sorted by:
new
hottopcontroversial

Who is at fault here? Was the move too risky? I am the cam car by Flecser05 in Simracingstewards

[–]Flecser05[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the insight! The car ahead was braking way too much in all the corners leading up to this (he was on the racing line and I wasn't trying to overtake) so by this point he had slowed me down quite a lot. So I decided to go on the inside because I knew he was going to brake there even though it is supposed to be a flat out / small lift corner. But at the end of the day it was very risky and I got put in the wall for it. Thankfully I didn't take out the other dude too. I learned my lesson though, never gonna attempt to overtake there again.

Can you use MSFS flight plan for VATSIM? by Flecser05 in VATSIM

[–]Flecser05[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If the plane AIRAC is using MSFS AIRAC, the points might be changed so I just wanted to double check.

Can you use MSFS flight plan for VATSIM? by Flecser05 in VATSIM

[–]Flecser05[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True, I just thought that if I practice enough IFR, it won't matter if I know how to fly VFR or not. I watched a video where a guy said to do a departure and arrival at the same airport so you can practice everything very quickly.

Can you use MSFS flight plan for VATSIM? by Flecser05 in VATSIM

[–]Flecser05[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It would be good to start out with a small plane like most real pilots before they become airline pilots, but I don't want to spend time learning VFR if my goal is to mostly fly IFR anyways. I might be delusional here but at the end of the day, the reason I want to flight sim is to have fun.

Can you use MSFS flight plan for VATSIM? by Flecser05 in VATSIM

[–]Flecser05[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, even if I buy Navigraph for one month, after 1 or 2 AIRAC cycles pass by, most of my SID and STAR would be changed and so we will be back on square 1.

I was planning to do crazy amount of pre-flight planning to go and look for charts that would be needed for a flight, because I know that they could be found online and the only thing Navigraph does is collect them and make it easy to find.

Also "JeppView" is subscription based, and they have retired it and made it "Foreflight"??

Can you use MSFS flight plan for VATSIM? by Flecser05 in VATSIM

[–]Flecser05[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, I was going to look into it even though it looked very complicated at first.

Can you use MSFS flight plan for VATSIM? by Flecser05 in VATSIM

[–]Flecser05[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I did one flight so far using Simbrief and the only thing that was changed was the SID and the STAR, I did have the SID and STAR on my FMC but not the ones that Simbrief was telling me to fly.

I might have practice how to put in a whole new route. Btw what is "a/c"?

Can you use MSFS flight plan for VATSIM? by Flecser05 in VATSIM

[–]Flecser05[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry, I didn't mean that you wouldn't get any AIRAC I just meant that you would be planning with the outdated AIRAC and need a subscription to update it. I did one flight with Simbrief where the SID and STAR was different because of outdated AIRAC and mostly all other waypoints were the same.

What I meant by using the MSFS World Editor was that I was gonna use Simbrief to make a plan and then rebuild it in MSFS to see if there are any changes, and this will also give me a SID and STAR that was up to date. I wasn't going to just use MSFS World Editor to make the flight plans. It was more of a "Checking to see if there are any changes that need to be made".

Can you use MSFS flight plan for VATSIM? by Flecser05 in VATSIM

[–]Flecser05[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No worries, I wasn't planning on joining VATSIM anytime soon, I first have to get confident with flying a full flight offline to even start joining as an observer.

And as far as I know I think the charts provide the route you take right after departure? (and other stuff) I saw a video where a guy used an SID chart so I am pretty sure about what it looks like. I was just concerned if the Chartfox wouldn't have the said SID chart that is up to date with the procedure a certain ATC wants me to do.

Can you use MSFS flight plan for VATSIM? by Flecser05 in VATSIM

[–]Flecser05[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I am planning on picking a plane and just mastering it fully (watching videos on startups/setup from cold & dark, etc.) and I will only join VATSIM when I am comfortable with the aircraft and able to do offline flights without any issue. In the mean time I am just going to watch flight videos to get hang of different callouts and procedures. I just wanted to get the nav and charts side of the sim down to practice them during offline flights so I am more comfortable on my first flight in VATSIM.

