On 12/22/2021 at 6:43 AM, rka said:

In Steam? Right click msfs, click game properties, click beta, then join the beta.

Thank you. I’ll look at it while I am on vacation.

An hour or so ago, the Steam hotfix beta upgraded to 1.21.18. Yesterday was 1.21.17 for the Beta. I didn't manage to save a list of the changes.

23 minutes ago, Fielder said:

An hour or so ago, the Steam hotfix beta upgraded to 1.21.18. Yesterday was 1.21.17 for the Beta. I didn't manage to save a list of the changes.

An hour ago? Build .18 has been there since day 2 of the beta...

I've recently scratched a few threads about installing beta.  Something to the effect of having to re-download the whole sim during next update and to prevent that something to the effect of cutting and pasting the folder somewhere else. Could someone give me a little detailed info on how to protect myself from having to re-download the whole sim if I opt in for beta. Also can you rollback if you are not happy with the beta?

                                                                                Thanks

 

25 minutes ago, jwhak said:

I've recently scratched a few threads about installing beta.  Something to the effect of having to re-download the whole sim during next update and to prevent that something to the effect of cutting and pasting the folder somewhere else. Could someone give me a little detailed info on how to protect myself from having to re-download the whole sim if I opt in for beta. Also can you rollback if you are not happy with the beta?

                                                                                Thanks

 

Please read here: https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/how-to-change-the-installation-path-of-installed-packages-inc-community-folder/471682

To answer your question, rollback is easy at least on Steam: just opt out and a 300 MB download starts and reverts the sim to SU7 (build .13)

I was going to try beta for the reverse thrust issue. But it appears the reverse thrust workaround we set up with strictly using the analog axis with a 80% neutrality is better than the games original digital reverse thrust using a button as you ar pulling the trottle back instead of forward. Pushing the throttle forward for revers thrust once the button is pushed just seems backwards to me or in this case forwards lol (a little humor there).. Unless I misinterpreted how the original reverse thrust worked.

2 minutes ago, MSFLYER5856 said:

I was going to try beta for the reverse thrust issue. But it appears the reverse thrust workaround we set up with strictly using the analog axis with a 80% neutrality is better than the games original digital reverse thrust using a button as you ar pulling the trottle back instead of forward. Pushing the throttle forward for revers thrust once the button is pushed just seems backwards to me or in this case forwards lol (a little humor there).. Unless I misinterpreted how the original reverse thrust worked.

That is the way it is done in the DC6. Reverse pitch is engaged by a red lever, that is pulled back when you want reverse, and then the throttle works to increase the engine rpm, with props in reverse pitch. I set a joystick button to pull the red lever into reverse. 

4 minutes ago, Bobsk8 said:

That is the way it is done in the DC6. Reverse pitch is engaged by a red lever, that is pulled back when you want reverse, and then the throttle works to increase the engine rpm, with props in reverse pitch. I set a joystick button to pull the red lever into reverse. 

Bob and thats why I'm not  a real pilot. I'd be crashing into hangers left and right and forward and reverse and running off runways. I got the plane to stop on a dime last night just yanking the throttle back and I was quite impressed with it. I should leave good enough alone.

11 hours ago, MSFLYER5856 said:

Bob and thats why I'm not  a real pilot. I'd be crashing into hangers left and right and forward and reverse and running off runways. I got the plane to stop on a dime last night just yanking the throttle back and I was quite impressed with it. I should leave good enough alone.

 

That Avatar reminds me of the original Two of Clubs on the early European playing cards which originally were just copies of the card decks they had gotten from Islamic traders from the East. These 'clubs' were actually hockey sticks used for an Islamic cavalry officers' game, where riders mounted on horses or camels played field hockey. The Europeans thought the images looked the batons that gentlemen carried (i.e. walking sticks). The word baton meant club, like a wooden weapon used to beat someone with. Gentlemen continued to carry clubs as weapons down to the Victorian age where for instance Doctor Watson has his walking stick while walking along the sidewalks of London.

I think it was the French changed the wooden club to an image of a clover or whatever that club image is on the standard deck of today.

Well i signed up for the beta... And so far so good hope I don't reep it using the microsoft version.

                                                          Happy Landings

 

11 hours ago, Fielder said:

 

That Avatar reminds me of the original Two of Clubs on the early European playing cards which originally were just copies of the card decks they had gotten from Islamic traders from the East. These 'clubs' were actually hockey sticks used for an Islamic cavalry officers' game, where riders mounted on horses or camels played field hockey. The Europeans thought the images looked the batons that gentlemen carried (i.e. walking sticks). The word baton meant club, like a wooden weapon used to beat someone with. Gentlemen continued to carry clubs as weapons down to the Victorian age where for instance Doctor Watson has his walking stick while walking along the sidewalks of London.

I think it was the French changed the wooden club to an image of a clover or whatever that club image is on the standard deck of today.

Lol Thats a good one fielder.

It actually came from a dive club we made up. The Beavertail Lighthouse in Jamestown Rhode Island was one of the more challenging shore dive here in New England. Its a penninsula surrounded by some real cool geology and has small caverans running out from it. Its a challenge that you have to climb down rocky ledges and on a calm day the ocean can change on a dime at that spot. So as a club, we dove the BT Lighthouse once every month and I think my fingers are still sore from our winter dives there. But once March came around, it was so much fun.

Here is a photo of the area

https://www.visitrhodeisland.com/listing/beavertail-lighthouse-%26-museum/8240/

Its a fun spot to fly over in the plane and explore the coast of all the memories we had. My dive partner also owned a Stearman and took me to Block Island in it.

Edited December 25, 20214 yr by MSFLYER5856