Who has given up on fs2020?

I was about to, but then I dl’ed the Xplane 11 demo, and saw how spartan it looked stock, and thought to myself. “Ahh heck no! I’m not going anywhere!”

I got fs20 running to my satisfaction, and glad I had the patience.

Folks, MSFS2020 has some serious growing up pains to go through. There are still many things that are just puzzling to me, but then again, it's Microsoft, and they are not known to be super intuitive.

I have been using X-Plane 11 as a adjunct training tool towards my IFR rating, and it is a very good training device. Not as pretty as MSFS2020 bt far, but way more useful. Here are some of the things I noticed, and I'm sure this is not new to anyone on this thread.

The glide slope indicators next to the runways are becoming visible way too late ( about 1-2 miles out).

I hope that will be fixed in one of the future updates, because in reality, these indicators can be seen at least 8-12 miles out.

When saving a flight, for some reason, the weather automatically sets itself to clear cloys, and there is no way to access the weather button in the menu. So that defeats any realistic travel scenario, where one would want to fly from one point to the next, and then park the plane over night, and then continue the next day or so.

Some airports are missing, and that's what baffles me. Not that I expect every airport to be there (as it is in XPlane, but why is there every tiny airstrip around Stuttgart, Germany, but not the Stuttgart airport? Doesn't make any sense to me. This may not be relevant to anyone else, but I happen to been raised in that area, and Stuttgart airport was the place where my passion for aviation started. So, yes, its sentimental, but again, why is the main airport in this area (an international airport) omitted? Strange.

As I played wit more with the new sim, and I have to call it play, because at this point it's more play than training, I found a couple of other annoying things, not worth mentioning here.

One thing that I am curious id; will there be an option in the future to link MSFS2020 to Fore Flight? And will it be linked up with Pilot Edge, a real ATC communication program that uses actual ATC professionals, not amateurs like Vat Sim? These are the things I'm hoping for will be fixed at some point in the future. Until then...

I keep using X Plane for training, and MSFS2020 for playing around and enjoying the beautiful scenery.

Some airports are missing, and that's what baffles me. Not that I expect every airport to be there (as it is in XPlane, but why is there every tiny airstrip around Stuttgart, Germany, but not the Stuttgart airport? Doesn't make any sense to me. This may not be relevant to anyone else, but I happen to been raised in that area, and Stuttgart airport was the place where my passion for aviation started. So, yes, its sentimental, but again, why is the main airport in this area (an international airport) omitted? Strange.

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One thing that I am curious id; will there be an option in the future to link MSFS2020 to Fore Flight? And will it be linked up with Pilot Edge, a real ATC communication program that uses actual ATC professionals, not amateurs like Vat Sim? These are the things I'm hoping for will be fixed at some point in the future. Until then...

I keep using X Plane for training, and MSFS2020 for playing around and enjoying the beautiful scenery.

If you pull up the Stuttgart airport in Bing Maps it is blurred out, along with many German military facilities. So it looks like it has something to do with the source data from Bing and the German government.

https://www.mil-airfields.de/flugsimulator/why-is-stuttgart-airport-missing.html

Regarding Foreflight, see the link below.

https://support.foreflight.com/hc/en-us/articles/204115275-How-do-I-connect-Microsoft-Flight-Simulator-FS-X-or-FS-2004-to-ForeFlight-

PilotEdge supports the new sim as well. I might suggest a quick check of the developer's or vendor's websites before assuming something does, or doesn't work, first. ;)

I've been trying to figure out the same issue on my Saitek X-56 HOTAS. Throttle goes from 0-50 only. I will try what you did and hopefully that will fix it for me.

So does my Throttletek I cant seem to fix it

If you pull up the Stuttgart airport in Bing Maps it is blurred out, along with many German military facilities. So it looks like it has something to do with the source data from Bing and the German government.

I just pulled up the following Australian military airports in Bing Maps and the runways are not displayed -

Richmond RAAF base (YSRI)

Amberley RAAF base (YAMB)

HMAS Albatros (YJBY)

Yet Williamtown RAAF base (YWLM) is displayed but that is probably due to the fact that it is shared with commercial operators.

IMHO because of security and/or so that everyone doesn't consider them to be airports used by anyone.

 

Lastly...they compiled the sound for each aircraft into an unreadable Binary that is locked inside a PCK

file. Now we have no way to create new sounds for add-on aircraft unless some genius figures a new way to do this. Why make it so difficult for developers?

 

I don't have the new sim yet but this is disappointing to hear, as I liked how accessible and easy it is to tweak sounds in the older sims. It sound like they've gone the route of other games, using a compiled sound-bank generated by a middle-ware audio tool that associates sound files and envelopes with event triggers and such, like FMOD, Wwise, etc. Hopefully this will all be documented in a SDK, and addressed eventually by enterprising freeware or payware developers.

- dcc

Not I. Uninstalled it and re-installed after doing some PC housekeeping. It's a learning curve no doubt. Having a great time with MSFS 2020.

One issue .....my Beloved Dog thinks it is okay to get under the desk and lay on my Rudder Pedals to hang out with me.....8>)

Give up?!? NEVER!

I'm having too much fun learning how to get my yoke, quadrant and pedals configured and I AM enjoying flying that 152 a whole bunch. Yes there ARE bugs in this brand new thing and I am confident there ARE competent bug exterminators out there who will, given a little time, find and kill them... at least the biggest ones.

Dealing with the issues and even my needing to buy a new graphics card is still cheaper than taking up golf or drinking.

Try something like a Thrustmaster (T Flight HOTAS 1), for example. It will automatically assign controls and is very user friendly. (my old Microsoft Sidewinder would not work at all and only crash the plane). I have a I7 9700K, Zotac NVidia 2070 Super Mini, 32 GB memory, (2) 1 TB SSDs (MicroCenter PowerSpec G434).

Yes, the T16000m default settings were mostly fine and easily tweaked.

They should of made it more like fsx, but with the better scenery.

Then you would hear that all it is, is an upgrade to FSX, and not a new program. We've been upgrading for years now so it was time for a fresh start.

They should of made it more like fsx, but with the better scenery.

Exactly !!! I agree with you 100%

You’re not wrong Tim.

Don’t know about you, but I always had flickering textures & blurry tiles etc with FSX. I never managed to fix this despite a lot of trying over the years. This new sim has none of that & it’s so smooth!

Regards

Steve

I'm like you FS2004. All settings on high, ALL my planes with fully functional wing views from all angles, many scenery tweaks and NO problems whatsoever! The realism, the efficiency and the pleasure to fly is 200% spot on, no problems! :)

So you're saying you joined this forum website just to tell us you don't want to join this forum website? Okeley-Dokely-Doo. Cheers mate. Oh.... and leave swiftly lest the door strike thee upon thy bum and make an ouchie.