Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020/2024)

Hopefully I won't get a holiday for posting an XP-12 image in the MSFS forum and since I'm an MSFS user exclusively hopefully it won't be an issue! I know there are other threads on clouds/weather but to me this topic is huge, so we start a new one here. Janov makes a critical point when he posts this aledged image from XP12 cloud depiction. The idea of having clouds spawn from weather dynamics is such a critically relavent issue and I hope that Janov is correct in his impression on this: https://www.avsim.com/forums/topic/610131-competition-is-good/?do=findComment&comment=4662847 I hope the rumor that Asobo still has major advances in store for …

Evening all! I've just published my preview of Aerosoft's Twin Otter if you'd care to take a look. It's pretty good, overall! All the best, Filbert

Hi Everyone, Has any one suffered the problem or know how to fix it whereby all the airlines I install using AIG OCI the textures are either mixed up or inverted. some of the things I've tried are below. I'm trying to do this with PSX, I don't believe it's the culprit though since I get the same results using MSFS inbuilt AI traffic generator system. I've set both AIG Manager and TexConv to run as Administrator and I'm still having the same problem. This is soo frustrating, I have even deleted everything related to AIG on my PC and done a fresh download with Antivirus disabled and still have the same issue. I've tried re-installing Flight sim all with the s…

Hello, So I was using addons linker with no problem, and with the most recent update to MSFS (1.21.18) it is no longer working. The weird part is, ONE of my planes works with the Linker - the Aerosoft CRJ. Yet nothing else does, which makes even less sense. But ignoring that one anomaly, checking the boxes for various things in the Linker does indeed put a link ot them into the Community folder, but when you load MSFS, the things are not loaded into the sim (EXCEPT, again, for the CRJ, which really baffles me). The other possible monkeywrench here is that I updated Addon Linker recently as well, though I can’t remember which I updated first, Linker or MSFS …

When I am at an airport with FBW's A32NX (dev and exp version) I will be provided with any navigraph chart for any airport in my EFB after entering a valid ICAO ID in the EFB's relevant page.. However, after departing from that airport (any airport of departure) I won't get any charts being displayed in the EFB and all fields stay blank. When I require a chart via the Navigraph icon in FS2020’stoolbar, all goes well both airborne as on the ground. What might be the culprit with this issue in my EFB? Any help will be highly appreciated. Thanks,

I am using a Thrustmaster T-Flight Hotas X and as soon as I get this beast 10 feet in the air, it starts wobbling like a a wound-down top, about to fall over. If it was an amusement park ride I'd get off and puke. And I have no idea why. Also, when it starts, I'm in the back seat. Am I missing something? Are there instructions on how to fly it? Is there some auto-stabilizer switch I'm ignoring? I have seen videos of it flying straight and level. That has not been my experience. If anyone has any suggestions, I'm all ears.

Anyone have the issue with the Aerosoft CRJ taking a long time every time you load it? I saw the notice about it taking a while on the first load after an update but mine takes that long (approx 8-10 min) each time.

Hi folks. So I am watching a really good video on how to add the ILS programming to your flight plan in the TBM 930 using the MFD. I am trying to follow his exact example while he teaches it. When he gets to the part where he has selected the transition, he says to Load and Activate. I am able to click the Load button but the Activate button is grayed out. I don't see the required altitudes at the various points in the ILS landing that he shows in his example. Is that because I didn't Activate or is it something else? Can someone explain to me why I can't activate it? Thanks. Since I am not very good at flying yet, I am trying to get up to speed on autopilot and…

Try ENVA (I just did with the CJ4). Low ceiling, mix of rain and snow, winds at 240/27 knots gusting to 47 knots. Mountainous terrain on the approach path makes for an interesting approach and landing on RWY 27. Good luck!

Out of curiosity, what would make one turn on V-Sync and lock FPS? I have it off, but wasn't sure what the rule of thumb would be to turn it on. Thanks!

Here is Uzès airport created by Claude Roure. Uzès aerodrome is an aerodrome in the Gard department, located in Uzès. This aerodrome has 4 hangars, two for the airplane club, another for private planes, and one for the ulm club. A club house is also present. In the latter were shot a few scenes from the feature film Je t'aime moi non plus by Serge Gainsbourg. https://www.simvol.org/en/downloads/airports/uzes

Anyone using their honeycomb setup to fly the FBWA320? Could you please tell me how your experience with it is? Does the Bravo throttle quadrants work well with it and if so is there a video tutorial showing us how to set it up and get the most from the FBWA320 using these devices.

