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Yes, skimmed it! So it was all included in the $300?

Just anecdotal evidence from me, but I started with the HP reverb G2, then Varjo Aero, then a Crystal light, then Crystal super OLED, each one was a significant improvement for me, although I also improved my PC/Graphics card spec as well along the way. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the Dream Air is the same as the Super, just smaller and lighter? I generally fly an hour or so, so the extra cost just for comfort, but no visual quality, isn't worth it for me. The only disappointment was Crystal super wide swappable engine. The lower quality to account for the extra pixels didn't really cut it for me, after all, the whole point of the VR headset is you can move your head, so I prefer the narrower field of view, with better quality. But I know for some field of view is everything. Got one going spare if someone needs it! But every upgrade was worth it, in my opinion.

What about water, electricity, toilets, showers and drainage, a lot more to a small living space than the panels that make it? I'm not trying to bad mouth the initiative, but interested how the whole thing works?

This app gets pretty close to what you want, and its free, take a look here https://www.touchdownfx.com/ Although it's primarily a touchdown analysis tool - it has a landing replay function - simple and easy to use. Works brilliantly, just one press of a button plays back the last couple of minutes of the landing can be shortened if you wish, takes you straight back into the sim to review your efforts. I use Chaseplane and VR, I can cycle through all the normal and cinematic views whilst the replay plays - it's free, and is brilliant. I purchased previous versions of FCR, but always gave up on it, just too complicated for me, I took a look at the new manual, available without a purchase, and the 38 pages of instructions put me off. I'm getting too old for complicated stuff!

There's an App called FlyingCalmly, that shows enroute turbulence. They've got a website, flyingcalmly.com might do the trick!

Last Friday, near Bournemouth UK. "The wife of an electric unicycle rider who died in a crash on a dual carriageway said he was the "kindest and most caring person I have ever met". Benjamin Franklin Wells-Lane, 46, died on Friday after the crash on Wessex Way, between the Bournemouth West Roundabout and the Richmond Hill Roundabout at about 16:00 BST. Originally from the United States, he moved with his wife to Poole in January 2025 after they married in July 2024. Dorset Police said no one has been arrested following the accident."

I like these olden days restored videos, but the emphasis is mostly cars, roads and driving, not many people in them.

The autoland doesn't work for me, noticed it didn't work for AvAngel either. I end up going round and round in a holding pattern on the final approach. Is there a trick to get it working, or just the luck of the draw?

Installed it yesterday, and agree, works fine - no issues - surprised they flagged at as not recommended in VR, could be losing sales! Yesterday was the last day of the free download for 2020 purchasers, "Lucky" I saw your post! Many Thanks

Thanks for that, the website said not recommended for VR due known limitations - so I took them at their word, and have never tried it. Anything it's useful to know, before I give it a go? An issues?

Thanks, been happening to me for years, assumed it was just a quirk, but now it's fixed, excellent!

I have it, but unfortunately doesn't work in VR, also true of Chaseplane, so no good for me.

Gawd! Just noticed the original post was from August last year!☹️

If the Pimax play software is showing the Crystal Light connected, run MSFS2020, make sure you've got a joystick or something, with a button that's bound to the command that will take you into VR (as you won't see your keyboard with the headset on!), and another button bound to reset the view, to the normal cockpit view, and you're good to go. Not sure I'd go for auto FPS from the word go, see what you get without any tweaks for starters? Also a million words have been written about all the setting adjustments available, but maybe just go for the bog standard settings of low, medium, high, ultra, to begin with, see how they look, Asobo would have put in a lot of work tweaking those settings, they're a good starting point.

Don't think its been mentioned, but you don't use elevator trim on the bus, when flying manually, just pitch and turn as required, if you leave go of the controls, it should just stay there. I also found the Boeing to Airbus transition a steep learning curve, and although I can use the MCDU for all the basics, never got into the fancier things. But if you make full use of all the automatics, it is the easier jet to fly.

Similar story - Did 1700 hours on the "Bandit" in the 90's, last flight October 98, happy days! E110 A 001 — Postimages

From Prune.org, a website visited by professional pilots: "The broken away front NLG doors on the tarmac is a telltale sign that the NLG was being manipulated. Contrary to the shorter aft NLG doors with the part tail number on them, the longer front doors are normally closed on the ground. They only open on retraction/extension."

I have both Spotty26 and Flightcontrolspotter, I find FCSpotter the easiest to use from a spotting point of view, especially as the software can be started from a toolbar icon, and used in VR. Also if you have a spare Xbox controller, all the movements needed once outside the aircraft are mapped to it. I found both quite complicated, especially Spotty26, but maybe that's just me.

Just for info a couple of responses on the PPrune forum, from pilots discussing the same event there: I feel this fella's pain as I was once in the same situation trying to land in pee-poor weather at Kennedy..... except the motion lotion was depleting at quite a rate as I worked at getting confirmation of protections being in place for a Cat III autoland. The answer was.....that nobody was prepared to say! Rather than turning into a glider we shot the approach and landed without incident or further issues. Turned out when I rang the Company Duty Pilot he said he would have done the same as I did. The upshot is, in The States they assume you know that its SOP for LVPs to be in force when minima drop below Cat I. Why can't they just add a one-liner to the ATIS FFS😡? Anyway, I learned about flying in the USA from that. Hope this is of use. The correct question would have been "are low visibility procedures in operation?" not "are you declaring LVOs" which are the procedures that aircraft operators follow. However I suspect the JFK controller knew exactly what was being asked but was too pig headed and up his own rear end to give a sensible and useful answer.

Any real world pilots care to comment on the situation? Seems BA need low vis ops below a certain RVR, I could understand it for landing - but not sure why you'd need it for take-off? Also at 2.56 BA says he needs 1800m, but don't they report airport visibility in statute miles and feet in the USA? So at 3.36 when the BA pilot is given take off, touch down RVR 1600, roll out 1800, is that meters or feet?

Ahhh, thanks, I missed that.

Another superb video from the Cockpit casual team, who were tasked with repossessing a number of Spirit aircraft to the Californian desert. They went about their task with great sensitivity to the aircrew and ground staff who lost their jobs. If you don't have time to watch the whole thing, just go to 42.50, a song written and performed by a Spirit flight attendant, I lost it when she sang "The yellow bird rests for now".

Thanks, that's useful information!

Yep, thought it might improve FPS at the time, but I'm not sure it makes any difference. I clicked on the packages available for the Standard to Premium deluxe update - there's a lot of stuff there, so I just set select all, and let it get on with the download - all 236gb of it! Not sure I really understand what's going on regarding the various update options available, but the Sims working fine, which is all that matters! Thanks all for your input

I own the MSFS2024 Premium Deluxe, Store edition. In the library I see updates available - why are they there. I already have the Premium Deluxe? https://i.postimg.cc/6Q5LwKFX/MSFS2024-UPDATE-AVAILABLE.png Just curious?