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*by his teacher 😄

It's not there yet, as you said... but how long until it is ?

Indeed MSFS 2020 and 2024 lack an instructor panel by default. However, some time ago I heard about an external tool called FS-FlightControl, but I don't recall reading anything about it here. I have no idea if it's good or bad, or even if it's a scam or anything like that. Anybody ever heard about it ?

I heard that many times. The thing is, maybe it doesn't apply to everybody ? We don't fly our sims with our eye riveted to the 2D panels occupying 90% of the screeen, if I'm not mistaken... Even in the old sims I didn't spend my time watching the instruments, excepted in a liner maybe ?... It's even more true since I switched to VR. Now watch the instruments even less often 😄 Of course I have never piloted a real aircraft. The only time I took control of an "aircraft", it was actually during a glider initiation flight. And yes, the instructor asked me if I had any experience with piloting and when I replied about the simulators (FS9 and FSX at that time), he laughed at me, and told me to forget everything I knew because it had "nothing in common with the real world". Lol... Once in flight he actually gave me the controls for a few minutes to perform some ridge soaring alongside some local hill. And guess what ? It was just like in the sim. I was just watching my airspeed and vario from time to time, but the behavior or the glider was VERY SIMILAR to the one in the sim. Performance varied of course, but the important things, like the reactions, the need to control the yaw, the turbulences etc... there was nothing new or surprising compared to the sim. Ah yes, something was different: in real world, the controls are much better than my poor hardware at home, and everything looked much better and clearer than they did on my poor 17" screen of the time. And since I didn't have a trackIR or a VR headset, it was also much easier to look around, compared to the simulator. I spent the flight refraining to ask him "so, where's the difference then ?". Don't get me wrong, I was fully aware that the behavior was probably going to be very different from the sim in various extreme cases. And yes, I could feel all the vibrations and G's that I couldn't feel in the sim. But the comment from that instructor about simulators was completely wrong. I have no doubt that the simulator can give bad habits, of course. But the instructors telling that everything is wrong and that you should forget everything you learned from the simulators should fly over cultivated fields and drop a bit of that fertilizer they are full of 🙂

So, until just a few days ago I was only using Google Chrome with the uBlock Origin Lite on my PC to be able to see youtube videos without any ads, and it was working perfectly... but then a few days ago it stopped working as we all know (hence this topic...). Thanks to the suggestions here, I have given a try to the browser called Brave, and without any extensions I can now see Youtube without any ads again, so thanks a lot for that 🙂 For those of you that want to give it a try, just a quick advice: if you see some black parts flickering on the video, you simply need to go to the settings in Brave and disable the hardware acceleration option. It worked perfectly for me after this ! Now, until now I didn't know any way to get rid of the youtube ads on the smartphone (android). I will take a look at that duck duck go application, I'm curious to see if it works.

Thanks a lot MrBitsFlyer and Maya2 for the clarifications 🙂

Wow I understand your feeling. This is really beautiful ! One question though: aren't these parameters supposed to be set by the real-weather itself, normally ? I mean, these parameters will impact the amount of haze/mist etc... in the atmosphere. If I alter them to make them look better for my taste, am I not ending with something that doesn't match the real weather anymore ? Or are these some global parameters that will not prevent variations brought by the real weather ? Sorry if it makes little sense... 😕

Well in France the ID card exists since quite a while at least, and if I'm not mistaken we're required to carry it as soon as we leave from home, no matter the destination. Not sure what "big brother" you see in that, but one of the purposes is to verify who you are, in case something bad happens (around you, to you, or by you...). And of course we need an ID card to take the plane, even a passport in case of international flight. I fail to understand why anybody would think that you don't need to be identified to board a plane ?

I might be wrong but I believe that the BQ aircraft don't have any persistent wear&tear, unlike the A2A aircraft. Also, I'm not sure they model the wear&tear of the various parts of the aircraft/engines as precisely as A2A. But they are without a doubt the closest to A2A level of all the MSFS addon makers for me.

Just to clarify, the Steam version of MSFS is not impacted by the issue when closing the sim. Only the MS Store version is impacted. The bug described earlier, about Steam not recognizing that MSFS has been closed, is a different issue that I hear for the first time. The recommendation about, to kill and restart Steam, seems to be much more convenient than rebooting the computer, so I would also recommend this. I have sometimes seen Steam not recognizing an application closed, but this is usually a matter of few seconds before Steam actually awakes and recognizes the closure. I will keep my eyes open and report if it happens to me too. MSFS Steam on Windows 10 here.

I have never been there, and I understand some people consider that road "dangerous", but it's really the kind of roads (and landscapes) I enjoy the most 🙂 I think in Switzerland, roads like this are subject to alternate way, based on time slots. Like, every hour the direction changes. This prevents encounters with opposite traffic. One of them is on my 'to-do' list, for one of my next road trips in that country 🙂

😜 Pumps up polluants while wasting 80% of the energy you fill them with. But.... freedom ! Ok enough with the sarcasm. ICE engines can be funny (and yet, it depends on which cars they are fit into...), but basically they are just a source of pollution, health issues, and they are a huge waste of energy. Having a classic car converted to electric is like combining the best of both world: good artistic taste (because modern cars are ugly) and good efficiency (and not disturbing the neighbors). Yes, nowadays batteries are not the best, but they keep evolving in the right direction.

Indeed that description of XP12 is not really correct there 😕 I mean, P3D has the most outdated scenery of all current sims by far, if we talk about default content. Now, if we consider adding the famous ortho sceneries that were mentioned here, then the scenery does become a bit more pleasant indeed... but then that's not default anymore. The very same action can be performed in XP12. Let's also remind that contrary to P3D, XP12 provides good looking lighting and good looking clouds, two things I have not seen in any recent screenshots or videos posted from P3Dv5 or v6. Based on this, I would say that P3D is in fact the real "IFR-only" simulator, like "don't get your eyes away from these gauges or your eyes will bleed - IFR" sim. 🙂 EDIT: that being said, if I remember correctly, P3D includes some specific landclass data by default which might bring some degree of accuracy compared to the default world in XP12. On the other hand, the scenery gateway in XP12 does bring much more detailed airfields to its default content that anything in P3D...

Appart from the fact that a Chevy EV is not available in Europe and that if it would, then it would be sold at least twice that price, I was referring to these beautiful electric conversions made by Electric Classic Cars, such as the Delorean EV, which have costs that are much closer to 6 digits 😉

The Delorean was mentioned a while back. A good example of a nice car with a not so nice engine. Much better after the electric conversion. I would absolutely love to have one ! (also, I would love to be rich, which is kind of a prerequisite, here 😕 )