marsman2020

I've been in the process of moving across the country and haven't had time to try Sim Update 4 yet. Can you takeoff and land in a crosswind without a giant unrealistic yaw discontinuity at the moment the wheels liftoff or touch the ground? Because that one is totally obvious the instant you turn Live Weather on an go to any airport with even a 5 kt crosswind.

There was already a great free Optica and with such a simple aircraft I have to wonder what the payware version brings.

Lightning is an accessibility issue. Some people have issues with flashing lights. There should be a way to turn it off entirely. There is also no flashing light warning anywhere in the sim.

The Bonanza would let you do it at least back in December. I learned by experience. Someone modeled a great metal screeching/scraping sound too.

I'd recommend asking on GotGravel's discord server. If you have any extra liveries for either the Savage Carbon or the Grravel I'd also try removing them. There was a change to the layout of the liveries with on of the releases late last year which made old liveries not work properly.

MSFS definitely uses more then one thread. If you look at it in a more in depth program like Process Explorer you can see where it spawns a whole bunch of threads.

Some modern games do this as part of the game engine. You pick a target FPS and they adjust either render scaling or detail level items automatically to maintain it. I'm very surprised that MS/Asobo didn't include it in MSFS as a native feature.

No Steam users in the Beta locks out a large portion of the userbase that didn't want to deal with yet another new game store on their PC. Starting the testing only two weeks before release means that it's too late to react to any findings and submit a new build to the Microsoft QA process which clearly takes weeks to get through. So they either release with bugs and do a hotfix later, or delay the update entirely. For the Beta to be most effective it needs to start earlier They shipped the last update with bugs that Beta testers had reported. More of the same from MS and Asobo.

Seeing the level of anger in the negative comments about Vertigo is really sad. It's a free thing, you're allowed not to like it, but being insulting and mean is unnecessary. Especially when the real aircraft it is inspired by can climb at 7000 fpm in real life, flies in air races, and does cross county flights as well. Totally reasonable to say that a crazy high performance one off aircraft is not your cup of tea....no need to be mean. It does take a lot of work to stay "ahead of the aircraft" with a turboprop and only G3Xs for the cockpit.

Love the SW121. Flew it all the way across the US in the Cannonball Run and across Australia in the 2nd endurance race last month. No mixture to mess with, ~128kts IAS cruise, nice aircraft.

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My only complaint here is that the stock aircraft that came with the sim have many duplicated aircraft "types", and I'd rather have had an Ultralight be part of the Standard sim then having so many similar GA aircraft. Along with some vintage thing, and maybe one simple jet trainer. FSX and XP11 both have a much better variety in the stock aircraft, which can then provide the basis for mods.

The latest Asobo update changed some things that in turn required changes to the WT G1000, which cause the custom engine displays on the MFD to no longer load. So you get the stock display instead of the custom version, and no 'leaning' and 'system' pages. It's a little bit of a regression but not the end of the world.

They aren't really making any progress on the issues either. I'm honestly not sure what 200 people are supposedly doing at this point. Certainly not any work that is customer-facing. Where's the darn particle effects system they have been faffing on about since literally the week the sim came out? Hopefully they are re-writing the Alpha that Microsoft forced them to ship into something workable....hopefully....

There is a great thread on the official MSFS forum about pitch and yaw stability coefficients where someone found an academic reference for the values on the 172, and the values in the sim are like 5x too high. Basically making everything the tail does way overstated. This would explain the rubber band effect where the aircraft instantly 'springs back' when rudder is released and also the outsized effect of crosswind, since the aircraft wants to rotate with the wind.

Also I'll say that history also played a part in picking the Bonanza, since I am following approximately the route of the 1924 Douglas World Cruiser flight, and the Bonanza is the oldest aircraft still in serial production with the first models coming out in 1947.

I'm 9000 miles in with the Turbo(normalized) Bonanza, which is well mannered,a nice speed bump over the normal Bonanza, and feels great the landing flare - The only downside to the Bonanza is there is no de-icing or anti-icing. So I've had to be careful to avoid icing conditions, and even being very careful I have landed a couple of times with the synthetic vision and a 1" open space on the windshield where the '100% icing' texture stil has some visibility through it. The Diamond DA62 has anti-icing that is good for a couple of hours in icing conditions, and roughly similar speeds to the Turbo Bonanza. A lot of people like the TBM930. If you have a greater need for speed but want to stick with a smaller aircraft vs the TBM930 there is GotGravel's new Vertigo. However this is a high performance aircraft that is quite a bit more demanding to stay "ahead" of then the Bonanza, much like the real-world experimental aircraft it is based on is likely a bit of a handful to fly: https://flightsim.to/file/13052/vertigo-turbo-prop-racer I think it would be down to one of these 4 if I were to start out now. I test flew pretty much all of the aircraft in the sim before I started out, but there are a lot more aircraft available now. The Just Flight Arrow III is also an excellent aircraft, but it's too slow for my taste for a world tour. There should be a Turbo variant of that coming soon.

As long as Microsoft gets their cut of the $$$ they are happy, regardless of the quality of the content that ends up on the Marketplace.

I guess it's too much effort to type "For Garmin equipped aircraft like the Bonanza, the left display is referred to as the PFD and the right display is referred to as the MFD." instead of some sarcastic and not useful reply. OP: If you're starting cold and dark, make sure you've turned on the 'Avionics Master' switch, then you get a prompt on the MFD to push a button so it can finish booting. If you're trying to start on-runway, there is a Known Bug in the current release of MSFS where some displays might be blank, restarting the flight is the only way to fix that.

Lighting at the time of photography, the film used, filters on the camera, how the film was developed, how it was as scanned, monitor calibrations.... To preserve a color end to end is a huge pain, and open to debate in many cases. Just ask the starship model folks what the real color.of the original series Enterprise is...and set aside weeks to read the never ending debate. And in the sim, there may be other effects of things like HDR, Bloom, PBR effects, etc that mean the as-rendered colors may not be exactly what is in the livery file.

+1 for this.

I've flown 9000 miles along the route of the 1924 Douglas World Cruiser around the world flight in the Turbo Bonanza so far (started in Santa Monica, currently in Ho Chi Minh City). No major issues with the Turbo Bonanza + WT G1000 even in the current version of the sim. The one minor issue is that the the engine page on the MFD reverted back to the stock version due to Asobo changes in the last version. Link to version 3: https://www.avsim.com/forums/topic/588903-bonanza-turbo-v3-released/

Try turning off multiplayer. The official MS "Known Issues" page now recommends turning it off to avoid stutters caused by other players flying aircraft or liveries you don't have installed.

Try turning off multiplayer if you haven't already. There is a big stutter issues with people who have 3rd party aircraft or liveries that you don't have in multiplayer. It may cause CTDs as well.

I have not flown the 320, but I thought I read somewhere when reading articles on how the Airbus system works that that audible warning is not the be all and end all of when to go to idle throttle. https://safetyfirst.airbus.com/a-focus-on-the-landing-flare/