CVEP

You've obviously never owned a French car. They're nice, but not very reliable. From all the repair costs you can easily afford an Audi. Same with MSFS2020. It should just install and work, but no, we have to delete a hidden file in order to make it run. This just reminds me of the times when we turned off the radio in my father's Peugeot when the weather report was on the radio, so it wouldn't hear it and act up.

Microsoft is still like a French car. The development team is mostly French, so doesn't surprise me we have issues. X-plane has a much better interface for installation, you can also check your installation for errors and then repair it. Not with MSFS2020. It just hangs.

But it doesn't perform so great. Had 15 fps on final rwy 17. Was cloudy and rainy, but Schiphol performs better than this relatively small airport. I hope they do something to fix it, otherwise I'll just go back to my converted TropicalSim LPPR2014.

If I recall correctly you can’t land your Cessna at ORD, I think JFK and ATL are also for-bitten

I am also very happy. I hope they release their beautiful Copenhagen scenery

I don’t get it. I’m s real world pilot too. When I use the real wx download option it looks good enough. I can do plausible IFR approaches in the soup. I have had ASN on fsx. I don’t think it’s much better.

I really don’t think the weather looks so bad. I use default wx. You see fronts, hardly ever weather shifts. You can actually fly into weather. Overcast looks like overcast. The only thing that’s not so good is variable wind. It’s way to aggressive and not like in real life where it is more gradual.

I find airline flying much more immersive in XP-11. Flying with Zibo’s 738 mod beats the PMDG NG for me. Also because the VC looks a lot better and the flight dynamics. We have better push back, many free ware airports have active jetways and there’s ground service and WT3. The FF A320, and 757 are also great. The way planes move in the air looks less sim like in XP than in the FSX based sims. I spend mostly money on airplanes and that’s not often. Most great scenery is free and of good quality and performance. I do enjoy Aerosoft’s EDDF and would buy any future release of that quality. I fly XP-11 99.9 % of my simtime.

EDDF-EDDT

Default is pretty good now

I wonder if they changed anything to the ground effect. I don’t think so

I changed nothing, I just wanted to check if my Cessna was going to make a dipsey doodle if I let go of the rudder. And my plane didn't do that

I tried to replicate that cessna video in X-plane and now the torque and p-factor seem to be way too mild. If I let go of the rudder right after I take off, the airplane sort of keeps going in the same direction, with a slight left tendancy. Maybe they got it right all along and just needed to fix the ground friction.

Well, the video doesn't prove which one is more realistic. You can't fly a plane without rudder pedals. I have a pilot license and automatically add right rudder on take off and have no problem ever in x-plane. It's hard to say which is more realistic as we can't feel the force on the rudder, but you automatically do what you have to do to keep the plane going in the right direction, like riding a bike.

I remember first playing the fsx demo and was blown away by how it looked. Now XP-11 does it for me and anything esp based seems old