Rock8man
1764
This is in real life, right? You can’t walk your dog in Flight Simulator (yet) can you?
Skipper
1766
That dog is waaaay cooler than I ever will be.
And no, @Rock8man, the dog mod is not available, yet.
Dejin
1767
Well SeedyL (aka MarchHare formerly of the Qt3 SWTOR guild) does fly with his dog on his MSFS Streams. He’s also a real pilot and gives pointers on his streams.
Skipper
1768
Putting quite a few hours into aircraft I haven’t been in much.
Diamond DA62: Seemed okay at first, then I hit autopilot. It is completely hosed right now, avoid unless you want to fly into the sun.
Beechcraft King Air 350: Awesome and extremely fast medium mover plane. I flew one cross country today and enjoyed it. The only thing I couldn’t figure out was how to manually enter a flight plan or change a flight plan after initiating from the main menu. I’m sure there is a way, I just have no clue what I’m missing in-game.
Socata TBM 930: Man I love this thing. Fast, pretty, nimble, can still carry a bit of weight and passengers, and hands down the best FMS system I’ve used so far. I love having actual letters I can press when making or changing a flight plan. I did have a few warning lights I’ve had to figure out, thanks for linking the POH above, @Matt_W. I’m about 3/4 of the way from Oklahoma to North Carolina right now in one, making pickups and drop offs along the way.
Matt_W
1769
We should work on buying one for the group!
Skipper
1770
Working on it! Sitting at close to 300K right now. Just had a flight from New Orleans to Tampa, now headed up to Jacksonville and see what I can find from there. What a fun aircraft though, it’s no wonder they seem to be highlighting it on so many ads.
Matt_W
1771
Flying from Namibia east 600nm across South Africa
Spock
1772
Glorious pictures of Africa, @Matt_W!
@Skipper I haven’t noticed any memory problems, but then I almost never speed up simulation time. I might try it on my next flight just to see what happens. How do you monitor memory usage – just Task Manager (in Windows 10)?
I reluctantly subscribed to OnAir for 3 months because…well because I had rented an aircraft and was worried my company would go bankrupt if I didn’t extend my sub and finish my missions! I actually did run out of money – a negative balance – but the game let me continue, and I’m back up to a magnificent sum of $4,600. This is on Stratus. One round trip between Oahu and Kau’ai should put me over $10,000, and earn me level 3, at which point I’ll have to decide on where to put in a new skill point. Progress is hard, which makes it satisfying.
Today I flew along the coast of Oahu, VFR all the way.
Spock
1773
@Dejin I watched some of that fellow’s “Battle of Britain” video and found it entertaining. Nice pilot outfit he’s wearing! But I was a bit confused about the WW2 references while he was flying with a glass cockpit, lol. I guess I need to watch more to understand what’s going on.
Dejin
1774
He was just flying a route to tour WW2 landmarks. On Saturday night streams he usually tries to get a guest in to talk about either the route or aviation. So last week for example, he had an executive from the De Havilland aircraft company. This week his father who is an amateur historian on the Battle of Britain came along for commentary (both his grandparents flew during WW2, IIRC one for the RAF and one for the Canadian Air Force). His other weekly stream is just flying around for fun with his Shiba Inu as copilot.
I believe this week’s stream started at Dunkirk, then flew across the channel, did some touch and goes at various airfields used during the Battle of Britain, then crossed the channel again and overflew the D-Day beaches.
Spock
1775
Ah, very cool! I look forward to watching more. Those sound like fun flights.
Not sure yet. I’m moving through it slowly. I’m likely to sub for just a month if I can. I’d still like to try FSEconomy.
Also, my TrackIR arrived today. It is great. It’s a night and day difference than using my phone for head tracking.
Hey everyone! Thanks to @Dejin for linking to my Twitch stream, and thanks to @Spock for the interest in checking out the show.
