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MSFS 2020 Flight Model

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Hi Guys question please. Modern or Lecacy Model to use in MSFS?

Thank you

Modern!  Legacy may give you some problems!  :smile:

Only ever use legacy if the developer tells you to due to being an FSX port-over etc.  But even this is rare now.

Edited by bobcat999

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44 minutes ago, bobcat999 said:

Modern!  Legacy may give you some problems!  :smile:

Only ever use legacy if the developer tells you to due to being an FSX port-over etc.  But even this is rare now.

Daft question perhaps but why is the Legacy option even there? 

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2 hours ago, Espana Pete said:

Daft question perhaps but why is the Legacy option even there? 

Not daft Pete...  It's a good question.  I think originally there might have been the possibility of porting over FSX aircraft a lot easier, maybe even automatically through a converter program (a freeware one did exist and maybe still does).
Some of us (like me) hoped they might be accepted natively.  But there were probably legal issues, and of course, people love making us pay for the same thing again, discounts or not (mainly not! :unsure:).

However, with the new flight model changing so much with new features, it isn't worth persevering with the legacy one really, and people are successfully upgrading the old FSX flight models to MSFS modern anyway, such as with Rob Richardson's recent Sea Hawk and Banshee.

I wish they would remove the legacy option now as it can cause problems.  Apparently some people have had it switch to it after an update, creating confusion. 
If it needed to be done it should have been done from the aircraft config file, and then it would have been on a per aircraft basis individually and would have avoided these problems.

There is now also the possibility of confusion with the 'legacy' UI in the cockpit to avoid those dreaded XBOX prompts. 

Maybe Asobo will remove the legacy flight model completely soon.  SU8 with all of the big bug fixes might be a good time for them to do it.

Edited by bobcat999

Rob (but call me Bob or Rob, I don't mind).

I like to trick airline passengers into thinking I have my own swimming pool in my back yard by painting a large blue rectangle on my patio.

Intel 14900K in a Z790 motherboard with water cooling, RTX 4080, 32 GB 6000 CL30 DDR5 RAM, W11 and MSFS on Samsung 980 Pro NVME SSD's.  Core Isolation Off, Game Mode Off.

3 hours ago, Espana Pete said:

Daft question perhaps but why is the Legacy option even there? 

Because some aircraft work better with Legacy settings. Most work fine with the modern model. The modern one handles many params in a different way. Actually more than two thirds of "legacy" parameters have been deprecated and do not work in the "modern" flight model. Instead there are other methodologies to achieve roughly the same things. However there is still quite a lot of detail that the Legacy f/m still does better in my opinion, but things are gradually improving with each Asobo update.

Robert Young - retired full time developer - see my Nexus Mod Page and my GitHub Mod page

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