December 2, 20241 yr 24 minutes ago, jcomm said: Thank you for the additional details Tom! You mentioned the sidestick, and while I did have the chance to fly a 1hr full flight simulator session ( CAE ) of an A320, it was all from the FO position, so, no big deal, but I wonder how uneasy I would feel having to use the "left" stick 🙂 You had mentioned the torque, and indeed at least in your first takeoff the aircraft starts diverting a bit from the centerline to the port side, and I immediatley though it might have been due to the torque / slipstream effects 🙂 IRL I'm lucky to only fly gliders, but sometimes the "wake" from the tow plane makes us feel "torque" as well 😄 Oh wow, the 320 sim sounds fun! I normally fly PA28s from the left seat, and while that is a yoke rather than a stick, it's still with the left hand so the left hand stick in the SR20 still felt fairly natural to me. I also have my desk set up with my joystick on the left so I sim with my left hand as well! Yes torque is really pronounced on single engine props, and increases with how powerful the engine and how big the prop is. Even my usual 160hp PA28 you need a fair amount of right rudder to maintain centreline, the 215hp in the SR20 even more so. IMO this is something that has always been way under-done in MSFS. The only aircraft that seems to have got it right is the A2A Comanche. Gliding is so much fun! I was lucky to do some in my late teens, before my PPL training, and enjoyed it immensely! Tom Wright, UK PPL(A) SEP + Night Rating + IMC/IR(R) Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 | AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D | 32GB DDR5 6000MHz RAM | 16GB RTX 4080 Super | 2x 2TB Samsung 990 PRO M.2 | Thrustmaster TCA Airbus Sidestick + Quadrant | Logitech G Saitek Pro Flight Rudder Pedals | WinCTRL Airbus FCU + EFIS + MCDU
December 2, 20241 yr 1 hour ago, jcomm said: You mentioned the sidestick, and while I did have the chance to fly a 1hr full flight simulator session ( CAE ) of an A320, it was all from the FO position, so, no big deal, but I wonder how uneasy I would feel having to use the "left" stick 🙂 Easy to try at home - just swap your joystick/yoke and throttle! After flying "stick on the right" for a long time, I made the switch a few years ago when I started my SEP training. My control inputs initially felt super clumsy, but I had read that it would feel normal over time, and it did. As most addons put you in the left seat, this setup also seemed more realistic. I now commit the sacrilege of flying gliders, Cubs and fighters with my left hand on the stick because I'm too lazy to move my input devices around. 😉 Edited December 2, 20241 yr by martinboehme
December 2, 20241 yr 3 minutes ago, martinboehme said: Easy to try at home - just swap your joystick/yoke and throttle! After flying "stick on the right" for a long time, I made the switch a few years ago when I started my SEP training. My control inputs initially felt super clumsy, but I had read that it would feel normal over time, and it did. As most addons put you in the left seat, this setup also seemed more realistic. I now commit the sacrilege of flying gliders, Cubs and fighters with my left hand on the stick because I'm too lazy to move my input devices around. 😉 I've done it, and OFC I am sure it would work with practice, but in the gliders, and I've never flown a Diana - 2 and even that one has a right sidestik, I always use my right hand 90% of the time, with brief variations to lower the landing gear or open "spraying" water 🙂 From time to time when I don't anything more to do, I practice using only my left hand ... but it's never the same ... Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
June 17, 2025Jun 17 The CATS parachute system is now operative today (june 17 '25). I was surprised....hadn't read anything about that ! [fs2024 streaming] Edited June 17, 2025Jun 17 by Eclex Dave Swigert WIN 11 i9-14900KF 64 GB ram Viewsonic 32" 60Hz 2K monitor NVIDIA MSI RTX 4080S Asrock Z790
June 17, 2025Jun 17 1 hour ago, Eclex said: The CATS parachute system is now operative today (june 17 '25). I was surprised....hadn't read anything about that ! [fs2024 streaming] It was operational since the relase of MS2024. 😉
June 17, 2025Jun 17 Thanks Farlis.... :) Dave Swigert WIN 11 i9-14900KF 64 GB ram Viewsonic 32" 60Hz 2K monitor NVIDIA MSI RTX 4080S Asrock Z790
June 17, 2025Jun 17 I have been living under a rock all this time it seems. I just realized that this plane is a WT one. How good is it? Is it realistic? I dismissed it just for being a default plane Juan Ramos
June 17, 2025Jun 17 19 minutes ago, xender said: I dismissed it just for being a default plane Don't dismiss the default planes. Many of them are quite good.
June 18, 2025Jun 18 I just flew this last night in 2024 and it's a fun plane but the mixture control was not working properly which I think is a known issue. Everytime I would try to reduce mixture with mouse wheel it would go back to full rich. If I clicked and drag and let go the mixture seemed to stay in place.
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