chicagorandy

Welcome home brother- Me? Army. spent my 1972 over there. I have found using my GrassMonkey IR headtracker to be a great improvement in 'realism'. Doesn't cost a ton and the view is wherever I turn my head or move forward/back.

GrassMonkey IR Tracker

Worth noting that the OP made just the one post two months ago and has not been back since. Might be time to bury this poor dead horse, it's been beat enuff -lol

Thanks a million for this tip Tim. I'm saving it should I ever experience a CTD while loading the sim. Happily I'm one of 'those' people who has never had a CTD in MSFS2020.

4 hours ago, loki said:

Don't forget to swing by the Marketplace for the free A320neo from iniBuilds.

I saw that it was being offered, but to be honest I'm only interested in piston aircraft - I don't think I've ever tried any of the jet airliners.

Just finished the download of Update 15 and the MANY World Updates in Content Manager. This one IS a whopper. Took my 600mbps Xfinity connection about 65 minutes to complete it. I can happily report that all went very smoothly and a quick test flight in my new Piper Tomahawk went off without hitch.

Disclaimer - the actual downspeeds I experienced varied from 45/50mbps to a max of 185mbps. No doubt the servers are quite busy.

Good onya Asobo/Microsoft.

Just wondering if anyone offers a challenge add-on to simulate the Fisk arrival scenario to AirVenture Oshkosh. I AM aware of the SimVenture event taking place in July but I'm interested in an aftermarket flight challenge that could be flown in MSFS2020 at any time.

"I am french and I live near Bordeaux. I am 70 years old"

I'm 75, live in Chicago, IL USA and very much enjoy MSFS 2020. I also now understand why folks rave about aged French whines.

If all someone's sole contribution to a product specific forum is that they're NOT going to buy said product? Seems like a waste of bandwidth.

Just Flight has released 3 terrific video tutorials on flying this great trainer airplane -

PA-38 Tutorials

No issue on my Edge-Windows 11 desktop. It's been a pretty long time since I was on the Windows 7 operating system so I can't speak to that situation. 

Now available in the Marketplace. I desktop PC fly the sim. VERY realistic controls and flight characteristics and an abundance of features and functional switches and gizmos. It IS kinda spendy at $42 but I'm glad I didn't wait for MSFS 2024 to buy this neat 2 seater. Looks like JustFlight did their homework. Kudos to them.

With my current hardware setup I enjoy a wonderful (for ME) flight sim experience with MSFS2020. The best ever for Microsoft IMHO. I'm a happily retired 75 yr old and have been with MS Flight since day one back in the 80's. I too am anxiously awaiting MSFS2024 and will purchase it without hesitation.

I continue to be mildly amused by 1st time posters whose sole purpose seems to be bashing this sim. Kinda like joining a Popeye's Chicken fan forum to rave about hamburgers.  It is to laugh. 

6 minutes ago, Brian R said:

don't waste your money on MSFS2020  . crap.

Don't feel it necessary to couch your comments in 'code'.... how do you really feel about the sim? 

2 hours ago, gsmorgansen said:

All Logitech peripherals use usb2.  Plug it in to one and see if it works.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say the original poster has likely already resolved this problem from 2021? But as a former funeral director/embalmer I do enjoy a nice necropost now and then.

I appreciate that new gaming hardware is not cheap, but for ME the best money I've spent in improving and enhancing the flight sim experience has been buying the improved 240hz IR tracker from Grassmonkey. It has wireless operation, puts no great extra demand on your computer's resources like a VR headset does, at $115 it's half the cost of other head tracker systems and the small shop owner/operator provides exceptional customer service. Whether in the cockpit or an outside view where I turn my head to look is what I see on the computer monitor. Makes it 'feel' like I'm sitting in the cockpit yet unrestricted view of the keyboard and no fumbling with the top hat switch. NO, I don't work for Grassmonkey. I'm just a VERY satisfied customer.

Grassmonkey IR tracker

Worth a look-see anyway IMHO. Not the total immersion offered by the rather expensive VR headsets and advanced computer needed to run VR, but it's still a big step up in simming.

It begs the question - How many reactions to posts did you make that session? 

6 hours ago, bo992000 said:

That is actually very good advice. Im still leaning towards 2020 for one main reason. It's been around long enough (hopefully) to have all the bugs worked out, vs a new release. As somebody said elsewhere, buying the software is the cheap part. Researching the harware has left me dizzy but if i am gonna do it i want to do it right. 

If you are going to go the 2020 sim option, you won't go wrong selecting a desktop system that exceeds the Recommended specs. If you plan on using VR that requires even more power.

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 Recommended Requirements

CPU: Intel Core i5-8400 or AMD Ryzen 5 1500X or better

RAM: 16 GB

VIDEO CARD: Radeon RX 590 or GeForce GTX 970

DEDICATED VIDEO RAM: 4096 MB

PIXEL SHADER: 5.1

VERTEX SHADER: 5.1

OS: Windows 10 64-bit

FREE DISK SPACE: 150 GB

Another vote for the Extreme Pro. A highly capable piece of hardware for just $30. I also think that were I buying a new desktop now? I'd wait to see the hardware requirements for MSFS 2024 and get whatever is at least 'Mid' range hardware. Flight sims are data/graphics thirsty rascals -lol

That is an older model desktop(note the Windows 10). I did see they have a newer version available but it is near double your specified budget. I do agree that 16mb Ram and perhaps a 500gb or 1TB NVMe SSD?

With MSFS 2024 coming relatively soon, I might consider waiting till the specs for that are available before making a PC purchase.

You might want to ask this in the MS2004 forum?

This might be useful -  Weight and balance

Wrong forum - this is for the upcoming new MSFS 2024

Did the update yesterday and today - their servers WERE slow, as expected with the planet all trying to update at the same time, but no negative issues were encountered and all is well again in my flight sim world.

How "techie" is your pilot in training? It is relatively simple to unbox and set up a PC and flight sim hardware. I submit that if I can do it? Anybody can. And knowing someone was willing to drop $4-$5K on MY present would fer darn sure motivate me to get it done right or find a buddy who could -lol I'll assume you realize that VR requires a higher level PC machine to run well. Best wishes for his journey to PIC. 

23 minutes ago, nsproles said:

They are probably the pans in the area of Marne about 300 km north-east of Perth.  

Thanks to Google Earth. An interesting formation.

OK, here goes MY 'DUMB' question..... are there commands on the full keyboard list that you would not be able to execute on your laptop? At least 18 keys on my full size desktop keyboard ARE duplicates found elsewhere on the keyboard. Just wunderin'.