Stevemill

Er - is it just me or has the Sensitivity Option been bust. The option is there for my rudder for instance but the only option is DONE. No slider. Seems to be true of all the Thrustmaster axes.

I noticed because suddenly every time i put my foot on the rudder pedals it triggered wild gyrations. Something I had cured with the Sensitivity setting.

Thanks for your feedback, Elvensmith. It pretty much concurs with what I've read here and there on the web . .enough so that I'm going to take the XP11 plunge, not fork out a lot of money to run FS2020, and just enjoy what I get fromXP and FSX. See you in the skies!

 

David

It costs you £1 plus download time to try out 2020. X-Plane looks like a good and mature product and I’ve been tempted by it, especially by access to helicopters but in the end getting so much in the default 2020 won out.

Isn’t it great that we have so many great choices for flight sims now?

That along with some yoke/pedal funkiness yesterday and I was ready to just quit. I kept losing the pedals completely and the yoke controls kept going haywire all at once. I was trying to use a new powered usb hub and had all 3 CH products plugged into the hub. Hoping that was the issue. Now that the update is finished I will go and find out. Here is hoping that they helped the trim issues, even if they didn't mention it.

Yea - controllers all working through a powered hub tend not to play well together.

Were you expressively cleared to land? Probably not. You get a landing clearance only if you turn base at the right spot. The obstructor is very strict.

I kept getting that. Never figured out what I was doing wrong.

I am thinking about buying this computer to run FS2020.

 

Lenovo T540 Gaming Desktop PC, Intel® Core™ i7, 16GB Memory, 512GB Solid State Drive, Windows® 10 Home; nVidia GeForce™ GTX 1660 gaming-grade graphics card.

 

Does anyone see any problems with it? Thanks in advance.

 

Don

The program will take 100gb of your ssd right off. Not to mention w10 if you boot off it. Then there’s caching scenery and mods. Over a few years this is all going to add up. Might be an idea to spring for a bigger ssd. And certainly a couple of terra-bytes of hdd for other stuff.

Yes, sometimes I wish the plane would at least come with an oil rag.

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I noticed throttle issues with most aircraft. Seems too much of a "dead zone" to get from Three quarters to zero. Hope they fix it in the next update. Don't get me wrong, I Still LOVE the new sim, and yes, you can still land, you just have to almost dead stick it every time you want to touch down.

i can land it but not in the few tens of yards it should. Need more practice but at least for me the throttle issue is it won’t zero. It is always generating thrust. T literally won’t stop moving forward. Don’t have this issue with any other ship. Completely shutting down the engine before touchdown might be the answer.

Despite the issues I am really enjoying this plane.

I also purchased this plane, looking through the windscreen is like looking through a fogged up shower door. I am hoping for a fix, if not I wasted 8 bucks.

Yea. Realism or not, the scenery is a major selling point and I want to appreciate it like I can in all the others. I don’t regret buying it but someone has dropped several quality testing balls on this one.

I apologize. I meant ailerons. Sorry about that. I thought that's what they were referring to. My bad. :o Flaps do NOT work, though physics ARE there.

No problem. There’s also another serious issue. The throttle doesn’t zero. That’s partially why it’s so reluctant to land and why when you spawn in it’s moving. Hopefully it gets all fixed up soon because otherwise it’s fun to fly and trims out easily.

This is just a shot in the dark but did you try and install it into a non standard file structure instead of just pointing it at a drive and letting it do the rest so it thinks it doesn’t exist? Probably not but I’m throwing it out there just in case. Hope you get it sorted.

Meanwhile I would let it run andsee what happens.

FALSE INFORMATION. I own it, and YES FLAPS ARE MODELED. Please don't lie about aircraft and I don't have any issues with scenery out of the glass. Please don't make posts to thwart people from coming to this sim. Very, very disappointed in dishonest reviews. You're supposed to be looking through Glass, so it won't look ultra sharp as though you're not.

Maybe the flaps are modelled on yours and the windscreen isn’t a cataract simulator but mine is exactly as the OP describes, at least as of 8 hours ago.

OK, but how do you know whether the plane has "de-icing"?

 

And, as I said, I have been able to seek warmer air. But what if where you're headed doesn't permit that. I just tried Kathmandu to the Everest region, and iced up. I once flew that (as a passenger) IRL, and I didn't see any icing. Maybe the plane IRL had "de-icing"?

 

Mac6737

If it has de-icing there will be active controls you can flip. I guess the answer to flying aircraft without de-icing in regions where you cannot avoid icing is to fly a different aircraft.

If the plane doesn’t have de-icing then it’s part of the sim to watch the outside air temp, fly over or under the weather and seek warmer air if you do ice up.

When it happens I think of it as an opportunity for adventure, not an inconvenience to work around.

Also with you Buddy. Retired on health grounds, largely indoors due to the pandemic. This sim is a bit of a sanity saving window on the world. Loving it.

And on a side note. If you prefer another sim - fine. There’s separate forums here for each one.I tried FSX and didn’t like it but somehow I’ve resisted the temptation to go to that forum and repeatedly say it.

If you’re undecided you can just take up the cheap X Box Live offer for a month and try it out. Sure you have to download it and sure, you might have to set up some controls but that’s easy and pretty straight forward.

Even on the lower graphics settings it’s going to look way better than FSX. I fly VFR GA and haven’t had any real problems once I took the time to learn how the autopilot actually works rather than how I imagined it works.

Are there issues? Sure but none that stop my ongoing Mediterranean tour.

Sometimes I swear I don’t recognise the game some people, particularly those who haven’t played it, are describing.