Folks, back to topic. Saw today in MS Store that MSFS was „modified yesterday“. I am pretty sure that I got the MSFS beta on Friday morning my time. Any idea what could have been updated yesterday if at all? Saw no mentioning on the official MSFS forum. 

Besides that, I just did yet another prefect flight with the FBW exp from ESGG to ENAL, all fine. Will give the CRJ a try next, maybe later today or latest tomorrow 

21 minutes ago, Fiorentoni said:

by comparing a video game to the Apollo program.

😀

The APOLLO "video game" source code is in the public domain. go ahead, improve on it, and while you are at it, add some Direct3D as in DX12, GPGPU, DLSS, multi-core optimizations etc. 

https://techstartups.com/2021/11/27/original-source-code-nasa-used-1969-apollo-11-moon-landing/

"The computer had 2048 words of erasable magnetic-core memory and 36,864 words of read-only core rope memory. Both had cycle times of 11.72 microseconds. The memory word length was 16 bits: 15 bits of data and one odd-parity bit. The computer's performance was comparable to the first generation of home computers from the late 1970s, such as the Apple II"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer

Edited April 3, 20224 yr by turbomax

12 minutes ago, DAD said:

Saw today in MS Store that MSFS was „modified yesterday“. I am pretty sure that I got the MSFS beta on Friday morning my time. Any idea what could have been updated yesterday if at all?

I don't think anything MSFS got updated yesterday, might be time zone, store house keeping date&time or some such issues. Like I just updated Gaming Services, and Store still says "Modified yesterday". So I don't think this was anything special.

1 hour ago, DAD said:

Will give the CRJ a try next, maybe later today or latest tomorrow 

CRJ flies just nice towards ENAL, weather looks great, too

EDIT and flew ILS down to the threshold, better than ever before

Edited April 3, 20224 yr by DAD

23 minutes ago, DAD said:

CRJ flies just nice towards ENAL, weather looks great, too

Although it is nice to see more variety and "layers" of clouds in Live weather (assuming that is live weather in screenshot above?) - that upper layer of clouds looks ... terrible! Not convincing at all.

Anyhow, is it me or does ATIS now seem to be accurate for WX conditions in live weather?

Ok, there’s a new AI bug. AI Planes spawned mid air will 180 and go back to the first way point in their flight plan 

6 minutes ago, Tuskin38 said:

Ok, there’s a new AI bug. AI Planes spawned mid air will 180 and go back to the first way point in their flight plan 

Did you report it? If you make a post on the official forums, I'll gladly vote for it. I absolutely don't want the final SU9 to wreck AI traffic again. Any idea what change in the beta could have caused this?

18 minutes ago, Fiorentoni said:

Did you report it? If you make a post on the official forums, I'll gladly vote for it. I absolutely don't want the final SU9 to wreck AI traffic again. Any idea what change in the beta could have caused this?

Kai made one in the SU9 MISC bug report section.

Edited April 3, 20224 yr by Tuskin38

3 hours ago, KERNEL32 said:

Although it is nice to see more variety and "layers" of clouds in Live weather (assuming that is live weather in screenshot above?) - that upper layer of clouds looks ... terrible! Not convincing at all.

The weather has been improved, notably there is no banding or pixilation on nearby clouds. I'm testing the new flight model on the C172 G1000 which currently has a wobble in roll when on autopilot.

 

Edited April 3, 20224 yr by MrBitstFlyer

Nice video of the roll issue on the 172 in A/P mode. I've reported this on the MSFS forum as have some others, so hope this gets resolved soon in the first patch for the beta.

20 minutes ago, MrBitstFlyer said:

The weather has been improved

I think the current iteration (SU8) as getting closer to where it needs to be in terms of some basic elements.  I can see if density can be increased substantially and edges can be made to branch out so we start to see something like this we will be absolutely awestruck:

47 minutes ago, MrBitstFlyer said:

The weather has been improved, notably there is no banding or pixilation on nearby clouds. I'm testing the new flight model on the C172 G1000 which currently has a wobble in roll when on autopilot

Yes definitely need the flight model performing correctly before worrying about clouds, so good catch there!

But yah, hope they continue to work on the clouds and atmosphere (air quality, humidity, etc. would make a HUGE improvement because reduced visibility like real world would "hide" many of these cloud issues!

Edited April 3, 20224 yr by KERNEL32

I did 2 ascents through the clouds this morning and they looked beautiful. They are definitely making progress.

And if you're trying to build the case that the Apollo program was bug free, I think you need to find a better example. The Apollo 11 lunar lander almost crashed because of a 1202 error code... twice... just a few minutes before they landed. Even Mission Control had no idea what the heck a 1202 was. Turns out Neal did it. He overloaded the computer with too many commands. Programming 101. Never let the user input bad data.

Edited April 3, 20224 yr by MDFlier

31 minutes ago, MDFlier said:

I did 2 ascents through the clouds this morning and they looked beautiful. They are definitely making progress.

And if you're trying to build the case that the Apollo program was bug free, I think you need to find a better example. The Apollo 11 lunar lander almost crashed because of a 1202 error code... twice... just a few minutes before they landed. Even Mission Control had no idea what the heck a 1202 was. Turns out Neal did it. He overloaded the computer with too many commands. Programming 101. Never let the user input bad data.

Wow, so off topic and with such terribly wrong information. Can't allow this transgression to blame Neal Armstrong for the Apollo computers failings. No sir. Especially on a flightsim forum about a beta relaease.

The Radar Data Unit was overloading the AGC with too much data and so caused '1202' the AGC literally rebooted itself  to correct. Neal was the cool-headed commander that safely got Apollo 11 to the moon.

'Never let a user input bad data' The irony here is so perfect!

Edited April 3, 20224 yr by Freq_flyer44
punchline

8 hours ago, KERNEL32 said:

Anyhow, is it me or does ATIS now seem to be accurate for WX conditions in live weather?

I can confirm it does seem as though ATIS is now reporting conditions much more accurately (using live weather). Still more testing needed though.. seems that ATIS is reporting what the METAR is reporting in RW.