Great effort Jeroen! I did an airliner flight from Las Vegas to San Diego in AFS2 just before, now I'm ready to do some island hopping with a Beaver in P3Dv4. Enjoy flight simming everyone and keep both eyes and ears out for what's to come in flight simming!

Well, aren't you the dramaqueen Jeroen  Glad you're enjoying simming again.

21 minutes ago, Rimshot said:

Well, aren't you the dramaqueen Jeroen  Glad you're enjoying simming again.

Yep, that's me! 

5 hours ago, J van E said:

Ok, well, I think I am back again. Pretty soon, isn't it? 

I bought P3D v4 (after not spending time with P3D for 10 months or so) and was happy to see the addons I own and wanted to use could all be upgraded for free: AS for weather, A2A C172 and Cherokee, FTX Norway and to my surprise even Plan-G now works perfectly fine with v4 (better than it did with v3 the last time I used it). Installing all this wasn't too much work: it was done within no time.

I fired it up and boy, was I happy...

Sometimes life can be so simple... 

 

What an addiction we hard-core flight simmers have! 

The world looks beautiful and happy, and all is well again, (after a good hit)!

Kind regards,

 

PS: (This being said self-deprecatingly since I am standing on the same street corner, so-to-speak...) 

Since loading FS9 and FSX, I've uninstalled neither in the eight years I have had my rig.  If things look odd (usually after going from window to full screen and back again), I know what .cfg entries to delete to reset my window settings.  Unless I change my gpu after it ages, I don't see myself going back to adjust anything.  The only uninstall I made was some photoreal scenery I made that was too texture heavy on FSX.  It covered a small area anyway, less than 200 sq. miles, that I decided I could live without it.

All my home spun photoreal scenery gets dumped into one big folder, so it can be portable easily if I ever upgrade my rig to handle P3Dv4 in the future.  But I don't see changing my rig soon, thirty years' of software distribution experience has hammered in the "if it ain't broke..." saying into my head.  The only changes I make to the sim are the rare Carenado or Alabeo add-ons I purchase, rarer and rarer to this day.  Having beta'd both FS9 and FSX I had the insight of the developers who helped me with my Soft Horizons add-on, which adds realism to the skies I fly in. 

Yesterday I flew FSX for the first time in a while, flying Alabeo's C310.  I had it sweetly trimmed so I could fly hand's off during cruise, using only the throttle to adjust altititude.  I flew over a photoreal Northern California, navigating from Napa to Red Bluff, and the farm fields below looked so real, the world so delicate below.  I kept panning from left to right to take in the view from left seat, using only gentle touches of aileron to counteract some of the chop I encountered, just as I was taught when I took flight lessons ten years ago.

The beauty of simming is knowing I have them there, if I need a few hours to relax and escape, they are still there more than seven years' after FSX's release.

 

JOhn

Been there. I was a very late adopter of complex aircraft (simming since 98, first PMDG product purchased Dec 2016). I have found renewed interest since purchasing them, and additional renewed interest since switching from FSX to P3DV4. I still have problems completing flights. I start flights, get to cruise, let it run, but I am usually too tired to land or family needs take over. 

One issue I have had over the past few years is trying to decide where and what to fly. I have spent up to an hour just trying to find something before giving up. Based on the following criteria, it can be difficult. All flights must consist of the following (why, I don't know):

• Two cities where I have add on scenery that make sense (not going to get a lot of non stop flights from Ft Meyers to San Juan, for example)
• Two cities with interesting weather (current weather)
• Two cities that meet the above that are appropriate for the aircraft/paints I have on file (try finding suitable options for 757's in Asia, for example).

The other issue I have is there always seems to be a problem. I forget something when I start the flight or an add on misbehaves. With P3DV4, I really miss AES. GSX and SODE just ain't cutting it for me. I end up picking a gate with no working jetway, and I feel like I should just quit right there. 

I know, all this sounds silly.

On 22/8/2017 at 2:35 AM, Murmur said:

I see the current landscape very interesting.

Right now, FSW seems to be the fastest moving product. IMO, Dovetail is bringing the first real innovations in the MSFS-derived sims in more than a decade. The product is still in its infancy, but you can already see some amazing screenshots. If DTG will keep this momentum for the next year, FSW could really become one of the "staple" sims in the market.

With regard to X-Plane: I can understand that, for the casual observer, it may seem as slow moving as it has ever been. But LR expanded their staff and resources, and the first results were already visible at the launch of X-Plane 11, when comparing it with X-Plane 10. The various improvements planned in the roadmap (VR, performance, various scenery improvements) will progressively unroll in the near future.

Although, I concur that there are many requested features that always seems to be in the backburner (seasons, AI, weather effects). We'll see whether the increasing competition (mainly from FSW, which IMO is the more direct competitor to X-P) will have any effect on Laminar Research.

I agree that nowadays there is such a competition on flight simulators that enrich the flight simulation hobby.

Despite its differences (a MSFS sucessor -FSW- vs physics based on realistic behaviour -X-Plane-) it is great that both developers teams are hosting streams or Q&A sessions, talking to the community, improving those flight simulators.

In my opinion, as it is said above, an Air Hauler add-on or similar is a good way to give a purpose for flying from A to B. It would be great that those flight simulators include some kind of career mode in order to give some challenge, as it was by obtaining licenses on MS Flight Simulator. (I remember the diplomas of MSFS 1998 with your own name).

I was still committed enough to the hobby to license P3dv4 yesterday for my new system.  It is nice to be flying again under the latest FSX based platform, which runs smoother on my new rig as compared to my old one.  I am glad to see competition in the hobby, it keeps developers on the path to improving their products to cater to our community.  Our community is strong and larger now than it was in the old days of FSII running at an alarmingly fast 10 fps LOL.  Many add-ons to use, aircraft that fill all niches of flight, have helped keep the hobby interesting.  I don't fly heavy iron, I prefer to fly in the GA arena, I get a lot out of the hobby that way.  I have photoreal scenery for Colorado, a lot of fun VFR flying their over open plains and in the mountains.  That scenery can be found here at Avsim, it works in FSX and P3D.  I have my UL Trike, also here at Avsim, which works great in P3D, better than it did in FSX.  It's great for cruising over my Colorado photoreal scenery.  One thing I notice about P3d, fewer downtown buildings.  Must be a slider I have to adjust for more somewhere.

John

Edit: I adjusted my scenery density to the highest level, put everything to the right.  The buildings are back, no degradation on performance.  Downtown denver maps well to my photoreal scenery now, perfect for VFR flight along the Rocky foothills.

John