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So, a stupid newbie question but here goes: is there something special about the TBM vs the other planes? It seemed to be the default and a lot of people are talking about it, but I didn't get a sense of what it does vs the other planes. I've mostly been flying one of the single person prop planes around (the one with the LCD readout on the left and the LCD GPS system on the right, both right in front of you on the dashboard) since they seem nice and nimble and I can fly around low past buildings. Aside from that, I really don't know what the difference between the specific planes are (except big jet, small jet, turboprop, prop, etc., as broad categories) and when to choose one over another.
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Timespy posted:Well, what I personally like about the TBM is that: Cool, that's very helpful, thanks! Sounds like I should spend more time flying around in the TBM.
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Aug 20, 2020 18:02
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I said come in! posted:What would be really awesome is a cold war era spy plane with the functions to take pictures of the terrain. I really want to fly the Lockheed U-2. I am really loving excited for this game. I just wanna try out all these different planes and fly them around just gawking at the scenery. Let me get a U-2, a Concorde, a VTOL aircraft, I want to buzz houses in a SR71, hell let me fly around a 747 with a Space Shuttle strapped on top. I want it all!!
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Aug 20, 2020 19:20
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For the life of me I can't understand why they disabled virtual navigation aides in the "fly solo" training mission. I took off, hit left, entered the traffic pattern, missed some mid-air objective, and then took another left and landed pretty decently, but I fail because I didn't do some part of it right, but it also doesn't show you (or let you enable the aide) where you were supposed to hit mid-air. Like it doesn't even give you the right altitude or GPS or something you were supposed to hit, how are dumb new flight sim players like me supposed to know 
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Aug 20, 2020 20:42
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Hey uh, quick question. Does anyone else trying the "Breckenridge to Mariposa" bush trip get started in midair, with your aircraft pointed straight down? I tried the challenge before and I think it started me on the runway to take off that time, but now each time it's starting me in some weird death spiral hurtling toward the ground. It's like it's starting me from the position I was in the last time I tried the challenge.
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Aug 20, 2020 23:57
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I made a flight from Newark Intl to East Hamptons at night, live time and weather, in a TBM. I ordered a PS3 eye for that FaceTrackNoIR thing and I'm getting my Thrustmaster T-Flight HOTAS back, and setting up my other monitor to show instruments on. I think I became a flight nerd 
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Aug 21, 2020 04:43
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Simiain posted:I had the same issue and currently the only sticking point I have with this game as a dumb new flight sim player is its objective system. The objectives all seem pretty finicky in terms of their 'hit-box' and if you 'miss' one then it seems to get stuck on that and screw up the rest of your flight. I agree, finicky is a good term for it. I did manage to beat that solo takeoff/landing training mission tonight, but it just seems hard to tell whether I met their criteria or not in the flight. I took off and landed just fine, but I missed some mark mid-flight and wasn't able to tell where/how. I think that's the main thing about the gameplay that needs work for me -- sometimes I can tell I'm doing something wrong, but it's hard to tell precisely how the thing is wrong and what I should do now that I did it wrong.
