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On 5/11/2024 at 8:07 AM, Cas141 said:

Everyone is entitled to their preference, but after all this time, to be flying FSX without experiencing Trackir and 3d cockpits, baffles me.

 

Not everyone wants to "fly a camera" in 3D cockpits nor have to wear odd headgear.  For many, for me, not enjoyable. While I feel some guilt when I disable 3D cockpits to avoid wasted RAM, knowing all the work that goes into them, I enjoy 2D cockpits on virtually all my favorite aircraft models.

11 hours ago, igami said:

I wonder how long this topic will be.
Just fly the one which you prefer.
Thats all
And if want to  quit and move others , no need to say.

 

No need to say?

 

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It's not the tech specs that make FS2020 of little use for me. It's the lack of military aircraft and military airbase scenery for FS2020. Compared to the hundreds of fine mil aircraft in FSX and other sims, MSFS is greatly lacking, sorry to say.

 

On 1/23/2024 at 1:50 PM, jgf said:

... everyone will soon forget.

 

Boeing shareholders won't forget as other airlines start to rethink and cancel B737 orders. Funny thing, notice that you don't see what used to be common on here, that "If it ain't Boeing, I ain't going" ditty. They've tainted their brand. 

7 hours ago, tiger1962 said:

It's literally money for nothing - ...

 

Well, not everyone would agree with Edge browser not having penalties and a dark side ... especially after Microsoft's bullying tactics to get it accepted, like forcing hyperlinks to only open in Edge, grabbing pdf extensions, etc. The freebies you mention are nice, but ... Personally, I'm starting to use Chromium more and more, the de-Googled open source browser on which Chrome and Edge are based. No automatic updates, but not loaded with junk that I don't want in my browser. And I think that's a benefit.

 

From How To Geek: It's Time to Stop Using Microsoft Edge

On 7/11/2023 at 12:24 PM, Cas141 said:

It is an oldish computer ,:I.e made when XP was preferred to ME

 

 

Like all machines, computers don't last forever. If that computer is, what, past 9, 10 years old, best to replace it and not waste your time and effort. With the global glut of RAM and storage devices, it's a good time to look for a bargain deal and buy a replacement. Prices are low right now, this summer of 2023, lots of sales and discounts. After any efforts to revive that computer, you're still going to have an old computer that will be prone to failure when the motherboard or power supply peters out. And you'll be pleasantly surprised at the performance boost from moving to some new hardware technology. Do yourself a favor and don't let your old computer become a money pit or a time sink.

 

One of the most rewarding parts of my job is when I get to make older computers run well by upgrades, adding SSDs, RAM, etc., But there comes a point when computers get so old that they need to be decommissioned, put out of service and retired. The Dells I work with are, with rare exceptions, reliable workhorses.  But when they entire what I call the "driving on bald tires" stage, it's time to replace, not extend their use.

Might help to mention what aircraft you're referring to, what you've tested?

 

On 6/29/2023 at 4:25 PM, Stormy said:

... I cannot for the life of me remember what I did to fix it.

 

Sorry I can't offer any help with your T-37, am not a MSFS flyer. In this hobby, whatever the simulator, keeping a simple log with Notepad when you make modifications and changes to aircraft, scenery, the sim, is a great help. I'm on my third FSX-CHANGES log, they're searchable, and I can go back and review fix procedures I've done in the past when the old gray matter cannot remember. It's a good habit to adopt, especially now that it seems so many forums - like this one, sorry to say - just make it more and more difficult to search and find information from way back when. Computers are great for storing information, but I think many of us overlook simple ways to keep and use our personal flightsim information as we advance through the hobby.

In Windows 10, go to Control Panel, Turn Features On\Off, and see if all versions of .NET are checked, activated, especially .NET 3.5 - often it is NOT on - and it emulates the older release versions. As Jorgen said, the repair tool will only repair what you have already - and the problem program may be dependent on some older version of .NET. Does the readme or installation guide (if any) that came with the program show what is required to run it? Better check and see.

 

Truly a beautiful airliner. Thanks for sharing this wonderful history.

 

7 hours ago, KiloWatt said:

Other than that, I will always, 100% of the time, guaranteed, help if i can.

