Microsoft Flight Sim 2020

[ZachariasX]

Further on my trip across the south Pacific from Easter Island to Tahiti, French Polynesia. Papeete has a large airport, Faa'a (NTAA). The flight is some 2'300 nm, a good distance for the DC-6. For longer flights, the added fuel significantly impacts the rest of the loadout.

 

From Easter Island on, about 1/3rd of the stretch will be just blue water before I am supposed to reach the Pitcairn Islands. From then on, there should be atolls every 100 miles or so into French Polynesia.

 

I start the flight at night and proceed to flicking the switches.

 

 

It takes a good while to get everything ready and the engines up to temperature. Just taking off after start will most certainly blow the last engine you started, due to cold oil.

 

 

Starting no.1. It is magic how this sim does sunrises, when you see clouds being illuminated from below over the horizon.

 

 

On my way now. The Pacific still maintains the best kind of holiday weather possible. No camparison to what I experienced during my Aleutian trip. I am flying just by the compass alone and at FL160 on the low blower to get better economy. It is of note that the aircraft is indeed slower like that than if I went up to FL200+ and ran on the high blower, but the economy  makes up for it. You can so dome 270 knots up on high blower and some 245 knots on low blower at mid altitudes.

 

 

Totegegie (NTGJ), finally. After passing the Pitcairn Islands (Henderson Island) for some 250 nautical miles, I can tune in to The ADF of NTGJ, the only beacon in over a thousand miles to adjust my course. Luckily for the weather I have this great view and I can see almost as far as the beacons go. If It was cloudy, it would be the only indication about my actual course. The airport is on the narrow, stretched island to the right. On the larger island (just below the right two engines), Mangareva, there are some towns and a campground. The other islands seem slightly more austere.

 

240 nm on on course, I arrive directly over Mururoa, Fangataufa is visible some 30 nm to the south. Both being restricted, Jörg seems to have some limits in this sim about the display quality of the islands. Or he just doesn't care that much for them.

 

 

Open street map and Google earth have much better imagery then MSFS. Plenty of the atolls look like this, Anuanuraro some miles "down the road":

 

 

The weather being remarkably nice throughout the flight, there was plenty of time getting a bit more familiar with local geography. I mean, who has heard of Anuanuraro before? But soon I arrived near Tahiti.

 

 

As soon as there is a real island, then there's those friggin low clouds stitting on it, like a hat. The air is incredibly clear and you can see distances utterly uncommon in Europe. You can spot an island over 100 mines. It's always that heap of clouds with the island underneath it.

 

I opt for doing a righthand approach, flying around Tahiti and then do a base in between Tahiti and neighboring Moorea-Maiao to intercept my approach.

 

 

Visibility is great and together with an ILS things are easy.

 

 

Looking good. Where's the next beach bar?

 

 

Visiting bars makes flight planning difficult, especially when you press on in the wee hours. I opt for just going as the crow flies and deal with things as they come up.

 

 

Oops! I didn't want that when I told them to just put in 5000 lbs of luggage. I was then tempted to make a tail wheel takeoff, but there was no way I could steer the aircraft. Parking brakes set and power up, nose comes down again. I'm sure PAX were very happy to board now.

 

 

Off to Samoa. I didn't take a detour to Bora-Bora that would be just some 140 nm top the north-west-west. That is for another time, maybe with a smaller aircraft as well.

 

 

Weather cleared up again... Just blue. That must suck if that is all you see and the fuel dials point to "E". But the plane is loaded with fuel as the captain is, hence no worries.

 

 

The plane flys by itself and I again arrive safely over American Samoa, the airport of Pago Pago (NTSU) just behind the starboard wing. It's getting cloudier as well.

 

 

I opt to fly around Upolu and then fly between Upolu and Samoa to intercept the approach to Faleolo International (NSFA).

