That explains why I didn't find St Louis!
It's also one of my biggest complaints... I have no idea where I'm at sometimes and you fly over a town or lake or mountain with no way to know what it's name is.
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It's also one of my biggest complaints... I have no idea where I'm at sometimes and you fly over a town or lake or mountain with no way to know what it's name is.
I spent good few hours today flying around and boy oh boy I think I got really addicted to this sim. Even usually barren/bland areas are interesting due to Bing textures.
Still no major issues, guess I'm lucky, it runs stable and looks beautiful. Unless I jump to one of the jets - instant loos of fps inside the plane, non of the settings helps.
Other than that, I`m def buying the sim after gamepass.
Dayum. I'm holding off buy this; waiting for Oculus support, but... ya'll are makin' it damned tempting.
Mine was a good 7 or 8 year old. Think it's the sensor, as googling issue just brings bad news. Lots of red lines across the camera window. Worked fine the day before but I guess when tech decides to hari kari thats that.
Found a Chinese knock off which looks identical and has good write ups for £60 so 3 or 4 weeks should be back to it.
And for others who quoted me, I agree - cannot play any cockpit game (including ED) without functioning neck.
I just land at a runway I see lol
I tried plotting a destination to be a set of coords, and I selected them as destination, but when I took off I had no heading, and the map didn't have a flight path to the chosen coords, and the coords didn't have an onscreen icon so...?
Also, the tips keep bugging me about hitting D for heading something or other, and I press D and it remains on the screen. I don't see any noticeable difference on the map when I press D.
The problem with a game like this is I have no idea if it's an issue with the game, or a PBKAC issue...both are extremely likely.
Magnetic instruments such as compass will drift, you need to reset them once in a while. The map won't change, bit your compass/alt meter will (depending on if you press B or D). If you don't at some point both will be off quite a while. The map is always correct.
Welcome to pilotage.That explains why I didn't find St Louis!
It's also one of my biggest complaints... I have no idea where I'm at sometimes and you fly over a town or lake or mountain with no way to know what it's name is.
Piloting - Wikipedia
St. Louis is a peninsula, surrounded by three rivers. The shape of the river junctions can help, even if you don't see any man-made features.
The big 200 meter tall arch out front also helps.
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Just landed at Area 51. Even just plain old desert looks beautiful in this sim, such a far cry from the beige monotony of FSX.
It's called Homey in case you can't find it on the map.
Also, first time I tried the Shock Ultra - even more rustic than the Cub - I love flying these really basic tiny little things. So simple.
It's called Homey in case you can't find it on the map.
Also, first time I tried the Shock Ultra - even more rustic than the Cub - I love flying these really basic tiny little things. So simple.
I already know where to find Groom Lake...
I'm enjoying this game/sim very much, it's an explorers dream.
Just flown from my home town in SE England, along the south coast, stopping off on the way at a couple of landing strips/air bases, and decided for an overnight stay in the Scilly Isles. Amazing detail (at 1000ft+) - so many 'oh yeah' moments! Plan to fly up the Bristol channel tomorrow, up through Wales, Snowdonia and then on to Cumbria and beyond. Plan to circumnavigate the whole of the isles and then on to mainland Europe.
In my early years I spent some time travelling through Africa, so looking forward to following that trip, Sahara thru to Mombasa
I'm fairly new to (modern) flight sims and have been struggling with the autopilot/G1000 functionality, but found this YT vid amazingly helpful, so if anyone is needing a brief overview on how to make the AP, Nav and altitude actually work, this is worth a watch!
Just flown from my home town in SE England, along the south coast, stopping off on the way at a couple of landing strips/air bases, and decided for an overnight stay in the Scilly Isles. Amazing detail (at 1000ft+) - so many 'oh yeah' moments! Plan to fly up the Bristol channel tomorrow, up through Wales, Snowdonia and then on to Cumbria and beyond. Plan to circumnavigate the whole of the isles and then on to mainland Europe.
In my early years I spent some time travelling through Africa, so looking forward to following that trip, Sahara thru to Mombasa
I'm fairly new to (modern) flight sims and have been struggling with the autopilot/G1000 functionality, but found this YT vid amazingly helpful, so if anyone is needing a brief overview on how to make the AP, Nav and altitude actually work, this is worth a watch!
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That looks down in a hole....One of my wishlisted destinations for a future vacation: Interlaken, in the Swiss Alps.
I flew the Pitts out over my house, haha. I live on the cul-de-sac right under the plane. Too funny.
I used to own a Pitts just like this one. Not a full size plane, but a scale model, radio-controlled. It was very hard to control on the ground, but in the air it was very agile.
I didn't try acrobatics today though.
This is that same cul-de-sac, only Google maps. Google has more current data -- that Storage Space place went in years ago. In the MSFS version it's an open field.
Still -- it's pretty cool to find your own neighborhood in the game.
I used to own a Pitts just like this one. Not a full size plane, but a scale model, radio-controlled. It was very hard to control on the ground, but in the air it was very agile.
I didn't try acrobatics today though.
This is that same cul-de-sac, only Google maps. Google has more current data -- that Storage Space place went in years ago. In the MSFS version it's an open field.
Still -- it's pretty cool to find your own neighborhood in the game.
Bing is WAY behind. I hope this updating coming out in a couple of weeks is a whole new set of aerial photography from the last year or two.
What's odd is that if I go to Bing maps itself, it has the latest imagery. The stuff in MSFS is much older than on Bing Maps.
The Garmin 1000 manual is available as a free download:
The Garmin GNS 530 ( the one in the non-1000 C172) manual is also free download:
...and here is the GNS 430:
I don't know how much of the functionality is emulated in the sim though.
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In the old days I would use a map. Around LA, we're I learned to fly, the map was pretty cluttered but I knew my way around the LA basin pretty well.Welcome to pilotage.
Piloting - Wikipedia
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St. Louis is a peninsula, surrounded by three rivers. The shape of the river junctions can help, even if you don't see any man-made features.
The big 200 meter tall arch out front also helps.
When I got out of the Navy and moved to Alabama, the reverse was the issue. Not enough land marks, the old VOR radials were priceless back then.
Funny though, flying around Central Alabama isn't as hard as it was when I first moved here.
I just know is that for me, Bing maps is an exact match for what FS uses (though FS does some post-processing to get rid of things like cars on roads, shadows, etc).
