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    On 4/3/2023 at 9:13 PM, pots said:

    Has anyone success with Active Sky XP12 Beta4 and X-Plane 12.05b1? Both apps are running fine side-by-side but no connection between them (message "Waiting for Simulator" in ASXP). Was running fine before. Reinstalled ASXPConnect12 plugin, nothing. Maybe too many betas on the same time.

    Ok-problem solved. Found a  older ASXPConnect folder from \X-Plane 12\Resources\plugins\, moved it away and kept newer ASXPConnect12 folder with newer plugin. Now ASXP connection is established.

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    On the moment most intesting seems to be system simulation with Study menu,

    I have used different simulations, like Aerowinx PSX or LES Saab 340 or Felis Tu-154M  but there has always been sublte feeling of missing something. X-Plane or PSX  is supposed to be flight simulator, so it simulates flight deck effects sensible to pilot. But what is going inside between different subsystems or ARINC 429 databuses is not shown. Challenger seems to be a little different,

    Maybe I have always dreamed of aircraft system simulator instead of flight simulator? Like some kind of  enhanced flight engineer panel simulation or development iron bird of aircraft manufacturer. And when it flies then it is additional bonus. 

    Trying to resist a few hours more but after then...

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  9. Posted

    Seems to be great freeware! 3D cabin, X-Camera views, many working switches. Some understanding of Russian langugage would be good, but not unevitable, essentially there are many-many abbreavtions in use which meaning should be just known. Still some docs or videos or checklists would be great. I managed to start the APU but now starting the engines is small challenge. Both Yak-40 and Tu-154 had nice bunch of toggle switches under the cover to start the engine, nothing similar in 134.

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    Logitech (or former Saitek) quadrant has issue with pots, they are tiny-tiny and give spikes. Best results could be obtained by opening the unit and cleaning them with contact cleaner and swab. Opening the unit is not very complicated, just there are many screws to remove.My personal issue has been wires, they  break away from soldering points of pots and circuit board very easily. Sometimes I felt that connections snapped due to  looking them, then had to solder them back multiple times. So maybe cleaning took 1/3 of time and soldering 2/3. Surely this quadrant was bought 2013, maybe now wires are better?

  16. Posted

    7 hours ago, yidahoo said:

    Then factor in the supposedly 100+ developers working on this and the time scale it has taken to get to pre-alpha (5 years according to some). That is a serious capital outlay that needs to be recouped and profited on.

    Timing is interesting. In July 2014 Microsoft licensed FSX code to Dovetail Games and in December FSX: Steam Edition was released. So Microsoft started the development of MSFS on the same time period? Dovetail released their Flight Sim World in May 2017 and canceled it in May 2018. Maybe they got some information about Microsoft new project and thought that paying for Microsoft to use/modify FSX codebase is not practical anymore? 

    The development is done by Asobo Studio SARL (completely outside of Microsoft), so there should be big business plan behind everything. 

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    The main question seems to be - has Microsoft found secret way to make flight simulation mainstream? When there are 100+ developers working for 5 years and petabytes of Bing map data then then there should be very serious businessplan also. For last 10+ years flight simulation has been niche of niche of gaming, Microsoft FS2020 does seems to be different.

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    Quote from the same thread (user RichardMcDonaldWoc):

    "3. I guess that Microsoft will take over most of the market for land scenery and weather simulation. Companies, such as Orbx, will have to concentrate on airport sceneries. As Asobo said, there will have to be adjustments to markets. There appears to be no future for Active Sky, Prepar3D and XPlane."

    Well - from description seems to have super-capacities (weather system consisting of up to 32 individual cloud layers, aerodynamics modelling based more than > 1000 individual surfaces of the aircraft..). But at first the simulator must be released.

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    Some information from PMDG forum (user threegreen):
    "The main developer of this sim isn't Microsoft, it's Asobo from France. They have, in fact, a team of 200 (!) people working on this sim. Further, they are working with actual aircraft manufacturers (Cessna, for example) to accurately represent aircraft in the sim. They have bought a used airframe for reference. Last but not least, over the course of the 5 years they have been working on the sim now, Asobo have reportedly actually payed for flight lessons for team members, some of whom have acquired their PPL by now."
    So the team behind MSFS 2020 is much bigger than original Microsoft Aces Studio ( 130-140 people, developing also Train Simulator etc). And being in development for 5 years - so there should be big budget and business plan behind. And probably a lot of meetings with Powepoint slides.

  21. Posted

    Air France 447 is also one reason to remember that human being performance is not very good at night (during 1-2 AM or 01:00-02:00).

    For example:

    1986 - Chernobyl disaster at 01:23

    1994 - sinking of cruise ferry MS Estonia at 01:50

    2009- AF447 at 02:10.

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