spearmint_flyer

Where is the invite? The ones I found in the forums leads to an invalid link

So where are people discussing these things officially? I am not seeing any topics in the Official Orbx Forums.

Yeah so, I feel like this is the worst $30 I've spent in the simulator in a LOOOONNGGG time. I have a RTX5090. 64GB of DDR5 Crucial Ram, 2TB NVME 2.0 on a 7900X3D. There isn't any other airport that makes me system crawl like this. Not one. This airport runs like horse 💩 on my system.

Thanks. Somehow they again changed where my feedback went. Now its here.https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/where-are-the-cumulonimbus-clouds/262852/54?u=pilotowawawa

For those of you who want change in the weather. Please view this topic I created where I showed the storm around the St.Louis area. How it was portrayed in MSFS, how it's impossible to recreate it with presets and a bunch of examples, and source data for them to work on. We need votes, it's the only way they will pay attention to this. https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/where-are-the-cumulonimbus-clouds/262852/54?u=pilotowawawa

If that's the case, then yes lets start a new thread to make our sentiments felt. Issue i've seen is that they get merged into an already existant thread. Case and point, the 2nd thread about clouds has all of these linked after other users have opened them. https://ibb.co/WLqf2L6

I really do hope that people like @SeedyL can share the sentiment about our weather reality with Live Weather. Everytime I hear Seb talk about weather he always defers back to what's possible in preset mode. Most of us don't use preset mode. If we wanted a really good preset mode, fine then open it up for developers like the Hifi team to have more control on preset creation with no transition. I'd argue we had better management of weather in the old ESP code. I again bring up the point of what we had in Active Sky Next and their ability to give us literally tornadoes in live weather, TCU and even wing fade. Secondly, this constant conversation about CFD dynamics is great, but you don't have the visuals to back it up. I have not seen a towering TCU formation ever in this sim. When I mean towering I mean what you would see in real life up to the flight levels. I hate to be the one that brings the X-Plane conversation back, but if anyone has doubts of what is possible versus what we have, look at what they do with their towering clouds. Finally, Everyone who is frustrated with the current weather status should really make their feelings known in https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/metar-keeps-disrupting-the-weather-bugged-weather-cumulus-cb-clouds-only-no-medium-to-high-cloud-coverage/487587?u=pilotowawawa. Or here . https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/where-are-the-cumulonimbus-clouds/262852?u=pilotowawawa I keep hearing that they "monitor the forums" for feedback no what get's prioritized. The basic reality is that we are not happy with the weather state. We have made it clearly apparent in many places. Anywhere you look, their forums, here, reddit, the list keeps going, so if they are so attentive to what the community is asking for, why are we still not having a serious conversation that involves the cloud depiction. TLDR: We need a serious conversation on weather depiction with LIVE weather. CFD dyanmics are great, but do they matter if we can't even see it in the sim with Live weather?.

Were. They announced a while back that Blackshark.ai and them were no longer in business.

I just took a look at the new roadmap. Flight dynamics coming soon too. Honestly, I keep glancing over at XP lately. I may have to just buy my self and Airbus to give it a try over there. I have the 757 and 767 and very much enjoying flying there. Especially with the programmingdinosaur fork of Autoprtho that automatically switches to default textures for night flight.

Not with chase plane.

I’ve been getting a CTD every flight. In the XPlane forums the feedback is “disable all add ons, install them one by one back”. So I guess that’s what I’ll be doing this evening…. Mind you, I simply didn’t use XPlane for two months and updated the beta and the issue started. I changed nothing.

Honestly. Anyone remember how Aamir showed up in a Reddit post, then three weeks later they launched? It was very similar and who here can say it wasn’t one of the best things that’s happened to this hobby. I hope they follow the same foot steps.

The best is locking your FPS on RTSS or Nvidia control panel to your refresh rate or achievable rate at 1% lows. After setting your multiplier to achieve your refresh rate. For me it’s 120HZ. With FGX2 I can sometimes achieve it, but the it goes way lower on complex scenarios. With X3 I always achieve 120+ FPS. I lock my FPS using RTSS to 117 and with this scenario I am always around 16-19 MS frame time. For me locking it at a low number like 30 or something of that nature to use FG to give me all those fake frames simply increases the frame time to almost double compared to the latter. Immediately when I do this it goes up to 30-33MS and there’s is a big difference in fluidity and latency.

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This was in 84R, east of Austin, TX.

