Tom Wright

Really? They are drastically different (and inferior imo) to both the Fenix and the Inibuilds in my eyes. The whole cockpit looks flat and plastic in comparison.

Yeah I reported it, didn't get an official response. As with others here, my sim time is limited so waiting 15 mins to load a plane isn't really that great for me when I could be up and flying in something else in a fraction of that. Never had loading times this long with Inibuilds, PMDG, Fenix etc.

Glad I'm not the only one with the issues loading. It often stalls during load with the spinning circle and I'm never sure whether to keep waiting or abort and try again. It's the only aircraft for me that does this, and it's not just the initial load like some that compile their WASM binaries on first load, it happens every single load.

Normally you'll be put on a intercept heading and below the glidepath, so no need to engage any other modes. Once you're on a intercept heading just arm APP mode and it'll capture localiser and then descend on the glidepath. If you're intercepting the glidepath from above you'll need to do some V/S trickery to try and establish it, but this is messy and most pilots wouldn't favour this.

I've been on a bit of a mission to land on short runways recently! Key West, KEYW is another good one - 1550m. There's a really good new scenery for it by MK Studios. Frequently served by A319 and 737-700s. And British Airways have just started up a new route (well resumed after a long break) from Heathrow to Guernsey in the Channel Islands which is also only 1460m and designated Airbus A319 or A32N only. Same for Florence LIRQ which is only 1560m. Jersey, also in the channel islands is also fun at 1700m.

Mehh, they're totally usable, yes. But it does add so much to the immersion to land at an airport with high quality runway textures, and where the terminal buildings look exactly like their real world counterparts. I buy a lot of third party airports.

Comparing your RAM usage isn't really an accurate metric because your system will use whatever it has. I've found 32GB to be fine. I think VRAM (which is on your card) is more critical than system RAM.

I thought the freeware offering for LEPA on flightsim.to is one of the best freeware airports there is?

2024 user here and 95% of my use is high altitude IFR flights. Leaps and bounds ahead of 2020 in every aspect.

That is a shame. I never use anything other than live weather (or sometimes historic by a few hours).

I bought it and took it for a flight today. It's good, don't really notice an awful lot different to the -800 but tbh I didn't think there was anything wrong with that. Generally a solid aircraft and fun to fly. Does anyone else find the VNAV a bit all over the place though? Pitching the nose up and down very harshly. Feel like the Fenix has a much smoother autopilot than the PMDG Boeings.

Out of interest, what's wrong with the A340s flight dynamics? Seems to handle alright to me.

Flying using BATC tonight it was the first time I got instructed to reduce speed on approach (first reduce speed to 180kts or less and then second reduce to minimum approach speed), which I'm guessing it did to increase spacing between me and the aircraft ahead. Very impressive. Gatwick was nicely populated with accurate airlines in the right terminals and gates too.

Indeed! Just a couple of good days out flying IRL I could almost buy my whole setup for the same cost. 2 hours could get me most of the WinCTRL range.

I'm not really a long hauler but their 340 is one of my favourite planes in FS2024. The texturing is excellent both inside and out, it's really nice and weighty to hand-fly, the systems modelling I think is enough that you wouldn't really notice anything missing unless you're going really off-piste or trying to replicate failure scenarios. And it has arguably the best designed EFB of any of the airliners available.