AviatorMan

My Facebook feed has numerous videos of airliners taking off from extremely short runways (including aircraft carriers!) and difficult landings. Since most of these seem to be filmed from a chase plane following close behind or aside the aircraft, it seems unlikely in real life. I am wondering if they are from a very realistic flightsim like MSFS2020 or MSFS2024? Any thoughts on this?

My Facebook feed has numerous videos of airliners taking off from extremely short runways (including aircraft carriers!) and difficult landings. Since most of these seem to be filmed from a chase plane following close behind or aside the aircraft, it seems unlikely in real life. I am wondering if they are from a very realistic flightsim like MSFS2020 or MSFS2024? Any thoughts on this?

Another point - it is very inexpensive to go from 32 to 64 GB - about £108. I will be buying a new pc in the next few days and intend to get 64GB>

How about broadband speed? I get around 100-130 mb/s. Will this hack it?

ChillBlast gets my vote also. Have bought two custom build systems from them and a laptop. Planning to purchase a 3rd new system from them in a month or so just for MSFS2024. Previously I bought from Novatech, also UK based, for FS2004 FSX and P3D. No real complaints for them either, but I have more positive experience with ChillBlast. If you do not want to start completely from scratch, they have four "flightsim-based" options, each one based upon a processor and a graphics board. E.g., an Intel I7 and NVIDIA 407 si, which you can build up to your own specs - e,g, faster processor, upgraded graphics board, more RAM, increased SSD storage etc. My only concern is they do not have a flight sim system based upon AMD processors! Just Intel.

You are going for the Intel i9 14900 in spite of all the problems reported with this processor?? I am a long time Intel user and would like to do the same, but worried that Intel have not fully addressed the problems yet. They have released numerous bios updates to solve the underlying issue and it persists. I will not purchase my new system until after MSFS2024 is released in November and will continue to follow developments with the Intel problem, but at the moment I am reluctantly considering moving to AMD Ryzen.

Buy the Premium Deluxe version. The additional $60 is peanuts compared to all of the money we will spend on addons over the life of the simulator.

I am planning a new system prior to MSFS2024 launch, and wish to replace my current Intel i9 based system for the latest i9. I am not comfortable to change to AMD Ryzen processors after all these years of Intel based systems. However, due to the ongoing issues with Intel high end processors I plan to wait until things are sorted before I buy.

I have not been following the discussion closely for last several months. It seems as if MSFS2024 differs from MSFS2020 primarily in world/scenery representation. What are the fundamental differences between the technologies/methods used for scenery generation in the two sims?

Have been away from MSFS2020 for several months now. I have seen some positive comments about Inibuilds aircraft and looked on their website. They have a very large number of planes available. Are they all good? Comparable to A2A and Black Square? I am mostly interested in GA piston aircraft btw.

It boggles the mind! I had assumed that surely this par of Boeing would not have the same sort of quality control issues that they have with their aircraft. They just don't seem to be able to get anything right.

Have been looking at a custom build based on i9 14900K / 4070Ti Super / 64GB memory / Crucial SSD 2TB X 2 system and have seen the price go down by about £200 for the whole system in just the last 4 weeks - ~£2700 vs ~£2900...

How does this compare to the Aeroplane Heaven model?

A quick spot check shows that it is missing a lot of airports. Must not be up to date.

Saitek (i.e. Logitek) yoke w/ 3 lever quadrant programmed to Throttle 1 &2 and Prop 1 Saitek 3 lverThrottle quadrant programmed to Prop 2 and Mixture 1 & 2 Have programmed these controllers using the Controls Section in MSFS 2020.

Have tried several times and failed to fix the problem.Have checked on the A2A forum as well and no mention of the problem there. I am surprised that very few other users seem to have had this problem. This issue is not present in my other aircraft. Guess I will have to go back to flying the Black Square Bonanza until A2A sends out an update that fixes the problem. Disappointed...

Thanks. My throttle problem is related to my controller setup evidently, because when I use the mouse and advance/retract the actual throttle in the a/c it works as it should. I will take your suggestion concerning the bindings.

Am I doing something wrong. When I advance the throttle the engine rpm/map increases as it should, when I pull the throttle back it seems to go to idle in about the middle of the lever position, and when I pull it back further the engine increases again. As if it were going into reverse/ Help! I haven't changed by control parameters so I am not sure what to do.

Again, you may want to check out the A2A tread quoted in Alvega's post about 20 minutes before your post. I think it answers your question.

Is this the same LFAT that's been on Flightsim.to for several months now? Or is this a new product?

Have to say I like the default Lockheed Electra. It's the Just Flight version, and it has very good graphics, especially in the VC, and just about everything seems to work. The systems modelling seems functional for the most part. What I don't particularly like is that from the cockpit, the aircraft seems "dead": there is no vibration from the two big rotary engines,and when you land you never hear the landing gear contacting concrete. But it is after all free so guess I shouldn't complain that it could be even better.

Yes, have solved it. The problem was my windows firewall setting. I had windows 7 then and have updated to 10 and don't remember the exact details of what I did, but basically you need to go into your windows firewall settings and make sure that your firewall is not blocking the Carenado installer. As I recall I had to set a temporary exception for the Carenado aircraft I was trying to install. Then the installer recognized the serial number and it installed OK. Once it is installed you can go back into windows firewall and set it the way you want. What I don't know is why I never had this problem with a Carenado install before. I suppose Carenado has increased their install protection to try to avoid piracy. However, for me It was such a hassle I have avoided buying any more Carenado aircraft since then. Good luck!

I also did an upgrade from win 7 to win 10, not a clean install. So far no problems at all. P3Dv3, ActiveSky, ORBX FTX England, and several addon aeroplanes, and everything working flawlessly.

Hi Have you decided to upgrade or not? Thinking of doing the same but still unsure.

OK Thanks.