essentially an E-175 (and my personal opinion slightly better-looking than one) with an A320 cockpit

[runic hare]

wider

its like 25-30cm wider i think

thats why the SSJ was potentially gonna be big in europe

then the BCS1 came along

CityJet did like there jets

[rustic charm]

Yeah, fair

Tbh yeah it’s closer to BCS in size

And tbh the SSJ is a nice plane

Obviously for the rest of the world buying an A220 makes more sense though, at least it’s made by proven manufacturers, plus it’s European, so for European countries to get them is more logical

But it would be cool to see these flying in other countries again

[runic hare]

I miss seeing these things

[trim harbor]

Cityjet hat those

Wtf

[runic hare]

yeah

you didn't know?

they were RJ85 replacements

[trim harbor]

Cursed

[dusky leaf]

Lol forgot the gear 😆

[rustic charm]

The lines look quite cool on it tbh

Though I gotta say I really like how the plane looks overall

Probably in terms of looks my favourite modern regional jet

I think it’s genuinely very beautiful

[runic hare]

oh yeah i forgot about the brussels airlines fleet

its funny

Aeroflot pilots and crews working for cityjet who are working for brussels airlines

[trim harbor]

Bruhh

[dusky leaf]

Last time I looked at this I couldnt make out the HSI needle making it kinda useless for anything. They either fixed it or its my settings

You can do some lovely landings in her, she is a joy to handfly

[dusty sky]

I'm gonna do something daring tomorrow

transatlantic in an A320neo

also today I've done my first proper flight in ages

[hollow oracle]

They do transatlantic in 320s???

My brother did the JetBlue flight from Boston to Charles de Gaulle, and that’s in a 321neo

[hidden needle]

transatlantic in a narrow body sounds painful

[hollow oracle]

I was not jealous

Air France does that same route but in A350s, which would be a lot cooler

Though, I’ve heard that JetBlue is pretty good as far as customer service goes, so not sure if it would be that bad

[hidden needle]

i mean as long as the seats are somewhat comfy and you get food like you would on a wide body, i dont see an issue

[dusty sky]

Idk

Like I don't think swiss has flights to or from Luton either

But I did it anyway

[hidden needle]

except for speed

[runic hare]

issue is on JBU they fucked the catering, because they use both the 321neo and the 321neoLR they have different oven configs that makes it a logistical nightmare

[hollow oracle]

My brother said he did get a menu, and he did order, but he never got anything, so that’s something

[hidden needle]

lmao

Global airlines first flight

[dusty sky]

What even is global airlines

[hidden needle]

Their downfall has to be studied

[dusty sky]

More like airline

[hidden needle]

they really thought running an A380 between gatwick and jfk would break even

[dusty sky]

How much money are they losing

Lemme check

[hollow oracle]

Even the major flag carriers can’t keep the A380s running, I have no idea how they thought a startup could sustain that

[hollow oracle]

Right now, $0, because they already went broke after like 1 flight

[dusty sky]

Lmao

[hidden needle]

i think they did 4 flights

Gatwick - JFK and back
and Manchester JFK and back

something like that

[hollow oracle]

I only knew of the media flight that was a disaster

[runic hare]

if you think about it BOS-LHR is about the same flight time as EDI-LCA or LGW-HGH

[hidden needle]

Yeah, 90 something passengers xd

[runic hare]

so its not like a new concept

[hidden needle]

and the crew still couldnt keep up with the food and stuff

[dusty sky]

What even happened on that

[hidden needle]

holy shit

[hollow oracle]

Terrible service, dirty aircraft that was just brought out of storage, and like nobody was on it

[dusty sky]

Dang

[hidden needle]

I love FS 24

[dusty sky]

A320?

[hidden needle]

yes

[dusty sky]

Well that's my question answered

[hollow oracle]

I think it was global that was advertising a “gamer class” too, they had like first class seats with gaming PCs built in

[dusty sky]

Aw nah

[hidden needle]

Their inflight entertainment didnt even work

[hollow oracle]

You’d have to wait the entire flight for your game to download

[dusty sky]

Bro global isn't a clown it's the whole circus

[hidden needle]

playing FS 24 in that would be dope tho

[dusty sky]

I wish I could see a 747 man

[hidden needle]

Im so glad that Lufthansa still flies them

Even the 400

[runic hare]

ultra rare wyndbain non europe flights

[dusty sky]

Legit there is 0 way for me to see a 747 without leaving my country

[hidden needle]

i see this from time to time cause EDDF is my local

[dusty sky]

Lucky

[hidden needle]

nobody knows when they will retire, cause the 777X will replace them

and who knows when thats getting delivered

[full plank]

blessed SAS

[dusty sky]

Longest runway in the country can maybe hold a 747

But it's still kinda a stretch ig

Or idk depends

[hidden needle]

A320ceo with IAEs, wingtip fences and a mask is an interesting combination

i love the IAEs

[full plank]

IAEs are peak, used to fly a SAS 321 all the time back in P3D

[hidden needle]

Yes

i wish more airlines had them

[full plank]

sadly never flown with them in the real world, but heard good things

[dusty sky]

IAE A320 is the best engine for it change my mind

[hidden needle]

