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Sure, there needs to be a backup for those cases. I'd say anyone agrees on that, and from what I've read, the devs are already working on it.
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As if older software did not have issues. They do and, unlike new releases, they aren’t typically improved at the same pace, if at all.
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Should I wait for MSFS 2024, or buy 2020 now?
Gazzareth replied to Hauptmann's topic in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)
Deluxe is worth it for the Longitude & 787 alone but depending on what you want to fly, your mileage may vary!.. G -
The runway issue is so easily fixed. Either: add add “force arrival runway” choice like Pilot2ATC has or, even better, just allow “request runway 27L” option (like IRL.) I got assigned a crossing grass runway on a small airport. With BATC your only option is to end the software if it gives you a runway you can’t use.
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I know the feeling Noel About 45 minutes ago i said to myself, time to venture out.. So i went and bought a burger It felt so good to leave because i go for days at a time without leaving the house,
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Amazing shot indeed
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You might try going over areas with different humidity and seeing if that isolates the problem. If that does make a difference, then you're probably just looking down onto obscured skies from above.
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Just a small point: It used to be "affirmative", but it's now just "affirm" to reduce the risk of confusion with "negative" if the first part of the word is clipped. -
I wish some developer would build a Saab 2000/340 passenger /cargo variant for XP-12. One plane i need for my hangar. I e-mailed Carenado a few years back, and they want nothing to do with X Plane Dave. Their loss. !!!!!!!
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World told to brace for 'severe geomagnetic storm' today!
Ray Proudfoot replied to Jacoba's topic in Hangar Chat
Yes, the specs surprised me but three big drawbacks for me. 1) The screen is a pain on sunny days and eats battery life. 2) No RAW format for editing. 3) No interchangeable lenses. Clearly two different camps. I owned Olympus OM2 for over 20 years before switching to Nikon. -
With symmetrical thrust on a multiengine aircraft, rudder is minimal unless there's a crosswind. With a crosswind, you would transition smoothly from rudder input to coordinated flight right after your aircraft leaves the runway -- never climb in a sideslip.
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Now that I am living in a retirement community I find myself withdrawing from the world more and more and being assimilated into this community more and more. I call this place 'The Warehouse' as it is a warehouse for those of us in our 60s and 70s and 80s and 90s who are really escaping back to the generations we grew up in and are ignoring the current ones. This is the perfect place to do that. I still venture out on the internet but not so much anymore. My posts are further and further apart as are my replies. A lot of it is not caring so much about what goes on in politics or the world anymore. We in the community are like pre-schoolers in a daycare center enjoying the entertainment available to us. My house is gone. My wife is gone so I have no one to care fore anymore. Except for the rent I pay here I have no bills. We watch TV and play games. Four of us, two old ladies and two old men, play poker every Friday night for dimes. Many of my wildlife photographs are hanging on the wall in the hall outside my apartment. There is still room for a few more so every once in a while I'll frame a couple of new ones and one of the maintenance guys will hang them up for me. They feed us three times a day in the dining room but we also have kitchenettes in our apartments so we can skip the dining room and prepare our own meals if we don't care for what's on the menu. I have a nurse who comes in once a week to check my vitals and a physical therapist who makes sure I take my morning walk and do my simple exercises. Luckily I can still drive and have my car so I don't have to take the community bus to go shopping once a week. I still have that amount freedom. I'll still be around from time to time but I wont be a regular anymore as old interests are being replaced by new ones. Noel
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Also, this is now really an aside, but: "Roger" means I understood your last transmission. (Example: "N12345, an A330 at your altitude reported moderate turbulence 20 miles ahead." "Roger.") "Wilco" means I will comply with your last instruction. (Example: N12345, turn left 5 degrees for spacing into O'Hare." "Wilco." Of course, a full readback is more proper.) "Affirmative" means yes. (N12345, do you have the traffic ahead in sight?" "Affirmative.") -
I usually import it direct from Simbrief. I find it's auto-complete / search function actually very nice. -
I'm using MSFS 2020 with FSHUD and FSIPANEL and XP12...
