Mytola

It is still one of my favourite planes. A joy to fly, interesting avionics and automation which feels like a blend of Boeing and Airbus logic, and super characterful. There's nothing else like it. I've done 12 hr longhauls without any issues, never had a WASM crash.

I am using Glassout. I used MSFS Popout Manager for a good while before switching over to Glassout, and I am very happy I did as Glassout works better performance-wise and is a lot more intuitive to use for me at least. I don't see any performance hit, even with lots of displays popped out.

I am almost at the end of my first longhaul flight with the new update, and things have been working very well so far. Fingers crossed. The one really really nice thing with the update is that he pop-up panels are fully interacteable now, so you can pop out all the screens on external displays and click around the FMS and stuff with mouse and/or touch. For my setup this is a huge upgrade and makes flying the plane a lot more enjoyable.

That might very well be it. When I think about it, the speech speed of the copilot on radios at first was very good, and that was set to the default US. Everything else was agonizingly slow though, even with the setting on highest.

Yes, I tried different ones. The happy and eager tone I am referring to (hard to describe) was evident in all voices. Pilots, controllers, etc.

I was flying from Riga to Thessaloniki. Perhaps they are better in the US, but I do my flying mostly in Europe. The slowness of the speech was my main problem, but there was something really icky about the voices overall. Like they were sounding far too happy and eager, if that makes sense. I don't get that with BATC.

I finally gave SI a try today, and I must say that overall I am pretty disappointed. First of all, not being able to change all settings in the program itself, but being redirected to browser and website for many settings is very poor. I don't want my browser open when flying. Speaking of their website, I get really sick of the HORRIBLE pictures of what is supposed to be flight decks etc on there. Just have a browse through the different copilots here and notice the cockpits in the backgrounds: https://www.sayintentions.ai/co-pilot Stupid AI slop which gives a very negative impression. Back to settings, the GUI is very busy and not really intuitive. I couldn't find any way of having the controllers sound like they talked through a radio, but they sounded like they almost sat in the same room as me. Other traffic sounded better though. The voices were very stale and speech speed was far too slow. I am used to Beyond ATC's local voices, but these were a lot poorer. Yes, I found the settings for these things after a while, and I did try adjusting them. Couldn't get it as I like. Crew communications also feel stiff and stale, and the novelty wore off midway through the first flight. The actual controlling felt better than Beyond ATC for the most part. More options and intelligent handling of things when not everything goes 100% to plan. Vectoring seemed better, I did not have any close calls on approach etc. This part of the program I was very satisfied with. Now, I don't really care about most of the added gimmicks but I really want solid ATC with speech that does not sound too robotic or slow. This is not it for me. Even though controlling for the most part gave a somewhat better impression that what I currently use (Beyond ATC) I am not tempted to switch and pay a (far too big) monthly fee for that, but rather stick with my one-time purchase of BATC which despite its flaws is far simpler, works well enough and don't have controllers who sound like they sit on your lap while talking veeeery slowly.

I have the same problem, and I think the core issue is that the livery system was completely changed in the 2024 native version, so all liveries created for the old system has to be updated by their creators in order to work. It's a shame, because there are so many nice older liveries out there that doesn't seem to get updated. If anyone else has some insight or tips on easy ways to convert these old ones to work, it would be great!

Certainly seems so, according to their FAQ: https://forum.inibuilds.com/topic/40805-how-to-popout-displays/

I think the key here is to not buy this stuff directly from the companies, but via proper retailers who have good customer service. I finally received my refund from winctrl yesterday. Just a bit over 15 weeks since the order was supposed to be delivered to me. I really wonder how much longer it would have taken if I hadnt been asking them about the status of the issue every week and kept insisting they solved it properly... They are quick to respond in the ticket system, but nothing actually happens. Don´t buy from winctrl directly. They have HORRIBLE customer service policies.

Are you looking at the secondary flight plan? It will only download there, not in the primary.

Even though there might be issues, (has there been any complex addon without issues?) it certainly seems like a promising addon, and the good communication and tight update schedule from the developer gives a lot of confidence, IMO. It is very enjoyable to have something like this in the sim, it is fresh and new and different from the Airbus and Boeing stuff. Looks and sounds good too. I think I am going to fly it a lot going forward.

Yes. I tried the A220 yesterday and via Glassout works well with a few caveats. Just be sure to have the newest version of Glassout downloaded from the changelog on the site, as the auto-updater doesnt seem to work. It should be version 1.14.4: https://glassout.flyingart.dev/library/changelog 1.14.0 will not work. You will need to create fragments from the one big texture which has got everything on it, but I found the process pretty easy. The resolution and details are still good, no problems there. There seems to be some bugs at the moment with the pop out screens not responding to cursors, possibly related to GSX. But I am pretty confident they will get fixed.

It is SU 6 release version, it seems.

I unfortunately also have horrible experience with their customer service. It has been over two months since UPS marked my latest order as delivered, although nothing was delivered in reality. Other deliveries before this went well with no problems, and I was very happy with the products themselves, so I hoped it would be resolved quickly. Nope. Initially they just told me that "it has been delivered" and they could not refund or reship. The "proof of delivery" is just the standard UPS thing on the tracking, saying signed for by driver. People were at home, it is the only house in the end of a long driveway in the woods, and we also have a dog with pretty good hearing, so... UPS has not been anywhere near us this time, and none of the neighbors had seen anything either. After quite a lot of insistence on my side Winctrl had me fill out a form and told me that UPS was going to investigate. I have asked for updates since then, without any news other than they are waiting for reply from UPS. After seven weeks I demanded a refund and they just said they could reship the order. Which they should have offered many many weeks ago, IMO. I made it clear that just reshipping is not acceptable at this point and that they should either add something on top as an apology or do the refund. They said refund will be in my account within a week. Now it's been a week, no refund in sight yet. Bah. Thankfully it seems like MOZA is expanding their product line for flight sim, and I can get MOZA stuff from local retailers, so I am going to switch over to them gradually I think. Not going to gamble on Winctrl and the abysmal customer service again.