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dedian posted:Is D still bound to set heading indicator? Also these popups can be disabled in Assistance > Notification > Piloting & Controls Notifications (I think), if they're not useful -- sometimes they are but usually not  
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Just turn off all the notifications and enjoy flying free of that nonsense.
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Aug 27, 2020 09:42
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Charles posted:Without a slip gauge, how do you know if your turn is coordinated? Not all planes have them. Seems like a hard skill to learn without "feel"? In Garmin equipped planes it's the horizontal bar under the "pointer" for the bank angle indicator.
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mobby_6kl posted:I haven't touched the keyboard bindings and it does nothing for me too. I'm also constantly getting these helpful tips: I forget which turns off the  crap but do that immediately. It'd be cool to have notifications like "Hey, airspeed under 10000 feet is limited to X" but instead it's just crap about the parking brake and how to raise the front of your plane.
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Aug 27, 2020 11:32
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Is rolling out onto the runway and then putting the parking brake on before you take off actually A Thing in real life? Every single time I start a flight on the runway I forget to turn the parking brake off until the popup yells at me for throttling up with it still on 
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Aug 27, 2020 12:13
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My experience of real flying is youtube videos and being a passenger - the GA pilots will do a "run up" which is a checklist and test on some tarmac just short of the runway - magnetos and poo poo like that, then they will roll in and just floor it to take off. Big stuff i've flown on they do a running start anyway.
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Aug 27, 2020 12:29
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Icedude posted:Is rolling out onto the runway and then putting the parking brake on before you take off actually A Thing in real life? Parking brakes are for parking, and not even all the time then. Lots of aircraft (particularly larger airplanes) aren't supposed to be fueled, loaded, or unloaded with them set. Since the weight on the braked wheels isn't always straight down, leaving the brakes set during those operations can put odd loads on the gear or tires. It"s generally a better habit to just chock the airplane whenever it's not moving, and tie it down. More amusingly, raise your hand if you've ever finished the preflight, gotten into the airplane, started the engine, and had the instructor stare knowingly at you while you tried to deduce why the airplane wont move. (Because the tail is still tied down you gently caress-up.) *raises his hand in shame*
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Aug 27, 2020 12:31
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Man, all this talk of WW2 planes has me itching to reinstall IL-2. I uninstalled it a month ago because I hadn't played it in a minute and thought "eh, the HOTAS is probably just gonna rest for a while", and then all this happened and I realized it was on gamepass.
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Mailer posted:I forget which turns off the E:. I never played any of the IL-2 games, which one would be the best to try nowadays? mobby_6kl fucked around with this message at 14:54 on Aug 27, 2020 |
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Aug 27, 2020 13:15
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1337JiveTurkey posted:So does the autopilot just do random stuff when you're trying to fly? Even with the loving Pipistrel it's like flipping the switch activates amazing new acrobatic abilities as it plunges into a death spiral. It's barely above an ultralight and just holding 8000 ASL seems to be the secret command to plunge through the earth from wherever in the US I'm flying back to Slovenia. Flip on the HDG switch and it decides to do it upside down. I've been doing this poo poo since FS4 and now it's broken in new ways I can't even imagine. The 747 yo-yos and can’t maintain altitude on AP. It’s bugged. I’m gonna slow my roll so I don’t get my fill before it’s patched.
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Aug 27, 2020 14:49
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So are there any good 3rd party flight plan tools available that work with this yet? I’m getting a little more into onair and I’d like to start setting up my evening flights during lunch or earlier in the day so I can just open up the sim, load the plan, and get flying
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Aug 27, 2020 15:02
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Wooooo I can finally get this gaaaame. Super excited.  I've been reading the cool stuff and teachings you guys have been sharing in the thread. I have a pilot's license so I'd love to share what knowledge I remember!
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Anime Store Adventure posted:Also trust your gut a little bit based on the VFR map - some navlog written instructions seem super vague and weird. Trust the heading and ETE more than the instructions. Not that you aught to ignore them entirely, but they aren’t always clear. Pay attention to mountains/elevation and water features on the VFR map because those can translate easily to landmarks you can see. I did the first leg of one of them and I navigated based on the isolines on the map and matched them to features I saw. Mostly because I don't know what state route 78 is and it wasn't marked on the map.
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Aug 27, 2020 15:05
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If anyone has a lazy 60k laying spare in FSEconomy, then I could finally get a decent 4+ seater IFR/AP/GPS airframe - I'm in Goon Air as bjw86 if anyone's feeling generous  Really having a good time flying around the Gulf doing jobs in MSFS2020 though, the weather effects seem a bit jank at the moment (29kt winds with 60kt gusts in Louisiana and the windsock is barely moving.)
