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I certainly have voted on it but I don't have a link to the thread I'm afraid; it's there somewhere!

It still doesn't fix the lack of lighting on VATSIM/IVAO/Simconnect injected traffic making them invisible at night ☹️

There seems to be lot of reinventing of wheels going on with weather. All of the issues noted here were solved for FS many, many, years ago. As an avid Vatsimmer this is all extremely frustrating 🙄

I just thought of another one I miss tremendously from earlier FS's; the ability to undock a panel/gauge/view and move it to a second monitor. For Vatsimming, having the radio stack permanently accessible on the 2nd monitor is a must and that ability doesn't appear to exist in MSFS (yet?) .

1. ACTIVE SKY!!! Particularly for Vatsim use. 2. Flight/situation saving and loading so I can recover to a point in mid flight.

They do! Every Vatsim region (as far I'm aware) has a web page where you can see the ATC Bookings in advance! I've been on there for 16 years and never had a problem in finding where and when the control is going to be.

I once knew a chap who bought a Compuserve t-shirt. He wore it once and let's just say it was a "conversation piece" for the evening. He never wore it again. These days he would have sued everyone over his "protected identity" or for a "hate crime" or for being "Compuservephobic" or similar. In other words, NO!

I go back to FSX every time I want to fly big-tin IFR in a true study level airliner because I simply can't do that in MSFS (yet). For VFR it's MSFS every time. Horses for courses for the time being.

As regards an AS wx model, my priorities are accuracy of live wx for online flying in particular at airfields which determines runway in use. Also interfacing with on board systems as currently happens with AS and PMDG aircraft so the FMS can load enroute wind and depict wx on the radar. The AS ability to source metars from Vatsim makes a HUGE difference because it keeps you on the same page as the ATC who will not, probably ever, have the MSFS wx in their systems.

I thought this thread was locked already? Do us a favour and lock it again? TIA

I'm happily running both and on the same drive. Horses for courses: FSX for big-tin IFR on Vatsim with PMDGs etc and MSFS for VFR also on Vatsim. Both working perfectly. They don't appear to interfere with each other at all (although I havn't tried one after the other without a reboot - but that would be daft!).

MS/Asobo tweeted this morning that they are aware of some connection issues and are working on it.

END was quite happily working for me today on my largely unmodified setup so it's default action clearly hasn't changed.

Are we ready for "Since update 6 my kettle won't boil the water anymore, Don't they test these updates? I'm going back to FS98 so I can make a cup of tea."

I'm a YES and particularly because I didn't expect it to even run on my ropey PC! My expectations as a 30+ years simmer were: 1. A very pretty default world that would need 3rd party enhancement to be perfect. That's what we got. 2. Default aircraft that wouldn't be up to the mark for IFR especially the big tin. Tick there too. 3. GA VFR aircraft that could be flown VFR but weren't close to RealAir, A2A products. It's already my Go To VFR sim. Huge tick, far better than I expected.

I agree. I only fly light a/c on MSFS at the moment and I can't get a metric QNH in any of them under Hybrid or even Metric setting! Hpa/mb pressure settings is what I really wanted from this update and it doesn't seem to have happened.

FF and a UK Basic Service are very much NOT the same thing! Without going into sleep generating detail suffice to say you can have a Basic Service without radar coverage.

But in Europe, Flight Following only exists in FS. It's not a service offered by ATC.

Aircraft tags working in Vatsim so we know who that other a/c is (this isn't a Vatsim issue allegedly but an MSFS one) An end to zooming when tuning! Not a cludgy workaround, a practical end to it! Comprehensive ANOs: tv masts, cooling towers, tall chimey stacks etc. for VFR nav Steam gauges in light aircraft!!!!!!

I spend a lot of FS time in and out of Brizzle and the new version is a complete revelation, the official screenshots simply don't do it justice (they're awful in fact). It's a huge step forward and it cost me just £9. I don't get the negativity towards it but if it's based on the screenies then it's a misjudgement. I had last year's HD version and this certainly isn't a portover of that! (Not associated with uk2k in any way)

The weather that the controller has is what determines runway in use and that effects other controllers and traffic flows right back up the chain. Therefore Vatsim Weather (what ATC see) overrules what you see out of your own window and overrules what an airport is doing in the real world. If that's an hour behind rw then so be it, it's still in charge whether one likes it or not. This is why Active Sky and Rex both had the option to use Vatsim Weather around airports to ensure that pilots and ATC were in step on the network and it worked, very well, for operations on Vatsim. There will always be pilots on the network that "know better" and want to use the real world runway in use but when it's busy that's just disruptive and rather selfish.

If your QNH doesn't match the Vatsim QNH then press B to reset the altimeter and you will then appear to be at the correct altitude to the controller and vs other a/c. Yeah it's an unrealistic workaround but it is the most practical solution until we can get Vatsim wx injected into the sim. So when ATC gives you a QNH you read it back correctly but use B even if it gives a different result and you will be in step with the system. Wind is more difficult since there is no quick'n'easy workaround. If you're at a busy airport then it's important to go with the flow and use the assigned runway even if it means a tailwind approach/departure and try to live with it. If it's quiet you can always request the most appropriate runway for MSFS wind and they'll try and fit you in. The other alternative if your wx is vastly different to ATC's is to fly on preset wx in MSFS, use B again for QNH.and it'll put you right.

5.1 also caused a massive rumpus as the masses exclaimed "you need a supercomputer to get more than 5 fps". True! That's a quote from Usenet at the time. It was very very hungry resource wise and I remember trying to squeeze every last drop of performance out of my 386 20mhz machine at the time. Messing around with Config.sys and Autoexec.bat to free up a smidgen of base memory etc! It's probably why us old gits don't scream so much about 'performance' because we've been there so many times that we know we're at just the beginning with MSFS and there's a long road ahead.

I'm a long time Vatsimmer and there has always been a potential disconnect between ATC's QNH and the one your a/c is experiencing depending on weather sources and update rates. Vatsim doesn't work like real world in this regard and if your wx and ATC's don't match then dialling in ATC's QNH will put you at the wrong altitude on their screen and vs other aircraft. Pressing B will always put you at the correct altitude on your controllers screen. MSFS is no different to all previous sims in this regard that if ATCs wx and yours don't exactly match then B is your get out of jail free card.

Having Vatsimmed for over 16 years I maybe look at MSFS in a different way to a lot of people on here. I just see it as a platform on which the quality add-ons will be built that will turn it into a proper Vatsim simulator. As it stands I am using it for VFR on Vatsim but not even considering big-tin IFR because the default aircraft just aren't up to doing the job properly (and they won't ever be). I'm waiting for the PMDGs and similar standard addons which will take MSFS to the next level. Even VFR'ing I find every flight I am crying out for quality add-on aircraft that don't require workarounds and just do the basics properly without being hamstrung by inadequacy. It will come to pass and MSFS is the future but for the moment there are a lot of things it can't or won't ever do with default aircraft that inhibits the full Vatsim experience. We'll get there but it won't be this year or even next. . Much patience required but in the meantime learning all the tweaks and tips with the new platform.