Search the Community
Showing results for tags 'msfs2020'.
-
Hello and welcome, my esteemed friends, to our Club's Annual meeting for 2024, and the inauguration of our new Home Airport, Merril C. Meigs, KCGX. To those who have been flying with us since the beginning and those who have joined us along the way for one or more of our Challenges, it's great to see you all again! To those who are flying with us for the first time and who are showing us the wonders of MSFS2020, welcome! Last Fall, ViperPilot2 had the wild idea of doing a flying event for some of the older sims. A few people decided to take him up on it. That became the Bendix Challenge. Some wove elaborate fictional narratives about their sim flights. And the weirdest thing happened: After spending October flying one event, we wanted to do another, which became the Route 66 Challenge, which saw us all spending Thanksgiving together on a California beach. And what did we talk about between Thanksgiving and New Year's? Doing another Challenge, this one so big and convoluted, with three different routes, each with its own character and rules set, that participation at times felt like it fit the legal definition of insanity. In this time, we've told a lot of stories, running a gamut from murder mysteries to science fiction. We've told a lot of jokes. We've packed our logbooks with a lot of flying hours. And we've consistently had the most active threads on flightsim.com. We've also seen each other through illnesses, major surgeries, and health scares to our spouses. To repeat a comment I made early on: Sometimes it's more than just pushing pixels around screens. There are real people behind the screen names. And we're still here, and more people are flying events with us each time. So, to paraphrase Microsoft, Where Do We Want To Fly From Here? And, what will it take to get us there? That's the purpose of this meeting. Or to put it in business world terms, what are our goals for 2024 and what is the minimum structure necessary to facilitate their achievement? The fact that we've been flying together for six months now, doing it all by the seat of our pants, and we're still together is amazing. It's time now for a little more formality, so that we can all be together to do this again next year. To support this, we'll be using a four-phase process: Preliminary: A simple, broad questionnaire was posted on Friday, with the request to consider our answers in private. The purpose of this is twofold: To ensure that all responses are exclusively the yours and not built on someone else's, and to allow you to post your answers with a minimum of time and effort. This step is now complete. Individual Ideas: The second step is the posting of responses. Have your say about any of the questionnaire items that is important to you, and more importantly, consider what everyone else has to say before we start discussing it. This step begins now, and ends the earlier of all members having posted their responses to the questionnaire, or 12:00 CDT on Tuesday. Getting all responses in quickly will allow us more time for discussion. Discussion/Consensus Building: The third step starts when the second ends, and ends at end-of-day Wednesday, or earlier by agreement of the attendees. This one presents the logistical challenge of having to take place across the globe, while still finishing in a short amount of time. Individual Ideas will fall into one of three categories: Agreement: We've been flying together for a while and know each other's styles and capabilities, so all answers to a given question say much the same thing. These will boil down to simply formalizing what we're already doing. Easy! I Don't Agree, But I Can Live With It: Answers that differ sharply will need a negotiated solution. While the goal is to include everyone's ideas to their satisfaction, sometimes that will not prove possible. Consensus isn't about pleasing everyone, but rather about each of us conceding just enough to keep the others happy without our concessions becoming issues for us later on. Adamant Disagreement: Some things just cross a line. If you search your heart, are not just being petulant and trying to get your own way, and the move toward consensus is taking us somewhere that you are just unwilling to go, say so and we'll take a step back. What doesn't work for all of us doesn't work for any of us. Hopefully, these will be few and far between. These are the ones we most need to catch and resolve in the broadest, most imaginative sort of way, lest we start losing members. 