tiger1962

Mine kept looping on the DC3 files - I quit the sim, deleted my Temp files, rebooted the sim and they finally downloaded. Now downloading the World Updates in Content Manager and Oh Boy! This must be the most thorough update yet - a very, VERY impressive Release Notes list this time!

The Working Title CJ4 User Guide (available here) gives this information:

DISCONTINUITY

▯▯▯▯▯ = Discontinuity. A discontinuity is a break in the flight plan causing separation such as from an approach or arrival. Normally, a discontinuity can be replaced or deleted however, a discontinuity cannot be deleted or replaced:

• After a vector (VECT) - you must drop the waypoint on the (VECT) or delete it.

• At the end of an airway when the next waypoint is not on that airway.

• Before a leg that does not have a defined starting point such as a DME-arc.

Further to Bud's great advice, there's a series of 9 tutorial videos for the A310 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka-S-3wBRBo&list=PLHHNa7e7hf9NWlA69jXQ-xzU2IuawCdd7

Has your antivirus program quarantined them?

PAE could be for KPAE - Paine (or Snohomish County) airport, SEA could be for Seattle airport.

Thank you guys, the Aurora Borealis add-on is the best I've seen in a sim (and I've seen the real thing in Norway) but the Corvalis needs some TLC...

Aurora Borealis by South Oak Co, featuring the Cessna TTx Corvalis by Sim Federation:

I've just had this too! I fixed it by following these instructions on the Zendesk FAQ's pages:

UNINSTALL AND REINSTALL GAMING SERVICES VIA POWERSHELL

Reinstall the Gaming Services app on your Windows 10/11 device:

1. Select the Search icon on the taskbar, type powershell, right-click on Windows PowerShell, and then select Run as administrator.
2. In Windows PowerShell, type the following command and press Enter:

get-appxpackage Microsoft.GamingServices | remove-AppxPackage -allusers

1. In the same window, type the following command and press Enter:

start ms-windows-store://pdp/?productid=9MWPM2CQNLHN

1. Install the app on that page and select Yes when you receive the User Account Control (UAC) prompt.
2. Restart your device and try to install the game again.

8 hours ago, ctaranovich said:

Ok starting to get it figured out. For some reason even though AUTO ENGINE START is set to Cntl+E, that command doesn't do the trick. 

 

Another question, I come from 3000 hours of FSX. In FSX, I could press SHIFT+3 and bring up my GPS in a window, or SHIFT+5 to bring up the throttle quadrant. Or the radio stack. Any such feature here?

 

One more question, I'm trying to set up my Thrustmaster T-Flight HOTAS X Joystick / Throttle, and when the throttle is at idle on the controller itself, the engines are in full reverse mode. If I move the throttle to the 1/2 position, this is idle thrust according to the game. And full throttle is still full throttle. Any idea how to fix this? I can't even back out of the gate to try to play the game. 

Ctrl+E doesn't work on all MSFS aircraft, especially the airliners which have more realistic startup procedures. You can find several "How to operate..." guides here: https://forums.flightsimulator.com/c/msfs/official-tips-troubleshooting/395

The zoom views are now Ctrl+1 to Ctrl+0 instead of Shift+1 etc. You can download the keyboard commands guide here: https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/reference-keyboard-shortcuts-guide/167151

You'll need to calibrate your Hotas X for MSFS, there's a very good guide here: https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/how-to-calibrate-your-joystick-yoke/129335

1 hour ago, ctaranovich said:

How do I save and lock-in the change?

Press keyboard F11, or click on the F11 - Save button on the bottom left of your screen - you might have to scroll down to see it.

1 hour ago, loki said:

I suspect quality of the Starlink connection was the issue rather than speed. My connection was only 50 Mbps when I first got the sim, and never had trouble with it.

+1 - I have a 65mbps service and I've only had an "offline mode" error 5 or 6 times in 3 years - I think it was because the bandwidth went below 30mbps. Re-booting the router fixed the issue every time.

As a matter of interest, I think the MSFS offline scenery looks like the Orbx FSX scenery, it's pretty good - but not a patch on the online photoscenery we're taking for granted now.

