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  3. Posted

    On 5/19/2022 at 12:56 PM, JYW said:

    I just bought this yesterday 😎  It's a nice job; I love flying in upstate NY; between Syracuse, Rochester, Albany etc.  A lovely cruise 'by the lake' then on a bit further.   It's nice scenery up there.  I'd love to visit in real life when I next get over to North America.

    If you do, PM me, I have a Cherokee and a 150, I fly out of KRME, I can give you a little sightseeing tour. 

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  6. Posted · Edited by mtr75

    On 5/18/2022 at 4:46 AM, andy1252 said:

    Oh yeah, probably got a couple'a hundred of those too! (now you can see why I'm such a big fan of the addons linker - something like 2000 entries there)

     

    For someone like me, who flies almost exclusively in the Caribbean, this is absolutely the golden age of flight sim. It’s long been an overlooked region in the sim world, and with 20% payware and 80% really incredibly high-quality freeware, I basically have every airport in the Caribbean now. In fact I might have literally every one. It’s awesome. 

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  8. Posted

    I used to say I was going to use a sim a lot, but I never did. I used P3D more than FSX, but not a lot more. It just didn’t get close enough to the real thing to keep someone like me entertained, who flies a lot of VFR in GA aircraft. With MSFS if I’m not flying it I’m thinking about flying it. I’ve gotten in close to 300 hours since the sim started, which with work, travel, family, and real flying, is a lot. Since January first I’ve flown probably 150 hours. It’s just amazing. This is the first real simulator we’ve had (my first was FS98). Sure it has its flaws, but it is truly incredible. 

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  9. Posted

    19 hours ago, Sunshine13 said:

    It's really getting crazy with all these updates, I feel, it really stops u from playing the sim., and enjoy just flying.  What is the purpose of having a beta team before the release of an update, such as #9.  I never saw any game or simulator with so many updates.

    I have been flying since the mid 90's and never had this issue.  I can  understand once in a while u need an update, but this is just getting out of control, every update itseems needs a patch, then why do u have a beta team ?

    Sorry, folks, I am just venting out, and want to enjoy this fabulous, gorgeous sim.  Shortly willl \have PMDG in town, and now we have the Maddog, the BAE 146, the Fenix coming shortly  Please stop with all the updates! or try to cut them down a bit.

    These complaints are tiresome. Clearly you have not been in the betas, so like everyone else you complain without understanding. And if you look at the game from August 2020 until now and don’t understand why they’re updating it, I just don’t know what to say. 

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  10. Posted · Edited by mtr75

    On 4/28/2022 at 3:20 PM, ryanbatc said:

    I think it won't show the weird flight path if all you are doing is flying a straight-ish line.  It should work (well aside from the active leg issue which always happens to me) if the IAF is almost directly in front of you.

    So I’ve basically figured out what this is. In my case, my SimBrief flight plan ended at a VOR on the field and then added the RNAV approach after that. So basically per the sim’s brain it had to get to the VOR on the field and then from essentially the field back to the IAF to start the approach. And it just can’t figure out how to do that. Same with you, starting and ending at the same place with an RNAV approach in the middle. 

    Usually when SimBrief makes a suggestion like that (a final flight plan fix very near the destination, usually a VOR on the field) I remove the final fix and insert an approach. That way the flight plan doesn’t double back, as it were. This time I left it. And as I briefed the approach I realized what I should have realized earlier, which is that I didn’t need that last fix. So I removed it from the G3000. Only at that point, I was on the leg to that VOR. So when I removed it the G3000 just went haywire. 

    So while this is clearly an issue in the sim, this is the first time I’ve seen it, and if I properly lay out the flight plan in the G3000 it can be easily avoided. 

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    45 minutes ago, ryanbatc said:

    I think it won't show the weird flight path if all you are doing is flying a straight-ish line.  It should work (well aside from the active leg issue which always happens to me) if the IAF is almost directly in front of you.

    But notice I got the exact same weird arc that you did, which I hadn’t seen before. 

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    35 minutes ago, ryanbatc said:

    I think it won't show the weird flight path if all you are doing is flying a straight-ish line.  It should work (well aside from the active leg issue which always happens to me) if the IAF is almost directly in front of you.

    Yeah it also activated the legs all weird. At one point I was flying in Nav mode on a heading of 130 or so, following the flight plan perfectly, and the arrow for the FMS was pointing in the wrong direction on the PFD (310 degrees). There is no such thing as an RNAV radial, at least so far as i know. You could concievably get it backwards flying a VOR and the needle would stay centered if you’re right on the radial, but I don’t know that that’s possible using RNAV. It was all very odd. Everything seemed normal until I deleted a waypoint in the flight plan, then it just wen whacky. 