2024 Club Bylaws Publication: The final step starts when the previous one ends. Ideally, we will have developed the text during the Discussion phase, and will only have to compile it into a cohesive document. From the moment of the document's publication, we will have 24 hours for edits and comment. Let me end this introduction with a preliminary Code of Conduct, to both govern this meeting and as my proposal for a more permanent Code: Disagree without being disagreeable. Be slow to anger, quick to forgive, and leave pursuing grudges in the box in the attic with all the rest of the things from our childhoods. Express ourselves, perhaps even insistently when a point's very important to us, but put finding a liveable consensus over winning a point. Let's all get on the same side of the table here and come up with answers, rather than going round and round in pointless arguments. This is a single-level group. No one's opinion has any more validity than anyone else's here. Whatever else we've been in the past, here we're all just fellow fliers, trying to have fun together. Whatever skills and knowledge that we've acquired throughout our lives only matter to the degree that we lay them on the table and use them to help our brothers-in-wings here. Leadership is a service here, not a position of privilege, and shall be undertaken only with the intent of improving our fellow fliers' enjoyment of the group. When something offends us, let's take 5 or even wait a day or two and make our response a considered Action, rather than a brute Reaction. As I used to tell my clients, "The one who unconsciously Reacts rather than consciously Acts. loses." Save Reacting for when you're on final into KCGX, past decision height, and that nice, 30-knot headwind suddenly drops to 0. We all have different skill and knowledge sets. Never ridicule a question, just because it seems too basic. Let's put ourselves in the other person's shoes, lace them up, and go for a nice, long walk. A lot of us are prideful people. Many of us have done a lot over our lifetimes. When we find ourselves with a group of other similarly-accomplished individuals, who are all talking about something we don't understand, we tend to not ask the million-and-one questions we have because we don't want to seem dumb. When we finally do screw up the courage to ask something, the worst thing that can happen is that someone laughs at us for it. All that does is confirm our feelings of inadequacy. When will we ask them another question? Never. When will we feel safe and confident around that someone or enjoy spending time with them? After we ask another question and receive a decent, honest response from them. English is the language for our interactions. We all have different levels of it. Even those of us who are native English speakers have vast national/regional/cultural differences in how we express ourselves. Let's not assume that a question or comment is understood by all - in fact, a more valid assumption is that at least one person here will not understand what we've said in the way that we intended it to come out. Ask. Clarify. Above all, let's be patient with each other. Any proposal for a route, Challenge, Fly-In, or any other activity that will require Club members to take action, is a commitment on the part of the proposer to both participate in the activity and to administer it. In other words, if it's your baby, you change the diapers. You may enlist help from other Club members, but this is strictly voluntary.
- 95 replies
-
- 2
-
- club chachapoya
- fs2002
- (and 4 more)
-
Using frame generation for a smooth ride
-
I am trying to configure OBS Studio for MSFS 2020 recording flights. I did a YouTube search and didn’t find anything specific to MSFS 2020. Is anybody using OBS Studio for recording flights? Links to resources would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
-
An Austrian Winter...A trip from Vienna to Munich. [CLICK THE PIC] for the larger version. Hopefully, you enjoyed these images, your commentary is greatly appreciated...Darryl
-
133 downloads
Here is Cherbourg airport created by Yves P. Cherbourg - Manche airport formerly Cherbourg-Maupertus is a civil airport, open to public air traffic, located in the municipalities of Maupertus-sur-Mer and Gonneville at 11 km east of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin in Manche. It is used for air transport (national and international), public service missions (SP) of the 33F flotilla and for the practice of leisure and tourism activities (light aviation). The file is available for download on Simvol. -
198 downloads
Here is Bordeaux airport created by Fsfan50 and BeviJo33. Bordeaux-Mérignac airport is a French international airport located in the town of Mérignac, 12 km west of Bordeaux in the Gironde department, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. The airport serves as a base for the airlines EasyJet, Ryanair and Volotea. It welcomed 7.7 million passengers in 2019, making it the 8th largest airport in France and the 6th outside the Paris region. However, since 2020, Nantes airport has tended to establish itself as the leading airport in western France, to the detriment of Bordeaux airport, which has demoted to the rank of 9th French airport (7th in the provinces) in number of passengers. It shares its runways with the 106 Bordeaux-Mérignac air base of the French Air Force. The file is available for download on Simvol. -
