April 7Apr 7 29 minutes ago, JonathanC said: Interesting - what do you mean? I understand about the planes, but when you say you master a new airport, are you talking about landing and mastering the various approaches? or taxiing? Or something else? I ask because I've never thought of mastering an airport, and maybe learning what you do will add some new fun to the sim. I bet you that most pilots that come to my home airport have no idea that it was a military airport: Brooksville–Tampa Bay Regional Airport - Wikipedia About BKV | Brooksville — Tampa Bay Regional Airport MSFS
April 7Apr 7 Moderator The Cost one expends on Flight Simulation is directly proportional to the Level one wants to immerse themselves in the Activity, and the lengths one will go to to maximize that Level of immersion. Some out there might need to expend much $$ for Hardware, Peripherals and use the 'latest and greatest' Sim Platform in order to achieve the maximum Immersion level. OTOH, others are satisfied with FS9 and a Joystick to satisfy their need. Neither one is 'wrong'... just different Priorities.
April 8Apr 8 22 hours ago, CFIJose said: IMHO, it's never been more affordable. MSFS v2024 performs better in a low end system than P3D or XP ever performed. Not only that add-on are much cheaper and there are better freeware. Even yokes, pedals, or throttle quadrants are more affordable. There's never been a better time to try flight simulator, thanks to v2024. FSX, P3D, and Xplane were a rip off, but it makes me appreciate what I have so much more now because of the experience I had with those other sims. BTW, I did not watch the video. Completely agree. MSFS 2024 can run on a low end system if one really needs. The addons are relatively low cost unless you want the super high fidelity stuff. Even then nothing for MSFS is over 100.(I don't think?) It's the hardware that's gotten outrageous thanks to Skynet. We need to move away from the AI B.S. and back to reality. Don't forget take a break from our simming rigs and talk to humans face to face once in a while 😊 | My Liveries | FAA ZMP | PPL ASEL | | Windows 11 | MSI Z690 Tomahawk | 12700K 4.7GHz | MSI RTX 4080 | 64GB 6000 MHz DDR5 | 500GB Samsung 860 Evo SSD | 2x 2TB Samsung 970 Evo M.2 | EVGA 850W Gold | Corsair 5000X | HP G2 (VR) / LG 27" 1440p |
April 8Apr 8 8 hours ago, CFIJose said: Speaking of buying airports, I wanted to buy n43 easton, and it's not showing up in the 2024 marketplace. I guess I have to settle for the freeware. I'm not going to re-install v2020 to buy an airport. Easton freeware is pretty good. I drove past there once on a vacation to Rehoboth Beach. | My Liveries | FAA ZMP | PPL ASEL | | Windows 11 | MSI Z690 Tomahawk | 12700K 4.7GHz | MSI RTX 4080 | 64GB 6000 MHz DDR5 | 500GB Samsung 860 Evo SSD | 2x 2TB Samsung 970 Evo M.2 | EVGA 850W Gold | Corsair 5000X | HP G2 (VR) / LG 27" 1440p |
April 8Apr 8 I found it ironic that the YouTuber, commenting on the cost of FlightSimming now being very expensive, first released this video ONLY to his PAYING subscribers on YouTube. After a few days he changed the flag to allow all Youtube viewers to watch.
April 8Apr 8 On 4/7/2026 at 4:27 PM, DD_Arthur said: Is it collecting vintage Ferraris'? Hint is in the profile pic 🙂 Jude BradleyBeech Baron: Uh, Tower, verify you want me to taxi in front of the 747?ATC: Yeah, it's OK. He's not hungry. X-Plane 12 and MSFS2020 🙂 System specs: Windows 11 Pro 64-bit, Ubuntu Linux 20.04 i7-13700KF Gigabyte Z790 RTX-4060-Ti , 32GB RAM 1X 2TB M2 for X-Plane 12, 1x256GB SSD for OS. 1TB drive MSFS2020
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