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

[trim harbor]

Yup

I might just fly Air China again with a self transfer

Could be worse I dare say

Surreal

[dusky leaf]

w

[hollow oracle]

i got my trackir out again, im still not really interested in using it

its cool technology, and im sure in the name of accessibility its a massive tool, but for my uses i dont really see a point

[untold finch]

For airliner stuff it isn't that crucial

For GA moreso, for air combat very much so

[reef isle]

I can't really fly without it

Even airliners

I did a flight recently without it and it was such a huge chore having to rotate the view every single time with the mouse

[hollow oracle]

im using the default profile, so that might be why, i hate how it "sticks" to the main axis'

[untold finch]

Ah, that's pretty customisable

You can reduce or completely remove that effect

[hollow oracle]

its just a lot of trial and error to find out what i like though, because too smooth and stiff isnt fun, but too loose and its a lot of movement

[untold finch]

Yeah, it's a pain to set up at first, but it's one-and-done i find

I used to use VR for airliner startup and takeoff, the MSFS feature to switch between VR and 2D was super helpful for cruise though, then back to VR for the landing

Ain't nothing like feeling the sense of scale

[hollow oracle]

i've really wanted to try that recently, but ive been too lazy to get my VR headset out and charged xd

VR really does give you a sense of depth that completely changes the sim

[untold finch]

I still need to try out the new Oasis driver for my reverb

Apparently it's better than WMR ever was

[hollow oracle]

i really wanted to see if i could get flyinside working for FSX, but it seems like it doesnt want to play ball

i've only ever tried out VR in MSFS a little bit for takeoff in the PMDG 737, and it went pretty good, but i think i had issues when it came to switching back to 2D for cruise

i never realized that the MCP stuck out so far from the displays and main panel, it was pretty cool to see, and it made me realize how much you miss playing on a flat screen

[hollow oracle]

you know what i really love

doing a flight, forgetting to check that your destination airport isnt broken, and then on approach you realize that your runway is sunk like 30ft into the ground

[reef isle]

It was pretty much plug&play for me

The settings are quite annoying and the way the VR controllers work seem quite annoying

But other than that it was just a matter of setting a few binds

[hollow oracle]

i might try it again, i forget what error i had gotten, i think it was something to do with oculus

[hollow oracle]

tbh i dont even plan on using VR controller, just the headset + mouse/controller

[reef isle]

When I got my VR headset I thought the same, but then quickly changed my mind tbh

But that's fair enough, we don't have to be the same

In that case even FlyInside is even better

[reef isle]

I have an old and dumb Rift S, which seems to be fairly reliable 🤞

But a few friends of mine that have more recent headsets have had a lot more problems

[hollow oracle]

im using a quest 2, which at this point is an ancient artifact compared to the 3

it probably isnt helping that i pulled a muscle in my upper right back too, i can barely sit up straight, let alone look all over the place to use trackir/VR right now

[trim harbor]

the rift was so good for its time

crazy to think its 'old' now

[dusky leaf]

The new JF\Thranda Archer

[trim harbor]

@runic hare

u think i can just ask for them to NOT check my baggage thru and leave the airport

because theres no way in hell im sitting at the airport for 12 hours

like the hell will happen w my bag

[runic hare]

yeah

just ask for it to be sent to vienna and check it for the return

ive done this before in stockholm

19h layover 11am-6am

[dusty sky]

can someone fact check my fmc?

[trim harbor]

Can I just leave my bag there tbh

And leave

I‘ll have the tickets already

[runic hare]

your gonna have to pay for a locker

[trim harbor]

nono i meant like

not even collect the bag

[runic hare]

oh

[trim harbor]

check it through to LEJ

and just leave the airport

[runic hare]

yeah you can check it through

[trim harbor]

its non shengen to shengen soo

[runic hare]

or well

you should

check with whoever your flying with

[trim harbor]

ANA and braathens

whoever the hell braathens is

[runic hare]

well AUA op by bra

[trim harbor]

ah

[trim harbor]

2 hours on that

am i cooked

[runic hare]

nah ur gonna be alright

[trim harbor]

first time on a prop plane

i am quite excited

[runic hare]

yeah check with ana then with aua as well

i could have checked a bag through all the way from WAW-MAN and that was with SAS

if its one itinerary then it should be ok?

[trim harbor]

it is one ticket ye

just scared that if i leave they'll send my bag into the abyss

[runic hare]

i mean you need to clear security again anyway at VIE

so in theory they should send it through but it isnt standard so check with the airlines

worst comes to worst send the bag to a locker in the airport and leave it for a few hours while you explore

[trim harbor]

wait so is braathens star alliance then

[runic hare]

Austrian flight operated by braathens

[trim harbor]

yea ig

[runic hare]

replacement for the ancient Q400's while they have yearly maintenance

the flight is austrian so its up to them to sort it

[trim harbor]

the flight doesnt even exist rn

[runic hare]

winter schedules innit

[trim harbor]

oh yeah i forgot abt that

[runic hare]

see what the airlines say then ask when you get to haneda as well

[trim harbor]

ofc

when i went in feb i caused chaos because i asked them to check my bag thru on another star alliance carrier

surreal

check in literally took an hour

[runic hare]

yeah it depends on who you have as a checkin agent as well

[rustic charm]

Don't worry, baggage lost & found usually works anyway

[runic hare]

the older ones usually know exactly what you want to do and how to do it

[rustic charm]

If Ethiopian managed to find a lost suitcase somewhere between Cairo and Zanzibar (I still don't know where and how exactly it got lost), I'm sure in Europe it'll be no problem

[trim harbor]

zanzibar looks like a cool place to go to

how was ethiopian

[rustic charm]

It is a cool place indeed tbf

[rustic charm]

Ehh, I wouldn't quite say below expectations, but I didn't expect too much

Those were also short hops in the middle of the night, so not much to judge from

[trim harbor]

what routes did u fly

[rustic charm]

I was mostly just a bit negatively surprised by how dirty their interiors were on planes that were essentially brand new (I don't remember exactly but I think it was twice A350 twice 787? Some mix of those 2 anyway)

[rustic charm]

I did Cairo - Addis Ababa - Zanzibar one way and then returned by Kilimanjaro - Addis Ababa - Cairo

[trim harbor]

Cairo airport is a mess

The entirety of egypt is a big mess outside of the hotel areas

[rustic charm]

Although one thing I will note is the connection through HAAB, they do wait for passengers. Especially from late-running flights. On the way to Zanzibar we had a total of like 30 minutes from arrival to scheduled departure in the end. And we got parked on a remote stand on the inbound flight. I was rather sure about missing a flight for the first time, but on that one not only did we make it in time, we also waited for a bunch of people to board after us, and they even reloaded all the baggage onto the new plane

(The lost suitcase was my brother's, he was flying in a day later on the same route, but his inbound flight got even more delayed)

[trim harbor]

god

[rustic charm]

So I checked on my flightradar records

It was indeed twice 350 and twice dreamliner

350s were both on the way to Zanzibar, 788s on the way back

And an ATR-72 from Zanzibar to Arusha inbetween XD

[trim harbor]

