Superdelphinus

Life’s too short for this sort of thing I think! Just set the game up to run well in a demanding scenario and leave it at that. You’ll be spending a lot less time fiddling about with stuff, and more time (virtually) flying.

This thread is peak avsim

I don’t know whether to be impressed by that or horrified. It’s certainly committed!

It’s still mental to me that people pay for stuff like this. Imagine if the same existed for something like assetto corsa! Surely things like this should just be built into the sim/game in this day and age?

I’m not so sure this is such a ‘small hobby’ anymore. I guess the section of it containing people willing to pay as much as the base game for one new aircraft might be small, but I think msfs has heralded something of an explosion in the basic installed user base. Also, may just be my mind misremembering things, but I’m sure PMDG regularly have these sort of single point of failure issues - one person being sick shouldn’t delay an entire plan, especially if it’s a relatively straightforward update. Anyway, hope they’re selling more of their products than ever before!

On the tbm at least, you can find ils frequencies on the ‘waypoint info’ button on the mfd. just put the airport’s iaco code in and the rest should be self explanatory (there’s literally a section called ‘frequencies’. Haven’t tried on other planes but presume it’s similar.

I think the r9 290 is the best price/ performance card there is right now

i've just bought an r9 290 so will let you know how that performs (my cpu is an i5 3570k running at 4.2ghz) - most benchmarks put it slightly ahead of the gtx 780 (not the ti version!), which is pretty amazing considering it's about £100 cheaper.

my thumbs have almost run out of twiddle

PMDG is an outlier though. By all accounts the flight simulation genre is on its arse, I won't blame developers for wanting to release things to market when they are good enough to start making them some money.

I'm not angry with them in the slightest, they can do what they want. I am massively keen to throw my wallet at them at the next available opportunity though, I've not looked forward this much to something on a flight sim since x plane went 64bit

I'm going to set fire to my computer if there's no news today

I'd love that to be honest. Something that I don't already (roughly) know how to fly

I don't have the ff777 but yeah fair enough if it doesn't have the electronic checklists. I love the whole start up sequence in the pmdg one