 

 

While this sounded like a great idea on the way here, it also made for me not receiving any beacon and hence I had no idea at all how far away the airport was. I couldn't even tuni in on the radio, as I came from the side that was blanketed off by the hills. m(

 

No wonder I totally botched my approach and came in way too high. The airport being directly ahead in plain sight, I still felt like forcing it.

 

 

Some say that flaps do not work as dive brakes. In the DC-6, they are actually your principle mean of speed control during the apprach. And they work. You can see my approach angle when looking out the left window. Passengers certainly were not happy.

 

 

The landing was till short and I didn't even use 1/3rd of the runway and made for a chaper parking by taking an early right turn.

 

 

Next time I will not take that approach but come from the north.

 

But then on to Fiji.

 

 

As usual, I pick a route along any NAV beacons. For this I aim for the VORDME at Labasa on Vanua Levu, the second largest of the Fiji islands. from there to  Nausori International (NFNA) on Fiji and strt (another!) right hand apprach to Nadi International (NFFN). This way, I hope to see some of the Islands.

 

Again, staring at night, due to the time difference to my actual tme zone.

 

 

It is pitch dark and I hardly find the way to the runway.

 

 

But climbing into dawn is something.

 

 

Still night ahead, sunrise aft.

 

 

Arriving over Vanua Levu. Again, friggin' clouds.

 

 

Alright, I am descending into this, but I am not that sure how high the hlls are underneath.

 

 

Too close for comfort. At least it is not that cloudy all the way.

 

 

On approach to Nadi. Without radio navigation, this would have been a very different approach, coming from the west circling down over the sea until maybe the airport becomes visible.

 

 

Nice weather here. I like this part of the island.

 

 

A good arrival. What a nice place.

 

After this, I will proceed to New Caledonia and the New Zealand.

 

[danielprates]

You know @ZachariasX seeing those writeups make me wonder how is time compression in MSFS. In FSX is was shaitte, ling flights were a pain. Have they improved that? Is is manageable to fly 10hrs straight?

[ZachariasX]

7 hours ago, danielprates said:

You know @ZachariasX seeing those writeups make me wonder how is time compression in MSFS. In FSX is was shaitte, ling flights were a pain. Have they improved that? Is is manageable to fly 10hrs straight?

It works very well for it‘s purpose. A 2200 nm flight takes 10 hours in the DC-6 and you can turn that into a pretty busy two hours.

 

It is of note that MSFS actually doesn‘t seem to „compress time“ by asking the sim engine to produce twice the simulations per system second, it just makes objects go faster at given rate as well as adjusting fuel flows etc. This means that any active (say autopilot) response is delayed as time is increased. This means that in most aircraft, past 4x time accelleration, only straight flying by good trimming is reasonably possible, but the active level holding autopilot will lag so much in his response after polling aircraft state at 1/4 rate (4x time), it starts to porpoise. So technically, I think the „time accelleration“ is more a slew function than an actual cange of the sim state. It would also be problematic having people with time accelleration and people without time accelleration in the same world. And MSFS has just that.

 

It is notable how they vasty improved terrain loading. In FSX, I got about 250 km/h as speed limit where I could outfly the loader, in P3D v4 it is about 500 km/h and in MSFS they raised that to about 2500 km/h. This is unrelated to download speeds. On my system, I can reliably speed up to 4x without running away from fully loaded terrain. 4x is also the limit active autopilot can control the aircraft. If you don‘t care for that or are over open water, you can speed up to 16x provided you have it on only gyro controlled AP or just trimmed and in stable flight.

[ZachariasX]

While it is still anything but sightseeig weather in New Zealand, I have time to finish the writeup about my flight.

 

But so far, I have arrived in Fiji. Wonderful place. But on to New Caledonia, the lower right corner of any respectable PTO map. First I considered passing by Vanuatu, one of the places most people heard about but can't place on a map. And if so, next to the Maledives seems plausible.

 

But the airport in Port Villa is not really to my liking. Thanks for that ILS, but no thanks. I won't make a stop here.