Lucky

I wanna fly on an a350

90% of my flights were dreamliners

Crj and dreamliners

[rustic charm]

My most-flown widebody is the 777 and I'm proud

[runic hare]

you have not lived until you have flown an ATR 42 into heathrow

[trim harbor]

:(

[rustic charm]

(Mostly cause Aeroflot now barely flies 330s out of Moscow, and with 350s... there were 7 to begin with iirc, and I'm pretty sure several are in storage now)

[trim harbor]

I dislikey the 777

Personally

As a passenger

[rustic charm]

Okay now that's definitely a serious take XD

But I do respect the opinion

Plus it really depends on your experience with the type

[trim harbor]

I‘ve flown ANA,JAL,EK 77s and hated it

Old and loud, IFEs were meh at best

787 is nice but boring af

[runic hare]

777's are cool but this is cooler

[rustic charm]

The worst long haul experiences I had were on A330s, so I dislike 330s, it really comes down to that

[trim harbor]

I do have a collection of greenland tho l o l

[trim harbor]

Does loganair still fly

[runic hare]

ofc

[rustic charm]

Tbf I don't even think I've flown 777s with any airline other than Aeroflot

[trim harbor]

I AGREE

A330 sucks

[runic hare]

I like A330's

[rustic charm]

And with Aeroflot, the 777 is easily the best in the long haul fleet

The best cabin by far

[trim harbor]

Turkish a330s sucked so mich 😭

[runic hare]

however I have only flown shorter routes on them

[trim harbor]

Mine was 6 hours

Those were enough

[runic hare]

2h's to madrid and back a few times

iberia 332

[trim harbor]

Holy shit

Og

[rustic charm]

I think the flight that ultimately decided that I don't like 330s was Moscow to Male, which is... 8-ish hours?

[runic hare]

BA 767 once as well

[trim harbor]

I only did JAL 767

That was aight

[trim harbor]

Maldives airport

My condolences

[rustic charm]

Tbf it wasn't bad

[trim harbor]

Construction site of an airport

[rustic charm]

And then boarding a twin otter on floats was cool

[trim harbor]

In 2022 atleast

[trim harbor]

I AGREE

[runic hare]

BA had a 2-4-2 shorthaul config so it wasnt great

[trim harbor]

Flying twotters was amazing

[rustic charm]

Ngl I wish I experienced Aeroflot Il-96s

[trim harbor]

767 shorthaul to where

[runic hare]

madrid as well

[trim harbor]

Oh bruh

When did they get retired even

[runic hare]

like 2016?

maybe earlier

[trim harbor]

I dont think I‘ve eve seen a BA767

[trim harbor]

That recent tf

[runic hare]

never fitted them with sharklets

[trim harbor]

BMIII

[trim harbor]

I prefer that look tbhhh

[rustic charm]

Not just because it's Il-96 only one of the coolest planes ever, but because iirc they had the 4th widest fuselage and cabin (behind 380s, 747s and 777s) overall, and they were configured as 3-3-3

[runic hare]

yeah that was a cool day

AGP-MAD-LHR
CRJ 1000-767

[trim harbor]

Lucky

[runic hare]

landor 767

[trim harbor]

Im hunting for a dash flight rn

[runic hare]

they are quite rare now unfortunately

in central europe at least

Flybe, AirBerlin, LHRegional all no longer flying

[trim harbor]

Im happy I was fortuante enough for a 717 flight tho

And a cockpit tour

[rustic charm]

That's cool

[trim harbor]

Lh regional my love

[rustic charm]

I've never had a cockpit tour

[trim harbor]

I will never forget you

[trim harbor]

It depends on the airline

[rustic charm]

Strict with those in Russia

[trim harbor]

The american and european ones are open about it

I had no success in asia thus far

[runic hare]

also ultra rare 767-200 US Airways lease to BA for gatwick routes to south america

[rustic charm]

I asked after the flight on the 747 with Rossiya, got told that they don't even allow flight attendants into the cockpit

[rustic charm]

Ooh a trading card as well, cool

[trim harbor]

Makes sense for russia, esp at this current moment

They gifted me this as well

[rustic charm]

Happy enough I got to fly on a 747-400 in 2025 overall

[trim harbor]

Very very kind people

[trim harbor]

I envy you

[rustic charm]

Ngl I love how it still very much is MD

Like

That's not a Boeing cockpit alright

Not at all

[trim harbor]

744 is still on my bucket list

[rustic charm]

Well

Not many of those

[trim harbor]

Only LH flying them in europe still

And LH is dogshit

[rustic charm]

I think your only chances are in fact Lufthansa, Air China or Rossiya

Sooo

[trim harbor]

I hate that airline with all my life

[rustic charm]

Just Lufthansa XD

[trim harbor]

Rossiya w livery

[runic hare]

ACF should have been the boeing flight deck of choice instead of whatever the fuck the NG's had

[rustic charm]

YES

[trim harbor]

Acf?

[trim harbor]

Rossiya and old Aeroflot are my fav

Oh

I agree

[runic hare]

common between the MD11 and 717(MD90)

[rustic charm]

I love the Rossiya livery, and tbh I love all the Aeroflot liveries too, and there were many

Shame that my only chance at an Il-96 now is Cubana

And an Il-86... completely gone

[runic hare]

for now.....

[rustic charm]

I WISH

I WISH THEY UNDERSTOOD THAT ITS A GOOD DESIGN AND WE SHOULD RESTART PRODUCTION

[trim harbor]

Cubana based

[rustic charm]

Like literally the main problem of both the Il-96 and the Tu-204 is the need for a flight engineer

[trim harbor]

At this point I‘d visit NK and Cuba and not care that I cant ever get ESTA anymore

[trim harbor]

The TU204 needs a FE???

[rustic charm]

Yeah

[runic hare]

I've got the Saab 2000, ATR 42/72, Q300/400. I just wanna fly on an IL114 now

[trim harbor]

Wtffffff

[trim harbor]

Saab on loganair?

[rustic charm]

Yet guess what, we build Superjets that don't need an FE, why not just apply the same concept onto the other planes. We clearly can do it, we just don't want to

[runic hare]

eastern airways

[trim harbor]

What the hell

Where do they fly

[runic hare]

UK regoinal

[rustic charm]

Just scrap the whole MC-21 project already, admit defeat, it's not needed. Just take the cockpit developments from that plane and apply them to a Tu-204

[trim harbor]

Maybe I do have to go to the UK again

[runic hare]

not anymore i think

[trim harbor]

I totally forgot about the mc21 lol

[runic hare]

im not sure if its all ATR's yet but that was there plan

[rustic charm]

Tbf a Tu-114 is probably impossible

Well

Not probably

Definitely

They're gone

[runic hare]

flew HUY-ABZ on a Saab2000 with them

[rustic charm]

But a Tu-95... technically the chance is not 0

[runic hare]

they are restarting production no?

