Virtual-Chris

I guess I’m one of the few that don’t. But I mostly fly GA or occasionally an IFR flight in the Longitude using the in-sim planner.

Classic but I’m not really getting it.

I have invested in the Kodiak but I love the Caravan as well… it’s a bush strip workhorse

Has anyone done this?… PNG bush strips around Goroka? I’m going to give it a go in the updated Kodiak. Any tips? What addons or mods do you recommend?

It does seem to be a wide-spread issue with all kinds of potential fixes. In my case… The first few days I flew last week I don’t recall any stuttering issues. But then I loaded up a couple airport and city scenery packs. It seems to me that in the past, loading a third party addon scenery would cause a visual stutter and a temporary drop in FPS. I could easily ignore that. But now loading scenery seems to also cause an audio pop or crackle which is impossible to ignore. If it’s just the main thread taking a hit on scenery load, I’m not sure what I can do about that short of not using any add-on scenery. From searching and consulting Google Gemini it sounds like Asobo made things worse for stuttering in SU5. I was hoping others might have noticed the same issue when updating to SU5. And I was also hoping to hear that SU6 beta improves things, but no comments on either so far.

Am I the only one with this issue? I wonder what I'm doing different.

I’m just getting back into the sim after a year away. Last I played was on SU4. I’m running into massive stutters with audio drop outs and static that I’ve never experienced before. It starts when just loading into the world from the main menu where it makes me cringe. Then periodically during a flight it happens again and again - probably when any scenery loads. I have a 4090 and 9800X3D with 64 GB and never experienced this before now (Sim update 5). In the past, FPS would take a hit and you may get a visual stutter when landing at an add-on airport but I never experienced audio issues. What’s going on? Is this new to SU5 or just my imagination? Does SU6 beta help?

So far I can only seem to load passengers and cargo at an airport after setting things up in the EFB and using ground services to request passenger boarding. I was at a bush strip in my Kodiak with no services earlier, and wanted to pretend to pickup a few people, but couldn't figure out how to get them to appear. Did I miss something? Is there a trick?

So today I did a few test flights... No AutoFPS - I now get occasional stutters without AutoFPS now. I think this is new. Ugh. v4.6.6 - Didn't have stutters the other day, but did today. Seems slightly worse than no AutoFPS v5.1 - Stutters a fair amount more than 4.6.6 but not as bad as my experience with 5.2RC I don't know what's going on now. I had several stutter free flights on 4.6.6 over the last few days but now anything has stutters. So probably best to ignore my feedback for now. Not sure whats going on. Quick question... Is removing the directory in Appdata/Roaming sufficient to completely uninstall? Or is there other elements I need to remove?

One other issue I'm not sure about... In Stream Deck, I'm using Guenseli's profile and there are a couple of three way switches for Landing Lights and Cabin Lights. I've got the switch working by updating his scripts to use Z: but can't read the value as there's no Z: for read variables... https://imgur.com/a/BkmsFdw

Thanks. Works. Used this for the starter and the Aux Fuel Pump as both needed this. Other buttons map fine with old B vars

I don’t use Claude as I’m not a coder but as a gamer, I use Google Gemini a lot for help optimizing and modding my games. It’s great at analyzing INI files and drawing on a wealth of info from forums, YT, and Reddit to help quickly optimize things that would otherwise take a lot of personal searching and digging. Yesterday, in addition to helping me adjust this flight model, it also helped me map several controls in AAO. I view it as sort of a super aggregator of knowledge and expertise I could find by doing a ton of searching on my own. So it’s a huge time saver in some cases.

I tried that on the 2020 plane and if I recall it was primarily addressing the excess drag SWS had modelled on the prop and flaps which did help overcome the issues on final that require excessive torque to overcome. It seems that SWS tuned this in the 2024 version of the plane so it’s not so much an issue. But the excessive bounce tendency on the Tundra tires is still a problem and Cpt Mustache never tackled that as far as I know.

There’s also this documentation, but this B: variable doesn't work either and doesn’t match what you see in the Dev Mode Behaviour monitor. Starter Switch L:1:SWS_ENGINE_Switch_Starter_1 B:SWS_ENGINE_Switch_Starter_1 Simworks Studios - Taking simulation to new heights!Kodiak 100 – Switch variables and bindings - Simworks Stu...Flight Simulator 2020 bindings Circuit breakers (A:CIRCUIT BREAKER PULLED:x, Bool) System index depends on aircraft, reference systems.cfg for exhaustive list Oxygen (L:XMLVAR_Oxygen, Bool) 0 off 1 onWhat should I be using?

It could very well be a skill issue. It might also have to do with the Tundra tires. At any rate, this adjustment has breathed some new life into the Kodiak for me as I had given up on it in favor of the Caravan which is much easier to work with. I hope it goes without saying that if you’re happy with the Kodiak, this is not for you, and you can ignore it. I’ve shared this in case anyone else feels like I do.