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All really beautiful! I love the afterburners! What kind of aircraft is that?

All the big airports are the same to me - there is a small performance hit especially once you have batc, si or live traffic running with AI aircraft all over. I don't think any airport that I own doesn't come with a performance hit...some are worse than others. Sorry I don't have any scientific numbers etc.

That looks really cool. Options are great! A decked out PA18 is quite amazing I think!

I picked it up - mostly using it for GA flying... they did a nice job modelling the FBOs - they were mostly skipped in previous sims. Just a few shots. I did notice the ASR (radar) disappears too fast due to a LOD issue... I'll have to email them about that

I was a skeptic but I went ahead and tried this mod. It uses ReShade - doesn't really seem to have any noticeable affect on fps What does it do? It seems to change the color of the entire scene, it adds haze when applicable - it can change the density of the cloud voxels/appearance, it simulates flying through IMC with realistic effects, it can show your aircraft shadow on clouds if the conditions warrant. It will also show the weather phenomenon known as a glory which I've also seen irl - super cool! This app relies on metar data in an attempt to render more realistic scenes at the airport. There is a little bit of cloud popping but it does do a decent job of transitioning to global live weather enroute. I also had a small bug where I could see clouds in the cockpit (gauges were cloudy etc) You can also disable/enable this quickly with Ctrl Shift F9 which is nice Default clouds approaching Fargo, ND (metar calls for low vis, low ceilings and rain) - definitly a case where the default looks awful and nothing like real life The mod does a nice job rendering the low stratiform overcast layer... and the nearby virga and rain. The lighting is also way off in the default pic A cool pic of a glory on my flight earlier in the day. It's basically mist/rain/clouds creating a prism from the sun

Yes they are :)

I tend to fly other's paints but I'm taking one of my classic paints, N508DB from Detroit City KDET to Cleveland's Burke Lake Front KBKL. Back in the Realair days I was able to chat with Don Barnes about how his Legacy flies - this was a default paint on the Realair Legacy and I've recreated it here for the A2A (I also made it for the FSW first) This is a VFR flight where I simulate talking to Detroit approach for a class B transition along the lakeshore, and then turn east towards BKL with flight following. I also fly past Put-in-Bay airport, 3W2 on South Bass Island. I think we need some nice scenery for that airport! I've already asked Dfflyer Direct to make it (the guy who made BKL and Cleveland skyline scenery as shown in this post). KDET is created by Orbx. I did fly this in real time with real weather - it's rare I find clear VFR hehe. Hope you enjoy! My impression of DET is that it's pretty old and worn down These hangars were just rust buckets hehe Perhaps it was once a great city... Flying south down the Detroit River (separates US from Canada) Wanna Race?! (The Gordie Howe International Bridge is completed irl hehe) Looking west at Detroit Metro KDTW Head south-ish near I-75 and the Western shore of Lake Erie We cut east at the northern edge of Toledo, OH These little islands are a popular vacation spot in the summer, 3W2 airport, just shy of 2900 ft long, can accommodate most singles and maybe a few daring twins lol. The low afternoon light is casting such a beautiful hue on my airframe here Headed over towards Port Clinton (KPCW) Quite a lovely area Near Lorain, OH (there's a payware of KLPR by UK2000) and it's lighthouses keeping great lakes vessels safe! Seeing the CLE skyline and approach will send us to Lakefront Tower in a moment... and we'll enter the right downwind for RY24R Just sublime lighting NFL stadium home to the Cleveland Browns Sun in my face with 3 whites and a red A great flight! Some "drone" shots I snapped after sunset - a really nice scenery by Dfflyer! The cars drive around the parking lots too lol! A nicer skyline view (I also bought his city pack for Cleveland)

I would just do you want hehe. But if you want my opinion, I think it will get done eventually. I'd just model it for the future.

We've been at odds before. Medium is not acceptable so it's not nonsense to me. It's fine that it is for you, but for me (and clearly others), it's not. I'm not willing to run a sim that I spend thousands of dollars on as my primary hobby at "just okay-ish" settings. To me 16GB is the bare minimum at 1440p resolution or greater - for anyone using airport and or aircraft addons. I wish I'd bought a 4090 when I bought this 4080 a few yeas ago. It was only 350 USD more at the time. It's totally fine to recommend someone an 8GB card as a minimum but they won't except to see amazing visuals. There will be compromises with an 8GB card, as you have seen on your own rig. Hardware is only going to get more expensive. For @Jarnie - keep looking for used cards... try to get a 5060Ti 16GB. Or possibly a 4070 Ti Sup0er - You could also go AMD and try for a 9060 XT - also 16GB.