[rustic charm]

Of the 114? Definitely not

Oh wait

No

[runic hare]

fle PLH-LCY when i was a young boy with AirSouthwest on a Q300

[rustic charm]

I am stupid

I thought you were talking about the tu-114

I think il-114 is indeed planned to be restarted

[runic hare]

nahhh the russian Saab 2000

Q400 with flybe a few times

ATR 42 LHR-DND

[trim harbor]

Wasnt flybe supposed to restart

[runic hare]

ATR 72's everywhere

[trim harbor]

Am I remembering wrong

[runic hare]

it did

then covid happened

again

[trim harbor]

Oh

Pity

[rustic charm]

Ngl I've never flown on any turboprops other than the ATR-72-500 once

[runic hare]

turboprops cool

[trim harbor]

Scary planes

[runic hare]

nooooo

cool planes

[rustic charm]

I do agree they're cool

Would love to fly on some older ones too

An-24

(Can we pls pls pls have one in MSFS)

Those are still in service too

[trim harbor]

Wish russia was open :(

[rustic charm]

In the more forgotten regions, but they still fly

[trim harbor]

Im too scared to go

[runic hare]

@trim harbor Eastern Airways Saab 2000 operating for British Airways

[trim harbor]

Wtf

Thats cool but weird

I never knew

[runic hare]

this did LCY routes to silly places like Prestwick, Inverness, Sumburugh, Derry

[rustic charm]

Technically the borders are not closed, but it's expensive now, and there will be questions both when you enter Russia ("Who do you work for? Who sent you here?!") and when you go back home ("Now what exactly have you been doing in Russia? What have you told them?!")

[trim harbor]

London city cool airport

[runic hare]

also i think to plymouth as well before it closed

[trim harbor]

Shitty immigration tho lol

[trim harbor]

Yeah I can get an e visa still

But I‘ve read up on it

[runic hare]

air southwest my beloved

[trim harbor]

They search ur phone etc

Not up for the gamble or buying a second phone

[rustic charm]

Oh yeah, now it's really tough for "unfriendly" foreigners

[runic hare]

the better southwest airlines

[rustic charm]

Tbf it's unlikely they'll take it without returning, but they will ask to search it and you'll spend hours at immigration

[trim harbor]

Thats a great poster

The colors r goated

[trim harbor]

Ofc ofc but yknow

I dont like them looking at it nor do anything w it

I understand it but noty

[rustic charm]

I absolutely understand

I wouldn't want my phone being searched for no reason either

[trim harbor]

When russia reopens ill visit it tho

Its in the top5

[rustic charm]

If

[trim harbor]

It will eventually

[rustic charm]

Yeah

I just don't know when

Seemingly no stopping in sight...

[trim harbor]

[rustic charm]

Ngl would love for it all to be over myself. Would finally visit Europe again, and would finally go to the US and Canada. Always wanted to visit, but never got the chance

[reef isle]

Please please please please tell me there's a livery for FJS

[rustic charm]

I had a trip to US planned and booked for summer 2020

And then it all started

[reef isle]

https://forums.x-plane.org/files/file/72281-flyjsim-737-200-southwest-air-lines-南西航空-ja8250/

LET'S GOOOOO

I MUST FLY THAT

[trim harbor]

Im suprised u didnt know that airline

Or maybe u did

I (big) think that they had similiar routes to JTA now

They even habe a retro livery for it

[rustic charm]

Ngl Japan seems cool

[dusty sky]

Goes so hard

[reef isle]

No I didn't

But it's right up my alley

It's so stupid but I love these kinds of tiny airlines that are named very closely to huge airlines

Same thing with the Alaskan Ryan Air

[trim harbor]

Depends on the area

It is not the heaven everyone makes it to be

[rustic charm]

Fair

Tbf I've never been neither heard or know much

[trim harbor]

I dont know why it blew up so much either

[hollow oracle]

im getting this extremely annoying bug in MSFS where the camera skips around all over the place

ignore dougdoug

in that clip im moving my mouse smoothly

it seems like its related to chaseplane, when i disable chaseplane in the options the default camera is smooth

its related to chaseplane bridge module apparently

normally its pretty consistent with its uptime, but occasionally it spikes to +/-50ms, and thats when the camera skips around

i had to kill the flight because i was going to go insane from this camera

[rustic charm]

Ah lovely, takeoff weight of 284 tons, the MTOW is 286

Love such takeoffs

[dusty sky]

oooo

this 2

[untold finch]

They'll be out of Lakenheath, not Mildenhall - the bases are pretty much right next to one another so it's just flightradar guessing

But yeah, they go up pretty much every day other than weekends and holidays

Unrestricted climbs on fridays too

[dusty sky]

mach 1 ground speed is crazy

[rustic charm]

Around 3 hours until Moscow

[rustic charm]

Under 2 hours left

[dusky leaf]

Following the NDB into Bella Bella

[reef isle]

I need to get auto ortho back online and do some more GA Flying

[rustic charm]

Almost in Moscow

The more I fly this plane, the more I like it

Amazing thing tbh

Welp, could be worse

[dusky leaf]

Wet Bella Bella

[rustic charm]

It's nice going to an airport that you know how to approach exactly even without any charts

Altitude restrictions, speed restrictions, I know it XD

[reef isle]

the example below is a bad, but the actual meaning stands

[rustic charm]

Always fun landing this thing

Broke through the clouds early enough, around 2000 agl

But the problem of me being just 2 knots below the normal 160kt limit on approach remained

[reef isle]

https://www.justflight.com/product/tb10-tobago-and-tb20-trinidad-xplane

I I really want to buy those
They have the even worse variant of this shitbox in my local aeroclub (TB-9)

[dusty sky]

what is this warning?

no master caution or anything it just appeared

[rustic charm]

It's most likely just an advisory tbf

Could be that the plane started automatically crossfeeding or moving fuel

[reef isle]

I know nothing about the 747 sorry 😅

[dusty sky]

all the stuff I found online were about the reserve tanks but those were empty the whole flight

[rustic charm]

Does the 74 have fuel tank heating?

In case not, quite likely it started recirculating cold fuel

[dusty sky]

it does

[rustic charm]

The 11 does that, I constantly get a mini heart attack when I'm just cruising normally and suddenly yellow "FUEL" pops up on the screen

[dusty sky]

also finally seeing light after 7 hours

oh I'm in the artic now

[trail monolith]

Yeah that explains it lol

Whatcha flying?

[rustic charm]

Something that has 3 autopilots XD

[dusty sky]

747-8

tokyo to frankfurt

[rustic charm]

The 747s actually are the only ones like that, right? All the other airliners have 2 APs

Or even 1 in some cases tbf

[dusky leaf]

I should fire up my 727, my 146 or my MD80 and do more airliner stuff 😁

[rustic charm]

"Or"?

That's not an option

With those 3

You must use all of them XD

[dusty sky]

at once

why can't I put the camera down on the outside?

I tried

[rustic charm]

Press C and try again

[dusty sky]

c doesn't do anything

[rustic charm]

Still doesn't move?

C is the keybind for switching between controlling the camera and the plane in external view

[dusty sky]

every other axis works

and it's fine in the cockpit

[dusty sky]

ok 767 has 3

and ofc that also means the 757 has 3 as well

[rustic charm]

It does?

