Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020/2024)

Has anyone else had this issue where the Olbia ILS is way off? I tried it with several planes and same situation - carries you 10 +degrees to the south. Tried it in P3D default airport and its perfect. Jon

Hi all , Today i decided to do a small flight ( 2 hours ) with the 747-8 more for try something but tought that will be crash the Sim anyway because all flights i have done after the 1.12.13.0 Update crashed somehow. My try was what i read here and there often, to shut off the cache ( i have made a 100gig cache ) but not to delete because if i understand this right "off" says there would be no usage from this catch so i don`t need to delete em. I did this that way : Started FS go in the Option Menü and headed over to the Data part and set the catch to off. And than i am not goeing on, rather i did close FS and started again for safety is not …

Overall I like the effect, it will sure beat flying over green terrain in the northern Winter. I read complaints earlier about having green trees sticking out like a sore thumb over the snow...I'm seeing trees with snow scattered on them so that looks pretty good to me. One tweak I'd like to see is to buy some virtual snow plows both for the airfields and city streets. Both are fully covered in snow as show in the shots below. These fully snow covered runways are going to be hard to find on approach. I wonder if they tweaked how snow/icing impacts flight dynamics? I tried to do a flight out of Calgary-Springbank (CYBW) where it is currently snowing. Upon lo…

Announcing FS Map Tool, a new mobile map utility for MS FS2020 which has just been released on the Apple App Store and will be available soon on Google Play, too. It's a simple yet effective external map utility that shows your current plane location on an interactive map, alongside other parameters such as speed, altitude and heading. Head over to www.fsmaptool.com for more info. I've made this in my spare time as a fun side project. Let me know if you have any issues or suggestions and ideas on how to improve the app. I'm open for feedback and happy to include new features wherever possible. Happy flying!

First, Merry Christmas to all who celebrate it, Happy Holidays to everyone else. I have a question about 747-800 mods, I know about Salty's 747 mod, but after the last update this week, this mod causes my screen to lock up on "New Activities". Is there any mods that make the default 747 flyable? FMC and A/P functions in particular. Mike

Is there a shortcut key for bringing up the Navigraph desktop chart viewer during flight, without going into windowed mode? Thanks!

Do any MSFS aircraft now support Waypoint Altitudes or Speeds or Flap Positions? I haven't found a way on any default aircraft to successfully select a desired altitude at a designated Waypoint. Is it currently possible?

Hi there, I was wondering when MSFS 2020 started being programmed, just curious how long it took to develop the flight sim? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

How come the default flight plan we do on MSFS doesn't transfer to the FMC in the B787? Do you guys have this issue. Is this solvable? If so How do I do it?

What does this mean? Is this an F-15?

I've griped about it before, but is there a more useless system on one of the airliners? It works only when it feels like working, and if it doesn't, there's no way to turn it on. I've looked it up and others seem to be having the same issue.

Running (or trying to) 1.12.13 on powerful gaming computer under W-10 (fully update) ....Store install initially... downloaded 1.12.13 yesterday afternoon... the D/L hung halfway through...I exited the program, restarted, and the D/L resumed and installed (I think) successfully...started MSFS and it eventually loaded...there was a long lag somewhere that I did not pinpoint.... This morning tried to load 1.12.13....it now hangs on the "New Activities" page...before the upgrade to 1.12.13 MSFS ran perfectly... Any help appreciated... Thanks, John H.

An excerpt from a flight in "steam gauge" version of the C182 from Trondheim to Ålesund. By placing the 3 monitors in a straight line the distortion is almost non existent. I used to do this in X-plane as well, but I can't go back to XP now the immersion is just to fantastic in FS2020. The lower 4th monitor is running AirManager V4beta, and it works perfectly. Both for using the touchscreen and changing settings with the Knobster. I love flying VFR with just a sectional and view out the window with compass and in this case a few NDB's to double check. It is really close to real flying. The WX and scenery is so captivating. I do like IFR…

