untoweechja

It's mind-boggling how fast the technology is evolving, that's for sure. I'm a software developer and grateful to be in the sunset of my career. I have little doubt my job will be largely obsolete by the end of the decade.

No freighter in the purchase package as I do not believe there were ever any freighter variants in real life. Don't know whether there's a mod available. As for the aircraft itself, I consider it one of the best available for MSFS 2024 right now and is all I fly. It has a much higher degree of automation than the 146, yet it's still a plane you fly.

It would also be nice if they could put it in the bottom corner of the screen instead of the middle. Quite disruptive to have these things obscuring my view on final.

Did an install on a brand-new computer myself last weekend and was pleasantly surprised to discover it even brought my controller configuration over from my old machine. Saved me hours of setup I was not looking forward to.

I had their FSX incarnation, flew the Combi all over the western US and Canada. Really fun retro bird to fly, and arguably the best night lighting I've ever seen in a simulation.

The CS L-1011 is one of my favorites, and is seriously underrated in my opinion. You can also use the Flight 1 GTN-750 in the CS L-1011. There are instructions for setting it up on the CS forums. You are limited to using it in a popup window, but it does work. You do have to enter your flight plan into the GTN-750 manually, but that's so easy it's not a big deal. If you don't have or don't want to use the GTN-750 you can load an FSX flight plan into the stock INS as described above. The MilViz 737-200 also gets airtime in my sim world, especially at night. It's night lighting is arguably the best of any aircraft available in FSX. I always fly this one 'old school' and never use the FMS. I don't have the PC-12, but I feel safe in saying you can't go wrong with either the CS L-1011 or the MV 737-200.

Hi James, and welcome to AVSIM. Of the three systems you have listed the third one is the best because it has a discrete NVIDIA graphics card. I recently ditched my AMD machine and second charliearon's recommendation above: You'll get much better performance out of FSX on an Intel machine, even if it's a couple of generations behind the latest-greatest. I was able to get acceptable (for me) performance for 'low and slow' GA flying out of my old AMD machine by dialing back the eye-candy and using Steve's DX 10 fixer, but flying any study-level tubeliner (with the exception of the Majestic Q400) was usually an exercise in futility. You can certainly make an AMD machine work (I used mine for nearly four years), but there's no question that FSX benefits from Intel CPUs.

I got a new machine and FSX:SE earlier this year and didn't bother to install anything I wasn't flying regularly, which left me with the following, sorted in descending order of use. Majestic Q400 RealAir Turbine Duke 2.0 RealAir Lancair 2.0 A2A Comanche Captian Sim L-1011 PMDG 777 & 737 I've been tempted to buy some recent offerings (Carenado S500, iFly 747 v2) , but realistically I don't see myself straying too much from the above list so most of my recent purchases have been scenery instead of aircraft. I am anxious to add the MV 350i once it's available. I bought the pre-release version and in IMO its 'alpha' state it was better than the final build of some other products I've purchased.

WMKK - YSSY in the CaptainSim L-1011. I did it 'old school' by manually entering waypoint info into the INS and using radio navigation as a backup. I screwed up my LAT/LONG entries and went off course a couple of times. Nonetheless, I felt like it was quite an accomplishment to pick up the Broome NDB after a couple hours across the open sea with nothing but the INS to guide me along. Fortunately I didn't botch up navigation on that part of the journey. I also had a rough landing (tired after nearly 10 hours of flight), but I made it. My navigation errors along the way left me with less than six minutes of fuel. It was by far my most memorable flight in FSX--no magenta line, no automatic fuel management and I had to keep my head in the game from takeoff to touchdown.

Speculators and gougers, that's all. I've got a boy who has been interested in nothing but Legos his whole life and the same thing goes on in that world. Once Lego stops making a product its price on the 'grey market' increases astronomically. I've been tempted to 'buy-and-hold' unopened products myself, but that would be futile until my boy is no longer interested in them.

I left my old AMD FX-6200 behind for a 6700K and I couldn't be happier. With no tweaking at all, FSX-SE is as smooth as silk. There is one downside, though: I don't know how I'm going to keep my office warm this winter because the old machine was a pretty good furnace.

Your proposed Skylake system is more than adequate to run FSX-SE in my opinion. I've got virtually the same core components but a GTX 980 graphics card. Since FSX is more bound to the CPU than the GPU I'd speculate that you'll still get accepable performance with the GTX 745. I'm also using FSX-SE on Windows 10 and have had no trouble, and even better I've done no tweaking. To fly the PMDG birds all I do is dial the autogen back from max to normal (and I don't really have to do that but it does make takeoffs and approaches in heavy scenery areas a little smoother).

"​Oh, and by the way...is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane??"

I'm not a participant in the Windows Insider program and today's the first time I've fired up FSX-SE in a couple weeks. EZCA wasn't working for me either, so I uninstalled, got the latest version off of Flight1's website and installed that. It's working fine again now. I do remember having to go through the "install this version then that version, then throw some glitter and say 'hey booboo' three times and then install this version" nightmare when I first set up EZCA on my new machine (back in February) and when the latest EZCA update came out a few weeks later I was reluctant to update because I had it stable on my system. But, since it was acting up today I took the dive and updated. Hopefully it does not continue to be a problem. (Edit: The build I got off of Flight1's website is 1.18.7, which is what you indicate above. Did you happen to try re-running the EZDOK config?)

I second going for the WD Black instead of Blue as they have a 5 year warranty. I can't say I like the design aesthetic of Windows 10, but it sure boots up faster and I haven't had any trouble with it (I'm running FSX-SE). I almost went with Windows 7 instead of Windows 10, but I decided I'm buying for the future, not the past. My new machine came from Cyberpower as well, and I am satisfied with my purchase. My motherboard was on backorder for about three weeks, but since I used their "NORUSH" shipping option it wasn't a big deal. My only complaint (about my machine, not Cyberpower) is my on-board audio is really noisy. I half-way expected that to be the case since I bought a "value" motherboard (Gigabyte G1.Sniper), so I replaced it with an external USB audio interface that works great.