Microsoft Flight Sim 2020

[BOO]

47 minutes ago, LukeFF said:

 

Geeze ?

 

.....what if I leave it for a few weeks?........I presume this works as a count up clock ie if i left it on with a warm engine Id always come back to a warm engine and a cold engine would ve warm so long as 2 hours has elapsed from hitting the switch? 

 

Ive just watched this

 

 

The detail level is........obsessive.

.....at the other end of the scale from a premium bit of payware is this FREE model. Considering the crap msscenery is allowed to put on the marketplace and charge for, this is quite incredible

 

 

[Trooper117]

I like that T-37...

[LukeFF]

Just had a brief 20-minute look at the Comanche ?️ just a moment ago. 

 

?

 

Yes, yes, this is the one. 

[WWChunk]

A2A's stuff is so good, and I'm really happy they've brought Accu-Sim to MSFS.  With the Comanche and the upcoming B60 Duke from Black Square, I'm going to be a happy camper when it comes to GA stuff.

[Lusekofte]

The details is good. But what I want is an airplane that feels it going through real air and weather. Is that better simulated?

[ZachariasX]

22 minutes ago, Lusekofte said:

The details is good. But what I want is an airplane that feels it going through real air and weather. Is that better simulated?

Yes.

[Lusekofte]

By the latter video. I think we cannot ask for more regarding the fm. 

[LukeFF]

1 hour ago, Lusekofte said:

By the latter video. I think we cannot ask for more regarding the fm. 

 

You're not going to get any better than what A2A has on offer, IMO. ?

[BOO]

The next thing I want to see is an EasyJet check in simulation. I know there’s GTA V but the violence is a little too reserved in comparison to a Wednesday morning at John Lennon. 

[Mtnbiker1998]

12 minutes ago, BOO said:

The next thing I want to see is an EasyJet check in simulation. I know there’s GTA V but the violence is a little too reserved in comparison to a Wednesday morning at John Lennon. 

Funnily enough, back in the pre-PC days when the only gaming machine I had was a PS3, GTA V was probably one of the better "Flight Simulators" I had access to!! Hahahaha. That and the old IL-2 Birds of Prey games Gaijin made before Warthunder. 

 

Lots of memories doing formation flying in fighter jets with my friends over good ole Los Santos. 

[Lusekofte]

A quick question

I got a unique chance for a buy on precision flight sim flight console cirrus two same brand on pedals  And other stuff for just a 5 of the price. I do not need it and got to get rid of own ----. 
do anyone know if it works with msfs?

it say it work with xplane

[LukeFF]

12 minutes ago, Lusekofte said:

A quick question

I got a unique chance for a buy on precision flight sim flight console cirrus two same brand on pedals  And other stuff for just a 5 of the price. I do not need it and got to get rid of own ----. 
do anyone know if it works with msfs?

it say it work with xplane

 

Their webpage indicates that it does, but you might want to contact them: https://flypfc.com/product-tag/cirrus/

[BOO]

9 minutes ago, LukeFF said:

 

Their webpage indicates that it does, but you might want to contact them: https://flypfc.com/product-tag/cirrus/

 

21 minutes ago, Lusekofte said:

A quick question

I got a unique chance for a buy on precision flight sim flight console cirrus two same brand on pedals  And other stuff for just a 5 of the price. I do not need it and got to get rid of own ----. 
do anyone know if it works with msfs?

it say it work with xplane

 

 Im gonna say you might have some difficulty seeing the screen....:-)

 

Thats a very cool set up if it works.

[Lusekofte]

I got a Fulcrum yoke excellent throttle vintage throttle custom made stick and a ful virpil set with control boxes throttle collective. 
this panel with two throttles and boeing yoke ( witch is kind of wasted on me) cost 4 k $ alone. I am not going to use anything else but the control and sell the rest

[Mtnbiker1998]

As it turns out, Bourbon and women are both horrible, horrible things that I think I'm better off staying away from for a little while.

