Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020/2024)

I am constantly receiving a message(s) about "lost connection" and "your connection has an issue" while flying. then I get the green message box saying the connection is reestablished. The problem is that BING DATA WORLD GRAPHICS gets set to OFF on either error message and the reconnect message does not turn the graphics back on. I run several TCP monitors while flying and Proc Mon to trace the network activity in Flight Sim. NONE of that monitoring shows any error or network problem. Every TCP operation is successful. Most importantly - at the moment I receive the lost connection or connection issue problem - I also see the tiles continuing to flow, w…

With the release of AIGAIM-OCI and Aerosoft Simple Traffic there are now two big addons available for MSFS. Both are using the internal AI system of MSFS will have some issues with it. I have written here a small article about the current major issues (from AIGs point of view): http://www.alpha-india.net/2021/11/17/state-of-ai-traffic-in-msfs/

After the last update I thought the clouds looked incredible best I’ve seen them since launch. Over the past few weeks am seeing a clear degradation, pixelated and blocky, like I’m flying through code, it’s an eyesore and an immersion killer, especially knowing how good they can be… But why the change? Are Asobo doing this? I know others have mentioned similar issues.

Remember just over a year ago, we had a sim to end sim addons. (dreams). One year in, before I launch the sim I launch:- 1.) FSUIPC 2.) Sim shakers sound module 3.) spad.next 4.) AIG traffic injector. 5.) navigraph sim charts with sim link. 6.) Air manager. 7.) FS realistic. 8.) pilot2atc. I wonder what else to come. EDIT:- Just to clarify (as it seems that some People in these forums like to assume things just to start arguments), I am not complaining, nor moaning, nor unhappy. Nor am I bashing Asobo. I hope that is clear. Anymore nasty comments, please don’t bother, just disappear down a black hole in…

PC/Steam The following problems occur with stock G1000 and G3000 as well as the G1000Nxi and WTG3000. All my WT mods are the most current available. I have seen this problem in the C172/G1000, G36, G36 Turbo, TBM 930, Improved TBM 930 Three days ago - none of these problems were occurring. ILS/Loc, VOR1, and VOR2 are tuned properly but every PFD display shows "no data" - even when flying directly toward a VOR at short range or on final approach, directly in line with ILS at the correct altitude. There is nothing I can do to make ILS/VOR work. The NAV1 and NAV2 speaker makes no morse code sound thus indicating they are not receiving any data. …

New driver with:- NVIDIA Control Panel > Manage 3D Settings • Added Image Scaling control to boost application frame rates and increase the level of sharpness, detail, or clarity of images in games and applications. It will be interesting to try these new features out in MSFS… Alongside our DLSS updates, we’ve today released our latest GeForce Game Ready Driver, which includes an update to the NVIDIA Image Scaling feature, improving our spatial upscaling and sharpening algorithm that supports all GeForce GPUs and games. Here’s how to use it:- https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce/news/nvidia-image-scaler-dlss-rtx-november-2021-upd…

https://twinfinite.net/2021/11/microsoft-flight-simulator-interview-jorg-neumann/ Another great interview by @Abriael

Maybe a dumb question I should know the answer too, but how do you tune tha ADF in the 152 and 172 to an NDB with a decimal? e.g. Cardiff NDB frequency is 388.5. Thanks

Yes, another AIG thread. Is anyone getting departures at KATL with AIG? I have AI taxi to the runways, but never take off. They sit there and stack up (sometimes on top of each other) until they finally timeout. AIG TC is working and I don't have this problem at KSAV, but at KATL I haven't seen a single take off. Aircraft do land (though they're coming from other end of runway), but no take offs. Image below shows three departures stacking up on runway.

Simple traffic has appeared again on the Aerosoft preview forum. They also mention a price of EUR 15.

Took a flight from Cherbourg to Durham Tees today in the Caravan. Firstly I wanted the AI copilot to handle ATC, which didnt happen, and then on climb I could only hear my pilot's voice, none of the other traffic.. On getting to Durham Tees I could select the airfield frequency, but there was no option to ask for joining and landing instructions. Is this just part of the ATC mess at the moment? I've been using Azure and don't really want to just have text ATC.

