I have been flying simulators since the Spectrum days. Even rather early you could fly realtime over the pond and I always said that "I will never become that nerdy"... Kept myself mostly in the mil sim lane where that is never an option over the years. But today, thanks to MSFS and Neofly that won't allow me to move my beloved TMB without editing the database, I am right now departing from Scotland heading for Iceland, then Greenland, then Halifax, then the US East Coast where I want to do some flying with realtime weather as I mostly fly late nights Euro time... And no time compression.

So I choose a plane that really is not meant to go over the pond where it takes even longer... And I love it 🙂 Go knows how far this will go. Glad I am on VR so a sim pit build is out of danger zone at least...

Glad you're enjoying the long haul trip.

31 minutes ago, mazex said:

But today, thanks to MSFS and Neofly that won't allow me to move my beloved TMB without editing the database

Just thought I'd mention, for future use, you can move your plane within Neofly, without editing the database. At the bottom of the Mission tab, you can pay to transfer yourself to any ICAO you wish. Once that is done, on the Hanger tab, right click the plane you want, and select "Bring to pilot location". Should cost you no more than $5000 for the pilot transfer, and $10000 for the plane transfer. And it is instantaneous.

Have fun!

...jim

 

Thank's - thought of moving the pilot to an airport and buying another plane in the US, did not know about that possibility you described. But... I really did want a reason to jump the pond in a single engine bird 🙂 Just landed at a remote part of Iceland as my VIPs got sick on route even though I had my silk gloves on flying. Original destination was BIDV but the sick puppies wanted to go to BIHN instead... There are some more houses near BIHN at least. I just love it that you look at the airport with satellite images on in Neofly or Google Maps and on approach it just looks right.

Edited May 19, 20215 yr by mazex

Nice adventure, but do you really do VR for flights that long?  Doesn't it make you feel sick?  Or do you get used to it over time?

1 minute ago, bobcat999 said:

Nice adventure, but do you really do VR for flights that long?  Doesn't it make you feel sick?  Or do you get used to it over time?

I got my VR legs after some months... Been using it for years in DCS and IL2 BoX where you most of the time turn aggressively in different planes that is a lot more taxing on the brain and belly 🙂 But after some weeks / months the brain accepts VR as reality and you actually get no nausea at all. Have to admit that I cheated over the Atlantic and put the headset down and helped my wife with something though. After getting used to VR, a landing in pancake (2D) mode is rather scary as it feels like someone put an IFR training cone over your head 🙂 We actually had paper cones while training IFR in gliders back in the 80:ies so you should only see the instruments and not outside... In 2D you look at the instruments and only see them, then only the cone in front of the AC etc. But having good hardware so that your FPS in VR stays as high as possible helps with the nausea as well as the brain is sly and realizes that this alternate reality is weird with low FPS. But with decent FPS and VR legs there is NO going back. Sure, tiny text can be hard to read, but then you just lean forward to read the ITT temps. While seeing the rest of the instruments. And the horizon. And your good looking female co-pilot in the corner of your eye 😉

I’ve got to say I’ve never suffered nausea using VR. Had vertigo once but that was all 

3 hours ago, mazex said:

I have been flying simulators since the Spectrum days.

Nice livery, Freeware? And if so, where from? Enjoy your flights. Cool how after 8-9 their are a ton of options for flying in MSFS, such as NeoFly, OnAir, Air Hauler, Mission's you can make them yourself or fly others missions, etc... Working Title, Fly By Wire and more.

I really like the TBM-930, just haven't flown it much. Been busy with GA multiplayer events. Matter of fact we are gonna have a TBM-930 ONLY event one day 🙂

Also, a bit confused by the title of the post? Is your problem with NeoFly solved? If that is what was going down hill?

Have fun!

Edited May 19, 20215 yr by in2tech

2 hours ago, bobcat999 said:

Nice adventure, but do you really do VR for flights that long?  Doesn't it make you feel sick?  Or do you get used to it over time?

I comfortable recline my sim chair and fall asleep in my VR headset(Rift S).

I'll throw some music on and take a nap in it at times while on autopilot.

