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Great shots of the desert, Ryan. And a good flight, btw.
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7800X3D here too. My typical open native frame rate in PMDG and FBW ranges from 45 to 75 taxiing at any airport worldwide no matter how demanding. I lock it at 44, and I don't use DLSS Frame Generation. Cores 0 and 1 run between 56% and 80% utilization with an average of around 68%. The other 6 cores dance between 20 and 55% utilization. Of note, I had 9900K and 3080Ti previously and never would see that low a native rate anywhere and that is on a 3440x1440 display, TAA/16x/8xSS, AMD FidFX 100. Typical then was around 33fps maintainable anywhere in any of my 4 planes with those settings, and again that's now 44fps w/ the 7800X3D, which by the way is about 27% fasting single-thread wise than 9900K, so that fits.
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Good Lord yes! I use DynLOD and by the time I'm 1500 AGL I'm already well below 100. It just doesn't matter visually at that AGL.
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TCA Thrustmaster Button Customization
Fielder replied to zachlog's topic in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)
Another choice is a Knobster, small auxiliary touchscreen (or two), and Air Manager. Your normal main screen + the one or two touchscreens. (This guy as 3 main screens: overkill). -
Running an Apex Myself, 14900k/48gb DDR5@8400MT/s. -
Lol that was my exact thoughts.. .. of all the people to ask that!.. G
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I was a little too cold to really focus on that review. It's 63 degrees in the cabin! I'm not sure what I'm more upset about, the fact you are tooling around in the Duke or that BATC is buggy. I was hoping BATC would be more consistent and accurate. I'm surprised it isn't. I would have thought the vectored approach would be more solid on release. Seems an integral part of the program. I'm confused as to why SimBrief needs to present so much information to BATC to work. I would think departure airport, route, arrival and alternate with altitude would be sufficient. It really should offer the user the ability to choose different runways and approaches using Navigraph. I think they said they didn't want to use Navigraph, but a host of add-ons require it. I mean the default ATC is a joke, but it offers GPS approaches and alternatives than the assigned. The problem with default has always been forcing you to a runway that's not accurate and not getting you low on time. I've always said that an alternative method to ATC that's more useful would be to follow a STAR/SID using predefined altitudes, as we see in FMC/CDUs in aircraft. Knowing this data at least gives the user the ability to get down on time and meet restrictions. Then farther out, assigning a runway, but giving the user a choice to change the runway and selecting a published approach. I realize that cuts out a lot of visual/vectored instructions, thus isn't as realistic, but gives you a more accurate path to and from point A to B. IOW, you are basically pre-programming your vertical and lateral route and ATC is simulating them telling you what to do. I don't recall if Radar Contact was appropriate with its vectors or not. I know it had a significant amount of fluidity with declaring an emergency, requesting new altitudes, and so forth, but I remember not liking it for other reasons. I predict BATC is gonna have some work to do before they can really give the user a trouble-free experience. Trying to account for terrain, mathematical equations accounting for airspeed/altitude/headings must be a logistical nightmare. Thus why I think they should tie into AIRAC data and predefined SID/STAR/IAPs for a smoother experience. Offer the user a choice to pick a different runway when the one they offer is garbage, force AI to land at another parallel runway, give options to deviate, enter holds, and reroute for traffic/Wx. In many ways, ATC programs are like GSX. You can't always get accurate results because each location is hindered by buildings/terrain, traffic, and more.
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You can't be serious Ryan, WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot. LOL
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Oh you noticed 😉
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I'm doing a C700 flight from a towered airport to an uncontrolled... the departure was a lot smoother (as expected). I'm sure the program caters to jets and airliners flying from controlled airport to controlled airport.
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Skyward Simulations DA-50RG released!
sd_flyer replied to Tim-HH's topic in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)
From what I gather you when you touch down power lever should be at flight idle. Ground idle only for taxi. -
Flying right now from Sendai to Hong Kong, I climbed out of the overcast and rain into cumulus under a layer of cloud above, and I thought "well, this is that layered effect that I'll miss when I stick with MSFS weather," and then I noticed I had left ASFS in Passive mode. D'oh! It was MSFS weather. So I switched back and forth for a while, between Active Present Control and regular MSFS depictions. Honestly, it's hard to say which I like better, even on the same flight. With MSFS, I'm in solid IMC at FL370, while with ActiveSky I'm over some soft and very realistic stratus clouds forming an overcast far below. They both look equally good, just in different ways. Nuts.
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You are flying the Turbine Duke... /drool
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SU15 What Do I Need To Do Beforehand?
outermarker replied to TimF's topic in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)
The official roadmap specifically says May 7th (tentative...), not "week of" May 7th. The way things look now, neither will probably end up being true lol...Maybe they shouldn't announce any more new dates until they're sure they can meet it this time, it's getting a bit silly. -
Good weather avoidance dodging those CB's out of Vienna. P2ATC always yells at me when I do that.
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I did a few airliner flights with BATC and clearance, taxi out, departures are always spot on. Decent and vector to final not so much, but after landing and taxi to gate spot on again! It is an amazing piece of work and once it is out of EA it will be even more immersive then it is right now. Thank you for your GA review!
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SU15 What Do I Need To Do Beforehand?
Bobsk8 replied to TimF's topic in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)
Isn't it delayed for another Airbus aircraft that they can't get to work? -
Trains? It can be done. YGLA Gladstone airport in Australia ( ORBX) has them. -
He predicts missles, bombs, guns... the lot.
sloppysmusic replied to Fielder's topic in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)
I read that and thought ahhh so it will DEFINITELY be in there then.. Better not implement extreme landing challenges into the Flight Sim just for the sake of some extreme landing action - CHECK -
Nice video.
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Skyward Simulations DA-50RG released!
Keirtt replied to Tim-HH's topic in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)
It doesn’t that I know of but I think they’re using it to simulate ground idle conditions. It’s weird -
I’m not sure where the specific “Clear Skies” setting is; where might it be? And I assume the default sky textures loaded since the reinstall was done using the main application executable.
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Wonderful shots and scenery Bernd! 😉
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I can concur with your findings Ryan, I used the A2A PA24 to get a feel for the app and see how fasted paced or not the learning curve would be and I was pleasantly surprised at the ease of use right out of the box after I got around a few of the quirks. I actually flew KRIC to KLYH and for some reason the controller had a difficult time giving me vectors for RWY 35. Just finished a flight from KDCA to KLGA in the FSS 175 and we were just about spot on. I failed to commence the descent on the RNAV arrival to see if ATC would give me an assigned altitude to descend to - instead I was asked to check my equipment. I'll try to dabble around some more over the weekend if I have some time. Cheers