 

The good news however, is that I woke up with this in my hangar! So I get to see what all the fuss is about sooner than I expected. Silver linings, right?

 

[Hoots]

Just went for 30 minutes in the comanche and yep, that's everything I thought it would be and so much more. A2A have set the bar incredibly high once again. It's simply amazing.

[Adger]

Southampton to Gatwick ..What a fantastic job A2A have done.

 

[LukeFF]

Klawock (PAKW), Alaska to Prince George (CYXS), British Columbia. Distance flown: 390 NM. Travel Time: 2 hours, 37 minutes. Real-time weather and traffic; time of day adjusted to daylight hours.

 

 

It was sitting there on the ramp when we came back for the next leg of our trip, with a "For Sale" sign in the window. 

 

 

For some reason, the seller was eager to sell the plane and was willing to do a straight swap with our C310. Thinking it over for a moment (probably not long enough ?), we agreed, shook hands, and took care of the necessary paperwork. However, since we were now two seats shorter, this meant we'd have to leave someone behind, so one of our compatriots, who wanted to see more of Alaska anyways, agreed to stay behind and hitch a ride over to nearby Ketchikan. 

 

Upon performing my first full inspection of the plane, I soon realized why the guy was eager to dispense of his Comanche: this was a high-time plane ("Used" planes come here with a randomized number of hours on the engine timer and Hobbs meter) with a lot of mechanical faults with the engine and a left brake that really needed to be replaced sooner. I fixed what I thought was most urgent (including draining the oil, which was low and as black as sludge), fired up the plane, and taxied out for our runup checks. 

 

That's when our new ride decided to tell us it was not quite ready to go. Upon checking the magnetos, we gradually lost power, and no remedy would bring the MP back up. After several tries to restart the engine, I looked at the PDA and realized part of the problem: the starter, which was already listed as severely worn down, was now listed as "totally shot", along with a host of other issues that I realized were going to need to be fixed before we left. So, towing the plane off to the side of the tarmac, we took care of things (i.e., instead of waiting for the starter to cool down, I had to restart the flight). This time around, the plane behaved and we finally were able to take off, about 45 minutes late.

 

As we took off into the muck, I noticed our friends in the back seat were much more lively and animated than they had been before (A2A did a stunning job with the passengers who occupy the rear seats; no more stone-cold zombies who stare straight ahead without blinking as much as an eyelid).

 

I really should have taken a less-dangerous route out of the airfield, because if we had an engine failure here, there probably wasn't much we could do to get back to the airport. Lesson learned...

 

 

Eventually, the weather did clear up, and we were treated to some gorgeous scenery as we crossed from southern Alaska into Western British Columbia. The engine was humming along nicely now, though with the cold weather I had to periodically open up the carb heat to clear out the ice:

 

 

Eventually, the terrain flattened out before making our approach into CYXS, which by now had become quite hazy. Even so, we made our approach to the airport without too much trouble, though definitely need a lot more practice in landing this plane properly on the centerline.

 

 

 

We had called ahead to let Customs know why we would be late, and they said it wouldn't be a problem and they'd keep someone around to clear us through. Those Canadians, such nice folks. ?

 

 

The post-flight inspection revealed that the starter is still causing problems, so we're going to have to do something about that and that worn-down brake.

[Adger]

EGCL Fenland to EGTH Old Warden Aerodrome

 

 

[LukeFF]

Prince George (CYXS) to Delta Heritage Airpark (CAK3). Distance flown: 320 NM. Travel time: 2 hours, 9 minutes. Real-time traffic and weather; time of day adjusted for daylight.

 

Or: Crazy Takeoffs and Landings

 

 

We started the morning off at a quite nicely-modeled CYXS airport (created by a guy from Switzerland, of all things, who has done a lot of work on Canadian airports). The preflight inspection didn't reveal any nasty surprises, and to my satisfaction, the worn-down starter didn't have any trouble starting up the plane.

