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I have it all on the same dedicated game drive, though the cache is on my main Windows installation drive.

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If you like flying into “unusual” locations, you should check out the scenery available from Bush League Legends. They have a bunch of back-country strips in Idaho and elsewhere and can provide hours of “ohmigod how am I supposed to land there?!” fun. You’re not going to be flying a TBM into them, though. :D

Like this.

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Yeah, I’m not sure quite what the triggers for it are, but I know it can happen in some cases if you don’t have everything in the “default” location. You should at least be able to grab everything again from the content manager, though, no?

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Nice, I’ll definitely check those out, thanks!

What happened above was that I was flying an 800 mile route in FSEconomy and needed somewhere to get gas along the way. There was a starred airport on the map at about 500 miles so I thought, that’ll do. I was kinda thinking it might be the national airport (Peru) so I was very surprised. 😆

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Yes, doing that now. But it’s redownloading 80 Gig of data.

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Haha, that’s awesome. Do you use any flight planning software? It can be really helpful for avoiding those unpleasant surprises. I hardly ever fly without Little Navmap running to check on things like that.

Yeah, it sucks. I got bit by that on Update 5. I was mostly just flagging it as a known issue so you didn’t need to wonder if there was something wrong with your particular install.

Also, hi everyone. I’ve not posted here in ages but I was dropping by, saw the MSFS thread, and had to jump in. I have fallen completely into this thing. I really like it.

How much do I like it?

If you caught Jorg and Seb shouting out the Working Title mod group by name on the past few Dev Q&A sessions, that’s me. Well, me and a few other guys, but I was one of the founders. I’ve probably spent more time tweaking and modding this thing than flying in it and we’re in direct communication with Jorg and folks at Asobo to work on expanding their involvement with the community.

That’s how much I like it.

(I also fly a lot.)

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No, I was looking at the VFR map en route and the valley looked like it could be reasonably sized on that, so I thought it might be ok. There are so many unusual locations in the Andes that I thought it was feasible that a city might be nestled in there (from the map, obviously it was a different state of affairs when I turned up ;) ).

My primary interest in MSFS so far has been the geography/sightseeing, so I’m a little far behind when it comes to flying properly, therefore I don’t use any flight plans etc. Hopefully that will come at some point but it’s pretty much all vfr for me so far. With AP on longer trips or repeat trips.

And a lot of us here are using FSEconomy to provide some structure around the game.

Also, welcome! We’re familiar with the working title stuff here, that’s the Garmin mod etc, right?

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Cool! So, what kind of tweaking and modding are you doing in it?

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How do I make my Thurstmaster throttle use the entire axis for throttling instead of just after the detent?

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Yeah, it is fabulous for that. In spite of the fact that I’ve spent many hours tuning and tweaking the logic in the G1000 and G3X the better part of my flight time is purely visual as well. That’s pretty much always been the case, though. I’ve solo’d the FSLabs Concorde across the pond using the CIVA INS system for guidance, and it has its own rewards, but I still prefer dropping a little Cub onto a tiny spot of dirt in the wilderness most of the time.

Yeah, I’ve played a lot of FSE in the past. I’ve been spending more time recently with NeoFly, though. I really like that it gives you a bit of structure without feeling like a job, which some of the others can end up doing if you’re not careful.

Yep! We’ve done the G1000, G3000, G3X, and also have a CJ4 overhaul. The 1000 and the 3X have been my main projects.

The largest part of it by far has been the avionics mods I’ve worked on for Working Title, I’ve gone through periods where that’s pretty much been a second job. :D Aside from that, I have a few other small things like this toolbar handle remover and a simple paintkit for the M20R.

I also created a few utilities for NeoFly that can import airports, plane info, and such. And right now I’m working on a data logger that will record your flight in the format used by the real-world G1000 so you can do things like import your flights into CloudAhoy with rich detail in them. That’s not ready to show off yet.

I’ve also played with scenery design a little bit, but don’t have anything serious accomplished there yet.

(The Working Title repo is by far the most starred github repo I’ve ever been a contributor to.)

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Not sure about that one. MSFS relies heavily on the underlying Windows joystick calibration. Is the problem that it’s just not seeing the full range of movement on the axis, or does the throttle send something different on the far side of the detent?

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Is there a way to make the ATC window smaller? I have text size set to minimum and that still takes up way too much space.

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You can resize the windows.

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I can make it bigger but not smaller it seems?

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It is that, indeed. Which is why, even with some things still being worked on, many of us are infatuated with it. It’s mind blowing at times to the point it looks downright real. Even if it isn’t that’s a huge step above where sim-worlds have been before.

Can I recommend a great sightseeing trip? once you’re down in FACT, take a hop east over to FAPE (Port Elizabeth, South Africa.)

You’ll need some altitude getting out of FACT, so take something that can clear around 7500 agl but with good visibility from the cockpit. Or just use external view or since you’re using the controller, hit the INSert key and use drone view to look around and get screenshots. It’s an amazing trip over the mountains, valleys, along the seashore, over the white sands, it’s breathtaking.

