Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020/2024)

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Captains, We have a rare mid-week update for you with a few bits of news to keep you up-to-date on various goings-on around PMDG. PMDG 737NG for MSFS Updated to 3.00.0108: As discussed in a previous update, we went through a few build cycles for the 737 at the request of Microsoft's Marketplace Intake team in order to remove some cruft that was determined to be unneeded in the release build of the product. This incremented the build number from 106 to 108, and we have pushed a micro update for the 737 to reflect this change in order to keep the Operations Center version and the Marketplace version in sync. Further along this update cycle, we were notified on Tue…

what to do ??? I am one of the few since day one with no issues, now after a week I get the stuck at 97% loading endless wait, etc... "taking longer than usual " tag on the splash screen..... 2 re-installs did not help (steam edition) deleted the streaming packages folder contents too... thinking I read about that somewhere, no good.... so if re-installing doesn't help, what will? Appreciate anyone else with the same issue on steam that fixed this disaster... wanted to sim on turkey day a bit .... thanks, Peter

I had something odd happen this evening. I have been flying 2024 since day 1 with virtually no issues. Tonight I tried to fly a flight out of KMIA and I got a CTD. I tried several different planes and different gates, same result. Then I tried KFLL and KATL with the same result. I went to KPHL and KORD and had no issues. Any idea what would cause this?

To RTFM and WTFM [Trigger warning. Some humor involved.] This is a message from an old geezer who grew up on IBM Manuals. A warped outdated view, of course. We are all having some trouble figuring out how to handle the complex environment of the new simulator. Of course, it is good for us to puzzle through the different settings and different places we can control those settings, for many different input devices. Puts hair on our chest…so to speak. Fifty years ago, we would be expected to thumb through those IBM manuals and figure out where the necessary information lay and answer our questions through our own efforts. If a novice (as noobs were c…

In the airplane settings, I can no longer use esc to go back or delete instrument assignments. It is requiring me to use a "joystick button." No idea how it just changed. Anyone know how to get the esc back?

November 26 - did a nice flight around SE San Diego county using KSEE (El Cajon/Gillespie) as departure and arrival. Never got more than 5 miles from KSEE in Areobat 152. Frame Rate stayed above 23 (Dev Mode or 45 or so in Frame Gen mode) and CPU/GPU stayed around 50% to 70%. The network traffic for the sim stayed around 1.0 to 3.0 Mb/sec. Rolling cache is 16GB and was being updated. Frame time was about 28 - 32ms for CPU and 28 - 30 for GPU. I landed and shut the sim down normally. An hour later restarted the sim with exactly the same stuff and flew exactly the same pattern. Frame rate never got above 4 in dev mode and less than 9 in FG mode. Only one of th…

At long last I have my throttles configured. When I open at a gate, I have the external inspection view. Shift + C does not get me into the cockpit. How do I get into the Fenix cockpit whilst at a gate?

Just a heads up for anyone that may not have them yet https://forum.inibuilds.com/topic/24033-airbus-aircraft-simbrief-profiles-for-microsoft-flight-simulator-2024/

Is there a way to turn off the default AI traffic at airports or in the air and only have PSXT or Vatsim? No matter what I try, I can't seem to get rid of them. I was using AIG

I know that Shift-C should get you in the cockpit. However, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Does anyone know what would cause me to not be able to get int the cockpit when pressing Shift-C? Could the KB assignment have changed? Thanks!

... these connection issues. The game loads fine and quick but when I just launched a flight I'm gazing at the spinning circle. It worked fine this morning. Yesterday I had the same issue twice and on the second time it happened, just hitting ESC and then relaunch the flight it would connect and I could have ago. But now, I'm looking at that dreadful spinning white circle again. Stopping, re-loading, quitting to desktop and re-starting does not get me into a flight either. I want to have a flight going to test my control setup but M$ just says no. 😡😡😡

Anyway to toggle these off? Not using a controller, it just makes it look cleaner.