Guess I haven't paid enough attention to the 767s in the end

[rustic charm]

Fair

[dusty sky]

I'm so far from the 80th parallel that I can't even see my plane on the screen anymore

[hollow oracle]

how is it that literally every single flight sim on earth, its better if you use at least a controller

but in war thunder, the meta is keyboard and mouse

i got like 8 kills in tank mode with controller, so im absolutely cracked with that, but all i was able to do with flying was crash into the ground and then ragequit

[trail monolith]

Same with BF6 but you can become better if you learn how to thrust vector properly with the F22 and SU57

[reef isle]

because it flies the plane for you

with keyboard and mouse you can just tell the plane where you want to point the nose and let it do everything else for you

aiming guns and dumb munitions is infitely easier in WT compared to any other flying game/sim for this very reason 😄

If you notice, even the pro players still use keyboard and mouse, tapping w and s to fine tune their circle and speed managment and a/d to fine tune roll

https://youtu.be/mEoItaunmL0?si=NnGvH-_sdyqeSYZX

the only instance I've seen of good players using direct control was to go beyond the envelope (i.e. pull cobras and stuff)

I don't play war thunder btw, I just enjoy watching war thunder content

[rustic charm]

As someone who played war thunder

Don't

[reef isle]

Yeah I used to play World Of Tanks

not making that mistake ever again

[rustic charm]

Ngl, I used to really enjoy tank battles on low ranks

And by low ranks I mean literally just 1-2

Soviet starter tanks, especially BT-5, are very overpowered

[reef isle]

I'm sure it can be fun, but for my money's and mental health's sake I'm never ever going to play grind based free to play games

Ace Combat's tech tree is as far as I'm willing to go

[rustic charm]

It literally drives somewhat like a sports car, reloads in an instant and manages to break any opposing tank

But then rank 3 is decent, and on rank 4 you start simply grinding, not unlocking anything new, and the game becomes instantly so much harder

[reef isle]

After 10 years I've got to a place in WoT where I'm sort of "post scarcity", I have enough tanks and they give away enough stuff that I can play 100% free to play and don't feel any kind of pressure to play to unlock X or get Y done

and that's just because the devs have not been good enough at making the game misreable enough to force me to spend more money, only at that point it started to become actually fun

[rustic charm]

I unlocked T-34 and realised I don't even enjoy those matches anymore because I get knocked out of them in the first 3 minutes

[hollow oracle]

its kind of funny, war thunder is famous for its extreme accuracy, but you cant fly it like a flight simulator

though, i guess thats kind of down to the playerbase, if you had an entire match with everyone on controller its probably significantly more balanced

[reef isle]

I wouldn't really say that. compared to other games, sure

but compared to DCS it has its advantages and disadvantages

[hollow oracle]

im ripping absolute ass in tanks though, ive played 3 rounds without even taking damage

aircraft not so much, ive gotten 0 hits and crashed 3 aircraft

[reef isle]

I've heard suprisingly good things about WT Air SIm

But

[reef isle]

WT Air Sim you're forced to cockpit view and you can't fly with keyboard and mouse

it's very unfortunate that it's the one and only option to fly many planes 🫤

[hollow oracle]

war thunder has a great controls setup (it just takes a while to figure it out), and you can "fly" it like a sim, but as far as combat goes you pretty much have to use keyboad + mouse if you want any sort of success

[reef isle]

air Air RB yes

in Sim no

because I think you can't

Or if you can't it will be a rubbish experience, because you have direct control of the plane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpNhNz1LF2c

you have a sort of "mouse yoke" (like FSX)

that's definitely not competive against a good stick

[hollow oracle]

ah, its a gamemode, it took me a second to realize what sim was

[reef isle]

yes, sorry 😅

[hollow oracle]

im still in the diaper baby game modes, ive had the game since 2016 but ive played like 10 minutes total

im not at a high enough level yet to where i have to really grind, id like to unlock the B-17 because autism, but im just enjoying playing bideo james right now

as a video game, i am indeed having fun

[reef isle]

I wish my brain had the ability to function in this manner 😭

[hollow oracle]

idk, i dont really get into the whole microtransactions thing until i really like a game

[hollow oracle]

if DLC counts as microtransactions then i am not correct

[reef isle]

I meant more about the idea of just having fun without any other goal

[dusty sky]

last time I played sim I used a 4.3 bomber at 9.3

[rustic charm]

N E A T

[rustic charm]

This kinda feels not real

[rustic charm]

10 seconds later:

Before anyone asks, it is, in fact, a real approach

[reef isle]

Tivat?

[rustic charm]

Decided to do it now because landing in that direction allowed better winds, even though in reality this approach is used very rarely

[rustic charm]

Yes indeed

Love that airport

It kinda feels weird to not have been there last summer

Parked up the best I can but in this airport it's the most challenging part XD

I hope Ablomis and the dev he's working with (My guess is still JF) make good work of the 154 but don't take too much time, I kinda want to do this stuff

So many Russian planes I want in this game 😭

And half of them flew to Tivat at some point

Also I probably need to get to grips with JF's F28, cause Montenegro Airlines had those

Oh and just as I remembered that thing, there's an update to it

Neat

[trim harbor]

gazpromavia

isnt that the oil aviation company thing

tivat is an interesting destination for them

[rustic charm]

I think they used to fly actual commercial flights

But yeah Gazprom is the big oil/gas company

[dusty sky]

after almost 8 hours of vatsim I'm at jfk

[hollow oracle]

ive only ever done 1 flight in the A380, it still runs really bad on my new PC

[dusty sky]

it runs like shit on mine as well

but then again I'm playing 4K on a 3060

[hollow oracle]

im playing 1080p on a 4070

[dusty sky]

Lmao

[hollow oracle]

i kind of want to fly into houghton county airport, but the only aircraft that flies into there modern-day is CRJ-200s

ive thought about learning the aerosoft CRJ, but even then that wouldnt be entirely accurate, the smallest they have for that is the 550

ive thought about just doing the flight but with another regional aircraft, like an e-jet, but idk

i really need to fly the aircraft i have even more, instead of constantly learning new ones

[rustic charm]

What's the airport code

[hollow oracle]

KCMX

i wouldnt be against doing a DC-3 flight into there, but the only DC-3s that flew into KCMX were from KMQT, which is a defunct airport now

[rustic charm]

Yeah, can't find anything other than a DC-3, a Saab 340 and some CRJ-200s

[hollow oracle]

i actually did the CRJ-200 flight irl, outside of driving for actual days into northern michigan, flying is the only way in and out

i havent flown the x-crafts e-jets ever since my landing gear collapsed that one time, so id like to try that out again

that is by far my most expensive flight sim addon that i have purchased in one go, it was $120 for the full x-crafts pack

[trim harbor]

hope the md11 comes to msfs24 asap

[trim harbor]

they're pretty good though

i like them

[rustic charm]

Hope they get PWs out soon too

[full plank]

no no don't mention them engines here

FSL have yet to bring out theirs

[rustic charm]

I just hate how PWs always get ignored

MD-11: no PWs
A310: neither PW4000s nor JT9s which I'm pretty sure some had
A300: no PWs at first

[hollow oracle]

definitely the best representation of an e-jet in any flight sim to-date tbh

plus the dev is cool, im signed up for his mailing list and its pretty cool

oops

nationwide alaskan airlines ground stop again

https://x.com/AlaskaAirNews/status/1981501224605405238

Alaska Airlines News (@AlaskaAirNews)

Alaska Airlines is experiencing an IT outage affecting operations. A temporary ground stop is in place. We apologize for the inconvenience. If you're scheduled to fly tonight, please check your flight status before heading to the airport.