They're more efficient than the CFMs and sound way cooler

But they like to eat oil i have heard

[dusty sky]

I like how skinny they are

[hidden needle]

they take 2-3 business days to start

and blast your ears with very deep bass while they do so

atleast the fenix ones

[trim harbor]

It sucks though

Like actual asscrack

Not the plane itself

But Lufthansa

[hidden needle]

Cap

[trim harbor]

I flew on it alot

Their -8is

EDDF-RJTT

I‘m not a tall person

But even I had my space issues

The food sucked, old IFE

Junk

Hope LH replaces it with their 787s soon

[hidden needle]

777X

[trim harbor]

Or that

[hidden needle]

whenever that gets delivered

[trim harbor]

Just something better bruh

Their a350s r okay

[hidden needle]

why is that screen so freaky bruh

and why is norway so pretty

I have arrived

[trim harbor]

(It didnt work halfway through)

[hidden needle]

you didnt touch it enough

[dusty sky]

guys I'm on xplane 11 but the pitch and roll aren't working

[reef isle]

Any more details? Does it happen on all planes? Did it use to work and then broke?

[dusty sky]

it worked before

idk it could just be the game is old

[reef isle]

I use Xplane11 almost daily and it's fine

[dusty sky]

let's see if this gpu can handle msfs

wow it actually runs

surprising

I was really not expecting it to even run

Is 2020 still better than 2024?

[trail monolith]

Still waiting for the new career update to be able to get all the certs

[dusty sky]

I don't remember msfs taking 3 hours to download

[dusty sky]

I give up with this GPU man it can't handle anything 🥀

[hidden needle]

Nah

atleast for me

except for that some liveries just dont show up in the game, even when theyre marked as fs24 compatible

[dusty sky]

anyway

how do I make simbrief give me a eastwards flightpath from hong kong to london

if that's even possible

[dusty sky]

bro what

[hidden needle]

wait until bro realizes that ryanair only uses 737s

[trail monolith]

https://youtu.be/GlhbDhRCOxM?si=T5BKkkH0_mTQASSC

[hollow oracle]

https://x.com/FedEx/status/1955009644255903887

FedEx (@FedEx)

We honored our founder, Fred W. Smith, at @fedexchamp this weekend with a 777 flyover — a tribute to his vision and legacy💜

X · Aug 11, 2025, 8:53 PM

new 777 livery

[hollow oracle]

is there a way to do 4K screenshots in MSFS?

are you kidding me, it happened again

the sim is reading the celsius METAR temp as fahrenheit

it thinks its 30 degrees F in dallas in august

i think we should coin a new term, "roadtrip flight", where the taxi feels like it takes longer than the flight itself

a good example is KDFW to LFPG, you're in taxi for a solid 15 mins at either airport without any trafifc

[hollow oracle]

landing in a warm & sunny knoxville

[dusky leaf]

Checked your hardware in the xp settings window? gust lock or similar?

[rustic charm]

Aboard the SSJ again for a flight back to Moscow

No free business this time but economy’s fine enough for an hour of flight

6F, space+, plenty of legroom here and it cost me next to nothing xD

Hope the updated Headwind SSJ comes soon, cause for now I think it’s simply the FBW 320 cockpit

Once they do get the new cockpit out, I’ll probably get a few flights in it

[hollow oracle]

YES

THE IFLY MAX 8 IS GETTING A PROPER EFB

[rustic charm]

Ngl the ipad fits the MAX more

The Boeing one would look better on the NG imo

Or on the older triples

[hollow oracle]

the crazy thing is that the EFB they modelled is the boeing stock option one iirc, so its technically not inaccurate

but i dont think ive seen any aircraft within the last decade that doesnt have an ipad for an EFB

[hidden needle]

bout damn time

[hollow oracle]

the ipad is very modern and big touchscreen, visually it fits a lot more with the max 8 tbh

having these big cockpit displays with this EFB that looks like it came out of the very first NGs is so weird

[hidden needle]

Yeah not to mention it sucks to use it too

[trim harbor]

God bless

Prob one of the most requested things ever

[rustic charm]

Just did a quick Moscow - St. Petersburg - Moscow roundtrip in the A319

In about 4 hours I’ll have to leave to take a flight in reality

[rustic charm]

Welp, I’m about to be in Sheremetyevo for the 3rd time this week, but this time for a nice 6 hours in a 737 xD

[rustic charm]

4 days ago I got lucky flying Rossiya and got reseated to business class, today that happened again with Aeroflot lol

[hidden needle]

I wonder when russian airlines will finally run out of airplane parts

lets hope trump manages to stop the war somehow

[hollow oracle]

Taking an edible, watching that video, and then taking a flight

[hidden needle]

bro what

if the wings wouldnt flex they would just snap off

[rustic charm]

Some pics from the flight

[reef isle]

It's clearly satirical

[woeful elbow]

<@&1007120791860682782>

Can i make a report about a user not within this discord?