Pedro and Ginger have posted some nice looking shots I plan to visit as well. Which is crazy to think about, the entire earth to fly and there are so many spots to see.

Welcome aboard, and as a user of the g1000 and g3000 mods, may I say, THANK YOU. I’ll probably be a user of the cj4 mod when that time comes, to be honest. I think you guys also have some sort of relationship with the bonanza mod and several of us here use that too.

If you do get time with Jorg/Seb again, one thing that I’ve been wondering is if they will ever eventually unencrypt the add-on planes in the deluxe or premium deluxe versions. From what I understand, that is the hold up to mods/liveries for them and that sounds like it was a poor design idea to lock them. I understand the ability to restrain them from being copied to the standard version, but why did they choose that as the method?

Also, I’d love to hear more about what you like to fly in-game (or out?)

@schurem I know it sounds strange, but if you want some good visibility, the Pipistrel Virus is a great sight-seeing plane: high wing with very large glass doors on each side, a big windscreen and plexiglass top area too. I’ve used it sightseeing a few times. It’s got modern avionics but no big deal, still flyable. The ICON is also pretty fun to fly if for no other reason than you can land it on water or ground and it’s like flying in a car, very easy handling.

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You’re welcome! I honestly got started on the G1000 just because I was annoyed by some of the major flaws in it and wanted to scratch my own itch. But it’s been very rewarding to see how many other people have had their sim experience improved with it. :)

We’re working on a new version which I am really excited about. One of the folks on the team has basically completely rewritten the entire UI in a more performant way; it adds a lot of missing functionality and does it while being butter smooth at 60fps. Can’t wait for us to get that into peoples’ hands.

If you’re talking about the G36 mod by TheFrett, we’ve not been directly involved with that, but I’ve worked with him to make sure that our G1000 works with it without conflict. We also helped him update the custom engine display configuration to work with the changes he’s made.

(Rob Young, formerly of RealAir, also has a really good turbo-normalized Bonanza mod, if you haven’t seen it.)

Yeah, this has been on my agenda to talk about when the time seems right. :) It’s technically possible to read the configurations for the encrypted planes when you’re in the sim, because they’re in plain text within the VFS. But I’ve tried to create a mod that changes the configurations and I’ve been unable to get it working. I think a lot of folks would be happy if we could at least mod the premium/deluxe planes.

Only in-game at the moment. I have a number of pilot friends and have some 172 yoke time, but don’t have a license yet myself. Within the sim, as I alluded to above, I really love bush flying – my favorite plane right now is probably the Savage Carbon mod to the Carbon Cub. It’s not a “real” model, but it’s absolutely in line with any number of real world customized bush planes, and it’s a lot of fun to fly. With some practice you can drop it on a postage stamp.

I also really enjoy the Bush League Legends version of the XCub. It was spending so much time in that that made me want to expand past the G1000 and work on improving the G3X, too. It’s not as insane a STOL machine as the Savage Carbon, but it has a decent cruise speed, modern avionics, and can still drop onto dirt strips of just a couple hundred feet.

Outside of those two I really like Carenado’s M20R. I’ve always loved Mooneys, and that one’s a lot of fun. You need to really stick to the numbers when you’re trying to bring it back to earth or it floats forever.

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I think everyone loves the Mooney. I know the patches have been rough on some of Carenado’s additions and I’m hoping they are up to the task of patching them over time. That Mooney is a work of passion, it feels like you’re in one for sure.

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Just caught wind of this via an article and I am soooo excited. Please be good in VR. Please be good in VR.

I’ve been so sad not being excited about playing due to the lack of VR.

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I’ve been wondering if anyone here got into the beta for it. I think the requirements were a WMR VR headset and I think there are a number of folks on the forum with that.

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Spent some time at the weekend doing a few legs of the Patagonian Bush Trip.

It suffers a bit beside the California/Cascades one - there’s not much down there as regards points of interest, so you’re left with long legs, confusing directions (there are only so many synonyms for ‘follow the shoreline’), and nothing to look at except the scenery, which doesn’t look that great from 1,000 feet. It would have been nice if they’d smoothed out some of the worst terrain along these trips.

I’ve also been flying extensively down there in FSE, so I guess the novelty isn’t there for me either.

All that being said, I should be getting to some of the more interesting stuff now (Torres del Paine etc) so we’ll see how it goes.

Thanks to @kaosfere above for pointing out some interesting mods to check out.

Speaking of mods, someone has made a ‘Bush Trip Generator’, where you enter your waypoints and it generates the bush trip for you. I haven’t checked this out yet but it’s made by one of the first guys to decipher how to make these trips yourself, so should be solid.

I’m half considering doing a southwest U.S. bush trip mod given that they’ve updated the scenery now; it’ll be January at least before I’m in a position to do that though.