That is true. Sadly they say the C172 G1000 is the one they test all of their flight model and CFD with. So what does that say about everything they are developing.

I’ve had wing drops before IRL. I'm simply saying that the effect of the thermals were too aggressive when it was similar conditions at the came airport IRL vs Sim. I’ve had gust where the yoke was slapped into my chest IRL because I had low level wind shear. I know that the simulator and IRL can both be aggressive. The difference was that on that IRL day winds were 28015G23 Where the SIM with 170/06 and no convective activity insight was uncontrollable.

I flew in a 172 on a clear day with no gust and ended up in a left 45 degree bank because of a thermal 200 feet above the runway. To give you an example. I flew my real world sundowner the day prior with gust up to 25 and didn’t have that happen at all the entire flight. So yeah. MSFS weather leaves a lot to be desired d

What is real sky?

Anyone thing the touchdown effects are too exaggerated?

Don't set it in the sim settings. Set it in the ChasePlane bindings. I have it set my self. Search Track IR in the key bindings menu of chaseplane and it will show up.

Where I am having a brain aneurysm with PMDG is the simple fact that in Rob's own words. The advent of MSFS as a platform would bring millions of existing MSFS users into the hobby, decreasing the cost of acquisition for us, the end users, while maintaining the same development time. He repeated this several times in his PR tour. When 2024 was announced, as others remember and I, it would be (free or a small cup of coffee) then when they wanted to make more profit, they added a cabin, finally got us sounds comparable to what Boris already had available for truly the price of a cup of coffee, and he claimed it was a rework of the entire plane. It feels very familiar to me what we had in the NGXu days. Let’s talk about the NGXu. If you aggregate the price of all variants for P3Ds NGXu, the total cost of the 737 line up was 180.00 US. Today for just the 2020 version with out the discount it ended up being 224.99 US. If you had the credit for the NGXu you ended up paying around 150.00 US for the entire fleet. Now we’re in 2024, and we’ve paid another $30. So, where’s the (lower price of acquisition because more players are in the hobby)? Remember back then the excuse of the price hike was “its not a game license, and LM tos doesn't allow us to sell gaming products.” Remember when every dev and forum mod in the P3D forums was like “we don't care” and every other developer who made products for P3D was just fine selling them? Believe me, if it wasn’t a single developer making the 737NG I would have already bought the competitor. Much like I didn’t buy the FSLabs A321 versus the FENIX A321. Or when iFly had the 737NG for FSX I opted for that one because it was a better value at the time. They are in a position of power with the niche in the market, and they know it. And anyone here who says “just don’t buy it “ must not have learned enough about monopoly or lack of competition. We are at the mercy of what the one provider can offer and we either swallow the big pill , or don’t play. They make a great product, but there’s 1000% a better way to handle their PR, while not alienating their customer base. This hobby is the only one where I’ve seen that the developers and business can tell the customer “you’re wrong” and we are expected to just sit back and take it. Time and time again I see it with developers who immediately go and blame the user, or just say “you don’t have to buy our product if you don’t like it.” It really is an interesting customer retention model that only survives in a vacuum of competitors.

My biggest complaint with Asobo is how much they’ve abandoned weather. They admit themselves that it needs an overhaul. When I compare it to X-Plane 12 even P3D with Active Sky force, we do not see the same level of threatening high level CB clouds or Anvil clouds. Live weather is great, at low altitude. Once you get above 18,000 feet, everything is just a small hazy misty cloud that’s supposed to represent a high level cloud. in comparison in XP12 because of the broken Weather Radar in the 767(before the update) I found my self in a menacing embedded thunderstorm and it broke my plane. Asobo spends too much time on eye candy and not enough time in the weather and the physics behind it.

Correct. Nothing wrong with them getting a “ping” for their product. What is a violation of the FTC rules in the US is for them to hold your other licenses hostage because of an alleged violation with out due process. They essentially failed to protect their product by trusting a random person, who leaked it. That person ultimately is financially responsible for the harm they incur. For example, if a radio station plays a leaked song from an artist, and you listen to it and record it on let’s say a recordable tape, would it then give the right for that artist or record label to come into your home and collect all of the legitimately purchase songs you’ve purchased? No, the radio station would get sued even criminally prosecuted. What appears to be happening from what I’ve read instead is they are asking people who have already bought products to pay them to get access to those products again. It’s definitely a gray area that they’re navigating in.

Speaks a lot about how they choose to handle things….