Jim Harris

In a normal MS-Store installation, (i.e. not a Steam or X-Box install), the master game files are located in C:\XboxGames. This also contains the digital purchase rights files. You mess with these at your own risk. The Flightsimulator.exe file is located within C:\XboxGames\Microsoft Flight Simulator\Content, however the permissions on this file are set in such a strange way that even as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM (the super-user "SYSTEM" account), I cannot touch it, move it, or change its permissions. I do not know if you can link to it or not. I created a script that launches FS2020 after displaying a "checklist": Note the "correct", (as mentioned on certain web sites), way to launch MSFS from a command line is shown right after the "pause" statement. @echo off cls cd "C:\Users\Flight_Simulator\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe" rem *** this part is a pre-lauch-program checklist because I'm and word not allowed. . .*** rem *** it displays itself prior to launching Microsoft Flight Simulator *** echo: echo. MSFS 2020 Pre-Startup CHECKLIST VERIFICATION: echo: echo. [ ] Move keyboard out of the way. echo: echo. [ ] Verify that all cables are firmly attached to their respective controller's connectors. echo: echo. [ ] Verify that no cables are resting on the keyboard. echo: echo. [ ] Move all axis controls around to reduce noise. echo: echo. [ ] Verify that all trim controls are centered. echo: echo. [ ] Verify that the throttle has been pulled all the way back to the stop. echo: echo Then. . . . pause C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /C start shell:AppsFolder\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe!App exit Update: By booting into Linux Mint, (I have a dual-boot system), I was able to copy the file to a backup location, where it is now owned by "Everyone". I do not know what effect this has on the executable or its ability to run in the system.

Greetings and I hope this finds you safe and well. I'm currently working on a project for my Dexter Industries GoPiGo robot where I control it with a joystick. Ergo, I dig up my (old) Saitek X52 HOTAS controller that I've had sitting in a box for a while. That, planked down on my computer table, brought back fond memories of simming with FS-2000 all the way to FSX, (which I waited outside of a BestBuy to purchase of the "first day of issue") <== stamp collector joke. I've played with the FS series, and I've messed with the FlightGear sims. . . . Maybe I'm wrong, but the FS sims seem "too easy". Plug it in, turn it on, and away you go! FlightGear was a bit too fussy, not to mention the Windows support of a few years ago was spotty at best, (which may have been part of the "fussiness"), and really wanted to be run on a Linux box - which I don't mind but most of my stuff is on Windows. Likewise, the fora there was less than welcoming if you didn't have aspirations of flying the Space Shuttle, or being a full-time commercial pilot. Not to mention that one set of blasted high-tension towers at the default airport that my Cessna just loved to home-in on! 🙄 While I'm practicing my robotics in Python and JavaScript, (and since I have the controller out anyway), I'm interested in finding out what's happening in the flight sim community nowadays. So, my question is, which flight sim do you like, and why? Given that I'm no stranger to flight sims, but am far from being an accomplished pilot, ("landing" is a major goal), what would the more experienced members recommend for a relative nugget/neo like myself? Bonus question: Do you know of any really decent terrain and airport models for Moscow Russia. (My granddaughters would love that!) Sheremetovo, (SVO), Vnukovo, (VKO?), and Domodedovo, (DME), are the three big airports there. I'd like it to be realistic, but I'd also like it to be fun, something that my 8 and 10 yo granddaughters could use and with a forum group that doesn't talk down to the neo. It doesn't have to be freeware, but that would be nice. I don't have a yoke, rudder pedals, throttle quadrant, or cockpit, and I don't have 10,000 CUDA cores and four Crossfire rated video cards driving a half-dozen monitors in the Sim Pit from Hell. All I have is my humble Saitek HOTAS controller set. I'm running Win-10 on a HP EliteBook laptop with a reasonably ballsy processor and a s-load of memory. I'd really be interested in the information and advice you folks could offer - I signed up especially for this reason. Thanks! Jim "JR"