Sorry for the ping

I need to report someone for being a nonce and a doxer

[echo gorge]

You can report them to discord and possibly get their account banned

[woeful elbow]

alreadyd one

[echo gorge]

We can't really do anything about a user that's not in this server

[mortal furnace]

#off-topic

[dusky leaf]

Headed back home

[runic hare]

Man the new XP12 update is fire

[rustic charm]

Wow those graphics are fire

[dusty sky]

man I wanna play msfs again 🥀

[rustic charm]

So turns out I now live literally around 5km away from the crash site of UPS 006

[dusty sky]

wait what?

[hidden needle]

Bro doxxed himself

oh wait Dubai

nvm

[rustic charm]

Yeah, I wouldn’t say if I lived in some scarcely-populated area

[trim harbor]

boo

[hidden needle]

Dubai airport seems kinda dangerours ngl

[trim harbor]

@runic hare do u collect miles

[hidden needle]

All those buildings around it

[trim harbor]

amex miles started sucking and so did lufthansa miles & more

they're barely worth anything anymore

[hidden needle]

if some pilot decides to pull an Air India, the plane would just fly into a building

[trim harbor]

i have like 100k miles and barely can affored return in eco without paying 400eur ontop

useless

i was thinking about avious mayhaps but theres literally almost no carrier out of germany that utlizies it

jal does for japan but i dont take them enough (plane sucks there)

[trim harbor]

the touchdown zone is quite far behind

[hidden needle]

How does one afford to fly that much anyway

[trim harbor]

work 40 hours a week with 8 24 hours shifts a month and end up with 4k on the hand

[hidden needle]

24 hour shift???????

[trim harbor]

utilize miles for flights - book when its cheap

yes

[hidden needle]

What??

[trim harbor]

i work in a hospital

i put people to sleep

operating rooms dont sleep

[hidden needle]

Ohhhh

Thank you for your service

[trim harbor]

i can sleep there of course when theres nothing to do at night

it's usually not a full 24 hours of constant work

[trim harbor]

i also dont pay for my flights to japan alot of times because my family covers those

[rustic charm]

It only has a few years left to live anyway

[trim harbor]

toobad really

the airport is cool

[rustic charm]

At least that's what they say

I don't quite believe they'll fully rip it up

[trim harbor]

well if youre at the emirates terminals atleast

the other one suck

[rustic charm]

My theory is they'll rip up part of it and leave it as an exclusive, VIP, Emirates-only airport

[hidden needle]

Are they building a new one

[rustic charm]

Kinda

[trim harbor]

yes

[rustic charm]

Expanding an old one

[trim harbor]

dubai world wasnt it

[rustic charm]

Al Maktoum is much further away from the city centre, for now is dominated by cargo and only has 1 runway

They want to move everything there and expand it into a 5-runway hub

[rustic charm]

Dubai World Centre technically, although for now still Al Maktoum International Airport I think

They want to expand it to handle something between 160 and 260 million passengers annually

[trim harbor]

christ

their plan looks good though

[rustic charm]

Meanwhile for now the main airline in there is Emirates SkyCargo

[trim harbor]

i dont really understand how they wanna do it yet

but its the UAE sooooooooo

they plastered a modern city up in like 20 years lol

[rustic charm]

I think they haven't yet learned about physics, time and limited resource supply, so they can just build everything in 2 days and it'll work

[trim harbor]

well they arent as bad as china

i enjoyed dubais skyline

cool city

marina is the best part abt it

[rustic charm]

I mean, that's why I said and it'll work

[trim harbor]

lmfao

[rustic charm]

Cause in China that's not a guarantee lol

[rustic charm]

Honestly that looks like Istanbul but worse and better at the same time

Oops ping

[trim harbor]

istanbul is a TERRIIBLE airport

[rustic charm]

And if you know me, you'll know I HATE Istanbul International

[trim harbor]

100000000% valid opinion

[rustic charm]

I once had like an hour-long discussion with a friend which was more of a monologue about how much is wrong with that thing

I don't really have a certain favourite airport, many are competing for that place, and it's easy to compete for it

But my least favourite?

Sorry no, no competition, that one is not changing

[trim harbor]

i hate frankfurt

personal grudge

abysmal to transfer in, especially when short on time

and overall just ugly and old

[rustic charm]

Honestly I just wonder what they'll do with EFTA once all that is done

[trim harbor]

whast efta

[rustic charm]

Cause it's right nearby

[rustic charm]

Emirates Flight Training Academy

[trim harbor]

ahhh

[rustic charm]

Cause having a flight school (even an elite one that costs 182k$) near such a busy airport doesn't sound too safe

[trim harbor]

182k

yikes

[rustic charm]

Yep

But to be fair

That's for a 2 year course that brings you from 0 to an ATPL

[trim harbor]

and a position at emirates i hope lol

[rustic charm]

And that covers accommodation and 3x daily meals for the whole 2 years

[rustic charm]

Quite likely

Thought about going for it myself tbh, I might in the future if I get the money

[trim harbor]

182k is so much though

[rustic charm]

Yeah

[trim harbor]

as much as id like to but aviation is turning into a 'worse' direction imo

we missed the primetime

[rustic charm]

Tbh I wouldn't be surprised if accommodation was like half of that though

[rustic charm]

Can still always get an ATPL, move to Alaska and fly 80-year-old DC-6s xD

[trim harbor]

by then it'll be 80 year old 737s fr

i cant evnen imagine that

80 year old 737s

[rustic charm]