 

 

So, New Caledonia it is.

 

Again, I had to cross the island to for an approach at  La Tontouta (NWWW), the main airport next to Nouméa. But taking the neighboring islands VOR (Ouanaham (NWWL)), I could select a "From" radial that should line me up with the ILS of La Tontouta.

 

 

On the way, there is the NDB of White Grass (WG) on Tanna, Vanuatu. It is always good to have some reference points along the way.

 

 

Early morning departure again from Fiji. But it got somewhat couldy on the way, and receiving the NDB was helpful to line me up again on the proper route.

 

 

It was evening when I arrived at new Caledonia. I initiated a shallow descent to stay clear off the hills with the hope of receiving the ILS from the airport.

 

 

No joy. Approaching towrad the evening sun, I had no idea where the airport is exactly. But I could set myself a VOR radial extending on the runway axis and just plan my descent from reading the distance to the VOR next to the airport. It is weird to make an approach and you cannot see the airport at all, but instruments say it must be there.

 

 

There it is, and I swiftly correct my approach to line up with the runway. 

 

 

It's a big airport though, but featuring one of those ILS that don't work.

 

 

I covered quiet some ground so far.

 

But next is New Zealand. (Got me the extra nice terrain mesh for Hobbit-Land, so I want to see some of that.)

 

 

 You can see, I did this and then I lost a DC-6 just short of vanuato due to the broken pause function, courtesy of SU7. That bug is also killing TrackIR.

 

But going on to NZ using Norfolk Island with its NAV beacons as waypoint. As the weather is so-so (accordingto Windy), I opt fo Auckland as my destination and save some of the scenery for nicer weather. Regarding the approach, I will deal with that when I get there. (Old method of the old hares.)

 

 

Again MSFS doesn't fail drawing the most impressive pictures of dawn.

 

 

Nouméa, the lights below the aircraft.

 

 

Off to the sea, Nouméa behind me. The weather gets progressively miserable and I climb up to FL290 to stay clear of the clouds, exceeding what is suitable flight altitude for the DC-6. Norfolk island makes itself only present through its NAV beacons. But arriving over New Zealand cloud coverage opens up a bit and I get to see a bit of the scenery.

 

 

I initiate my descent directly to Auckland. I tune my radio to that frequency and hope that I can call them up soon.

 

 

About 80 miles from Auckland, I can radio them just to be told that the airport is currently IFR only and that I better b*gger off. So much for hope. Yeah, right. Windy suggested that I approach from the west, so I will just do that. Change my course a couple of degrees to starboard to intercept the ILS at what is hopefully the right altitude. So there's me staring at the altimeter, the indicated distance from the airport and the trim wheel.

 

 

Now I get a sense of why "IFR only". There's still hills in that soup. If I did my timing correctly, I am over open water. I will find out if I was right, diving in that...

 

 

Oh, right, theres some land as well before it will be water again. I hope I set my altimeter correctly. Other than that I am flying blind.

 

 

...And that is when I suddenly see ground again. That was interesting.

 

 

I just taxi to the gates. Funny enough, on the ground, weather doesn't look that bad at all. But IFR only for good reason!

 

Now I have to find a good route across the islands here and then probably off to Tasmania.

 

Edited December 16, 2021 by ZachariasX

[danielprates]

4 hours ago, ZachariasX said:

 

 

 

Nouméa, the lights below the aircraft.

 

God damn!

[6./ZG26_Klaus_Mann]

Guys,

have you tried the new Reno Pack, especially the T-6 and P-51? I haven't and I'm basing my Decision on wether they are getting the Engine Management right in Terms of the Supercharger Modelling. 

So far the Game only models Turbochargers even on Supercharged Planes which drives me up the wall, seeing Manifold Pressure remain the same or even go up when I reduce Engine RPM. It ruins the immersion. 

Some people mentioned that these new Planes got a reworked Supercharger Model, is it anywhere near accurate or do they also all still fly like Turbo Engines?