X · Oct 23, 2025, 11:21 PM

it looks like skywest may be unaffected? at least at KSEA there's a skywest aircraft lined for departure right now

[trail monolith]

https://x.com/ge_aerospace/status/1981351198151045448?s=46

GE Aerospace (@GE_Aerospace)

Testing… Testing… Is this thing on?

A bold new look for a particularly iconic Boeing 747-400
is coming soon. (And yes, the first sentence was a hint.)

Stay tuned… 👀

#GEAerospace #NewEraOfFlight #QueenOfTheSkies

X · Oct 23, 2025, 1:25 PM

[trim harbor]

i might have to install p3d or fsx

for some a2a B377 or super connie

[hollow oracle]

nice, i forgot to update my e-jets before the flight

so if i have a shitty landing, i have something to blame at least

i had a weird takeoff, my controls felt way too sensitive, plus the airport scenery i was using is outdated so the navigraph taxi charts werent accurate and i had to do a u-turn and some offroading

im also trying out my first RNAV landing, though im not too intimidated because its a pretty modern aircraft

horrible landing

the aircraft decided it didnt want to follow VNAV or LNAV into the approach, so i had to fly it by hand, and then even though i had autothrottle on it didnt want to try and match speed either, so i was stalling out like 200yds from the runway threshold

and then when i disabled autothrottle to give myself more throttle, i started gaining altitude and floating again, and of course when i cut the throttle to bring it back down, i land like a falling rock

they even have a video on their youtube demonstrating an RNAV landing, and it is nothing like i saw in-game

the aircraft decided to just stay at the same altitude and heading as the transition waypoint

now im just going to be pissed off and trying to fall asleep, because i decided to do this right before bed

[hollow oracle]

i think what didnt help is that for some reason they inserted a vectors and discontinuity between the same waypoint, the duplicate waypoint was showing up all bugged out too, so that might have caused something?

[hollow oracle]

It’s more of a mental thing

First RNAV approach, in an aircraft I spent $120 for, that I’ve had constant issues with, that I haven’t flown in ages, and that I haven’t flown much at all

[rustic charm]

It really doesn't want to climb

Or accelerate

I guess a full cargo load is heavy XD

[rustic charm]

Beautiful thing, finally got it up to cruise

[rustic charm]

Now that was moderately terrifying

[reef isle]

hahahahahah that reminds me of one time I flew the Tu-154 in Miami for a big VATSIM event, and it was pretty bad weather, at night so I spent a bunch of time totally IFR (outside the plane it was just black), and one of my friends on discord that was watching came out of the blue and asked "isn't that terrifying, flyin IFR with that plane, and VOR only?"

I was so focused that night that I didn't have the mental capacity to be scared

[rustic charm]

That must've been fun

Can we have Tu-154 NOW

[dusty sky]

were you flying in x-plane?

[echo gorge]

Yeah I know that feeling

Also actual imc ifr /a in unpressurised GA can get super scary (but a lot easier than in the tubes because of the lower speed)

[rustic charm]

Tbh I love the flights that leave you no mental capacity to think of literally anything else

[trim harbor]

thats what flyiong is all about tbh

[rustic charm]

Indeed

Wish I could do it irl XD

[trim harbor]

flying isnt as fun anymore i feel

well it still is but it's less hands on and overall abit less skill

the dangerous airports are almost all gone and planes are really automated nowadays (which is good)

[rustic charm]

Yeah

No Kai Tak 😭

[trim harbor]

kai tak bad weather at night must've been funny

[rustic charm]

I just wish I could've been born in like 1965, become a pilot with FedEx, run DC-10s and MD-11s to Kai Tak

[trim harbor]

born in the 40s and then pilot by the 60s

[rustic charm]

Or with BA and do that in 747s

[trim harbor]

fly some pan am shitters around

[rustic charm]

Oh yeah, cool too

In your prime on 707s and DC-8s

Or Il-62s and Il-86s 🥹

[trim harbor]

oh man

il62s yum

goddamn

[rustic charm]

On the JF store they're slightly more expensive

But you still get a discount on the other variant for owning one of them

[trim harbor]

20% yup

toobad the super 27 isnt free

[rustic charm]

Well it's a shame yeah

Still don't have it

Tbh I think I should now stop buying planes and instead start getting a bit of hardware

[trim harbor]

just wait till one plane that u like comes out

smug

JF PLEASE F70/100 :(((((((((

[rustic charm]

L-1011, 747s, F70/100, A3B4...

There are a lot that I like

Though tbf

JF and ini planes are hard to fly without hardware

[trim harbor]

dont u have a joystick?

[rustic charm]

Nope

I have a grand total of nothing

Keyboard warrior here

Well, keyboard pilot

[trim harbor]

jesus man

[echo gorge]

I salute you

That's not easy

[rustic charm]

It really depends on the plane tbh

PMDG/Fenix/TFDi fly very nicely

With JF planes really the only problem is the tiller, the only way I can control the nosewheel on the 146 is though moving the handle in the cockpit with a mouse

And ini planes are a bit less responsive to control inputs on keyboard and also have some weird nosewheel steering issues

[echo gorge]

Ooh yeah that's rough

[rustic charm]

That's essentially why I haven't flown the 146 and the F28 at all

I really need to sort my lack of hardware cause those planes are lovely

F28 into Tivat...

[trim harbor]

speaking of the a330 a few days ago

bad luck

i was looking forward to an a321 neo

[reef isle]

I am distraught

You used WhiskeyThrottle's livery instead of mine 😭

[dusty sky]

wait you make liveries?