Or move to Colombia and fly Aerosucre if you have nothing to lose

[rustic charm]

Eh tbh 737 Originals have another 20 until they're 80 xD

[trim harbor]

god man

[rustic charm]

Is it even 20, might be something like 25

[trim harbor]

time flies

[rustic charm]

I reckon we'll be able to find airlines that fly 737s and A320s for like 40-50 more years

Yeah major ones will move away to newer planes

And tbh those newer planes might end up being ugly, we don't know yet

But these will still fly, they'll just get moved to smaller carriers

What's sad is that relatively soon all 727s and stuff will be gone

[trim harbor]

we msised the golden age of aviation

[runic hare]

I have quite a few avios from random stuff

[hollow oracle]

i do not particularly enjoy flying the C-47

[alpine coral]

Seesh they really upped the graphics

[rustic charm]

Tbh I’ve never tried the DC-3, but my opinion of the DC-6 is quite simple - it’s much harder to operate, requires a lot more mental capacity, and as a result it’s definitely not a plane for every day. But when you do get a good flight in it, it feels so much more rewarding

[trim harbor]

do u use cc

or how do avios work

[runic hare]

You can get avios for so much stuff over here now

Get food delivered? You get some. Frequent shopper at Sainsbury’s? You get some.

Like I mean if you spend £50 in Sainsbury’s you can convert the nectar points you get to 250 avios ish

It depends on what the current deal is

But like a month of food shopping for 2 people and your gonna get about half of a one way flight so it adds up

But that being said you also get more from the avios that you have flying BA as opposed to JAL, AA or Qatar

It also helps having a GF who works for British Airways because I get club upgrades for free essentially even if I’m traveling by myself and they are all added to my BA account

If your gonna be using them then it’s better to be smart, use them for Iberia or BA because you can get a lot more from them

Like I got a MacBook Pro last gen for stupid cheap in Black Friday. I got 4011 avios just for that

Even though I didn’t pay the equivalent in curries

I’m not 100% sure but I think Europe - Asia is best served with avios

[reef isle]

I really need to start getting enrolled in some program like that

Both for rail and air travel

[trim harbor]

I wishhh

[trim harbor]

Yeah but for taking JAL for at most 10-11 times a year pn short routes doesnt suffice it imo

How much are flights for avios

[runic hare]

you can get BER-LHR return for about 20000

idk about iberia

i think its about the same

its about 20000 for a one way to new york depending on demand

i use them mainly for upgrades and inflight extras

[trim harbor]

Wtffff

Thats so goood

[runic hare]

I remember seeing it and goinf "huh?"

but yeah thats a pretty standard fare for the lower demand flights

like wednesday at about 12

also, avios for vueling are fucking excellent deals

I did santiago last year for 12560 return

idk if they still do it

couple months ago we missed a flight back from palma with work

they wouldnt pay for another airline and they wanted to fly us back via Luxemborg to stansted

I booked a one way with Vueling with avios last min and got it for something like 17k

bliss

i only have like 5000 left now but I'm getting them back up

[hollow oracle]

https://www.reddit.com/r/DCSExposed/comments/1mtwolb/razbam_ip_illegally_sold_to_chilian_government/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

it keeps getting worse for eagle dynamics somehow

https://tenor.com/view/simpsons-bart-eat-popcorn-listening-sideshow-bob-gif-11775572287607054920

[untold finch]

yeah, this has been known for a little while but i didn't expect M2M to go public with it

it's kinda gross that ED double dips third parties and just sells their stuff on in their professional version without any compensation

[dusty sky]

Do FedEx md-11's fly outside of north America anymore?

All the flights I found on flight radar 24 were flying from north America to north America

[reef isle]

Extremely rare instance of me doing present day flights

https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/FGSTB/history/20250818/0620Z/LFBO/LFRZ
https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/FGSTB/history/20250818/0816Z/LFRZ/LFAQ

[hollow oracle]

They fly them globally, they still have some legs on them, so fedex still uses their range

Especially from anchorage and Honolulu to points west in Asia

FedEx does the same thing as UPS, they release their departures at night and in waves, so if you go into playback and look at FedEx MD-11s overnight, you’ll see a ton more than in the day

[hollow oracle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU7pjpHwzHU

ivao pog

[hollow oracle]

why?

manually going direct to robin seemed to fix it

[hollow oracle]

cant stand how the only good B-17 in any flight sim is FSX

i've tried on-and-off to get into FSX, but it is so damn hard, especially trying to do it casually with an xbox controller instead of setting up hardware

[hollow oracle]

plus one of the only good DC-10s, and L1011s

the mighty 8th is even worse as far as confusing controls and stuff goes, and its not really much of a flight simulator as it is a pure B-17 simulator

[hollow oracle]

actually, trying FSX again after playing xplane, the control setup is identical (just even more simple), especially with axis controls

[dusty sky]

I kinda overran

[rustic charm]

Wayyyyy out of my comfort zone

[hollow oracle]

oh yeah, speaking of B-17s, this seemed to have flown under everyones radar (pun not intended)

https://youtu.be/HmMWSmGjNQo?si=KilhLRzoed_sYtr1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFFNaN8EZ-8

khamsin and philip ubben (dev of the T-6G) are remastering the B-17 for XP12, including an accurate honeywell C-1 autopilot

khamsin also removed the XP11 B-17 from his gumroad store fairly recently, so that may indicate that it might be ready for a release sooner rather than later

considering that it's been 4 full months since it was announced, and it was in development long before that, i could see it releasing late 2025/early 2026

[runic hare]

isn't he also doing a B-36?

