DaveCT2003

Respectfully, one should always strive to take things in context, otherwise things become a free for all and nothing gets accomplished. If you would, please go back and read what I replied to the OP (which you responded to from a post that was not intended for the OP, but for Ricardo). I'm sure it was unintended, but you mixed those two things up. Best wishes.

No offense taken. I'm aware how you feel, but you are refusing to listen to what I'm telling you or take my reccomendation to get more informed and learn more about our hobby. I'm trying to help you understand, and you just want to stick with your present knowledge instead of expanding it. As such, any furhter discussion is rather pointless. It's your call brother. By the way, don't use Wiki for definitions, goodness!

Gaslighting is an over used term for which may users do not understand the true meaning. So when someone comes in to a conversation who DOES know what it means, the wrong impression can be given., though admittedly that would be extreme in this case. I'm just saying. I've proudly represented Aerosoft online and in person at events for the past 15 years, and I have also represented Leonardo, Majestic, FSReborn, and several other developers during that time frame. Aerosoft being one of the largest developers/distributors in flight sim, they will from time to time be people who find fault or have a complaint, it comes with the territory. But even with this, I would like to share something with you, something I've shared a few times and which has always helped people to understand things better. First and foremost, I am a devoted member of the flight simulation community. I was there at the start, meeting at libraries and online via Compuserve, AOL and BBSs, and the only time I've not been active in the community was when my military service prevente it (or a short time post divorce). I believe that many people would tell you that I've long been viewed as being honest, ethical, and that I've done and given quite a lot for the benefit of my fellow flight simmers. I am a dyed in the wool techncial program manager and quality assurance engineer who has worked multi-million and multi-billion dollar weapons systems. Back in 2008 and after about a year of some significant marketing in the community, I purchased the PMDG NGX at initial release. Within 30 minutes I was irrate. The product was riddle with bugs, including major ones, it did not meet with the documentation that was released with the product or the marketing materials we had all seen, and, well, I was word not allowed. How I wondered, does a product get released in this state, and believe me I had the professional background and a great many years of experience to know! Well, I did more than wonder. I wrote to PMDG and also posted my assessment and questions, I knew I was right, and I basically hammered PMDG and by association anyone who worked the project with them. Two years later I worked by first project in the flight sim community, and within 6 months I thought back on my letter/post to PMDG and I was humbled and personally and professionally embarrased by what I had wrote. Guys, my wife will tell you that I HATE being wrong, and I put forth a lot of effort to avoid being wrong so when it happens I hammer myself worse than anyone else could. In this case, I was not only wrong, but I had put my professional knowledge on the line, and I failed. Now with 15 years behind the curtain I can tell you that flight sim development is always a push-me, pull-me type struggle as the coders contend with some mighty challenges. Attempt to develop for a new sim, which I've seen many times over by the way, and the struggle is almost unqualifiable. No flight sim developer in on the planet has the funding of what we see in other parts of the gaming world, you only have to watch video of E3 compared to flight sim Expos, or note that Microsoft announced MSFS at E3 and didn't even show at the Flight Sim Expo going on the same day to understand this. Aerosoft is a terrific company with many terrific people working there. In fact, they have more full time employees worked for the community than any other flight sim company - by far! They also have a formal policy to produce quality products which are affordable for as many people as possible. Now I don't know about you, but I cringe when I see what some flight sim products have been selling for over the past few years, and believe me I know when those prices are necessary and when they are not. Aerosoft made a pledge to community, and they've stuck to it. Moreover, Aerosoft donates, without advertising it, to the flight simulaiton community and has for each year that I've been with them. You simply can't say that about other developers. Anyway, no developer is perfect, but when it comes to Aerosoft there is a reason why this honest, ethical member of the community supports them, because they do good for the community I love. On the developer side this is a business, and with Microsoft and Asobo their are documents that we all signed which prevent us from saying as much as we would like. It was the same with Laminar or Lockheed Martins. So when there is a question or problem, we can't always provide all of what we know, we just can't. I can see why this might cause a few people to think we are being less than honest, but it's just not the case. Anyway, for those who can't help being critical (which I'm not faulting), my best recommendation is to earn your way onto Beta Team of a major project (complex aircraft), devote yourself to working it for 20+hours a week, and I can promise you'll look at our community and development a whole lot different than you do now. Happened to me. As always, I leave you with my thanks for taking the time to read and consider what I shared with you, and with my very best wishes to enjoy this wonderful community. I promise, there are a lot of terrific things heading your way brothers and sisters.

You certainly make a excellent point, and I'm not here to argue that. Just offering a plausible explanation. This type of thing has occured with every new sim that's been out since FS2000, and historically it gets corrected one way or the other. As we all know, MSFS was released with much work left to do both coding and most especially documentation wise, so devs are playing catch up. Anyway, just saying it's pretty early in developmental wise, but you get no argument from me on this. Best wishes my friend!

