March 1, 20251 yr 40 minutes ago, ryanbatc said: What do you do during long hauls? You don't sit at the PC tht entire time right haha? sometimes i start one in the morning before work and check in later for landing, or maybe start last thing at night and pick up in the morning, or use good old sim acceleration
March 1, 20251 yr I have done a few long haul flights with the PMDG 777 in MS2020 and can find more productive things to do in between the flight. Don't need to be in front of the screen the whole time if you trust the sim and the aircraft to remain stable. Edit I may trust the A350 in 2020 not sure about that new sim for a long haul. Edited March 1, 20251 yr by JBDB-MD80
March 1, 20251 yr 1 hour ago, sd_flyer said: 2024 freezes when I click on "update data". Is that normal? Should I wait and kill 2024 in task manager? Are you on SU1? there’s a bug with that that’s fixed in SU1 im not sure that’s the bug. Edited March 1, 20251 yr by Tuskin38
March 1, 20251 yr 1 hour ago, ryanbatc said: What do you do during long hauls? You don't sit at the PC tht entire time right haha? Depending on the length, I sleep. I set the flight up before bed Edited March 1, 20251 yr by Tuskin38
March 1, 20251 yr Flew my first long haul with this today (in FS24), LFPO - TFFR. Flight was great, no issues or performance drops like I had the last time I tried to do a long flight in FS20 with the 777W. I’ve been (justifiably) critical of INI’s lack of support for time acceleration in other products but giving credit where it’s due, it worked without issues for this flight. Hopefully they can back port this system o their other airliners. I’m starting to get more comfortable with how this plane operations vs the A320 family on which I have 1000’s of sim hours (and the engrained muscle memory to go with it). Overall the A350 is a very capable and interesting aircraft, I’m pleased with my purchase. Dave Current System (Running at 4k): ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-F, Ryzen 7800X3D, RTX 5090, 55" Samsung Q80T, 64GB DDR5 6000 RAM, EVGA CLC 280mm AIO Cooler, Brunner CLS-E NG Yoke, Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS & Stick, Thrustmaster TCA Quadrant & Add-on, VirtualFly Ruddo+, TQ6+ and Yoko+, GoFlight MCP-PRO and EFIS, Skalarki FCU and MCDU
March 1, 20251 yr 42 minutes ago, regis9 said: Hopefully they can back port this system o their other airliners. Well for the default ini aircraft that come with the sim, people will need to make a feature request on the MSFS forums and then hope Microsoft asks ini builds to try and do it. Ini can't do anything unless MS asks them to since those aircraft belong to Microsoft. For the A300 you could always try asking on ini's discord or forums. Edited March 1, 20251 yr by Tuskin38
March 1, 20251 yr 1 hour ago, Tuskin38 said: Depending on the length, I sleep. I set the flight up before bed Why would one do that? I understand speeding up the flight, but going to bed? Leaving it on 1x? I guess I want to move to the same place - apparently power is free 😂
March 1, 20251 yr 1 hour ago, Tuskin38 said: Are you on SU1? there’s a bug with that that’s fixed in SU1 im not sure that’s the bug. I was not. After some struggle I signed up for beta and downloaded SU1. Now everything works! Life time flight sim enthusiast, current airplane owner 172P (past C182F). FAA CP/IR ASEL/AMEL, FI ASELMy System: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D , MSI X870 GAMING PLUS, 64G RAM, ASUS RTX5090, 4T SSDPut my hands on (pic/dual/given)7GCAA, 8KCAB, BE24, BE76, BE35-C33, BE35, C150, C152, C172B/N/P/R/SP, 182F, M20E,M20C, M20J, AT6(SNJ4), PA28-140,PA28-151, PA28-161,PA28-181,PA28RT-201,PA28R-180/201T, PA24-250, PA32-300R, PA44, AC114, YAK-18T, YAK-52, SR22
March 1, 20251 yr 8 minutes ago, Simon_C said: Why would one do that? I understand speeding up the flight, but going to bed? Leaving it on 1x? I guess I want to move to the same place - apparently power is free 😂 "stop enjoying yourself!"
March 1, 20251 yr 41 minutes ago, Simon_C said: Why would one do that? I understand speeding up the flight, but going to bed? Leaving it on 1x? I guess I want to move to the same place - apparently power is free 😂 That's what I do - have always managed long haul flights this way going back to FS9 days particularly across the pacific where in real life many flights are overnight (at least westbound). Auto step climbs and pause at TOD can help though. Bruce Bruce Bartlett Frodo: "I wish none of this had happened." Gandalf: "So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."
March 1, 20251 yr 7 minutes ago, brucewtb said: That's what I do - have always managed long haul flights this way going back to FS9 days particularly across the pacific where in real life many flights are overnight (at least westbound). Auto step climbs and pause at TOD can help though. But still - with today's power costs, this seems highly unreasonable. I see what my computer is using when I run the sim. And letting it fly for hours by itself, instead of using the fastest possible simrate, seems to me like throwing money away. In FS9 we did not have well working simrate or pause at TOD as far as I can remember. In FS9 I did it too (and power was cheap). But with modern tools... even pause at TOD is completely insane, as your plane doesn't even move but the power is being drawn none the less. Like... rendering a static picture at full speed, while nothing is going on. Edited March 1, 20251 yr by Simon_C
March 2, 20251 yr 14 minutes ago, Simon_C said: But still - with today's power costs I am kind of curious how much power costs where you live? MSFS 2024. Primary Planes: Black Square TBM850, Duke, Baron, Caravan; A2A Comanche; FSReborn Phenom; Fexix A321; PMDG 737-7, 777: Utilities: Active Sky (Passive Mode); BATC, FSLTL.
March 2, 20251 yr 1 hour ago, Simon_C said: But still - with today's power costs, this seems highly unreasonable. I see what my computer is using when I run the sim. And letting it fly for hours by itself, instead of using the fastest possible simrate, seems to me like throwing money away. In FS9 we did not have well working simrate or pause at TOD as far as I can remember. In FS9 I did it too (and power was cheap). But with modern tools... even pause at TOD is completely insane, as your plane doesn't even move but the power is being drawn none the less. Like... rendering a static picture at full speed, while nothing is going on. I have lower rates on the weekends, that's when I do it. During the week days I do shorter flights or increase the sim rate. I also only do one long haul a week.
March 2, 20251 yr After several pages of discussion regarding no gear compression, I did a walk around today on a Windy day in Toronto. There appears to be some gear compression. Rick i9-14900KS OC to 5.8 Ghz | 64 GIG- G.Skill 7200 RAM | Asus ROG Maximus z790 Hero Motherboard | Gigabyte RTX 5090 OC | 47" Samsung 4K Monitor I Pimax Crystal Super 50 HMD I Varjo Aero HMD I Windows 11
March 2, 20251 yr 49 minutes ago, Tuskin38 said: I have lower rates on the weekends, that's when I do it. During the week days I do shorter flights or increase the sim rate. I also only do one long haul a week. This is the only thing keeping me from purchasing this aircraft. I don't do long hauls, just not enough time. I usually flight 1-2 hrs at a time max. I just like it can use the Lido charts natively. If Fenix did I would probably go with that.
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