[dusty sky]

so uh

this is intresting

not even intentional

I ain't flying to the same airport sadly

[dusty sky]

I was so close to london bro

[hollow oracle]

SU3 is out

and i dont think downloading content locally released withit

[trail monolith]

Career mode is still unfinished you can't get the heavy airliner cert either

[rustic charm]

Anyone here had issues with installing the TFDi MD-11? For some reason it really gets stuck on installing navdata for me

The installer is just sitting like this for some 30 minutes now

[alpine coral]

Oof

[hollow oracle]

the FSX camera system still makes me want to eat shards of glass, but otherwise, fun

the terrain is pretty awful too, but i dont think anything can be done about that, there's no autoortho for FSX

[trim harbor]

ORBX

doesnt make it autoorth type of good

but it does alot

[rustic cedar]

gives me big il-2 1946 vibes

[dusty sky]

right now I am in the middle of the atlantic

[dusty sky]

I love this 707

[dusty sky]

bro what happened to my outer engines

why are they off now

[dusty sky]

unsurprising honestly

[hollow oracle]

it still pisses me off seeing how many people reply to "what sim do you play?" polls with 2024, like who are you???

how is it that a majority of the flight sim playerbase has moved onto 2024 when the data clearly shows they havent??

[hollow oracle]

the base pack is $60, the vector pack is $40, and the openLC stuff is $35 each

for that price, the default scenery is just fine

[tired pond]

FSX still had FSX prices tbh

[dusty sky]

Nah really?

[tired pond]

MSFS caused a shift in prices of things to a point

That's what I'm getting at

[dusty sky]

Wait guys does the 737-800 auto put the flight path after you set the sids and stars

Cuz if no I know what I'm doing immediately

[hollow oracle]

landed it for the first time, went very smoothly

the hardest part by far is taxi, there is no traditional tiller, only differential braking and half on/off throttles

It flies like a dream, I hand flew it the entire trip and it looked like autopilot did it from the track on Volanta, which I’ve heard is characteristic for the B-17s

Definitely getting very used to FSX too, I still want to get chaseplane eventually, but other than that it’s not been too bad to get into

[trim harbor]

this

it was worth it back then

[hollow oracle]

i havent entirely decided if im going to continue with FSX either, i may jump to P3D, so i dont want to invest massive money into it right now

plus there's the khamsin one for xplane 12 coming out soon, so i may end up going with that, or even the microprose one for MSFS (whenever that's going to release)

[trim harbor]

Do p3d

Honest to god

You‘ll thank me eventually

Mostly because it graphically isnt terrible

And from p3d v5 you have volumetric clouds

And openlc included

[rustic charm]

And isn’t P3D like the best physics-wise?

[untold finch]

X-Plane is the best physics wise afaik, P3D still uses lookup tables

[dusty sky]

I'm starting to give up with these transatlantics

twice now my engines cought fire for no reason

[reef isle]

I feel like FSX is better in some regards than MSFS

[reef isle]

Don't invest money in neither of them

It's all outdated tech with very little hope of being supported long term

[trim harbor]

this is also v true

[reef isle]

I use FSX quite a bit and I'm only using freeware stuff

[rustic charm]

About to fly it to Miami

[reef isle]

Man I want the A300B4 so bad

[rustic charm]

Sameee

AAL bare metal is so nice

A couple weeks ago I barely resisted buying the MD-11

Now I bought it almost by accident

Will at least somewhat satisfy the need for polished aluminium

[bold heart]

finally some good taste

😛

[rustic charm]

Hey, I have good taste 99% of the time!

[bold heart]

bare metal AAL was my childhood

lots of time spent on MD-80s

[rustic charm]

Wish I had that ngl

My best option to fly an MD-80 is literally to go to Iran

[bold heart]

ehh, transcontinental in the rear of an MD-80 is not great lol

well, two flights

[rustic charm]

(Although tbf I do want to do a sizeable Iran trip because with some luck I’ll be able to check off A310, A340-300, MD-80 and BAe 146 at the same time)

[bold heart]

a 146 would be super cool

[rustic charm]

Or if not both A310 and A340, then A310 and A300-600

[rustic charm]

I agree

Politics aside, Iran is a super cool country for aviation

They have 742s and A3B4s still flying freight

[bold heart]

It's a fascinating country overall

[hollow oracle]

this aircraft is banned in the UK

some WW2-era nose art is WILD

the sally B is a restored aircraft too, i thought it was kind of discouraged to use straight-up nude nose art on restored aircraft (even if its accurate)

[rustic charm]

This almost went bad

[wraith cobalt]

Only three months ago, I couldn't even tell what V1 means or what the APU does. But now it has turned into a new hobby, next to all the train stuff. This game is beautiful.

