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I remember a few years ago Horizon had mentioned that the 787-10 was going to get the same treatment as its 787-9. Not long after they published some early screen shots of the project on the fsnews.eu website. https://fsnews.eu/horizon-simulations-787-10-for-msfs-revealed/ It was supposedly not far from release but interestingly that release did not happen. Is it still in the works or is it abandonware now? The Kuro and Horizon 787 is nice improvement over default. Not exactly study level but I have fun with them occasionally. The 787-10 seems sort of left behind as mentioned in the article above. Obviously a nice and new study level 787 would be nice but its likely year(s) away. So an updated 787-10 would fill the gap until that time comes.

I will be tracking this plane closely. When the other variants are created and they improve it more I might bite. One thing that kind of turns me off is I see no information if they plan to make a winglet model? The 300 and 500 was certified for them and towards the end a fair number had them installed. The classics were darn sharp looking with winglets! It's supposedly going to be a definitive 737 Classic package with multiple variants but no winglets? I hope it comes in a future update!

I am still on FS2020 for a bit longer. I have FS2024 installed on my system and its running well. I am basically waiting for the official release of SU2 and a bit more stuff to be made compatible before I formally switch over. FS2024 like it or not is definitely the future! Also thinking of getting a new computer at some point during the Fall and if I have not formally switched over by then its likely I will when I set up that new computer. At that point I am usually lazy enough not to bother installing the old sim. Ironically FS2024 runs good enough on my existing computer but its getting a bit dated at 4 years old so about that time. 2070 Super and a i7 10700K processor is not exactly high spec these days. Thought about just dropping in an updated video card but for what a descent video card cost these days I might as well upgrade everything in one package. I think even SSD's are finely getting bigger now as well. So just buy a whole new system makes sense!

This morning I am doing a quick flight from SEA to GEG and I spotted the light rail train go by as I was pushing back from the gate. So the light rail train is in fact there! Must of just missed it when I flew in yesterday!

I forgot to mention that the BMW version is missing a fair number of jetways at least on my setup. The MK Studios version pretty much has all of them that I can see so far.

I picked up this scenery last night. As a Seattle native I like to keep my SeaTac as current as possible. This morning I did a quick flight from the new PDX to SEA this morning and the new Scenery is definitely a lot more detailed. Most of it is interior details and a lot more small details on the exterior. Building textures seem to be a higher fidelity as well. Scale of the buildings also seems superior over the BMW version. Performance seems pretty solid and at least comparable to the BMW version. For a long time the BMW version had performance issues which has been somewhat fixed but still had performance issues. The new scenery is not perfect but you also get a lot more detail. Things actually ran pretty smoothly on my system with the new scenery. A few minor nit picks with the new scenery. Some of the trees around the airport seem to be overdone and they were not overdone on the BMW version. On the new scenery I can see the Light Rail tracks but I never spotted the train going by like in the BMW version. Maybe its there and I just missed it but the few minutes I waited for it I never did see the train go by. Overall its definitely a step up from the BMW version and with this being version 1.0 its likely it will be improved even more in future versions. Considering the state of BMW I doubt we will ever hear anything from them again so the newer version is definitely the one to buy!

After I posted here I checked out the PMDG forum and the question was asked there. No official answer but a lot of hopium that it will in fact be released in May or June. Just a little concerned that it will likely not be a big seller and these days PMDG seems to shy away from anything they won't make money on. I just want it to semi complete the series but in reality no regular 300 or regular 200 model either so the series won't really be complete. Sometimes I think PMDG (Robert) likes to leave out little details in his updates and looks for a reaction. If nobody mentions something like the 200LR it will be indication to him not to move forward with it. Just speculation of coarse and not entirely true! I don't think the 200LR will be super complicated to complete and I don't think it will be a huge seller but I think it will still pull a small profit for them.

Whatever happened to the 772LR? I am getting vibes that one is not happening!

Looks fairly complete of coarse pictures don't tell the whole story. I am of coarse taking a wild guess based on nothing that it will likely be out at some point this summer. Maybe early Fall if it has issues we can't see. I like the A220. It is sort in between the Embraer E-Jets and the larger A320. Glad they are doing the 300 and the 100 will come in a future update if I read that correctly? The A220 also has pretty descent range and will handle those longer thin routes with ease.

