Microsoft Flight Sim 2020

[Reggie_Mental]

On 8/29/2020 at 11:16 AM, DD_Arthur said:

Gibraltar 

 

I lived there for 6 months in the 80s. As you come in to land you can see on the left my old place. Happiest time of my life.

[Chief_Mouser]

On 7/15/2021 at 1:05 PM, Monostripezebra said:

 

Recomend is the R.I.P Ansani version and live weather.. Have fun!

 

 

 

Why that version? (I'm not a Bleriot expert). I had a recent practice and got across safely in one of the other versions, but gained too much height in the crossing and got the black screen of death trying to descend over Langdon Bay.

[ZachariasX]

12 hours ago, 216th_Cat said:

Why that version? (I'm not a Bleriot expert). I had a recent practice and got across safely in one of the other versions, but gained too much height in the crossing and got the black screen of death trying to descend over Langdon Bay.

It is the version that comes closest to what Blériot was flying back then. It also adds to the challenge.

[AndyJWest]

Is anyone doing the Channel thing? No promises, but I may be able to give it a go if I can stay awake.

[Monostripezebra]

I am.  in 10 mins from now

2 hours ago, AndyJWest said:

Is anyone doing the Channel thing? No promises, but I may be able to give it a go if I can stay awake.

 

[AndyJWest]

OK, I'll try to join. Calais-Dunkurque LFAC?

 

I'm not entirely sure I've got the multiplayer setting right - not used them in a long time

Edited July 25, 2021 by AndyJWest

[Monostripezebra]

1 hour ago, AndyJWest said:

OK, I'll try to join. Calais-Dunkurque LFAC?

 

I'm not entirely sure I've got the multiplayer setting right - not used them in a long time

Yes LFAC-.. currently waiting for the sun to rise. Multiplayer settings are on the little icon for your x-boxlive thing.. there are what servers you are on

 

when you press esc in flight, top righthand corner. West Euro servers.

 

Edited July 25, 2021 by Monostripezebra

[AndyJWest]

in airborne

ahead of you

[AndyJWest]

Well, I saw a lot of labels, including MONOSTRIPEDZEBRA. Unfortunately, no Bleriots under them. No aircraft, though I got close enough to one to see a pilot flying happily without one! Either my settings wrong somewhere, or the Bleriot doesn't show up in multiplayer, even if you own it, maybe? 

 

I think I may have had connection issues too, as the distances on labels didn't make much sense, and by the time I got to Dover, they seemed to be more or less stuck in relative position. Made the crossing anyway, though navigation mostly consisted of assuming the guys ahead knew where they were going.

 

I landed in a field ok, except that it was on a slope, which meant I continued rolling downhill until I hit a conveniently-placed building. Bleriot himself avoided the problem by nosing over, I believe.

 

[Monostripezebra]

1 hour ago, AndyJWest said:

Well, I saw a lot of labels, including MONOSTRIPEDZEBRA. Unfortunately, no Bleriots under them. No aircraft, though I got close enough to one to see a pilot flying happily without one! Either my settings wrong somewhere, or the Bleriot doesn't show up in multiplayer, even if you own it, maybe? 

 

I think I may have had connection issues too, as the distances on labels didn't make much sense, and by the time I got to Dover, they seemed to be more or less stuck in relative position. Made the crossing anyway, though navigation mostly consisted of assuming the guys ahead knew where they were going.

 

I landed in a field ok, except that it was on a slope, which meant I continued rolling downhill until I hit a conveniently-placed building. Bleriot himself avoided the problem by nosing over, I believe.

 

 

MSFS sometimes does not show planes as the ones they are..

 

I was with you in a Bleriot, but lost you along the way.. currently sitting in a field on the british side..

 

You did show up as Bleriot, for me, though.. I think. I have Labels off.. but there was one Bleriot with me.. who left me behind.

 

Edited July 25, 2021 by Monostripezebra

[AndyJWest]

Yeah, I had your label in sight most of the way - off to my right and behind. I'd have circled to wait, if the label distances had made any sense, but turning towards you seemed not to reduce the distance.

 

Did you see other players Bleriots?

[Monostripezebra]

1 hour ago, AndyJWest said:

Yeah, I had your label in sight most of the way - off to my right and behind. I'd have circled to wait, if the label distances had made any sense, but turning towards you seemed not to reduce the distance.

 

Did you see other players Bleriots?

unfortunately,no.. But I will take off from my field near East Langdon and fly north and up the tames esturay to london city

[AndyJWest]

I'll restart at EGDH, and head the same way. By the time I get to London (if I get that far without falling asleep in the air) there should be stock MSFS aircraft about, and I'll find out if I can see them. Don't wait about for me though.

 

It's a nice day for flying, apart from the low mist - I expect that will clear.

