Well i actually still fly FSX but in DX10 mode. Yes, its dated, but i pumped a few 1000s of bucks worth of addons into that sim and MSFS misses features which are very important to me:

- an Active-Sky weather engine

- Seasons

- PMDG planes 😉

I wont bother with P3D since I dont want to buy all my addons again...

Apart from that, I miss tropical water textures like in addon islands of FSX and a simple option to decrease spot view distance withouit zooming out, so you can actually ENJOY the beautiful scenery. Instead of adding more scenery updates maybe the devs should improve all those things that seem a but unfinished.

Edited February 22, 20215 yr by Soulflight

23 minutes ago, Soulflight said:

Well i actually still fly FSX but in DX10 mode. Yes, its dated, but i pumped a few 1000s of bucks worth of addons into that sim and MSFS misses features which are very important to me:

- an Active-Sky weather engine

- Seasons

- PMDG planes 😉

I wont bother with P3D since I dont want to buy all my addons again...

Apart from that, I miss tropical water textures like in addon islands of FSX and a simple option to decrease spot view distance withouit zooming out, so you can actually ENJOY the beautiful scenery. Instead of adding more scenery updates maybe the devs should improve all those things that seem a but unfinished.

I think MSFS weather is better than AS16, Flew into Key West and Puerto Rico in the last three days and the water looks pretty good to me, and I flew in real life down there for many years.  PMDG planes are being developed now.. I couldn't imagine ever going back to FSX, like going back to DOS 3,1 

1 hour ago, GSalden said:

Up to know we have a scenery simulator with several GA ac flying.

Even with an up-to-date WT G1000 mod I am still experiencing G1000 lockups with the MSFS GA aircraft.  Yesterday, almost two hours into a flight from St Louis to Huntsville, Alabama, the G1000 locked up on me during my initial descent.  I was IFR and needed to use the Fltplan Go app on my iPad and the two analog gauges on the Baron G58's panel to find the airport and land.  I fully rebooted before refueling and departing Huntsville for Daytona Beach.  I twice did not even reach my first waypoint of GAD (Gadsen) before the G1000 froze up each time.  I just had to bail and make the flight in FSX SE with the Milviz B55 Baron and RXP GTN 750.  I just do not have time to waste like what has been happening to me in MSFS.

I don't know how these other members here are getting by without these issues. I fly a pre-defined schedule real time and with real time weather.  I am not getting accurate weather from MSFS default and am relying on REX WF instead.  And before someone attempts to tie the G1000 and WT issues to REX WF let me say clearly that I am having that issue even when not using REX WF, and I am experiencing the issue just as often in the DA62 and Bonanza, with or without performance mods.  The only other addon that could be in play is Navigraph for MSFS, and here in the USA I cannot fly without it because the MSFS database of approach procedures is so lacking here.  So no Navigraph and I am also back to FSX SE.  My Realair TDv2 and my Milviz B55 Baron and Cessna C310 are superior to the default MSFS GA twins, hands down!

Long in the tooth?  Aged?  No longer worthy?  Show me what you got when you have no view of the ground.....

I never left.....
 

Edited February 22, 20215 yr by fppilot

16 hours ago, Bobsk8 said:

FSX looked old to me when I switched to P3D many years ago. FSX got me to give up simming for years. 

Same here . I flew fs9 for years and loved it but just couldnt get to grips with fsx . I have a simming friend who actually thinks fsx with orbx true earth is better than msfs2020 scenery wise . Yep I couldnt believe it either and to compound it he said the flight model in fsx is better . Go figure . 

47 minutes ago, Dazzaboy said:

Same here . I flew fs9 for years and loved it but just couldnt get to grips with fsx . I have a simming friend who actually thinks fsx with orbx true earth is better than msfs2020 scenery wise . Yep I couldnt believe it either and to compound it he said the flight model in fsx is better . Go figure . 

True Earth series are handmade while MSFS uses algorithm + custom objects.

So True Earth really looks good. But they will never do the complete US or Europe.

The current flight model in MSFS is not very good. Take the A320 or 787 / 747 : with small movements of the controls you get big moves of the ac and they have no “heavy” feeling.

However, where FSX just has 1 air contact point MSFS is able to use 1200.  They just have to tune them....

16 minutes ago, GSalden said:

Take the A320 or 787 / 747 : with small movements of the controls you get big moves of the ac and they have no “heavy” feeling..

I've just started getting into the FlyByWire A320, and after adjusting my joystick settings I find it gives me a "heavy" feeling. Check FlyByWire's Discord channel for recommended settings. 

I still prefer P3D. I have a go with FS after a major update but it still leaves me cold in the current state.

7 minutes ago, Ricardo41 said:

I've just started getting into the FlyByWire A320, and after adjusting my joystick settings I find it gives me a "heavy" feeling. Check FlyByWire's Discord channel for recommended settings. 

Very glad to hear that.

In my case I only fly the Prosim 737 and use their calibrations which I use on both P3D and sometimes MSFS .

Anyone on the wobble with MSFS 2020; (Flaps Fix Here: https://flightsim.to/file/8437/world-update-iii-flap-lift-community-hotfix-standard-edition) just go sit in the Hangar in your current favourite aircraft and think back to those leaks we had last year.

Come a long way since then.

Best Sim currently available - by far.

Got something better?

Yeah, tell it to the King. . . somewhere over Africa

Edited February 22, 20215 yr by Will Fly For Cheese

Umm. FSX is also like 16 years old. I'd find it hard to go back too. Heck. I'm finding it hard to go back to P3Dv5 and x-plane lol.

Edited February 22, 20215 yr by Daytona125
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No doubt MSFS(20) wins on scenery and interface - I hate the fact that to run FSX on any sort of HD monitor you need to use Windows Screen Magnifier to see the non scaleable menu fonts.

But that said, I have a sinking feeling it will still be a long time before we can fly the heavy iron I enjoy(ed) in FSX - DC10's, L1011, David Maltby's VC10's, even the Level D 767 thus it still gets fired up now and again.

43 minutes ago, Will Fly For Cheese said:

somewhere over Africa

Is that cloudy question mark is pure coincidence I assume?

5 hours ago, GSalden said:

Lots of handcrafted airports do not even have flat runways

Why it has to be very flat? 

1 minute ago, omarsmak30 said:

Why it has to be very flat? 

And constantly people complained that the runways in P3D and FSX were all FLAT!!!!

23 hours ago, edpatino said:

I think FSX was some beast from the past that I enjoyed for some time until 6-7 years ago when new species came out that thereafter became 64bits and beat that old 32bits specimen. Now, six months ago there's a new beast that beat them all 🤣

Cheers, Ed

One sim to rule them all, one sim to find them. One sim to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them. In the land of Microsoft, where the shadows lie...

Something to think about if you start seeing the Lidless Eye in your dreams

Edited February 23, 20215 yr by Christopher Low