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    Been flying PC flight simulation since Bruce Artwick days. . Worked for Canadian Airlines on the ramp 6 years at CYVR.
    I7-9700k 32gb 3600mhz DDR4 Gigabyte z390 Aorus Ultra Zotac RTX 2080TI AMP, Samsung 960 Pro 512gb
    Currently residing near LSZH

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  1. That’s was one impressive showcase video. More importantly, I’m astounded at the detail and quality. Lots of payware doesn’t even match this. This deserves a standing ovation for the work and dedication on this project. Can’t wait to fly it,! Thank you FBW team for setting such a high standard and great example of what can be done.
  2. Subscription model is for the birds. What a shame. Its a very nice simulation despite lacking harbor scenery. On the other hand , Navismaster is a modern version of Virtual Sailor NG. Still early Alpha, but the water and lighting looks pretty darn good for an Alpha. There is a free download and a Patreon version. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js8qNkEeBJA
  3. Looking really nice for long haul. Pleased the 77W is first too this time as well as gone are the rip off prices from P3D. More reasonable. Hoping for awesome startup sounds. Here the 77W starting up here all the time living near the airport.
  4. Very fair and great value now in a much simpler plan. Day one purchase for me.
  5. Definitely don’t want Google doing a flight sim. I can just see it now… a 5 sec ad pops up for ATC transmission, and 30 sec ad pop up for every takeoff and landing. YouTube is out of control with ads now.
  6. This thread amongst many others elsewhere is simply mind boggling. Not difficult to understand the very flexible range of options. Why there is this ruckus, is just the negativity that permeates everywhere and radiates to the next person. Years ago we all begged for better ATC, and complained the voices were extremely robotic. Now the ATC looks very promising and plausibly realistic, and you have choices for voice models. 1 of which is free. What is the problem? On top of that, control of AI traffic, with real-time voices. All sounds great to me. And no subscription.
  7. This looks awesome. Great video with no lipstick, just straight up transparency and big effort going into accuracy. Love the commitment to high fidelity here. Can't wait to fly this bird.
  8. Thumbs up from me too. Been trying out last few days. After experiencing this with overall fluidity, cant go back, and will have to tolerate the side effects of the camera panning jitter. The issue is the freesync monitor lowest refresh is 48hz to use freesync, although rarely got that much before in fps to match, but this mod helps keep that with enough overhead to be a whole lot more smoother. This is all off my now outdated 2080TI. Gave it a little more life, until stupid Nvidia stops being so greedy with outrageous pricing. Clearly not an issue for many , since the Navigraph survey has the 4090 as the top card in use by a long shot. Wow. @ nearly $2000/card.
  9. Wow great news to have much higher fidelity. I think alot of developers can reflect on the sampling from the Navigraph survey, with many seeking high level systems simulation, accuracy and quality. Its been a long long time since we had a very high level fidelity B757 in the simulation atmosphere in many years.
  10. Just to put this out there, forget where I read it, or heard it, but I dont think it necessarily works well just by turning it on. The whole point of AI deep learning, is the learning part. Perhaps this is a scenario where it must learn and recalibrate the more times its used. Turning it on and saying it doesnt work well doesnt teach it anything. Just a thought.
  11. Actually I dont own it, but been following development from the start, developer twitch streams, and all news regarding it. I do not have a high tolerance for complete garbage or even half baked aircraft. The other MD-11 out there is a piece of trash. TFDI are certainly going to work out whats not working right and its clear to me they are highly committed. Its these kind of super critique attitudes for developers that put a real concerted effort, that end up being a drag, depressing, certainly not encouraging for them. Its one thing to be critical, its another to provide constructive criticism that motivates them to get it working right.so if you have a group of early access users, then for sure you find a whole lot more bugs a whole lot more than a small dedicated beta team of 10 or 20. Anyone who figures that all these things can be fixed in a matter of weeks may need an adjustment in their thinking. We are here as a community to hopefully upbuild for great promising projects. Without it, we wouldnt have much properly done high fidelity aircraft.
  12. I have no doubt this will be a very polished aircraft in due time. The last few pages on this thread have lost the fact that this is an early beta and TFDI have made that very clear when collectors edition was sold and eventually now released. To have so many criticisms right now, is not fair to developers who are putting in a real concerted effort to make this a really systems heavy aircraft. Have to defend my favorite aircraft of all time. When its released and after a few updates, then its fair to criticize.
  13. "Captain_Mac" on youtube was given exclusive access prior to collectors being officially released. He goes through some of the systems modeled like LSAS and fire protection. Looking like an awesome plane to fly. My favorite without a doubt. Look forward to it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A93cJoI0FC8
  14. Ok they do have some nice routes included and some new features, but the fundamental problems continue to exist. Im surprised they do not learn from other game simulation models. The big secret sauce to it all, is having the community heavily involved in content creation. While there is a new editor and scenario builder, its still rather limited. Farming simulator for example has so much content of machines and maps that the adds on are enormous, and that in turn has greatly grown that title. The Euro American truck simulator also to a limited extent. Yet Dovetail refuses to give access, and very limited partner releases. They will not change because they have such a big greed factor. The only thing that might get them to change is very strong competition. There is some titles coming out, that may rival them, but they are too much in their infancy right now. Hopefully with time. I do enjoy TSW3 running with full safety systems on and being very vigilant, but these new full number are essentially updates. Look what MS does to FS2020 in that last years. Look at all the FREE updates and all the content that goes with it. Anyone who complains about MS updates in that regard should go have a look at the way TSW3 does updates and release.
  15. Hi I am hoping to pick the brains of you DIY'ers out there building home cockpits for a very unusual situation. Explaining this to other people who dont understand the meaning of your flight simulation hobby comes up with meaningless answers like just use a laptop. Background... About 13 years ago, I have alot of trouble to sit. Good for about 5 min before excruciating pain hits down the spine and into the neck. It involves multiple nerves that are stuck and cant be operated on. But there is no way I am going to lose my 35 year hobby and was determined to continue flying. For these past 13 years my desk is actually my bed. I did this by building a workstation next to my bed with heavy duty monitor arms that extend over the bed for the monitor and the speakers. This involves alot of counterweight options to prevent the desk from falling over. The keyboard and mouse all wireless, and my joystick is freely used as needed with longer cables, as well as the honeycomb bravo throttle mounted at an angle from the workstation. All very ugly setup but functional for the most part. I fly lying down looking slightly up to the monitor. Cant use pedals for rudder but HOTAS setup takes care of this with a twist. Everything computer wise is simple for me since that is my background and have a fully customized PC build. We are moving soon, and wish to find a better more "elegant" solution that also incorporates an option to stand and fly. I thought I would do this with a ceiling mount for the monitor which hangs over the bed, and swing it over to a nearby standing table, however the ceiling mounts dont have this versatility even though they are "full motion", they cant extend out they only hang vertically. My only ideas are somehow putting the bed and desk on castors and moving things around in order to have optimal placement of the monitor. Not so easy with cable connections everywhere. Perhaps other option is to have the monitor swing from the side desk. But because I would like a standing solution , and that I am 6'8, the desk needs to be much taller than normal and therefore less stable because of the high center of gravity and the extension when lying in bed. would need a whole lot of additional clever counterweighting. Any other ideas would be greatly appreciated. Budget also has to be considered since I am not working otherwise this would be simple to get some builder in here to make a special platform that incorporates all this together. Thank very much
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