 

Pic for Attention

[ZachariasX]

3 hours ago, 6./ZG26_Klaus_Mann said:

So far the Game only models Turbochargers even on Supercharged Planes which drives me up the wall, seeing Manifold Pressure remain the same or even go up when I reduce Engine RPM. It ruins the immersion. 

The supercharger logics are only modelled as afar that at given altitude, it automatically gives you a higher MAP per throttle lever travel. The supercharger switches are inoperable in the aircraft. The rpm are also not linked in any way to the MAP. At any MAP, you can change rpm from min to max and there is no change in MAP. It is a *very* basic representation of the aircraft. I bought the basic package, but I haven't used it much. To be fast in doing laps, currently it is more reasonable to game the game instead of doing the sensible thing you'd do in a real aircraft.

 

Wait for A2A simulations giving us an accusimmed P51. It is not a Mustang, but something too goof around with when you feel like needing more power than a Cirrus gives you.

[Monostripezebra]

12 hours ago, 6./ZG26_Klaus_Mann said:

Guys,

have you tried the new Reno Pack, especially the T-6 and P-51? I haven't and I'm basing my Decision on wether they are getting the Engine Management right in Terms of the Supercharger Modelling. 

So far the Game only models Turbochargers even on Supercharged Planes which drives me up the wall, seeing Manifold Pressure remain the same or even go up when I reduce Engine RPM. It ruins the immersion. 

Some people mentioned that these new Planes got a reworked Supercharger Model, is it anywhere near accurate or do they also all still fly like Turbo Engines?

 

if that is what floats your boat.... JUST DON´T

 

the Reno pack is not overly realistic and while the P-51s are fun, they are very much modeled "light". The racing can be fun, especially with all helpers off, but really silly exploits like boosting your qualifying times with "active pause" which works in the races.. and if you use it facing downwards keeps adding speed as if you where diving and its all do-able before crossing the starting line (ie: you can start qualifying with free speed that way) is all a little bit in  a sad state. And the RPM effects are modeled so poor, that most people don´t realize there is a very small sweet-spot in the prop-classes, 2100 RPM in T6s and 3300 in Unlimited, which are needed to be set in order to be competative.. so you either have races with people that know... then it can be good, or auto-wins because people don´t know. And one kinda needs the HUD (which in the scoring logic does not count as helper) on, because just with the steamgauges it is hard to put the RPMs into the sweet spot, and if you are outside, you are simply not competative at all.

 

 

 

 

I still get the most fun with the Bell..

 

Edited December 20, 2021 by Monostripezebra

[Bremspropeller]

Seems like the update to win 11 made the game crash with the current Nvidia game ready driver, when doing anything with the view (e.g. panning around).

Just wanted to test-fly the P-38 and bam...

 

 

[Bremspropeller]

Nevermind, I fixed it!

 

After take-off at Ajaccio.

 

@DD_Fenrir you might notice, the inlets have been reworked.

[DD_Fenrir]

15 hours ago, Bremspropeller said:

@DD_Fenrir you might notice, the inlets have been reworked.

 

*girlish squeal of delight*

[ZachariasX]

Some New Zealand flying with the DC-6.

 

Having arrived in Auckland (NZAA), I figured proceeding to Wellington (NZWN) was suitable for a next flight. A very short flight, but I wanted to see some of the islands. It also made for a very light aircraft and I felt taking advatage of that by also going to some risqué airfields.

 

When I took off from NZAA, the weather had consideably improved and I even got to see where I had landed before.

 

 

Crossing the island, I couldn't resist visiting Middle Earth. Mt. Doom was the first on the route, just some 160 nm sount of Auckland on the north island.

 

 

Mount Ngauruhoe, the stand-in for Mt.Doom behind me and Mount Tongariro, a compund volcano to my starboard side. The Volcanoes are 2'291 m and 1'978 m respectively. For improved sight-seeing, I was bimbling along at FL120. But approaching the southern coast of the island, cloud cover increased. Windy also indicated an enromous wind, channeled between the islands, up to 100 kn gusts. Along the south-western shore of the south island the storm was even worse.