 

 

Takeoff went fine - until afterward when, still unlearning the habits I'd picked up from the 310R, I let off the backpressure too much from the yoke, and we started diving toward the ground. With the ground haze not making things easy and the GPS screaming at me to get my act together, I finally put the thing into a climb to our desired altitude of 9500 feet. A KAP 140 this thing definitely does not have. ? 

 

 

The terrain in the first part of this flight was fairly flat and the wind was relatively calm. 

 

 

Eventually, the terrain rose in elevation, and along with that came some pretty unpleasant winds. We were tossed about for probably about 30 minutes or so.But in exchange, we had some more beautiful views of British Columbia:

 

 

South of these mountains the terrain flattens out and leads right into Vancouver. Our destination, Delta Heritage Airpark, is a grass airstrip that sits right on the water's edge. With noise restrictions in place to the west of the airfield and a massive hedge line just beyond the airfield perimeter, this wasn't going to be easy.

 

 

And yeah, it wasn't easy. ? With that row of vegetation looming in front of me and knowing the Comanche's tendency to want to float forever, it was a chore just to get the thing onto the ground. After bouncing a few times, I hit the brakes hard, wondering if we'd stop in time before hitting the trees at the end of the runway. Technically we did, but in the process, we took out a portion of the chain-link fence. Yep, that'll endear me to the locals. 

 

(I looked up the street view on Google Maps, and all that vegetation isn't there anymore, so I probably would have been alright if I overran the edge a bit).

 

So, shutting down the plane, I pulled out the tow bar and got us turned back around - only to then ultimately put myself where I couldn't taxi between a parked plane and a building, so I had to shut things down again and push us back around. Finally, we got the blasted plane parked in the right spot.

 

That said, this is definitely a nice little third-party airport. It just requires a lot of skill to complete the landing properly.

 

 

The post-flight inspection didn't reveal any new issues, aside from the worn-down starter and left brake that I'd already known about. In spite of my troubles, this is definitely a little airport I want to spend more time around in the future.

[Adger]

Excellent pics and write up @LukeFF ?

[BOO]

On 7/23/2023 at 10:11 AM, LukeFF said:

The post-flight inspection didn't reveal any new issues, aside from the worn-down starter and left brake that I'd already known about. In spite of my troubles, this is definitely a little airport I want to spend more time around in the future.

Its amazing what a bit of gaffa and a can of Dulux emulsion can fix.......

Edited July 25, 2023 by BOO

[Lusekofte]

Read in Facebook about one getting one cylinder and piston brake. He managed to emergency land on a close by airfield. 
He and I reading about it got pretty amazed by this reality. Not the malfunction itself but the experience. 
Not being home I have no idea, since the very beginning people say a plane is excellent. So not tested it oneself it is hard to get the perspective. That story he told was amazing I got a sense of he felt it was real. They apparently managed to simulate a plane that in every way is the closest to reality to date

[AndyJWest]

June 25th today - 114th anniversary of Louis Blériot's Channel crossing. Too late to do it at the appropriate time (he started at sunrise), but the real-world weather looks like it might work later today for another re-enactment. Expect a screenshot or two if I don't end up in la Manche.

[Mtnbiker1998]

Been lots of focus on the Comanche lately (And deservedly so!) But I decided I should spend some time with some of the other toys I picked up during this summer sale that I nearly forgot about.

 

This DoubleEnder is an absolute riot to play around with in VR, and comes with all the cool Wear and tear and cockpit state-saving that frankly I can't live without anymore. It even gets dirty! Can go just about anywhere and goddamn, what a view when you're there! That goofy pusher/puller prop comboed with the bubble canopy makes this probably the best sightseeing plane in the game, she loves to go low and slow, with lots of "Hey I wonder if I can land there" sprinkled in between waypoints! I picked a random airport on the map that looked vaguely mountainous and ended up in Cascade Idaho, North of Boise. Don't have much in the way of a postflight summary (Just did a little cruising, not much to say really) but got some pretty screenshots which I dumped down below.

