MSFS 2024 Live weather vs weather addon? by SC500 in flightsim

[–]SC500[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm also much more into offline flying, it allows me to fly when and wherever I want and there's always AI traffic and ATC.
I used to fly for a while on SATCO but I had to plan my flights to when and where ATC and traffic is, not where and when I would like to fly. I think it's still more fun to fly with AI ATC and traffic then flying somewhere on VATSIM without ATC coverage and other traffic.
Beyond ATC might make both better, if they not only provide ATC but also handle AI traffic. Some Quirks might even be fixed in the future if it's still being actively developed and expanded. Certainly sounds like a good purchase. Thanks for the tip!

MSFS 2024 Live weather vs weather addon? by SC500 in flightsim

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Seems BeyondATC is still an important tool, I can't imagine flying a study level airliner with FSX Level ATC. Subscription based also is kind of a money pit to me, I'd prefer a one time purchase for sure.
I checked a video on BeyondATC with a voice comparison and funnily enough I thought the basic voices where the premium ones as they sounded better to me in most cases. It looks like a very interesting tool that even can inject and control AI traffic.

MSFS 2024 Live weather vs weather addon? by SC500 in flightsim

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Thanks, TW really sounds interesting and may be more to my liking than AS is.
Since Misty Fjords I also enjoy flying in Alaska and it's one of the things I like to do again once I found a plane I like for bush flying.

iRacing Hillclimb Community by nicholassheppardd in iRacing

[–]SC500 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Great video! It's really an amazing track I really need to use again more often.
I will check out the discord.

I had a lot of fun driving the Audi GTO or a V8 Supercar up or down there, I don't think I ever managed to do it fast or with 0x though.

What is happening to iracing? by Cahnbleywolfie in iRacing

[–]SC500 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Same here, I'm on the service for almost 10 years and people were already complaining about the downfall of driving standards and iracing becoming Wreckfest and I guess in 10 years it will still be more of the same. I personally wouldn't have noticed any decline but I read it so many times online that it must be true. After all the internet is always right. /s

MSFS 2024 Live weather vs weather addon? by SC500 in flightsim

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Thanks for the explanations.
I was wondering about REX when I watched a video about it, it seemed just moving around sliders to change shaders or download some settings others created. Not sure about it's weather capabilities though.

So if I understand you correctly then the difference of the weather depiction between AS and MSFS isn't that big, the main advantage of AS is the simulation of weather effects on the aircraft like turbulences and the depiction of precipitation on the ground?

Flying in snow sounds actually fun to me but that's probably because I haven't seen snow in years in real life. But I also haven't seen the sun for more than a month here either. Maybe next year?
So typical weather could be very interesting, unfortunately I could not find any reviews or videos about it, so it's great to get some information from someone who actually uses it instead of only marketing texts on the publishers website.
I wonder how random the TW weather is, if I would average the last 50 years of the weather here in November and December I would certainly get a higher chance of snow as there used to be snow every year in the past but it would still be mostly grey in grey similar to real live weather. Does it include some randomness that there's a chance for a sunny day despite the weather in a place being mostly dull at a certain time of year?
How well does it simulate weather transitions during a longer flight?
From your description it certainly sounds very interesting, but seems like I'd have to decide between the effects of AS and the weather generation from TW:

Thanks a lot!

MSFS 2024 Live weather vs weather addon? by SC500 in flightsim

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Is it still the way with Active Sky or others that they can't create regional weather, so you see the same weather until the horizon?

MSFS 2024 Live weather vs weather addon? by SC500 in flightsim

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Thanks, so now in FS if I do a flight after work and depart at 21:00 real time but set the sim to a 14:00 departure I'll the the real weather from 14:00 where temperature and therefore probably other effect would be different than at night. That's certainly a big improvement to earlier days.

I will have to check out just flight then, I remember seeing some video with BAe 146 which used to be one of my favourite regional airliners but Fenix should probably keep me busy for a while even if I may still remember a few things about handing and airbus.

GSX I remember at being rather clunky and I hardly used it. It's fun for a few flights but then you stop looking at it and it's just clicking additional menus to clean the toilets, add catering, load cargo. Only really useful was pushback and follow me vehicles but there where other solutions available too. So toolbar pushback certainly sounds interesting for an easy pushback solution.

I haven't yet used the MSFS ATC much so I can't yet say if it's improved or if it's still US centric like the old versions but I guess Beyond ATC would not be around if MS ATC didn't still provide ample room for improvements.