 

 

The approach to Wellington was only possible by using the bacons. Just flying in there would have been lethal, as cloud base was as low as the hills. But there is always this magical moment when you suddenly see the airport... just ahead of you, and you being perfectly lined up.

 

 

There is some crosswind, but all went very smooth.

 

 

There is something about Wellington that I really, really like.

 

From Wellington on, I felt like visiting Edoras and Isengard. Edoras was patched on Mount Sunday in the upper reaches of the Rangitata Valley near Erewhon, almost in the center of the south island. Isengard is located further south in a fjord near Glenorchy. Queenstown is the next larger town with a larger airport on the other end of the adjacent lake. Passing by those places, I would proceed to Dunedin (NZDN) in the south.

 

Some orientation here, also indication my flown NZ route:

Spoiler

 

On the Way, I took Christchurch as a reference, but didn't intend to land there. But it is one of the larger cities and I felt like taking a look as well instead of just hunting movie props.

 

(Should I be mistaken in some of the locations, I am happy to be corrected.)

 

 

Looking back down on wellington, in all it's glory. I took of to the north and a wide turn over the bay brought me to my cruise altitude at FL120.

 

 

The south island is in many parts a very hilly affair, but the sheer variety of landscapes you find is indeed impressive.

 

 

Rangitata Valley and Edoras... you can see the hill where Edoras was patched onto, just below the nose of the aircraft.

 

 

The mountains to the west are indeed impressive. It is like Norway with its fjords condensed to twice the size of Switzerland.

 

 

On approach to Dunedin. Nice weather as it might seem, but the haze prevented me from seeing the airport until I was already way past the middle marker.

 

 

A small airport, but Dunedin it has a decent runway with everything you need for larger aircraft.

 

At this point, I felt like taking a look at Milford Sound, one of the most popular airfields I suppose. Can I do it with the DC-6? The problem is that the weather is currently  absolutely foul around the southern and western coast. Clouds, snow and storm down to low level. Entering the fjord with zero visibiltiy is not just stupid, but lethal.

 

I had to cheat.

 

I had to set the weather preset to far. A first on all my flights.

 

Also I loaded the aircraft very lightly, as the flight is only some 130 nm. It's a rocket ship when loaded only with little baggage and the percentage of fuel common on fast food online servers.

 

 

Almost the same weather on the preset than "live" it seems. But no. It is amazing from how much farther I can see the airport.

 

 

On the way, I am passing by Queenstown, (just below the port wing) with its airport (furter to the right below the starboard wingtip). The lake take a 90° right turn and ends at the town of Glenorchy, Isengard in the movie.

 

 

Looking back down the slopes of Fangorn Forst, Sarumans Orthanc would be situated near the tip of the lake. Glenorchy is just on the far side on the tip of the lake. It also features an airfied. A grass strip. Then again, if Milford Sound is possible, anything is possible. Milford Sound is just on the other side of the mountain ridge.

 

 

The look down shows the main issue: The runway (about half the lenght reqired) points toward the valley the that actually *ends*. Diving over that pass will require me to deploy dive brakes... I try my luck by creeping up the open fjord and hope I manage the left turn to line up with the runway. Speaking of dive brakes... let's see what the DC-6 can do.

 

 

Orc'ish flying. But it get's me where I want to be. Milford Sound in the morning sun.

 

 

Uhhmm... that looks like a bigger left turn than anticipated, closer to the fence than anticipated.

 

 

This will get difficult.

 

 

This is something for @Monostripezebra. But I get there.

 

 

*After the second try* (once hitting the trees next to the runway, one tailstrike). Full reverse thrust and full brakes let me skid of the runway but it stops in time. I still have some 100 m runway as reserve...