[Monostripezebra]

3 hours ago, AndyJWest said:

I'll restart at EGDH, and head the same way. By the time I get to London (if I get that far without falling asleep in the air) there should be stock MSFS aircraft about, and I'll find out if I can see them. Don't wait about for me though.

 

It's a nice day for flying, apart from the low mist - I expect that will clear.

you can also add me as friend on that X-box thingy.. then it gets easier to see each other. Same name. i am currently heading to Walmer Castle for tea

Edited July 25, 2021 by Monostripezebra

[AndyJWest]

I'll do that if I can figure out how, though I'll have to find somewhere else to take off - ran and low vis here.

 

Turned off live weather - its hopeless. Your label seems to be over Manston

 

Edited July 25, 2021 by AndyJWest

[Monostripezebra]

3 hours ago, AndyJWest said:

I'll do that if I can figure out how, though I'll have to find somewhere else to take off - ran and low vis here.

 

Turned off live weather - its hopeless. Your label seems to be over Manston..

 

 

Odd.. I have no ground fog with live weather.. just overcast. I have stopped at manston

 

edtit: Pic from the formation to eastchurch

 

 

 

Edited July 25, 2021 by Monostripezebra

[AndyJWest]

Yeah, just landed by you, sitting in a stealth Bleriot. I'll try going back to live weather.

 

Low vis and rain again. Will go back to 'few clouds'.

 

 

Falling asleep, will land at Eastchurch

Edited July 25, 2021 by AndyJWest

[AndyJWest]

Screenshots from video from my end. No Bleriot, just a pilot. Not exactly easy to fly in formation with. We clearly weren't seeing the same live weather, which is why I turned it off.

 

 

 

 

Edited July 25, 2021 by AndyJWest

[ZachariasX]

1 hour ago, AndyJWest said:

No Bleriot, just a pilot.

It would be a surprise to see that with anyone but @Monostripezebra.

[DD_Arthur]

I forgot all about this...and I stayed up most of the night to watch Olympic skateboarding.

 

Not sure what’s more bonkers;

skateboarding or Blerioting...?

[AndyJWest]

Blerioting should probably be an Olympic sport. Run it like the fancy horse-riding: 'dressage' where you have to make your mount perform elegant manoeuvres, 'cross country' where you have to fly a twisty course as fast as you can, and 'show jumping' where you have to take off and land over a series of closely-spaced obstacles without hitting them. The horse-dudes all dress up in fancy clothes, so Blerioteers should probably do the same:  full period flying costume, with compulsory Louis Bleriot moustaches for the men, and Harriet Quimby lace-up boots and hoodie for the Women.

 

 

[DD_Arthur]

1 hour ago, AndyJWest said:

full period flying costume, with compulsory Louis Bleriot moustaches for the men, and Harriet Quimby lace-up boots and hoodie for the Women.

 

 

This could work for the skateboarding too?

[AndyJWest]

The latest MSFS update is out. Lots of new stuff, including floats for the stock Cessna C172 classic, Cessna C172 G1000, CubCrafters XCub and Zlin Aviation Shock Ultra.

 

Now released for XBox consoles too, which is no doubt going to lead to more griping from the 'I'm special' crowd...

 

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/microsoft-flight-simulator-available-today-on-xbox-series-x-s-and-xbox-game-pass/425795

[DBFlyguy]

1 minute ago, AndyJWest said:

 

Now released for XBox consoles too, which is no doubt going to lead to more griping from the 'I'm special' crowd...

 

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/microsoft-flight-simulator-available-today-on-xbox-series-x-s-and-xbox-game-pass/425795

Gate keepers gonna gate keep ?? Meanwhile the Asobo office be like

 

[Dutchvdm]

Might take a while before i can check out the latest update. How are the promised performance improvements?

 

Grt M

 

[CUJO_1970]

40.29 GiB update, lol.
 

Why oh why did I only get a 1TB drive for this thing?

[Bremspropeller]

I was hoping for this to appear in Xplane 11, but it seems like JustFlight doglegged and went straight for MSFS.

 

https://fselite.net/previews/further-previews-of-the-fokker-f28-fellowship-in-msfs/

 

Pretty excited.

[Monostripezebra]

On 7/25/2021 at 4:47 PM, AndyJWest said:

Screenshots from video from my end. No Bleriot, just a pilot. Not exactly easy to fly in formation with. We clearly weren't seeing the same live weather, which is why I turned it off.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lol.. I never had that happen before.. Sometimes I saw the generic orange low-wing-nosegear sportsplane instead of othher addon planes that i do have myself, but this a first for me..