As ydejin noted, I do two weekly streams. On Thursdays (8pm ET / 5pm PT), I host a show called “Dog Is My Co-Pilot” where my Shiba Inu and I do relatively short sightseeing tours of destinations suggested by viewers in Twitch chat. On Saturdays (also at 8pm ET / 5pm PT), we do a more organized/formal stream called “Saturday Night’s Alright For Flighting” where we fly a planned itinerary lasting about three hours. This show is combination of flight sim tutorial, aviation Q&A, travel/food/culture/history tour, and interviews with special guests. I had an aerospace engineer and aviation industry executive on the show a few weeks ago, and we’re lining up a real-life air traffic controller to join us on a future stream (just trying to lock down a date). My wife co-hosts the stream with me in the role of “chief flight attendant”, complete with pre-flight safety briefing and beverage service when we reach cruising altitude. She serves a different drink each week that is chosen thematically based on our destination. For example, since last week’s show was a Battle of Britain historical tour, she served Spitfire Ale. The week before, we visited the Greek islands, so the drink of the week was ouzo. I post each week’s featured drink a few days in advance on my Twitter page if you want to join along with the beverage service. :)
We’re super new to Twitch streaming, having only started about five weeks ago, but we’re having an incredible amount of fun with it so far. As ydejin mentioned, I’m a real-life pilot and experienced world traveler, so doing a stream like this really fills a niche for me. Hopefully I’ll see a few folks from Qt3 tuning in on future streams at https://twitch.tv/SeedyL (past episodes are also saved at that link).
Spock
1778
Thanks for posting about your stream, @MarchHare! I look forward to watching a lot more of it. It’s a terrific idea!
Skipper
1779
Holy cow, a blast from the past. Thanks for linking his twitch channel!
Will do what I can to tune in. Also, NICE choice on ouzo! Your wife is a keeper! (I’m biased, I have Greek friends that have their own label.)
I use a combination of hwinfo program and a Stream Deck plugin which puts info from that onto my Stream Deck button I made for it. You could just as easily post it to screen, or alt-tab to check it, etc.
The Stream Deck plugin for those interested:
EDIT: Here is my latest ACTUAL Stream Deck profile using the 32-key hardware:
This is a mix of non-op top line, direct links to applications on the second line with a clock, recording and system monitoring on the third line, and all MSFS sub-menus on the fourth line that were made by someone else on reddit. Each of those links to a sub-menu with additional commands, mostly they link to in-game keybindings
Skipper
1780
Tried the OnAir demo tonight. It’s a nicely made GUI, but my results below.
I tired the Cumulus (easy) server to start. I picked the tutorial. I picked a good airport based on what you guys have mentioned. My first flight was KATL to KWRB. Not much is mentioned here during the tutorial, no on-screen notes, I flailed around a bit then got into my flight.
The flight had no fuel. There was no note here to let me know to fuel up, nor how much. I mean I would have done this but assumed … I guess never assume with OnAir. Also during flight, my AP just went completely bonkers and OnAir proceeded to give me notifications repeatedly of failures, which I’m assuming would be lost points. Since I ran out of fuel I bailed out.
Take two. I successfully flew the route. Problem is, OnAir didn’t tell me to load the “cargo” for the flight. Sooooo, nada. I’m sitting here now debating trying this tomorrow versus tonight. Not liking the fact it -seems- very cool and polished, but fails repeatedly during a tutorial? The heck.
Don’t get me wrong, FSE has NO TUTORIAL. That being said, it’s intuitive in its own way, I guess. Less involved, but easier. I want to like OnAir and I’ll try again tomorrow. Still, not a good start.
Matt_W
1781
On Cumulus, they give you a Cessna to start, which makes it less important where you base yourself. You can always use your own aircraft.
The UI is slick looking, but obtuse. Click the little Live Operations icon to go to your job map. Your aircraft should be listed on the left. Assuming your aircraft is at the same location as a pending job, click the little “Prepare the next flight” icon on your aircraft. This will take you to the fuel and cargo loading screen. Down at the bottom left of the screen, you can see the range of the aircraft with the current fuel load. You can increase the fuel at the upper left. In the center screen you’ll see any cargo you’ve got pending at the current airport under “Cargos”. You have to click the little checkbox to the right of the cargo to tell it you want it loaded. Then click the “Confirm and Go Fly Now” button. Cargo loading will take a little bit of real time. You have to enter the destination airport in box 2. (Have fun finding that. It’s not listed on the job screen. That’s the biggest annoyance of the interface for my money.) Then click the “Go to Flight Tracking Page” button in box 4. That’s when you set up the simulator and fly your flight.
Easy! /s
Skipper
1782
Via the Xbox thread, this is very interesting on the first world update. Seems like we will be getting new photogrammetry cities (and landmarks) after all.
