HornetAircraft

Howdy all,

 

PMDG just released a great 5 minute video showing off some of the features of the brand new 737

 

 

seems like i'll be needing to get my wallet ready.

So I have used both the alpha and Bravo in FS2004, and with a bit of finesse you can get them working fine for the most part. you can get all 6 axis working by assigning the 4 throttles, flaps axis and speedbrake axis. set the reverser switches to the reverse thrust and so on and so forth. the limitations are that you won't have working LED's, the switch panel won't work, and some of the autopilot won't work. The good news is that the major functionality required can be built through FSUIPC. the trim wheel is not an axis but rather assigned by two buttons, and the gear lever is button controlled as well. the Yoke is a bit easier to assign and you shouldn't have any issues. I used the bravo successfully with the PMDG747/MD-11, Ifly 737/747, CS757, Feelthere ERJ 135 through 195, and LVLD767. while not as polished as say P3D or X-Plane, it can certainly be set up and flyable. just takes a bit of finesse.

Not sure if this has been asked, but have you rebooted at all? For some reason, that works for me when I get caught in a loop.

 

I tried to reboot and it didn't work. I ended up having to completely uninstall the Xbox app, log out of and back into Microsoft store, reinstall the Xbox app and then it worked. No clue why that did it but I won't question it if it works

Hello all. I updated MSFS today and all was well. It made it to the menu and I could fly etc. now I come back to it this evening and start the simulator. To my surprise it gives me a message, saying there is a mandatory update available and I have to update my sim. well that's odd. I installed the update which I thought had already been done hours before and start the sim. Again I receive the same message. a couple more rounds of this and I decide to check my community folder. Well sure enough all the sim's files are gone. only 8gb remain of the previous 190gb install, fresh from a reinstall the last update forced me to do. so I go to add or remove programs and fully uninstall the sim to reinstall it. Done. Back to the Microsoft Store and it says "UPDATE AVAILABLE" it still thinks it's installed on the laptop. so I am stuck in this endless loop with no ability to reinstall the simulator, because every time it starts, it tells me there is an update, and after I install said update, it tells me to install the same dang update. See my headache? I left MSFS and jumped to X-Plane 11 over a month ago for this exact reason. I want to fly my flight simulator, not screw around with a half baked self uninstalling buggy mess MSFS is at the moment.

 

That said I would like to get it reinstalled just to have and test here and there to see if it becomes flyable, but I need help getting it to even install itself. thanks.

 

Disclaimer: I did not participate in the beta so that shouldn't be the issue.

I went to update MSFS and did everything as I should, including moving my addons out of the community folder. the issue started in the Microsoft store when the update hung at 245mb for over 30 minutes. I decided to hit cancel install and restart the PC to try again, when I noticed that I suddenly had almost 200 extra GB of free space. a quick browse through the files confirmed that the Microsoft store just deleted my entire MSFS install... Absolutely lovely.

this is to say that unless you have the CRJ 550-700 that is a big "DONT BUY ME". once you log in and it shows you own the original you get the 20.00 pricetag

I have the Microsoft store version. As for the best route, itll take me at least 12hrs to completely reinstall the sim. I may however have no other choice. won't know till I go home and test around with it. I managed to migrate the sim once, however it was much smaller and not as many updates.

Hello all,

 

I am currently in Tech School with the USAF and left my home with MSFS on a 256gb SSD and 30gbs of free space left on the drive. I am looking to upgrade it to a 2tb m.2 SSD for when I go home for Christmas exodus as I won't be able to update the sim otherwise. My question is this, Can I migrate the sim to the new drive using the add or remove programs feature, or would it be better to simply uninstall the entire sim and reinstall overnight on the new drive? if that turns to be the case, will my joystick configurations be saved or will I need to recreate them? I'll only have my full simulator for just under 2 weeks and i'd like to fly the wings off it in that time and make up for 5 months no simulator, so the less of a pain I can make this the better. any help is appreciated. Thanks! Josh

Let me get this straight. With a co-pilot and full fuel tanks, the C152 can't bring any cargo??

 

hahahahahahaha welcome to the C152. that 1600lb gross weight sneaks up on ya pretty quickly :D I got my Private in a 150 (152 with 10 less hp) and with one of the CFI's I flew with I could only take 13 gallons of fuel. about an hrs worth plus reserves. got checked out in the 172 shortly after with a MTOW of 2400lbs and now fly the 172S with G1000 which have the 180hp lycoming and a MTOW of 2550lbs. goes a bit further but is still a "3 person plus bags" airplane if you want to travel anywhere.

I remember there being this issue. I think in my case it had to do with Flightzone 02 portland messing with the water and turning it into squares.