VR sickness comes from other types of VR games involving heights and jumping not usually flight sims unless you just have that bad of a choppy fps/stutter.

Which would make flying unbearable.

 

Edited May 19, 20215 yr by blueshark747

8 hours ago, in2tech said:

Nice livery, Freeware? And if so, where from? Enjoy your flights.

Thanks 🙂 Did it myself and it's available at flightsim.to for download (includes a red variation as well) - https://flightsim.to/file/12076/tbm-930-bluebird-livery-including-gimp-project-file

 

8 hours ago, in2tech said:

Also, a bit confused by the title of the post? Is your problem with NeoFly solved? If that is what was going down hill?

Have fun!

That title maybe was a bit confusing and to some extent from a Swedish way of using the equivalent of downhill. The thing that is "going downhill" is my journey to the last level of nerddom. After 39 years of flight siming I never thought that I would sit for hours with autopilot on over the Atlantic without time compression. But there I am - and happy about it 🙂 

And I thank Microsoft / Asobo / Neofly for it.

13 hours ago, mazex said:

Thank's - thought of moving the pilot to an airport and buying another plane in the US, did not know about that possibility you described. But... I really did want a reason to jump the pond in a single engine bird 🙂 Just landed at a remote part of Iceland as my VIPs got sick on route even though I had my silk gloves on flying. Original destination was BIDV but the sick puppies wanted to go to BIHN instead... There are some more houses near BIHN at least. I just love it that you look at the airport with satellite images on in Neofly or Google Maps and on approach it just looks right.

I would love ferry missions in NeoFly. The problem is that all missions in Neofly are flown with your own aircraft so a ferry mission is out.
Another issue is that most small aircraft need ferry tanks in order to make it accross the atlantic and afaik there is currently no way to do that without cheating. We need a ferry-tank option in MSFS!

2 hours ago, orchestra_nl said:

 
Another issue is that most small aircraft need ferry tanks in order to make it accross the atlantic and afaik there is currently no way to do that without cheating. 

Or, alternatively, a field on the Greenland eastern shores  ? You can make flea jumps from Scotland to Iceland ( a stopover in the Faroes would be nice too) to Greenland to Nunavut. But the flight from Western Iceland to Western Greenland is about 800 nm.  A bit longish for my Cub 😄 !

 

EDIT I was wrong there is a small airfield in East Greenland. So one could ferry a small aircraft across the Atlantic with small jumps.

Edited May 20, 20215 yr by Dominique_K

Give me a wave when you fly over Halifax! 🙂

5 hours ago, regis9 said:

Give me a wave when you fly over Halifax! 🙂

Certainly will. Not there yet. Spent the night in Keflavik and the mission that got served to me was some cargo to be delivered to Maniitsoq (BGMQ) on Greenland. The fun thing with Neofly is that you get directed to places you never would have thought of. Looking at "Visit Greenland" this is obviously the "Venice of Greenland" 🙂 Been to Venice but obviously I need to go to Mantiisoq as well. Will do that virtually at least 🙂 To spice my flights I always read up a bit on all those small forgotten places I get to visit virtually.

https://visitgreenland.com/destinations/maniitsoq/

Flight plan set. Time to get going until it gets to late here in Sweden! Love that breadcrumb in Little Nav Map. Sadly realized the setting to save more than the default 10000 steps when I saw the origin of my TBM trip in Madrid disappear. Why Madrid? Because that's where one of my hired captains where and they sold the TMB there. My normal base of operations is in Sweden... The fun thing with Neofly is that you have to go with the missions that are offered - thus the odd route visiting places I have been to IRL as well. Accept Maniitsoq so now I am getting out of my comfort zone...

Just had to post this screenshot of the wonderful early morning takeoff from Maniitsoq (the Venice of Greenland ;)) - heading for Marys Harbour (CYMH) in Labrador with some sensitive cargo... Feels like a setup for some screenshot competition - but thats the beauty of MSFS (and the world) that this is just my mission for today with realtime weather... And that is with VR settings that are not where I could run it in 2D.

Edited May 22, 20215 yr by mazex