[rustic charm]

Sorry XD

Just used the first one I saw

I'll get yours then too XD

[reef isle]

https://flightsim.to/profile/FD1003/collections

[reef isle]

hahahaha no worries, I was joking, use whatever you want 😆

[rustic charm]

Over Ireland now

[hollow oracle]

speaking of liveries, my current project

[trail monolith]

No bullets fly starts playing

[hollow oracle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlFD0Zyl_f0

that's another fucked up fact, the commemorative air force was the confederate air force up until 2001

not like, it was a confederacy of museums or something, no it was literally the 1860-1865 confederate states of america

with the flag and everything

[reef isle]

welp

downgraded from SU4 beta to SU3 and had my first MSFS2024 crash

guess I'm going back to SU4

[hollow oracle]

doing B-17 repaints is a lot of fun, you usually end up learning a ton of history while doing them

[hollow oracle]

done

[rustic charm]

I-DUPA? Never heard of it, it's been I-DUPC all this time

[hollow oracle]

not done, i forgot a few missing text decals

[hollow oracle]

holy god the xcrafts ejets are horrible

a departure from KLAX has you holding at 8000ft for a waypoint, and for some reason the aircraft does not handle autothrotle with that waypoint, so it levels off and then overspeeds

ive adjusted my control curves way down too, and the aircraft still jolts all over the place even with the smallest inputs

like, on takeoff, it was like binary, either i was pulling up extremely hard and skyrocketing to 20+ degrees ANU, or not enough to get off of the ground

i think i actually slammed into the runway on takeoff because i deflected up so high that it scared me, and i moved the yoke back down and it caused me to drop again

i think xcrafts forgot about XP11 users too, the weather radar for XP12 was just implemented recently, and the XP11 version is just bugged out now

i love how i was fired at literally the most perfect time, to where i cant upgrade sims because theyre too expensive

it's overshooting waypoints too

[hollow oracle]

i am realizing that this might be because i didn't arm approach

though i dont know why the autothrottle wouldnt try to keep speed regardless

you have to arm approach even on RNAV for the aircraft to go into glidepath/LNAV mode

im guessing the aircraft kind of knows that its a programmed RNAV approach, and what the transition waypoint is, so if APP isnt armed when you cross that waypoint it thinks you're still just flying normally and that you don't want to be on approach yet

[hollow oracle]

i dont know why boise idaho of all airports doesn't have an ILS approach, there are only VOR and RNAV approaches

its literally flat and the runways are parallel to the mountains

https://tenor.com/view/st-louis-blues-blues-nhl-hockey-blues-win-gif-17985056

GOOD LANDING!!!

i deadened the absolute shit out of my controls too, but now it feels pretty good to hand-fly, i think im on like 25% sensitivity and a wicked axis curve

[full plank]

Holy waffle

[dusty sky]

yesterday, for a period, bucharest became the busiest airport on vatsim

[rustic charm]

Going back to Moscow from 'Frankfurt but not really'

Again an almost full MD-11, it'll be a fun landing

[trim harbor]

xplane looks great

[trim harbor]

i am experiecing a heap of issues too with the vnav lol

funny

i wonder why though

quite a weird issue

[hollow oracle]

is that the payware one?

i dont know much about e-jets, but i know that the top two right ones should be magenta if its controlled by the FMS

[trim harbor]

ist the one u flew yesterday, yes

the ap randomly switched frm LNAV /FLCH to ROLL/FLCH (green)

upon reengagement it still continued its terroristic maneuvers

funny plane

[hollow oracle]

yeah...

[trim harbor]

also FMS speed to 1

i dont think i've ever seen that in my life 💀

[hollow oracle]

the x-crafts e-jets is definitely the best representation of e-jets in any sim right now, but that doesnt make it good lol

the FSS one is an extremely low bar

[trim harbor]

they're good when they work

toobad because their 727 is baller

[hollow oracle]

pretty much the perfect description of xplane as a whole tbh lol

when xplane works, its phenomenal

when it doesnt work, i would rather a buffalo take a diarrhea dump in my ear

[hollow oracle]

here's a question: on an RNAV approach, if you're misaligned with the runway, do you correct immediately, or can you stick with it for a bit to get to a lower altitude?

i was quite misaligned, but i corrected pretty early and landed safely

[reef isle]

I'm not 100% sure, but IIRC unless there is a predetermined visual segment as soon as you're visual you can line up on your own

[rustic charm]

Time to fly BA

[dusky leaf]

https://forums.x-plane.org/forums/topic/338055-afl-737-max-dev-update-10252025/

[reef isle]

🎵 B.E.A. Number One in Europe 🎵

[rustic charm]

Yup

Flying it to Gibraltar

Might've not been the best idea to do it at night, my first flight there too XD

[reef isle]

That livery was one of the biggest reasons why I bought the 319/321 expansion

it's so cool

I love it

Now I only need the Trident 🥲

[rustic charm]

For me that was the Rossiya livery lol

Not even just the expansion

The Fenix overall

[reef isle]

fair enough that's also really cool

[rustic charm]

I was walking home from driving school once, it was right nearby Vnukovo

Saw a Rossiya A319 depart to St. Petersburg and fly right overhead

Said "I want"

[reef isle]

hahahahahaha that's really cool

[rustic charm]

Next thing I know 80 quid down and I'm doing test/learning flights in Toulouse

[reef isle]

that's how it always goes lol

we (as in flight simmer) lack any form of self control

hahahahhah

[rustic charm]

TRUE

[reef isle]

I did the same with the 777-200, as soon as they dropped the Rainbow JAS livery on fs.to, I had the exact same thought process and suffered the same consequences

[rustic charm]

Saw a Rossiya 319
I want

Saw how AAL bare metal sits on widebodies
Now I have the MD-11 and I haven't even flown AAL apart from one delivery

Saw a video about the MD-80
Now I have the DC-9, a poor man's MD-80

[reef isle]

we're simple creatures

hahahah

[rustic charm]

I really need to fly the DC-9 more though

Only 2 flights in it yet

[reef isle]

yeah same

[rustic charm]

Not a single complete delivery either

[reef isle]

oh, did I give you my flight model?

You can try it out if you'd like

[rustic charm]

I think you did

[reef isle]

it's not on fs.to because it's not really mine, it's mostly the MD-80 one

[reef isle]

aaah cool

I'd really like to figure out what causes the stupid wing flex though 😭

[rustic charm]

Tbf the reason why I haven't flown the DC-9 is pretty much the same as why I don't fly the DC-6 that much - it does actually require a fair bit of action from you, not having any stanby navigation or anything...

Oh yes, the DC-6...

Saw Everts
Now I have the DC-6

I have no idea how to land that thing either, every single one of my landings in it ended up in me sending it to maintenance

Uhh can anyone show how to engage VOR mode on teh 320

(Please don't throw rocks at me for flying a modern plane by VORs, I have no idea how else to approach Gibraltar)

[hollow oracle]

jesus, i was playing around with the C-47 a bit, and its insane how low they flew on paratrooper drop missions

500ft AGL is the drop height, 1000-1500ft is "cruise", and 3000ft is the highest they went in the mission plan

[rustic charm]

Definitely could've been better but not bad for a first time and for a completely eyeballed approach in the dark

[untold finch]

500ft is one of the "higher" examples, they went as low as 300 sometimes. I guess they were worried about the parachutists being shot out of the sky.