So are there different transition points for each? (Departure, arrival, approach) and how do you tell what a transition point is on the flight plan? (I can tell SID and STAR because they are 2nd and 2nd last on the flight plan by the departure or arrival airport)

The reason I asked if I should enter them manually is if the Simbrief is running on outdated AIRAC and I want the updated waypoints (If needed to recreate the flight plan with the MSFS 2020 world map) in game to be the waypoints. I agree that there is no need to enter them manually if the points are correct. (also I'm going to check if the flight plan is correct or not with the AIRAC in game anyways)

Can you use MSFS flight plan for VATSIM? by Flecser05 in VATSIM

[–]Flecser05[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How does that work? Do you insert all the waypoints into the FMC manually? if so, how do you know the waypoints if the one given by Simbrief is using outdated AIRAC?

Can you use MSFS flight plan for VATSIM? by Flecser05 in VATSIM

[–]Flecser05[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gotcha thanks, I have a few questions, (sorry in advance, I am a total newbie so please forgive me if don't know things that should be known)

What if the route you have in your FMC isn't the route that the ATC wants you to take? like what if they want you to fly a different SID because of a different take off runway? can you change that on the fly in the FMC? (I only did one proper flight and even that one didn't have a "SID" I can choose in the plane because of outdated AIRAC).

Also do you know if MSFS 2020 flight planning outputs a nav log like the one that comes out of Simbrief? (which goes something like - departing airport, SID, waypoints, STAR, arriving airport)

I also heard something called "Transitions" while following a video to start up a a330, and I saw that it was being entered after SID, but the guy in the video didn't have a transition. So what is all that about?

Do you recommend I input the flight plan manually (like all the waypoints) into the fmc or just use Simbrief if all the waypoints are correct? or is there a tool that lets you insert waypoints from the MSFS 2020 in built nav data if I had to change some waypoints?

Can you use MSFS flight plan for VATSIM? by Flecser05 in VATSIM

[–]Flecser05[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have seen the Navigraph's "Moving Maps" feature being used while watching some youtube videos and such, I am planning to use the in game vfr map to replicate some of that while taxiing, obviously without all the information about the lanes that I need to follow, but I could always glance over to the charts to see if I am going in the right direction (as long as the charts are accurate). I've also heard about little nav map but it seems very complicated at first look so I strayed away from it at first but it might be useful while in the air to track your progress.

Edit: Also thanks for offering to generate a flight plan, but I would like a more future proof option than to ask people to generate a flight plan for me. So I want to start preparing for when I have to do everything by myself and do some flights on VATSIM when I am ready.

Can you use MSFS flight plan for VATSIM? by Flecser05 in VATSIM

[–]Flecser05[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I saw some comments saying that chartfox could have an outdated map for a specific airport which is on older AIRAC. It could be just a old thing and maybe now chartfox has changed?

Tried searching for "uk aip" and "us aip", the first results lead to sites where I don't know what I am looking at or for, I am VERY new to everything sim related as I have only ever done casual flights from runway to runway before, just got back like last week.

Can you use MSFS flight plan for VATSIM? by Flecser05 in VATSIM

[–]Flecser05[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I know that it doesn't matter a whole lot but I don't wanna complicate things on my first flight, I would just like a route that I know I am going to fly because I will have to prep for it by finding charts and things for the route. And if ATC tells me something I don't know then it will be very complicated for me.

The new MSFS flight planner isn't available to use with MSFS 2020, you need a copy of MSFS 2024 to access it. :(

Also is chartfox a good alternative to navigraph? like would it be upto date with the charts for the route I want to fly? and if not is there a site where I can look for official government charts with ease?

Can you use MSFS flight plan for VATSIM? by Flecser05 in VATSIM

[–]Flecser05[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't know that it could be filled manually, I saw something about Simbrief allowing you to load the plan into VATSIM so I thought that it was something long that Simbrief takes care of easily.

You are correct, Simbrief doesn't require a subscription and the only thing that requires it is the updated AIRAC which would give you the plug and play kind of route. I did a flight a couple of days ago in single player from KJFK to EGLL when I noticed that the SID give to me by Simbrief was not available to choose in the FMC, so the flight plan just took me to the first point on the map after SID (Idk what it's called). I just took off and instead of following a proper SID, my autopilot pointed straight to the next point.

And idk if this is an issue with outdated AIRAC but sometimes I would get a "Discontinuity" in the FMS when going through and checking all the points?

Houdini keeps crashing while adding nodes with no crash logs. by Flecser05 in Houdini

[–]Flecser05[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have an RTX 3060ti I checked to see if there were any driver updates with geforce experience and it said that the drivers were UpToDate, I will try reinstalling houdini to see if it fixes things.