I think we are missing a whole lot of aircraft. Some are in the pipeline but it seems to take just as long developing an aircraft for MSFS as it does the real thing these days! I think one thing holding things up is someone will announce a plane and because of development time and cost nobody else takes it on. The 1st developer ends up going vaporware and we get left high and dry. I think eventually we will have most stuff we want but it might be another 10 years. Yeah a Q400 along with the other Dash 8 variants are sorely needed. Not sure if Majestic will actually ever deliver? I hope they sell the project to a respected developer to finish it and not just leave us out high and dry!

One thing I would like to see is some sort of road map from IFly regarding the development of the MAX series. I would love to see a MAX 9 sooner rather then later and eventually the MAX 7 and 10. As far as I know they have never formally announced any other variant. Interestingly Google AI says IFly plans to release the MAX 9 soon but take that with a grain of salt. I am sure they will wait until the 8 is 99% complete and get all the bugs fixed so I don't expect it real soon but it would be nice to know eventually we will see other variants. If it's truly just the 8 eventually the PMDG Max will start to look more lucrative. The current MAX 8 is getting pretty close. Maybe after a few more updates it will be 99% there. It's a nice model and likely superior compared to what a PMDG MAX (which I think is vaporware still) will ever be like but if it's just the 8 that will limit it's long term appeal. I actually hope IFly brings the NG over as well.

Interesting find at least in my case. I rebooted FS2024 a 2nd time and something downloaded for a few seconds. I thought maybe it was another update but after I got a flight going I noticed that my custom keyboard mapping was installed and working again. So it looks like at least in limited cases your settings are stored in the cloud and will reinstall shortly after you reinstall it. I am glad I did not have to mess with those key maps again! Some other settings like AI traffic and a few others have not reset and will need to be adjusted but most other things are still in place including many assistance options I have set up to my liking (most actually off). My Active Sky is still not working in FS2024. It recognizes that the sim is running but I get a warning that says "Weather Script Not Detected". When I cleaned out the community folder I may have deleted some plug in or whatever for Active Sky. I tried reinstalling Active Sky again thinking it would restore those files but it looks like it did not do so. I will dig in my FS2020 Community Folder and see if something is in there for Active Sky and cut and paste into the FS2024 Community Folder. I don't think I ever had to do anything else in the past though. I seem to remember Active Sky working just fine in FS2024 without doing anything. That was a while ago though! Here is an update.... I got Active Sky running. It was simply a missing plug in that got wiped out when I cleaned up the Community Folder. FS2024 runs real nice. A little better than before. The biggest difference is the popping and clicking I was getting when accessing the options screens seems 99% gone. Now I need to formally map my FS2024 install so I can properly download FS2024 approved add on stuff I have. Like many I originally just cut and pasted stuff into the FS2024 Community Folder. That works sometimes but you sometimes get something that disagrees with FS2024. This was probably why I had to redo everything to begin with!

Yeah I was thinking WU: Brazil causing the problems but just decided a reinstall was a good idea anyway. Luckily it does not take very long to reinstall and amazingly it now seems to be working normally. Only bad thing that happened is all my custom keyboard commands and the custom stuff on my joystick is gone. So I will have to redo that stuff but its not crazy difficult. Just kind of time consuming. I was hoping that the FS2020 default keyboard option would actually be like FS2020 default but they have not bothered to fix that yet.

I installed FS2024 on launch day and for the most part was okay. Installed the 1st update a few months ago without issue and SU1 also installed without issue. I took a test flight a few days ago checking out the new Cessna 185 and SU1 around the San Juan Islands in Washington State and all seemed well. Not a half bad model and performance was butter smooth. Today I tried to launch FS2024 and it kept on crashing on the loading flight screen. Tried several times and it would just get the spinning circle forever on the bottom right side of the screen. I literally waited like 1 hour the 2nd time but nothing. I tried a few hours later and I finely got a flight to load but the plane was placed a couple of thousand feet up in a random area. It would sort of hover for 10 seconds or so an slowly start to fall from the sky. Slowly at first and then it would speed up. Exited out and rechecked that I was supposed to start on the runway and launched it again and the same thing happened. Rebooted the computer and relaunched the sim. This time I started on the runway as it should but everything looked like garbage and Active Sky was not working. Only thing available was Clear Sky option. Try to set it to Live Weather and it would just bounce back to the Clear Sky Option. In frustration I went ahead and uninstalled FS2024 and I am now reinstalling it. Mostly because I am still on my original install which has been rumored to be corrupt for many. However today's shenanigans certainly pushed me into doing so! Hopefully I get it running as it should!