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So DirectX 12 is supposed to be coming to Flight Simulator 2020 this summer at the same time MSFS is released for Xbox. It's been said by authoritative members of this forum that the huge amount of graphic data in MSFS, compared to games, could overwhelm GPUs with insufficient memory. With that in mind, will DirectX 12 require more VRAM than DX 11 -- i.e., at that point, will the AMD RX 6000 GPUs with 16GB of memory suddenly acquire a performance advantage over the Nvidia RTX 3080 with only 10Gb in MSFS? Right now, neither has a significant advantage over the other, but will a Radeon RX 6800 XT be a better MSFS GPU than an RTX 3080 after the sim is ported to DX12? Or…

This is a follow up to my “The nightmare before Christmas - MSFS Steam edition” thread. so all was good yesterday, a quick test flight and some test launches of the game in between reboots to make sure nothing untoward was happening. so this morning after a quick 2hrs 30min ride on Zwift I figured the mrs wouldn’t mind me having a quick flight, so firstly onto Orbx Central and a cheeky purchase of Southend - good all done let’s fire her up. so after the US update screen I get to the main menu with no issues - what a relief, wait - what’s this that’s just popped up, I have to update some files so I can access the online features!! very strange as I downloade…

Good day, Is any way of having GPS map orientation set to Track up versus North up? Thanks.

I have the Radeon RX570 8GB gard fitted, It was OK with decent settings and i could enjoy a good flight with no FPS issues, I think i was getting about 20 FPS which was playable. Since the recent 2 updates , The game is now unplayable with the game freezing every 10 seconds for a matter of a second or 2. I can only put it down to the updaye prior to the lastest update since everything was ok. I have now got all the settings to medium, Before that, I was on ultra on some settings. I am however waiting for a new graphics card, But like you know, we are waiting for new ones to be shipped in. Any advice? Anyone else having the same issue? …

I tried to reset the rolling cache figuring that it might help with the terrain spike issue. I deleted it and when trying to recreate it, nothing happens. I get the message saying that it might take a few minutes etc, but all I get is the spinning circle. The weird thing is right below the message saying don't turn off your computer it says 100%. I've left it for over a half hour and nothing. I tried 8 gb and 32 gb and no joy. I have a fast SSD and I remember doing this once before and it worked fine, very fast. The only difference is there have been a couple of patches since the last time I reset it. Any ideas?

I have had to remove the otherwise excellent C152X realism mod after the recent patch as it now disables the engine tachometer and you can no longer hide the yokes. Is anyone else using this mod having the same issues ?

Hallo, each time I enter with Airbus 320 Neo clouds the airspeed indicator doesn't function correctly: it is rapidly moving in low speeds area, and the machine is tending to accelerate to maximum speed. It seems that I'm omitting an important setting, but I don't know what is it. Turn on deicing doesn't help. I would appratiate any cue to the source of the problem with ragards Rafal Z

Hello, today I was going to do some flying in VFR corridors through the Toronto area. These corridors have designated waypoints along the the way (generally VCXXX). It looks like these waypoints are not included in either the default MSFS nav data or the Navigraph data...using the GNS539 mod i could not insert them into my flightplan. Does anyone know if there is a way to add custom waypoints to the nav database? The Canadian flight supplement has all of the lat/long coordinates for them so I have the information I would need to do so. Thanks

Hi , saw this today: Releases · saltysimulations/salty-747 (github.com) cheers 😉

People pulled my arm, so I'm working on this now. You may request a fix in this thread near any airport in the world. I obviously do not have time to correct every spot on earth, but I will correct major airports or even smaller areas by request (as much as I can). Will post the link at FlightSim.TO once the first revision is ready, working on Canada, England, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, and other places around Europe for now. This will be far from complete, but it will correct the errors around some of the larger airports initially at least.

To me this is the most important update since release. Move your reactivity sliders to the left and finally have a feeling of inertia in the sim! Together with the extremity deadzone this is a complete game changer for me. It revolutionizes the handling in MSFS - no paper-plane-feeling anymore. This really makes me happy - thanks Asobo! For starters I suggest to set your reactivity to 0 for pitch, roll and yaw. You can later move it up again if it feels too sluggish. Add an extremity deadzone of 50 for pitch and 25 for yaw (I leave roll at 0). Sensitivity -50 for pitch, roll and yaw. Then finetune from there.