[hollow oracle]

for a second i thought that was illegal under the geneva convention, but its only illegal if its theyre parachuting from a disabled aircraft, you can shoot paratroopers because theyre deploying combat units

so yeah, most likely

also, i forgot that you can clear the cache in MSFS, so i did that and my game is running a lot better

i really wish the aeroplane heaven C-47 could get the duckworks DC-3 enhancement, because by default its borderline unflyable

https://tenor.com/view/cat-thousand-yard-stare-thousand-yard-stare-cat-ptsd-cat-soldier-cat-war-gif-9110270742088459827

[untold finch]

Shooting down bailed out pilots sadly did still happen in the war, there were some pilots like Adolf Galland who were famously against it, but it was a mercy rarely given

[hollow oracle]

id like to do a DC-3 flight some day

apparently its all dead reckoning, a max cruise of 5000-8500, and visually circling to land

its like flying a GA aircraft, but instead its an unpressurized airliner

[hollow oracle]

wtaf, this does NOT need to be fully modeled

a 2D image would be perfectly fine there

[hollow oracle]

i want to do a flight, but i dont know what aircraft or where to fly

[trail monolith]

Skurup to Paris

Take a Long hauler if you have it

[hollow oracle]

Skurup?

i really should probably do a long haul, i need to clean my room, and i could do that during cruise

i found a good flight

US airways did A320 flights between philly and bermuda

i still need to get used to flying the fenix with a controller now that my desk setup doesnt allow me to use the full airbus hardware anymore

well, i could use it, but i really dont feel like figuring out a solution for something i would rarely use anyway

[trail monolith]

Sturup i meant

[rustic charm]

Alright, did a passenger flight once yesterday, time to go back to freight

Destination: Hong Kong

That was a fun takeoff XD

[rustic charm]

Less than 2 hours to go

[rustic charm]

Oh flying into default airports is fun...

VHHH by default has no current 07L/25R

It only has 07R/25L and 07L/25R (current 07C/25C)

But well, not having a runway is fine, they were landing centre right now anyway

But when choosing the approach in the FMC, I obviously don't have an for 07C, cause the game doesn't have that runway - in its mind it's 07L

So I just select the 07L approach and fly normally, thinking that well, considering it has no actual 07L, and the game thinks that 07C is 07L, it should take me to the correct runway

Wrong, both the LNAV and the ILS align me with the modern day 07L

Which, ahem

Does not exist

Good thing I had perfect visibility so I just flew it down manually

Now if this was a 0 viz situation and I were doing an autoland...

Well the plane would've flared normally, except there'd be no runway

[alpine coral]

This one has missing taxiways so I had to set it to daytime to see where I was going

[hollow oracle]

you really have to trust your gauges sometimes

[hollow oracle]

wow, that is extremely strange

europe only does regional airlines duing the day?

right now there are 0 e-jets over europe, but just a handful of hours ago it was almost full of e-jets

nevermind, the united states is the same, all of the e-jets dissapear at night, weird

[rustic charm]

Oh that's so common too, so annoying

Narita doesn't have the taxiway that connects the shorter runway, you literally have to go off road

Memphis by default misses the bridges over the road

Sheremetyevo's missing Terminal C...

[hollow oracle]

RKSI doesn’t exist by default

Which is annoying, considering it’s the largest airport in South Korea

[rustic charm]

It does

I've flown into it not too long ago

[hollow oracle]

In 2020 or 2024?

[rustic charm]

2020

[hollow oracle]

I might have missed a world update then

https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftFlightSim/s/Onwx7QxhZz

[rustic charm]

There it is

I don't think I've installed any mods for it

Yeah, there aren't any even I think

I don't think it's part of a world update either?

[hollow oracle]

Aw man :(

Today was the last ever Hawaiian callsign flight

From now on, it’s all Alaska callsigns and codes

[rustic charm]

Just wings and the tail, no fuselage XD

On my way from Hong Kong to Karaganda, just under an hour until I start descending

[rustic charm]

Descending, the fuselage still is nowhere to be seen

[rustic charm]

Everything's pitch black

[dusty sky]

so yeah that flight went well

[trail monolith]

It was feeling green

[hollow oracle]

i have moments like that often

makes me realize that even though im pretty okay at flying in a simulator, i still am not cut out to be a real pilot

some day id like to do a discovery flight just to say ive flown in a GA aircraft, but i have no interest in getting a PPL either

[hollow oracle]

https://fsnews.eu/developer-responds-to-criticism-by-canceling-future-updates-banning-discord-users/?feed_id=5006&_unique_id=69012d2c2522c

[hollow oracle]

https://x.com/ge_aerospace/status/1983624178239504431?s=46

GE Aerospace (@GE_Aerospace)

Innovation just got a bold new look.

Say hello to the newly reimagined GE Aerospace Flying Test Bed. If you guessed our trusted, high-tech hub for testing jet engines was getting a new livery, you were right!

This transformation celebrates the spirit of innovation that drives

X · Oct 29, 2025, 7:57 PM

[agile oak]

rip the old one

F

[dusty sky]

It wasn't even my fault, the plane has a bug where all the systems just die

Just unplug the flight stick for a millisecond and it just dies

[runic hare]

Once you do a flight your gonna want to keep doing flights

The bug is incredibly hard to uncatch

[rustic charm]

Wish I had the money to fly irl

Just $182k and I can have an ATPL... meanwhile for 150-170 you can buy an apartment

[runic hare]

In the uk we are lucky to have a really decent modular pathway

Give or take £55k-£80k depending on how fast you wanna do it

[rustic charm]

That's not bad

Plus I think academies offer scholarships?

[runic hare]

Nope

Not here

Airline do recruitment but that’s like 20000 applicants and 20 people get in per year

Ryanair do it but it’s a down payment of €30000

And you have to live in cork for 2 years

Shithole

If you want to do an integrated course with a school it’s between £110k-£150k

Financing will cover half that cost

But at the end of that there is no guarantee of a job

So if after 6 months you don’t have something your ATPL expires

Modular is way better but it’s also way more work because you can work at your own pace and you can do the final licences when airlines are accepting applicants for positions as FO’s

You also aren’t tied down to an airline

[rustic charm]

Fair, sounds like it's much better indeed

How does it even work?

[reef isle]

Transferring to a dispersion field

[untold finch]

Vulcan is the first thing I am installing when I get back into flightsimming

[echo gorge]

They really did knock it out of the park

[runic hare]

Get PPL, train for CPL and do the exams yourself, then train for ATPL and do that all yourself and then you can either get a type rating yourself or go to an airline like Ryanair or EasyJet who will pay for a 737/320 type rating for you

[rustic charm]

You can just train yourself for CPL and ATPL?

Cause if so I'll really have to think of gettingn a PPL and then doing that

[dusty sky]

it looks way better in the actual game

discord compresion

[runic hare]

In the uk you can

The exams are expensive as is hour building

[mint whale]

a group of people told me to put my photos here because they didnt like the fact that i put it in the "wrong channel" however

[trail monolith]

Where did you put it?

Ah public transport

[mint whale]

https://discord.com/channels/373055767642898433/712780628604616764

[trail monolith]

[mint whale]

im headed to bratislava

from dalaman

got another hour left before arrival

[rustic charm]

All done!

