Malcolm Street

I think it's great fun. Gives you goals and gets you travelling to areas you otherwise mightn't.

It's history. I've visited Berlin twice, in 1982 when it was divided and in 2023, united. They are two totally different cities. I spent a day in East Berlin in 1982 and believe me I didn't see it as "cool and fun". Have a look at the Stasi museum in Berlin now if you want to find out just how nasty it was. It was a unique time and place that deserves to be remembered to ensure it doesn't happen again.

I have a Quest 3. My PC is an MSI Raider A18/HX A9W, a high end gaming laptop/desktop replacement. Specs include: Processor AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D 16-Core Processor, 2500 Mhz, 16 Core(s), 32 Logical Processor(s) RAM: 64GB Graphics: Nvidia mobile 5090 (yes, I know it's actually a 5080 with more VRAM). This runs MSFS2024 superbly in 4k on high settings. I don't expect the graphics in the Quest 3 to match it, but they are still very disappointing compared to what I've seen of users with similar hardware. I'm using Visual Desktop with a dedicated router, a TP-Link Archer BE550 with both PC and Quest 3 connected via 6G. Yes, I use it in the same room and yes the computer is plugged into Ethernet. Here's a sample image, showing the VD specs. https://imgur.com/a/ORSRocb Any suggestions?

Shellharbour north along the coast to YSSY.

Yep, that's what I'm seeing. The scenery goes way out to past Prospect reservoir in the west, although by the time you get to Penrith it's back to autogen. Two other cities I know well, Wagga Wagga and Albury, are very well handled. With the latter it also includes the sister city of Wodonga over the Victorian border, and going west from there covers most of the way to the Rutherglen turnoff. Very impressed so far. But they still have to do something about the trees.

Broome is a fascinating place.

Nice Belgian beers as well!

Career Improved cruise altitude selection for missions. YAY!!!

I don't seem to get Cancel IFR until very late in the flight when descent is under way anyway. I've also had ATC recommend lowering the undercarriage when the aircraft is ridiculously far/high/fast in the descent. No. Can't request descent at all.

I can ask it to reduce the cruise altitude but not commence descent to land.

It is. It's the Airliner Heavy qualification that's I think is still not there.

Under Cessna 208 Caravan: "Tuned gear spring constant + wheels new contact model to fix ground control instability." At friggin' last!!! I'd given up on flying this aircraft in career missions because I got sick of it going haywire on landing after three hour lights and writing the mission off.

I'm learning to use VNAV, but it's causing a problem in career mode, where I'm working towards Cargo-Heavy. My main aircraft is the PC-12, although I doubt it's unique to it. The flight plan shows TOD, as I approach I set target altitude and press VNAV, and sure enough the aircraft descends after it passes TOD. The problem, however, is that ATC keeps insisting that I maintain my previous cruise altitude for quite a bit longer. I get continually pinged and I can lose enough brownie points that I can't get the A needed to count towards the Cargo-Heavy target. IOW, ATC is penalising me for following the flight plan that I have ensured has been sent to ATC!!! In the meantime I can go back to my former practice of waiting until ATC tells me to descend, then making a very steep descent worthy of a WW2 Stuka because it's invariably way after TOD and close to the destination, but that's hardly the sort of flying I want to do. Any ideas?

I run 3 x 43 inch TVs off my new gaming laptop with a laptop 5090 (read detuned 5080 with more VRAM). Runs very nicely with the center monitor on 4k and the others on 2k. It appears to me that FG, as well as DLSS, is working on all three.

Niche aircraft internationally but they were everywhere in Oceania for some reason: Lockheed Electra.

Sounds like earlier situations with B47s refuelling from KC97s.

I read once that when looking for aircrew for the Habu they weren't looking for hotshot pilots as much as people who were very good at monitoring and controlling systems. BTW, another thing to be aware of on long trips as per a quote: "You haven't been lost 'till you've been lost at Mach 3" 🙂

"Wasn't on my radar" - shouldn't have been - it had stealth features decades before the F117

More like the demand for AI data centres going beserk and their owners making bigger orders and having more money. I gather the memory manufacturers aren't increasing capacity as you might expect, unless, like me and many others you see the AI boom as another bubble and they don't want to be caught with overcapacity.

aka boundary layer.

Thanks - that's what I was wanting to hear.

I'm gradually getting on top of this aircraft, in particular landing it, especially with the help of FSI Panel. However in career mode, where I do most of my flying, if the flight plan involves a teardrop approach (and in the cargo missions I do that's most of them) I almost invariably have at best a hard landing and expensive repairs even with full insurance but worse still more often than not fail the mission. I have no problems with teardrop approaches with the other two aircraft I use, Cessna 172 and increasingly Cessna 400. However, the 208 being much bigger I find much less responsive in pitch and roll, and also with the turbine engine the throttle response is poorer. By the time I turn onto final following the teardrop pattern I'm too close to the runway to get the plane set up properly. As I'm still learning I'm using the assists (ie blue rectangles) and following these also seems to be bring me onto final too high. As others have written, the secret to getting a smooth landing in the 208 is to have a long approach, and in other approach types I'm able to do this and can reliably make smooth landings. It appears to me with teardrops I have two options, both of which involve upsetting ATC: 1. (simplest) extend downwind leg considerably so that I turn onto final much further away from the runway 2. (preferred) tell ATC to Golf Foxtrot Yankee and do my own straight in approach. Would I lose reputation points for either of these? Note that while in these types of missions I can select other approaches, they all end up as just variations on the teardrop. I'm at my wit's end doing typical three hours career flights in this aircraft (which I cut down to c. two with time acceleration in the cruise phase) and failing in the last thirty seconds only when a teardrop approach is involved. All assistance/advice gratefully received!

OK, sorted out. I had a problem with mixture not adjusting, and twenty6 found at his end it was because automixture had been set. On checking assistances I found that somehow they'd all been turned on, even though I don't remember doing it! Removing other assistances sorted out the C400 pitch problem - much nicer to fly now.

That was it! Checking Assistances it had some time somehow reverted to all assists on, but I never did that nor (given I like to fly without most assistances) would I have done it deliberately. Turning off other assists has also sorted out my pitch problem with the Cessna 400. Many thanks! So the question is are there circumstances in which MSFS2024 will reset the assists to maximum?