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Like many others I have had TrackIR for well over a decade and it has been great. Decided to pull the trigger on a Tobii earlier in the week and I'm happy. A little learning curve to dial in all the settings so it feels "right" to me after having TrackIR for so many years. Head tracking feels smoother and more fluid - I could see how some would dislike this for something like DCS but I love it for MSFS. I have eye tracking sensitivity pretty low but it's wildly accurate and a nice little touch to have the camera shift ever so slightly where my gaze goes. TrackIR would frequently go haywire if I looked too high at the overhead panel, not an issue with Tobii so far. I can finally fly with windows open in my room and not get interference from sunlight or reflections. It's really nice not having to wear a hat or headset. I almost feel naked when flying after so many years wearing a hat with the clip haha. My only current gripe is that you can only disable/enable head tracking which places your view at the default placement for the current view you're in. With TrackIR I would frequently look where I needed and then pause the tracking to stabilize the camera so I could manipulate dials and buttons. I think this is a common request/complaint that will probably be addressed at some point.

Well, I'm as dumb as I look. I had gone into content manager and installed all updates but hadn't gone into the marketplace and downloaded WUX. Problem solved!

Haha thanks! I just updated my post asking someone to check their end. I'll do a little fiddling around to see what I can do but I'm thinking the Orbx scenery is my issue. I did indeed install the update.

Welp, unless I'm missing something, it definitely didn't add photogrammetry to the Boise area. The mesh and ground textures in the area definitely look better but that's about it. Any chance someone could verify on their end? I deleted the Orbx KBOI scenery in case it caused conflicts but still no dice.

So glad to see Boise photogrammetry added since 90% of my flights are in and out of the area and it looked like garbage. The Orbx KBOI scenery corrected all of the water texture overlays for the river/canals in the area but I wasn't overly impressed with the airport itself. Anxious to get home and see how improved it is. Default scenery might now hold me over until Verticalsim releases his KBOI add-on.

I've been using V1 since it's release mainly for the added audio but the makeshift camera movement solution was definitely not great. Can't wait to get home and give V2 a whirl tonight. Based on Q8's video it looks night and day better.

8.5 inches or 21.5 cm in from the edge of the desk.

I gained around 3-5 FPS in the cockpit. PMDG still outperforms by around 10% in most scenarios on my setup but both are smooth and a joy to fly. I've just been switching back and forth pretty much every flight.

Welp, this post alone might have convinced me to upgrade to a 5800X3D.

You omitted the part of his quote that he is talking about a 77" TV. If you can't tell the difference between 1080 and 4k on a 77" display then you probably need some Hubble Telescope level corrective lenses.

The most sensible comment on the FPS topic I've seen here. Not sure why the topic gets argued for what is right/wrong so often. It all boils down to what works for you. For me, I always used the 30 FPS solution back in my FS9 and FSX days when I had marginal hardware and those sims really seemed to benefit in terms of microstutters issues. After having a high refresh rate monitor and playing other games in recent years at 100+ FPS it seems to have changed my perspective. 40-60 FPS, even with fluctuations, does not stutter for me in MSFS and, to my eye, looks much more fluid. I paid for high-end hardware and I want to milk my 3080 Ti for everything it can handle rather than locking my frames at 30 while my GPU is snoozing at 50% usage.

Well, earlier in the week I decided to take tomorrow off for a nice three day weekend. I guess I know what I'll be doing with my day off.

I have Saitek/Logitech pedals and once I apply any manual braking it overrides the autobrake. It's worth noting the autobrake knob won't physically rotate off, but you will notice the light will extinguish if I remember correctly.

No. It was a joke since Aamir said not today or tomorrow.

I think FSRealistic is a great add-on for this kind of thing. I did my first flight with the 737 last night and was fiddling around with things during cruise and noticed when I turned off FSRealistic it seemed very quiet.

I've always been a GA guy so I've never owned a PMDG product but I've recently gotten into the FBW A320 so I'll probably pull the trigger on this tonight. Does it come with an assortment of liveries out of the box? I've seen some Alaskan and Southwest screenshots but didn't see any paints for them on flightsim.to so I was just curious.

This was noted in the comments by a real life 310 pilot in one of the YouTube videos I watched. He said they would always keep it above the blue line until flair.

Nope, I'm in the same boat with a heavily OC'd 10700k and 3080 Ti. Very smooth most of the time, but on the ground when making quick head movements with Track IR is not a great experience.

Oh, shoot. For some reason I thought EyeAdaption was on by default. Am I understanding that it's set to 0 by default and you've changed it to 1? If so I'll have to give it a whirl when I'm home.

I agree, I just wish this was something you could turn off in the graphics settings. I understand the thought process, and I like the feature when I look down into the cockpit, but I hate that it also happens when I just want to look out the windows. If I'm in a high wing and I look down out the side window to sightsee it makes the terrain washed out. Personal preference I guess.

Glad to see you're getting the hang of it. I was a mostly GA guy for over a decade and have just recently gotten into airliners. Way more involved and gratifying than I ever expected. Enjoy!

Good to hear it finally works. I dealt with the failed authorization deal a couple times and then just ended up getting in a CJ4 flight and figured I would try again this evening. Anxious to give 1.6.2 a whirl.

I haven't used anything but experimental for months, just make sure you update it before each flight since it is constantly being updated. Good luck on learning it! I had pretty much always stuck to GA but ended up learning the WT CJ4 and then after a few months tackled the A32NX. It seemed a tad overwhelming at first but I watched a lot of YT videos and after getting a handful of flights under my belt it all became second nature.

While flaps do create drag, they also create lift. I think flap retraction for maximum braking is usually applied on soft field landings to minimize lift so the tires have maximum contact with the landing surface to prevent sliding. But, full transparency, all my knowledge comes from YouTube so I really have no idea what I'm talking about ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Known issue. He has provided corrected .xml files on the Discord if you want grab them, otherwise I think it will be fixed in the next hotfix.