DD_Arthur

Agree.

@SeedyL Are you saying that if your in the beta and your sim is located in the default location, i.e., C drive, the sim will no longer be automatically re-downloaded and the Community folder wiped when the beta goes live?

Lol!🫡 When we were youngsters - before wife, kids and mortgaged bliss - a handful of friends and I would go motorcycle racing. It was kinda fun but also a great way to burn through quite a bit of cash and injure yourself into the bargain. I did it for around three years before the young lady who would become my missus wisely declared 'enough!' About five years after my inglorious racing career finished they invented 'track days' here in the UK. Wow! What a great idea! For a minimal fee you get to thrash your bike around the track to your hearts content. It's NOT racing but still great fun. Eventually three of us bought a ten year old YZF600 which had been a production racer but was now hopelessly outclassed for competitive racing. It was a bit battered but cheap as chips and came with spare wheels, spare clipons, spare footpegs, two sets fibreglass bodywork and a strong engine. We'd put it on a trailer and pile into my mates Volvo estate. At the circuit you'd generally get around three, twenty minute long sessions out on the track on the day which was enormous, exhausting fun and get to go home afterwards without hurting yourself. All at a fraction of the cost of competitive racing. We did this for five years until calling it a day....due to increasing old age!🤔

Just to reiterate how good this app is. If you've got a MSFFB2 Sidewinder laid up in a cupboard somewhere, now is the time to dig it out and give this a go!

Used the new version briefly last night and it's excellent. Can confirm the Save feature is working fine. As to other FFB sticks? Check this out; https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/list-of-force-feedback-hardware/648622 Microsoft made over a million FFB sticks back in the day. Obviously the mk.1 gateport versions are mostly in landfill but the USB connected mk.2's must be gathering dust somewhere as they're pretty indestructible. The Logitech G940 system of ffb stick, linked pedals and hotas was a contemporary of MS's offering but nowhere near as sophisticated or robust. I had a set once. The wiring in the hotas would break and the hotas pots would spike. I doubt there's many of them around now.

Yes, it's an irritating, superfluous message.

Same here🫡

Yeah, I'm not sure if it's saving. I've named a test profile with everything turned up high so there's a whole lotta shaking going on😁 but when I load the Cessna 172 profile there's no change in the sliders or forces....

Must admit I find high speed in cars rather horrible; it's that 'enclosed' feeling and the knowledge that if anything happens over 40mph there's a lot of energy within that mass that's got to be dumped somewhere... My father was a traffic policeman for many years through the fifties and sixties and had a habit of pressing an imaginary brake pedal whenever my mother was at the wheel - which used to irritate her no end and it's a trait I've inherited and has the same effect on my wife!😃 Motorcycles on the other hand...in 1985 I had a red Kawasaki Gpz 1100 which at the time was a very fast motorcycle indeed. My friends and I used to go all around Europe in the summer on our bikes. We were on the A5 out of Frankfurt heading for Hannover - the intention was to go into West Berlin - it was mid morning and traffic was light. I'd been sat in the left hand lane doing a comfortable 130mph indicated, passing everything when I glanced at my right hand mirror and it was completely red. It took my brain a few seconds to process this information. I looked in my left hand mirror and had the view of the carriageway behind me. I looked in my righthand mirror again and it was just...red. I thought the mirror glass had fallen out and I was just looking at the mirror holder...but something wasn't right. I then took a quick look over my shoulder and three feet off my rear wheel sat a bright red Porche! I managed to control my astonishment, open the throttle and pulled gently over into the 'slow' lane. Whereupon the Porche overtook me slowly and then continued to accelerate away into the distance. He did give me a polite wave in the mirror though!😲

Jonathan you are an absolute star!!! Have had a lot of fun this evening with my throbbing monster.😃 This works really well and is a bit of a revelation actually. I've never had so many options to control the forces before and how nice it is to get back into using old faithful after 6 months of a Honeycomb yoke with it's ludicrous bungee cord. I've spent the evening with my Kodiak and Spitfire playing around with the options. Tomorrow I'll get down to some serious fine tuning but this is fantastic.🫡

'Gonna dig out my (three) MSFFB2 sticks and give this a whirl later tonight. Thank you very much for doing this Jonathan, much appreciated 🫡

It is indeed a great plane. Pete; it just came out...about three weeks ago...🫡

In that case you don't need to buy anything to practice IFR with complex airliners.

