Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 announced.

[OverDrive]

How is everyone finding the latest update? I was happy to see that they have fixed the night lighting. Prior to the update, deep black appeared almost greyish (like how black would look on an old LCD monitor), now they are pitch black again and look amazing on OLED. The fuzziness that was present (with frame gen on) around some of the cockpit lighting elements at night has also gone too, this was most noticeable around the default A320 throttle quadrant at night.

I am glad that things are starting to come together. I think that once they have improved the interoperability with third party add-ons (there are still many open issues) and enabled the local downloading of the default aircraft (essential for the modding community) it will be so much better! This was a big update and it's clear that Asobo/MS are working hard to address things.

 

[BUDFORCE]

Wow, weird thing happened just now, doing my usual VIP courier, Heathrow to Zutendaal, Cirrus G2.

Heathrow is long on the taxi, I usually don't skip anything on career but thought sod it.

But it dumped me in some weird part of the airport, anyway didn't think too much of it, found the runway, took off.

About 10 minutes in, all my electrics and engine went dead, I still have control with the stick but it started drifting off course and loosing altitude, I'm thinking, hmm gotta try and spot a runway here.

Fortunately I had already climbed to nearly 15k ft, and being pretty familiar with the Cirrus G2 now, I noticed both battery, and generator buttons were not on, so pressed all them, electrics fire up and managed to get the engine started.

Very weird, never happened before.

Anyway it completely erased my flight plan, so definitely something I need to learn is keying that in without using the EFB. I put the destination code in the "direct to" function and managed to complete the mission.

Was actually quite good fun, but I think it was a bug rather than intentional.

I have had a failure though, my landing gear broke in one of my Cessna's mid flight, and it popped up with a warning, although I managed to land that ok, I couldn't taxi at all, so had to abort the mission one that one.