March 2, 20188 yr We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically. Devons rig Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB / 1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe / 1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
March 3, 20188 yr Was Microsoft Flight really that bad? No, it wasn't. I still think that Flight has not been exceeded yet. Honestly!
March 4, 20188 yr Still sad that Microsoft made the decision to abandon Flight. It had so much potential. My hope is that FSW will replace it with all the great things we enjoyed. We shall see. Thank you. Rick $Silver Donor EAA 1317610 I7-7700K @ 4.5ghz, MSI Z270 Gaming MB, 32gb 3200, Geforce RTX2080 Super O/C, 28" Samsung 4k Monitor, Various SSD, HD, and peripherals
March 5, 20188 yr Likewise guys. I actually keep hoping someone will come up with something better than Flight, but after all these years, no one has. I wonder what MS Flight 5.0 would look like today if it had remained in development?
March 5, 20188 yr I am really surprised at DTG. They had an opportunity to pick up the Flight franchise and instead took the FSX package and are now basing their FSW on it. I don't know what internal coding made them so dramatically different, but it seems to me that Flight would have been the best platform to build upon. I guess we will just have to wait and see what magic they perform on FSW but I wish it had been the Flight engine used. Thank you. Rick $Silver Donor EAA 1317610 I7-7700K @ 4.5ghz, MSI Z270 Gaming MB, 32gb 3200, Geforce RTX2080 Super O/C, 28" Samsung 4k Monitor, Various SSD, HD, and peripherals
March 7, 20188 yr This video inspired me to give Flight a try. I got into flight simming around the time Flight demised so I never bothered. Anyway, I'm very impressed! The performance on my gaming laptop is excellent and it runs butter smooth and it looks really good. By comparison FSW runs at about 1/3 the frame rate (with TrueSky enabled) and its graphics don't look as good as Flight (except the airplanes which do look incredible in FSW). Flight's support for controlling the aircraft and cameras with keyboard/mouse is superb. I'm very grateful for the Flight Toolkit which enables late comers like me to really appreciate what Flight had to offer. Unfortunately the Flight Toolkit Addon Manager crashes when I try to add the Alaska scenery, has anyone else run into that? I'm able to enable the aircraft and other features in Addon Manager, it's only Alaska that's not working. Barry Friedman
March 7, 20188 yr Check the pinned topics at the top of the forum. There are a couple that deal with the toolkit. Perhaps one can help you get it squared away. I haven't used the toolkit since its' earliest versions so I can't help with your problem. Hopefully one of the more experienced members will be along to get it right for you. Thank you. Rick $Silver Donor EAA 1317610 I7-7700K @ 4.5ghz, MSI Z270 Gaming MB, 32gb 3200, Geforce RTX2080 Super O/C, 28" Samsung 4k Monitor, Various SSD, HD, and peripherals
March 8, 20188 yr Thanks I have it sorted now. I just needed to be sure to install the other addons before the Alaska ones. Barry Friedman
March 8, 20188 yr Yes. It looked like a game and it was a closed platform designed to make money. That's why it died, it was bad. CASE: Fractal Terra Silver CPU: AMD R5 7800X3D 5.0Ghz RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000 GPU: nVidia RTX 4070 Ti SUPER · SSDs: Samsung 990 PRO 2TB M.2 PCIe · PNY XLR8 CS3040 2TB M.2 PCIe · VIDEO: LG-32GK650F QHD 32" 144Hz FREE/G-SYNC · MISC: Thrustmaster TCA Airbus Joystick + Throttle Quadrant · MSFS2024 · Windows 11
March 9, 20188 yr 23 hours ago, Nuno Pinto said: Yes. It looked like a game and it was a closed platform designed to make money. That's why it died, it was bad. It was maybe a bad businesses model to choose a closed platform, but the core of the software was and still is very good. And if you want to reach a market beyond the core simming community, it needs to look like a game. Andreas My first plane: Der kleine Uhu. Motto: Runter kommen sie immer. B)
March 9, 20188 yr Well, yeah... That sounds about right. Maybe it was just the initial approach that went wrong because yes, it did look promising graphics wise. CASE: Fractal Terra Silver CPU: AMD R5 7800X3D 5.0Ghz RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000 GPU: nVidia RTX 4070 Ti SUPER · SSDs: Samsung 990 PRO 2TB M.2 PCIe · PNY XLR8 CS3040 2TB M.2 PCIe · VIDEO: LG-32GK650F QHD 32" 144Hz FREE/G-SYNC · MISC: Thrustmaster TCA Airbus Joystick + Throttle Quadrant · MSFS2024 · Windows 11
March 21, 20188 yr I'm back also. Just getting back into MS Flight again after loosing everything due to a fatal computer crash. Any way, new system, OMEN 870se. 32G memory, i7-7700k, GTX 1080 8G. Everything maxed out for all flight sims, MS Flight, FSX, and FSW. Steam was being difficult with MS Flight so I downloaded a new copy outside of Steam. Using the 'FLIGHT TOOL KIT.' I got all my aircraft back. So after 500 hours in MS Flight I am starting all over again. Least I get to collect Aerocaches all over again including the 25 or so that I had submitted myself. Flight is still the best in many respects in my humble opinion. Best graphics, best water textures, best runways and the most fun to boot. I do wish FSW had a HUD like Flight uses, hate the whiskey compass in the Super Cub. Still have high hopes for FSW. On a side note, looking for repaints in the Avsim library to replace those that were lost, but have only found two so far. Am I looking in the wrong place? Edited March 21, 20188 yr by Air1
March 21, 20188 yr 2 hours ago, Air1 said: On a side note, looking for repaints in the Avsim library to replace those that were lost, but have only found two so far. Am I looking in the wrong place? I see 35 repaints here: https://library.avsim.net/index.php?CatID=fl_repaint&Sort=Added&ScanMode=1&Go=Change+View Barry Friedman
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