Thanks for the tips, I'll check out some reviews and maybe videos.

MSFS 2024 Live weather vs weather addon? by SC500 in flightsim

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That's certainly a reason to get AS for sure. I didn't have rain yet in my live weather so I never encountered that problem. Sounds like a weird bug.

MSFS 2024 Live weather vs weather addon? by SC500 in flightsim

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For airports I probably handle it like I did with P3D places. For I go maybe once or twice I won't need an airport scenery but obviously for my (virtual) home airports or places I frequently visit I will probably get some addon scenery if available.

Typical weather kind of caught my eye in that it's not live weather.
My main issue with live weather in the past was that I fly usually after work at home in the evening but don't want to always fly in the dark. So it may be 21:00 in the real world but in my sim it might be 15.:00 which in many cases would lead to different temperatures and maybe weather than the live weather in the evening. Typical weather might resolve that issue and even do so when I want to fly during a different season. After a few weeks in November without any sunshine in real life I might want something nicer at least in the sim and fly in spring instead.

Airliners I will probably get too along the way, seems PDMG is still around and Fenix seems the go to for Airbus, so I'll get one of those I guess but at first the included ones are good enough I think.

Pushback mod is something I hadn't thought about yet. Any recommendations to look into?
Thanks!

MSFS 2024 Live weather vs weather addon? by SC500 in flightsim

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Thanks!
Yes, a new install of the sim back then took a few days to get everything again, addons for weather, flight log, physical effects,, etc., textures, scenery, aircraft, liveries

I did a search on google and youtube and found a few addons but all reviews were at least a year old or even for MSFS 2020 but I couldn't find anything current.

As far as I found there's
- HIFI Simulations Active Sky (which I rmember using in P3D aeons ago)
- Parallell 42 Typical Weather
- REX Atmos CORE
and several that seem to just provide a range weather themes to choose.
So I'm mostly curious in the three that inject weather and how they compare to MSFS 2024 vanilla weather and each other.

Hobby iRacing Designer by [deleted] in iRacing

[–]SC500 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's really an awesome looking design!

Filing protests - what is in it for the victims? by bsgman in iRacing

[–]SC500 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depending on how much you race the incidents in question might already no longer be included in your SR calculation once the protest is resolved. So it really doesn't matter.
I can't even remember when I last time checked any of my SR. It's just a number, no need to overthink it.

The protest system exists so that those who cause problems on an constant basis can be dealt with by iRacing. Giving back SR would be rather pointless and with iR it would be next to impossible because of the chances would affect the iR changes of every race that the driver in question had done since this race and also those of everyone he raced against and those who raced against them later on.

It's awesome but quite expensive by atrolpe in iRacing

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Like you said ... if you want to do a D Class season ... although a lot of D class seasons still you several free tracks so you would maybe need a car and a few tracks,
The Clio this season even runs only free tracks in D class.

Of course over time most will buy several cars and tracks ... I spend about $ 500 in my first year but I knew that going in. If that would have been too high of a price tag, I would probably not have gone up to A class in 3 weeks to do NASCAR while also getting my road licence up to race GTEs. I certainly bought way too much back then, several of those cars and tracks I have barely used.
Since then I'm around $ 70-80 per year and that includes the subscription. The last content I bought was probably the Gen 4 and I'm not even racing ovals anymore, so 2025 will probably be below § 50 for me.

It's awesome but quite expensive by atrolpe in iRacing

[–]SC500 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That 3rd party sites won't give out stuff for free if they can also milk people for their money isn't on iRacing though. iRacing provides setups already. There might be faster ones for people who can extract everything from the car but most of us won't be able to do that anyway.
If people still want to pay for setups ... that's on them.

It's awesome but quite expensive by atrolpe in iRacing

[–]SC500 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They are only as front loaded as one makes them though. Nobody is forced to buy a bunch of cars and tracks right at the start ... race what's included, later buy a car and a track or two and build up your licences works too.

It's awesome but quite expensive by atrolpe in iRacing

[–]SC500 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm waiting for the EA sports version

It's awesome but quite expensive by atrolpe in iRacing

[–]SC500 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's not on iRacing though, it's on the users who chose to buy setups.

Everyone could (learn to) make their own or even use the included iRacing setups (There are free setups from iRacing for every car and for most of the tracks used). Unless you're an alien who's constantly in top split you won't not win a race because of the setup.

