Like many people I have been using the sim VFR due to various issues with default GPS, Airliner performance etc etc.  Anyway I recently bought the Carenado Mooney and just finished a flight from LOWS to LOWI.  Everything just sort of clicked tonight, I planned the flight using Navigraph imported the flightplan into Little NavMap.  Imported the flight plan into the Sim and flew the route pretty darn close matching all IFR restrictions.  You know one of those flights where everything just clicks!  I loved it, the immersion level over the alps into LOWI (ORBX) was just phenomenal.  So I took a few pics and uploaded a short video of the landing - I did notice the PAPIs were all white and never changed which meant I was nosediving a little but landed safely, maybe thats a bug need to check out the ORBX forums.

 

 

 

Edited September 27, 20205 yr by sidfadc

18 minutes ago, sidfadc said:

I did notice the PAPIs were all white and never changed which meant I was nosediving a little but landed safely

Did you slow down enough?  The Mooney is very slick and difficult to slow.  There are speed brakes.  The red speed brake button is around toward the front of the left handle on the left seat yoke.  You must get the eye level down in order to see it as otherwise it is hidden behind part of the yoke.  There is another red button in that area, which confuses locating that speed brake button.  There is a camera position from the center of the cockpit, CTRL-3 or 4, where it is barely visible due to a lower eye point with that camera.  There are screenies posted in the MSFS 2020 forum in the topic that developed with the M20's release.
 

Oh, here it is....

 

Edited September 27, 20205 yr by fppilot

Very nice, thanks for sharing.

45 minutes ago, fppilot said:

Did you slow down enough?  The Mooney is very slick and difficult to slow.  There are speed brakes.  The red speed brake button is around toward the front of the left handle on the left seat yoke.  You must get the eye level down in order to see it as otherwise it is hidden behind part of the yoke.  There is another red button in that area, which confuses locating that speed brake button.  There is a camera position from the center of the cockpit, CTRL-3 or 4, where it is barely visible due to a lower eye point with that camera.  There are screenies posted in the MSFS 2020 forum in the topic that developed with the M20's release.
 

Oh, here it is....

 

Yea was only doing about 80 kts in the video I didn’t use the speed brakes but have them mapped on my joystick anyway.

Nice pix. When IFR flight in MSFS works it's truly a joy and nothing else comes close. I say that after just having two successive flights where the autopilot worked perfectly (once in the C172 and once in the TBM) but then came unglued and dove me right into the ground on final approach. The MSFS autopilot is a true mystery.

Wow almost as good as fs2004

8 hours ago, sidfadc said:

Like many people I have been using the sim VFR due to various issues with default GPS, Airliner performance etc etc.  Anyway I recently bought the Carenado Mooney and just finished a flight from LOWS to LOWI.  Everything just sort of clicked tonight, I planned the flight using Navigraph imported the flightplan into Little NavMap.  Imported the flight plan into the Sim and flew the route pretty darn close matching all IFR restrictions.  You know one of those flights where everything just clicks!  I loved it, the immersion level over the alps into LOWI (ORBX) was just phenomenal.  So I took a few pics and uploaded a short video of the landing - I did notice the PAPIs were all white and never changed which meant I was nosediving a little but landed safely, maybe thats a bug need to check out the ORBX forums.

 

 

If you found it immersive just wait for VR..

1 hour ago, jabloomf1230 said:

The MSFS autopilot is a true mystery.

😀 that it is, always has me on edge.