marsman2020

Just Flight had made great products for the sim so far with great support for those products and little drama.

I'd love to be able to buy an airliner that had a bit more content then the stock airliners and none of the lame Adobo bugs, for a reasonable price.

Feels like we are constantly strung along here with drama on this entire thing...

It's close, will be out soon after the sim releases, there are blockers from Adobo that will take months to solve, then it's close, now we are back to maybe being months due to lack of debugging tools.....

Every time they have one of these Dev Q&As they talk up all this awesome stuff but then what we get is often pretty underwhelming in comparison.

So I guess we will see what we actually get.

8 hours ago, Tuskin38 said:

When live aircraft aren't taxing, departing or on approach their movements seem to be based on their position data from FlightAware.

For example, late last year there was a NavCanada aircraft doing ILS approach tests at a local airport. The live traffic that spawned in the sim followed its movements nearly perfectly, including altitude and speed, it was just around 5-10 minutes delayed.

It would descend towards the runway, do the approach, fly along the runway and then do it's loop back around for another approach. Following the same path as the real aircraft did according to Flight Aware.

When Virgin Orbit does their rocket launches you can follow the 747 all the way through the launch on a 5 min or so delay.  All the way to when the aircraft does the pull-up to drop the rocket.  I flew chase one time in a Latitude and it was super sweet.

Can't wait!

All of the moderation training on the official forum seems to focus on how to close and delist threads.

I especially enjoy when one mod forces people to merge a new discussion into a mostly unrelated old topic then another mod closes the thread for having wandered.

I flew from Los Angeles up the coast through Alaska and over to Japan in late 2020 doing my around the world flight and the original weather implementation before SU4/5 was correct to METAR most of the time.  Large cloud formations were even roughly where they showed up on Meteoblue's website.

Personally I think they should have worked with Meteoblue to solve the issues first instead of ingesting the METAR.  

For example, spool up extra compute power on Azure so Meteoblue's model could be run 4 or 8 times a day instead of the 2 times a day we believe it gets run, which would improve accuracy since the weather is most likely to be wrong in hour 12 just before the next model run.

Or have Meteoblue create a new model just for MSFS that runs every half hour and uses the METAR as boundary conditions for the model.

Or ingest the METAR server side instead of on our PCs and use Azure compute to better smooth it into the rest of the weather.

Weather and night lighting are two areas where our feedback has resulted in things being worse.  

10 minutes ago, MrBitstFlyer said:

It will be wonderful when the sky follows the METAR in MSFS Live Weather, but it just doesn't.  These images from a few minutes ago at KJFK RWY 22R

METAR

MSFS WEATHER - Low Cumulus!

REX Weather with accurate high level broken cloud.

I think we would all agree that a mix of METAR and MODEL data with no transitions would be perfect.  What we have now is a weather system that does not always create accurate weather for different reasons.  I fly mostly low level so a METAR like the image above means my flight planning would enable me to fly VFR.  However, if I loaded MSFS and saw low level cumulus like above, my flight planning is no good.  My alternative is to load REX and have accurate cloud levels.

Other people of course have other priorities, so maybe REX doesn't fit their type of flying.  I really have my fingers crossed MS/Asobo do deliver an accurate mix of METAR and MODEL data with no transitions - this would be fantastic.

If you are flying the release version and not the beta, depending on the elevation of this airport this could be because METAR data is in AGL but the sim thinks it is in MSL.

For some reason Asobo has real problem with frames of reference when it comes to the weather.    This already happened in the past with temperatures from tbe Meteoblue data being applied incorrectly.  Now the same mistake with the METAR data.  You'd think they would learn these things after making the mistake the first time.  But instead we get blank stares and blinks in the Q&A before Jorg makes some useless remark about secret new features coming soon!

15 minutes ago, jarmstro said:

Saturday was New Years Day. Yesterday was Sunday to sleep it off. And you want them to all to trail back to work early just because you say so?😀  If your passengers moan just blame covid. 🤣They'll be back in work in around four hours time and it'll get fixed and all will be well.

If a company wants to hype and sell a product that has an online component, then they should have someone on call to give the servers a swift kick and get them running again regardless of holidays.

Long weekends are exactly when people get want to make time to fly the sim.

In the Control binding screen there are bindings for 'Throttle' that should operate on all engines and then bindings for 'Throttle 1', 'Throttle 2', etc that only operate on that specific engine.

I use the generic 'Throttle ' binding and have no issues flying multi engine aircraft with my HOTAS setup.

8 hours ago, eslader said:

A google search of the phrase "product placement" might be illuminating.

 

As for performance, the thing is designed to take you over rush hour traffic from one side of a city to the other. I can see the concept making sense somewhere like LA or NYC where you might sit in traffic for 2 hours trying to get to work.

 

On the other hand, I can also see the concept being a nightmare if widely adopted, because it only carries 1 passenger. Even if only C-suite executives used it, you'd still have hundreds in the air at any given time, in very close proximity to each other.

 

 

The thing is, the company supposedly provided a custom coded flight model for the MSFS version....  If I were an air taxi company looking at what aircraft to buy, the way this performs in MSFS would make me less likely to buy it.....

