Microsoft Flight Simulator

[beachBOYken]

It’s been fun flying over the UK in this weather today

I’ve just about managed it. Have switched off all flight assists, I thought I had, but for some reason my throttle cut out completely on landing and I fell short of the runway - at the end of an hours flight. There was no obvious reason for it either.

Going to do the same, but leave a few mundane things enabled like plane lights, auto mixture

 

[robfosters]

It’s been fun flying over the UK in this weather today

I’ve just about managed it. Have switched off all flight assists, I thought I had, but for some reason my throttle cut out completely on landing and I fell short of the runway - at the end of an hours flight. There was no obvious reason for it either.

What plane was you flying?

 

[CaptainRAVE]

What plane was you flying?

I did a long stint between Manchester and Newcastle and then onto Kirkwall in the Cessna CJ4. I did a shorter stint between Luton to Manchester in a JBM VL-3 - it’s a great plane to fly, great visibility, easy to handle.

The game just does everything so well - flying through the clouds, rain in the clouds, gusts of wind, the glorious view above the clouds. It just all looks, sounds and feels amazing.

 

[Buckster]

I love just plonking camera top of a mountain and watching the storms rumble through (looking over Loch Na Keal - Mull - somewhere I often go camping)

Can quite happily leave running on large screen in lounge with surround sound weather running as a sort of live interactive screensaver

Warning flashing images (lightning) - just as a warning

 

[turbot1984]

I love just plonking camera top of a mountain and watching the storms rumble through (looking over Loch Na Keal - Mull - somewhere I often go camping)

Warning flashing images (lightning) - just as a warning

Like that

 

[turbot1984]

I sent a mate of mine a screenshot of flying past his high rise in Hong Kong at 200ft, what a cool game.

 

[Buckster]

Like that

Thankyou

 

[chrismscotland]

Has there been much said about 3rd party stuff being added for the Xbox? I thought I'd read somewhere that the A32X mod was going to be available but can't find anywhere saying it now!

 

[grant666uk]

Something is up with the game. Took a tour over Edinburgh last night and it looked shocking. Almost flat with the castle floating. Was sure when I tried it on my pc last year it looked better. Had a look on YouTube and its night and day. Not sure if its a worldwide bug or just a downgrade due to fps update for pc.

 

[KraniX]

Something is up with the game. Took a tour over Edinburgh last night and it looked shocking. Almost flat with the castle floating. Was sure when I tried it on my pc last year it looked better. Had a look on YouTube and its night and day. Not sure if its a worldwide bug or just a downgrade due to fps update for pc.

Do you have the UK world update installed? Also, were you connected to the internet at the time as the offline mode looks awful.

I've not flown near Edinburgh yet but London looked great.

 

[chrismscotland]

Something is up with the game. Took a tour over Edinburgh last night and it looked shocking. Almost flat with the castle floating. Was sure when I tried it on my pc last year it looked better. Had a look on YouTube and its night and day. Not sure if its a worldwide bug or just a downgrade due to fps update for pc.

Sounds like something hasn't downloaded; admittedly Edinburgh isn't great but some of the main sights (Castle, Bridges, etc) are modelled.

 

[ic1male]

I'm getting so many hilarious video recordings of the AI Pilot. I'm not sure if this is a new feature just introduced with the Xbox but it sure gets itself in a muddle a lot. Trying to land at London City airport and it flies past the runway and crashes into a block of flats.

 

[KraniX]

I'm getting so many hilarious video recordings of the AI Pilot. I'm not sure if this is a new feature just introduced with the Xbox but it sure gets itself in a muddle a lot. Trying to land at London City airport and it flies past the runway and crashes into a block of flats.

Yeah couple of times I've used it the pilot decided to nose dive into the ground or a mountain...

 

[beachBOYken]

I'm getting so many hilarious video recordings of the AI Pilot. I'm not sure if this is a new feature just introduced with the Xbox but it sure gets itself in a muddle a lot. Trying to land at London City airport and it flies past the runway and crashes into a block of flats.

I disable the ai pilot stuff, just learning the in plane instrument auto pilot, I do have ATC ai pilot enabled though as can’t be bothered with that.

 

[grant666uk]

Sounds like something hasn't downloaded; admittedly Edinburgh isn't great but some of the main sights (Castle, Bridges, etc) are modelled.

Yea just got a mate on pc to look and a dude on FB too and its messed up for them too. Very strange.

 

[ic1male]

I disable the ai pilot stuff, just learning the in plane instrument auto pilot, I do have ATC ai pilot enabled though as can’t be bothered with that.

Oh, of course I never even thought about the onboard AI. For long flights, I just want it to take care of itself whilst I go and wash the dishes or something and nip back and see if anything interesting is happening.

It's very addictive though. I am very much an armchair traveller and have got a list of places as long as my arm that I'm working my through. Just done the Grand Canyon this afternoon.

 

[Witcher1980]

Getting a few crashes on the Series X today.

 

[byeo]

Can anyone recommend a decent keyboard and mouse for running FS?

 

[adam cool dude]

First thing I did when I booted up is fly over my house .

 

[Raymond Lin]

First thing I did when I booted up is fly over my house .

i’ve done that too! It’s pretty good but way too many trees that isn’t there in real life.