I’m still on a single monitor as I game from a laptop. But I’m also nervous about VR based on the way I fly. It may take some getting used to being in a virtual cockpit.
I feel the same way. Something more than just landing challenges and the bush trips. Sims have always been kind of, “find your own fun,” but without more tutorials or a career option in some way, the meta games will have to take the place of it instead.
I’m slowly paying back the loan amount I have on the King Air, though to be fair, it’s coming in very quickly. A few runs with a full load of passengers adds up real quick.
But while flying out of Alabama I few over this at fairly low altitude:
The photogrammetry wasn’t there but still, you could tell that entire yard was full of cars. A trucking company in the front and loading them up on rail lines on the side. Tons and tons and tons of cars. It’s a Hyundai plant in Montgomery. And now I kind of what to fly over some other car plants just to see the scale. This thing was massive!
Map point for those interested:
32.286291, -86.320658
Oh wow; that car park is like one of those Guess the no. of Jellybeans competitions. Incredible.
I’ve been taking a few long, time compressed trips in South America to pay off the Caribbean DA62. The Caribbean is pretty boring from the air, tbh. Lots of, basically, sandbars with mangrove swamps on them, very nondescript. And you’re over the sea the rest of the time. I might move that plane to Venezuela/Colombia eventually.
Took some time off from it at the weekend and fired it up today with some reluctance, but it turns out I still love it.
EDIT: Oh, and I started back into the Patagonian Bush Trip. Some of the landing strips are a nightmare. Grrrr.
KDFW – Dallas / Fort Worth International Airport (DFW)
KSWF – New York Stewart International Airport
Points of Interest
Chimney Rock
Crazy Horse Memorial
Pilgrim Monument, Provincetown MA
Fort Jefferson
Washington Monument, Washington DC
Capitol, Washington DC
White House, Washington DC
Wright Brothers National Memorial
Mount Rushmore
Biltmore Estate
Devils Tower
New River Gorge Bridge
United States National Arboretum
Bixby Creek Bridge
Chesapeake Bay Bridge
Sunshine Skyway Bridge
Mackinac Bridge
Navajo Bridge
Astoria-Megler Bridge
U.S. Grant Bridge
Lowry Avenue Bridge
Lewis and Clark Bridge
The Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge
Fort Knox
Monument Rocks National Natural
Coronado Heights Castle
Ellis County Courthouse
Monument Valley
Yosemite El Capitan
Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde, Colorado
Shiprock, New Mexico
Haystack Rock at Canon, Oregon
Half Dome, Yosemite
Dworshak Dam
Hoover Dam
Oroville Dam
Alcatraz (water tower and lighthouse only)
Fort McHenry, Baltimore
Rainbow Bridge, Niagara Falls
Glen Canyon Dam
Las Vegas Strip (Night)
Confederation Bridge
Johnson Space Center Houston (visitor’s center)
Kennedy Space Center Florida (visitors center)
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (memorial site)
Mauna Kea Observatory, Hawaii
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Gulf of Mexico, Oil Rigs
Airport Graveyard, Tucson
In addition to the USA world update, several fixes and improvements have been added to the sim. Thanks to players’ feedback, we are continuing to bring content and adjustments to Microsoft Flight Simulator. Please find below items on which we’ve been working on for this update.
PERFORMANCE AND STABILITY
Several crashes were fixed to improve overall stability of the title
Optimization on photogrammetry loading
Offline air traffic aircraft are now properly removed at a long distance. This caused a performance degradation over time.
PLANES
From handling and flight model improvements to auto-pilot fixes, a general review of all planes has been made for this update.
AIRLINERS
Fixed: Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental fuel consumption issue
Fixed: Airbus A320neo fuel consumption issue
Reduced yaw oscillation on the Airbus A320neo by further reducing yaw gain
GENERAL AVIATION AIRCRAFT
Pipistrel Virus SW121: Fixed – Cruise speed adjusted (previously too low) in the aircraft selection menu
Cessna 152: 5% more elevator authority
Cirrus SR22: Fixed – The mixture control is no longer set to Automixture
Cessna 208 B Grand Caravan EX: Fixed – invisible spoiler removed
EXTRA 330LT : Engine reactivity increased
EXTRA 330LT : Fixed full castoring tail wheel animation and allowed up to 90° rotation
Robin Cap10 : Allowed 90° range of motion for full castering rear wheel
Garmin glass cockpit equipped aircraft:
Added visual notification on PFD when deactivating AP
Flight director is now automatically turned on when AP is enabled and cannot be disabled
UI
The data consumption value calculation has been fixed
Fix input feedback on some devices
The livery name should now be correctly displayed in the menus
The weather image in the flight plan should now be correct in all cases
Some accuracy for the live time have been fixed
Fixed an issue that prevented the checklist eye button to be selected
The bushtrip menu should no longer freeze
Switching from online to offline in the menu should no longer freeze the title
Fixed some behaviors that resulted in having the World map search not responding
INPUT
Honeycomb Bravo Throttle Quadrant default preset has been added (GA Twin engines configuration)
CH Throttle Quadrant default preset has been added
CH Flightstick Pro default preset has been added
CH Combatstick default preset has been added
ACTIVITY
The logbook should now properly log unfinished flights (either via return to main menu or via landing and shutting down the engine and Master)
The landing challenge target should now be properly displayed after restarting the activity
WORLD
Streetlights of smaller streets and roads should now be displayed more randomly
Workers on an airport should no longer randomly freeze and stop being animated
Wow, they added a hand-crafted Friday Harbor airport??? It’s such an odd member of that list. Here’s MASSIVE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT A and MASSIVE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT B and Friday Harbor.
About the only people who fly to there are Hollywood celebrities who own homes on the islands.
Patched but getting the USA update now as well. Just so new folks are aware, those are under the Marketplace as free add-ons. It is not part of the patch.
So I’m in the marketplace and see that Aerosoft made its Paderborn-Lippstadt airport for free, so why not? And then it starts downloading 6 GB??? No way.
Other noticed behavior, much better stability going into and out of autopilot VS mode.
The Garmin 3000 (TBM) and the Garmin 1000 (King Air) now keeps the second waypoint (destination) if you delete the first waypoint (origin.) It moves the second to the first, allowing MUCH easier follow-on flying. Delete initial origin once you land at the destination (that now becomes origin) and add a new destination. Away you go.
At least on the TBM, it was already pretty easy to just insert a new destination after the one you arrived at, though I suppose this is a bit tidier. FWIW, I’ve already had an autopilot on a DA62 completely fail to respond to ALT or VS post-patch (fixed with a restart), so they clearly haven’t addressed everything.
