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Nothing here, but maybe they made an old version compatible in the marketplace? DId you own the 2020 version?

There's a GA airport (can't remember which one) that has a bar right off the parking area. I thought that was neat. I know Orbx has one of their fictional ones that has a whole house. Definitely kind of a novelty but I might use it a little more. Like you said, most just don't have enough detail.

I wonder where they put these at existing airports? Do they find an existing FBO and just replace it, or add an entire section to the airport? I wouldn't want there to be some building not even on the airport diagram. I like the idea, mostly because so many airport devs don't pay much attention to this kind of stuff. You might get a bland hanger that says Signature on it, but that's about it.

I believe (at least for GA) that the actual aircraft POH is intellectual property of the manufacturer, so they can't just freely include them. I think this is even why you're seeing the company name not used in addons (note that the latest A2A plane does not have Lancair anywhere in the description - it is an "A2A Legacy 550RG"). I'm not a developer, so if I'm speaking out of turn, please let me know. The same thing happens in first person shooter games, you often see fake or changed names on guns. I would like to see GA plane makers include a simple pattern/tutorial flight. Sometimes the checklist has what you need, other times not. I'm not throwing stones at anyone in particular but I know I struggled landing a newer taildragger addon because I didn't know the proper approach speed (was coming in way too fast). As for paper vs digital, I haven't printed anything out in years. Less clutter is good for me. If you want to print something out, you can do so. The high cost of ink comes into play. Personally I love my 10 inch Amazon Tablet. They are on sale right now. You can throw any PDF into Google Drive and view it on a nice big tablet screen, even large enough for my old eyes. I've got no stake in Amazon, but their hardware is more reasonably priced than other brands. I use those old paper manuals to start a fire in my grill.

I still don't own this plane (no marketplace yet), but I was confused about the FSRealistic post. I do own FSrealistic+ but was confused how it could actually mess with a flight model. My understanding is it is just sounds and vibrations. Again I don't have the upgrade yet but curious about what FSR+ is doing (or maybe just some wierd, random interaction?).

I recently purchased KLPR since it is in my general area. I have no issues with it. I wouldn't put them up there with the Burning Blue type GA airfields, but they are still solid quality. I'm not familiar with KLPR but the addon seems a little... bland? Although I checked Google Earth and it seems fairly simple in real life. There's people around which is nice, but there's not a lot of "things" around like trash cans, etc you'd expect to find. Again though, I'm not familiar with the real life one and maybe it is just like that. I usually wait for marketplace sales to pick up GA airports. I rarely pay full price, especially for smaller fields. I don't own a ton of UK2000 stuff, mostly because their airports aren't in regions a fly a lot, but I'm fine with their quality of the few I have.

Some people have common sense, some don't. We need regulations because of the latter group. I see both sides, I think those things are cool looking, and I love buzzing around in MSFS with the Jetson. I don't want to stifle innovation, but we also can't just leave people to do the smart or right thing. I'd love to take a spin in one of these things, but I also don't want some moron with more money than brains crashing it through my roof.

There's so many deeper issues at play here: -Connecting anything to the internet whether it is needed or not. I could see needing to remotely monitor temperature, but make it read only so that it can't be hacked. It is bad design from the start. -Apparently, at least for some, the username is admin, and the password is simply today's date. Some reports said that it couldn't even be changed. Again, bad design. -There were updates available to fix this, of course they don't always get applied. -This happened earlier (I think a month or two ago) and was all over the mainstream news, yet people still leave their systems vulnerabe. Companies have been slashing IT staff and budgets for years, the IT job market is rough right now. Yet, you hear about countless hacks and other technical issues. Companies would rather cut costs and deal with the fallout rather than deal with preventable issues. Tech companies design things to ship fast, and fix them later. Staying on top of updates is critial. Hacking is only going to get worse with AI. AI can sit there and endlessly try things, search limitless amounts of information to find ways in. Companies are focusing on it less while the problem is getting exponentially worse.

I do not have this upgrade yet (waiting on the marketplace version), but people on their discord seem to be complaining about the old sliding on takeoff issue that was eventually fixed in the 2020 version, but seems to be back now? Although not everyone seems to have it?

Is the trim indicator supposed to be so difficult to see? I can barely tell where I am at takeoff (I did find the option to hide the throttle so it gets out of the way).

I'm confused about this drag bug. I thought it was fixed with the 7.1 patch, but it is still there? I'll stick with the A2A stuff that likely isn't impacted anyway.

I finally got to fly around in this and it is a hotrod! I fly low and slow GA planes, this thing moves. I have a hard time keeping it to a reasonable pattern. It is definitely twitchy on my cheap TM Airbus TCA. Hopefully playing around withe the sensitivity curves will help some. I'm learning the autopilot, mostly struggling with getting the dial to do what I want. I was trying to adjust the trk heading and it only moves in increments of 5. I got the Ext Dg mode to work and the alt hold, that's enough for now.

You can do a similar thing with Google Sheets and Google maps. I keep all my airports listed in a spreadsheet, then import that into Maps and it will show you where all your airports are.

For me it isn't just about disk space. I had my community folder wiped out twice, along with all the files in it. I had a backup for some, but not all of it. It also gives you a nice map of your airport addons, as well as much easier searching, much easier ways to turn things on and off, etc. More than once the addon linker has caught duplicate sceneries I have. I never thought I needed one, but once I started using it, I realized how useful it was.

