Will Fly For Cheese

Are JF discounting if you owned the Warrior II for FSX/ P3D do you know?

My nearest Licensed Airfield - that I have flown out of recently - has had three major changes to its Taxiway designations in the last 2 years. AIRAC (let alone Navigraph) is not going to keep up with that. NOTAMs will, of course - and if in any doubt - those should be your one and only consultation. An entire distributor road has been moved to what was an old Taxiway, etc, etc. It's hard enough to remember and report to the ATCO real world - forget the sim. It's the way of all things here in the UK - we're squeezing every little bit of space out of airfields to build government targets of "x" amount of new homes/ Industrial Estates, etc, etc. Some businesses setting up are good - aviation and technology based - most, I'm afraid are simply land grabs by property portfolio holding companies. It's the way it is and Grant Shapps has failed in his mission. But, Taxiway designation be warned. Monday it could have been called Taxiway 'Alpha' - now, by Friday it's called "Commerce Road" and it leads to an ASDA and a huge car park - not the Holding Point you were expecting.

No. Not at all envious. I just think it's massively over-priced and if we buy in to that culture of paying this sort of money then it will set a precedence and this hobby will become something the wife has a genuine complaint about how much it costs, when the children have to go to school barefoot. In the words of Sully; "Let's get real here."

The Sim that is MSFS2020 hasn't even been out a year - there's going to be some howlers in terms of errors. Taxiways are right up there. In the immortal words of Morpheus; "Patience Neo - the answers are coming." And keep your wallet in your pocket in the mean time. After all - when PMDG 'et al' come online with their big jets - they'll be plenty to spend your hard-earned on.

This is nonsense. JF are attempting a land-grab on MSFS2020. Folks taking their simming seriously - as mentioned earlier in this thread - have their own aerodrome charts - electronic or paper - (Little NavMap will give you Navigraph Data on aerodrome taxiways for free!) and simply don't have recourse to have to consult on-the-ground signage - which - quite honestly - if JF had said they've done this for 30,000 aerodromes I might have considered it - but they'e done it for under a thousand, in the U.S. As some of us spoke about last year (after initial announcement of MSFS2020 and worries about Addons) - and someone on this thread mentioned - DON'T LET THEM GET AWAY WITH IT! Boycott it! You don't need it. And at those prices; they're having a giraffe - in a bubble bath - with bells on. Leave it to Asobo and BlackShark to fix - I'm sure they'll get around to it at some point. (And for our American cousins across the pond - "Having a giraffe" is cockney rhyming slang for "having a laugh") https://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk

That's a Nope from me. Attempted daylight robbery.

LFLX - Chateauroux, France. Please, somebody make this airport. It's the A320 circuit bashing mecca for newbie Airbus jockeys. So many airlines send their rookies there to do their four TO's and Landings before joining the line here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Châteauroux-Centre_"Marcel_Dassault"_Airport

My understanding Dominique is the repainter altered the model and re-uploaded it.

I would love to know how you managed to break your Track IR - I've had my Pro Track IR for about 5 years now - and many, many times have flung it to the floor in disgust at my flying - and it steadfastly refuses to break. What's your technique for breaking it? Track IR is the best - because it just is. Nothing else can touch it. It's an investment in your immersion in the Sim (like yokes/ rudders, etc) and - I don't know about you - but for me it's worth it. Anything else it pale imitation.

Leave Lagaffe guys. In the old days of FSX people asked before modifying airframes - even if it was to do a repaint. Sure, those days are gone with the new MSFS2020 but Lagaffe is old school and has been around a very, very long time. Fly one of his creations and you'll see just how good he is and understand his expectation of old school manners which we all used to behave by.

Fantastic little aeroplane Lagaffe - been flying it all morning. Thank you. I have fond memories of spending many hours in your C150 TI Bush in FSX - wonderful aircraft too! Good to see you getting your teeth in to MSFS2020. Salut et Merci.

If your attention to detail on the aircraft is anything like the quality of your engagement with the flight sim community I will have made a good purchase of your A320 when it releases. Thank you.

What I don't get - and I'm going to play Devil's advoate here - is, two years of development and yet we've only had MSFS2020 since last August 2020 and the announcement of it back in June (ish) 2019. So unless they had the SDK WAY before anyone else - what platform did they start developing it for?

