bennyboy75

I’ve also got perfectsoft. It’s no flytampa but it’ll do the job.

It should show up at as a 2020 scenery. There are plenty I bought in the 2020 days that work fine in 2024 but don’t show up in the 2024 MP.

I've had no end of trouble with the brakes in the Boeing birds of late with 2024. Specifically the parking brake which I apply and then I am unable to release. I've tried everything - all kinds of combos of assigning within MS2024, FSUIPC, with and without pedals to no avail. The only thing that seems to work is assigning a key to 'RELEASE PARKING BRAKE' within the sim, not something I've ever had to do before. This is only in the PMDG birds and the CSS 737, no issue in Airbus or the iFly 73M.

I get this too. I suspect it’s CP as I removed RealTurb. I did wonder if it was FSRealistic but I’ve got pretty much all the motion turned off.

You can import the flight plan but that’s all, you’ll have to open your Simbrief pdf somewhere to enter speeds, weights, etc V speeds can and sometimes are sent by ACARS (and the FSL A321 supports this) but it’s airline dependent and a lot easier just to plug it all in the EFB and grab it from there It’s v2 in the speed window, iirc the +15 kts SOP was ditched moons ago. Always runway heading in the heading window and then drag the heading bug to match the SID or wherever you want to go.

Apologies for resurrecting an old thread but does AL work with official marketplace folders in 2024? I can’t for the life of me get it to work.

Have to say, even the buying and installation process in this thing is tortuous. It’s like they don’t want to sell it to you! I tried to buy it from them and fell into the whole 30 minutes naughty step so gave up and bought it from Simmarket instead. Then the launcher app decided that my work email wasn’t a real email address and upon trying my regular old hotmail account, it tells me mail update has failed and to contact support. Not impressed so far, one bit. No wonder it hasn’t sold well.

It’s a superb add on for sure. I bought it direct and now regret that decision as MP purchases are way easier to keep track of.

Ironically flying GA planes is way more challenging than learning to fly an Airbus. Especially once you get to twins with relatively complex avionics. If you want to keep it simple I’d advise getting the Fenix A320 and then watching a ton of tutorials on the basic setup and flows and basically use maximum automation. As long as you don’t get too ambitious, a basic A to B flight in the A320 is child’s play.

I believe a lot of airlines prohibit visual approaches at night - I know Lufthansa and Volotea certainly do.

The walkaround mode is actually pretty cool with something like the Fenix where you can wander around the aircraft and interact with it, walk up the stairs, open the door, walk inside etc. I agree though with most aircraft it's probably more convenient to start in the flight deck. There is a tool on flightsim.to to hide the 'enter aircraft' message which is nice for immersion.

I started to get into 2024 around the time of the A340 release and somehow managed to accidentally uninstall 2020 not long after that. Didn’t bother to reinstall it since then and now I’m very happy with 2024, although I find the cloud pixelation a bit annoying.

I have both BATC and SI but leaned into SI heavily over the last few months and although I agree that some of the features are a little gimmicky, the sheer amount of flexibility offered by the latter make it the go to. As others have stated here, my only gripe is the rate at which correctly accented voices are being rolled out - BATC in premium mode at least offers a stunning choice of voices that match up with the location and airline. SI seems to have gone backwards perhaps in this regard, although the rest of the functionality has improved.

Yeh there’s absolutely no reason not to use frame gen. It’s a total game changer for simmers and the difference is night and day. I have pretty beefy rig (4080 Super/7800x3d) but I can’t get to native 60fps with heavy add ons. With frame gen I can fly all day long in all situations at a steady 60, which is more than enough.

I did a flight with BATC last night for the first time in many months and it worked very well. The premium voices are very impressive. Having ditched it for SI a while ago I might pivot back to try it more.

It just cuts out stuff you don’t want to scroll past in the aircraft selection menu.

I think this is also possible with add-on manager as I used it to disable the Frankenstein Asobo jets and the other default aircraft that I never use.

I saw a couple of camels just casually chilling not far from the threshold of 23C in Cairo when I took off in the A340 so you don’t even need to be in a bug smasher to see fauna.

Have you assigned ‘toggle external view’?

Tried it today and did a couple of departures and arrivals - works and looks absolutely fine!

Pretty sure it works fine in 2024, but not sure I've tried it yet since ditching 2020 a couple of months ago. I will do a test flight later and check.

These guys really are the GOAT these days - I drift off to the 737 Max, 777 and others now and again but when I just want a really solid, immersive experience I find my go to is always the Fenix. Don't ever change, @Aamir! One request please please please is to add D-ATIS functionality from BATC/SI AI in the AOC menu. PMDG just added it to the NG, ini have it in the A340 and I feel very old school tuning the ATIS on the radio in the Fenix. 😅

Immersion wise for me it’s nice to hide the toolbar menu from constantly appearing. Also you don’t risk not being able to hit click spots at the top of the screen when glancing upwards because the mouse is in the area where the the toolbar appears, getting in the way. I also like the very clean and modern interface and the downloadable widgets you can add. I definitely missed it and am glad it's back.

There’s a lot to like, I agree. The MEL and GSX integration etc all add a lot of immersion. I find it quite a VRAM hog though.

I saw someone over on Reddit did the sums on how much he’d spent on PMDG 737s since FSX and then in P3D (twice, I forgot they charged for the 32bit and then the 64bit) and then the NGXu and then again in MSFS 2020 and now again in 2024. It was $350. I’ll pay the fee just to get the NG back in the fleet but if there’s one thing these guys know, it’s how to make money! It’s just a pity that there doesn’t seem much in the way of QOL enhancements - Fenix, FSL and even ini all play nicely with GSX to give a more immersive experience, with cabin announcements etc. Gradual improvements are nice but there’s not much innovation here.