[rustic charm]

That’s how quickly it happens xD

Those are nice screenshots

[rustic charm]

Does anyone know where would Continental/United/American deliver 772s? I assume it’d be LA/SF to put them in service as quickly as possible?

[rustic charm]

Going for the second attempt

[primal herald]

What mods Are good for the a320neo?

[rustic charm]

Redoing a flight from a bit ago

Second leg of the delivery, Sharjah - Paro

Last time I had to modify the in-game time because I was approaching Paro afterdark, so I decided that the flight doesn't count

[rustic charm]

This is bad

Going to divert before it's too late to do so

[hollow oracle]

ive been wanting to make this livery for months, i only finally got around to it now that i have the accusim B-17

there's only 1 photo of it, so i had to make a guess as to how it looked based on other B-17s in the squad, but the aircraft's tail number and letter were recorded so that is accurate

the only real fictional thing on it right now is that i added the nose art to both sides, some crews did it that way, others didnt, i did it so it would be easier to get screenshots

[dusty sky]

first transcontinental and first transatlantic in 1 flight

2 birds 1 stone ah situation

[tired pond]

Migrated over the 2024 now with SU3 and also it's my first time flying the BFU

Damn is all I'll say

[rustic charm]

How’s 2024?

I’m considering it

But it’s expensive

But at the same time, there are several planes on the horizon (ini A340-300, PMDG 74s and the Aerial Simulations 707) that are planned as 24-only that I really want

[primal herald]

Hi, can you skip the preparation Part on the FBW A320neo? It sucks and sometimes doesnt work

[tired pond]

I'm gamepassing it at the moment but I've found it lovely

[dusky leaf]

I only use 24 as a secondary sim, but as far as I can see its superior to 20 in every way. Heard some having probs, but not experienced any

[tired pond]

The main issue I have is flow and chaseplane not supporting it yet

[reef isle]

First Flight with the RJ done

really easy transition from the BAe146, not sure if it was worth the money even though I paid less than 40€. but still... cool plane, enjoyable to fly, I'm happy 😄

there are many routes and operators that are RJ only, so it's not like it doesn't have any purpose

[hollow oracle]

:D

[agile oak]

hot

[rustic charm]

And it’s Northwest too, lovely

[rustic charm]

Tbf I don’t use either, so I guess as soon as it starts going on sale I can look into it

[dusty sky]

any intresting flights that take less than an hour?

I want to do something short but interesting

[tired pond]

If you want something Fenix based I always like doing Charlotte to Raleigh

[dusty sky]

um

not fenix

not anything

in person flight sim thing with a 737

[runic hare]

TFS-AGA Ryanair

[hollow oracle]

once you get FSX rocking and rolling, it's easily up there with xplane 11

extremely space efficient too, i have a good chunk of content installed, and i think im still under 35GB

[hollow oracle]

my wings look like theyre flapping from the turbulence

its weird, whatever ambience chaseplane or the 747 has makes it sound like the stall stick shaker is going off when the aircraft is creaking for turbulence, so i always look down in panic that im going to just fall out of the sky

[hollow oracle]

i dont have FSrealWX set up, and FSX doesnt have a native METAR display for non-live weather, so im going to land in the blind as far as winds and altimeter go

after this flight im going to see about setting it up

[hollow oracle]

bullshit, it was such a soft landing that i didnt even realized i touched down

if i didnt have the audio cue of the wheels hitting the tarmac, i would have thought i floated the entire runway

[hollow oracle]

its funny because chaseplane in FSX has the same issue as chaseplane in MSFS, the camera rotates with the pitch of the aircraft, so the landing flare gets kind of shitty pictures on the ground

[dusty sky]

It really is BS how volanta calculates landing fpm

Like I don't think I did a positive landing at O'Hare man

[rustic charm]

First 772 delivery

[agile oak]

hot

[rustic charm]

Bye Greenland

[rustic charm]

Can't see it that well but passed what I think is the northernmost airport in the world

[rustic charm]

Can't see Norway, but it's there

[rustic charm]

And across the border, so now I can actually say 'Welcome home!'

[rustic charm]

Keep always flying into Moscow at night

[rustic charm]

50 to T/D, time to calculate the landing

Oh, contaminated runway, love to see that

[rustic charm]

Love Moscow approaches

[trail monolith]

I suppose you're flying the long route around Norway and all the countrys?

[rustic charm]

Nope, it's a delivery so it's just the most optimal route

Or sometimes just the route I want

Starting in the US anyway, so why avoid other countries

And in reality this plane was delivered to Aeroflot in 1998 anyway

[rustic charm]

Btw this is the whole thing

[reef isle]

es geht nach Sylt

[hollow oracle]

Looks like a Chinese routing, like how they have restricted airspaces, all over the place

[hollow oracle]

Oh yeah, I got orbx global + orbx vector and FSweatherX lite set up

Also, sorry UK people but you’re going to be executed because you saw the nose art

The funny thing is that the sally B is literally restored and operable in the UK, do you have to show your license to go into the museum???