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Aug 21, 2020 04:46
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Does anyone have any good settings/tips/whatever for using FaceTrackNoIR with a PS3 Eye camera (facetracking, no IR)? I got one today (ordered it a day or two ago on ebay and came overnight, amazing) and briefly set it up and gave it a try over NYC and it was beautiful. I've got the basics of it down (had to invert a few axes and mess with the curves) so I can reliably look around mid-flight, but I'll have to iron out some kinks, it seems a bit too sensitive and has little or no deadzone so I have to concentrate on keeping my head very stable when I want to do something like disable autopilot. I want to get it to a state where I can operate the controls in-cockpit pretty easily without having to disable the tracking and switch to fixed cameras. Overall though pretty great experience for the ~$20 bucks spent. Radio Free Kobold posted:i feel like i need a quick-reference image for my keyboard controls. having to open up the menus to find the one button i need to push is crap. There's two I found on reddit that I've been using https://drive.google.com/file/d/19nwF9bflrw1CMd26GWx1FKJpzAxJVL4e/view https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftFlightSim/comments/idg8w1/ms_fs_2020_keyboard_shortcutsbindings/ Pham Nuwen posted:You may have already figured this out, but here's a post for anyone who's having trouble: I understand most of this but the only thing I couldn't really figure out during the mission was a) where to find the heading in the Cessna (you've circled it but I didn't know how to figure out which instrument it was myself), and b) how to figure out degree bearings with the Cessna's heading meter thing that seems to use....well I'm not quite sure what it's showing. piratepilates fucked around with this message at 19:30 on Aug 21, 2020 |
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Aug 21, 2020 19:27
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Macintosh HD posted:I'm not using the PS3 camera but I am using FaceTrackNoIR with a regular webcam and no LEDs. What I found helpful are four things: setting dead zones, lowering the curves, having an easy way to pause/resume tracking, and having an easy way to "reset" to the home position. Thanks! I played around a bit after work and putting in a deadzone helped a lot.
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Aug 22, 2020 01:21
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Found a house-farm while flying around 2000 feet above ground Also found this cool makeshift house-maze that got generated  Bonus points if you can figure out which state this is from the buildings: California, northwest of LA on the way to Santa Barbara
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Aug 22, 2020 07:23
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FaceTrackNoIR users may want to check out using opentrack along with aitrack. I gave it a try last night and just now and it seems to work pretty smoothly, maybe smoother than NoIR, but I have to play around more and compare the two. I couldn't get the XYZ translations working nicely though so I had to disable those. I also started mounting my PS3 eye on top of my monitor instead of below, that seems to help things out too.
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Aug 23, 2020 20:15
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Landing on tiny island airports is so scary. Such an odd feeling looking around and seeing nothing but endless ocean, and then a tiny island with a runway right at sea level on it. Just landed at Cat Cay Airport (MYCC) off of the coast of Florida, the runway begins with the water and ends with the water, you better not come in too low or you'll just descend right in to the ocean  https://www.google.com/maps/place/N...9.2750646?hl=en
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Aug 26, 2020 00:13
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BeastOfExmoor posted:Turns out you're right: Man I had no idea that it was an Icon Halladay died in (RIP), that's crazy.
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Aug 26, 2020 00:19
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Hopefully what it does is give Microsoft a good reason to move forward with improving Bing maps stuff and doing more aerial scanning. They can market Bing maps through MSFS, and have another reason to improve Bing maps to also improve the game.
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Aug 28, 2020 18:52
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McLarenF1 posted:Why would you SIM as Spirit instead of Emirates?
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Aug 29, 2020 00:47
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I'm still new to flying but at this point I've had really good success with just setting the trim so I'm flying at a neutral attitude and going from there, no autopilot. I need to touch up the heading every once in a while, and you have to make sure you're not falling out of the sky every once in a while, but for just flying around it's worked pretty well.
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Aug 30, 2020 22:32
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ephex posted:Just had discussion with one of my best friends who is a pilot with Lufthansa and got turbo hosed by COVID: There's a bunch of youtubers who seem to be actual pilots making content for the game. I would say he should definitely try, and also try out making videos or twitch streaming too, especially if he's already motivated enough from needing work. A lot of people would be interested.
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Sep 2, 2020 22:59
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Charles posted:It's working again. ah, the "fix everything" patch
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Sep 11, 2020 01:38
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Sagebrush posted:And because their website is super confusing, the step by step process is: password max length is 8 characters, only alphanumerics. who are these jokers?
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Sep 13, 2020 01:54
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In the a320neo you can see the trim wheel spinning around constantly if you look down a bit. I guess that's the autotrim at work.
