**** Official Microsoft Flight Simulator Thread ****

Morfinel said:
This does look amazing but monthly subscription for the product is a bit too much, time to dig up my excel skills :cool:
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Yep! Also it's the time spent doing all that. I'm lucky to get a few hours just to fly and learn a few things.

Takes me long enough to setup a flight as it is lol. Simbrief, check route, add it to navigraph, load in, check ATIS etc etc. Great idea though.
 
Tell me about it.

When I did X Plane 11 737-800 flights, plot route on simbrief, generate flight plan, save to pdf, load the game, load the pdf flight plan into avitab, load up active sky and note QNH, set up the flight, weights, fuel, set better pushback, take off, fly, land. Even more if I decided to stream via Twitch: open Twitch - set up stream titles, open OBS, open my X Plane data overlay and enter route data....

Takes forever!
 
willhub said:
Well I do hope for an update with new aircraft, some fighter jets, maybe even the Concorde! Some helicopters?

Anyone flown around the docklands and canary wharf? The state of it !!!!
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Helicopters are going to be in official DLC, they haven’t announced any plans for fighter jets from Asobo. There are Third parties already working on bringing over various fighter jets for the market place. DC designs is also bringing a Concorde apparently.

TheOracle said:
is anyone running this across three monitors, or is it simply too demanding?
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I stand to be corrected but I don’t believe it actually has triple monitor support at all yet.
 
TheOracle said:
is anyone running this across three monitors, or is it simply too demanding?
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Yep. I was about 25-35fps maxed out on 7680x1440 doing the Epic Airbus landing challenge in NY (I think?) so not terrible.
i7 9700k 4.9GHz all cores + 2070 Super + 16GB RAM.

Personally I think I'd lean towards a single ultrawide screen like 3440x1440 or 5120x1440 to avoid bezels + and potentially colour differences between monitors.

You can also un-pin things like maps ingame and drag them onto second monitors as pop-out windows which is quite useful.

Zeeflyboy said:
I stand to be corrected but I don’t believe it actually has triple monitor support at all yet.
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Not in the game explicitly, but if you use Nvidia surround to join the monitors then the resolution you're running at will appear in the game under Resolution and everything will be scaled correctly.
 
WoodyUK said:
Not in the game explicitly, but if you use Nvidia surround to join the monitors then the resolution you're running at will appear in the game under Resolution and everything will be scaled correctly.
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Ah useful to know, a friend of mine was asking about how he can get it working on his triples - I’ll let him know! Cheers!
 
Can you use a second monitor with this sim ?

I.E Use a second monitor for something like the map

My other monitors are in the loft and i don't want the hassle of getting it down and setting it up to find this sim doesn't support having a second monitor..
 
chaparral said:
Can you use a second monitor with this sim ?

I.E Use a second monitor for something like the map

My other monitors are in the loft and i don't want the hassle of getting it down and setting it up to find this sim doesn't support having a second monitor..
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Yes, think it may need to be in window mode but the vfr map etc can be popped out and moved
 
If I go into my profile and select packages, it is listing a a 88Gig update that is mandatory. Says re-start the game to install, which I am doing just now.

Edit: - Didn't do anything .... ah well.
 
physichull said:
Tell me about it.

When I did X Plane 11 737-800 flights, plot route on simbrief, generate flight plan, save to pdf, load the game, load the pdf flight plan into avitab, load up active sky and note QNH, set up the flight, weights, fuel, set better pushback, take off, fly, land. Even more if I decided to stream via Twitch: open Twitch - set up stream titles, open OBS, open my X Plane data overlay and enter route data....

Takes forever!
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Haha, that was my exact routine as well! Active sky was a brilliant addition but seems like a massive pain in the backside now we are spoiled with the MS weather system
 
swannyUK said:
Haha, that was my exact routine as well! Active sky was a brilliant addition but seems like a massive pain in the backside now we are spoiled with the MS weather system
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Useful to quickly find the right QNH aswell rather than faffing with the atis in XPlane.

Have you worked out whether Navigraph is worth it for this game? I get that you will be able to see charts and airport charts etc, but in terms of updating the data to MS? Is it really worth it? I've temporarily cancelled my subs but may reconsider if its more "integrated" with the game in the future.
 
physichull said:
Useful to quickly find the right QNH aswell rather than faffing with the atis in XPlane.

Have you worked out whether Navigraph is worth it for this game? I get that you will be able to see charts and airport charts etc, but in terms of updating the data to MS? Is it really worth it? I've temporarily cancelled my subs but may reconsider if its more "integrated" with the game in the future.
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I've paid for another month as the charts have proved invaluable with the current state of vnav in the Airbus. I've had to manually check the charts and see what height I need on the various points of the sids and stars etc. Helped me get in to San Diego earlier, without the chart I'd be too high although ATC seemed to be on the ball to be fair and got me down in steps which was impressive
 
Has anybody been able to get a Microsoft Sidewinder Force feedback 2 Stick to work with this? if so, how did you manage it?

At this rate I'll be going back to X-Plane, I can understand an old stick being unsupported by some publishers, but think for Microsoft to not support such an old but widely used stick is pretty lame, especially when it carries their name..... :/
 
Scania said:
Has anybody been able to get a Microsoft Sidewinder Force feedback 2 Stick to work with this? if so, how did you manage it?

At this rate I'll be going back to X-Plane, I can understand an old stick being unsupported by some publishers, but think for Microsoft to not support such an old but widely used stick is pretty lame, especially when it carries their name..... :/
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It supposedly works just fine. Force feedback is coming with a mod from FS Force
 
Scania said:
Has anybody been able to get a Microsoft Sidewinder Force feedback 2 Stick to work with this? if so, how did you manage it?

At this rate I'll be going back to X-Plane, I can understand an old stick being unsupported by some publishers, but think for Microsoft to not support such an old but widely used stick is pretty lame, especially when it carries their name..... :/
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My MS Sidewinder FFB2 works fine, You have to manually map the input's, Even my FFB works! Google it, That's what i did, You will get the info you need to get it working, If i can anybody can! :D
 
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