Jim Hall

Is there an advantage going with Steam over buying the 2020 flight simulator?

Perhaps lowering the volume would be good. Also, I tried making a video for the first time and I lost my pointer and the plane got stuck and moved over the ground inclined at 45 deg and never landed. Always something with FSX. Can't wait for MS FSX 2020.

Thanks, Zip. The voice of the instructor in the Learning Center tutorial Missions.

How can I turn off mission audio and how can I adjust volume?

I am looking for someone in Rhode Island who would like to learn or teach MSFSX. Assuming you would have an in-home cockpit as I do. Let's discuss this via email: james.william.hall@gmail.com. As far as I can tell there is only one guy in the State living in Warwick who does FSX and he is not interested.

Yes, I believe so. Drat, I've got another event that weekend. Thanks Mr. Zippy.

I can only assume from the silence that there will be no FltSimCon in 2020 except maybe something online. I wonder why not.

Mr Zippy, Why do you almost always fly IFR? Do you think most IFR rated pilots do the same?

I'll do the same, thank you.

Thank you, Larry.

When and where is the 2020 FlightSimCon?

How do you reconcile the GPS trying to steer the airplane and the ATC trying to steer the airplane on an IFR flight? They fight each other.

Thanks much, Tim. I appreciate your reply.

I fly the FSX Cessna 172 Skyhawk (and learning A2A Cessna 172 which is harder). Is there a better GPS add-on for my usage and would it be easy to install and use? Payware no problem.

Very nice video clip, thank you. Can appreciate tie-downs more now.

Cessna 172 Skyhawk basic. Parked at ramp going through engine start check-list. Start engine. Plane moves backwards slowly. Braked, shut off engine, exited views, nothing worked--just kept drifting backwards. Any ideas would be appreciated.

Many thanks gentlemen for your responses. Now to try them.

When learning on U-Tube on how to fly and navigate the Cessna 172 I notice a vertical line on the dashboard which centers on the runway's centerline. Really nice. However, I don't see it on mine. Are there any insider "tricks" to put one there so when landing I can line up on the vertical line?

Robin, any guestimate as to the cost of MSFS? $300ish?

Thanks for the article, Mark. It and the comments above answer my original question and reveal the loyalty of the user base to FSX and to each other. Do you think the new Microsoft FS will be amiable to existing and future popular add-on's? The supreme and unstoppable demand by the market can be summarized in two words:"More Realism". Closely coupled with that is "easy to install and easy to use". A big untapped part of the potential market for flight simulators are the thousands of potential buyers/users who are afraid of the complexities of purchasing controls, calibrating them, obtaining maintenance for them when they break, balancing frame rates/realism, add-on's, and well, just look at all the threads for these various forums. Hopefully, MS is aware of these obstacles and will jump into the controllers market as well as the rest. A "plug-and-play" cockpit-software combination with annual affordable maintenance contracts that will provide remote solutions for problems and add-on's. The majority of users just want to fly and have no interest in the vehicles that provide for that nor the desire to expend their limited allotted flying time having to learn how to make it all work.

Apologies for a clumsy thread too quickly written. Thank you all for your considered responses. I look forward to the new MSFS.

A Geek Squad guy came to my house recently and found my cockpit instruments and revealed that he was a FSX simmer too though recently inactive. He told me that Microsoft abandoned FS because the “pilots” who flew the jets into the twin towers learned how to fly using the Microsoft simulator with only minimal real time training. If so, what a shame. I can’t imagine the improvements that would have come with FSXX. Is this the explanation for the aging current patchwork packages we have now?

The files were there and so I Googled my problem and read all the responses. There was one that sounded stupid but the guy acknowledged it sounded stupid but it worked for him, and others. In the Sound Settings, set the default speakers on the left side and different speakers on the right for ATC. He said it works--and it did for me too! Good thing I'm not computer savvy enough to think about it or I would be scared.

I am not using headphones for ATC sounds though I would appreciate a recommendation for which ones to buy as my wife lacks appreciation for what she says is "noise". As for my problem stated above, I have checked off "Use pilot voice" and have the same "Default Device" as other sounds and as I said, I can hear the engines and see the text scrolling by but no voices.

All of a sudden, I can't hear the ATC. I can hear the engine and see the scroll text but no sound for ATC. I checked my sound setting and it looks good. What happened?