Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020/2024)

Hi all, Well technically it’s one thing upgraded slightly and one thing added! the upgrade is the strobe light effects, anyone who has done a walk around an aircraft with strobes on knows not to look directly at them! Essentially they are like camera flashes that would leave you pretty blinded. However in the sim they are very docile and barely noticeable even at night. I’ve also not noticed them lighting up clouds when we fly through them (this could be down to how weakly they emit light as I think I’ve seen the landing lights lighting up clouds?). The other thing that appears to missing entirely is any form of contrails, it would be great to see these add…

MSFS has been running fine since the patch. I just opened up the Xbox app to check for any game needing updates to be confronted with MSFS having a failed 127GB update showing!😶 I tried restarting the update a couple of times with no success. I then opened up MS Store and it too had an update of unspecified size. Again, it would fail to do anything except throw up an error code. When I went back to Xbox, I opted to cancel the download and this prompted MS Store to update the Xbox app and make the MSFS update disappear. I restarted MSFS and it started normally as it had before. All very odd!🤷‍♂️

I purchased the premium edition via my xbox live account (so i would later have the xbox copy as well). I'm assuming the answer is obvious here but just checking. Ideally I wanted to have two copies running at the same time on the home network to do multiplayer via the Lan in house. When you sign into the second copy, naturally it warns you the first will be signed out. Secondly, if you try to sign in with another family members xbox live account, it says they dont own it (unlike copies on xbox for xbox titles where they can at least play under their userid). So i'm guessing for the pc and fs2020, the only solution is to buy another copy for $60 and run t…

not sure if its just me but the water seems worse since the update anyone else think the same

Hi, Has anyone else noticed the distinct Irish accent of the atc when saying the word three? At least in my copy of the sim they always say 'tree', even the women atc. Funny, but I wonder if it's intentional.

Does anyone know what the new Low/Med/High translate to in terms of FPS for the displays refresh rate?

I am looking for the ILS 27 frequency for CYYJ. My GTN says 108.95 but that does not work in MSFS and the GNS530. How do I determine the right frequency to dial in?

since you can't set sensitivities in MSFS right now, save your controller profiles before messing around changing things. Clone (duplicate) your old controller profiles and save the new duplicates with new names. You can go back to your old ones with original names anytime. Meanwhile in the new profiles 'clear current input' for aileron, elevator, and rudder axis (don't do this before backing up your profiles because you can't change things in MSFS Options Controls after the last patch). download fsupic7 https://forum.simflight.com/topic/90193-fsuipc7-beta-for-msfs/ Unzip, put files in a handy folder and click the .exe file. Start MSFS and do an Alt-…

MSFS was working in Multiplayer but all of a sudden as soon as my brother connects with me, MSFS closes and sends me back to the desk top. Checked all the settings and tried different servers. I set up am sitting at the airport, and as soon as he connects, he sees my plane and then "Poof" Im back at my desk top. Please if anyone know how to fix this please let me know. Thanks Walt

Good Morning. I have been a lurker on Avsim for a long, long time. As a R/W pilot who worked his way up to Bonanzas in the 80's and early 90's, only to have his wings clipped by having kids, I've spent almost thirty years yearning to get back into that real cockpit. Now that I am in my sixties, I realize that it probably isn't that smart for me to spend that money and take that risk again, especially since half the time I cannot even remember what I had for breakfast, let alone remember all the FARs and whatnot...so what I have left is simulation. My hopes were dashed when FSX stopped development, then even more so when Flight, which had soooo much promise,…

I am having a hard time with the GNS 530 in the Cessna 172. I am used to operating that same GPS system in X-Plane 11, but on MSFS I am having no luck. These are the issues I've observed: The ENTER key doesn't seem to work for me. For example, I pick an approach and click on PROC to activate it, but when I choose Activate Approach and hit ENTER nothing happens. Same issue with other operations that require ENTER. In X-Plane 11 (and I am assuming in the real navigation systems), every time you complete a leg of the flight plan, it automatically moves to the next leg. For example, if you are taking off from Airport A to Airport B and passing through Fix A, upon…

