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It's an on/off toggle...the same key that pauses also unpauses.

Solo Around Australia, True Story, Part 3 (MSFS in a German FK9) By Frank's MS Flight Sim Come join Aussie Owen Zupp, airline pilot and award-winning aviation writer, as he flies solo in a light aircraft around Australia in 2010. Enjoy beautiful Australian scenery, especially the famous remote outback/backcountry, and learn a bit about Aussie aviation history. Part 3 is Broome through Perth to Forrest. Hope you enjoy. Cheers. Note: Owen flew an Australian Jabiru J230 but there isn't one in MSFS yet, so we'll use a sort-of-similar German FK9 Mk IV in this Part 3 video, with real-live footage of the FK9 at the end of the video. Frank's MS Flight Sim https://www.youtube.com/@FranksMSFlightSimulator About Frank's MS Flight Sim New channel begun in 2021. Visit notable airfields and areas in Microsoft Flight Simulator (MSFS). Themes so far include: WW2; Bush/Mt./Water/Outback strips; “Golden Oldie” strips; heritage/vintage strips; and aircraft accident investigations. More different themes to come. Expect a new video roughly each week. Provides brief, interesting information, often with history, geography, maps, pictures etc, and great places to fly in MSFS. Focus is on interesting content rather than production values.

Thanks for sharing your flight! Doubly interesting for me, as KOWD would also be my destination for a return to home flight from Meigs...I should go and actually do it...

Yes, that's a feature I'd really like too. Just a very simple way to i.e. watch your landing from another view. You can do it with "Flight Control Replay" but that product has so many features there is a learning curve before you can use it...

The "active pause" (bound to the "Pause" key on your keyboard) is the one you most likely want. I've also bound it to a button on my joystick for convenience. Something else useful: in the settings section you can search, i.e. if you searched on "pause" you would see all the possible features that have "pause" in the description, and then whether or not they are currently bound to anything.

I get this too. Don't know why. I'm pretty sure the web site has not changed, so it's likely browsers are now triggering on something new that did not bother them before. I have to believe this problem is widespread beyond just FlightSim.Com. If you have some time, rather than just talking about it here, can you research the actual cause and report back?

True "Close Call" Story Replicated in MSFS By Frank's MS Flight Sim This true "Close Call" story titled "Planning for Remote Possibilities - The Tiniest Change of Heading Took This Pilot Out of His Comfort Zone" was published by the Australian Civil Aviation Safety Agency (CASA) and won me AU$500. Come watch it replicated in MSFS. Hope you enjoy. Cheers. Frank's MS Flight Sim https://www.youtube.com/@FranksMSFlightSimulator About Frank's MS Flight Sim New channel begun in 2021. Visit notable airfields and areas in Microsoft Flight Simulator (MSFS). Themes so far include: WW2; Bush/Mt./Water/Outback strips; “Golden Oldie” strips; heritage/vintage strips; and aircraft accident investigations. More different themes to come. Expect a new video roughly each week. Provides brief, interesting information, often with history, geography, maps, pictures etc, and great places to fly in MSFS. Focus is on interesting content rather than production values.

KOEB TO KCGX Now for the final leg into Chicago's Meigs Field: KOEB departure: Dodgy weather right from the start: Gary Indiana factories...getting close: More factories: First glimpse of Chicago: Downwind at Meigs: Extended a little to get a look at the city: Meigs ahead: Short final: Made it! On the runway: Shutting down in front of the terminal: Nice view of Chicago from where we are parked: A pretty dark, gloomy day to be flying but I made it! I'm at Meigs Field.

So I guess this thread is where we're putting our Meigs Field stories, so here is mine. First, it should be noted this is a re-visit, as I've flown into Meigs in real life many years ago, and wrote up the story on FlightSim.Com for you to read here: I knew you guys were planning a Meigs trip but I didn't realize it had started already and in fact the final date was almost over, so I had to kind of rush things. I had wanted to do the whole original trip from KOWD to KCGX by Archer, but there wasn't time for all that. So I decided to do just the last two legs, in my current sim ride which is the MilTech Simulations CH47D Chinook. Originally I went KOWD to KITH, KITH to KERI, KERI to D96 (which is now KOEB), D96 to KCGX. So for my abbreviated version I'll go KERI to KOEB then KOEB to KCGX. Here is the first leg: KERI TO KOEB Much like the original trip, my sim trip was in dodgy weather. On the ramp at KERI, taking along a Humvee for ground transportation on arrival. Ready to depart: Departing KERI: Heading west across Lake Erie: Dodgy weather but nice rainbow! Weather going bad... Approaching Cleveland: Burke Lakefront Airport; looks an awful lot like Meigs the way its oriented on the shore... Onward into the gloom: Westbound along the lake shore: Approaching KOEB: Parked at KOEB:

As usual, they did release an update today which includes: "In case you missed it, we recently announced that the full release of Sim Update 15 (SU_15) will be slightly delayed from its earlier targeted release date of March 26. It’s important that we take the time to get it right, and after careful consideration, the team concluded that SU_15 isn’t quite ready yet. We’re now targeting a release for some time in April (exact date TBD)."

The announcement says March 26 was a "target release date". https://www.flightsimulator.com/ I don't see any announcement there that SU15 has actually been released. They usually have a news update each Thursday late in the day, so check the official web site later today for news...

Apparently the windowed mode issue is a known problem. This was part of the most recent update announcement: Over the last several days, we’ve noticed many reports about an issue affecting PC players where the sim will always open in windowed mode even if full screen mode was set. Players using both the regular release build and the SU_15 beta build are affected by this issue. The team has identified the source of this bug, and a fix will be coming with SU_15. In the meantime, the workaround to restore full screen mode is to set this option in your General Settings each time you launch the sim or simply press Alt+Enter on your keyboard. https://www.flightsimulator.com/march-21st-2024-development-update/

Anniversary of World's Worst Civil Aviation Accident By Frank's MS Flight Sim This is an updated version of my January 2023 video on the crash of two Boeing 747s (Pan Am and KLM) on the runway of the airport on the Island of Tenerife, Canary Islands, 27 March 1977. This update includes additional information on the crash from official sources, and a short interview with the surviving co-pilot from the Pan Am aircraft. With a death toll of 583, it remains the world's worst civil aviation accident. Hope you find it interesting. Cheers. Frank's MS Flight Sim https://www.youtube.com/@FranksMSFlightSimulator About Frank's MS Flight Sim New channel begun in 2021. Visit notable airfields and areas in Microsoft Flight Simulator (MSFS). Themes so far include: WW2; Bush/Mt./Water/Outback strips; “Golden Oldie” strips; heritage/vintage strips; and aircraft accident investigations. More different themes to come. Expect a new video roughly each week. Provides brief, interesting information, often with history, geography, maps, pictures etc, and great places to fly in MSFS. Focus is on interesting content rather than production values.

Wow, people with ties to my local area. I learned to fly in real life at KOWD, and have landed real Cherokees there probably a thousand times! I've been to KDXR in real life and of course Mansfield many times. I often use KOWD as my "home" in flight sim these days, or 6B6 where I was also based many years.

I've managed to pass all the training sessions with an "A" grade after a few tries, so it can be done. I ended up making a new joystick config just for Dune, since the controls are similar but not quite like those of a helicopter. Having that set right did help. The training sessions could use a bit more instruction than they actually provide but I did mostly figure it out. Still cannot land correctly repeatedly though. I think "going straight up a couple of hundred feet" is not what they are looking for...it seems that nap of the earth flying is more the norm here, so what they want is for you to get just off the ground and then moving forward, not up.