This is what I was thinking and I hope we are correct. Just not much if any mention of it lately. It really just a passenger version of the 772F they already created. So development should be streamlined. It will likely won't set sales records for PMDG but with the less time in development it will still generate cash flow. So I would be surprised if they quietly axed it but in this day and age who knows? I actually think the 772A and 773ER would also be streamlined development projects and would generate some cash flow for PMDG as well but they (him) don't see it that way! I think the real thing keeping the PMDG 737 MAX alive is if IFly decides not to develop it any further. Not so much systems but variants. If IFly just sticks with the 8 variant PMDG will have that angle. If IFly does the whole MAX line we will never see a PMDG MAX. At least not this decade. I think they are waiting to see what IFly does? If I was IFly I would be working on turning PMDG off by announcing other MAX variants and even perhaps the NG series as well. So far they have been pretty quiet! Interesting times in our hobby!

Anything on the 772LR? It seems they have been kind of silent about that lately. PMDG seems to have a habit of flip flopping a lot and what they say and what they do is more often than not the same thing. Also it was pretty much said by the horse mouth himself that the MAX would release during the 777 release cycle. All of sudden that did not happen and its tied up in some sort of commercial enterprise project. What the heck does that even mean? I mean really?? I don't think we will ever see a PMDG MAX and it was all smoke and mirrors keeping other developers from developing one just so PMDG can have that plane cornered but it did not work! I like PMDG products and have been a long time supporter but lately they seem to have lost direction in my opinion.

First time booting the A350 after the latest update. I did clear the WASM files so starting fresh. The results after the patch are fairly positive for me. The exterior model no longer looks all washed out and lacking detail. I can now see details like cargo doors and other minor details seem to stand out now. Inside the cockpit I see more detail but I can't say what they improved exactly. Its still not at the level of iFly or Fenix but is improved over version 1.0. One thing I am very happy is I can now program a simple Direct To in the FMC. For some reason this function was just not working in version 1.0 but now it is. I know its bad but because of time constraints sometimes I just put something into Direct To and set the AP to fly me to my destination. Right now I can't comment on how it flies since I did not take it up for a spin but I did not have any major complaints about the flight modeling before. Some complaints out there about it being overpowered and it liked to leap off the runway. If you just hop in and take off with zero payload and 50K pounds of fuel the real thing would be pretty sporty as well. I found that when I dialed in some payload and a meaningful amount of fuel it was actually fairly heavy as it should be. I did have a look at the payload manager. So far still a bit goofy here. No matter what Zero Fuel Weight I input I can't seem to get a full load of passengers as least in the manager. I like it better if you can just toggle the number of passengers in each section and it does all the other stuff for you. Fuel loading seems to work as advertised except on my inaugural flight from ATL to LAX I loaded 100K pounds of fuel. All was well and when I was overflying ABQ I had 45K lbs of fuel remaining. However randomly it reset itself to 100K pounds of fuel again. Hopefully I don't see that issue again and it was just me doing something by accident. I also did not check out taxiing the airplane but I am sure that is broken. For me I still use the keyboard for taxiing and that is the 0 and ENTER keys on the keypad. I can steer normally except the 5 key does not seem to center the nose gear like it does on every other airplane in the FS World. Overall its a solid update but it will need a few more to get there. Hopefully the contrail issue is fixed in this update or soon. I do feel its ready for my next flight which will be LAX to SYD. At the moment I am using FS2020. I am not anti FS2024 for the most part and have had some solid experiences in FS2024. However I am not participating in the beta so just waiting for that to go official. Also kind of waiting for more of my planes to be working in FS2024. Once everything is ported over officially I will likely be just about ready to retire FS2020.....but not yet!

Doing my first real flight today (ATL-LAX). FMC or whatever Airbus calls it is giving me a bit of a headache. For the record most of the time I am pretty lazy don't always bother programming the whole thing. It mostly comes down to time constraints so I often make short cuts. Today I tried to properly set up the FMC but kept on getting Discontinuity errors so I said heck with it and took off. Once at cruising altitude I attempted to program a DirectTo KLAX. I can enter it and it recognizes it with distance remaining showing but when I click on Insert Dir To it all just vanishes like nothing ever happened. I am sure I am doing something wrong or perhaps it requires something programmed in the Route section? However usually Direct To usually works getting to where you need to go easily. I am sure I will get it figured out shortly!

