37 minutes ago, Los said:

Neither is starting in cold & dark every flight, rather than in turn around state, or planning your flight via Simbrief, that’s the dispatch department…etc.

I can set several of my planes in 2020 to turn around state with a couple of clicks. Thankfully I don’t have to remove the engines covers first.

4 hours ago, Fielder said:

The data streams are perfect here. I have zero of those issues so far.

And when everyone has that same experience one of my wishes will have been taken care of.

3 hours ago, micstatic said:

It seems like the piston VFR type are jaw drop thrilled, and the IFR airline type are very disappointed.  Obviously with some deviations. 

I haven't done an IFR flight yet in anything, but I have been taking the Big Iron Defaults up for laps around the patterns and short VFR flights to check out handling and general functionality.

No complaints so far with A310, C-17, A400M.

On the 737 MAX, I did have one drastic nose up on rotate during take off. Definitely not a good/realistic thing. But once it was in the air, it hand flew nicely.

When I combined a Heading Hold change with a VS Descent, though, it was pretty unhappy, with regular 20 deg pitching for about 30 secs to 1 min. Eventually damped itself out and settled on course and alt, but it was definitely problematic.

FWIW, the Working Title 747 SuperTanker doesn't have wing flex at all (wings stay in "parked flex" even during flight). So I cut that flight VERY short, sadly...

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 I'm not switching to FS2024 until the following happens...

 

The FSR500 and A2A Comanche are flyable.

 

Oh wait - they already do, so I'm done with FS2020!

6 hours ago, Farlis said:

Who knows, but I find your list to be prudent.

The ability to download specific aircraft is not totally necesarry, as long as enough files of them get stored in the rolling cache or somewhere else that they don't have to be streamed in completely, can be modded and painted, yet don't clutter up disk space. I mean for the FENIX alone I have 8Gig of Liveries installed, that's quite the overkill for one aircraft, but it is what it is. Therefore I'd like the core files to stay streamed and only absolutely necesarry files stored.

Yes, absolutely, I just want the option and it looks like it will be possible, it’s in the interface now, just not able to use it yet. The files for the aircraft themselves are probably small compared to the size of all those liveries, and those are stored locally anyway. Scenery files probably quite big although I would probably only download areas like North America. My 2tb drive holds all of 2020 with all the world scenery updates leaving 75% of it free for addons. Regardless, if the streaming is fixed I won’t worry as much about downloading.

Yup.  I figured before launch I wouldn't see a reason to grab 24 for at least a few months, and that has certainly been confirmed.  Might even be a year.  Doesn't matter to me, I'm perfectly content with how I've got 2020 set up.  They'll get 24 into a usable state eventually, and then it'll probably even be an improvement over what I've currently got in 2020.  But until then, I see no reason to want to be in a hurry.  

9 hours ago, Los said:

I had a similar plan, but the flight model alone convinced me to take the plunge and uninstall 2020.

Why does there seem to be this overwhelming need to delete 2020 (not just you, Los)?
1TB (or even 2TB) NVMe drives don't cost much these days and it's the easiest thing to install.

Never understood the "one or the other" mindset. Before switching to 2020 I was running P3D in parallel for almost two years until I was happy that
A) 2020 covered most of my requirements and
B) Support for P3D and its add-ons started seriously waning.

The guys who are prepar3d to put up with the bugs and bandwidth issues in FS2024 are clearly "glass half full" users. I am a "glass half empty" kind of person. I see faults much more easily than I see positive attributes. It is why I waited three years to upgrade to FS2020 from P3Dv4.

Desbean is clearly a member of my club

20 minutes ago, Christopher Low said:

The guys who are prepar3d to put up with the bugs and bandwidth issues in FS2024 are clearly "glass half full" users. I am a "glass half empty" kind of person. I see faults much more easily than I see positive attributes. It is why I waited three years to upgrade to FS2020 from P3Dv4.

Desbean is clearly a member of my club

Count me in 🙂

20 hours ago, aniiran said:

I want to buy it but I'm getting conflicting reports of what works and what doesn't

I don’t regret buying it, I don’t need that money in my pocket, but it’s not ready in my opinion. If you need the money for other things I would wait. Lots of user options left out that were available in 2020, and many people having issues, some still can’t even access it.

I'm not switching until the following is resolved:

4 minutes ago, JSmith2112 said:

I've just re-tested this because my observation was made before the recent patch.

You get a small message at the right-hand side of the screen at first warning you that your connection is unstable.

After about 30 seconds you get a full screen error message stating Connection to network lost and a spinning circle appears along with a notice about the sim requiring a constant internet connection.

After restoring your internet, the full screen message goes away and you're at the pause screen same as what you get when pressing ESC. Your aircraft does not continue to fly.
 

I just saw a video of LA area photogrammetry still having trees and water over the top on bridges and factories and ports, I'm beyond disappointed. Could anyone show me some screen shots of the Tucson AZ area?  I want to see if the ground cover is right so could use it to test out VFR flights.

10 hours ago, Christopher Low said:

The guys who are prepar3d to put up with the bugs and bandwidth issues in FS2024 are clearly "glass half full" users. I am a "glass half empty" kind of person. I see faults much more easily than I see positive attributes. It is why I waited three years to upgrade to FS2020 from P3Dv4.

Desbean is clearly a member of my club

😅 um, well it's hard to see the positives when you have to look at them through a jungle of faults.