I see from time to time fellow simmers complaining that such or such flaw of the sim has "ruined their immersion". I certainly do not want to judge in anyway their feeling, just to say that immersion can vary very much from one another. I've just completed a flight with the excellent Sim Skunk Works G-91, a Cold War subsonic jet without autopilot, from Yerevan in Armenia to a small AFB runway near Tabriz in Iran. Great landscapes (volcanoes, lakes etc.) but the mesh was so so in places, the light overexposed on my SDR monitor and the tile colors were badly harmonized at arrival but... I was there. All the flaws were forgotten, I was busy taking off without killing…

Is anybody else really looking forward to it? I know it comes with a little bit of trepidation in case a few things get knocked out of kilter, but there will still be time for a hotfix before the Christmas break if things go wrong. I am looking forward to trying the new addons to the flight model (ground effect, wake turbulence etc.), and the Reno aircraft (T-6, L-39, and P-51) which it seems have some input from respected developers such as A2A and Lotus. Hopefully the flight model changes don't affect current 3PD aircraft too much, or hopefully, even if they do, they can fix them up fairly quickly. I am really looking forward to trying DX12. I won't be …

There is a claim on YouTube that a major update is coming for November, which will include 5 new aircraft, several new photogrammetry cities, new weather etc. Does anyone know if this is accurate?

https://twinfinite.net/2021/11/microsoft-flight-simulator-go The PC-6 is a lot more detailed than I expected and the new weather system (abrupt transitions aside) is very exciting!

Asobo JU-52 modern gauges vs.(realistic) gauges: manifold pressure (booster pressure) gauges are beneath the rpm (upm) gauges. Upm is Umdrehungen pro Minute = revolutions per minute. 1.0 atmosphere is 30 inches of mercury. Each 1/10 atmosphere on the classic dial is 3 inches of Hg. Modern: MAP gauges (inches of mercury of manifold pressure). 0 to 30 to 45 inches. Redline 38 inches. Classic: Booster gauges (atmospheres of manifold pressure). 0.6 to 1.0 to 1.8 atmospheres (18 to 30 to 54 inches). Redline 1.3 = 39 inches === ==== By the way the funny B (4th letter in this German alphabet) is the same as 'double s'. So that charac…

Quote, @everyone New version of We Love VFR - Region 2 is available! v. 0.5.1 Few data corrections and many bug fixes this time, so nothing major. Totally reworked exclusion system. Reworked airport detection and verified over 4000 objects near airports for better precision and to avoid sneaky antennas just before the threshold wink Oh and for those few people with fps issues related to the smoke effects, there is a "no effects" version available. PS: Region 1 should go to testing this week. https://flightsim.to/file/16674/we-love-vfr-region-2

Just in time for the Asobo Porter,

Finally took my "discovery flight" at nearby flight school in a Cessna 172. If I have to summarize my whole experience in one sentence, it's that the whole experience in real life flight is just so remarkably similar to my MSFS flights at the same airport with the C172. After scheduled the flight I practiced multiple times flying C172 at the same airport, all in VR though. Except for those physical sensations of noise, shakes, bumps and loss of gravity in stalls etc, in real flight most of the time I feel I was reliving my MSFS flight in VR, with a VR goggle of unlimited FOV and infinite number of pixels and frame rates of course. The landing, which was done by the …

For those who are not aware, patch 1.8.3.0 introduced a glitch in Bush Missions where you no longer get credit for legs flown after the patch was installed (for trips started before the patch was installed). You land at the correct airport and just sit there with no completion trigger. You can start a new trip that you haven't done before and it will work. For a trip that was already started you can delete your savefiles and start over. I had already flown 19 legs with many hours invested and did not want to start over. I want to give credit for the many people in the official MSFS forums that have experimented with many possible solutions. So far as I am making th…

Hello, I'd like to use AIG traffic with real life online traffic what in general works. But I have also then (ugly) Asobo planes. I have the settings as recommended on AIG site: AIRCRAFT TRAFFIC TYPE = REAL-TIME ONLINE AIRPORT VEHICLE DENSITY = whatever you like GROUND AIRCRAFT DENSITY = 0 WORKER DESNISTY = whatever you like USE GENERIC PLANE MODELS (AI) = OFF thx

An interesting documentary on Peter Jackson of LOTR fame's WWI memorabilia and aircraft collection - for those interested in aircraft like the Nieuport 17 we now have in MSFS ...

I've read where a replay function will be included in this week's update but that it will be available in dev mode. If that is correct, I will confess that I have never enabled dev mode and wonder what are the pros and cons of doing so.

I am getting the low vacuum alert light on the PFD (NXi) when I attempt to start and fly the 208 from a cold & dark state. I have been backwards and forwards through the checklists and have deeply studied the cockpit. I still have not figured this out. Anyone able to clue me in?

My internet only works for MSFS between 12 and 4 am which makes for some interesting midnight runs. Any good ideas? Cheers bs