The change in perception with those settings David set up for me are remarkable. Sim set to V-SYNC and 20 FPS and monitor set to 120 and no discernable frame rate in sim. Looks and feels like it's running at many many dozens FPS. Back in FSX if you set it to 20 FPS it was choppy as hell. There's none of that.

Yep, 60 FPS was proving a little taxing on anything with glass so that second advice is spot on. Again - many thanks. Really feel I've unleashed the monitor/ card and MSFS2020 to a new level. Nice one centurion! Will

OMG David. Thank you!!! You have just revolutionised the whole look and feel of my sim! I had Track IR and unlimited frames and it was good but now - interpolating your advice here for my set-up - I have set my monitor to 120 hz and in sim FPS to 60 and V-Sync on and the sim has come alive amazingly. A thousand thank yous!

This is the time where we definitely need working sun shades in the cockpit. Or the whole thing will simply fall to bits.

Well, if it's been let loose on Vatsim then it can't be far off - surely? Very impressed so far.

One invariably rests the palm of the hand there when operating the speedbrake.

Yep. That's it. Thanks. My bad. Going to have to put my serious Bushead back on shoulders by the looks of things!

Ummm, MCDU EFOB and DTG (135) and Lower EICAS seem to disagree. . .unless there's 5 hours to go. . .and the 320 burns about 2 tons/ hour. Encouraging to see orange and pink asterisks and constraints in place. Something not right. Probably me. (Are we looking ahead in the F-PLN pages?)

If you're a big dog - and FSL most certainly is - then you come in, when - and only when - you've got something to bark about. After all - the poacher who shoots at rabbits might scare big game away! I'm in no doubt - that if FSL are still in the game - and with what Ray said earlier - they surely are - they'll arrive in a timely manner with something very good to get our teeth in to. Look how Scott of A2A has gone Public - then Quiet - Public - then Quiet. Same depth of quality of Dev. They have plans but they're not throwing them about all over the place like confetti. I like that. More importantly - I respect it, and I'm far more likely to buy an airframe off them as a result.

David, absolutely what is not being said here; FSL systems depth is beyond question in terms of A320 modelling - (only reason I occasionally boot up my P3D to fly the bird) but, we appear to be about to be saturated with A320's and what I said earlier in the thread about the "Knee-jerk reaction" for a whole new raft of Simmers - who just want to get airframes in the air and post on Reddit, etc - does, unfortunately, come in to play here - it cannot be denied. Wrong? - yes. Happening - Yes, as well. It's regrettable - but the factors that decide "study-level"/ quality/ etc, appear to have changed - for the worse - for the time being. We all know you're passionate about the FSL A320X - and it's a wonderful airframe with systems modelling that should be the envy of all other devs - and give a very high bar set, to shoot for - but, we live in strange times where the quality of an airframe is measured by how good it looks with the sun setting behind it in a Reddit Window. Nothing can touch FSL A320X development at this time. These guys are young pretenders - but at least - as flyers (Sim, Real or both) - we're going to take a strong interest and hang about on the apron to watch the Alpha flights - right?

I'd certainly buy it. Perhaps FSL have taken the view from the earliest - after seeing the FBW Team take the reigns of the A320 - and knowing the Boeings belong to PMDG - that they should go with the Concorde. Anyone else trying to model the systems depth of that bird is never going to achieve what FSL already have and can bring in to MSFS. If I was in charge at FSL - that is what I would do. And I'd stay quiet about it - to prevent copycats punting out some inferior version earlier (probably using the default 747 avionics suite!) making a whole load of moolah and detracting away from a more credible and more lucrative future version. If we take a look at how things tend to swarm with MSFS - it's not the old arena we used to know pre August 2020 - when our hobby had become pretty much niche. Now we have many - and they dive to their wallets on hype and screenshots and soshall meja without bothering to explore the intricacies of systems-depth, etc, to work out value for money. Not that I'm criticising - but just look at how the Bredok 737M and the CS T7 "flew off the shelves" for all the wrong reasons. Like others here; I have no intention to fly either of those airframes.

Am I being incredibly brave or incredibly stupid to suggest that FSL may have switched their development to a Concorde for MSFS and are simply keeping quiet about it?