 

But looking at the distance to come to a stop, I decide to give Glenorchy (NZGY) another visit. This time with a full stop landing. And not cheating with the weather.

 

After a real world break from flying, I log on again with live weather and see where they put my aircraft. It was snowing they said, so they put it in the shed.

 

 

Someone around helping me push? And where's my roll of duct tape?

 

 

The weather is awful. 100+ knots wind at the coast, dense clouds around the coast and over the mountains. But I could use a little head wind. With only 3000 pounds of fuel, the aircraft is light as a paper kite. I must use this blue disruption to circle up over the fjord. I canot see my way through this labyrinth.

 

 

To say I used everything this plane could give me is an understatement. This come close to some traumatic New Guinea flying. I couldn't believe I lived through this. At some point you stop caring and just laugh at the fact that it doesn't suddenly blackscreen on you. Getting out of there was work. The up and downdrafts were enormous, far in excess of what the climb of the aircraft is. But the wind coming from a suitable side lifted me over the ridge. I wouldn't have made it by not selecting the correct mountainsides.

 

 

However. On the other side of the ridge it went downwards and neither METO power nor max. power would do anything about that. You can't trim the aircraft for speed, but just hold the attitude and marvel at how the altimeter winds around one side, then the other way around, variometer either in max. sink or max. climb.

 

 

Finally. Across the ridge over Lake Wakatipu. Glenorchy airfield must be on the right shore all the way at the end of the lake. Where the clouds are. Another diving approach, followed by creeping up the lakeside.

 

 

Somewhere there in front. I have no idea how the place really looks, but that doesn't matter. I can't see a thing anyway.

 

 

It is.. I just missed the airport and had to do a go around. No time for screenshots but at least I got a glimpse of the grass patch where I am supposed to come down. It is also about half the lenght required. I am breaking with everything I have as soon as I touch down, and I am skiding toward the parked aircraft and the club house, Bloody crosswind!

 

 

I even hit the parking brakes while skidding. That was close.

 

 

One wingspan away from stopping inside the clubhouse. I am more than surprised I didn't blackscreen but rather made it in the first try. I didn' feel like leaving the aircraft here, but I decided to proceed on to Queenstown (NZQN).

 

 

Until I readied the aircraft again, weather had cleared somewhat. Bad weather over Isengard and Fangorn Forest.

 

 

But lightly loaded, the DC-6 needs little runway and getting off is no sweat. It is more troubling that Christchurch has the same kind of weather and I don't receive the VOR.

 

 

Be it. I do it in the same way as last time, set her up for landing configuraton and have her limp along at low level, just droppingher when/should I see the runway.

 

 

As I am crawling over Queenstown hat suddenly pops up from the fog, I still have little clue about where the airport actually is.It must be at the end of the lake, the map says.

 

 

Oh yes, finally. I guess I was lucky.

 

 

Bloody clouds, bloody fog. Is it always like that here?

 

On from Queenstown to Tasmania, Hobart airport (YMHB). A ~1000 nm trip. Easy. I calculated some 15'000 lbs fuel includng reserve.

 

 

Taking off to the east and making a 180° wide turn to gain altitude and set my course for Hobart, Tasmania. I figure I have enough fuel, as I filled the main tanks with 16'000 lbs fuel and another 1'000 in the auxiliary tanks. It will make me feel better over the open ocean.

 

 

Saruman is greeting me again with these dreadful turbulences. I planned to make an easy and economical cruise at FL120 or so, but there is no way that I can hold this altitude. Be it. I power up as much as possible and climb all the way to FL260, but the violent shaking only stops once I am over the ocean. At FL120, I can normally make some 245 kn ground speed, at FL220 some 275+ kn. That should help as well.

 

 

As I drift on in that vast blue, I notice something is absolutely not right. Checking the watch shows my predicament. I am going waaaaay too slow. I should be going at least some 250+ kn ground speed... but when looking at the time it  took me here, I barely make 150 kn ground speed! At this altitude.. this would make for some 120+ knots head wind!

