Soldato
@Aegis thanks. One more question do I need ethernet connection for best performance for MSFS or will it run ok over 5GHz wifi? The quest 2 will be connected via USB.
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For streaming in data from Microsoft's servers, the minimum recommended speed is 5 Mbps - with 50 Mbps being 'ideal' - I don't know what your internet speed is but assuming you meet or exceed those requirements you should be good either way.
Soldato
All the Airports across the world are in there.
Some are Handcrafted by MS (Some good, some bad...)
Plenty of Payware stuff out there (Airports and Planes)
Be aware its an expensive habit with most Scenery costing anywhere between 10-30odd quid and Planes £20-100+
I have the Fenix A320, PMDG 737-600 and 800 as well as Concorde and the original CRJ package (Off the top of my head that's about £250) and 25ish Airports
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Soldato
All the Airports across the world are in there.
Some are Handcrafted by MS (Some good, some bad...)
Plenty of Payware stuff out there (Airports and Planes)
Be aware its an expensive habit with most Scenery costing anywhere between 10-30odd quid and Planes £20-100+
I have the Fenix A320, PMDG 737-600 and 800 as well as Concorde and the original CRJ package (Off the top of my head that's about £250) and 25ish Airports
Yeah I think the base game will be enough for me. I really just want to fly around in vr and control an airliner, and also learn about how air traffic control works.
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Soldato
Oh ok. That's a shame.the ATC is broken and terrible so you won't be learning much
Are there emergency scenarios happen randomly in the SIM? So for example an engine fail or a gear failure, and you have to figure out how to solve it, or make a crash landing?
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Some payware planes such as the Fenix A320 have the option to simulate failures, you won't see any actual visual signs of the failures though like an engine flaming out etc
Yup. I’ve been an air traffic controller for over 20 years and can confirm that the ‘ATC’ in MSFS is complete garbage on every level.the ATC is broken and terrible so you won't be learning much
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@danlightbulb have a look at VATSIM if you want proper ATC. @West , @!bluetonic! and I are members. There's probably loads more on here too.
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I have the Fenix A320, PMDG 737-600 and 800 as well as Concorde and the original CRJ package (Off the top of my head that's about £250) and 25ish Airports
Which Concorde do you have? - is it the D.C. Designs one I got from Just Flight (which is very good imo) or a different one that I’m not aware of?
Does this disable the in game ATC when using vatsim?
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I have the in game ATC permanently disabled as it's not realistic. But to answer your question, you'd need to disable in game ATC before connecting to the network. You'd also need to disable live traffic and that other setting which shows you other players in the game (I forget exactly what it's called). Again, I have these both permanently disabled.
Soldato
DC Designs when it first come out I got it.Which Concorde do you have? - is it the D.C. Designs one I got from Just Flight (which is very good imo) or a different one that I’m not aware of?
Admittedly, I want to fly it a bit more but always end up getting into the 738 or the 320
Looking forward to see what the A330 from Aerosoft comes up with and the FBW 38X is looking immense. Long haul A/C is now what the sim is lacking I think!
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Soldato
Would advise disabling any AI/Static Traffic and ATC in game when using Vatsim.
Admittedly, especially at places like EGPH when I control the amount of people that come back to me saying that Stand 6 and one of the others on the parking area is occupied is normally because of either Static or AI Traffic being on.
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New member here, and I will get this for my forthcoming pc but how does this compare to P3D?
P3D may not have the same graphics but seems to have better mods?
P3D may not have the same graphics but seems to have better mods?
There are now thousands of mods for 2020 and many better than any you'll find on P3D. Have a look at flightsim.to. This is (was) the go to place to get freeware addons but there's some shenanigans going on over there at the moment related to premium membership and ownership of uploads so some major players have pulled out.
Soldato
Since moving from P3Dv4 to MSFS I've not looked back to be honest. I had plenty of addons with P3D (PMDG 737, 777, REX ORBX etc) so was a bit daunting to swap over to a completely vanilla sim (about a year after MSFS was released).
Now is a great time to switch. We've got some excellent third party addons and there's enough variety already to pretty much satisfy all your needs. The only good long hauler is the Asobo (INI Simulations A310) which is a free addon but but some mods are available for the 787 and 747 that make them just about acceptable. Modding community has really stepped up with MSFS. The quality of some addons are payware quality.
Performance is good too. The Fenix A320 is probably the most demanding aircraft on system resources but can still just about hold 25-30fps in a busy third party airport and traffic.
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Hmm, some extensions I fancy like SLC (Self Loading Cargo) is not on FS2020. One company is doing an A380 plane for the sim, but PMDG and QualityWings haven't released anything? (actually PMDG have, but not the 777/747 I think).
Soldato
Fly By Wire team are doing a freeware A380 and promises to look good if their A320Neo is anything to go by. If your after a heavies and long hauls only high fidelity option at the moment is the free INI A310.
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The Headwind A330 is also pretty good for freeware.