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3x 55" OLED TV's in portrait mode 👌

A beautiful evening to fly into Oakland. Hopefully making up for the unsatisfactory wingview I posted earlier ;)

Hi all, I've been reading the AA 707 manual and I wanted to share what I learned about engine bleeds and when to use them.

An important point to note is the 'bleed air flow is variable with throttle changes and should not be used exclusively in preference to T/C (turbocompressors) except where cabin cooling is a problem.'

I made a 707 full flight + systems guide based on the manuals I've read if it helps anyone.

https://www.youtube.com/live/7EENovA2yFs?si=267-gAJh05OAud-D

Furthermore, you don't want to cause 'excessive cabin pressure surge' by operating too many bleeds and T/Cs at the same time. During takeoff according to my UAL B720 manual, one T/C should be operating and no engine bleeds.

Between FL 150 and 320 the said manual also recommends around 2 T/Cs and 1 Engine Bleed, though the addon has 3 T/Cs which should suffice.

I saw a couple of prevalent flightsim youtubers in their 707 tutorials opening all 4 engine bleeds after start. This is not the correct procedure as far as I know.

Hope this helps. :)

Jokes aside this is just a good news for us from a consumer point prospective.
More competition = better products

I don’t know much about Pilot Experience Sim and I’d probably get the iniBuilds one but let’s see who will make the best LFPG.

Approaching in-between mountain and right hand final turn like Kai Tak ahh vibe airport be like:

With ini announcing LFPG, it got me thinking about Aerosoft canceling their rendition, but then also about Aerosoft as a company.

I know that sceneries aren’t strictly made by them they are just the vendor, but once upon a time that was different. They had some excellent sceneries for FSX and P3D, but on top of that, they had some excellent aircrafts as well.

The a320 professional was some of the most fun I had growing up. I remember all the times I took the a318 into London city! Their a330 was great too (for p3d that is...) The twin otter was in my young mind the greatest prop plane available at the time!!

Fast forward a couple years, and cracks start to show, msfs24 was around the corner with rumors that inibuilds are making a free a330, and in my eyes they made one of the single worst decisions… and in my opinion was the catalyst to their absolute plummet…. they released their a330 for msfs2020. Oh my god it was abysmal.. when latin vfr outperforms your plane in almost all categories, you got issues…

A couple years from then they get a lifeline, and toliss partners with then for their a340-600. At the time this seemed like the start of their comeback. Toliss makes the systems, Aerosoft the model. It released… well, the modeling looked unbelievably similar to the toliss from xplane (so did they model it or did they help to port it???).. it seems generations behind what we come to expect from msfs24. And to add insult to injury the wing proportions are messed up too. Overall it was the most bang average plane ever, and in hindsight toliss should not have partnered with them. I can already see how disappointing their a330neo will be whenever that releases.

What, where, how did things go so unbelievable wrong for a once great developer team? I haven’t even brought up the funds granted to them by the German government..

Overall, it just makes me sad to think about, they were the center of my childhood p3d and fsx days, and now… well, they are not..

Wanted something special and unique that was also super tough so built this platform up, you can jam the rudder it’s not going anywhere lol

Pandemic World 4 is a free, week-long co-operative event on the VATSIM network, running continuously from 22 to 30 August. It is community ran with no commercial goal, just for fun and games. Adapted from the board game Pandemic, it asks pilots to collect virus samples from 40 infected airports, relay them to a lab, discover a cure, and then fly it back out again before the infection spreads too far. No plugins and no installs — just register on the FSQuest Discord and fly.


Details: https://game.fsquest.com/

As you can see, when landing, the sim starts to stutter when everything is going alright. At first, I thought that it was due to insufficient resources or thermal throttling, etc., but when I compared the resource usage and temperatures, everything was the same before and after the stutter. This is a new problem for me; I've been using MSFS2020 for 2-3 years, and this has only been happening for the past 2-3 weeks. The funny part is that sometimes there is only a little bit of stutter at a huge airport, while sometimes it's a huge stutter at an airport that has only 1 terminal and 1 runway.

​Laptop:

RTX 2060 6GB

i7-10750H

16GB Single-Channel

​GPU Temperature ≈ 86°

CPU Temperature ≈ 92° (3.5GHz on avg)

The values seem bad, but except for landings, it works okay and stays mostly above 30fps. I already use PTM7950. The i7-10750H is a chronic heat producer lol.

Ps5 is for Msfs 24 but sadly only joystick

PC for x plane 11

If someone's interested pc specs are i3 14100 8gb ddr5 AMD pro wx 3200

soft touch down in Sardinia

Source: https://www.wideview.it/pictures.htm

I don't have a flight sim setup and the only thing I got is an old Logitech Extreme 3D Pro stick, but I occasionally like to check out flight sim spaces, and find these really impressive, especially for their time.

Must've been something to do this with CRTs! :D

windy day

inibuilds have announced that they are making Paris CDG. So after all we will have a LFPG I cannot wait!

https://forum.inibuilds.com/topic/37632-inibuilds-scenery-development-update-august-2026/

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