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  2. Mace
    I don't know if I can resist....must resist....
  3. dusty_sourdough907
    Me too 😁
  4. Noel
  5. PebbleBeach
    Chris, Very nice work on LFOX!!!! If I can help in any way don't hesitate to ask. Mitch
  6. PebbleBeach
    Kerry, Absolutely! I really only need photos you have of the terminal buildings as there are very few. Even the versions of KSAV by MSFS 2020 and the current X-Plane are not even close to the real thing. I suspect the authors of those versions ran into the problem of limited material as well. But you would think they’d at least get the main appearance & dimensions from Google Earth. Yes anything you have you believe can assist would be hugely appreciated. Especially night images. Thank you. Mitch
  7. sd_flyer
    "Hook me up Bro! " 😃
  8. ryanbatc
    pso by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr
  9. Today
  10. JRBarrett
    AFAIK, they are no longer using METAR to set clouds in the sim. They replaced it by using realtime satellite imagery to supplement the model predictions for cloud placement. Airport temperature, wind speed and direction, surface pressure and surface visibility still come from the METAR. Around SU7 they greatly reduced the complexity of the clouds in the sim presumably for performance reasons which (along with METAR clouds) made the cloud depictions very poor in many cases. Since moving away from METAR clouds and adopting a satellite “assist” in recent SUs, the cloud depiction is generally better, but not as good as it once was. ASFS and REX show the sim is capable of much more cloud variety when the weather is set manually.
  11. edpatino
    I don't think the beta is that much like 20 GB
  12. Noel
    Yes when you take lines out of context you miss the whole message. Are you saying there would be no or little difference in initial reactions by an 30 yr enthusiast who had never seen volumetric clouds out to the horizon in a flight sim, by that same person 4 years later if those clouds had not changed with a Sim Update? If that's a YES for you then I don't accept that it defies our nature to adapt to reality and typically to then see faults and aim for higher standards. When MSFS first released I commented here that they were already in the ball park and mainly needed to increase resolution to help support more distinct cloud depiction especially up close and to begin to get sharp edges on those puffy cumulous. But yes, had initial cloud depiction not changed I would in no way be as impressed today as I was those first several months post initial release. It was in part the newness of the entire platform that amped up the wow factor then.
  13. Yesterday
  14. Ricardo Andrada
    https://simsmart.uk/index.html
  15. Doksas
    same problem last few months...
  16. lwt1971
    I wonder if most of the differences we are spotting (and long for) in current live weather vs the earlier days of MSFS is mostly due to the METAR integration in SU7 that reduced the great variety of live weather when it was based purely on global Meteoblue data. If possible, good to see how pre-SU5 live weather looked compared to SU5 or SU6 live weather.. if such comparisons are still around, those will be the ones that show more clearly any differences in *quality* of clouds etc due to performance optimizations, without "polluting" our eyes with the post-SU7 loss of live weather *variety*
  17. Kevin_28
    Do you know of a video where I can see this done?
  18. JRBarrett
    PANS-OPS really isn’t a feature of ARINC 424 directly, or any particular FMS. It is an ICAO set of standards used by those agencies which actually design instrument procedures. It dictates (among other things), the amount of lateral and vertical protection that must be afforded to aircraft maneuvering in the vicinity of terrain or obstacles while flying a procedure. From a regulatory standpoint, PANS-OPS can even affect industries or activities that are not directly involved in aviation. For instance, it can put limits on the maximum height of buildings that could potentially intrude into protected airspace that is part of a instument procedure, which builders must adhere to. The US does not use PANS-OPS, but a different set of standards called TERPS in the design of instrument procedures. An aircraft that flies internationally like the 777, could be affected by both standards. If a particular procedure has been designed in compliance with PANS-OPS, then an aircraft FMS and autopilot must be able to fly the procedure “as published”, and adhere to whatever lateral or vertical path limitations exist in the procedure. In general an FMS/Autopilot/Nav Database certified for RNP or (particularly) RNP-AR should be compliant.
  19. TuFun
    The AC electric drive is powered by two 16-cylindar-diesel engines that each have an output of about 1,700 kW. The truck is more than 20 meters long and nearly 10 meters wide. I read that and say what! Those 16-cylindar-diesel engines could use that tech and locomotives operate the same way diesel power running electric motors!
  20. eslader
    I finally had time to do a full, short, flight from KMSP to KOSH. I ran into some of the same things you did. The start/push thing is indeed weird for this side of the pond and I don't see anywhere in settings where you can disable that. The default, non-premium voices are pretty good! The only issue comes when multiple 2's or 3's are spoken. Some of the voices are hard to understand. I got a freq 133.3 and it took awhile to figure out what the real number was. 😉 Sometimes it forgets to say what frequency it wants you to contact. It'll just say something like "Contact Minneapolis Center." It know the frequency because if you acknowledge, it will auto-tune it if that's enabled. I was assigned Rwy 9 at KOSH, which is fairly tight for a 737. Doable, but not much margin. I could not request a different runway assignment. Upon landing, Ground asked if I needed a parking assignment. I said affirmative. It then asked me what ramp I wanted, but misunderstood Basler, which is the only ramp at that airport, so it ended up unable to give me taxi instructions. I'd really like it to be able to detect new audio devices when they come online. I usually start the sim and get the flight setup, etc, before turning on Mixed Reality to go into VR. But if BATC is running before WMR, it won't see when the VR headset's audio comes online and I have to restart it. On the same note, I'd love it if BATC had a kneeboard that echoed what it put in the BATC window so VR users don't have to try and instantly memorize a string of 10+ taxiways, etc.
  21. ryanbatc
    Nope. But all of my tests with towered airports have been at payware airports.
  22. NovemberUniform started following MSFS2020 1.37.17.0 (Beta)
  23. NovemberUniform
    I'm not sure this is actually true.
  24. DAD
    Interesting. Any way to clean them?
  25. Adamski_NZ started following Real pilot images?
  26. Raes Henry Raes Henry joined the community
  27. W2DR
    Fascinating. Thanks. But...I would have thought by now they would have learned to drive on the right and pass on the left 😀 .
  28. carlanthony24
    Can confirm when flying out of Heraklion the once it drew some weird path.
  29. carlanthony24
    Exactly what I was thinking
  30. graemeb
    Thank you Mitch for continuing to support FS9! Looking forward to these offerings.
  31. Kevin_28
    That's what I mean. I don't see this as Matt is necessarily correcting Robert but merely saying that his avionics does this. That doesn't necessarily negate what Robert said either.
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