What if it’s out flying, you gotta show your license if you’re in the vicinity of where it’s overflying

[runic hare]

@ mods nudity ban hammer plz

all jokes aside FSX is proper worth it if you can put up with the OOM errors with decent scenery and decent aircraft

[hollow oracle]

the physics in FSX feel way better than MSFS, which is kind of funny

depends on the specific aircraft i guess

[runic hare]

its all lookup tables for all good aircraft

the majestic q4 has external software for the physics

they can be really accurate

[trim harbor]

the good old times

[hollow oracle]

i am now realizing where FSX's drawback is

there is no KMEM

all of the free solutions are extremely outdated, though i did at least find out how to use ADE to find proper parking positions

very cool

i guess i could use ADE to make it myself, but id have to change a LOT of taxiways and parking on the west side

https://tenor.com/view/me-atrapaste-es-cine-its-cinema-cinema-esto-es-cine-gif-12869046600151364058

just go on avsim and sort by newest

im not particularly picky on the actual visuals of scenery, only as long as the buildings, gates, taxiways, and runways are accurate

[agile oak]

MD11 my beloved

[hollow oracle]

DC-10

MD-11 has winglets and is longer, DC-10 has no winglets and is shorter

i wish we had a MD-10, which was fedex's rebuild of the DC-10 to introduce the MD-11 systems, but nobody has done it yet

nobody has really done a DC-10 proper either, the justflight one is pretty garbage, but it does look nice

[nimble sphinx]

IIRC the JustFlight was originally the CLS DC10

[rustic charm]

How does it happen that the only Memphis in MSFS is BMWorld & AMSim

[untold finch]

Fortunately they are better than they used to be, iirc

[rustic charm]

Like there's no way it's not a highly-requested airport, I'm sure lots of people fly FedEx

[rustic charm]

Aren't they also quite controversial

[untold finch]

Oh yeah, didn't they get in trouble for plagiarism or something?

[rustic charm]

Like iirc there was a bunch of drama with them with both BMWorld and AMSim separately

[rustic charm]

I'm pretty sure there was also something about piracy

[untold finch]

Flight sim devs be normal challenge

Justflight never let me down at least

[rustic charm]

Plus tbh, the cost of their stuff, at least on the marketplace... I mean, Flightbeam/Drzewiecki/MK Studios airports are all cheaper

[untold finch]

If Flightbeam is cheaper than your products then you're overpriced

Flightbeam is premium pricing for premium quality

[rustic charm]

Well... there are some exceptions

Drzewiecki Paine was for me more expensive than Flightbeam SFO

But it's, well, Drzewiecki Paine

Right now Memphis is at least on a bit of a sale, but idk if I wanna buy it

But at the same time, not really any other choice

Default is unusable

At least from the one landing I did there

Because the taxiway bridges that should lead over the interstate don't exist

So you literally fall into the cutting and there's nothing you can do about it

[untold finch]

I think I bought it and thought it was okay

But then again I'm a UPS main

[rustic charm]

Fair

I'm not too into either UPS or FedEx, I'm more for smaller cargo airlines

Like NAC, Aloha, Cargojet etc

But I did get the MD-11 and FedEx and UPS are the main users

[untold finch]

Everts Air Cargo my beloved

Any excuse to fly the DC-6

[rustic charm]

Oh yeah, Everts too

But Everts is like the niche part of niche

I do have the DC-6 and the DC-9 though, it's lovely

I'm kinda in the process of setting up a VA-like aliance between several small cargo airlines and Everts is of course part of that. In fact to start off it's Everts and the 3 I mentioned above

But as always it's going slow, I'll need to learn how to make liveries before I can go much further

Btw where's UPS based? I think they have even more MD-11s than FedEx now don't they

Isn't it somewhere not far from Memphis too

[untold finch]

I want to say Indianapolis

Ah, it's Louisville, Kentucky

It's a combined UPS hub, international airport and national guard field.

[rustic charm]

Ah fair

Yeah I remembered it was like in the same state or in one of the adjacent ones

[agile oak]

Oh yeah

[rustic charm]

Now descending

[rustic charm]

Parked up and done

[rustic charm]

So I have an idea for tomorrow night

Seattle - Anchorage - Seattle, real-time

As ASA65 then ASA66

10 takeoffs, 10 landings, around 15:45 total time

[rustic charm]

That would in reality be Seattle - Ketchikan - Wrangell - Petersburg - Juneau - Anchorage - Cordova - Yakutat - Juneau - Seattle

Anyone believe I can do that? XD

I'm not totally set

But

Almost

[trim harbor]

what kind of museum piece are you flying

[hollow oracle]

cessna 140

it really did not work

which kind of sucks, because otherwise it looks kind of fun to fly

its funny, because on the outside it looks like a fairly generic cessna, but on the inside its like 1950s car dashboard

[hollow oracle]

i love flying old planes, because sometimes volanta auto-picks pictures of it being scrapped

huh, the concorde has a custom volanta icon

[hollow oracle]

appproach was enough to delete the flight, i had no idea how to get it to do an ILS properly, but the landing itself was great

[rustic charm]

Finally off to Paro

[rustic charm]

Second attempt and I landed in Paro

Had to redo the flight because the first time the game froze and I basically crashed onto the runway

[rustic charm]

Welp, I'm starting with ASA65

Slightly late

[balmy forge]

MSFS 2024, is there any flight tracker etc to keep a log of what we fly?

