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- Birthday 04/01/1944
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Relevant here: Flight simulation and aviation in general.
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Flight simming on and off since around FS 2002.
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Interest in aviation since childhood, (now 78). Held a PPL for a few years in the 1970s. Regard MSFS 2020 as a major advance in flight simulation albeit a little frustrated by the slow response of Microsoft and Asobo to problems such as squirrely ground behavior of aircraft, although it has improved. Also absence of a useful replay mode.
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I am really warming up to MSFS 2024...
arbt replied to RobJC's topic in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020/2024)
Hard to argue with anything that Rob has stated. Although I do suspect that an ongoing struggle MS/Asobo are experiencing with the streaming of what I imagine is an enormous amount of data lies at the heart of many of the problems we are seeing. -
MSFS 2024 Inibuilds T-33 throttle function in MSFS 2024
arbt replied to Janc's topic in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020/2024)
Many thanks Janc. -
Inibuilds T-33 throttle function in MSFS 2024
arbt replied to Janc's topic in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020/2024)
Hi Janc. Have only just bought the T33 and only a couple of flights in it to date and confined to MSFS 2020. So no ideas about the throttle behaviour in MS2024 I'm afraid. But the INI T33 certainly burns up fuel flying low and ran dry quite quickly. Found I could do an aerial restart by clicking on all tanks. (Only the fuselage tank was switched on in default state. Switches are on the L console.) Then restarting with I think ctrl/e. Tried to copy the T33 from MSFS 2020 community folder to MS2024 without success. Simply doesn't show up in 2024. Which of the MSFS 2024 folders did you copy it into? -
Poll: MSFS2024 performance
arbt replied to Cpt_Piett's topic in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020/2024)
Your conclusion in accord with mine Agios77. Your computer specs also similar to mine. -
To my eyes that blurry distance registers as realistic haze. Clearly not to everyone.
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MSFS202 how to go directly inside the aircraft?
arbt replied to John Fields's topic in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020/2024)
Oh God. At my pace it would take an hour.☺️ -
QNH is a reference to the altimeter base line setting, sea level in the case of QNH. The other less commonly baseline altimeter setting is QFE. In this case a reference surface base line other than sea level is set on the altimeter. Most commonly airfield height. This is set by turning the altimeter to read zero while the aircraft is sitting on the airfield surface. inHG, (inches of mercury) and hPa (hectopascals) are units of pressure. HPa units are I understand most commonly used around the world. I think the use of inHg is largely confined to the USA and perhaps Japan.
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Problem list with FS2024 so far
arbt replied to VeryBumpy's topic in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020/2024)
Yes, I found the Cessna 172 and a number of other aircraft in MSFS24 throwing un-commanded wing drops at me until I found and corrected some binding conflicts. Now flies very much like my very distant recall of flying IRL. So happy chappy here in that respect although like most still plagued by laggardly central server related problems. -
The promise of things to come ...
arbt replied to qqwertz's topic in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020/2024)
Agree with you Lotharen. Trim in MSFS 2020 has been unrealistically sensitive from day 1. In most aircraft I fly, mainly GA, nigh on impossible to achieve stable flight for any useful period. At least in my hands and using my basic thrustmaster twist joystick. So great to hear that this has been addressed in MS24 -
WU 17 Today (Now live already)
arbt replied to cianpars's topic in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020/2024)
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WU 17 Today (Now live already)
arbt replied to cianpars's topic in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020/2024)
Mightily impressed with WU 17 after my first brief flight across London following the Thames. Albeit slow but low in the beaver. Scenery detail seems more crisp and virtually none of the morphing and pop up of scenery objects that has plagued my experience over that region in the past. Someone reported poor water masking. Not evident to me along the banks of the river. London will now be a favourite play ground for a while I think and look forward to a fresh re-exploration of the UK. A very happy chappie here. (Processor 12gen i5-12600KF, 3.69GHz, RAM 16GB, Graphics card: GEFORCE RTX 3050, today's WIFI D/L speed test 254Mbps ) -
655 meg mandatory update to standard content?
arbt replied to psolk's topic in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020/2024)
And a thanks psolk from me. Your input appreciated here for the reasons given by Maxis. Keep them coming.