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You are in for a wonderful experience, but it will take patience -- a lot of it -- to gain familiarity with the program and to develop your flying skills over time. MSFS is considerably more challenging to use than other flight sim programs, but in my opinion delivers much more realism and feeling of immersion approaching real flight. Take it slowly, and get the feel of flying small planes such as the Cubs before you even think about driving the heavier stuff. To repeat: patience is the watchword. Welcome to the club!

The A320-NX Development version works! Thanks to Tim Wright for this information.

Tried it again (experimental NX). Same result -- panel screens are dark for all A32 versions as long as NX is in Community.

I tried this yesterday, and found that the panel screens are dark not only in the NX, but also in the A320 stock version. When I remove the NX from Community folder, the screens work in the stock plane. I can try the experimental again -- sometimes things change mysteriously in a day!

Yes, it's a known problem which is discussed in another thread (see below). Some of us find that only the stock A320 has a working panel, and then only if the A320N is absent from the Community folder.

Since the latest update, having any version of the A320NX, including the experimental version, in my Community folder kills the instrument panel screens; only the unmodified stock version works for me. I expect this will be fixed at some point. Meanwhile In the larger post-update scheme of things, this is a minor issue for sure. The drop in performance for many folks is a surely much bigger problem.

Here is my story to add to the confusion. The panel in my stock A320 is normal (functional and all screens working), but not so in any version of the A320NX -- the panel screens are dark. Furthermore, if the NX is present in the Community folder, then even the stock A320 has dark screens! If anyone can make sense of this I will be grateful (and impressed).

Use the drone camera. Takes a bit of study to learn how to use it, but well worth the time.

Mine is very similar: Alienware Aurora R11, i7-10700F, 32 GB, RTX 2080 Super, purchased last August. It handles MSFS like a charm. Yours should do the same. 16 GB should work well most of the time, but at some point down the road you might want to go to 32 GB. Happy flying!

Tired of flying over real-world scenery after all these decades of waiting, and believing I would never live long enough to see it? Not a chance! I have completed a number of terrific bush trips and am currently flying in New Zealand and being blown away by it, all the more so because I have been there in real life and the immersion experience in MSFS is almost indescribable. Sorry, I was a great fan of FS9 and FSX but this is a whole new dimension. Tired, shmired!

Yes, detail is lacking in non-crafted airports. However, NY City looks normal to me.

Interesting irony here ...

Navigation is easy with Little Nav Map, which works well with MSFS. In fact, LNM can access Google Maps. You need to check out MSFS and its capabilities more carefully. It will be well worth your time.

Why would you want to do this? MSFS gives you far greater flexibility for exploring the planet in 3 dimensions.

Thanks for this! Your screen shots ought to dispose of the nonsense about clouds in MSFS once and for all. But it won't, of course; some folks are having too much fun stirring the pot. C'est la vie.

What I think is going on is this. To me, and I gather many others, MSFS has clearly inaugurated a whole new era of flight simulation. For various reasons, there are thoe who deny this, some of whom are quite vocal and persistent. One individual on this forum even asserts that FS9 -- which is now old enough to vote --is the greatest sim ever invented. Is he pulling our legs? Maybe -- who knows? But personally, I am moving on. Today I completed the 3rd leg of a bush tour of the west coasts of England, Wales, and Scotland that is so far beyond anything I ever experienced in FSX or any other sim, that I can hardly find words to describe it. To me, this is the reality of the situation, and it just totally eclipses all the noise from the peanut gallery. Moving on, indeed.

Yes, consistently artificial. ALL of the scenery in FS9 and FSX is rendered as an approximation to the real thing. This was great for its time, and If that's good enough for you, fine -- I want everybody to have a sim they enjoy. For me, the ultra-realistic MSFS scenery, weather, and feel of flying blows everything before it out of the water -- not even close. I am however puzzled by your thing with the clouds in MSFS, which you have raised several times in the past and which to me are the closest I have seen to real clouds in any sim. This is "a puzzlement" as they say in Gilbert and Sullivan.

It's not clear from the original post whether Apollo has done much VFR flying in small planes. If not, my suggestion is to first acquire experience in hand-flying -- forget AP and airliners for now -- and get to really enjoy what MSFS has to offer. There are many bush flights that are amazing, some breathtaking, and easy to fly. Apollo, if you are having problems even in small planes without AP, then there is a more basic issue to deal with, either in your system or your use of it.

Amen to this. I am one of those geezers who started with FS II in the early 80's (I imagine younger simmers are tired of hearing that phrase!), and most recently enjoyed FSX with multiple enhancements for almost 15 years, but have never enjoyed a level of satisfaction remotely close to what MSFS now provides. As we all know, this sim, like its predecessors, is not without its flaws and growing pains, and I am sympathetic to those experiencing problems with it. Nevertheless it has been painful to read, in this and other forums, diatribes and tantrums directed at MSFS with a level of vitriol that I find hard to believe, and that go beyond the limits of civilized discourse. This thread is a great counter to that unpleasantness. Thanks a bunch!

And MY point is that you can tell your story without the text equivalent of a rolling-on-the-floor-and-screaming tantrum. It will certainly be more likely to attract sympathizers if you simply follow normal conventions of decorum, maturity, and civility. But, your choice.

Sigh -- just when I thought the ranters and ravers with their UPPER-CASE and BOLDFACE tirades had disappeared, or at least had gone into hibernation. How naive I was! Yes, many of us do actually fly MSFS, and have a ball doing it. I just completed a fantastic two-week trip across the USA in a Cub -- and to think I did it in a TOY!

Looks good, but I will wait until they are on sale!

In that case, why stop at a mere $4800? How about $10,000 -- that should buy a really nice computer!