Bert Pieke

As a student pilot, flying solo in marginal weather, the list gets a lot shorter..

These are all good recommendations, but as mentioned above, you should first decide what kind of avionics you want to use for your training... If you would like to switch to "glass", you could choose the Garmin G1000 which is very common in these kind of aircraft, and well modelled in the sim, thanks to Working Title.. In this case, you do not need to purchase payware aircraft.. You might start in the Beech G36 Bonanza, and later upgrade to the TBM 930 or Beech Baron. All excellent default aircraft! If you prefer analog gauges, coupled with a Garmin GNS530, I would suggest the Blacksquare A36 Bonanza, followed by the Baron etc.. If you would like the latest Garmin GPS, the GTN750, it can be purchased separately, later.. and added to these aircraft, in place of the GNS530. 🙂 Lastly, also consider what kind of autopilot you are comfortable with... The Justflight Arrow, for example, has a rudimentary autopilot which just might get you killed when you are in challenging conditions.. This, unfortunately, happens in real life too.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dOwr0jwF30

If you own the premium deluxe package, you own the PC24.. 🙂

Just to complete my investigation.. I turned off GAIST in the Community folder, and still get a Gabriola ferry, with the correct name, Island Gwawis, but the visual model is an Asobo ferry that does not look like the real thing.. So for me, GAIST is well worth enabling.. especially since all my local ferry routes appear to be populated with good looking models.. 🙂

Are the screenshots above OK?

Useless is a bit strong of a term... as you can see, I do get the BC Ferries showing where I live.. and that adds a lot to the overall feel of the area. BTW, can you see the screenshots? I have heard that Imgur does not work well in the UK.. If need be, I can provide download links.

Just looked up these ferry names... Both the Island Aurora and Island Gwawis are in service and look alike. The Island Gwawis is actually the ferry that sails the Gabriola route. And this is what I find in the GAIST folder: [fltsim.0] title=AI_Island_Aurora model=Aurora texture= ui_manufacturer=Henrik Nielsen ui_type=BC Ferry

OK, here is the Gabriola ferry: Island Aurora.. I believe this is a GAIST ship. The label in MSFS is different, as you can see from the screenshot.. Why, I do not know..

Not sure the labels make it through.. but I do see BC Ferries in the water off Vancouver Island, and I do not believe that Asobo would have created those.. These are Henrik's ships..

Sorry.. do not know.. St Lawrence Seaway, yes..

I've now got "live marine traffic" working.. Flight Environment: Air Traffic live Settings / Graphics / Global Rendering Quality: Sea Traffic medium or higher Settings / Online: Traffic type Real time on line Settings / Flight interface: Show Marine Traffic nameplates ON Optional: GAIST enabled in Community folder

If you, like me, bought the lovely T34b recently, you might have run into a malfunctioning glideslope indicator on the HSI, when selecting a GPS approach.. To Carenado's credit, they were willing to share the HSI xml code with me, and I was able to figure out what had gone wrong.. So, if you run into this and would like a fix, send me a PM.. 🙂

If you downloaded in error you can uninstall in your library.. that should give you back your disk space.

Under online?

Do I get to see GAIST ships, or asobo ships? And if the latter, do I need to turn off GAIST for it to work?

How do I turn on this online traffic?

I see no GAIST ships... have tried every setting I can find..

I feel the same way.. Lots of attention to detail, great looking cockpits, a joy to fly.. Easily my favourite airplanes in MSFS 2024.

I think you might like the BKSQ Caravan.. I much prefer it over the 2020 Kodiak which I also fly in 2024. As others have mentioned, the Kodiak is unpredictable at low speeds, and likes to do a Kangaroo hop (or two) if not landed just so. The Caravan is very well behaved and with its auto-beta range feature will slow down the plane quickly on bush strips.. one of my favorite planes.. 🙂

Try capping your fps..

Here is the TDS GTN flightplan: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/hd3iaypnqi50jh52muyo4/0S1_CYCZ.zip?rlkey=bq3wzaki722tyoxqxqelzp43c&st=swnk4ong&dl=0 First multiplayer flight after SU5 release.. should be interesting.. 😉

Some elevation issues remain, but visually it all looks better 🙂

I still find this 2020 addon an improvement: https://flightsim.to/addon/834/merril-c-meigs-field-kcgx I added a Z in front of the file name to make it load above DD Chicago.

Here is a "time limited" copy of my 2020 v2 version.. unzip and drop into your Community folder. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/x54vgx1bry3s501jsq60e/asobo-aircraft-tbm930-v2.zip?rlkey=khxawkf88auhymkylipw60i6r&st=qr86dewu&dl=0