Not one week after release, and things are looking very promising!

I just finished a flight in the Fenix A320 from Nice Côte d'Azur to Innsbruck. Everything *just worked*.

Addons used:

• FSHud
• AIG models
• Active Sky with historical weather
• GSX Pro
• MSFS Map Enhancement with Apple Maps Pro
• iniBuilds Innsbruck
• MobiFlight Connector 10.4.0.1 beta release => can use my miniFCU unit with the Fenix

I managed to override Asobo's Innsbruck using the method described here.

Yeah. Very happy right now. I was sceptical before release, but now I'm sold. 

• sky, clouds, wind and turbulence very realistic with ASFS beta build B9094
• lighting model is very nice
• shadow size set to 6K in usercfg.opt with Ray traced shadows
• trees and vegetation = great
• ground detail = great

Oh, and no connection/streaming problems since I started simming around 1700Z yesterday - flights loaded in a few seconds. 

By the way - I did a shared cockpit session (YourControls) with a friend last night in the Fenix A320 with FSHud - it worked. 

Edited November 26, 20241 yr by Cpt_Piett

Good stuff! Thats a nice list of some involved addons so its nice to see that they are playing nicely with FS2024.

Only thing i don't like is the night lighting, Cities are far too bright, i could see Madrid lit up like a beacon climbing out of Malaga lol, Then you have small villages, that are lighting up fields for at least a few miles away. It's as if they just said, let's put some lights here, and some over there. At present it needs a lot of work to bring it up to scratch.

51 minutes ago, Cpt_Piett said:

Not one week after release, and things are looking very promising!

I just finished a flight in the Fenix A320 from Nice Côte d'Azur to Innsbruck. Everything *just worked*.

 

You Cpt_Piett are probably the closest to what I use FS for. I'm not interested in walking around and career mode (I already have a career) I just want to fly the Fenix from A to B, use some AI and use my Thrustmaster hardware and TrackIR. I haven't bought it yet but the impression I get is if you just throw yourself in and expect instant miracles you'll be like most of the complainers but if you take your time with it and carefully set one thing up at a time, we'll end up like you.

the user manual is Youtube. Asobo has not enough time or personnel for stuff like that.

1 hour ago, Cpt_Piett said:

• sky, clouds, wind and turbulence very realistic with ASFS beta build B9094

 

 

 

 

I just checked, Beta build still reads B9090. Is that a typo? Anyway pix look great. Always enjoy your videos!

18 minutes ago, Fielder said:

Asobo has not enough time or personnel for stuff like that.

with only 500 people working on it, just take a look at the long list of testers in the CREDITS section. I have enough time but not enough personnel either. 😀

Edited November 26, 20241 yr by turbomax

35 minutes ago, TomCYYZ said:

I just checked, Beta build still reads B9090. Is that a typo? Anyway pix look great. Always enjoy your videos!

that's the official beta, the UNofficial beta (link in the AS forum) is 9094

Regarding AIG models: Did you just drag & drop the AIG folder(s) into your new Community folder? I hear the AIG models have issues with things like gear being up on the ground. did you see anything like that?

 

I wasn’t thinking about this issue with respect to disabling a default airport for a payware replacement. This sounds like a real pain in the a**. I hope this gets figured out at some point, but as long as the only option for the MSFS content is via streaming, I’m not sure it can be.
 

Cheers, Pete

33 minutes ago, PilotPete99 said:

This sounds like a real pain in the a**. I hope this gets figured out at some point, but as long as the only option for the MSFS content is via streaming, I’m not sure it can be.

I understand once the Marketplace opens we will have the ability to select which products we want, whether we want them at all, whether we want them streamed, or whether we want them downloaded to our drive. They have said on their forums that this functionality was not quite ready at launch -- and maybe this is tied to the the decision not to launch the marketplace. I think it won't be too long, a week or two; they are certainly going to want that marketplace online in the leadup to the holidays.

Until then I am just holding off on scenery and things. 

So you still have to use a third party weather app and a third party enhancement map and you see nothing wrong with it. So telling what people accept without complaint for giving over their money nowadays.

6 minutes ago, B777ER said:

So you still have to use a third party weather app and a third party enhancement map and you see nothing wrong with it. So telling what people accept without complaint for giving over their money nowadays.

What makes you think he "had" to use those apps?

14 minutes ago, B777ER said:

So you still have to use a third party weather app and a third party enhancement map and you see nothing wrong with it. So telling what people accept without complaint for giving over their money nowadays.

I didn''t use those for 2020 and I am not using those for 2024, and it's fine. 

I'm not exactly surr what you mean by "third party enhancement map," but I do have cusfom scenery installed. But then for every flight sim, the users will typically use custom scenery.

You are in command now, Admiral Piett! 😀

How, or better, where did you install LOWI? I assume it is the Premium iniBuilds version? I am toying with the idea to keep my one and only AddonLinker Master folder for both, MSFS2020 and MSFS2024 and tag MSFS2024 compatible add-ons. Then run separate .exe for AL, depending which sim I run.

Question is, will add-ons that were originally made for MSFS2020 and will be "enhanced" or "premium-ised" for MSFS2024 have to be installed twice??