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Aug 27, 2020 15:13
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With no slip indicator, to perform a standard turn flying IMC take your TAS and divide by 10 then add half the result, 100kt/10=10+(10/2)= 15° of bank 150kt/10=15+(15/2)=23°ish of bank Don't exceed 30° of bank under IMC, and don't exceed 15° bank above F310(this is just high altitude safety, probably doesn't matter in MSFS)
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Aug 27, 2020 15:25
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:So are there any good 3rd party flight plan tools available that work with this yet? I’m getting a little more into onair and I’d like to start setting up my evening flights during lunch or earlier in the day so I can just open up the sim, load the plan, and get flying What features do you want from the "3rd party flight plan tools"? MSFS actually uses the same file formats as FSX and P3d for flight plans, so any planner that can output .pln. files should work just fine, as long as you verify that the departure and arrival airports are actually in MSFS. I personally like LittleNavMap, since it's pretty straightforward to use, and lets you overlay the flight plan on a bunch of different maps, including sectional charts if you're flying in the US. Skyvector.com is also handy for planning stuff on the US, but you'll need another program to convert it's output to a .pln.
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I was flying around northern lake Michigan and I found a town with an airport becon in the middle of a neighborhood. The airport was a few miles away.
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Zero One posted:I was flying around northern lake Michigan and I found a town with an airport becon in the middle of a neighborhood. The airport was a few miles away.
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:So are there any good 3rd party flight plan tools available that work with this yet? I’m getting a little more into onair and I’d like to start setting up my evening flights during lunch or earlier in the day so I can just open up the sim, load the plan, and get flying azflyboy posted:What features do you want from the "3rd party flight plan tools"? Knowing the above, you can make good use of https://simbrief.com for output (they have a downloader app that can map to the FS2020 flight plan directory). You can enter a text route derived from any source (like SkyVector), select your aircraft from a list (or add your own with known performance tables). It'll handle fuel planning for you for the most part if you enter your weight data, and the outputs are generally easy to understand when you read their guide. Basically it gives you a  briefing packet in PDF form and a flight plan loadable in the sim.EDIT: IFR flight plans, but useful for getting an idea of fuel loadout in general.
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MrYenko posted:More amusingly, raise your hand if you've ever finished the preflight, gotten into the airplane, started the engine, and had the instructor stare knowingly at you while you tried to deduce why the airplane wont move. left chocks on
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Diet Crack posted:If anyone has a lazy 60k laying spare in FSEconomy, then I could finally get a decent 4+ seater IFR/AP/GPS airframe - I'm in Goon Air as bjw86 if anyone's feeling generous 60k is like 2 days flying, tops.
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Aug 27, 2020 16:18
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On glass cockpits the bottom of the bank indicator is your slip indicator. Just keep the triangle a triangle. I can't get the Bonanza to hit any of it numbers I'd expect either from the game or from what I've found online. I think something is off in the model. Loading the Icon into New Zealand and zooming around is a blast. From what I can tell burning fuel doesn't do anything to your performance, which is weird. You'd expect to speed up/etc. as you lose weight.
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azflyboy posted:What features do you want from the "3rd party flight plan tools"? Mainly going for basic route planning off the game since the world map is kinda poo poo and slow (for me). Being able to plan the approaches ahead of time in the navigation would be helpful to help me get lined up for landing or switching to ILS with less chance of loving up. Basically I’d like a little more than just A to B.
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The scenery in MSFS 2020 is breathtaking, but the inexplicable bugs like "basic controls panel not working" and "172 missing entirely from aircraft selection" (????) is a little grating.
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zedprime posted:Did you oblige and land in the neighborhood? Nah, it wasn't my destination.
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sellouts posted:60k is like 2 days flying, tops. If you can make 30k in under 6 hours a day then I'd like to know what jobs you're taking
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E4C85D38 posted:The scenery in MSFS 2020 is breathtaking, but the inexplicable bugs like "basic controls panel not working" and "172 missing entirely from aircraft selection" (????) is a little grating. Yeah now that I’ve played a bunch the in game bugs are starting to really get to me. I mean I never expected the default planes to be *good* but fly one long enough and you’ll run into something distinctly bizarre. Even the TBM I’m starting to question its fuel usage/performance, and that seemed like the best plane I’d flown so far. The live weather/wind being broken for half the world without so much as a peep from the devs (especially since it’s been happening since the alpha) is really starting to bug me. That’s a whole huge chunk of what makes the game more than google maps’ fly around mode. I realize it might be something that takes more than a week (especially a launch week) to fix, but all of their official problem trackers and poo poo don’t even mention it. Hoping we hear more today when they talk about the patch.
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Found a fix for the bug. If anyone else is missing their base game 172, go to AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Packages\Official\OneStore (or whatever path you pointed Content Manager at) and delete all folders and files with "172" in the name. Then launch MSFS2020 and the Content Manager will redownload and reinstall it, making it show up in your hangar.