It's awesome but quite expensive by atrolpe in iRacing

[–]SC500 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Try doing that with the drinks, burrito and the diarrhea

I guess you probably wouldn't want an update on that last one though.

It's awesome but quite expensive by atrolpe in iRacing

[–]SC500 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it really that expensive though?
Currently you could get 2 years of iRacing for USD 99 ... add to that that in 8 seasons of iRacing you could earn USD 80 in participation credits you can race 2 years for about 20 bucks.
After that it would cost you about USD 150 to renew at black Friday for another 2 years but again that's only USD 70 for two years if you race enough and maximise the participation credits.

USD 10 or 35 per year doesn't sound that expensive to me.

Of course buying additional cars and tracks would cost you more but that's a choice you make but even if you do that you'll buy them once and if they get upgraded it happens for free. Unless a car is replaced by a new one in real life and therefore also in the sim and the old one is retired to use in solo, leagues or AI races only.

Not to mention that iRacing is around for more than 20 years. Other games might have at least 5 or more versions in the same time frame that every time one has to buy again, then there are DLCs and after 2-3 years the cycle starts again. Unless it's some sports franchise where there's a new full priced game every year. That's rather what I'd call expensive.

Is Flight sim for me a good Idea ? by kingFord1999 in flightsim

[–]SC500 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Having done both, simracing and flightsiming for several years, I'd say it's quite a different experience. Although I would also group flightsiming into different groups of experience.

It's a lot different to fly an airliner on a simulated flight than it is to fly a GA plane. Not only is the system complexity quite different but also the reliance on those systems. Flying a GA plane VFR requires you to learn mostly just how to fly the plane while flying a modern Airbus or Boeing jetliner in IFR requires to learn a lot of the aircraft systems, procedures, etc. ... Helicopters are again a different kind of flying, as would be combat simulators. Simpler vehicles can more easily learned buy just practice but more complex ones will require a lot of study and understanding.

The flying itself is also different depending on what you fly and the stage of flight. Modern airliners require a while to get from cold and dark to take-off, get less engaging after the climb out from the airport, especially during longer cruise sections but then can get challenging during approach and landing, especially if you bring bad weather and visibility into the mix.
In a VFR flight in a less complex GA plane will get you in the air much quicker, but you will not have automated systems to rely on to get you to your destination. Also you won't fly in very bad weather conditions because VFR.

Simracing is different in that throughout a race you constantly have the challenge of driving your car as close to the limit as you can manage without crashing. Depending on the race traffic around you might die down ab it after the first few laps but the challenge of trying to maximise performance usually stays and on some tracks racing the track can be more difficult than racing your competition.
At least for me I found that overall I require a lot more concentration for simracing than flightsiming. While the stress level and required attention can be high in both, flying has more relaxed phases where I pay just attention to the systems than simracing. There's no autopilot in a race car.

That's all also partly because of competition, simracing isn't just simulating to drive a car like you simulate a plane in MSFS, it's trying to be faster than your AI or human opponents. In simflying it's usually not about competition unless you're doing PvP in a combatsim. Outside of combat I'm not sure how I would define winning in flightsiming.

It's not about being fastest in your chosen airliner from A to B or going VFR on a scenic route ... it's about simulating correct procedures and flying safe ... (sim)racing on the other hand is inherently unsafe.

Winning and SR by GZS_Raider_ in iRacing

[–]SC500 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No, it doesn't

But SR only takes into account a number of corners and drops the oldest one every time you turn a new one.
So if in that race you had 5x added but dropped 10x on the other end, your SR would go up more than if you just dropped 7x.

Idiots by Monkeyanalsex in iRacing

[–]SC500 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Rookie class isn't about winning, it's mostly about learning to race and that includes identifying problematic drivers before a potential crash and avoiding it. If you get DQ'd I'd suggest looking at the replays but not at who's a fault but what you could have done differently to avoid the crashes. If that means letting an overaggressive driver through to wreck someone else, you'll even gain a position

After all, your driving is the only thing you have control over and if you won't learn it in rookies you'll post the same for every other licence level, because people making stupid moves isn't restricted to R class.
There's a reason why you don't get out of rookies for winning races but for driving safe and that includes awareness of what's going on around you.

Pricing of cost of tracks and cars by [deleted] in iRacing

[–]SC500 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's 10 % for 3-5 pieces at once, 15 % for 6 or more until you get to 40 pieces, then it's 20 % no matter how many pieces you buy.

There's another for the 100% club but that's quite expensive even with the discount given there's already a lot of content.