Maybe learn 3D Modeling in Blender and try to create yourself? It takes a lot to manufacture an airport, as I am learning it to create my local airfield with custom buildings, and so forth. You'll realize there's a lot more to your "simple" request than you realize.

 

I don't have time or patience to learn blender otherwise I would. On top of that I could never reach the level of Detail FlyTampa is able to achieve. I will wait and just pay them my dollars and save myself the time. maybe I'll try to fix up my home airfield by myself.

Not only That, but Boston and Tampa as well. FlyTampa would be perfect for this...

well, I really wonder on what basis most of you are judging how the aircraft fly in MSFS (or in the other sims).

It all looks great, neat and tidy. But it is what it is, a sim.

I am currently getting my PPL rating and honestly... the sim is worthless. Of course you will learn where the nobs are, get to know the aircraft and manipulate stuff. But more than this? completely worthless. I can land a Cessna in the dark with 60 knots of wind and gusts all around in the sim. But real landing is a totally different story. The whole flying experience in the real world is something else.

My point here is that there is no real point in complaining on how "real" the planes are in the sim. They are not. Period.

 

i've currently got over 150hrs in 172s, having flown the L model, N model, R model, and now the G1000 equipped S models. I've also flown the A2A C172 for P3D, the default X-Plane 11 172, and the MSFS 172. I can tell you the short answer that all 3 fly very well. X-Plane handles the flare better but absolutely butchers power changes when you add flaps. MSFS does a much better job at that and same with the A2A. the MSFS and A2A would be a close comparison for Stalls, and MSFS takes the cake in the Spin category. the G1000 systems of X-Plane vs MSFS are not even a comparison, though the G1000nxi from Working Title should put MSFS in the lead if it's done to every detail.

 

in terms of what hardware I fly with, all 3 were flown with the Honeycomb Alpha and Bravo. in the real airplane in the flare, I am almost always using the full elevator. X-Plane replicates this quite well though the ground effect isn't as pronounced. MSFS is a bit too sensitive on the controls and needs a bit of work. A2A is held back by the old and "on the rails" FSX flight model but still does very well.

 

now for some, unless you've flown a lot of different 172s, you cannot base your opinion off of just 1 airplane. the L model I sometimes fly is very light on the controls. and going from the S model to the L is like going from a 172 to a 150 in terms of force needed to move the controls. I myself prefer the heavier S model controls as I can make smoother inputs in IMC.

 

In Conclusion, No sim is "Miles better" than the other. MSFS will certainly improve over time, and X-Plane will need to play some serious catch up. P3D, I have no clue what they will do. LM seems to beat to their own drum and will do whatever they feel like. Every simmer will imagine how a real airplane should feel and base their opinion off that. Every real pilot will try and glorify their favorite sim to say woah is theirs and everything else is worse. I'm sure other RW pilots here will voice their opinions as well.

The only way I can get real-looking waves in MSFS is by cranking the wind up so high that I can't control a plane -- and certainly not a slow, little plane.

 

I think MSFS has the best representation of waves and water of any sim by far, DCS would be 2nd. From all the times I've flown over water in real life, I don't think its all that off. sure maybe a bit less wind to make it choppy would be nice, but it's really close I think. some complained that they can't see cloud reflections in certain scenarios. In all reality, the only time I EVER see the clouds reflecting off water in real life is in perfectly glass water. below is a photo from when we flew through yellowstone to KWYS on the last leg of the day from Ohio. you can easily see where the wind is a lot stronger and where the water is being stirred up. I've only ever seen this in MSFS, no other sim.

I found the first bug as well. Shift+Z does not do anything anymore for me. I can't see my FPS or RAM Usage. time to do some testing with EA and see if it crashes my sim still.

The link expired? thats odd. well here is the link to Active Camera. let me know if it works for you. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HHxx7FZpp1jyJdt1OCntsQ7gpIE1uItD/view?usp=sharing

i've only got 70, but I'm usually limited to evenings so its 2hrs here and there.

here is the link to all of it. its 5.94gb with everything zipped up. Hopefully someone can upload them to the library in the future as a more permanent solution. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BvFZxH5vWVCB9eMOOAW_h1BS0-klA8O0/view?usp=sharing

I have every single one he made (that I know of) downloaded to my drive. If I can get them packaged I will upload them to my drive or something. Below is the list of what I have on my drive. some of it is uploaded to other places, other items are not. let me know if it has what you are looking for.

 

Area Photo Sceneries:

Aspen

Bryce Canyon Natl Park

Buena Vista

Canyonlands Natl North and South

Colorado Springs North and South

Comb Ridge

Denver

Eagle County

Fremont County Colorado

Glacier National Park 2 and 3

Grand Staircase Escalante Natl.