[mint whale]

same here! all done for today, will be back tomorrow after an adventure break

[hollow oracle]

with my severe anxiety, i would expect to be a terrifiying experience that i would be fine doing only once

[hollow oracle]

ITS NAVIGRAPH CYCLE UPDATE DAY

AAAA PANIC

[hollow oracle]

how do they even do this irl on an entire fleet of aircraft

is it downloaded wirlessly or are they still using physical media to do it

[dusty sky]

I don't even have a navigraph subscription so I get SID's that no longer exist

[rustic charm]

I'm pretty sure it's still physical disks and stuff

[dusty sky]

Wdym AIRAC 2511, I'm still on 2403 💀

[hollow oracle]

https://x.com/LockheedMartin/status/1983899520388763721

Lockheed Martin (@LockheedMartin)

As adversaries sleep, the AC-130J Ghostrider awakens. Unseen until it’s too late. Eliminating enemy threats in the silence of the night.

X · Oct 30, 2025, 2:11 PM

goes so hard

[dusty sky]

AC-130 is legendary

[untold finch]

"can be shot down by anyone with even the most rudimentary MANPADS" doesn't sell it as well I guess

Iunno, the AC-130 definitely epitomises the "fighting the last war" problem for me
It's great against a bunch of goat herders who have an SKS or an AKM, but there's a reason they only flew at night in incredibly low-threat environments

A standard C-130J with the rapid dragon standoff cruise missile system is a much more capable strike platform these days

[hollow oracle]

every time i encounter a problem that could be solved by upgrading to XP12, i think about the guy in the xplane server said that i was financially irresponsible, and that xplane was the cost of a few lunches, and if i just saved up for a week i could afford to buy it

[untold finch]

Yeesh

Simboomers gonna simboom

[hollow oracle]

im not going to deny the finanically irresponsible part, but regardless, that is an insanely shitty take

ill try to find his original message later

[rustic charm]

Tbf while I'm completely uninterested in military aviation and therefore have no idea about how everything works there, using a C-130 as an attack plane feels like trying to use a 737 or an A320 as an attack plane, might as well stick guns on those and call it a day

Like, as far as I know a 737/320 would even be able to fly further, faster and higher while carrying a higher payload

[rustic charm]

This plane is going to Tahiti

That was a scary takeoff roll

[mint whale]

gonna do an overnight flight today on the a350 again

this time im gonna do heathrow to phoenix

[dusty sky]

I'm finally doing manchester to toronto

best time as well cuz oceanic is online

[rustic charm]

Almost in Tahiti

[hollow oracle]

today marks exactly 1 year since the FBW A380X released

[rustic charm]

Dutch is happy

[dusty sky]

what the hell is default toronto, the runway lights are floating like cmon man

[rustic charm]

Get used to it, that's defaults for you XD

[dusty sky]

but it's never been that bad before

[rustic charm]

Sooo many of them are awful

And in big airports it's even more evident

[dusty sky]

only modded airport I have is belgrad but I haven't flown there

what's a good freeware scenery mod for toronto

[rustic charm]

And this btw is why the point of "Well MSFS made the whole world automatically" that people make in regards to TSW/TSC/whatever other train sim is completely invalid XD

[rustic charm]

Don't think there's much for Toronto tbh

[dusty sky]

aren't the airports actually hand crafted?

[rustic charm]

Oh no

I mean, a few are

Those that are specifically mentioned in deluxe/premium editions

Plus those from world updates

Although most of the time even those hand-crafted ones are not too amazing

But 99.999% of them are autogenerated from whatever data was available to Microsoft at the time

That's why we get missing airports (Istanbul... literally one of the biggest world hubs), missing bits (Missing runway at VHHH, missing taxiways in RJAA and KMEM, missing terminal C stands at UUEE, and those are just the ones that I remember off the top of my head) and things that do exist but are a total mess (CYOW is, also I've seen someplace where the taxi markings were all over the place but don't remember where exactly it was)

[hollow oracle]

EGLL looks fun to fly into right now

[hollow oracle]

i was like, "oh itll be cute to do an A380 flight on its one-year anniversary", and its still as laggy as it ever was

there is a reason why i was only able to do 1 flight with the A380 in a year since it released

[hollow oracle]

they should put VATSIM controllers in charge of US airspace now that we're losing controllers like crazy because they arent being paid

[echo gorge]

When the controller tells you to disconnect irl

[hollow oracle]

genuinely how is it possible that the A380X performs this bad, not even the inibuilds a350 performs nearly as bad as the a380

it might be better when you get into the air, and i am in inibuilds dubai, but the lag spikes are pain

still no takeoff calculator too?

[hollow oracle]

i was curious what flying with FSLTL would be like in the A380, and it almost took my entire PC down with it

and don't take my criticisms for ungratefulness, i am very happy that it exists, and im very thankful that it's free and open source, but it also just runs pretty awful

we're flying i guess, i'll see how this goes

[hollow oracle]

https://nasstatus.faa.gov/

i love seeing all of those closed airports due to staffing

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https://tenor.com/view/squid-game-oh-my-god-bruh-saleswoman-oh-my-god-bruh-gif-2398788864743270124

going through and looking at recent landings for EGLL on volanta, and all 3 have veered off of the runway

in an A350, 777, and A320

currently at 19kts of crosswind

and im coming in an A380

[hollow oracle]

fuck it, we ball

[hollow oracle]

shitty weather indeed, but we made it

i did almost veer off the runway, and it wasnt smooth, but considering its an A380 in a stiff crosswind and low visibility, ill allow it

if all porkchops were perfect, we wouldnt have hot dogs

[reef isle]

https://www.twitch.tv/jerseyaviator/clip/ThoughtfulKitschyCrabDBstyle

[nimble sphinx]

Good to see Joe's still hanging in there

[trim harbor]

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

[rustic charm]

Welp

I guess it's time for another plane endurance test

Hawaiian used to have DC-9s, including DC-9-10s, and I wanna deliver one

And even LA to Hawaii would be cutting it very close for that plane

In fact I think even empty it can't make it

[trim harbor]

id assume they have taken the seats out and whipped some fuel tanks in

[rustic charm]

Oh definitely, there's no other way they could make it

Can't do that in MSFS though

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Also well, no instrumentation or any kind of standby nav, heading mode for 6 hours... this is going to involve a lot of math

Soooo...

But that's calculated based on a DC-9-30 profile, so I'll burn a bit less in cruise in reality

[rustic charm]

I think I can rightfully be scared

[reef isle]

Ooooooh reminds me of when I did an air Nauru flight with the F28

Pure dead reckoning

I think I used an online plotter to do some of the math

And it worked out quite well, but it was a shorter flight than what you want to do

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My flight plan XD

Best part is

I don't even have a wind or ground speed indication

I'll have to calculate all of those too lol

[reef isle]

Yeah, you can use an online plotter

I can't find it now 😭

[rustic charm]

Welp, my first and final mainland VOR behind me now, now it begins

[reef isle]

https://e6bx.com/e6b/

[rustic charm]

Thanks

Tbh I do kinda want to try to do it myself too

Cause it's useful stuff to know

[reef isle]

in that case you can use this

https://mediafiles.aero.und.edu/aero.und.edu/aviation/trainers/e6b/

I think at school we never did it using math

it was always either graphically (scale drawing and measuring) and then with the plotter

[rustic charm]

Fair

[reef isle]

but cool that you want to do it yourself

[rustic charm]

Well hopefully in 5 hours I'll be in Hawaii