Stevemill

Yes. Active pause is practically useless and usually downright murderous. I don’t use it. Can’t imagine how a Pause button in live multiplayer could ever work. Instead I just use altitude and heading hold if I need to change anything or make a coffee or whatever. Works just as well.

Flying VFR every basic package prop and turboprop seems to fly fine once I learned how the autopilot needs to be handled. Maybe IFR is different but the youtube channels doing useful instructions videos didn’t seem to have enough problems to say even the 320 was unflyable. I only fly GA ships under VFR though. There is undoubtedly a lot of work left to be done but I’ve flown the length snd breadth of the UK and New Zealand in several different aircraft and made several Australia to NZ hops and not had anything but low fuel problems.

Go to The Store, find the product andit should have a download or play option that will trigger the install.

Sorry, I recognise nothing in that description. My hotas and rudder set was detected and configured automatically and the scenery is for the most part excellent. Certainly far better out of the box than anything we have seen before.

I second this advice. I’m a total beginner like you and have concentrated on slowly climbing the ladder of General Aviation aircraft. There’s nothing wrong in spending a couple of dozen hours in a Cessna 172 mastering the basics and getting to grips with the autopilot. (Watch a youtuber called Bevo Devo for a couple of great Beginner autopilot vids). I’ve not got to grips with ILS yet. I prefer small planes and VFR but will try and figure it out eventually. Don’t give up.

Maybe also check and play with the axis sensitivity settings?

Okay - bearing in mind I’m new to this level of sim and using the Fly Direct option as the example. 1. Make sure you are in an autopilot controlled safe situation as it isn’t a quicklrocess 2. Pressing the Set Direct Course To sets a flashing cursor on a 4 space field that wants you to enter the desitination code in Max 5 letters. 3. Find the FMS BUTTON. This has three functions. Pressing it Toggles The Selection Cursor. Then there are two Navigate MFD OPTIONS corresponding to the inner and outer rings, basically the bottm of the dial snd the top. These can be rotated with the mouse. The top rotates through a selection of destinations (don’t know where these ae picked up from) but eventually will start scrolling through the alphabet for the first of the 5. Set the one you want. 4. Rotate the lower navigate mfd section right to select the next letter. Select as above. 5. Repeat until you have entered your code. As you do itit will offer guesses as to where you mean. 6. Once you are finished press the ENT button on the panel TWICE. 7. Your pink GPS needle will now be pointing directly at it. The same principles work for usinf the FPL (Flight Plan) option. Apologies if any of this is unclear. I am new to this and fumbling my way through with the help of numerous Youtube videos. Inevitably these are done by people who have been doing this for years and don’t take into account that novices sometimes need very basic instructions. For basic autopilot guides I recommend a small channel called Bevo Devo. He has only a small number of followers but his 2 autopilot guides were the clearest I have found. Hope this helps.

The autopilot doesn’t work like you think. If you don’t do the right things in the right order things get confused. Check out a tuber called Bevo Devo. He has a couple of great guides. Helped me figure out what I was doing wrong.

Sorry, I know this is a dumb question but I cannot figure it out. Say with the Garmin 3000 I activate the Set Direct Course option, it highlights the data field and it wants me to enter the airport code - how do I do that? I’ve twiddled, poked, punched and turned everything I can think of. Thanks. EDITED TO ADD - finally stumbled upon the solution.

New Zealand looks awesome. Lakes, mountains, volcanoes, Hobbits. It seems to have everything. Wish I was young enough to emigrate.

In case no one has mentioned it - a youtuber called Bevo Devo has 2 really clear autopilot tutorials. They solved my issues.

Thanks. Looks like I need a bigger controller. ;)

Use the freeversion of FRAPS for fps. Despite what the download page says it works fine on W10. AS FAR AS i can tell ACTIVE PAUSE is of limited utility online as the plane might stop in the air but its attitude and state continues. I would just stabilise the attitude use the autopilot to hold heading and altitude While you do whatever you beed to do. A small youtuber called Bevo Devo or maybe Devo Bevo has done 2 vids that IMHO are the clearest guide to autopilot VFR and ILR. Hope that helps.

You are being scammed, walk away.

I’ve not played a serious modern flight sim before but after watching many hours of preview videos I spent more than I should have on a new system to play it. Got to say I am not in the least bit disappointed so far. I knew that as a novice I faced a steep learning curve on realistic settings but so far so good. My landings might still be a little bumpy but I walk away and the aircraft can be used the next day, so, outstanding. ;) Okay, there are some annoying issues but it’s a brand new sim of flying across the whole world in a range of aircraft. I expect issues but they aren’t detracting from the experience. Spent hours flying a Caravan across the Pacific from Australia to NZ yesterday and today I will be flying down the coast and across the mountains to Queenstown. It sounds boring but I couldn’t be more thrilled with this sim.

While there is something going wrong with the garmin AP (I’ve found that if you set a target altitude, even if you switch the AP and all the Altitude bits off, the AP will always try and climb to that altitude whenever you set The AP again. STALL STALL STALL.) I’m having a great time exploring far flung parts of the world.

Hence my use of the word ‘upgrade’.

Hi My feeling is 32gb RAM is very highly desirable as is a 1 or 2tb SSD to install it on. That would allow to to download and cache high res scenery for your favourite areas. It wouldn’t hurt to have an R7. I would certainly look to have a 2tb standard HDD to put all your non MFS stuff on. MFS is going to be a long term game and you want to leave it plenty of room to grow.

Agreed. This is my first taste of a serious flight sim. I did the flight lessons (almost the first words of the first lesson is ‘release the parking brake’ with an on-screen prompt telling you what key to press) and now have a grasp of the basics. Because this is a serious sim I have been watching all sorts of great videos that explain how things work. I have experienced no real problems that can’t be traced back to me. I’m not going to flying jets for weeks. At the moment my goal is just to learn the basics of using the Garmin 1000 and that’s something else I’m going to have work at. I’m loving the sim so far. It has met my every expectation as a non-pilot, first time simmer.

No. You have to wait for the developer to upgrade the model and sell it.

Thanks for the link.

I’ve not noticed anything but I do have a great system and a large SSD cache set up to store scenery I fly over.

The cockpits are fine. For my T16000 set up it defaulted to an easy set of controls or changing head views and with head tracking it’s just awesome.

It might be because I’m not a hardcore simmer but just someone looking to get a taste of what life could be as a rich guy pilot, but I’m thrilled with this even if it isn’t hard core enough for real pilots and experienced simmers. On the ‘hard’ settings it challenges me to learn and keep learning. It punishes me when I mess up and I get vicarious experiences like sunrise over New York or simply flying from Donegal to a glider strip near me And running into fog. I trie FSX but couldn’t get past the terrible scenery but this scenery is superb so long as you don’t know the area well, in which case you see something good but not 100% accurate. It was good enough for an unternet friend to navigate me to his house in a large town. Like with FSX there are still trees covering every available surface though. They really need to understand that Southern England isn’t actually a primordial rain forest. I exaggerate slightly but seeing trees all over the hills where I grew up was disappointing. My, or at least someone’s, kingdom for a Jurassic Coast Scenery Pack.

Don’t lose heart. Try setting the control filter to ESSENTIAL and set up your own Basic profile for the Cessna 152. You can build up from that. There’s also an Allocated filter to check what the defaults are. I was daunted at first.