August 30, 20205 yr After several days of tinkering, implementing workarounds for bugs (Honeycomb Alpha Yoke exagerated trim, TrackIR 6 sec snap-back, cockpit too dark, home airfield [EPWS] in 300 ft unreal valley with no parking spots to start cold & dark, no 3-display support), preceeded by bringing my computer to my daughter's flat with 300 Mbps internet to download the sim, waiting ages for rolling cache file generation, installing +16 GB RAM and newly acquired used 1070Ti graphics card + overclocking it, removing Honeycomb Alpha Yoke factory-miscalibrated pitch dead zone, setting views, graphics settings, defining and redefining axes and buttons, connecting SkyDemon via XMapsy, reading foums etc. I finally flew! I'm real world amateur pilot flying Tecnam P2008 JC MkII. I decided to fly C172 as the closest one in the sim. I flew my customary 1h route aroung EPWR CTR in fair weather preset. What should I say - it was a good, realistic fligt! The C172 behaved better en-route (I even tasted some slow flight and stall recovery maneuvers) and during landing (keeping airspeed on the approach, forward slip, flare and touchdown) compared to what I ever experienced in FSX or X-Plane! Flying was easier, more predictable, more like real life. Landscape was beyond any comparison! Hoping for the update (I hope several of them in the coming months) to solve some most annoying issues (simconnect to allow using FSUIPC, cockpit too dark) and looking forward to plan some flights to be flown as the training before my real world flights. P.S. It was really funny to see the MFS 2020 AI recreation of my home airfiled. I just laughed out loud. OK - all the buildings were in place, but the textures were so tidy and shiny. The familiar building, shacks and structure you expect but in some otherworldy version (kind of Stranger Things effect - a parallel universe) 😉 As the bing maps contain the airplanes on the satellite images - they were depicted in the sim as patches of concrete surrounded by grass - something like a "shadow" of the poor airplane after nuclear bomb explosion 😉 But anyway, it was a bit of concrete, airplane-shape, perfect to park my C172 😉 Edited August 30, 20205 yr by Steku
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