100 downloads
Here is Ajaccio airport created by Philippe Louvet. Ajaccio-Napoléon-Bonaparte international airport, still usually called by its former name Campo dell'Oro, is an airport in the Corse-du-Sud department, located in the east of the territory of the municipality of Ajaccio . The airport right-of-way is bordered to the south-east by the Gulf of Ajaccio. This aerodrome is open to national and international commercial traffic, regular or not, to private planes, instrument flight (IFR) and visual flight (VFR). It has a runway 2,407 meters long and 45 meters wide oriented NNE-SSO (02-20) and a short, disused, East-West oriented runway. The file is available for download on Simvol. -
67 downloads
Here is Chartres airport created by Roland_LFOR. Chartres Champhol aerodrome was completely redesigned in 2016 and 2017 after it almost disappeared. It was renamed on this occasion to Chartres-Métropole. Historically this is the location of the first air base in France built in 1909. The file is available for download on Simvol. -
50 downloads
Here is Colmar airport created by Phanou91. Colmar - Houssen airport is located in the town of Colmar (Haut-Rhin) in the center of the Alsace region. This aerodrome is open to national and international traffic, commercial, private aircraft, IFR and VFR. The airport is mainly used for business, tourism and school flights, as well as for transporting sports teams and personalities. The file is available for download on Simvol. -
-
89 downloads
Here is Caen airport created by Captain Ivanov. Second Norman airport of Captain Ivanov, Caen Carpiquet airport (LFRK) is an airport located in the Calvados department in the Normandy region and mainly serves the city of Caen. This airport is open to national and international commercial traffic, whether scheduled or not, to private planes, IFRs and VFRs. Caen airport is the main airport in Normandy to date. The file is available for download on Simvol. -
97 downloads
Here is Rouen airport created by Yves P. Rouen Vallée de Seine airport, formerly Rouen Boos airport, is the airport of the Rouen Normandy metropolis, prefecture of the Normandy region. It is the property of a mixed syndicate, the Joint Management Syndicate of Rouen Val de Seine Airport (SMGARVS), of which the metropolis, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Rouen and Matmut are members. It is located in the town of Boos, located 9 km east of Rouen. Rouen is the third Norman airport in terms of passengers transported (far behind Caen and Deauville, respectively 1st and 2nd). The file is available for download on Simvol. -
73 downloads
Here is Gap Tallard created by Béralex. Gap - Tallard aerodrome is an aerodrome open to public air traffic, located in the town of Tallard 12 km south-south-west of Gap in the Hautes-Alpes. It is used for the practice of leisure and tourism activities (light aviation, glider, helicopter, parachuting and hot air ballooning). The file is available for download on Simvol. -
43 downloads
Here is Pontoise airport created by Cyril Real and Emmanuel Vélu. Pontoise - Cormeilles-en-Vexin airport is a civil airport, open to public air traffic, located on the territory of the municipalities of Cormeilles-en-Vexin, Boissy-l'Aillerie and Génicourt 7 km to the northwest of Cergy-Pontoise in the Val-d'Oise. It is used for national and international air transport and for the practice of leisure and tourism activities (light aviation, helicopter and Zeppelin airship in summer). It is managed by Groupe ADP. The file is available for download on Simvol. -
50 downloads
Here is Aurillac airport created by Claude Roure. Aurillac Airport is an airport open to public air traffic, located in the town of Aurillac in Cantal. With a 1,700 meter runway, this airport is open to domestic commercial traffic, private aircraft, instrument flight (IFR) or visual flight (VFR). The file is available for download on Simvol. -
35 downloads
Here is Saint-Étienne airport created by Dobro. Saint-Étienne-Loire airport is an airport in the Loire department located in the town of Andrézieux-Bouthéon, fifteen minutes from the center of Saint-Étienne. It is managed by a joint syndicate made up of local authorities and public establishments (Loire Departmental Council, Saint-Étienne Métropole, Loire Forez urban community, Forez-Est community of communes, CCI Lyon Métropole Saint-Étienne Roanne) after having been managed from its origin, with public co-financing, by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Saint-Étienne / Montbrison. It serves a catchment area of nearly of four million people (between Lyon and Clermont-Ferrand). It has access to the A72 freeway. This airport is open to national and international commercial traffic, scheduled or not, private aircraft or not, IFR and VFR. The file is available for download on Simvol. -
-