Maybe this "issue" doesn't annoy you... but the majority of Asobo's hangars are homes or industrial buildings that have no large door in which an aircraft could fit through. I don't understand why Asobo couldn't make a library of default hangar styles and swap them in. I'm not asking for perfect.... just HANGARS at airports. https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/default-hangars-still-look-like-homes-domiciles/676260

I got an big Oled TV as a monitor but was not impressed with the 4k resolution and intend to return it to the store. So I reset the Resolution back to my old monitor 1920x1080 and the Render Scaling to 50 (for a resolution of 1920x1042) and pressed f11 to Apply and Save. Then I reconnected my old monitor, but MSFS loaded in 4k so I can only see a corner of the screen now on my old monitor. I can't change the display options , F11 won't work, and I can't even exit MSFS2020 without using Task Manager. I reconnected the Oled TV and the 1920x1080 settings were still there. I had switched settings for other Steam games, and they have returned to 1920x1080, no trouble. Only MS…

Hi all Installed FS2024 on my PC (no XBox) and it works fine with the Cessna 152 and other propeller planes when I start from a runway with engines on and running. My problem is when I start with a prop-plane at any parking location. The plane has a cover, chocks and "remove before flight" sticker. 1. How can I remove them? 2. How and where I activate the new "walk around" function? And how I can "walk around" the plane to see if everithing has been removed (mouse / keyboadrd commands)? 3. And how I go then inside the cockpit to start the procedures for engine start and so on. 4. I also do not want a copilot: how can I remove him? Sorry I am v…

Does it ever go on sale? Also will it port over to 2024? Or there will be a fee? Thanks Mike

It took me about 24 hours to break through the first-day installation logjam, but I finally got in the air, for a test flight in my two favorite FS20 planes, the Cub Crafters NX Cub (the one with tricycle gear), and the Beach G36 Bonanza. But right away, I ran into problems - not unexpected in a new release, but these problems left me wondering if Asobo even tested all of the planes before shipping the product. The worst problem with the NX Cub you won't notice in the daytime, but at night it makes the Cub unflyable: the light output from that huge Garmin MFD screen is so intense by the time full darkness arrives, that the pilot is totally blinded, and I couldn't find any…

For MSFS 2020 I have purchased the Carenado C207 and Beechcraft V35. When I installed MSFS 2024 (Premium Deluxe) these aircraft were available in my library straight away. I'm wondering about the flight models though; are they updated to make use of the new 2024 features? I'm wondering because both aircraft are available in the Aviator edition, so I figured, being default aircraft, they would have been updated to the new standards. Could this then also count for the previously purchased aicraft now available in the Aviator edition? Or do these still have the 'old' flight model?

It turns out that a lot of developer airports are already compatible with the MSFS2024. Here are just a few examples: MK–STUDIOS – KLGA LaGuardia Airport v1.0.4 MK–STUDIOS – LPPT Lisbon / Humberto Delgado Airport v1.0.2 MK–STUDIOS – ROAH Naha Airport v1.0.2 AnNetDesign – DAAG Houari Boumediene / Algiers International Airport v1.5.0d Aerosoft – EBBR Brussels Airport v1.0.5 Aerosoft – EDDF Frankfurt Airport v1.0.3 Aerosoft – ENGM Oslo Gardermoen Airport v1.0.2 SceneryTR Design – LTFM Istanbul Airport v1.0.7 and a lot more.. There are already a few native MSFS2024 airports from NZA Simulations that are no longer suitable fo…

Dear all, I'm facing the update scenery challenges of my bunch of sceneries. I’m curious to know what is the flow for small airports from other devs to fix and update to MSFS2024? I have identified these so far: Taxiway lines disappeared when just putting my sceneries into the MSFS2024 community (some are pink). I just need to recompile the scenery. Customed SimObject need to be upgraded automatically by the scenery editor during the first opening. Polygons vegetation need to be re-assigned with the correct biome Polygons elevation need to be checked Polygons Falloff had to be reset (warning “you are using the old falloff calcula…

I can visually see them deploying but they don't have any apparent effect.

I’m noticing a lot of planes with any type of glass are very dark and the outside very bright? anyone else? I find steam gauges not so much… any way I can control this? Or will I need the powers to be to patch this?

Hello, I went to the Nvidia control panel and noticed that MSFS 2024 had already been added in the 3D settings. I've had a RTX3070 card for quite a long time and I'm wondering if I should reconfigure Nvidia specifically for MSFS 2024. If so, what are the ideal settings? Can anyone help me? Thank you in advance.

Wow, these fellas kind of made the settings a bit difficult for someone like me that likes the KISS principle. I am now trying to figure out the control bindings with my alpha yoke and am trying to get my cockpit views set. in 2020 I was able to pan around the cockpit with the hat switch and in 2024 i don't see the bindings to allow me to do the same. Has anyone been able to set up panning views (vs snap/quick views) in 2024? If so please point it out.