You would have to ask each individual scenery developer to see why they did what they did, and I'm sure there are a few different answers. My guess is that once Asobo fixes several issues which affect ILS Autotune, the sceneries where it's presently not working won't have to be patched, they'll simply start working. My friend Umberto at FSDT may have to patch his scenery (where it is working via a plugin) once Asobo has fixed the issues surrounding this. I've been through many new sim releases, and things like this always occur. FSX had issues which were never resolved, so we're lucky that MS and Asobo seem in this for the long haul, and in the end we'll have the One Sim to Rule Them All! Best wishes.

Check Amazon, search for flight, flying and especially flight simulation. Also, don't forget there are excellent educational sites put up by flight simmers and also flight simulation does a pretty good job of mirroring real world aviaiton, so those sites will help you too. We've been at this for 40 years now, so there is a LOT of GREAT information out there, including free web based ILS simulators, etc. etc. etc.

You might contact Ricardo at Latin VFR directly (via forums), I've done so and found him to be a TERRIFIC guy! http://www.latinvfr.org/forum/index.php

Yes, it's true, really. I've been in the community for over 40 years and I don't think it's a stretch to say that many in the community would tell you I have a reputation for unwavering ethics and honesty (comes from my southern family with hundreds of years of military service - I too am retired military) and since i work with many different developers I get to see things that the public doesn't. When I make absolute statements, you can bet they have been vetted. I can't share the data I've seen, it's propritary. I'm just reporting on it. 500+ experienced controllers have signed onboard and are helping ot set things up, and the pilots have and will continue to follow. I'm not saying it doesn't take time, POSCON has been working for years to make this happen, and it's an amazing network compared to anything our community has ever had. Have faith.

Software support is performed by Aerosoft at: https://forum.aerosoft.com/index.php?/forum/245-hardware-and-os-discussions-suggestions-and-insights/ Hardware support is provided by Honeycomb at: https://flyhoneycomb.com/pages/customer-support Best wishes!

I'm probably going to take a little heat for this, but that doesn't change that the info is accurate and could increase your enjoyment of our hobby. As one of the official grey beards in the community (40+ years and counting), I can't stress the importance of giving online flight sim a whirl, even if you've done so before. Yes, I know, there isn't always a controller online to talk to (this is about to improve in a MAJOR way... see my comment below), however we need to keep in mind that (with the exception of Pilot Edge) they are all volunteers, but volunteers who put themselves through a major level of training in order to provide service to their fellow flight simmers and we get this service FOR FREE! What is most important is that online, human ATC is not only as good and realistic as it gets and there is no AI ATC that has ever come close to comparing to the human ATC, not to mention that Simulator AI ATC has never been close to being correct, it just hasn't. More Online Controllers For Us All Exclusing Pilot Edge (as it's a cost based service), there are two primary online networks for flightg simmers, VATSIM and IVAO. Both are terrific networks filled with highly devoted and excellent controllers. However these networks use very old software at their core and thus have a lot of limitations. Moreover, the organizations themselves have internal issues (which I'm not about to get speak about as it is not germane to this discussion). Enter POSCON, or the Postive Control Network. POSCON is a brand new network programmed from the ground floor up by professional software engineers. Mos of the programming is completd and while FIRs/ARTCCs are still being setup the network has recently gone live, and what I predicted several years ago has been happening - controllers and pilots from the older networks are flocking to POSCON in waves, which is excellerating the FIR/ARTCC setup on a worldwide scale. The organizational setup of POSCON provices a clear chain of command and flexibility which means the network can implement changes far more quickly than other types of organization (this is something I know a lot about as I am formally trained and have many years experience in organizational management). Why is this important? Over the years many of us advocated for a merger of VATSIM and IVAO, and one attempt was made to do this many years ago. I won't get into why this never occurred, but had it done so we would have enjoyed one network for controllers and pilots rather than splitting them. That's where POSCON comes in. Pilots and Controllers are already flocking to the network, and it won't be that much longer before we have that one network that provides great coverage. TRAINING Well, I don't know about you, but where flight simulation is concerned I don't like anything that sounds like work or someone "training" me. That said, I have personally introduced several hundred offline flight simmers to the online flight sim world and I worked with (trained) them in a way that was at least 10 times faster than their reading page after page after page on their own. Instead, I took each one of them up in Shared Cockpit / Connected Flight Deck, and this allowed us to incredibly compress the learning curve. Something else regarding not every airport you want ot fly in/out of not having a human controller. First, you can simply chose to fly in/out of an airport that does, but there is something else. Events are the most realistic flying you'll do if you're an airliner guy or GA guy who wants to fly with loads of traffic. But you can't jump into an event without gaining experience otherwise you'll have the same type of issues as you'd have flying into JFK during your first solo flight as a real world pilot. Just think of flying in less covered areas as practice for those large events that will set your hair on fire with excitement! Here's the deal. You can come up with many different reasons why online flight sim (and human ATC) won't work for you, you can. In fact I don't think there is a reason that I haven't heard, and a reason that I haven't easily overcome. In the end it's a personal decision and if someone just don't want to do it then nothing anyone says or does isn't going to make a difference. But I'll bet you if you were to go up in shared cockpit with an experienced online flight simmer during an event, chances are you'll be hooked. In the end, there is no "one size fits all" for ATC, but learning and using a realism based network and working with another human is a terrific start. I've refused to fly any other way for 15 years or so, unless I was beta testing. Thanks for taking the time to read my two cent contribution this discussion, and for those of your who read this post I sincerelyt appreicate the respect you gave me by doing so. My very best wishes to all of you! Dave

You can disable the drive in the Admin functions. A quick Google search will provide instructions. I've successfully done this a number of times.