 

Obviously its not up to the same high bar that A2A has recently set (nothing is, and I doubt we'll see anything else besides accu-sim that can reach THAT bar) but still one of the best payware planes in msfs right now. Highly recommend if you guys wanna go places that the Comanche can't quite reach.

[BOO]

Love all the GT stuff but I think the mighty Wilga beats all..........dropping like a brick to land and stop within the confines of the average runway's painted number. When i come back Im getting the Aerosoft Offshore Landmarks pack just to see how many rigs Willy the Wilga can nail in a 25kt wind. 

 

In the meanwhile Ive started a new hobby called "Start Up Simulator". Since I cant pull out my controllers, its the closest I get to simming at present  (I refuse to use an xbox controller) - The DC6 is still knocking on my window for that one as are a couple of DCS warbirds. 

 

Having gone for root canal work today but instead loosing the tooth, theres a nice £600 sitting about I didnt expect to have.......ooooo its soooo tempting.....and I was a brave little soldier.....

[Lusekofte]

2 hours ago, BOO said:

The DC6 is still knocking on my window for that one as are a couple of DCS warbirds. 

 

DC6 is my favorite so far. I got the one from manufacture site bugged so I think I will reinstall the store one

[BOO]

2 minutes ago, Lusekofte said:

DC6 is my favorite so far. I got the one from manufacture site bugged so I think I will reinstall the store one

what are the differences? I assume updates are slower via the store but is there anythng else? 

[Lusekofte]

9 minutes ago, BOO said:

what are the differences? I assume updates are slower via the store but is there anythng else? 

I bought the plane from origin site because it suppose to be better. And the store one I could not take off again after landing without getting engine trouble. After month with investigation if it was my handeling or ai handeling I could not make sense. 
ipad input do not work with the site version 

[AndyJWest]

Made it over La Manche. Sort of, anyway...

 

A big field near Sangette to start from. Rather bumpy, but it'll do.  A bit windy: 8-10 kt maybe, coming from the NW to give me a healthy headwind.

 

An iffy takeoff due to the usual complete lack of directional control, but I'm airborne. And good news - I can see the cliffs on the far side from here.

 

Glancing down to calibrate my only navigational instrument - the shadow of the cabane strut on the side of the cockpit. As long as it stays there, I'm still going in more or less the right direction, if I lose sight of land. Assuming of course that whatever causes me to lose sight of land doesn't also hide the shadow...

 

About halfway, and I can start looking for Dover. I'd set off more in the direction of Folkstone, on the basis that it was safer to be too far west than too far east.

 

There's Dover. 

 

Nice big field looks promising.

 

Keep the engine idling on approach. I'm drifting to the right rather. 

 

Bump! I'm down. 

 

Just to be awkward, the engine decides to keep turning over, rather than cutting out like it usually does when landing. Should have turned it off, but I've got my hands full right now. This thing really doesn't like crosswind landings.

 

Into the trees I go. And over I go. Fortunately it stopped when it got this far.

 

With hindsight, I should probably have overflown my proposed landing spot first, to try and get a sense of the wind direction. Except with this thing you can never really be sure if you are tracking sideways because of the wind, or because it is just in the mood to go sideways for the hell of it.

 

Took me around 35 minutes, same as Blériot. He had it harder, due to mist (and the opportunity to drown...), but managed to land with a little more dignity, despite apparently picking the side of a hill to do it on.

 

 

 

 

[Lusekofte]

1 hour ago, AndyJWest said:

Glancing down to calibrate my only navigational instrument - the shadow of the cabane strut

This was a smart solution. Was that a historical approach or did you come up with the idea? Never heard of it before

[AndyJWest]

9 minutes ago, Lusekofte said:

This was a smart solution. Was that a historical approach or did you come up with the idea? Never heard of it before

 

People have been navigating by the sun for many millennia, I suspect. Possibly more... Not sure if Blériot would have used it explicitly, but I'd assume he was aware of the possibility. Interestingly, the Vikings are claimed to have used 'sunstones' - transparent minerals that polarized light - to figure out the direction of the sun even in overcast. That might have been useful for him, when he lost sight of land.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunstone_(medieval)

 

The sun is only really useful for navigation over any great distance if you have an accurate clock, of course, but for my half-hour trip it wasn't going to move enough to matter. I was only considering it as a last resort if I got entirely disorientated. With nothing else to go on, I'd have probably ended up going around in circles. Even a very rough guide to direction would do, as long as the wind stayed reasonably constant.

