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MSFS 2020 Legacy or Modern Flight Mode?

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Please your advise  of what is correct, Legacy or Modern Flight Mode to be used in MSFS2020?

thanks

11 minutes ago, aeronauta said:

Try Legacy for Helicopters

Why? 🤔

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@aeronauta mentioned LEGACY for helos.

I believe he's referring to the pre-SU11 helicopters which weren't actually modelled as such, but now that MFS natively supports rotary wing, those new models should be run in MODERN mode.

I honestly don't know why LEGACY mode is still an option? Maybe it was thought for eventual ports from older versions that actually never took place?

MODERN is the way to go 🙂

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Legacy was designed for aircraft from FSX and comprehensively breaks pretty much everything else.
In my own experience, for some time now, converted FSX aircraft have not worked in any case.

 

4 hours ago, aeronauta said:

Try Legacy for Helicopters and Modern for Fixed wing....

Nope modern too for helis.

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Telling someone to use legacy is complete misinformation.  The reason for its original inclusion was given by @Reader above.  This mode should now be taken out of MSFS - it has caused so many problems for people.

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15 minutes ago, bobcat999 said:

This mode should now be taken out of MSFS

Yes, I wish they would do this. I cannot see any reason for it to remain. Is anyone really importing aircraft from default FSX to fly?

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Check out this video which details these questions - you will end up with the Modern 

 

 

3 hours ago, Cognita said:

Yes, I wish they would do this. I cannot see any reason for it to remain. Is anyone really importing aircraft from default FSX to fly?

Spend any amount of time in multiplayer online mode and you'd know the answer to that😉

 

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Thank you guys, Modern is the correct Flight Mode. 
Thank you

4 hours ago, bobcat999 said:

Telling someone to use legacy is complete misinformation.  The reason for its original inclusion was given by @Reader above.  This mode should now be taken out of MSFS - it has caused so many problems for people.

At least move the function to the developer menu. That's where it should have been from the beginning but certainly now.

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