The only sound one hears on a summer night. Crickets (the insect, not Cricket, the backwards form of Baseball combined with rules nobody understands.... lol).

As has been said in this thread and countless others I've seen and taken part of over my 40+ years in the community, the term Study Level is not only ill defined, it's completely subjective so every single person out there has a different idea of what it actually means and I'm afraid that will never, ever change. As such, and because it causes so many disagreements, sometimes fights, and at the very least bad or terribly incorrect statements, I belive the term should be removed from our vocabulary, in haste. The CRJ was not designed to be a study level sim and I don't think it ever will be. It's designed to be a highly functional aircraft for normal operations and that is all. Having worked many of the projects for flight sim software I'll bet most everyone in this thread have used (or at least heard about), I will tell you that EVERY airliner that is released has issues, issues that are worked on post release. I've already explained why this is in another thread so I won't do so again here except to say it's always been that way and will likely always be that way. Shoot, we spent 6.5 years working on the Majestic Dash 8 Q400 and we still had issues that were found post release. Unless people are willing to pay $500 to $1600 per aircraft, this is just the way it's going to be (and that has little to do with the quality of the testers). So many people are under grave misconceptions about flight sim software development, and even with my heavy background in techincal program management I was too... and I hammered PMDG back in 2008 when they released the NGX. A few years later I was working my first major flight sim aircraft and 6 months later I was terrible embarrassed about what I wrote to PMDG... I just didn't understand. Maybe some day I'll do a podcast on the how and whys of flight sim development so that people will understand, I just have to find the time to do it. Best wishes you guys!

There are three primary issues in the sim which prevent aircraft from handling as they should, flight dynamics (and the ability to program the FD), weather, and the effect that weather has on the aircraft. So I will hold to my earlier statement, none exist.

DJ, I'm not a GA guy, and I haven't flown GA real world in about 8 years. What I listed was airliners, because (at least for the most part) that's what the OP listed.

None. There isn't one that gets a few light years close to the mark in MSFS. Not yet anyway. The Leonardo Maddog for P3Dv4/v5 is the closest, followed by the Majestic Dash 8 Q400 in P3Dv4/v5. PMDG is up there as is FSL Labs Airbus, but not at the level of the Dog and Crash 8. This will eventually change, but not for the next 1.5 to 2 years, and that's just the aircraft. You'll also need the environment to improve, which I believe will happen. Just being honest.

I would contact the Virtual Blue Angles, however I believe they are running P3D (should be the same as FSX for your purposes).

It truly is! Best kept secret in the country! I go back to visit, but it's really an eating vacation.... and a wonderful one it is!

Food? Man, I moved from Philly 6 years ago and the only thing I miss from there is the FOOD! It's food paradise!

That's a fairly respectable number for an addict who also has to work, so long as you were THINKING about aviation or flight sim for the other hours in the day! Otherwise that's only 1.25 online (POSCON) airliner flights per day! 🤣

Habit? What Habit? It's a full on addiction! Unfortunately, I've only had time for one or two flights all year due to my work at Snakebyte and Aerosoft. After 8+ hours (sometimes 16+) working on the computer, the last thing i want to do is spend another 3 to 6 hours sitting in front of the thing. WARNING: If you transition to the business end of flight sim, it will eventually kill the thing you love!

o,m,G! I thought the day would NEVER come, something we actually agree on! 🤣 Seriously, good input there!

I woudl call Tech Support and have the unit repaired for you. Always go through tech support first!

It's impossible to be within range of VOR/NDB at all times, so no sir. What I recommend is using Google, you'll find some excellent resources. In this case, I'd Google "IFR Flight Rules" and "IFR Flightplan Requirements". In fact, please remember that Flight Simulation has been around since before the public internet and most any question you can think of has been asked and answered countless times, and there have been a great many instructional websites places online to help people understand. Also, flight sim today mimicks real world aviation so well that the two are often interchangable knowledge wise. There are countless excellent instructional websites for people like us! Best wishes!

Speaking as a military guy, flying direct VOR to VOR can be really tough on the gas unless the VOR is aligned fairly closely to where you are going, and that's saying something for a GA aircraft. Dead Reckoning, and plan your flight and fly your plan, and always include a plan for contingencies along your route. You can establish your position by two or more VORs/VORTACs/NDBs without DME (the more the better), or just one if you have DME. Doesn't have to be the VOR you're flying to, or even in the same direction. Deadzones will be intimidating unless you plan your flight and fly your plan, doing this will reduce the stress of the flight.