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  1. Yep, most major holidays have a sale. I'd expect a "spring" sale around Easter. Sales around holidays often happen in the MS Store.
  2. It has been great seeing our hobby go from a tiny niche to more mainstream. With a lot of products comes a lot of sales. Every storefront that I use has a "wishlist" feature that makes it easy to mark products. Then most weekends I look at my wishlists and see if anything I want is on sale. I find it really helps cut down on impulse buys, and by the time products go on sale, we're many updates in. There's a lot of good deals out there, especially on scenery if you look around. I rarely pay full price for anything, unless it is an aircraft I know I'll use a lot.
  3. Yeah I've had similar issues with the Razer updater. I love their products, but the updates are rough. They take forever and your PC can seemingly lock up with no reason as to why. The updates can take a very long time, and there can be a big delay before it even tells you what it is doing.
  4. The slow downloads are definitely on their end and kind of random. I had zero problems downloading the last world update (while many did), yet this latest small update took several minutes. Sometimes small updates in the marketplace take forever too. It isn't our connections, as it works sometimes just fine. I play MSFS on PC, but I own an Xbox, and updates/downloads do the same thing there. Sometimes I get a 2mb update that takes minutes to run. Other times I can download an entire game in 15 minutes. It isn't all our connections. I have no problems with things like Steam, online games, etc.
  5. I'm no expert in this industry, but one trend I notice overall in business is that companies focus on short term profits above all else. Companies exist to make a profit, that's obvious. I think what's changed is that there's so much pressure on the current stock price and the current numbers. Companies act against their own long term interests to make things "look good" in the short term. Another big problem is that the high level executives make mistakes and the regular workers get let go. Executive pay explodes, yet they seem to face much less accountability. If anything, the CEO gets let go (with a major compensation package), but everyone else just continues on. Few people have heard of the higher ups past the CEO. To tap dance on a potentially sensitive subject, there's a lot of political narratives around big business. "We can't tax/regulate them or they'll leave!". At least here in the US, we've seen a massive reduction in regulations over the decades, and probably not coincidentally, a lot more problems like these. I think expecting these companies to regulate themselves has been a massive failure across all business. I think people outside the US would be shocked to see how little gov't oversight there is in many industries.
  6. GA plane is easy: A2A Comanche Airports? I enjoy KBKL - Burke Lafefront (Cleveland). Reminds me of the good old days with Meigs (there's pretty good payware, can't remember who) KBUF (not really a small airport but my home base) (Inibuilds has a good one) KAVX - Catalina (Orbx) Any of the great freeeware for California from our own vbazillio/Vincent! I couldn't pick just one. St Barths
  7. As a sim only pilot, I was having this problem a lot. What I noticed was that I was flying really far out traffic patterns. I was far too wide and far too long for a normal traffic pattern. I was often losing sight of the field. I watched a lot of real world videos on traffic patterns and have been practicing a ton. Now I'm flying what are hopefully better patterns and I notice I keep the runway in sight much, much better. No idea if this is your problem as well, but it might help. One tip is to check any flight tracker app that shows flight paths. Look for GA airports on nice days and find people doing pattern work. Zoom in with the satellite view and you can often pick up some visual points that are in the sim. Then do lots of touch and gos, just like real pilots practice. It was obvious in hindsight, but something I never really thought about as a long time flight simmer.
  8. My first flight sim was Sierra's 3D Helicopter Sim from 1987. I think it came along with a computer we bought. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra's_3-D_Helicopter_Simulator Later on, I played a ton of the Microprose combat sims. I remember F15, and the F19 Stealth Fighter game. Anyone remember the Chuck Yeager games? I played a lot of the Advanced Flight Trainer. Later on there was a combat game, but I think that was in the 90s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Yeager's_Advanced_Flight_Trainer
  9. Nice. Been waiting awhile for this one. Seems like they announced it ages ago.
  10. Anything that prevents me from having to use the MSFS 2020 flight planner is a big win for me.
  11. I'm using CH Rudder Pedals that I bought back in August 2005. Still work fine and are supported, so I haven't had much reason to replace them.
  12. MSFS 2020 brought me back to this hobby. I am a long time simmer, back to the early days of MSFS, MicroProse combat sims, Fly!, Flight Unlimited, X-Plane, etc. A couple of years before MSFS 2020, I was pretty much done with simming. I had flown FSX as much as I could (could never get that sim to run smooth no matter how much hardware I threw at it). I moved to X-Plane and really enjoyed it for awhile, but ultimately things just got stale for me. Flying VFR over generic landclass from any of the older sims was just not very engaging for me. Eventually my spare time just went to different things. Fast forward to MSFS 2020 and not only does it look great, but runs great on realistic hardware. I had to pull my old joysticks and rudder pedals out of old boxes and give it a try. So, this brought me back to the hobby and helped me rediscover that passion. (so, that's a big negative for the rest of you!). I'm trying to get the hang of helicopters now flying around the New York city area and it is just something that I never experienced in past versions. I fly over the scenery and see something interesting and I swap to my phone to look what that really is. If MSFS 2020 is for "casuals", then I guess I'm a casual, because I'm having tons of fun.
  13. Flightsim dot to has a great shift z mod that basically makes it work like past MS games. It is freeware and great.
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