I picked up the Inibuilds A350 and my results are mixed. I have been using it in FS2020 as I am waiting for SU1 for FS2024 to become official. For some reason I was expecting more fidelity with the exterior model. Its not all bad but it looks a bit basic when you look at the details of some other models in FS2020. Same goes for the cockpit as its not all bad but definitely lacks some detail over other models. Even when zoomed up close I don't see any rivets or body panels for example. Maybe the A350 does not have any? I took it for a quick circuit around ATL yesterday and I thought it hand flew pretty nice. Its so easy to fly and stable I feel my mom could fly it. Performance was spirited but I did not bother to configure a payload and only had the default 50,000 lbs of fuel onboard. I did not really notice any performance issues and my system is now pretty much lower mid level these days. It might be different around detailed airports and with some clouds around. Other than what sounded like a shot gun going off when I lowered the landing gear all was pretty well. Today I started to dive into the systems a little bit. I took it up for another circuit around ATL. The payload manager or whatever is called seems pretty broken. It seems no matter what gross weight I put in I could not get the passenger numbers to show a full payload. Fuel portion of the manager seemed okay but not the rest of it. I would much prefer being able to input actual passenger and cargo numbers into the manager and have it tell me what my gross weight is. At least with a payload it was no longer spirited and felt pretty heavy. Next up was the AP. Now for the record I have no idea how a real A350 AP works but I assume it would be pretty similar to other Airbus AP of late. It seems my AP did not really want to do anything other than Auto Throttle worked. After tinkering with it for a while I magically got it to work when I hit the FD button. This might be accurate or it might not? I would be a little surprised if this how it really works but if it does work this way I am of coarse fine with it. One of the most annoying things is the nose wheel steering. Okay shame on me for using a basic set up but most of the time my PC gets used for many things and by other people. So I am sort of forced to have a more basic setup. I use the 0 and ENTER key on the keyboard keypad and this does move the nose wheel. However on every other plane in the FS World the 5 key centers the nose gear. However on the A350 it does not center the nose gear. For the record every Inibuilds aircraft has the same fault. Its darn annoying because you can't center the nose wheel.

Yeah that is not a bad deal in my opinion. I have not seen it mentioned but hopefully they do winglet and non winglet versions (300 and 500) as well. Basically a complete legacy 737 Classic pack. I guess the only real gamble is if they never actually come out with the 300 and 400 versions. That is not an unheard of event in our hobby unfortunately. Because of this I will definitely see how well this plane tracks and get lots of community feedback. However if it ends up being a great model I will jump on it fairly quickly. Sort of like the IFly 737-8 MAX. Within a few days I picked it up as well! Speaking of the IFly Max its about the only thing that is making me not like it 100% (more like 98%) is the fact they have yet to announce other variants like the 9 and eventually the 7 and 10. Logic would dictate that they eventually will announce it but it would sure be nice hearing it from the horses mouth. The 737 is one of those airplanes you really need all variants in your hanger.

I would be okay with $120 if it was a study level model and included the 300-500 with winglet and non winglet models and all the trimmings. All the cockpit and engine options common on the Classics would also be a bonus. Not really interested in any sort of subcription model. That is okay for some things but not flight simulator aircraft. I guess it could work if you had a large and trustworthy development team. You pay a monthly subscription cost and get access to everything they are working on. It would have to be a very trustworthy developer and they would have to be pumping out models pretty consistently.

I have not had this exact problem today with FS2020 but all day I have had bandwidth error pop ups. Most of the time if I just ignore it all is well except on my last flight it never bothered to reconnect. Been testing my internet connection all day and its plenty fast and okay. Some kind of server issue on M$ side is what it looks like!

I think I am on the latest beta..I downloaded it a few days ago. For me I have not noticed a difference between versions of Active Sky but perhaps it is better? Need more trial to know for sure. It can be pretty random. You can go a week without issue but all of a sudden it becomes a constant problem. If I am flying the PMDG 737 I can usually recover without issue. However the Fenix A320 is really difficult. It's like the Fly By Wire system gets confuse and fights your attempts at recovery. Previous versions of Active Sky had some sort of wind smoothing feature. Honestly I have never looked to see if it does but will next time I use it. If not there not sure it can be added? It needs it!

For me the wind shift issue is in both FS2020 and FS2024. The extreme severe turbulence is worse in FS2024.

I wonder if this has something to with an issue I have been having lately? I will be flying along and all is well and all of a sudden a very violent wind shift happens. My airspeed will drop to almost nothing my AP will kick off and all of a sudden I am in a flat spin. It seems to be more of a problem lately and I don't remember it being so bad in the past. Could just be a winter winds thing. I do use Active Sky combined with RealTurb. Another issue is in FS2024 at least the turbulence can get so severe bad things start to happen. FS2020 does not seem as bad!