I've got everything exported (and backed up on my cloud storage). I've only ever had to import once, but it worked fine. I've never lost all my configs, only had a weird issue where I make some changes, and those changes somehow don't get saved and revert back. Yes, everyone should go in and export at least the important ones. I don't bother with things like rudder pedals, I can recreate those easily. I will go an extra step and screenshot everything important too. Only takes a moment to scroll through and hit Win+print screen, I do that with my graphic settings too.

Just reading through the manual and you can not only change the prop blades, but also change specifics in the engine and performance. I imagine there's so many different performance options available that there would be tons and tons of different performance numbers. It would be nice if they included something for a default setup that is similar to their real world version. Here's what I found online: The Lancair Legacy RG-550 has a maximum range of 1,150 statute miles (approx. 1,000 nautical miles or 1,850 km) at 8,000 feet with standard fuel reserves Fuel Capacity: 65 US gallons Fuel Consumption: 13.5 to 15 gallons per hour (gph) Cruise Speed: 240 KTAS (approx. 276 mph) at 8,000 ft Endurance: Approximately 4 hours (with reserves) Engine: Continental IO-550-N (260–310 hp)

One thing I notice is I have to run the Xbox app to get updates now instead of just the MS Store. I don't remember having to do that in the past. I regularly check the store for any updates for various apps, but really never run the Xbox app.

I've had this bug ongoing for some time. It only happens once in awhile (and has nothing to do with the latest updates). Flo pro sometimes doens't fully load and nothing works. Restarting the sim or even just the flight fixes it.

Yes, and honestly, "could be" should be "already is". Back when I started in this field back when the years started in 19--, we got hit with one of the first email viruses, back before any real virus protection. People clicked on a thing, it opened and emailed a copy to everyone else. Basic by today's standards. Modern email would never allow something like that today. I remember it like it was yesterday. I sprinted (I was a young man back then) down the hall and ripped the network cable out the back of the server. I didn't ask permission, I didn't ask any bosses, it was bad and needed to shut down immediately. We've having actual discussions with senior leadership at our company, basically telling them we may need to simply shut off services, including production stuff that is customer facing at times without warning. Including the middle of the day, etc. Be prepared for major services to go down at any time. I mentioned a few MSFS addon developers doing just that. That will be the new normal. The biggest fear is once your personal data is out there, that's it. The only advice I can give is pretty common now - Use a password manager and a different password for everything. You don't want someone hacking some random forum you signed up for 5 years ago and finding out that your password is the same for something important.

I can tell you that security is going to get worse and worse. The idea of patch schedules are going to get thrown out the window. The latest PHP vulnerability caused lots of people to simply shut down until the patch came out. The problem is: -Companies use AI to find potential vulnerabilities in products (good thing) -Company releases patches to fix security issues -Bad guys use AI to reverse engineer the patch to find and exploit the vulnerability So, basically once the patch is out, it needs to be put in ASAP. It used to be test in lower environments, then push to prod. Now, it needs to be push to prod and test in prod. Where I work, we have multiple dev and test environments where stuff gets tested before going into prod. We're simply not going to have the time to do that now. There's going to be patches slammed into prod with downtime during the day. There's too much risk. You may have seen a few MSFS addon devs simply shutting down services until the patch was out. This is going to be the new normal. They were smart to do so. The fundamental problem is AI can basically do the work of finding and exploiting vulnerabilities faster than any person. Zero day vulnerabilities always existed, but there was still usually time before someone actually starts exploiting it. Now, days or hours has become minutes and seconds. Companies have been downsizing IT departments for years too and many places simply don't have the staff to work in this new normal. What used to be quarterly or monthly patch cycles are just going on constantly now. The biggest worry is all these companies that have our data and simply won't be able to keep up with security patching.

I know, I got my hopes up the past few weekends as they mentioned early October at one point. They mentioned releasing more videos, so I'm not overly getting my hopes up for this weekend. Who knows though. I can't remember which day of the week they typically drop on either. Some devs like mid week, others like the weekends. Whenever they have the support staff available. Going by their Discord channel it seems they always find something to improve. I can't wait. Even with my already very high standards for A2A, that video was impressive with even more features.

Just "very soon" but it is A2A. It will be done when they say it is done. 😄

An addon linker requires almost no disk space, that's one of the many benefits. There's no need to move community for disk space.

Not sure, but hopefully at least this points you in the right direciton. Personally, I'd set the community folder to the default location and leave it alone. I know it can be customized, but I know there can be issues. I'd take a step back, put the useroptions file back to default (default community location), and copy one addon folder directly into the default community folder and try that. Take the linker out of it for now. No need to copy them all yet, just try one you can check in sim easily. Remember too there's a "community2024" folder that was added. Might be worth a try, although the default one should work. Your community should be c:\users\%username%\appdata\local\packages\microsoft.limitless_8wekyb3d8bbwe\localcache\packages\community

You probably already checked, but browse to your community folder using Windows explorer and make sure the simlink folders are there and you can double click one and have it take you to where the addons are stored. Don't just trust what addon linker says. Again you probably tried this but I'd uncheck all the addons and re-check them to recreate the links.