[Hoots]

Ok, so I knew I wash pushing the engine because I wanted to see what happened... then the rpm went through the roof and the manifold pressure dropped, then it went very quiet... I think either the two cylinders that were well dodgy when I took off gave up or the oil lines which were also dodgy gave up. Or both. Or even something else, I don't know anything about engines (possibly why I fly gliders IRL)

 

 

Luckily I found a road

 

 

Even more luckily I landed it.

 

 

Anyway, overhauled the engine to new and took off. Suffice to say the difference was incredible, the instruments no longer shook so badly you could hardly read them and the amount of power generated jumped impressively. The more I use this the better it gets.

 

 

[LukeFF]

15 minutes ago, Hoots said:

Ok, so I knew I wash pushing the engine because I wanted to see what happened... then the rpm went through the roof and the manifold pressure dropped, then it went very quiet... I think either the two cylinders that were well dodgy when I took off gave up or the oil lines which were also dodgy gave up. Or both. Or even something else, I don't know anything about engines (possibly why I fly gliders IRL)

 

 

Luckily I found a road

 

 

Even more luckily I landed it.

 

 

Anyway, overhauled the engine to new and took off. Suffice to say the difference was incredible, the instruments no longer shook so badly you could hardly read them and the amount of power generated jumped impressively. The more I use this the better it gets.

 

Yes, the A2A owner who also owns a Comanche (Scott) has noted this is what happens when the plane loses oil pressure: the prop governor no longer has a way to regulate prop RPM, so the prop "runs away." 

[Lusekofte]

Am I the first to report that the Comanche has damagemodel. 
I tried to replicate a farmer that got a Cessna in my island and land on the road there. 
That side if the Island got subarctic fauna and no trees. Just bushes 

Ofcourse bing and that 3D rendering made those bushes to big trees. And my wing hit one of them. I stayed in my airplane not getting black screen with broken props. The wing was not broken but I was violently thrown right

Edited July 27, 2023 by Lusekofte

[Lusekofte]

Damn fine aircraft

[Deacon352nd]

I’ve tried twice now to install this sim on my new computer which has more than enough power to run it. 64 gigs of ram, win 11, 4090 vid card with 12 gigs of mem and it continually hangs on the update screen. I’ve installed the latest vid driver before I tried the second install and the same thing. I bought it from the Microsoft store and thankfully got my $ returned both times. In fact the second time I let it stay on the update screen for over two hours but nothing. Also I tested my internet connection speed and it was more than enough. 
Have any of you had this kind of problem and if so how did you overcome it?

[Lusekofte]

Google this problem, last time I had to delete the content in official folder if I remember correctly and let it update 

[ZachariasX]

3 hours ago, Deacon352nd said:

and it continually hangs on the update screen.

You can just make a new folder, like if D:\MSFS was your content folder containing both the community and the content folder, make a new folder like D:\MSFS_1 and copy the entire content snd community folder in that new folder. Like this it happens instant. Upon loading the game next time, the loader, upon „checking for updates“, will not find the content folder, as this one is now empty. It will then prompt you for the location of your content folder. You then point it to D:\MSFS_1 and it should be able to see the installed files and check for updates.

 

If you have gigabit fiber, you can also delete the entire content folder and download everything again, making for an extended coffee break.

 

If the former does not work, you‘ll have said coffee break.

 

Have been there (both versions). But it worked.

[LukeFF]

1.1 patch for the Comanche is out:

 

https://a2asimulations.com/2023/07/28/561963/