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Simbrief has much less data about preferential runways than BATC already has now. E.g. yesterday Simbrief gave me 10L for EIDW with a headwind of 7 kts. In real life according to the charts (and what BATC correctly did) 28L/R is used up to 10kts of tailwind.
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Great shots Bernd! 😉
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Black Square Duke Released!
Ron Attwood replied to GACSavannah's topic in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)
I've just had my first ride in the Turbine Duke. A very exciting hour or so. 😮 Although I managed a C&D start, (feeling quite smug) I think I'll stick with the 'ordinary' ones. The Turbine feels like a car I would never be able to afford the insurance for! 🙄 -
Ok I should clarify what I meant by that. I think BATC should chose it's departure flow direction from your simbrief runway because that is up to date weather and what you will depart with (I've also had it choose opposite to real life on departure). For landing, I think it should start with your simbrief runway because that is accurate to current weather conditions and almost always accurate to real world ATIS/current real world operations. If you check the logs, BATC is making these nonsensical runway assignments when it first loads, pulling the same current weather data that simbrief is using. If winds don't change much over your flight duration then great, you've still got a nice accurate runway choice from simbrief that has a high likelihood of matching real world ops. If winds change appreciably then BATC can run their own calculations and switch the runway mid flight, but I'd argue the vast majority of people are running 1-3 hour flights where the chance of major wind shifts are low so this would not happen often. If they did it this way I'd bet 90% of the runway selection complaints would disappear. Obviously none of this applies to long haul flyers. I fully recognize and can appreciate the difficulty of solving this problem. I just don't think their current path of relying on discord threads of 100+ posts where you can't be sure your specific airport suggestions were ever acknowledged or implemented manually into the program is the best direction to go when simbrief does 90% of the hard work for you and will work in the vast majority of situation.
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I don't get it. After reading this 2-page post that's pretty much saying that this is a subpar product, a default aircraft that LVFR is collecting $$ for, and you still pay for it. Stop your complaining!!!
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I don’t use BATC, but if it reads taxiway names directly from the scenery, it should resolve the correct real world names with Real Taxiways installed. I can say that with RT installed, LittleNavMap shows the correct names at any airport covered by the product. -
Former airline pilot here. Agree with the hole in the swiss cheese. It's non-standard, and best avoided. That said, people do say it occasionally, and 99% of the time everyone knows what you mean so there isn't an operational problem. But that 1%, there can be confusion, which is why it's best to mention the runway. Even if a controller told me to "Taxi to the active," I would read back "Taxying to Runway 09L" (or whatever), which helps with situational awareness for everyone listening, and gives the controller an opportunity to correct me if I was about to make a mistake. At uncontrolled airports, I would always mention the runway--that way, if there's confusion, at least I'm not making things worse. In sum: "taxi to the active" is not standard, but it's still used from time to time. As good practice though I wouldn't recommend it. (Note: I've only flown in the USA.) As an aside, most (or even virtually all) of the real-world non-standard phrases come from pilots. Controllers in contrast are very disciplined about saying proper things. Pilots can be all over the place--saying "roger" when they mean "wilco" or "affirmative," and on and on. Controllers at busy airports or Centers always have a supervisor literally at arm's length, which probably contributes to their radio discipline.
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Not the way I was taught to fly. You stated that when you flew into an uncontrolled field you asked Unicomm for the "active runway". Suppose nobody was on Unicomm at that particular airfield? I was taught to monitor Unicomm, overfly field above pattern altitude, check the windsock, figure out which runway was preferred due to winds, and then announce that I was entering the pattern, on left or right traffic, downwind for runway X. All this time I would monitor Unicomm to see if anyone else was in my area, and what they were doing. -
It's not that hard. Preferential runways are available in the charts within Navigraph. As long as those match with the database, it's basically just like in real life. Using the simbrief data is not possible, because Simbrief data is created at the planning state. What if wind changes? Oh and aircraft type *is* considered for the assignment (via the Simbrief IATA type, mostly for what's the minimum runway requirement for the type).
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Indeed it is. Always be as concrete as possible during radio communications.
