13 minutes ago, robert young said:

No I don't. I think it is quite brilliant. Like many others however, I get a bit fed up when Asobo keep updating things which often end up worse, and are slow updating pretty obvious other things which should have been fixed months ago.

Yeah, I understand. Hopefully they'll get it to a point where you can start producing some products for it. The Lancair Legacy and The Duke were my absolute favorite add-on GA planes of all time. They were brilliant and so much fun to fly. 

1 hour ago, robert young said:

No I don't. I think it is quite brilliant. Like many others however, I get a bit fed up when Asobo keep updating things which often end up worse, and are slow updating pretty obvious other things which should have been fixed months ago.

Having dabbled a bit in user mods for this sim, I was very interested in Robert (PMDG) Randazzo's interview, where he shared the notion of Asobo and some of its principals being "brilliant", but at the same time expressed his frustration about the lack of debugging tools for developers which he said turned a 15 minute P3D debugging exercise into a 9 day hunt for an elusive bug / incompatibility..

That is with the "special relationship" between PMDG and Asobo.. Just think what an independent developer gets to deal with as he/she tries to implement "study level" functionality that the users are calling for..

Edited April 12, 20224 yr by Bert Pieke

I've been very happy with the FSW 414!  I am usually an airline guy, painting a "few" liveries in my day, 🙂

But I'm enjoying this bird enough to paint her, and my recent purchase of the TDI GTNs that fit perfectly in the VC really put this aircraft over the top for me.

Put a few pics of the bare metal I'm doing for her.   Will be my main GA ride!

Just back from my local airport as we had the best day of the year for flying here in Southern Ontario. So nice to read through a positive topic at the top of the board. Kudos Bert! I know the 414 has been a huge success so far, but I am really set to fly the MILVIZ C310,  likely out in the next 1-2 weeks if all goes to plan.

I like the RV14, but that stock G3X kills it for me...

1 hour ago, jpe828 said:

I like the RV14, but that stock G3X kills it for me...

Just give Working Title time.. They will come around to it.. 😉

I was pretty much an airliner guy with FS9/FSX and P3D up to V4.5 which I kept for the airliners exclusively (PMDG 737, 777, 747, Leonardo MD80, FSLabs A320), but progressively GA captivated me thanks to FSW Learjet and the Falcon first in P3D, then switching to MSFS, I realised how much GA was so much more excitement due to the fact I was finally flying low and slow over the "real" thing worldwide instead of the ORBX works of art in P3D.

Now, I find myself flying almost exclusively MSFS GA stock airplanes (CJ4, Longitude, TBM, Bonanza and the great Working Title suites) to which I added recently the versatile Optica for Africa bush trips or scenic flights  (including city overflights), and the fantastic FSW Chancellor which I equipped with the marvelous TDS GTNXi 750. It is the first time I have the feeling of getting back into real cockpits and flying the world as I was lucky enough to do in a previous life.

I don't think this hobby can get any better, or when it does, I may not see the next version of it... Age limit!

Edited April 13, 20224 yr by Bernard Ducret

10 hours ago, jpe828 said:

I like the RV14, but that stock G3X kills it for me...

I also would have preferred analogue gauges (with a GTN of course lol) - but it's actually really growing on me.  I use the WT G3X mod and it makes it acceptable.  Thankfully the TDS GTNXi does the heavy lifting for navigation.

Prop animation is old school. Undercarriage needs tyres on the wheels by the sounds of it (or is that just me?) and the flaps lever ought to animate when using a hardware switch. Love the "Simply remove the weight from the station_load.1 line of the flight_model.cfg and he/she will never appear." fix to banish the co-pilot. Oh, and the pilot? I guess he's an airline captain on his way back from a day in the office. 😎  I guess most RV14s will sport the video conferencing panels so I'll live with that.

All that must seem as though I don't like the Van's. Not true, but the old RV7 is still my favourite.

22 minutes ago, Ron Attwood said:

 I guess most RV14s will sport the video conferencing panels so I'll live with that.

 

Haha that's one way to put it.  I tend to agree though, but only in the sim, that analogue is better.  If I were flying my RV14 through a busy area irl, I'd easily opt for the G3X/GTN combo.  We have some G5's (little square replacement glass gauges) for the attitude and HSI in the Beech I fly, and paired with the GNS430W, they are a wonderful combo!  I think in the sim, it's dang hard to read the tiny text on the glass - but irl you're a lot closer to the panel to read things.

On 4/12/2022 at 2:10 PM, Bert Pieke said:

I (we) have arrived!  🙂

In P3D, I flew the Baytower RV7, the Carenado F33 Bonanza, the Lionheart Kodiak, the Alabeo C421, and for faster flights, the Carenado TBM 850

Now, in MSFS, I fly the SWS RV14, the Rob Young G36 Bonanza, the SWS Kodiak, the FSW C414, and for faster flights, the default TBM 930.

I've got the TDS GTN750 installed in the RV14 and C414, and Working Title avionics in the other aircraft..

P3D has just been sitting there as a testbed for user mod questions from the past which are becoming less frequent, and it is about to be removed altogether, just like FSX before it..

The most amazing thing to me is still, that I can fly MSFS at 30 fps on my over 5 years old rig, with a trusty GTX1070 GPU, all over the world, single or multi-player..

Pretty happy! 😉

 

 

I am in the same boat as you Bert,

I have pretty much flown a mixture of GA and the A32NX/HD B787 for the longest time now, I actually fired up X-Plane 11 last week just to remind myself how it looked, I found it really dated and the cockpit textures were not that great even on the relatively expensive pay ware aircraft I own. Don't get me wrong X-Plane served me well for many years but my go to sim now is definitely MSFS 2020. I have what is considered in today's PC standards a "Mid Range" system but like you can hit a solid 30fps anywhere I fly in any aircraft with decent settings on my 42" 4K TV and the sim looks just stunning both on the ground and in the air. Last night I did a flight in the A32NX with my new head tracker from Grass Monkey Simulations from Zurich to London Gatwick. I chose real weather and set the time to 8am local. It was a clear crisp morning and the departure from runway 26 was just breathtaking. The dawn lighting reflecting of the wings as I climbed out on the SID was sublime. I actually got goosebumps lol

Yes I know MSFS is not without it's issues but I have been pretty lucky that I haven't really suffered anything major. I always liked the fact that in X-Plane 11 I spent more time actually flying than constantly tweaking but I would say MSFS 2020 is easily on par with that. I fire up the sim, plan my route and jump into the cockpit on the ramp or at the gate, it just works each and every time.

I think it is also time to retire my X-Plane installation (which is super easy lol) and maybe free up terabytes of hard drive space currently holding my Ortho4XP scenery, Although I may just leave that so it is always there should I ever need it.

Glad you are enjoying MSFS, it's only going to get better from here 

 

Blue Skies

23 minutes ago, RJC68 said:

I think it is also time to retire my X-Plane installation (which is super easy lol) and maybe free up terabytes of hard drive space currently holding my Ortho4XP scenery, Although I may just leave that so it is always there should I ever need it.

I will wait till X-Plane 12 comes out and see if all the hype is warranted before the permanent retirement of X-Plane. If retired, it will be MSFS as the sole platform for flight simulation.