It's a useless thing.  The performance specs of the actual vehicle are terrible.  I'm not sure why it was even included.  

11 hours ago, Dominique_K said:

PMDG has decided to refund its customers from a shop owned and managed by Microsoft XBox division. What Asobo has anything to do here ? 

You can't get refunds for other aircraft you purchase with a simple ZenDesk ticket, even when other aircraft have been broken for months due to changes to the base sim.

I don't like the idea that one policy applies to one item purchased on tbe Marketplace and a different policy applies to everyone else.

On 12/9/2021 at 4:39 PM, bendead said:

I am quite sure Robert must be word not allowed, its first appearance on a new market result in having his product removed for a couple of month due to issues, not the best introduction... 

Why do people who bought this aircraft get special treatment with respect to refunds, compared to any of the other 3rd party aircraft that have been broken for months at a time due to Asobo's incompetence?

10 hours ago, Andre92 said:

I get the impression the people who developed the core of MSFS 2020 are not the same people who are working on it now.

Maybe it’s time to bring back the A-Team..;-)

The core of MSFS at release was the FSX engine, with new graphics and weather bolted on and some updates to the flight model.  But still a lot of FSX code in there.

The farther we go from that the more problems seem to come up.

The cloud layers from the METAR data are being rendered at MSL instead of AGL.

So for airports above sea level, they can end up in the clouds instead of below them.

It's like no one even bothered to check or test the changes to this critical feature....and now it may be broken until like February....

Honestly the way they have tried to pull in the METAR has made the love weather a lot less cohesive then it was before.  There are circular zones of different weather visible around airports and pop-in when the METAR changes.

It would be great if they could make incorporation of the METAR data optional to allow people flying IFR to have the right weather at airports while people flying VFR could have the more cohesive experience we had before.

 Like many things before, they have taken our feedback and somehow made the sim even worse.

All of the settings are in XML files.

It should not be hard to write a script that as part of the upgrade reads in the old XML file, sets any new settings to default, and writes out a new XML file with the newer settings format.

It could even display a dialog box listing the new settings so you know to go look at them later.

It takes a while to get the sim setup and wiping users settings is just not ok.

Attention to detail....

1 hour ago, Bdub22 said:

Go for a walk or something. The anger you’re having over snow being wrong is kinda silly. This is a work in progress and A LOT of other features have been implemented and bugs killed. I can’t imagine being this peeved over incorrect snow/weather when what we have with MSFS is so far and above anything we’ve ever had. 

At the rate things are going this will be a "work in progress" until the day they close the sim down at the end of the "10 year journey".

Things we reported over a year ago are still not fixed.  

Everything keeps sliding to the right.

All of the things on the Feeback Summary just keep moving to the right, and moving to the right.

Makes me wonder why they bother producing it at all.  It's obvious after a year that the internal decisions on what needs to be done are what matters, and this feedback summary stuff is just fancy PR to try to placate people.

1 hour ago, scotchegg said:

And beyond what any other flight sim developer has ever given us, development and fixes are continuing. WU6 will include fixes for the SR22. Perhaps not all planes are equally ‘fixed’, but I don’t recall any developer spending so much time improving the default aircraft offered with the sim.

This is beyond "improving".  Many of the Premium Deluxe aircraft were simply unfinished and not fit for purpose at release, even compared to the stock aircraft.

The sim itself is still not working properly a year after release....  But let's stick our fingers in our ears and yell about how awesome everything is.

3 hours ago, Moria15 said:

There are different teams working on different aspects of the sim.

The people who would be fixing the Premium Deluxe aircraft (which some us, myself included, paid for a year ago now) are likely to be exactly the same people working on things like the Husky and this Ju-52 - whoever the aircraft development and tuning team are at Asobo.

Why is the content we already paid good money for not fixed?  Because they are too busy making more "content" to take more people's money.

Scanning a Ju-52 to 1mm or .01mm or .001mm doesn't help if the thing flies like the 787 or the Longitude with an encrypted FSArchive file due to "licensing".

The functional difference between "ignored" and "placed at the bottom of the priority list under a bunch of other in-house cash grabs" is 0.  It's the same thing.

1 hour ago, Clutch Cargo said:

Think next time I fly I will fire up P3Dv5 and just wait a few more weeks until MSFS straightens out its issues. 

It took the better part of 4 months to really get things into shape after the retail release.  Unless they do another hotfix, the earliest we will see any any further update is the next World Update.

I'm sure they must have ignored a lot of feedback from the people on the Beta "flight" for SU5 to have released it in this state.  I wonder what the point of that program even is beyond being able to say they have one.

14 minutes ago, Fielder said:

Would it not have been nice if Microsoft had provided a users manual for MSFS? 🤣

Complex software doesn't come with manuals anymore my friend.

You're intended to go watch various YouTubers stumble through it (also without manuals) for 10-20 hours and hope they touch on the things you need.  Smash that like button!

On 8/23/2020 at 2:19 PM, badger2000 said:

No, right click the icon and select 'Run as Administrator'

There should be 0 need to ever run MSFS as Administrator.  It's not 2001, we aren't running Windows XP, and the sim is intended to be run from a normal user account.