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  1. I just looked around a bit. And I'm not totally sure but I think it is a label that they put on the XBOX edition. But very confusing.
  2. I took a look into the discussion forums on Steam for MSFS. Which was a mistake as there is a lot of confusion and ranting there. Which I will spare all of you by not sharing. But one item came out of a discussion on the pricing of MSFS. It there a Game fo the Year edition of MSFS? For possibly a slightly reduced price? And it might have some new content? I will stick to coming here for questions and talking to the experts. I promise!
  3. Good to see there is another new 'pilot' to enjoy the world of flight simming. You will find it is a big and complicated software product. And you will not master it in one day or even one week. Your PC specs are more than adequate to run MSFS. You might find it valuable to take the flying lessons which are built into the Activities section of the start-up menu. It will give any new pilot a way to build up their ability to control their virtual airplane. And make friends with the Cessna 172. And since I live in Arizona and have been there, I like flying around the Sedona airport on that dramatic mesa above the town.
  4. IT sounds like you are looking for the external or chase-plane view. I do not know the keyboard setting for that. But on the XBOX controller (what I use on my PC) it is mapped to the left-most of the 3 buttons on top of the controller. It gives the view from behind the plane and also gives a heads-up display of the critical gauges like speed altitude, climb settings etc. It is one of the most critical and helpful views on MSFS.
  5. Do NOT do a Steam verify or repair. Steam utility does not get along with Msoft file structure and will mess it up. Usually causing a full reload of the software. Like all 100 Gb or more. Try everything else first, up to and including doing a Windows restart - which can help stop stray background stuff and recover memory.
  6. Steam (and Microsoft) will manage the location of folders. Trying to move or alter these folders is not a good idea. If you want to move things in or out of the community folder it will likely be located in your users AppData folders. Such as: C:\Users\youruser\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft Flight Simulator\Packages\Community
  7. That seems strange. Have you changed your Microsoft login by any chance?
  8. As I recall, there were some copyright and permissions with using the real airlines. Not sure of all the details. Perhaps they did not want to see screenshots/videos of planes with their names on it crashing into something. In any case even the skins for planes available in flightsim.to have few that have the major airline names or liveries on the commercial jets.
  9. the F key takes me back to pilot seat and looking forward out the windscreen. Pat
  10. Premium deluxe is going to take more space, for the additional planes available. But I don't think it would add up to 100 GB.
  11. The options available in the system when planning a flight from the World Map screen are to start at the end of the runway with engines running, or to start at a gate or parking spot with the plane cold and dark. I don't see any other choices. However there is a keyboard shortcut to start engines without going thru the startup procedures. I believe it is Control-E. This might get you what you want.
  12. I did the update, at least the first 2 parts of it. It did the Steam update automatically. And then started MSFS and it found and started the update there. It was 2+ GB. After that completed and it was running, I went to the Content Manager and did not see any new pieces to download. Is that what I should be seeing. I did go in and do a flight, but did not see much of anything that was new. One thing I did notice. In the World view for planning a flight, a new tag was added to one or two airports. When clicked these showed where payware addons could be used.
  13. When I am using it, the hanger only shows one aircraft at a time, the one that was flown most recently. To switch planes, I will be on the World Map, where you plan the takeoff and landing airports. In the upper left corner is a box that will show the current aircraft. Click on that box and it will open up a panel with all the available aircraft and paint schemes available. It should be in there, along with all the planes that came with the version of MSFS that you installed.
  14. Glad to hear that you are making progress, Whizzer. My setup for flying is more modest than yours but I enjoy it as well. Have you used the built-in lessons in MSFS? I used them when I got started on MSFS even though i had other experience in sim flying. I found them to be very good at going thru the basics up to doing the solo flight and the cross-country navigation. I did not like that Cessna 152 at first but learned to climb and descend smoothly (most of the time) and make a 90-degree turn without losing altitude. I had to go around in the flight pattern quite a few times until I got the altitudes and turn points correct. Pat
  15. Can you explain what you mean by the web server. I have used LNM, in the way that TTM describes - to start it first outside of MSFS and alt-tab between them. Curious to know if there is a smoother way to do it.
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