Glenn Fitzpatrick

Neofly is worth mentioning as a free option. It is not as sophisticated as some of the other VA you pay for - but the basic career for just you flying is free. You only pay if you want options like managing other pilots.

OK ... So NVIDIA claim that GeForce Experience 3.23 can do it and save a genuine JXR format HDR screenshot .... https://www.nvidia.com/en-in/geforce/release-notes/GFE/3_23_0/Rich/gfe-v3_23_0-rich-release-highlights/#:~:text=Press [Alt%2BF1] to,accurate viewing of HDR screenshots. HOWEVER ... even if you DO manage to take a HDR screenshot in true HDR - it is still going to look washed out and truly awful on someone else's SDR screen, as they cannot display HDR. The best you will manage is a screenshot that looks OK on someone else's HDR screen. There are HDR to SDR converters around, so I suppose you capture in HDR and convert back to SDR, but no idea whether the end result looks any good. Personally - if I intend making vids or screenshots, I just turn off HDR in my display settings before starting the game and then make sure the game has HDR disabled and work in SDR. TLDR - the main issue is even if you get a genuine HDR screenshot it will only look OK if viewed by someone else who also has a HDR screen.

Kittens, food and people shuffle dancing ...

Talk to any one in the military of countries like the US or UK and ask them out of their several thousand hours on type for whatever they fly, how many of those hours were actually spent shooting at things. Chances are for most the answer is zero, even in training getting to fire off multi million dollar live ordinance is going to be extraordinarily rare.

One of the few planes I purchased in the early years of the sim that occasionally still gets flown.

Seems to me it is mainly sexy and not-quite-so-sexy ladies shuffle dancing.

None of them make a Blackhawk.

They need to be added to Neofly by the Devs manually. If there is any aircraft or livery missing Neofly has an option wh3re you can submit the details and they will add it in the next patch.

Only issue I am having is the Neofly 4 automatic fuel top up and fuel usage feature does not seem to work as expected, as Neofly uses the default MSFS fuel loadout and the Comanche has its own.

I love the Comanche and all the in depth stuff. I am just saying it is like McDonalds versus the expensive Italian Restaurant down the road. Carenado is the quick and easy but reliable "McDonalds" of flight sim addons and they have a clear target market for whom their products are a good match. If you just want something different that is a good price and you can just jump in and fly Carenado might well suit you. For other people happy to invest more cash and more time into learning the intricacies, A2A is a better match and well worth the money time and effort. Nothing wrong with A2A or with Carenado, they just target entirely different types of simming style.

Probably carb icing. But yes, Carenado are popular for a reason, their target market is people who have minimal interest in anything other than stick and rudder and navs and set and forget autopilot and want an aircraft that looks nice and is easy to fly. Nothing wrong with that, for you the Comanche was probably just a mis-match.

The database is is not encrypted so if you download a freeware database editor you can pretty much give yourself whatever money, aircraft and endorsements you want - though that sort of takes away the entire point of have a "career" . Again you can use a database editor to change the livery of your current aircraft if you want. I use the freeware DB Browser for SQLite the file you need to open for V4 is ..\AppData\local\Programs\Neofly\std.bin

I note that the P3D Comanche comes in two versions the $50 one and the $99 variant. Is the MSFS Comanche closer to in features to the $50 P3D or the $100 P3D variant ?

Just a guesstimate, but based on the supposed 2 million copies of MSFS that are out there, 50,000 sales is around 2.5% of total users so sounds quite reasonable for a popular addon. .

Assuming say 5 x staff at say $200,000 all up per year each (salary plus other cost like office rent and taxes) over say 3 years, I estimate you are looking at needing Three Million US Dollars to make a profit. Assuming $US50 per product sold - that would mean sales of around 60,000 copies to make money. Or maybe 100,000 marketplace sales. That said, I suspect they will have sold 10 or 20 thousand copies in the first few days so they probably will do fine

Install in community folder, move it wherever you want, then link it back with addon linker.

I here MS 2035 is sounding promising. Apparently will feature a lot of retro historical stuff like F35s and 737 Max's .

They are not realistic anyway, very tame. A true tropical storm would have the wings off a Cessna within minutes. case in point .... Cherokee Six incident in Texas in 2011 ... the aircraft was still at 6800 ft when the wing spar snapped from turbulence and over speed

I switched to Neofly 4 Beta. It is better than 3 but very much a work in progress.

Mouse emulation needs trackIR running and connected to a functional camera. It is only useful if MSFS and TrackIR are not connecting.

No it is not. It uses the "mouse look" function in game to look around. Which of course is what all the TrackIR alternatives pretty much do anyway. However despite not being optimal, mouse emulation is a recommended workaround for games with mouse look that are not directly supported by TrackIR, and in the early days of MSFS2020 it was the only way to get it working it all. Even though MSFS is now supported by trackIR directly, mouse look still works as a stop gap if MSFS and trackIR have issues.

Mouse emulation works. I ended up creating a shortcut to the mouse emulation on my desktop.

Orbx is a good alternative. Simple automatic updates with Orbx Central without all the marketplace issues (slow updates, nerfed addons, no itemised receipt, etc etc )