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Most scenery works, if it’s not officially compatible with 2024 (ie no direct installation to the 2024 community folder) I just copy it over from my 2020 community folder. I use addon linker for all of my 2020 freeware that I have sorted by region. Most work fine, occasionally there will be trees in weird places or some elevation issues but I’ve found those to be rare. Aircraft are a different story as 2020 aircraft working in 2024 is much more hit or miss. You’ll want to do some checking to see if they work rather than assuming that they will.
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I’ll be looking forward to this one when it gets to 2024. Side note, I have a feeling the next few Sim updates will get most of the remaining 2020 holdouts (I’m one for about 25% of my flying a aircraft specific) to move over, so any devs investing long lead time developments will end up switching to 2024 anyway mid development or be stuck behind the curve.
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I received mine last night, my initial thoughts after setting it up and doing one flight: - Set up was real relatively straightforward although the instructions perhaps could’ve been better. There are two clips that appeared to be for cable management that I couldn’t really figure out what the instructions were trying to tell me, but they don’t seem to be crucial to the operation so right now I didn’t bother doing anything with them. - I bought the table clamp as well and once I got it all assembled, I was able to attach it to the edge of my desk on a very angle so it wasn’t taking up desk space and also more closely mimicked the alignments that this would be in on a real aircraft. - the quality seems quite good, especially at this price point. Long-term durability, of course is a bit of an unknown, but as of now it has a good tactile fuel on all the buttons, and the build quality appears to be quite good. - the setup of the supporting software is a bit of a pain as it didn’t find all the Microsoft flight simulator folders it needs (actually it didn’t find any of them) and while some were obvious like the community folder, some were a bit more challenging to figure out what they were asking for. The instructions for the software aren’t as clear as they could be either, there’s a whole section where it appears that you should be able to load a set up for key presses, but it doesn’t work that I could figure out. However, in the end, it doesn’t seem like it actually matters. I couldn’t find useful information on this anywhere in the instructions. - in the sim I was very impressed. The screen is quite clear and bright and once you get the Sim running it all just works well for the most part. I did run into a few things where the screen stopped showing what was on the in SIM screen, however usually pressing a button on the in SIM unit would have the hardware catch up. It is interesting as clearly the display is not just passing through what is on the screen in the Sim, which I guess makes sense given that you’re not having to undock a window and drag it over. - I also have a Skalarki MCDU which provides an interesting opportunity to compare this one given that it’s much much cheaper than the Skalarki unit was. In short, if the Airbus version of this existed when I was in the market for an MCDU, I would never have bothered looking at the much more expensive Skalarki MCDU. It’s also nice that it doesn’t require a connection beyond a usb. My Skalarki unit used a VGA (which I had to convert to DVI), power and USB connection- lots more cables on my desk. Unless the winwing one ends up not being durable long-term, or something like that, I honestly don’t know why anybody would spend money on a Skalarki one unless they are building a full cockpit or something like that. All of this assumes that they will sort out the issues around broad aircraft support, etc. In summary, I’m super impressed. There’s a few little niggles to work out for sure but this is a great piece of equipment, especially at the price point. I had only planned on buying the 737 version but I may end up splurging on the 777 and 747 versions once they come out, it’s that good.
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I’m jealous of all the places it got to visit! 😀 If my shipping log is to be believed (I have to wonder if something is not reporting in the right order) mine went Shanghai - Oakland - Sennan-Shi (?) in Japan - Oakland - Memphis - Montreal - Halifax and now out for delivery. All makes sense except the Oakland - Japan Oakland part, I’m assuming that’s a tracking issue. I remember buying a Fanatec wheel and it went Los Angeles - Heathrow - Toronto - Halifax…literally flew over my house twice 😂
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COWS DA-40XLS Cannot Assign Axis
regis9 replied to Rocky_53's topic in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020/2024)
Hmmm I wonder if it’s something MSFS2020 specific then since I’m not seeing the issue? By chance do you have the TQ6 enabled in the virtual fly software? -
COWS DA-40XLS Cannot Assign Axis
regis9 replied to Rocky_53's topic in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020/2024)
Here's my hybrid FSUIPC and MSFS2024 setup (hopefully this should work the same in MSFS2020): Left throttle lever in FSUIPC: https://imgur.com/Kno7Qvm Left Propeller lever in MSFS: https://imgur.com/koJuEl5 Left mixture lever in MSFS: https://imgur.com/Ym49Y2c Hope this helps! Dave -
COWS DA-40XLS Cannot Assign Axis
regis9 replied to Rocky_53's topic in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020/2024)
I successfully got it mapped in 2024. I did the throttle in FSUIPC (because of the reverse detent on the TQ6) and did the other two in MSFS. I’m mid flight right now but will confirm my setup after I land if someone else doesn’t get there first. -
Agree completely…I was willing to give them a pass on the 4090 being ridiculously hard to get for a very long time given supply chain issues coming out of the pandemic, but come on, there’s no excuse now for your flagship card to be completely unavailable after release. Do they like making money? Maybe after their stock took a hammering last week they’ll be more interested in making money and actually having their products available for sale?