The SKY Express ATR-72...current operations of the turboprop into Athens. [CLICK THE PIC] for a larger version. Hopefully, you enjoyed these images, your commentary is appreciated...Darryl
-
A Short Flight with Lots of Circling The trip from Alicante to the island of Ibiza, Spain, is only 111 miles/170 km away. Btw, there is an actual flight, Vueling VY1354. This is a quickie Friday flight (part of a series). As always, [CLICK THE PIC] for a larger version. Hopefully, you enjoyed these images, your commentary is greatly appreciated...Darryl
-
Big Bear Lake(L35) to San Diego(KMYF). This is a quickie Friday flight (part of a series) to come once a week. Remember, [CLICK THE PIC] for the larger version. Hopefully, you enjoyed these images, your commentary is greatly appreciated...Darryl
-
Hi, I have two NVME SSDs, 500GB each. I'm currently running Windows 10 and everything on the C:. I'm wondering if somebody can guide me to utilizing my other SSD so that I can get the most efficient storage operations out of my system? As add-ons, I currently own a few ORBX sceneries, FBW a320, PMDG 737, and a lot of downloads from flightsim.to. Thanks
-
Hi, All You Aviation People, Being both an aviation enthusiast and a photographer, I have loved flight sim screenshots for decades. And whether you love or hate MSFS 2020 (or fall somewhere in between), it is capable of amazing visuals and gives you excellent control over cameras and your environment. So I've amassed a decent collection of images over the last year and a half. But what to do with all of them? I decided that I could share them with the community and return a little something to them for their years of friendship, help, and good times by making a slideshow screen saver (Windows 10/11) and distribute it for free to the flight simulator community. I also included a readme file that listed all the 3rd party aircraft and scenery use while making the images. And that's when the gremlin of potential copyright issues reared its ugly head. Would 3rd party developers of aircraft and scenery have a problem publishing screenshots that include their creations? Generally, as they are all listed in the accompanying readme file, this should be good for their sales, creating additional exposure and interest. But you never know. And I don't have time to go asking each one if they're OK with it. There is no money involved; the whole thing would be free. Any thoughts on the matter? Any experts out there familiar with the legal concept of Fair Use? An alternative would be to just post a new screenshot here in this forum every day. Not as good, but at least it could be fun. Thanks for any help you can provide. Attaching an example (resized down to 1600 pixels in width, and shows FlyingIron Simulation's P-38L recreating a fake recon flight over the coast of France prior to D-Day - or something like that). Tony.
-
Hi everyone! I'm as new as can be. I'm okay with computers but not with planes, and I bought MSFS 2020 for my dad, who is okay with planes but not with computers. English isn't my first language either, so please bear with me if I get some aviation terminology wrong! My dad uses a Logitech HOTAS X52 Pro, and a few days ago he found that the throttle no longer works. Moving the physical lever has no effect on the simulated one. There are a few things we've noticed that make this even weirder: The problem only occurs in planes with a jet engine. In propeller planes, the throttle works as expected. The problem only occurs on the X52. The F2 and F3 keys on the keyboard (the default keys to increase/decrease throttle) do work as expected. The lever is bound to the throttle axis, and it does work on the options screen (moving it back and forth moves the bar as expected). The only place where it doesn't work is in-game using jet engines. He doesn't know what he could have done to cause it, and I don't know what I could do to fix it (other than reinstalling the entire game and hoping that changes something). A couple more pieces of info to help you narrow things down: We're on version 1.21.18.0. MSFS was installed from discs (so I assume it's the Microsoft Store version; definitely not Steam). I noticed multiple throttle axes on the options screen (throttle axis 1, 2, 3, 4), and I have tried to bind them to the lever, but that had no effect. It used to work before, even with jet planes. I'm hoping this is an easy one for you - perhaps just a setting gone wrong that I haven't found - and not an obscure bug in the game that would require waiting for an update to fix. I very much appreciate any help! :)
-
Simple curiosity question (New to the forum, I have been a long time Simulator user (FSX and now FS2020) and a long time ago was a real life private pilot). When you drop the landing gear on the Baron there does not seem to be any additional drag and any need to crank up the throttle and the elevator to keep speed and level. Does not seem very realistic and suppose it's not the case on a real life Baron ?? A bug ??