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mobby_6kl posted:Yeah I kept this on so far because I thought something useful might come up, and it did in the Citation (max airspeed as you said) but mostly it's this crap. The new IL-2 series, aka the "Great Battles" series (Battle of Stalingrad, Battle of Kuban etc) is excellent. While it's not full clicky cockpit like DCS, it's a great sim with great graphics, feeling of flight and damage models. The original Battle of Stalingrad is seen as the base game, and it's a good starting point. From there it depends on what era/theatre you fancy- Battle of Kuban covers ~1943 in the caucuses, while the new hotness is Battle of Bodenplatte, focusing on the western front in late 1944-early 1945. I'd lean towards the latter, it's what the most popular servers tend to use these days. You just missed a big sale, but odds are there'll be another one in a month or two, so you can grab it for cheaper. We don't have organized events, but there are usually goons flying several times a week in the evenings on the airgoons discord and happy to show you the ropes
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Grumio posted:The new IL-2 series, aka the "Great Battles" series (Battle of Stalingrad, Battle of Kuban etc) is excellent. While it's not full clicky cockpit like DCS, it's a great sim with great graphics, feeling of flight and damage models. Is the single player any good or is IL-2 mostly focused on multiplayer servers? I'm considering picking it up as I want a combat flight sim that is less hardcore and spergy than DCS, but don't really have much interest in multiplayer.
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Bold Robot posted:Is the single player any good or is IL-2 mostly focused on multiplayer servers? I'm considering picking it up as I want a combat flight sim that is less hardcore and spergy than DCS, but don't really have much interest in multiplayer. Single player has a dynamic campaign with procedurally generated missions, more or less endless replayability. It's pretty good.
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Bold Robot posted:Is the single player any good or is IL-2 mostly focused on multiplayer servers? I'm considering picking it up as I want a combat flight sim that is less hardcore and spergy than DCS, but don't really have much interest in multiplayer. Single player is pretty good. There's a career mode (for whatever "battles" you own) that's pretty good, and generates perfectly acceptable missions. There's also a full mission creator and quick mission builder (which can use any aircraft/maps you own) and some canned campaigns available both for free and for purchase. The AI is still a little wonky (it's not doing the "sniping through clouds" stuff the old IL-2 had, but the fighters tend to get sucked into turning fights regardless of what they fly), but it does a fine job the vast majority of the time, and it never really feels like it has unfair advantages over the player.
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Diet Crack posted:If you can make 30k in under 6 hours a day then I'd like to know what jobs you're taking Sure. I have a 12k cargo job KAHC - KYUM - 530nm then I have a 11.6k cargo job KYUM - XXX - 661nm. then I have a VIP job from XXX to another airport for 8600 (409 nm distance) then I have a 10 pax job from there for 8900 for a whopping 90nm distance. Under 6hrs with no time acceleration using a Latitude. And that's really based because a friend left the jet at KAHC. I didn't even have to look around surrounding areas. sellouts fucked around with this message at 18:16 on Aug 27, 2020 |
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Bold Robot posted:Is the single player any good or is IL-2 mostly focused on multiplayer servers? I'm considering picking it up as I want a combat flight sim that is less hardcore and spergy than DCS, but don't really have much interest in multiplayer. If you are at all experienced in BFM the single-player often ends up a turkey shoot when doing anything air-to-air. There's the occasional bad beat where a friendly P-47 will straight up belly flop on to your canopy when you're pumping .50 cal into Franz's cockpit, but largely the fights get pretty easy quickly. The AI isn't great in a dog fight, but it's still fun. DCS with some of the better single-player WW2 campaigns (thinking heavily of the Blue-nosed Bastards of Bodney) is more challenging but it is not a light experience and vastly more expensive when you factor in buying planes, campaigns, and maps. The warbirds are IMO a flatter learning curve as far as DCS goes, but I'm a warbird junkie so my view is definitely skewed. I've found in IL2, specifically the Bodenplatte map/campaign, knowing good engine management from DCS really helped, but in IL2 you can much more easily tailor the difficulty to your preference. It just has a sudden and distinct skill ceiling for the AI planes including your compatriots that ranges from hilarious to frustrating. Also VR in IL2 is miles better than DCS if that's your thing.
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sellouts posted:Sure. I have a 12k cargo job KAHC - KYUM - 530nm Thanks!
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There's some guy on the globe highlighted. I have no idea who that is.
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Fun fact, you can make the text to speech say your callsign as an acronym and not a word if you separate them with a dash. I've been tagging up as D-A-L  like in Animal Crossing. Can't wait for liveries to come out.
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Grumio posted:The new IL-2 series, aka the "Great Battles" series (Battle of Stalingrad, Battle of Kuban etc) is excellent. While it's not full clicky cockpit like DCS, it's a great sim with great graphics, feeling of flight and damage models. Don't forget to mention the absolutely top-of-class VR integration. Unfortunately the multiplayer aspect is kind of crap, because it's a lot of full-real servers that have you flying around for 20 minutes without engaging anyone because there's no icons and the fields are spaced far apart. It's not like the old IL-2 1946 servers which were basically AirQuake and I miss that.
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Can someone explain why AP sometimes completely fucks my trim? From what I can tell I can do the exact same procedure to set altitude, and sometimes it just climbs without issue, and other times it tries to set the trim to loving 60 and I immediately nose dive because I'm too stupid to check trim before taking my hand off the stick.
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Sudden Loud Noise posted:Can someone explain why AP sometimes completely fucks my trim? Because bugs. You should try and center on the FD markings as you turn on AP to ensure a smooth transition to AP flying, but every now and then it's going to kick it to full trim up and stall you. No idea what causes it or how to fix it yet. I ended up binding a joystick button to disable AP. No option to bind a button to reset trim that I've found though.
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