Gunnison Colorado

Kanab Airport Area

Kremmling

Lake Powell-Navajo Mountain

Las Vegas

Leadville

Mesa Verda Natl. Park

Monument Valley - Kayenta

Mormon Range

Page

Park County Colorado

PHNL 2006

Phoenix Addpack

Phoeniz Valley of the Sun

Puerto Rico East and West

Rocky Mountains part 1-3

Sierra Nevada part 1-6

SLI 2006

St George Mesquite

Steamboat Springs

Torrey Box-Death Hollow Wilderness

Vail Copper Mountain

Yellowstone Natl Park

Zion National Park North and South

 

Regional Sceneries:

Burbank

Downtown Long Beach

Downtown Los Angeles

Half Moon Bay (HAF) 2006

Honolulu intl

Kalaeloa Airport

Kaneohe Bay marine airfield

LAX 2006

Long Beach

Los Angeles Intl.

Los Angeles North and South

Luis Munoz Marin intl

Ontario 2006

PHNL East 2007

Phoenix part 1-3

San Fransisco

Santa Ana John Wayne area

Santa Barbara Muni and area

Santa Catalina Island

Santa Monica

SFO2006

Torrance Area

Tuscon Hi Res

Tuscon Photoscenery 1 and 2

Van Nuys

they have been free for a while now. at least since november. I can't remember when they put them out for free.

Hello all! Found this in the darkest corners of YouTube. He walks through all the flows of a CRJ for Skywest, while they may be different for other airlines, these are great at learning the initial flows! they were a bit jumbled up so i've arranged them in order in this playlist. enjoy!

I've not tried it, and I dont know what I think of disabling the FO panels. surely there must be another better way

When referring to ILS, VOR and NDB approaches without the word approach it can make sense more easily because each is the name of a piece of equipment used to make the approach, in addition to being the name of an approach type, while reading about "an RNAV" without the word approach it sounded as if there was a piece of equipment named RNAV being referred to, though there is no such thing, of course, which I thought should have been a GPS reference instead.

 

Of course it didn't help that the first reference I saw was "on autopilot RNAV is supposed to follow the "glide path" " where GPS would be more appropriate (perhaps skewed my "thinking").

 

So I follow the terminology usage much better now that I've mentally put "approach" after each "RNAV." Perhaps I can eventually get used to thinking of that expression the same way as I do "ILS (approach)" or "VOR (approach)."

 

Thanks.

 

Ahh ok. makes sense! yeah I hardly ever say Approach after. Its a habit :p

But in the real world, most of the discussion I've seen in this thread would be discussing GPSs, which are one of several types of devices that provide aRea NAVigation (RNAV), including a course line computer that uses VORs and DMEs, and LORAN, neither of which is common today but were in moderate use well before GPS was available. And these devices DID (do) need expensive ground equipment.

 

I'm not trying to quibble about terminology, but I am trying to get a handle on why everyone in this thread says RNAV instead of GPS when talking about the specific device known as a GPS -- I'm puzzled. I suppose it must be something in this new sim. So why RNAVs, which are not devices at all?

 

I just shot an RNAV today in real life about 5 hours ago. The terms GPS and RNAV are pretty much used interchangeably at this point. We called it a GPS approach on the Unicom, the ATC called an RNAV, and the Jepp Chart and TCP called it an RNAV. They are pretty much strictly GPS approaches now with imaginary waypoints and altitude restrictions the GPS (or MFD computer) computes into a path that is fed to the HSI, CDI, or what we fly with, the PFD.

 

when RNAVs first showed up in the 1970s, they were based off of a VOR, NDB, and an INS or IRS, so you are right there, but now they are mostly just GPS approaches, with some aircraft, including ours not having NDB capability.

a question always wished to ask

 

if RNAV is a poor way of landing compared to ILS, why its so widely used?

 

Any airport that has RNAV also has ILS, when Im planning my flight, i see tons of option for RNAV in arrivals but when I see the ILS I say, to hell with rnav, im going with ILS...simple, gliding cue

 

Other than if the ILS equipment in the ground is INOP, what make airline companies policies, or captains, towers, or better..who determines what landing approach? tower control approach? or rather, when the pilot is programming his FMC at departure, he makes a choice of the star and approach, what makes him prefer a RNAV over an ILS?

 

the reason is because many airports do not have ILS. RNAVS don't need expensive ground based equipment, and are far more common. They are almost as good as an ILS (LPV is better), and the needles stay more constant. ILS is a radio frequency, so the needles can sway slightly like a VOR.