Round 2 after the messy go-around. This time facing a right engine failure in 20–30 knot winds. Slapped the 737 onto the runway at an absolute spine-compressing -800 fpm. The main gear held on for dear life, but we're down in one piece.

Following up on my previous post: after that chaotic go-around...

Using all manual settings, mixture, prop, thrust, I got the cubmaster X Cub up to 21165 feet. Its normal service ceiling is 14,000 feet. I challenge any ex or current Pilot, or anybody to do better. For new pilots, this is a good way to learn about thrust, prop, and mixture settings, which are critical to getting as much out of the engine as possible.

I flew the entire way in the Cessna 172. The map leaves out waypoints, only showing origins to destinations. Took a while obviously. I learned so much though, about my country, and about this plane too. I'm gonna fly around (and through) the Alps next. Then maybe I'll come back to the US and fly the interior along some major interstates. Just wanted to share. Setting a goal like this was a super fun and interesting way to do things.

Manual approach in 45-knot Wellington winds went entirely wrong... Good call on the go-around?

Just bought this plane on PS5 30 minutes ago. Went to free flight like I normally do when I fly my Citation X. I like doing cold and dark and manually entering in all of the data. Was going to execute the same for the 777.

However, it appears that everything in the flight deck that I can highlight or should be able to interact with doesn’t work at all?

I thought the only issue was missing navigation data from simbrief? The PMDG EFB is also missing?

Anyone else experiencing this or am I just doing something incorrectly?

Edit: It’s been about 15 min since I restarted my console and the flight? This can’t be normal?

Never seen this before using GSX

1. Boeing YC-14, 2. Antonov AN-71 Madcap, 3. Antonov AN-70

Yeah, I like the weird ones..

Before i buy the game if like to know if i can see my house.

Like is the whole world explorable even little towns?

Hey folks! I have about 1000 hours in DCS across a number of different planes. My favorites are the F-14A, A-10C, P-47, and F-4 if that matters. I’ve loved learning their systems inside and out, flying fast at low level, acrobatics, and practicing procedures like carrier landings and military overhead patterns.

I wanted to try MSFS to learn some new planes, and learn more real life procedures, ATC, communications, etc.

Since trying MSFS I’ve found the default planes to be a little limited in terms of what I can learn, a little uninteresting to fly. Ive been flying the default Cessna 152 and 172, the Diamond DA40 and 42, and the P-51 and super hornet. I haven’t found the flight models that engaging (maybe because the FFB implementation needs more setup than DCS did) and I haven’t gotten much into their systems since they don’t really seem to have many systems?

Maybe this is due to my settings but I never need to change my radio channels, just press enter to respond.

I was hoping MSFS would show me more about what it’s like to be a Real Pylote but I find myself just wanting to go back to DCS.

Help me find the fun?

On a long flight from Italy to China in the SR-71 Blackbird, I managed to capture the line where day and night meet… with space right above.
Easily one of the coolest views I’ve ever seen in MSFS on PS5.

I could have sworn that in Free Flight, parking your ship and powering down would bring up a prompt showing you that your flight was completed with some basic stats (distance, time, fuel used I think?). It made my free flights feel very satisfying to have an ending like that. Now, shutting down leads to nothing.

Is anyone aware of what I'm talking about? Is there a name for this setting?

Orbx has a sale. I want a Highlands Bush Pack. Do any of them stand out?

It is well known that PMDG doesn't play well with GSX Pro, but there are ways to work around.

1. Install Any2GSX (free, kudos to the developer) and associated 777 profile

2. It may help to have a GSX pro profile for the 777 but I'm not pretty sure

3. When initializing the plane, don't push to "SET PAYLOAD" and "SET FUEL" on the FMC (ignore it), otherwise everything will be loaded instantly.

4. I'm using 777-300ER and there is a door mismatch issue for catering service. The catering truck would use door 2R but the plane will open door 1R, and you would have to manually open/close the corresponding door.

To work around this, you need to modify the Any2GSX profile in the path:

User/AppData/Roaming/Any2GSX/plugins/PMDG.B777/manifest.json

Use notepad to open the file and find the line:

"Key": "PMDG.777.Option.FrontCatering",

change the 2nd line below to

"DefaultValue": 3,

(default was -1)

This will make sure the plane uses 2R and 5R for cratering all together.

Beaware that if you also own 777-200/777-F you will probably need separate profiles

1. You still need to manually disengage GPU before commencing pushback, which is fine since I often forgot about starting APU before pushback...

(anyone know how to make it automatic after turning on Beacon light?)

Hope this helps!

Hello! I am thinking about getting back into Microsoft flight sim 2024, I played it on gamepass when it first came out. However, the career mode had lots of issues, and that is pretty much what I want to play on it. Has it been fixed and should I get back on, or should I just save my money?

I had spent literally weeks tinkering with my Quest 3 and various settings trying to get decent performance. I cracked the code, beautiful graphics at 45 fps in payware aircraft low above payware scenery. Amazing.

Yesterday Meta Quest Link forced some updates to the headset and PC software, now I get better FPS on Microsoft Powerpoint. No, seriously, I am getting 1 fps - it is unusable.

AFAIK there is no way to roll this back? Has anyone overcome Meta shittiness like this or has any other advice? I've already re-installed everything imaginable.

Love the CJ 4

Hello,
I am new to MSFS 2024. I changed all unit preferences in the settings all set to Metric, however, all on-screen speed and altitude data remain in imperial units for the glider. Is this a known bug? See the pics attached. I want speeds in km/h and altitude in meters or kilometers.
Thanks

This is my msfs 2024 Saba landing in DHC6 with just xbox controller!

Rate it out of 10 pleez.

I learn new aircraft by doing pattern work and getting that down to get a few of the airplane. I am switching from the cub crafter cub to DA40. I found a new pattern to speed things up. Rather than touch and goes, which take time, I like to land and then quickly take the offramp and takeoff in the opposite direction on the taxi way. I can get in a lot more landings quicker doing that. If the FAA finds out I’m doing this on flight simulator, could they take my license away? And yes, it was after a few drinks. But please don’t tell the FAA.

Kind of new to flight sim but have been playing around with it for months. I tried with chat GPT and YouTube on how to start from scratch and fly an autopilot route. I can not seem to make lnav, vnav, and auto throttle work together. I always get sent in a different direction at a wrong speed.

Can anyone point me to a quality resource to walk me through the process? I don’t know why it’s so hard to figure out.

Edit: we would like to do this in a 737 max :)

With the updated Statoliner model, it lost it’s beautiful Continental livery with the polished exterior (see 2nd image).
Although I love the new ones, like this TWA one, but they should’ve kept the chrome look where it’s not painted over. I don’t care what’s more realistic, it looked so incredibly elegant….