I have an Xbox account, all it needs is an email address and password. No personal details at all. You guys know more about me than Xbox does, here's my Xbox account profile:

MSFS ATC will calculate your descent rate based on your climb rate. I found that 2000fpm was normal for the TBM in climb and descent.

I think this FSX Screenshots thread has somehow got into the MSFS2020 Screenshots forum - I'm sure it's purely accidental and absolutely not the fault of the noble and expert airman in question...

On 8/29/2023 at 8:24 PM, MadMav24 said:

Most of the times the flight plan comes to an end where the approach should start.

Where this happens, in real life you would be vectored by ATC to the first point of the approach but MSFS can't do this and so it *should* insert a 'MANSEQ' (manual sequence) waypoint instead.

It can also happen in SID's, where you would be vectored by ATC to the first waypoint of your ENR (enroute) segment.

I've just done an IFR-only tour around Europe and the eastern Mediterranean in the TBM (below) and I just selected the next waypoint after the MANSEQ and activated Direct To.

I found a similar issue on the official forums, this one was caused by an errant keyboard profile: https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/right-alt-click-panel-pop-out-no-longer-works/512392

In the General Options\Accessibility\User Interface menu, switch INSTRUMENT NAME TOOLTIPS to Off and don't forget to click Save at the bottom left of the screen!

9 minutes ago, budreiser said:

What I have discovered, and I'm not sure if FLYBYWIRE has anything to do with it, is, I can now get WAYPOINT ETA's on the FMC, but only after including some weight factors from the WEIGHT and BALANCE panel.

You're 100% right Bud, the more info you can put into the FMC, the more you'll get out of it. Any field which can be filled in, you should try to fill in.

A large part of the FMC's function is as a weighing scales, basically, and this data tells the autopilot how to fly the plane to use the minimum amount of fuel at all stages of the flight.

45 minutes ago, defaid said:

3. Rick Piper's HS.748 not so good but given the gear ratio in the airfile, it's unlikely to be showing prop speed. Again, AFSD is definitive.

 

The HS.748 is a turboprop so the 9394 rpm is turbine rpm, while the prop 'speed' will be indicated on the torque gauges in percent.

30 minutes ago, MadMav24 said:

The AUTOPILOT is working correctly now. But, now there is another issue. When the aircraft got to the first turn in the flight plan it just kept going straight.

MadMav24

If this is after following the sim repair instructions, and still with an empty Community folder, the next step is to delete the sim's aircraft avionics data like we did with the rolling cache - the sim will automatically download the avionics data on restart as if it was an official update. This will avoid having to delete and re-install the whole sim:

Navigate to your AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Packages\Official\OneStore folder and delete the fs-base-aircraft-common folder.

Restart the sim and download the update - it will be mandatory anyway, and we can then be sure that this data is uncorrupted.

Let's try a sim repair. First of all, delete your rolling cache file in: AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache - the file name is ROLLINGCACHE.CCC.

Then go to your Start menu and select Settings\Apps\Installed Apps\Microsoft Flight Simulator - click on the three dots and select Advanced options.

Scroll down to the Reset section and click on Repair. When a tick appears next to the Repair button, restart MSFS and a new, clean ROLLINGCACHE.CCC file will be created automatically.

This is sounding like a control sensitivity issue or possibly a control assignment conflict - Try increasing the dead zone to at least 10% on your aileron and rudder axis, you might have a chattering potentiometer in the yoke or pedals.

Also check your Autopilot control assignments. Change the filter on the left from 'Assigned' to 'All' and check the keyboard and Honeycomb assignments for duplicates/conflicts.

Do you have any Working Title mods in your Community folder? These should all be deleted now, because they will conflict with the latest default sim versions.

Silly question: Have you switched the CDI mode from NAV1 to GPS?

There are a number of useful guides on the official forums: https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/how-to-operate-garmin-g1000-avionics/593427

9 hours ago, MadMav24 said:

I quit flying MSFS in March hoping this bug would be fixed. I tried it today and it is still the same. I engage the Autopilot and press NAV and it refuses to follow the magenta line. 

 

MadMav24

Which aircraft is this happening with?