Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 announced.

Disappointed that AAu4 got pushed back but it should launch next week so not too long. The new Avidyne avionics look interesting. From what I understand they should be a reasonably easy swap for the basic Garmin ones so hopefully devs will add them to existing aircraft as a variant.
 
Genuine question, for those who play 'properly', when doing any kind of longish flight, what do you actually do? Like if you're just cruising along on auto or whatever and minimal input is needed, what do you do? Can't imagine it's very fun just sat there watching pretend clouds going by.
 
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I don't do those sort of flights myself but I think if people fly it in real time many either have it in the background or just go and do something else and leave it running. I have read of people taking off and getting to cruise before going to bed and then flying the descent and landing in the morning when they wake up. Or leave it running when going to work or just do other things.
 
Noxia said:
Genuine question, for those who play 'properly', when doing any kind of longish flight, what do you actually do? Like if you're just cruising along on auto or whatever and minimal input is needed, what do you do? Can't imagine it's very fun just sat there watching pretend clouds going by.
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Watch Netflix on one of my other screens. Never did more than 5-6 hour flights though.
 
Noxia said:
Genuine question, for those who play 'properly', when doing any kind of longish flight, what do you actually do? Like if you're just cruising along on auto or whatever and minimal input is needed, what do you do? Can't imagine it's very fun just sat there watching pretend clouds going by.
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I fly GA mostly, so mostly below the clouds. I fly routes between 45-1hr 30 on average. I might just browse on my tablet during the flight at times. Some of the higher fidelity aircraft require you to be fairly alert to things at times as well, like switching fuel tanks.
Some of my favourite GA aircraft are from 3rd party devs, A2A Comanche and the BlackSquare Caravan pro which I purchased recently and is awesome!

I’ve tried airliners before, and I just find them not for me, pretty much hands off at cruise which can be quite boring, and for me a flight just takes too long setting everything up on the ground, I like to always start cold/dark so airliners take and age, so much prefer GA.
 
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Yep, I don't do those sorts of flights either, doesn't interest me.

In other news the proper launch of SU5 has been awful for me, system has crashed several times now, didn't have any issues during the beta :(
 
Yeah I like keeping my hands busy so I'd struggle doing nothing, but the brief go I had on it was in a wee Cessna around a city so that was cool.
Never tried it with VR but can imagine performance would struggle unless it heavily sacrifices stuff.
 
Most of my flights in DCS are under 2 hours, during which I tend to not be on autopilot (eg was out in the F4u Corsair yesterday). I only fly in VR.
Despite being a good deal more busy managing trim, fuel tanks, engine temps, nav without GPS, I normally also listen to music.
 
Another thing with airliners for me, is I quite often take a break from flight sim, so I learn everything with a particular airliner I like, 3weeks of not playing I’ve forgot most of the basics to start the aircraft, so have to faff about with checklists and YT tutorials, pretty much why I don’t bother flying them now, I’ve only got so much free time. GA is just so much easier to learn and remember.
 
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Another thing with airliners for me, is I quite often take a break from flight sim, so I learn everything with a particular airliner I like, 3weeks of not playing I’ve forgot most of the basics to start the aircraft, so have to faff about with checklists and YT tutorials, GA is just so much easier to learn and remember.
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Yup.

I played this game quite a bit at release but it's been a good while since I played and what sort of putting me off is having to learn how to set up all the autopilot and navigation systems, I will have forgotten.
 
Well..... I knew this would happen.

Probably been a year or whatever since I played this and now I cant remember how anything works. Urgh.

I think if you get in to this game you need to remember to fire it up like once a month just to remind yourself.
 
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Well..... I knew this would happen.

Probably been a year or whatever since I played this and now I cant remember how anything works. Urgh.

I think if you get in to this game you need to remember to fire it up like once a month just to remind yourself.
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OpenKneeboard is worth a shout.
I use KBs with diagrams of what controls are mapped to controller button, and then also ones walking through procedures like cold starts
 
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OpenKneeboard is worth a shout.
I use KBs with diagrams of what controls are mapped to controller button, and then also ones walking through procedures like cold starts
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Yea it's not so much the basics more getting the autopilot properly setup and working getting the plane to approach etc, and setting up the flight plan.

I was pretty much on with the Garmin 1000/3000, and one or two of the Honeywell systems in the jets.

Now I'm like urgh.....

Saying that I did just about get it working in the vision jet just now although it landed in locator mode I think it was using the ILS, I'm pretty sure that jet has some fancy GPS landing system, but I told it to do the approach vectors.

Whatever I'm sure I'll figure it out just feels horrible because I'm looking at everything knowing I used to know how it all worked.
 
LOL, I feel for you.
Flying an Apache and trying to use say the radar system is like learning how to code again. That aircraft is Kneeboard city
 
Noxia said:
Genuine question, for those who play 'properly', when doing any kind of longish flight, what do you actually do? Like if you're just cruising along on auto or whatever and minimal input is needed, what do you do? Can't imagine it's very fun just sat there watching pretend clouds going by.
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Push ups.
 
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