Does MSFS have the best non-aircraft addons for a flightsim?

[Mace 1,963]

10 hours ago, abrams_tank said:

For sure. ChasePlane has a very good reputation. Having said that, if you have an X-Box controller and you use your X-Box controller for the camera only in MSFS, the camera system for MSFS is not so bad.

Actually, I find MSFS camera system to be probably one of the less-robust areas of MSFS.

I do indeed use a gamepad for views, but even with that MSFS is still a step behind.  For instance, we need a simple one-keypress fly-by view, a simple tower view, and custom view settings that don't mysteriously vanish over time.

[Noel 4,563]

47 minutes ago, qqwertz said:

[1] There may be some news from Travis about FSCaptain in the next 1-3 months.

[2] Yes, I tested it. It is good, but not exactly what I want. I don't care too much about unruly passengers, and when it comes to flight analysis, I prefer Newsky over SLC. What I miss most about FSC is the flexibility. I could set up my own airline and tell it which airports I want to fly to; I could have several airlines; it was just about piloting, not management of admin staff or flight attendants needed. A Pilot's Life, Newsky, On Air, Neofly are all good programs, but they all have at least one feature that ruins the experience for me.

 

Nice we have different options.  I used APL along with PACX, which was an underdeveloped overly simple program.  I wish Travis and the gang well I hope they can do it but they have serious competition to deal with. 

I would prefer an all-in-one, but I like the fact APL has its own set of scoring criteria so don't mind running both programs as they add real routes and scheduling and all of the immersive interaction w/ SLC.  At this I couldn't part with SLC it's too good, very complex and a mega challenge to program and don't know how he's done it.  I love the airline packs albeit they're limited but all in all it's really kept me fully focused more than APL and FSC did.  SLC is super customizable and it's easy to select those user preferences.  The sophistication level of SLC is a big jump up from the old FSC.  The unruly passengers BTW is a checkbox you can disable.  And I love the interface which sits on my 2nd screen (inserted here for others who have not used SLC):

Edited March 25 by Noel

[Noel 4,563]

16 minutes ago, Mace said:

we need a simple one-keypress fly-by view, a simple tower view,

Every single user of FSX/P3D wants this yesterday! 

I ain't buyin' 2024 unless it's in there 🤞

[verbal 106]

31 minutes ago, Mace said:

...custom view settings that don't mysteriously vanish over time.

I've never lost any settings or custom camera views ever, after every update, uninstalling and reinstalling of aircraft.

Guess I'm just lucky, or its more likely that I simply just set and forget. 

[Mace 1,963]

7 minutes ago, verbal said:

I've never lost any settings or custom camera views ever, after every update, uninstalling and reinstalling of aircraft.

Guess I'm just lucky, or its more likely that I simply just set and forget. 

You're lucky.

[Noel 4,563]

13 minutes ago, verbal said:

I've never lost any settings or custom camera views ever, after every update, uninstalling and reinstalling of aircraft.

Guess I'm just lucky, or its more likely that I simply just set and forget. 

Same here, I follow the KISS method so I'm not certain it's all "luck":  no deviation from the default installation pathway and in fact have OS and MSFS on the same m.2 NVMe drive.

[Mace 1,963]

44 minutes ago, Noel said:

Same here, I follow the KISS method so I'm not certain it's all "luck":  no deviation from the default installation pathway and in fact have OS and MSFS on the same m.2 NVMe drive.

Default path here, and MSFS and OS on same physical drive too.

Yet, here we be.  Here we is.  And the plural of aircraft is aircraft.

[DD_Arthur 1,105]

None of what you guys are discussing above comes even close to the genius of having Heathrow overrun by elephants.

[Noel 4,563]

3 hours ago, Mace said:

Default path here, and MSFS and OS on same physical drive too.

Another lesser known cause of this issue are unclean thoughts and since I don't have those so maybe there's something to it