NG_Aviator

I've always enjoyed watching this series, thanks for the heads up!

Found this touching, Father & Son 30 years apart... https://edition.cnn.com/travel/southwest-father-son-pilot-childhood-photo-recreated/index.html

Where do you fit on the grid?! A pilot who is classified as a 9.1 is a person with few people skills and expects that his every command will be obeyed without question! A hero pilot! On the opposite end of the scale is a 1.9 pilot who is more concerned about pleasing everyone rather than concentrating on the job at hand. A new FO is an example of this who is afraid to question his captain. The worst of all is the 1.1 who is just there to do his time. We should all strive to 9.9!

Hoping for CRT displays on the flightdeck

Any plans to make an EIS 1/CRT mod for the A320? I would love that so much.

I'd really love to see a CRT screen version of the A320 someday. Not expecting a full EIS 1 rewrite but at least having the option of the rounded bevel CRT screens.

I'd really love to see a CRT screen version of the A320 someday. Not expecting a full EIS 1 rewrite but at least having the option of the CRT screens and some analogue gagues. This is the A320 I know and love and still many in operation today (I believe last one to be manufactured was 2005). Something about those rounded corners!!

Working a full time job and with other responsibilities, I find it hard to make time for Flight Sim. So I wondered, when do you usually sim? Do you have a set time of the week that you fly? Or maybe just on weekends? Any tips on how to make time for hobbies in general?

For what its worth, my vote goes for PANC - Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport

Here are my final specs, I decided to go for Z490 in the end with 10700k i7 10700K, S 1200, Comet Lake, 8 Cores, 16 Threads, 3.8GHz ASUS TUF GAMING Z490-PLUS (Wi-Fi), Intel Z490, S 1200, DDR4, SATA3, Dual M.2, CrossFire, ax WiFi/GbE, USB 3.2 Gen2, ATX 32GB (2x16GB) Corsair DDR4 Vengeance LPX Black, PC4-28800 (3600), Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 18-22-22-42, 1.35V 500GB WD Blue 3D, 2.5" SSD, SATA III - 6Gb/s, 3D NAND, Read 560MB/s, Write 530MB/s, 95k/84k IOPS, Retail Noctua NH-D15 Dual Radiator Quiet CPU Cooler with two NH-A15 Fans I was very confused about the different types of RAM available. I hope I chose correctly DDR4 3600 CAS 18?

Great advice Normand, I will carefully check the specs and see what I really need. On board wifi would be handy, I don't need half of the other things

Thanks for the advice! Most likely the Intel Core i9 9900K

There is a wide range of boards in this range starting at around $150 Z390-P going upto over $300 for the Maximus Hero. If I am not planning to OC and not using SLI/crossfire is there any need to get more than the basic model?

Is there a way to disable photogrametery and instead just have the AI autogen?

Seeing those images of XEnviro gives me confidence that we will see seasons in MSFS. There appears to be no end to the talents of the developers involved so let's hope for the best.

Honey, I Shrunk the Framerate

The autogen buildings are very impressive indeed! Although they don't match reality like photogrammertry would, they are very convincing and there is a wide range of shapes and textures. What made me smile was the bales of hay (Newcastle 1) have been replaced with a building!! But unless it's your farm you would never know the difference!

It would be great if they could gradually change the texture applied to the 1.5 trillion auto gen trees in MSFS. In real life all the trees don't change at once. It would look great if say 10% of the deciduous trees change at the start of autumn and slowly more and more change as the weeks pass until all are bare.

My oh my look at all the trees in the forest scene, a work of art.

Descending through clouds at night with the strobes illuminating the cloud... please!!!

Sitka Approach!

Agreed, hopefully the default option is landclass with the option to add the satellite overlay if desired. In the mountainous parts of the preview it looked like a low res satellite image with a noise texture on top.

They can only be 73 and lower

So PMDG Pigeonworks I guess is a reference to a carrier pigeon carrying messages across the ACARS?

ADX too https://www.airdailyx.net/article/exclusive-access-to-flightsim-expo/