LOL - Other than that, having to deal with all kinds of people? Well, that's what happens in forums, all kinds of people coming together, communicating in their own ways, some more effectively and graciously than others, don't you know. Otherwise, it's not really a forum.

6 hours ago, YankydoodleDandy said:

Hi folks,

I hope people here don't mind this question, but I recently acquired the book: Microsoft Flight Simulator X For Pilots Real World Training by Jeff van West and Kevin Lane-Cummings. 

 

I know the book is geared towards MFS X, but will it work with MSFS 2020 ?

 

Thanks for any thoughts.

While the training exercises in that most excellent book are great to learn pilot technique and airmanship, it's not going to properly reference the differences between the two very different flight simulator programs.

13 hours ago, avallillo said:

For the first part of the video, "Linda" sounds like her real name should be Svetlana!  An Aeroflot copilot. 

 

She would be a rare bird. Less than 2% of Aeroflot pilots are female. I used to fly on Aeroflot often, back before the troubles. Never-ever saw a lady Aeroflot pilot.

 

I've always considered and said it before, our great flight simulators aren't very good human simulators. The Max Headroom-like pilot figures are never to my liking. Simulate the other guy's procedures but I don't want the too often creepy-looking humanoid in the planes that I fly.

13 hours ago, snave said:

I was appalled, not entertained. S'not even funny!

Someone needs to sack the `technical experts`...

 

Oh, please. Do like dear old mother-in-law used to say, and repeat: "It's only a movie. It's only a movie." And the honorable Zip is quite right. They're made for entertainment, not accuracy of any believability. Not made for aviation enthusiasts. The only movie I can remember that could be said to have any real technical expertise about flight (space flight, that is) would have been Christopher Nolan's 2014 film Interstellar, how general relativity really would work. But I think even that movie went off the rails in the end, the final scenes.

 

2 hours ago, chicagorandy said:

Thankfully in the free market world economyz ... No need to report back here why you aren't going to join the ranks ...

 

There's some kind of contradiction there. This IS a forum and I wouldn't want it to just be happy talk and feel-good spin. The free part, in my mind, let's us be free to discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly ... and THE BUGS, doesn't it? I know that I learn things I didn't know from the critics, and I use my own filters when someone goes tin-foil hat, off the rails about Microsoft. payware, or whatever. I haven't invested in any MSFS due to its need for some essential bug fixes and repairs, but I can appreciate the dazzling eye-candy graphics, not to mention my own interest getting boosted by the recent AN-225 release, plus the Concorde. But, so far, I've voted with my feet, not gone there, no sale. But, hey, love those MSFS screen shots!

Do human beings ever make mistakes? Of course they do, no matter how much care and diligence. And it's true in computer programming like anything else made by humans. No, not all add-ons are going to be bug free. 

Probably better to post things like this in The Outer Marker? Good that you're excited about the upcoming air show but that's not why people come visit the screenshot forum, is it?

Parked too long in a harsh climate, two 10-year-old Norwegian Air Shuttle Dreamliners get the chop ... worth more as spare parts.

 

From CNN:

 

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/10-year-old-boeing-787s-scrapped/index.html

 

16 hours ago, jgf said:

" ...but looking at Linux as an alternative."

People have been saying that for decades and it rarely works out, desktop Linux versions never gaining more than a few meager percentage points of users compared to Windows and even the more-popular-than-Linux MacOS. Linux is great for grandma, who only checks email and watches funny cat videos on YouTube. And it's of value if you have real tech savvy and the time needed to do lots of effort to make it perform to your liking.

 

As a Linux user, I can tell you that the old saying "Linux is free only if you don't value your time" is very true. I like Linux, run Ubuntu and Ubuntu Budgie, but I recognize its many limitations and shortcomings. Here at home I run Linux on my living room media pc (only browsers for streaming and VLC for music and optical disk playback) and I run Linux with the Samba service on an older Dell pc to emulate a Windows file server with RAID-protected hard drives. But it would never suffice as my daily driver pc nor for my hobby interests, including flight sims. Linux is powerful but crude compared to Windows, and anyone who starts blabbering about the upcoming "Year of Linux" is a comedian. That's been heard for decades now and is never going to happen. For those of us who work in IT for a living, "The Year of Linux" is considered a joke, a laughable notion that it can ever compete head to head with Windows on the desktop. Would have happened, by now, you think, back when turkey Windows 8 so badly shamed Microsoft? But desktop Linux use barely budged. Though I do wonder if there may be some small boost in interest in Linux when Windows 10 reaches end-of-support, come October 2025, for all the running computers that aren't on Microsoft's Windows 11 compatibility list, the ones that have burned-in-the-silicon security flaws and such.