[tired pond]

Volanta

[rustic charm]

& Elevatex

Volanta is the most popular one

Elevatex is just new

[hollow oracle]

simtoolkitpro too, i havent used it all that much, but it stores flights locally rather than on a server, which some people might prefer

volanta is the best by far though

i was a long-time subscriber to volanta premium, which says a lot for just a flight tracking app tbh

[hollow oracle]

You can export data from Volanta and put it into simtoolkitpro too, so it’s not like you’re stuck with one

Though the Volanta export isn’t very detailed, it’s basically just the routes themselves and aircraft data, so it’s not a seamless transition

[rustic charm]

Ugh I hate being late, I'm 3 hours late on this milk run 😭

That's because on final on the first attempt MSFS lagged and decided to yank the plane into full left bank while I was at 20ft above the runway xD

[rustic charm]

Welp, being late means a 165-knot flaps 15 final into a short runway

And here is Ketchikan

Sitting here ready for the departure

I'll push in 5 minutes I think

11:40 Alaska time

For an 11:45 departure

Exactly 3 hours behind schedule

This would look and feel much better if I had GSX tbh

Okay so this is quite nice

If you start the engines again shortly after shutting down, the EGT will still be high, and the engines will spool up faster

VNAV for whatever reason decided not to work on the last flight and still doesn't

Eh, being more manual isn't a problem for me

Also I just understood the scale of the delay I'm in

This delay means that my planned 4am (potentially 3:45 if pushing it) arrival into Anchorage is now 7am, maybe 6:30

I'll need luck

Wrangell done

This is supposed to be a no-pushback stand, and it would've been if I had GSX

Also if I had GSX I'd have Alsaka-branded equipment and not PMDG

[rustic charm]

And Petersburg is done

[rustic charm]

So tbh I spent too little time at each airport

So this doesn't really count as a real-time milk run

I spent like 15 minutes in each one

[hollow oracle]

the new xplane forums search system SUCKS

you can only do 1 search every 30 seconds

but changing pages in a search counts as a search, or trying to fix a search counts as a new search

going back a page counts as a search

[rustic charm]

Since when is runway 26 in Juneau ever in use

It literally has no approaches

But they're using it right now

What even is that

That is something I'm gonna have to do now...

Honestly eyebrow windows would've helped in doing that

Guess I'll redo it cause the flight path doesn't look nice

[hollow oracle]

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

i was wondering why fsrealwx lite wasnt working anymore, it worked once and then it stopped

its because theyre moving servers, the day after i downloaded it

[rustic charm]

This is much better now

Plus I should've done that approach anyway

[rustic charm]

Almost done for the night

5:24am...

Aand done

[hollow oracle]

huh, only just realized im on flight #150

giving the TFDi 717 a spin

for flight 200 i might do a special livery or something

flight 150 was originally going to be that fedex DC-10 flight, if the approach wasnt so nightmarish

[hollow oracle]

okay, the G rating in FSX is absolutely busted, because that landing was not almost 2Gs lmao

you know its a good landing when you get the 5 callout

it's kind of funny how you can see my burnout cycle

[primal herald]

Hi everyone, I am having some problems with the Fly by wire A32nx stable version . I am on MSFS 2020 and I cant start the boarding. I dont have the button for it to start. I already tried reinstalling the mod but that didn’t work, any ideas what I can do?

[rustic charm]

Love this livery

[agile oak]

Niiiice

[hollow oracle]

https://x.com/newswire_us/status/1961526228596445322?s=46

NewsWire (@NewsWire_US)

SPIRIT AIRLINES FILES FOR CHAPTER 11 BANKRUPTCY

X · Aug 29, 2025, 8:27 PM

Not really flight sim related, but enjoy

It really does suck, spirit is a fantastic airline, it’s just that their reputation makes people stay away

I’ve always said this about Spirit, if you’re looking to get from A to B on time, spirit will get you there safely, quickly, and cheaply, just don’t expect anything more than bus amenities

Plus they serve our local regional airport in A320s, we literally went down to Orlando from a regional airport with 1 gate, only having to deal with crowds at 1 airport was so fucking awesome

[rustic charm]

Redoing yesterday's flight

For some reason pack 2 is not operational

Even though it doesn't show up on the EFB as a failure

[rustic charm]

Off to Tivat now

[rustic charm]

The T/D definitely wasn't set too late so I'm definitely not full flaps, slats and gear down at 20k

And there we go, perfectly stabilised on final

I adore this airport

[dusty sky]

anyone use the sparky 747-400?

[hollow oracle]

I tried to, it is horrible

The VNAV is completely broken, it’ll overshoot your selected altitude by thousands of feet, it over/underspeeds, it’s just not good at all

[runic hare]

its not that bad

I've had some really good experiences with it

works fine

[hollow oracle]

I don’t know how some people have good experiences, because it just flat out doesn’t work for me

[runic hare]

i mean you do have really bad luck with flight sim

[hollow oracle]

I had that one takeoff too where it felt like the engines on one side weren’t working, and I ended up slamming the engines into the runway on takeoff because I was at max yaw

[runic hare]

its buggy but its not terrible