Check out the video above. The timeline is annotated.

It's a big team, there's a lot going on. They're on the edge of greatness but they can't quite see the wood for the trees...

I agree with his opinion.

The general thrust of Jorge's comments was that as far as he's concerned they're still polishing the product after the shaky launch and this will continue through the rest of the year. Interesting that he admitted some areas of topography in 2020 are superior to 2024 and they've had difficulty getting Bing to do something about this.

At least the Caravelle has been taken out of the hands of AH after the 707 debacle. Perhaps Asobo will do it themselves since it's the iconic French airliner.

Their whole response to the weather questions was very, very disappointing quite frankly. Seb had to be prodded in the back with a broom handle before he gave a response about thunderstorms in live weather and then Jorge had to press the 'technical difficulties' button under his desk as Martial slipped into some obscure Franglaise.

Strangely, I managed to avoid the fried ducks head. However, I can tell you that on a crunchiest scale ducks feet are probably best avoided by denture wearers.

I politely disagree. The main positive is the truly dynamic campaign. It is in effect a remarkable total war simulation with a combat flightsim bolted onto it. The F16 is nice too. There's a reason nothing much like it has been made since. It's development was a major factor in Micropose going belly up. Succeeding developers took note of this and improving Internet speeds and net code allowed them to push online multiplayer as an alternative, less expensive on dev time feature. Unsurprisingly, large swathes of the CFS audience grew tired of having their backsides repeatedly handed to them on a plate online and still crave a truly dynamic campaign a 'la BMS...

The classic Chinese business visit scenerio: After an eleven hour flight that arrived in the evening local time, the following morning you and your colleague meet up with the interpreter and your driver. You travel out through an enormous, shining metropolis to find the brand new factory on the edge of town - just where it starts to get medieval again. You then enjoy a long, exhausting factory tour where the jet lag starts to kick in and you really want to visit the bathroom. You know you've asked an awkward question when your interpreter goes silent; "What are they saying Hao?" "I don't know Mr Arthur, they're speaking in dialect." Straight after the tour, when you really want to return to the hotel and collapse, you go into the conference room to be ambushed by a three hour formal chinese banquet, kicking off with several rounds of Baijiu (50 to 60 ° proof) to toast your joint business success and then followed by a seven course meal of simply indescribable proportions. Generally, the only remotely recognisable dishes will be the enormous baked fish and the roast suckling pig. "What are we eating Hao?" "Pickled jellyfish Mr. Arthur" "Oh christ!" Eventually you're released into the care of your driver (who speaks the best English of everyone and has seen this all before) who helps you stumble back to the car without falling on your word not allowed and loosing face. While waiting, he's eaten at Burger King... On my last trip to China - fifteen years ago now - we met up with an engineer from our Boston office. He announced he was a Californian and a vegan. "Have you been to China before? "No..." By day three he begged us to take him to a KFC....

The Chinese like to see what they're getting so everything has a clear window in the packaging. The ducks feet are an allegedly tasty snack in Chinese culture but there's simply no way to make a fried ducks head...or a frozen guinea pig, any sort of an attractive proposition.

You haven't lived until you've sampled the snacks available from vending machines at Chinese airports. Pickled ducks feet or if you're a real connoisseur how about the deep fried ducks head?🙃

This. At €25 it's simply a no brainer. For all the PMDG moaning and groaning it's a beautiful and fully developed rendition of the 'universal' airliner that will perform better on your 3060ti system than all the others.