 

I am suddenly not feeling so good anymore about my previously generous fuel amounts.

 

To return or not to return... I had 17'000 lbs when I took off... could that work? I calculate the fuel requirements again for 150 kn ground speed... I would need some 21'000 lbs fuel!! But this includes a 3'000 lbs extra fuel and another ~2'000 lbs for alternate and reserve. And I didn't use 1'400 lbs for ground ops.  Surrender is not an option, hence I am pressing on.

 

 

I drained the auxilaries to the last drop and I am counting on the extra speed from a long, gradual descent. Low revs help as well. Don't take the AFE for it, he is wasteful. But I don't like these clouds that appear in direction of Tasmania. Hobard doesn't have an ILS for runway 30, which would be my direct way in and given the wind direction, my best option.

 

 

First glimpse of Tasmania. I might just make it. Now receving Hobards VORDME would help as well.

 

 

Cape Pillar, Tasman National Park. And I still have some fuel left. And finally I receive the VOR and set myself on the 30 radial.

 

 

That's how clouds should part. Divine.

 

 

Arrived in Tasmania, safe and sound. With some ~2'000 lbs of total fuel left. Now that was more enthralling than expected.

 

Now time to figure out some route in OZ.

[CUJO_1970]

Set it up on 3 monitors - jeez it looks incredible. Must be shocking in VR:

 

 

[Hoots]

15 hours ago, CUJO_1970 said:

Set it up on 3 monitors - jeez it looks incredible. Must be shocking in VR:

 

 

Are three screens supported now? How easy is it to set up?

[CUJO_1970]

2 hours ago, Hoots said:

Are three screens supported now? How easy is it to set up?

 

So easy, even a caveman like me can do it. Go to settings in MSFS and put in windowed mode and profit. I really didn't intend to put it on 3 monitors originally, I was just goofing around - but when I did it looked amazing so I might keep it. I originally was intending to set up the Garmin and Nav maps on the other monitors.

 

What I can't seem to figure out, is how to get IL/2 to work on 3 monitors...something about editing the conf.ini maybe?

 

[Monostripezebra]

Merry Christmas, everyone!

 

[DD_Arthur]

 

'a monstrous carbuncle on the arse of a ghastly old friend'

HRH Prince Charles

 

 

 

[Hoots]

1 hour ago, DD_Arthur said:

 

'a monstrous carbuncle on the arse of a ghastly old friend'

HRH Prince Charles

 

 

 

 

Almost makes me miss living in London. 

[DD_fruitbat]

On 12/31/2021 at 3:55 PM, Hoots said:

 

Almost makes me miss living in London. 

 

Nope!?

[Trooper117]

I was based in London for 5 years... couldn't wait to get away from the noisy, pollution bound and over crowded cesspool!

[Lusekofte]

Been several times changing flights at Hethrow and Gatwick. But only once had a weekend in London. 

That place just got too many people

[Chief_Mouser]

Don't go to London if I can help it. Never liked it, even as a kid for after a day in the 'smoke' your snot was black.

There are some truly amazing things to go and see, but living there...  no thankyou. Did a three-month work stretch there back in the day and that was far too long.

[DD_Arthur]

On 1/5/2022 at 3:40 PM, 216th_Cat said:

Never liked it, even as a kid for after a day in the 'smoke' your snot was black.

 

Yep!  The London I grew up in as a kid.  A dirty old river and everything coated in 250 years worth of coal soot

 

  

Went here for lunch with mum and dad in.....1970?    Stand out memories of a seven year old;  the lift doors closing at street level, the acceleration and then the doors opening to reveal a truly breath-taking view!  I mean really astonishing  It would be another ten years before a taller building was erected in London.

