That was Angarsk btw, a very interesting city. I wonder if it accidentally evolved the way it did with large green spaces right in the middle of the city? Anyway, very interesting to fly through.
And then I finally got to Irkutsk, which is gorgeous.
Pedro
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Nice. Making good progress over there. At least Russia looks fairly normal; I did a couple of flights over China and it looked pretty terrible, but I need to explore further to see if thatâs just a badly rendered area.
Got to do a few flights yesterday with the new stick and throttle, remapped a couple of buttons etc. It feels a little bit more immediate, I guess? Definitely there were times when I was going, this is great, but I havenât pinned down what that is yet.
One disappointment is the trim wheel on the throttle is ridiculously sensitive - to the point that I had to turn it off because every time I put my hand on the throttle I would nudge the wheel and the plane would point straight up into the air. I havenât identified if I can alter that sensitivity yet. I really only bought the throttle because of the trim wheel :P
But good overall. Itâs the way to go! Will have to start thinking about VR sometime down the line, like @schurem says :)
I have the exact opposite problem. Iâd love to use the wheel on my X52 throttle but I have to spin it dozens of times per one percent of trim, itâs totally unusable. I didnât see any way of adjusting the sensitivity. So Iâm forced to use a hat switch which really isnât ideal at all.
Pedro
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Thatâs a pain! There is some configuration software with the Thrustmaster and Iâm hoping I can do something in there, but at the same time itâs a faff.
I never actually thought of trying the wheels, which I now use for ALT and VS, but I had all sorts of issues when I had trim bound to various other rotational axes on the throttle. It couldnât seem to remember the neutral setting, so often it would go crazy until I did a full range calibration in flight. I donât think I have anything bound to trim at the moment, which isnât ideal, but not such a huge issue in autopilot planes. Now Iâve got the rest of my controls settled I might have another go at rebinding trim.
If yâall will forgive me a little bit of self-promotion, we were guests again on todayâs Developer Q&A, and Matt revealed that weâve been working on a completely new, ground-up simulation of the G1000 NXi. Itâs going to include a further evolution of the flight plan manager we have in our CJ4, and bring to the stock systems features including procedure turns, DME arcs, RF legs, holds, manual terminations, coupled VNAV and full RNAV simulations.
Itâll be a drop-in replacement for the G1000 in the current base game, and will serve as the testbed for bringing this and other functionality to everything else in the sim, too.
Weâve released a tiny little teaser which shows the work-in-progress system flying a few of the new leg types. Weâre hoping to have a longer demo video out with a more comprehensive walk-through some time in the coming weeks.
That is all! 8D
Editer
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Oh, that looks super cool! Soooo glad they pulled you guys in as official help.
Never hesitate to promote the cool stuff yâall are up to. Gonna have to watch the Dev Q&A recording!
Not to downplay that great news, I have to say the thing I was most excited about from the Q&A was the acknowledgement of the lack of time acceleration display. Hopefully it will find its way into the next sim update.
Pedro
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Very nice, Kaosfere!
Edit: Iâve fallen back into my old ways very quickly in FSEconomy. I went and bought three 2-lotters in the foothills of the Himalayas todayâŚand borrowed 150K from the group fund to do it - will pay that back asap guys.
At the moment they all point to Delhi, which is fine. There was a Citation parked up at one of them, but Iâd say itâs in demand for rental so I canât rely on that. I guess another people carrier will be called for.
It was a pleasant surprise flying the CJ4; very different instruments. I havenât remapped the screenshot camera controls yet :P
Editer
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If this forum had Likes I wouldnât have to post just to say âFor the love of Tom, me too!â
Pedro
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PS I also stocked up the S.A. network on FSE so there are supplies for 2+ months
Iâm popping back in after a break as well and want to congratulate @IkeVandergraaf on his solo. Thatâs a defining moment! I put in about 20 hours after my solo before I faded out. I was in high school though and the challenges of being dedicated to something at that age were harder on me. Keep at it. If you donât mind me asking, how much tech are you using in your rentals? Do any have the full Garmin suites we see in game or are you standard gauges with not much in the way of GPS, etc?
@Pedro I have the same throttle and flight stick combo and love it. Things I did were disable the trottle on the flight stick, as I bumped it a lot and itâs not really needed with a separate throttle. To get over the accidental trim knob bumping, I pushed the throttle further left of me on my table, far enough that when I move my hand to it, my pinky doesnât normally touch the knob. Still, having the gear up/down switch nearby means you occasionally run your finger close to the knob. It is very twitchy, but I do still use it in game, especially after using the master on/off for autopilot, which tends to leave trim setting as they were when on autopilot.
Also glad to see you keeping up the group supplies. As my time with Subnautica winds down Iâll be dipping back in to MSFS. I really need to uninstall all my mods and switch over to a mod manager at this point.
Pedro
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The stick and throttle have really given me a new lease of life - well, that and two weeks away from the sim. Iâm really enjoying the effect they are having - you have so much extra control itâs unreal.
Thatâs an idea about the trim wheel :P I havenât missed it so far, as you say, autopilot cures a lot of ills, but when I start back in the vfr planes, it would be nice to have it. Good idea on the stick throttle; it hasnât caused me any issues so far but Iâm not using it so disabling is good.
Iâm sure youâll come back refreshed in time!
I bought the Beech 99 in a sale a while back for 8.99 and just got to try it out. It is a bit basic! But you get on to it, same as everything :)
I noticed there was a major update to the Salty 747 a few weeks ago so Iâm trying it out now. Not bad so far! There are a few little issues, like no lights on the fuel pumps, little things like that. But the main problem with the 747 was it was always unflyable, largely due to autopilot issues, even with the mod. Itâs working fine right now though. Iâm approaching Charles de Gaulles now so will report back when Iâve landed. :)
Edit: Nose went slightly crazy on touchdown, hard to tell if itâs because I havenât flown a Boeing in nearly a year or just the game, but Iâll take it in the circumstances. Nice to be back in my beloved 747!
Editer
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Picked up the JustFlight Turbo Arrow III/IV, as I had the FSX/P3D version and they offered a nice discount. I have the Carenado Arrow, and itâs interesting contrasting them. Carenadoâs looks better (way better inside), but JFâs flight model and systems are definitely better.
Turbo Arrow III:
Pedro
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Very nice, Denny! That monitor of yours is a monster.
I also bought the Turbo Arrow - it was only 11 bucks for me having bought the previous version + points. God help me, I think I might buy Air Hauler 2 today, so I should have held off for more discount points.
I played this right at the start for a couple of hours, donated, and never went back to it. I should check it out to see what has changed, but the missions werenât really doing it for me.
Pedro
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Hah, this seems like fun. You start Career Mode in a C172 and for each aircraft you have to get a cert. to fly that plane. Instructions pop up on screenâŚ
Squeaky bum time:
Youâre graded on the following:
Now to start my career. A minor inconvenience is that you have to manually set up your fuel load and cargo weight in MSFS:
Yeah, for some reason you have to do manual cargo load in NeoFly too, though it does do the fuel for you.
Any more specific Xbox date other than Q2/Q3 2021? Iâve been waiting oh so patiently for this to finally come to the console so I can play it on my XSX. I tried it on my (cough seven year old) PC when it released last September since it was free through Game Pass and, well, yeah, it was beautiful but ran at about 60 seconds a frame. Not ideal to say the least!