  13. Posted · Edited by mtr75

    15 hours ago, ryanbatc said:

    Right... this is what I've done in the past with the 750/650 and the 430 I'm flying now.  I guess it will all be moot once WT finishes the GNS and G3000

    So oddly, having never before seen what you showed me yesterday, guess what just happened to me? Flying into Providenciales in the Turks and Caicos (MBPV) I see this:

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    I don't know why this site insists on making images so difficult to insert into posts, here is a full shot:

    https://ibb.co/6J53PNS

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    1 hour ago, ryanbatc said:

    Is there an approach at your local airport I could try?  Basically when new aircraft with new avionics are available I do the same approaches I've done irl (and cleared planes for on the other side of the freq) because I know them extremely well.  I know how the Garmin should load the approach and how a typical AP would fly it.  It's a trifecta although it's probably why I'm very picky about avionics.  With the stock G1000 - everything was abysmal.  Once WT's NXi came out it was a night and day difference - almost like flying the Garmin trainer/ real thing.  Clearly WT has a lot planned for the avionics in this sim as shown by the previews on their Discord.  I'm very excited.

    I’ll try this approach tomorrow in the sim. I fly out of KRME, we have a couple pretty standard RNAV approaches. The one thing I noticed in your flight plan (I think) is that the departure and destination we’re the same. I understand why, but k do wonder if maybe that’s what messed the unit up? I fly a GTN750 irl and for that I’m pretty sure we’d just take off and then load the approach without even inputting a flight plan (like you were talking about earlier), but like you said I don’t think you can do that in the G3000. 

  16. Posted

    2 hours ago, ryanbatc said:

    Also I wanted to go back and try this in hopes that you had a version I didn't - for starters I had to make a simple FPL to get it to load - I couldn't just press PROC.  Once I did this I selected an IAF (standard T rnav approach etc) but it not only draws this silly huge arc, it make the active leg from the IAF to the central IAF.  It should be going direct JIMKI in my pic here from PPOS

    This is the RNAV 21 at KDLH for reference.  Also, impossible to load Vectors to Final like I would for practice irl (not that I'm flying a G3000 hehe - but it would work the same as the GTN or GNS).

    52033598647_386c4b8714_k.jpgC700_rnav21fail by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr

    I’m glad you did, I meant to reply to you. That’s bizarre! It almost looks like the VOR/DME 21 approach, which has a DME arc. And you have the WT mod? Do you use Navigraph as well?

    Now I’m curious. I will say I got vectors to final on Vatsim today and didn’t see where you could load that in the Procedures page. So I just loaded a transition and then used heading mode until I was established and then hit Appr. 

    I’d like to figure out what it is, because honestly I think the WT G3000 is absolutely amazing. 

  17. Posted

    Couldn’t agree more with the OP. I have an 8700k and GTX1080, both stock, no OC, 16 GB of RAM. FPS locked at 30, Vsync on, 1440P monitor. Most of the settings that matter to me (I do a lot of relatively low and somewhat slow) are n ultra (clouds, terrain vector, buildings, trees). Sim pumps out 30 FPS, stunning visuals. I have never flown a sim as much as this one, not even close. 

    One thing I would recommend to people: expand your horizons  get out of Boston, JFK, Frankfurt, Heathrow. I fly exclusively in the Caribbean, which I’m sure makes a difference with my framerates.  The islands and the water is GORGEOUS out there, try something different!

     

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  19. Posted

    16 minutes ago, b1bmsgt said:

    Just got it. Test flight was nice. A lot of inop switches, but that's fine for me, I am not the study sim type... I agree that the price should have been a bit less, but I figured, what the hell!

     

    Russ

    Does the WT G3000 mod work with it? I’ve heard it doesn’t but I find it hard to believe. I don’t care about inop switches either. If it flies and the Working Title mod works, I’m in. 

  20. Posted

    21 minutes ago, pvupilot said:

    I don’t see anything in the notes about improved weather and clouds? Other than fixing clear skies.

    I fly the Caribbean pretty much exclusively. I've never seen actual Caribbean weather until SU9 beta. Can't explain it, but that's my anecdotal experience. Weather in the Caribbean before was very vanilla.

  21. Posted

    32 minutes ago, Doering said:

    @mtr75 Great commentary! Is that updraft always there on approach? Like you almost have to push the nose down to avoid floating and running out of runway.

    It has been greatly increased since the last version of the sim. It's like being catapulted forward. But it is realistic. Makes SBH much more of a challenge!

  23. Posted

    Just now, ryanbatc said:

    If the WT G3000 was the refresh version based off the G1000 NXi - I would consider this Phenom....but it's still got the warts of the default nav system.

    What issues, specifically? I fly the WT G3000 and I find it absolutely awesome (and I'm a RW instrument-rated pilot, so I know my way around Garmin units a bit).

  24. Posted

    19 minutes ago, andy1252 said:

    Because some of us don't care about stuff like that. As long as it looks good, and I can get it off the ground, fly around a bit, and get it back down, it can have the flight model of a Sopwith Camel for all I care.

    Add to that the fact that the CJ4 is a great aircraft, paired with the WT G3000, and I couldn't agree more. $30 is a bit steep for this perhaps, but I know I'll fly it.

  25. Posted · Edited by mtr75

    5 minutes ago, Ianrivaldosmith said:

    are we in for fun? 

     

    6 minutes ago, fakeflyer737 said:

    What did they change? 

    Winds are much more alive. The approach to St. Barts (which I've been doing for ages in MSFS) is a whole new ballgame. And on my last flight, weather was FINALLY what you really see in the Caribbean, towering cumulus and torrential, spotty rain.

     

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