 

Of the very expensive meal we had or even why we were there,  I have no recollection whatsoever.  Still the only restaurant I've been in where the diners revolved around the waiters  

[Chief_Mouser]

2 hours ago, DD_Arthur said:

 

Yep!  The London I grew up in as a kid.  A dirty old river and everything coated in 250 years worth of coal soot

 

  

Went here for lunch with mum and dad in.....1970?    Stand out memories of a seven year old;  the lift doors closing at street level, the acceleration and then the doors opening to reveal a truly breath-taking view!  I mean really astonishing  It would be another ten years before a taller building was erected in London.

 

Of the very expensive meal we had or even why we were there,  I have no recollection whatsoever.  Still the only restaurant I've been in where the diners revolved around the waiters  

 

My Dad took me up there too, probably not long after it opened so perhaps 1966, but he was too tight to buy a meal so we just looked out.  He did buy me a commemorative stamp though... 

[Monostripezebra]

I prefer the Frankfurt TV Tower

 

[ZachariasX]

And I like the most that Jörg is back from vacation and that the patch has landed.

[CUJO_1970]

Downloaded the update, flew around Manhattan then headed north up the Hudson River.

 

[Monostripezebra]

Some basic Chessna 170 is still about the most fun for me in MSFS

 

 

[AndyJWest]

Expensive noise simulator:

 

This is from FlightSimGames, who are developing another Pilatus Porter PC-6 for MSFS - it looks like being the best effort yet, taking into consideration the amount of work they are putting into it.

 

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/announcement-flightsimgames-fsg-pilatus-porter-pc-6-payware/393681

 

[CUJO_1970]

It's here, it's finally here yesss

[Tektolnes]

14 hours ago, CUJO_1970 said:

It's here, it's finally here yesss

 

How is it? Been seeing a few grumbles about a few things - particularly the sounds.

[CUJO_1970]

On 1/20/2022 at 9:15 AM, Tektolnes said:

 

How is it? Been seeing a few grumbles about a few things - particularly the sounds.

 

Have only had a chance to spend about an hour or so with it due to real life stuff, but from what I've seen it's a classic.

 

 

 

[DD_Arthur]

Getting slightly lost on the approach to St. Mawgan in Cornwall.

Sometimes all those Spitfire landings in IL2 come in handy?

 

[ZachariasX]

1 hour ago, DD_Arthur said:

Getting slightly lost on the approach to St. Mawgan in Cornwall.

I am thinking about getting that one. How do you like it?

[DD_Arthur]

1 hour ago, ZachariasX said:

I am thinking about getting that one. How do you like it?

 

I think it’s great. The modelling and texture work is second to none, sounds are loud but I think rather good, the systems that matter work well with the exception of the WX but that was broken by Asobo and is due to be fixed by SU8 at the end of the month...

 

Flight model? Within the limits of what MS/Asobo provide it seems rather nice. Too sensitive to trim but...what isn’t?? and a perhaps ‘generous’ rate of climb.

 

Price point makes it a bargain imo.

 

[Monostripezebra]

I just saw that one of the upcoming local legend planes is the Dornier Wal.. that seems pretty cool..

 

But I am kind of bit disapointed by the multiplayer plane depiction.. I flew the Senaca with a friend, who was flying the Skymaster.. and while those to planes fly really nice as formation, he could never see me and I only saw the generic sports plane...

 

This is how the Skymaster standin looks:

 

[Bremspropeller]

That's the normal standin. Isn't there a sync option hidden somewhere?

I've had similar issues - with standard planes, though.

Edited January 30, 2022 by Bremspropeller

[ZachariasX]

9 hours ago, Bremspropeller said:

That's the normal standin. Isn't there a sync option hidden somewhere?

I've had similar issues - with standard planes, though.

There's also the issue of ghosting when flying n close formation. In the last Q&A Jörg adressed these issues. Now let's hope they come up with a good solution anytime soon.

[CUJO_1970]

That was a rather large update.

 

Edited February 1, 2022 by CUJO_1970

[Feathered_IV]

Nearly forgot it’s the Australia update today. Veeery tempted by the Ford Trimotor.