jfitler

I've tried that (a couple of times). No luck.

I have noticed that it will go through the "searching for updates" screen each time it starts, but for me it doesn't appear to find anything. Is 1.9.4 even released yet? When I check Content Manager, I see the Core Content always listed at the top, with a note saying "relaunch the game to update". It seems to imply that there is an update ready to install. I have restarted numerous times and it is still there. It doesn't let you check the box associated with it, either. Perhaps this is only possible when an update is actually ready?

Some additional info in regards to this issue... - Verified that there is a key assigned on the keyboard to open ATC window - there is and it does nothing - I can enable the AI copilot to handle ATC communications. It works fine but again, no visible ATC window.

I have been getting settled in with MSFS over the last week and getting familiar with "the new normal", as they say. One thing did just come out of nowhere, though. I was starting up an IFR flight normally, went to pull up the on-screen icons to open the ATC window, and the ATC icon (the control tower) wasn't there. Also, the "ATC" switch under the Settings icon was not only off, but greyed out as well. All setup settings were the same and I can hear live ATC message traffic going on all around me. I just have no way to open the window to get in on the conversation. I'm baffled. Anyone else ever have this issue?

That could be an amusing diversion to the rollout frustrations with MSFS... sort of an informal contest... "Most ridiculous MSFS-assigned username" I am sure there are some more winners out there! :) :) :)

Sorry - my bad! I did locate how to do this. What was throwing me was that I didn't realize that I had originally installed MSFS using my wife's MS account, which was linked to my email. Kinda messy. All is fixed now and I am free of "TenableFlower" as a username! Thanks for the responses nonetheless!

Still searching on how to change the arbitrarily assigned pilot name during the initial MSFS install. I have seen comments indicating that this is somehow tied to your "X-Box gamertag", which they appear to assume everyone has. I can find no connection to names associated with X-box to the one assigned in MSFS. Though overall this is not a big deal given the scope of my primary concerns with the release, I would still like to change it because the one that I wound up with is especially ridiculous. Anyone out there have any luck with this issue? Thanks in advance.

I'm a long time simmer, dating back to MSFS's genesis - Bruce Artwick's Sublogic A2FS1 in 1977 on an Apple II, so I've got to get in my two cents worth. I have spent the last week getting familiarized with MSFS and I am becoming concerned that, while unquestionably an impressive eye candy masterpiece, the sim has come at the cost of some serious functionality and feature issues and oversights. No doubt driven by an immovable release date set by the product managers and bean counters. I know no product launch is without bugs, I would just think that some of these would be so obvious... After all, it's FLIGHT simulator, not a SCENERY simulator. So here's my gripe list to-date... (and I apologize in advance for any of these that may in fact be oversights or misunderstandings on my part) NAV/GPS operation w/autopilot never seems to work the same way twice. It seems to be anybody's guess if the AP will track in NAV mode with an IFR flight plan. Same plane, same settings and setup - sometimes it will, sometimes not. Really frustrating. Additionally, I have never been able to even get the AP to engage on the TBM turboprop. "Saved" flights seemed to be stripped of all navigation/AP settings when reloaded. Disengaging AP in flight kicks a/c into an out of control spin about half the time. Exiting the "active pause" feature puts the A/C into an out of control spin (even in autopilot), or, at the very least, a very unstable state for a period of time. Much development time (and money) was obviously saved in going with text-to-speech ATC (as opposed to Voicepacks), but it is a step backwards in terms of realism, clarity and accuracy. When using the pushback tug on the A320, the plane's parking brakes cannot be released. The idiotically large mouse-over pop-ups (which cannot be turned off, as far as I can tell) are distracting and obscure way too much of the panel when trying to click tiny panel controls, such as those on the autopilot (and lots of fun in turbulence). And this is with the "smallest" font setting available (18pt). Of less importance but an additional annoyance nonetheless... I cannot find a way to change the pilot name assigned by MS when the program was purchased, downloaded and installed. I didn't have an option at anytime to create or select my own. The only help that I can find on-line usually begins with "... Hey, just go into your X-Box account and..." I do NOT have an X-Box account, an X-Box or anything at all to do with X-Box. Again, just my two cents...