Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 announced.

I'm quite disappointed with the current hardware lineup in terms of controls available for MSFS.
It's been years since I've had a PC at a desk and these days I fly sat in a fairly low chair with a 40" Samsung TV swung down in front of me on an arm in our bedroom. It's then raised back up if we want to watch TV in bed.

Quite a tidy system that works well for us and it's comfortable to use the PC with. It does mean however that I sit in said chair with my original Thrustmaster HOTAS X on my lap as my primary control.
When Honeycomb first announced their new stick some years ago, that was due to be my replacement as it had everything I needed on it but it never came to fruition. The flight stick they actually released doesn't even have a throttle so is useless.

I don't really fly Airbus nor Boeing but pretty much a mix of everything else, so want something that will do that much like the Thrustmaster but with a twin throttle and of course a better quality.
There's just nothing out there unless you're prepared to go for maybe the Virpil kit which to me is more military suited whereas I want civil.

The Thrustmaster lives to fly another day. Moan over.
 
Just bought this yesterday so I'm still in the confused stage, haha

Ive got my first 2 licences but I was wondering about the missions on the map - is there a way to tick them/grey them out off if I’ve already done them? I've done 2 or 3 so far but looking at the world map there’s a lot of missions - so it would be handy to avoid revisiting ones I've already done...
... is it because despite completing them I've made errors (such as landing too hard etc? and not got a perfect score?

Another question, I guess related to making errors too, my credits/income for completing seem a lot less than the total mission payout, i.e. base income + no skip bonus is more than I got rewarded?

Thanks!
 
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mattyfez said:
Just bought this yesterday so I'm still in the confused stage, haha

Ive got my first 2 licences but I was wondering about the missions on the map - is there a way to tick them/grey them out off if I’ve already done them? I've done 2 or 3 so far but looking at the world map there’s a lot of missions - so it would be handy to avoid revisiting ones I've already done...
... is it because despite completing them I've made errors (such as landing too hard etc? and not got a perfect score?

Another question, I guess related to making errors too, my credits/income for completing seem a lot less than the total mission payout, i.e. base income + no skip bonus is more than I got rewarded?

Thanks!
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The missions don't "complete" after doing them, you can do them over and over just grind away to make money.

I can't remember as it's been a long while but that might not be the case for the gold starred missions.

No idea about the money thing but it would not surprise me if the game can't add up correctly.
 
BUDFORCE said:
The missions don't "complete" after doing them, you can do them over and over just grind away to make money.

I can't remember as it's been a long while but that might not be the case for the gold starred missions.

No idea about the money thing but it would not surprise me if the game can't add up correctly.
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Thanks for the info, I was hoping for a visual cue when looking at the available missions to differentiate between "been there/done that" 'mission successful', even if not a perfect score, but a safe landing and ones I've not attempted yet.
 
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