REX Atmos
Active Sky
FSTL
Navigraph
vRaas
Chaseplane
Flow Pro
Universal Announcer
AeroTuneMFS
FSHud

On second screen:

- Firefox for vatsim-radar and planner.flightsimulator.com and inflight entertainment
- KatiePilot Audio Normaliser to prevent turning deaf on VATSIM (but minimised)
- vPilot
- Excel as logbook, fleet management, GANTT flight overview, custom OFP layout, etc. (mostly at the beginning and end of a flight)

1. Navigraph
2. Chrome
3. AutoFPS
4. BandiCamera (HDR Screenshot tool)
5. FSLTL Injector

5 hours ago, micstatic said:

spad.next

FSTramp (PKA FSNavigator for you old timers).  

Volanta

Web browser for simbrief

Navigraph charts depending on the mission.  

Wow, FSNavigator! I'm not so into all those apps, but this one got me listening!
Is it working as good as the original?

13 minutes ago, Wildblue said:

Wow, FSNavigator! I'm not so into all those apps, but this one got me listening!
Is it working as good as the original?

I honestly never used all its features. But I just like it in terms of the moving map. Though it’s working less good in 24 than 2020

AAO (because I take @guenseli's work with me EVERYWHERE I fly)
MobiFlight (because I take @guenseli's work with me EVERYWHERE I fly)
Navigraph Maps
Elgato StreamDeck (because I take @guenseli's work with me EVERYWHERE I fly)

That does it nicely.

My workflow for MSFS 2020: (Apps in green are always used, those in purple I only use sometimes)

MS Excel spreadsheet (flight logs and planning)

Neofly 4

Web Sites: Sky Vector and SimBrief, sometimes Windy as well

Navigraph Charts (import Simbrief flight plan)

Pilot2ATC (if I decide to fly with ATC)

Little Nav Map (import Simbrief Flight Plan)

OBS Studio (if I am recording my flight)

Add-ons Linker: This will launch the following programs:

    MSFS 2020, Pop-Out Manager (admin mode), Air Manager (admin mode), FSUPIC7, Axis and Ohs (admin mode)

Add-Ons Linker closes once the sim is launched, the rest stay on during the entire flight.

I do use the Elgato Stream Deck XL during flight (thank you @guenseli), but I don't use the app itself within the context of a flight, only to add or rearrange / organize buttons occasionally.

Sometimes I wonder how can everything work at all... 🙂

0. Addons Linker (before flight)

1. Edge (Simbrief)

2. Active Sky

3. Little NavMap

4. Aerotune

5. SPAD.neXt

6. Volanta

7. TrackIR

8. VAS ACARS (StarAlliance, OneWorld virtual)

9. FSHud or BATC

10. ChasePlane

11. Navigraph apps in background

12. Steam client

13. I also use Elgato Streamdeck but through SPAD.neXt

 

 

None.

No one has mentioned avionics eg. GTN. Doesn't that count?  

Not apps but add-ons as well eg. I think certain sceneries would also have the same impact to performance as apps.

5 hours ago, GreenPilot86 said:

MS Excel spreadsheet (flight logs and planning)

Happy that I've found the other single person on earth using excel for this.
Feels like everyone is using fancy apps that partially come at extra cost or terminate service at some point.

Excel is just superior for this. You can customise and visualise everything you want with it. Feel like there's some statistics missing? Just create them on your own.

Only a few of them 🤥

1. Fenix

2.TrackIR

3. MSFS_Autofps

4. Fsrealistic

5. Fs2crew

6. Rex Atmos core

7. Lorby Axis

8. BATC and BTAC traffic map

9.  ChasePlane

10. SLC

11. GSX

12. Steam client

13. Simbrief (Navigraph)

14. LRM

 

Edited January 17Jan 17 by Fantrainer

A couple to add to my already long list that I inadvertently left out:

FSLTL traffic injector

Grand Tour Flight Planner - this is only before a flight, and only if I am considering multiple flights, to get distances between airports

MS Excel has a great FORECAST function that I use to estimate my fuel needs more accurately, in conjunction with my log which tracks actual fuel usage and distances.  I can't tell you the number of times Simbrief has declared my fuel insufficient when I've entered my flight data, only to have plenty to spare when I make the actual flight. I also use Excel to evaluate possible jobs and cargo in Neofly.

 

Hmm...

MSFS
SPAD.neXt
FS ATC Chatter
AutoFPS
TDS GTNxi/Garmin Trainer

Of all of these, TDS and the Trainer use the most CPU, but - to answer the other question asked - neither uses that much resource or seem to affect sim performance, and the others use minuscule amounts of CPU/GPU and memory so, no.  These things don't really impact the base sim performance for me.

I also run Navigraph Charts, but on an iPad.  Geolocation works just fine so long as both devices are on the same local network.

Are most of you really running Navigraph Charts on the same computer?  Using the iPad duplicates what I would actually do in the GA aircraft I used to fly.  IRL, of course, the app would be something like Foreflight rather than Navigraph Charts, but the use model is fundamentally the same so using the tablet feels more "real world" to me.

 

Scott

Assuming I am performing and airline mission:

• BATC for Traffic and ATC
• Fenix if I am flying the Fenix
• GSX for ground handling
• Navigraph
• Excel for Flight Logging

For my GA flights, which is probably 75 percent of my flying I use the in game flight planner and then only

• FSTL for traffic
• Excel for Flight Logging

The ting I like about 2024 is how few additional applications I need to enjoy the sim.