 

It's very effortless to carp about Microsoft and Windows, but give it due credit. Windows has the largest library of software in history, with plenty of free and open source stuff, too, unlike the Apple world. And we rarely give credit to Windows for its hardware support, being able to run on many thousands of different types of computers with thousands of peripherals. You don't have that in Linux, I know from experience. Microsoft gaming on Linux ... problematic in the past, present and, I expect, the future, too. I too don't like Microsoft's software bullying of late, how they obnoxiously push the Edge browser and now, at work, making Microsoft Teams the most reviled software program since Lotus Notes. Windows 11 is a hot mess, a tainted brand now, following the every-other-Windows-is-bad release tradition. Its low adoption rate reflects that ugly truth. There's a purported Windows 12 coming next year that, maybe, will address Windows 11's design and functional stupidities, so maybe Microsoft will get it right next time. But I could never give up my Windows hobby pc or Microsoft's flight simulators. They work and they're great!

How many in the world? No way. Russia, North Korea, China - never, ever going to report any meaningful numbers of aircraft they have or had. Forget it. Roll some dice and multiply by a factor for a random guess, just as meaningless. No way to know.

Southwest Airlines Announcement - from Saturday Night Live ... A bit of truth in this skit, more than we might dare to admit, sad to say ... but very funny to watch.

 

Heartbreaking ... a sad loss. I'll say a prayer for a "safe flight home" for those who perished. Latest report says 6 have died.

 

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/13/us/dallas-air-show-collision-sunday/index.html

 

From CNN:

 

Two World War II-era military planes collided in mid-air and crashed at Dallas Executive Airport during an airshow Saturday afternoon, killing at least two people onboard, officials said.

 

More than 40 fire rescue units responded to the scene after the two vintage planes – a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and a Bell P-63 Kingcobra – went down during the Wings Over Dallas airshow.

 

From AP News:

 

Some recent fatal crashes involving vintage aircraft

Wonder why they are still selling the disk version then?

 

Col.

 

Hard to understand why. Most newer prebuilt pc's don't even have optical drives. High-capacity USB thumb drives and the Internet have, indeed, made CDs and DVDs obsolete tech unless you choose to use old school methods. I still purchase the occasional music CD - rare and odd music - but soon rip it soon as it arrives, back up the rip files, then put away the disk for safekeeping. And no use for software disks in many years, except for my FSX Gold Edition disks, when I redid my sim rig last Christmas.

Better to have posted this in the PC SOFTWARE TECH forum since your question has nothing to do directly with Microsoft Flight Simulator.

 

EASSO's Disk Genius program works well. I've used the free version many times with zero problems. And it's one of the few utilities that can even clone a larger system drive to a smaller volume. If you connect the new drive to your present system, you can do a "hot" clone process with Disk Genius; it uses Windows Shadow Copy tech to do it.

 

https://www.diskgenius.com/how-to/how-to-clone-laptop-hard-drive-to-ssd.php

 

 

Clonezilla is another but that requires much more tech savvy, but works well when cloning a smaller drive to a larger one. The reverse process, cloning a larger drive to a smaller one, hit-and-miss with SSD drives, and I wouldn't recommend it for that. A new version was released just a few days ago. Gratitude to the taxpayers of Taiwan for Clonezilla that comes from their Supercomputing Center. And Clonezilla requires creating a bootable USB drive or burn its ISO image file to make a bootable CD.

 

https://clonezilla.org/

 

The last time I used Macrium, it required submitting too much information to get a download link - including an email address. But that was some years ago. Maybe their newer free stuff isn't so intrusive.

Camil's email is included, in the clear, in the readme.txt files of his models, so probably no need to make this public query, is there? Maybe better to ask in private, I would think, not put him on the spot. I enjoy his FSX models, too, but often have had to attempt tweaks on the engines' performance. And my kudos to him, too, for including 2D wide panels, a preference for many of us who soldier on with FSX.