Elvensmith

No I reloaded the flight after saving in mid-air. The autopilot is off (known other issue) but when I engaged it, with NAV mode and GPS selected on the CDI it would not track toward or pick up the course. I tried toggling several times to no avail. Adjusting the heading bug and selecting AP HDG caused the aircraft to crash into the ground.

Sorry but it doesn't Tim. at least not if you resume a flight. I found it would not pick up and track the GPS course and switching to HDG to track the waypoint sent the plane into the ground.

As I explained above, you need to be in the in-game sub screen that allows you to change the sensitivity and deadzones. There is no calibration option prompt but if you physically move the joystick and throttle through its motions, you should see the corresponding blue lines on the screen for each axis move. F11 will save this and you should find the joystick much more responsive in flight.

I have seen a rumour that the update will be 80Gb, in which case Asobo/MS are pretty much re-releasing the whole of the core game. :eek:

Interesting development. Think the biggest issue might be translating the "Acme" FS autopilot as used on 85% of freeware and payware FSX and previous planes, to the new format. It's either going to have to go in as G1000 format or the pseudo FMC of the tubes. It would also be interesting to see how vintage jets such as the 707 and 727 with old style autopilots might convert across.

The autopilot is broken, waiting on Asobo/MS to fix it. Best thing to do if flying GA is follow the waypoints if you have them visible.

The key to discounting will be how much (if anything) Steam take off in the next sale which I believe is usually around US Thanksgiving Day.

I did think afterwards that I might have read "Awaiting Reply" incorrectly and that the issue was waiting reply from them. However I think your assessment is quite correct Gary. In any event I'm sure Asobo and MS know quite nicely what the major bugs are beyond the initial installation glitches. They signed off on releasing it in that state! I'm sure they also have the interns scouring the various forums looking to see what people are saying. Whether and when they intend to address the faults is another matter!

I thought it might be (the end) but now I'm not so sure. I originally uninstalled XP11 to make room for FS2020 but have since reinstalled it. I never took FSX off (though FS9 has gone as not really compatible with Win 10 and 4K graphics). A perusal of the FS2020 forums will reveal more but suffice to say, as presented to us by MS/Asobo in its initial form, FS2020 is little more than a flying game. Nice scenery simulator (if you have the bandwidth to stream the Bing maps) but riddled with niggles and bugs, not all of them small ones. In some ways, we have paid £60 to be early access open beta testers but with the concern as to whether MS will do a Dovetail and not bother with any fixes of substance, while pushing expensive DLC. It could be a while before we get any decent freeware or payware to see if the game is up to being a procedural and study level sim. Unlike FS9 to FSX (or FS2002 into FS9), there is not a long list of aircraft or scenery that can be converted across with a few tweaks. So FSX (and XP11) will remain if you want more than a 40 minute VFR pleasure flight, in a GA aircraft which is just as likely to spin into the ground as bank round a corner, when you move the joystick.

Some of the GA planes are okay but still have issues with autopilot and flight dynamics. The tubes were also featured quite prominently in some of the YT promotional material that was rammed down our throats. Becoming apparent this (at present) is a sightseeing game - load up and fly for 40 mins looking at the scenery, exit then next time go somewhere else, rather than a full on procedural sim.

No wing view, no cabin view. Think it might be like XP where you have to move around the aircraft and save views to a key command, but there's no instant going to a complementary view, just like they missed off an option to remove the cockpit mask (w in legacy FS) so you can get an unobstructed view ahead.

You can. It's just undocumented but I have mentioned on here a few times. Go to the sensitivities screen in Options and adjust your sensitivity and dead zones. then move your joystick and throttle through it's full range of motions. That should make the sim see your new settings. Press F11 to save. Your aircraft will now be more controllable.

Well the XP11 747 is not without its faults, but at least it keeps the flight plan loaded. And the gushing reports from all the testers prior to release and the "Oooo", "Ahhh" videos on YT were telling us the default aircraft were so much better than what we had in previous FS iterations.

When you start to find such basic issues as the autopilot not working properly, being switched off when you resume a flight and in the case of 747 lose your flight plan you have to wonder, 1. What the hell the testers were doing and, 2. Did the developer change a load of stuff in the release version from what the testers actually saw? As I said earlier in the thread I'm not refunding, too late now anyway, but I do feel like I've paid £60 as the admission price to continue testing early access software. Just hope that MS and Asobo are prepared to do their bit in return and not abandon the title as they (in the case of MS) have a track record of not maintaining ongoing updates (Train Simulator got one set of minor bugfixes leaving all the major issues and half finished editor suite untouched).

Actually I slightly retract my comment above after finding reloading a saved flight the AP and AT both off and a tussle to get them back up. Then discovered the FMC not retained the flight plan. See my other post on this but starting to feel I paid £60 to be a beta tester. How on earth were some of these issues not picked up during the Alpha/(brief) Beta periods?

Closer to early access, methinks. Not dissing it as there is huge potential but it does seem each time I fly, discover something else broken. Tonight it was the 747 FMC not retaining your flight plan.

When you submit a report to Zendesk you get an email confirming receipt and a message screen. However on going to review the request in your account, it shows "Awaiting Reply". Er what reply? You haven't asked me anything. Put a short message to that effect in the text box beneath the original, submit and the status then changes to Open. Hey ho...

Loaded up a saved 747 flight from Tenerife to Gatwick. As expected the autopilot and autothrottle were off. After a bit of a wrestle to re-engage I then noticed no track on the CDU and called up the map which also showed nothing. Popped down to the FMC and as suspected the flight plan created on starting the flight has gone - not even the arrival and departure airports listed. This is a major bug as it effectively means you can't fly a long haul IFR flight in several sessions. Surely this must have been picked up in testing? About to log a bug report to Zendesk, unless anyone else has already done so?

I couldn't figure out the difference between the map types, other than both have a very scant display. At present there is no way to extract frequencies or other airport info from the map, these need to be acquired from an external source.

I keep my Ipad handy on the computer desk, just Googled ILS frequencies for Gatwick and get scores of results. (110.90 in point of fact for 08R and 26L). Will probably jot down in a notebook for the most popular airports I use. It is an omission, given the info could be fetched from the map in earlier versions, but hopefully something that will be added.

FSX and previous default autopilot systems were essentially made by Acme... If you want something more akin to that, try the 747.

Doors, hitting, not let, way out comes to mind. There's no doubt the sim has problems and in many aspects is still early access, but there is still plenty of fun to be had. Once the study level aircraft start to come out, watch all these people who post about refunding, slink quietly back in and repay their $60 or £60... :)

Be patient! Study level stuff will come. Just imagine flying over that terrain in a PMDG 737, a Level D 767 or Captain Sim 707.

Personally I would go for a decent desktop rather than a laptop to run this new sim. I engaged Windows Game Mode last night briefly while in mid flight - CPU (I7 4770) was running at 36%, GPU (GTX 1650 4Gb) was on 98%. My RAM (24Gb) was about 40% utilised.

A mantra I always had in previous FS and XP - always save before you start your descent and turning on to final!