@MarcG Pretty much every "tough" question one could have asked was dealt with here

 

On 9/19/2024 at 7:51 PM, Mace said:

I'm debating 2 x 32 or just buy 2 more 16 sticks...in other words should I dare fill all 4 slots or stick with 2 slots.

In the old days, filing all slots made it more difficult to get them to run stable and more often than not you had to tune them a bit slower to get it working.

On 9/19/2024 at 7:57 PM, Tuskin38 said:

I don't know if it's still true with modern ram, but in the past it was usually better to have more sticks so the memory bandwidth usage is spread out.

True, and IMO still a wise decision these days. Since the memory controller is built into the CPU these days, filling all 4 slots will make the memory controller work harder which in turn will could cause the CPU cores to hit there thermal limit faster and causing them slow down a bit.

If you search the internet about it, you can find proponents for having all 4 modules installed but the majority says it is a bad idea.

I was looking at footage of the F-18, and it has been remodelled, at the very least the cockpit, but it would be odd to remodel the cockpit but not the rest.

Compare the handles on the rim of the cockpit, look at the, well I don't know what it's called, the piece in the bottom middle of the HUD glass. Those are the most obvious changes.

 

Edited September 20, 20241 yr by Tuskin38

For those who care (and even more for those who hate it 😂) here's a look at the pilot customization, hot from my editing software 👀

 

Edited September 20, 20241 yr by Abriael

I suppose now we will have a melange of pilot avatars on flightsim.to.

Good evening and welcome ladies and gentleman onboard flight 737. This is your flight attendant speaking for your captain Chewbacca. Guuurrgggg!

 

On 9/19/2024 at 8:10 PM, bigifooti said:

You know what is weird, there are two special version of the 747-400 but not the standard pax of cargo variant. 

Might that be to allow PMDG provide those models?

hopefully one day Precision Manuals Design Group will return to their roots, writing and now developing something new with Aerowinx, just a dream... Best regards

There's an icon in the Career tree that shows an aircraft not in the aircraft chart. As far as I can tell, every other aircraft on the career tree is in the aircraft chart.

It's an Otto Celera. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Celera_500L

I wonder if this is a cut, or maybe a delayed aircraft. Jorg did say the aircraft list was still in flux in the August Q&A. 

Or it's just a placeholder icon.

Edit: It appears to edited from this image

Edited September 20, 20241 yr by Tuskin38

1 hour ago, Krakin said:

@MarcG Pretty much every "tough" question one could have asked was dealt with here

 

 

• Great detailed interview! ... Seb comes in at this point for the more technical stuff: https://youtu.be/u9vUVpettp0?t=1029
• Long discussion on ground handling: https://youtu.be/u9vUVpettp0?t=1190 ... Cool how the very detailed 3D ground/terrain modelling then naturally transferred to simulating the friction/skidding/etc in the new ground physics without needing specific considerations and separate handling in code for different surface types like done in sims usually ... tire and gear flex etc all now simulated
• Helicopters and auto-rotation and skid friction when landing on different surfaces, etc: https://youtu.be/u9vUVpettp0?t=1511
• Landing in water and consideration of wave shape, etc: https://youtu.be/u9vUVpettp0?t=1598
• Landing and suspension and tire interaction improvements: https://youtu.be/u9vUVpettp0?t=1673
• BET vs CFD, simulation of airflow, etc: https://youtu.be/u9vUVpettp0?t=1838
• Weather improvements: https://youtu.be/u9vUVpettp0?t=1944
  • 24 hour historical weather (sounds like they store their own detailed weather data for this purpose on their servers rather than going by usual historical weather sources which is more coarse grained data)
  • cirrus clouds
  • thunderstorms, cells, wind shear, etc and actual impact on aircraft
  • cloud thickness now lots more realistic in live weather, so also more chop/turbulence in more dangerous clouds (i.e. thick/stormy clouds + heat/summer will mean lots of turbulence)
• Helicopter improvements: https://youtu.be/u9vUVpettp0?t=2212 (various topics .. i.e. airframe model/geometry for the FM now much more detailed than a basic box which was in v2020, so airflow more realistic around the body and prop wash etc)
• Wake turbulence: https://youtu.be/u9vUVpettp0?t=2600
  • it's enabled for everything including AI aircraft
  • due to CFD the interaction with the sim's atmospheric airflow is natural, and wake turbulence dissipates naturally
  • it's simulated up to 6 minutes in duration and 10 miles distance
• Career and aviation activities/missions (lengthy discussion for 1/2 hour) : https://youtu.be/u9vUVpettp0?t=2797
  
  
   

Edited September 20, 20241 yr by lwt1971

Looks like 2024 will have the best ground handling/physics on the market

Edited September 21, 20241 yr by Krakin

20 hours ago, Sethos said:

I'm surprised to see 'Ideal' RAM at 64GB. In all my years of flying heavily modded MSFS, never seen it even use up 32GB. So either the engine is doing something differently or they are just creating a very, very wide 'buffer zone' for the most extreme scenarios.

I said screw it and picked up 2x32 64GB sticks of RAM to replace my 2x16 sticks for just over $200 and it’s DDR5 so good price. 

Edited September 21, 20241 yr by B777ER

FAQ has been updated. Big thing, they've finally confirmed that owning MSFS2020 Deluxe/Premium deluxe will allow you to use the 2020 D/PD aircraft/airports in 2024 no matter what edition you buy.

https://www.flightsimulator.com/microsoft-flight-simulator-2024-faq/

Seeing Kai listed as a partner makes me feel good things about those FS 2024 AI Plane models even without any confirmation :).

3 minutes ago, FrankSalo said:

Seeing Kai listed as a partner makes me feel good things about those FS 2024 AI Plane models even without any confirmation :).

Yup, and even Kai's non-answer below is a clue that there is *something* brewing 🙂

 

5 hours ago, Tuskin38 said:

Here's a quote from FS Elite on it:

https://fselite.net/content/first-look-hands-on-with-microsoft-flight-simulator-2024/

Doesn't sound like a bug.

I will rephrase it, it's not necessarily a bug, but the feature isn't working as it should (maybe not implemented yet, or not working as it should in that testing build). My point is they intend to make it work eventually (hopefully for the release). One example of something similar to that is the trim, several people said the trim wasn't working at all, but I'm pretty sure is the build they were testing and it will be fixed for the release.

4 hours ago, cseu said:

hopefully one day Precision Manuals Design Group will return to their roots, writing and now developing something new with Aerowinx, just a dream... Best regards

Who is Precision Manuals Design Group?