 

Maybe we should do that again, or something similar with  Bleriots.. it seems that MSFS is only sometimes odd, it should work most of the times, I think

Lets see how that update works

Edited July 28, 2021 by Monostripezebra

[AndyJWest]

4 hours ago, Monostripezebra said:

 

Lol.. I never had that happen before.. Sometimes I saw the generic orange low-wing-nosegear sportsplane instead of othher addon planes that i do have myself, but this a first for me..

 

Maybe we should do that again, or something similar with  Bleriots.. it seems that MSFS is only sometimes odd, it should work most of the times, I think

Lets see how that update works

 

Maybe there's a setting I'd missed somewhere? I've generally had other aircraft turned off entirely, so wouldn't have noticed the problem before. I checked later at a busier airport (Copenhagen) and could definitely see players' tubeliners operating. Don't know whether they could see me, or what they saw me as if they did. If I appeared as a Cessna or something, I must have looked really weird, what with the erratic taxiing, and having to turn the engine off to stop. Probably better if they didn't see me...

 

If we are going to fly Bleriots together again, we should sort out some means of communication beforehand. Maybe cross the Alps together or something?

[ZachariasX]

16 hours ago, Bremspropeller said:

I was hoping for this to appear in Xplane 11, but it seems like JustFlight doglegged and went straight for MSFS.

 

https://fselite.net/previews/further-previews-of-the-fokker-f28-fellowship-in-msfs/

 

Pretty excited.

 

I was always hoping for a decent DC-9. I was still a kid when I could fly a good hour in Swissairs a full motion sim. That was about 35 years ago. I‘m taller now.

 

But that Fokker will do.

[Bremspropeller]

7 minutes ago, ZachariasX said:

I was always hoping for a decent DC-9

 

Same here! The Diesel 9 is one of my favourites!

[ubik_2008]

CTD's like never before after this update?

[busdriver]

5 hours ago, Bremspropeller said:

 

Same here! The Diesel 9 is one of my favourites!

 

[DD_Arthur]

3 hours ago, ubik_2008 said:

CTD's like never before after this update?

 

Yeah, standby for hot fixes galore.

All par for the course I think. They’ll get there eventually.

The biggest problem with the DC6 at the moment is the “stewardess sitting on my lap” mod has been broken by this update?

Edited July 28, 2021 by DD_Arthur

[ZachariasX]

8 hours ago, DD_Arthur said:

The biggest problem with the DC6 at the moment is the “stewardess sitting on my lap” mod has been broken by this update?

Speaking of, can you start that one in El Alto airport, La Paz? I could land there, but most of the times when I start it up, engines cut out a couple of seconds after start.

[Monostripezebra]

On 7/28/2021 at 3:08 PM, AndyJWest said:

 

Maybe there's a setting I'd missed somewhere? I've generally had other aircraft turned off entirely, so wouldn't have noticed the problem before. I checked later at a busier airport (Copenhagen) and could definitely see players' tubeliners operating. Don't know whether they could see me, or what they saw me as if they did. If I appeared as a Cessna or something, I must have looked really weird, what with the erratic taxiing, and having to turn the engine off to stop. Probably better if they didn't see me...

 

If we are going to fly Bleriots together again, we should sort out some means of communication beforehand. Maybe cross the Alps together or something?

 

Naa, I think that is just MSFS.. it acts weird sometimes. Maybe on discord or steam.. I would love some Bleriot-Tour of Paris

 

I am currently having a bit of fun doing the landing challenges deadstick.. Out Skerries is really a challenge that way.

 

 

[AndyJWest]

Been messing around with this:

 

Even in very blustery live weather, I managed to land it on the Round Pond in Kensington Gardens, and take off again with no difficulty at all, and I think with better conditions it will cope with something much smaller. Is there an Olympic-sized swimming pool anywhere?

 

Probably wasn't the best day to be messing around over London with multiplayer traffic on (I forgot to turn it off). The XBox crowd were out in force enjoying their new sim, doing barrel rolls in A320s on the approach to Heathrow, and flying low over the Thames.

 

[Feathered_IV]

There goes my weekend.  Managed to run the update quite quickly and smoothly.  40gb over about 4.5 hours. Had a quick hop over central Japan to see how it performed and things are much improved after the update.  Bumped my clouds and landscape textures up to Ultra with no significant loss in frames. 

[scram77]

20 minutes ago, Feathered_IV said:

There goes my weekend.  Managed to run the update quite quickly and smoothly.  40gb over about 4.5 hours. Had a quick hop over central Japan to see how it performed and things are much improved after the update.  Bumped my clouds and landscape textures up to Ultra with no significant loss in frames. 

Great stuff.  Had a quick go last night in VR.  Was a lot better than before but reckon I'll stick to Trackir for now.

[Lusekofte]

23 minutes ago, scram77 said:

Great stuff.  Had a quick go last night in VR.  Was a lot better than before but reckon I'll stick to Trackir for now.

I could not run it in  vr with my 1080ti maybe now