Little Jenny

Well let's see, Ini has decided to abandon the 2020 market so it's version is for 2024 only. Fly2High is doing a lot of US regional airports and IMO seem to be doing just fine with them (and theirs was the first one released). Dreamflight is pretty mediocre and not really sure why they made their version.

That's funny, I'm still on MSFS2020 (I called it #Legacysim) and am still spending money on addons. Why? I'm not moving to the new sim anytime soon (new sim rig parts being purchased and I refuse to sell a kidney to get a new GPU). I'm still getting plenty of value out of 2020 and honestly don't see that I'm missing out on anything with the new sim. You do you though. 😉

Is anybody using the TDS addon with this?

Concast will do everything they can to get as much money out of us as possible. When my local cable company was bought out by Comcast, the price for cable TV shot up by over 50%. Cancelled on the spot and have never gone back to any cable TV. Didn't have a choice with internet as my ISP at the time was DSL and there were just too many limitations at the time (cable internet was a heck of a lot faster at the time was the same price).

Been wondering how people on Comcast were handling MSFS2024's increased data usage. I'm still on 2020 due to building a new system specifically for 2024 AND the whole streaming a lot more thing. I mostly fly GA but some days I'm putting in a lot of hours. Interesting that airliner flying is actually resulting in higher data usage than GA flying. I've never gone over 1TB in a month but that does include all the streaming video and audio that I have going when I'm home.

Discord requires 'invites'. Usually there are links on websites that provide this 'invite'. Here is the one for SPAD. https://discord.com/invite/kZqsKgW74G. Once in, you'll see various groups depending on what you're looking for. There may be a 'rules of the Discord' post that pops up and requires acknowledgment, I don't remember.

I'm impatiently waiting for VFR support as well (since I fly GA pretty much all the time right now). It will come, I know.

Absolutely think it's people acting like sheeple. One person says something and others chime in and support that person's comment. Does BATC have some issues? Of course it does. It's EARLY ACCESS!! However even with those issues, it's by far the best ATC I've seen in a sim (I'll admit I have not used SayIntentions, so I cannot speak for how it behaves). Oh and when someone says they've been banned from a forum or Discord group, I pretty much ignore anything they have to say. I'll just keep laughing at the people who scream 'BAD PROGRAM THAT I DON'T UNDERSTAND BUT IT'S NOT MY FAULT'. 🤣

Man, the days of going to a store to get a physical copy of a game. I do miss em. Gotta grab CMI later today and hop in Comanche or 152 and head over for a visit.

My 12yo self started simming @ Willard as well. Good ol' Sublogic FS2 on the Commodore 64 with a cassette drive. The following Christmas I talked my parents into getting the disk drive and that was it for me! I was totally hooked. Living an hour from Bloomington/Normal at the time, it was so cool to be able to fly around central Illinois and of course Chicago. I still live in the area so of course I have flown to many of the airports around here in MSFS2020. The first addon for 2020 I bought was Frasca Field. Fun little place to fly out of. I'll definitely be grabbing UK2000's Willard (this is in fact the third dev who's done it, NMG and the basically freeware that is being passed as payware from MSFSScenery/FSXScenery. Comments about Sublogic are awesome. If not for Bruce Artwick and Sublogic, we may not even be having this conversation. 🙂

Carenado (4), PMDG (4) and Black Square (3)

Just flew though Page and now just flying over Marble Canyon. Your airports are sooooooooooo amazing. I'll have to stop by Marble Canyon in the near future (on my way to Sedona right now). 😉

Had the same problem first time I flew an airliner with BATC. Put the 2 letter IATA code in for the callsign instead of the 3 letter ICAO code. Was confused the whole flight. 🤣

Avoid FeelThere at all costs unless it's an airport you absolutely need (and there is no other dev making it). Their airports are better then the defaults but that's it.

OnAir user here. Not a fan of the subscription model but the dev is constantly adding features (can even run your own industries to generate cargo/pax, etc). I just use it to fly in whatever part of the world I want to fly in (I have a few different aircraft scattered around the world).