Trying to improve my realism with the A320NX. When SID or STAR procedures when should I be tuning into this page of the MCDU? I do a lot of flying around NZ so if you want to reference any charts they're available for free https://www.aip.net.nz/document-category/Aerodrome-Charts Appreciate any help.

I just accidentally stumbled across a screenshot thread elsewhere going back to the launch of the sim. I wish I hadn’t seen it because it’s just made me so depressed and angry at how the sim has been downgraded graphically since release. One can scroll through the posts and clearly see how the clouds get significantly worse in terms of quality at SU5, and then just since SU7 are a total mess with all the ridiculous towering convective CB clouds on the ground basically but just over the airport where the METAR data is been so poorly rendered. I really wish I hadn’t seen it, it made me furious. Anyone else get this kind of feeling?

Hello everyone, hope you're having a nice week-end ! I have purchased MSFS 2020 from Microsoft Store. Files have been installed in C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_1.8.3.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe with Official and Community folders on another drive (D). I have tried to browse the Microsoft.FlightSimulator_1.8.3.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe folder to see what's there is in there. To do that I had first to take ownership of the WindowsApps folder, which I did succesfully. i'm now able to browse the Microsoft.FlightSimulator_1.8.3.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe folder. Unfortunately, I'm not able to read/execute most of the files in this folde…

Maybe only I don't know how I can do it, but I still wait for "visibility" parameter in custom weather setting. I don't understand, why there isn't this so simple slider, what was in every previous version of MS FS, where I can did set a distance of visibility (in meters) and top altitude of fog layer. It was so simple and very usable for low visibility flying practice. I know, that MSFS can make a low visibility conditions on the ground, but I thnik only in with a live weather. I didn't find any way to set it manually in the time when I want and on airport where I want. Someone knows the way? 🙂 Thanks.

WAYB Sugapa PC-6Love this Milviz version of the Porter PC-6. This is a dual view video (cockpit view and external chase) of the flight around this pattern, shot with an iPhone using the playback feature in FS2020. This sim is getting so good it is almost ridiculous, love it. What better place to practice short and steep field T/O and Landings. This is serious fun. I highly recommend this model. You really have to do this approach right to stick it and make it up the hill, but the PC-6 makes this easy, sort of. This was my first try at this field landing, I had taken off before, and you have to really watch the takeoff, don't really accelerate unt…

I haven't had so much fun for ages! Really cracking mods of the default C172 (G1000 only at this stage) by Bagolu over at flightsim.to, and nice repaints as well. It's got big wheels without covers (I got my pants off at last!), a bit more power (revs to 2700!), and mods to flaps (3 stage to 40 degree angle) and wing-tip mods (Camber Cuffs on the wings)... First came the nose-wheeled version, and now there is a C172 tail-dragger version. Also, another variant is on the way. What do you think? Floats? Ski's? It drops in the community folder, and fits along side and does not over-write the default C172 (which is good). It doesn't sit next to th…

Does it work, i do not see anything i am using Simple Traffic from Aerosoft. ( mod is from todays update ) cheers 😉

I habe a razer nari Headset which uses thx spatial audio. MSFS now Supports this. If i use it the sound is amazing. Bit there ia a downside. When using spatial Audio, the ATC Audio is on such a low level, that it isn't understandable at all. Maybe one of you have the same Headset and was able to solve the problem

I just started getting this strange, frustrating graphical glitch where the top 5th of my monitor erupts in a glitchy checkered pattern anytime the camera is panned in any direction. All while I’m getting a smooth 60fps. Has this happened to anyone else and know how to fix it or what’s causing it? It’s really frusterating Example: https://streamable.com/8d9o6s

Is it just me, or have the clouds improved since the last update? My impression is that they have softer edges now and look less like grainy cauliflower than they did previously.

I am looking to replace my current speakers with something that has a little less of a footprint and possibly wireless. Right now, I have way too many wires and want to clean things up. Can anyone recommend good sound quality speakers with a smaller footprint and not a lot of wires? I currently have high def Logitech speakers that has a subwoofer and a few other speakers connected to that. Thanks!

AIG has released the latest update for AIGTC incl. a workround for not departing live AI airplanes, for more information check out: https://www.alpha-india.net/2021/11/19/400/