The toolbar that appears in the center of the image is really unrealistic especially in a flight simulator. One can really hope that it can somehow be hidden or disconnected on and off. As it looks now, it gives far too much of an impression of an X-box game. /Thomas

Hi all Has anybody come across any level of turbulence in storm cells yet, I have only come across very mild bumps in storm cells Thanks

Here is the list of "airliners" its displaying? I am not seeing the airbus https://ibb.co/zhJwHfG I had uploaded a bunch of liveries..in the community folder... thats all How can I recover the Airbus? any ideas? Manny

Was siting at the tarmac trying to observe and listen to LIVE ATC with Flight Radar 24 in the background and at first I was thrilled to see tower talking to a plane that was supposed to land, only to be disappointed a moment later, when no further communication ensued and the plane never materialized nowhere near the airport. How is this aspect actually playing out? How is the interaction with Live Players and AT?. If somebody is obstructing the runaway do they go around, disappear in the thin air, or simply fly through like players don't exist? IS ATC trying to handle the conflicts or they don't really intervene? Does anyone have a video or text where Traffic i…

I keep getting the amber/pink warning on the eicas display saying takeoff inhibit as I set throttles for takeoff. Same goes for landing - I get landing inhibit some time before touchdown (dont know exactly when the message pops up). For both instances all the takeoff memoes are green, including cabin ready, and the inhibit warning comes AFTER the memoes are all green. I was thinking maybe it is something to do with the fuel or weight, but I cant really manipulate anything of matter on that page. Anyone know what gives?

Am i missing something, or have ASOBO not included night apron lighting at airports and ramps? They have gone to such detail to add clutter and use AI to place buildings etc, but not to place flood lighting at the defaults?

Since I installed the latest patch 1.8.3.0, the way the frequencies are said by ATC is different. I recorded a sample for frequency 120.1, instead of saying "one two zero decimal one" the ATC says something like "unity two zero decimal one". I know that in some cases "one" can be replaced with "unity", which is the standard rule in French, but when I listen to the recording again and again, I am not sure the word is "unity". Did you notice the same ? Here is the sound sample if you want to listen: http://www.simscape.fr/files/Radio120_1.mp3

So today i did a flight from UK to Greece and on the way back the FPS performance was almost half of what i was getting on the way there. I know there's some issue with the CPU cores becoming full at 100% (limited by MainThread) but why does this occur over time? Is it that the scenery is getting loaded along the route?

Hopefully a 3rd party developer can make a replay system - I think they would sell very well

To avoid Autopilot NAV 'zig-zag" flying, simply re-engage NAV mode when Course Deviation Indicator (CDI) is in the MIDDLE position.

I am afraid Asobo (or the aircraft creators) did not correctly understand the role of the Flight Director in the concept of Autopilot. Someone explained that to me one day saying "the flight director is the brain, the autopilot is the muscle", which is I think a very good explanation. The FD determines what needs to be done and the autopilot acts on the flight controls to do it. It means you can activate the FD, select heading and altitude targets, and follow the FD while flying manually. What I experienced in the TBM is different. I set heading and target altitude, engaged the FD but the FD symbols does not indicate I must turn to meet the heading target (see screen…

Just read about FS2Crew new “improved” pushback system. It looks like it barely improves on the default system, maybe the additional voices?? Has anyone tried this? What’s the math behind pricing something at half the platform entry cost, while providing a feature that already exists in that same platform?

Hello, Can we keep waypoints on screen while flying ? A waypoint only appears in Fs 2020 if it's the next step in the flight plan They disappear if the aircraft is in the neighbourhood and never appear again. I also tried adding user points with little navmap as locations : cannot see these user locations in FS 2020. Maybe I should use another type of waypoint ? Airports do not disappear !

I was well into the 3rd leg of the Patagonia bush challenge before I realized I needed to land at airports to get credit. So I created a flight plan to return to the first airport. Ever since, I have to manually create a flight plan for each leg. How do I restore the original flight plan with POI waypoints?