Ditto. I've been a bad boy lately HAHA! Christopher had written in the other thread about spending habits...yikes! For me, I prefer to fly to an addon airport... don't mind freeware either but tend to use payware :)

Console is Microsoft's biggest customer The other issue is: no one can afford to build a high end PC anyway. This summer I saw a nice Corsair prebuilt with a 9800X3D and RTX 5090, 64GB ram for like 4800. It's now over 10k lol!

I can't really remember (that means I bought too many LOL). Is this UK Event like the FSExpo that was in St Paul, MN this summer?

I agree. I watched a video where you can see a sun dog or I'm not exactly sure what its called... I've seen it in real life when I've flown...and also you can see your aircraft's shadow on the clouds... that's amazing. And looks like he (or AI hehe) implemented the look of flying through moisture like that other AI app. The app appears to have come a long way from the start. I kinda see why people are saying it looks worse... but really I think the cloud voxels are just closer/more dense. We all got so used to happy little blurry clouds. I guess we forgot that clouds used to look like this:

I just flew in myself from BUR this afternoon in the Legacy! Pretty nice scenery for the price Great pics

Most people just have no clue how dark the world is at night. Our resident kiwikat has done a great job with his addon! It's a little less effective when flying airliners due to the aggressive LOD in 2024 (basically there is a medium radius that this app kills off lights around you). But it's amazing below 10k and still pretty nice below 20k imo. While we're on the subject of night addons, I HIGHLY recommend the mod that can kill the stupid bloom and star-like filter effects on lights. It can also kill lens flare. Flightsim.toMSFS 2024 Camera FX Off - No Lens Flare, Bloom or Star Ra...✓ For Microsoft Flight Simulator: A ReShade add-on that removes the "filmed with a camera" look from MSFS 2024: the lens flare, bloom with lens dirt, and the star rays on city, airport and aircraft...

I don't know of any legacies that would have that though. Now I'd take the Aerostar with fiki and turbocharging :)

Pretty much echo's my thoughts. Also FSW has the nice turbocharged legacy... with a decent tailwind I've easily seen 360 knots+ in the lower FLs. I like that FSW also did oxygen as well - don't think A2A has done that. Even with TC, the legacy's NA engine can easily get above 12,500 (USA not sure about rest of the world's oxy requirements) - it would be a great bird to take up to 17,500 vfr with portable O2 imo. The only thing that would make the A2A better for ME, is a GFC500X or whatever the experimental GFC is now that Garmin sells. I wish the G5's would talk to the autopilot - it will if you set the Sorcerer to EXT DG at least for HDG bug, but it's kinda annoying (just a little not like majorly) to have to bug two altitudes, once in the AP and once on the G5. A2A really did an amazing job with both the G5s and the Sorcerer. Now I need the A2A G5 in all of my other aircraft LOL. There are some reasonable mods but nothing comes close to how accurate A2A have made theirs. I also like how A2A opted to add in the features like OAT, wind direction etc. It's just super helpful in the sim environment to have those little added features. IMO, FSW has a slight edge on the visual model/textures in the external view. I think they're about the same in the cockpit. I slightly prefer FSW's sounds. But I slightly prefer A2A's flight model. Both have fairly deep systems though I think with Accusim their engine modelling goes deeper since it's outside of what is possible in the Microsoft SDK. You really can't go wrong with either. Both developers have poured their tender loving care into the aircraft and it shows! Both also have a lot of panel and avionics options. I've converted some of paints to the A2A version as well.

There are SO many addon airports available for flightsim... pretty amazing how far we've come.

Yeah I'd remove it 😂 Also. The TO finally added a category for a2a legacy paints https://flightsim.to/liveries/accu-sim-legacy-rg550/popular

You never used RXP? Those worked fine for me when using VSR. I think even flight1 had a trainer based GNS.

I'm interested. A super cub is pretty cool! Quite capable.

SWS PC12 lol? FSW Legacy I'm guessing the other guy means? I think it's a great addon - love the turbo myself and glass - take her up to fl250 with O2 find a nice tailwind and hit nearly 400 knots!

Lots of clicks to get vnav working in the sorcerer hehe. It's like one in the Garmin GFC wink

I'm not trying to get into a debate, but I am aware of what's needed irl as I fly a plane with a GNS430W (well now its a 650xi) and we've got dual G5s. But sometimes for simming purposes, I think it's fair to make a few sacrifices for complete reality vs what is nice to have while simming. Data entry is by far the biggest annoyance in VR. The little keyboard icon is helpful.. but only if you're a rockstar typist hehe. I don't mind the GNS series themselves... superb avionics! I just prefer the TDS GTNxi as well.

Right knob? You probably ran into the same issue as me. If you use Legacy mouse control you have to either double click the middle mouse button or double click L and R mouse buttons. But yeah I can add an altitude, swap the PFD to ehsi etc. you can change what info is displayed. You change the hsi to wide angle etc