Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 announced.

[Dano]

Same here. I have had both through Windows store and I haven't had a single problem. I have downloaded the aircraft I use as I can't see the point in streaming those all the time but I let all the scenery stream and it seems to work well even though my internet connection isn't the fastest.

I keep meaning to download the ones I tend to fly as well but it's so quick to load I always forget, I assume it'll cache some anyway too. Though I do have a small issue where setting the launch config on the DG 1001e Neo to a winch launch has to be reset every time. The only other really issue I have with it is the control set up area which just doesn't seem all the intuitive at all but that could just be my lack of patience with it to be honest.

 

[Decoman]

Btw, if you (whoever) buys MSFS 2024 and can't log in, try press Alt + enter, to exit full screen mode for the login.

I thought I'd use MSFS 2024 to "go on vacation", seeing places I've never been to. Time to see the pyramids.

Want to buy a Boeing yoke though, even though I plan to fly Airbus jets (which uses a joystick), together with the Airbus throttle control and that extra thing for flaps control and parking brakes.
Btw, there's a guy in Asia that sells modifications to the Thrustmaster's throttle control products, might go for that as well later on.
A mod might for example be, how you have to pull up and out, the two engine control flip switches, before you can flip then up/down to turn them on/off. Then the two handles are improved to be real size ones.

I have a 2 TB nvme drive ready for just MSFS 2024. Don't need that much, but I want to install some extra stuff and don't have to worry about storage space for a while.

A complaint of sorts: I don't like all of those videos showing big jets seemingly landing on a dime, I do realize that some planes land quickly once they touch down on the runway, but I don't like seeing big passenger jets landing in seemingly just a few meters.
I wonder if the flight handling is all custom stuff per plane/jet, not standardized with size and such.

Don't feel like buying any of the uhh flight plan control panel thingy products, but I do want the autopilot panels later on.
I already bought a USB-C extension thingy with four usb-c ports, connecting to the monitor usb port, which should allow some of these other extra products to connect.
Someone showed a photo of a physical product for the radio control, which looks nice.

 

[BUDFORCE]

HAve they sorted the career mode out yet?

I played this a lot at release but the career mode was a bit of an unfinished mess.

 

[Mr_Sukebe]

Btw, if you (whoever) buys MSFS 2024 and can't log in, try press Alt + enter, to exit full screen mode for the login.

I thought I'd use MSFS 2024 to "go on vacation", seeing places I've never been to. Time to see the pyramids.

Want to buy a Boeing yoke though, even though I plan to fly Airbus jets (which uses a joystick), together with the Airbus throttle control and that extra thing for flaps control and parking brakes.
Btw, there's a guy in Asia that sells modifications to the Thrustmaster's throttle control products, might go for that as well later on.
A mod might for example be, how you have to pull up and out, the two engine control flip switches, before you can flip then up/down to turn them on/off. Then the two handles are improved to be real size ones.

I have a 2 TB nvme drive ready for just MSFS 2024. Don't need that much, but I want to install some extra stuff and don't have to worry about storage space for a while.

A complaint of sorts: I don't like all of those videos showing big jets seemingly landing on a dime, I do realize that some planes land quickly once they touch down on the runway, but I don't like seeing big passenger jets landing in seemingly just a few meters.
I wonder if the flight handling is all custom stuff per plane/jet, not standardized with size and such.

Don't feel like buying any of the uhh flight plan control panel thingy products, but I do want the autopilot panels later on.
I already bought a USB-C extension thingy with four usb-c ports, connecting to the monitor usb port, which should allow some of these other extra products to connect.
Someone showed a photo of a physical product for the radio control, which looks nice.

If you’re going to hang a bunch of USB devices off your monitor, it’s prudent to check that either the monitor provides power to it's USB connections (mine doesn’t), or use an external USB hub with its own power supply.
Do also check the USB type. There’s a big difference in data bandwidth capabilities across USB connectors which is not always obvious. You don’t want to be trying to run a shed load of devices via a USB2 connection

 

[Decoman]

Good idea, didn't think of that to be honest.
Luckily, I have the FO32U2P variant for the oled monitor, which has a powered usb-c socket on the monitor. Meant for charging phones and such afaik. Edit:
Hm, admittely I am not 100% sure this will be free of issues, I guess I'll find out later. :|
I do read somewhere that they recommend against relying on usb hubs for connecting sim products. Unpowered hubs is known to sometimes cause issues in general.

Hm, I know I have an usb gadget for measuring amps and wattage off solar panels, I'll find that and see if my usb-c hub is powered.

Photo shows me charging my mobile phone (off screen). Hub connected to the FO32U2P monitor usb-c port.
I was previously worried that the usb hub would become warm not connected to anything, but it is cool to the touch.

 

[freebooter]

I keep meaning to download the ones I tend to fly as well but it's so quick to load I always forget, I assume it'll cache some anyway too. Though I do have a small issue where setting the launch config on the DG 1001e Neo to a winch launch has to be reset every time. The only other really issue I have with it is the control set up area which just doesn't seem all the intuitive at all but that could just be my lack of patience with it to be honest.

The controller set up gets a lot of criticism but isn't really any worse than 2020 it just is more capable and hence a bit different. I am not saying it couldn't be better but there are a lot of possible control bindings for msfs so I don't think it could ever be simple without losing a lot of capability.

HAve they sorted the career mode out yet?

I played this a lot at release but the career mode was a bit of an unfinished mess.

The career mode is what it is and whether that suits you will depend on what you are looking for. I did start a couple of companies but that side of it doesn't engage me tbh. I do use the employee side as a lazy flight generator. Then it depends on how you fly the missions. There was a recent post on the official forums from someone showing how he plots full routes for the missions using the web route planner and flys them like mini bush trips. My biggest annoyance with it is the weather. I check the weather in the efb but often at the destination I am getting thunderstorms or 15 kt plus winds perpendicular to the runway which is way above the limit for a 172.

Perhaps now they have fixed a lot of the initial bugs they will look again at the career.

 

[Dano]

The controller set up gets a lot of criticism but isn't really any worse than 2020 it just is more capable and hence a bit different. I am not saying it couldn't be better but there are a lot of possible control bindings for msfs so I don't think it could ever be simple without losing a lot of capability.

I had far less issues with the controls section of 2020 so not sure I would agree, from an end user point of view 2024's is terrible and needs more clarity, it's also absolutely criminal that there is no restore to default option or easy way of clearing assignments for a controller. I shouldn't need to go look up a tutorial on how to use the control assignments section of a game, that said MS/Asobo are far from the only perpetrator of that issue lol.

While I'm here, does anybody remember when 2020 was announced and we got all the pretty trailers to whet our appetites there was one that featured a nice green and verdant area that had a very definitive cliff to the left of the video, all still nice and green if I remember correctly, looked a bit like the landscape had simply dropped on the right hand side. I have a feeling it was supposedly somewhere in Italy but could be very wrong, anybody know the location of my horribly vague description?

 

[rodders]

Anyone know how to get rid of the gauges you'd see on outside view, that show when in VR mode?

 

[Dano]

Anyone know how to get rid of the gauges you'd see on outside view, that show when in VR mode?

Settings > General > Flight Interface > HUD in External View not doing it? I don't think I've seen a VR specific settings for it.

 

[rodders]

Settings > General > Flight Interface > HUD in External View not doing it? I don't think I've seen a VR specific settings for it.

I'll try that. Never used to do it, some bug that's gone in on an update.