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Sep 13, 2020 22:00
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ickna posted:Oh dear. Their rap sheet of previous games doesn’t inspire a lot of confidence in light of how seriously people take flight simulators. Given the state of the game on launch and the hilarity of things that have been broken since, it seems like they might be out of their depth. Huh what the hell, they're the ones who made Fuel? That was a neat game (aside from the gameplay) with a giant scale open world. I thought the studio went bankrupt after it came out though 🤔
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Sep 18, 2020 01:45
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Rocko Bonaparte posted:Do I normally toggle on auto selection before I take off? If so, would I normally do it as part of starting up everything? It's weird, I took off with a TBM 930 and noticed "AUTO SEL" in the alerts, I looked up and sure enough, Fuel Sel wasn't set to Auto, so I flipped the switch. Took off on a different flight with a TBM 930 and it was already set to AUTO. I can't remember ever having to manually flip these before  edit: Cojawfee posted:Earlier today, I decided to take the Extra and fly it through the grand canyon, heading from KGCN up to page. Partway through the flight, I had to pause because I had to eat dinner and also do a zoom meeting for school. I am just now getting back and am ready to finish my flight. Apparently pausing the game doesn't pause time in the world, because I came back to this. Turn off your targeting computer and use the force to fly your way out, coward.
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Sep 18, 2020 03:22
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sigher posted:Is there anyway to start a flight where you have to set the instruments in your six pack? In the check-list it says to set the Heading Indicator/Altimeter/etc but like... all those are always perfectly set within the game when you start up a flight so having to "set" it is kinda pointless and is becoming an afterthought for me. It'd be nice if you could start a flight where they're all off and you have to dial it in, I want the whole experience of take-off god drat it. If you're seeing 29.92 when you're starting on the runway for takeoff, I don't think that's actually set up for you. Every time I'm about to takeoff or right after takeoff, I hit "B" to correct the Hg setting, and almost every time the altitude reading jumps because the Hg was set to 29.92 instead of whatever it should have been for the ground.
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sigher posted:
oh, now that's weird, the ATC have definitely given me many different numbers 🤔 I haven't tried tuning an ATIS since the patch so maybe that's still hosed. Are you getting live weather and wind otherwise? For the last patch I was somehow in a state of being patched but not being 100% patched, so the live features weren't working for me until I opened the xbox for pc app and it said it had an app update. Maybe make sure you have the xbox app and microsoft store and everything open for a while and check if they have updates (either for their apps, or for msfs2020)? Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:The savage cub/shock ultra for low speeds (90/80 knots). They're high wing for good visibility on the terrain below you. The passenger seat is behind the pilot, so you have equal visibility left and right. (Does this type of configuration have a name?) The Cessna Grand Caravan also has pretty good visibility for being a turboprop with a higher speed than the prop planes. The TBM 930 has terrible visibility though, and the other jets/airliners are the same.
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Sep 18, 2020 23:23
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Lord Stimperor posted:Hi y'all, Thanks for this, it was a fun trip. It took me a bit to figure out the VOR intercepting thing, but past that it was smooth sailing. I liked the final leg where you're flying low, and it gets from flat flat flat, to suddenly hilly, to mountains.
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Sep 20, 2020 02:23
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Merv Burger posted:I've watched videos on YouTube from someone that flies an SR22 and he's shown shots of the screen with weather radar data on it. Niko's Wings?
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Sep 22, 2020 04:27
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I've been playing since launch and now I'm p. sure I can land a cessna if I needed to.
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Sep 24, 2020 03:34
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Sapozhnik posted:same I'll land it and survive 
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Sep 24, 2020 04:00
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Shipon posted:Got about 2 hours into the Japan tour when my game crashed out around Mount Fuji. What a shame. Not at all helpful but I got through the whole mission without crashing, just putting out a data point that it at least works for some people. You can potentially answer a question I had about it: did it save your progress like the bush trips do? or will you have to do the whole trip over again?
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Weed Wolf posted:I also had a Tour of Japan crash. No saves it looks like. Same, it kept doing it for me. I think it's that bug with live traffic where controls on other aircraft will affect yours. I just got real fast at flipping avionics off and on and turning AP back on.
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