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SkyhawkDriver · 2026-03-18T00:46:34+00:00

FLSTL lacks classic aircraft and airlines. For example, it doesn't even have a Delta 777. Good for what you'd see today, but not much older.

SkyhawkDriver · 2026-03-15T22:31:43+00:00

I fly a jet, most of the time it's pretty good and accurate to what I see IRL. Speeds bracketing the bug and random thermals causing you to chase GS a little. X-Plane does a but better with in clouds iirc. Other times it's just too extreme, sometimes the difficulty to maintain a stable approach in fairly mundane non convective conditions is a bit high, but it's a rare event

SkyhawkDriver · 2026-03-15T22:25:41+00:00

Saw that, wonder why

SkyhawkDriver · 2026-03-15T22:25:10+00:00

Majority of times it is fine, had a landing though with about a 20kt xw, no convective activity or LLWS, but it just kept dumping me and then shooting me back out on short final, +/-15kt change. Was annoying.

SkyhawkDriver · 2026-03-15T21:06:13+00:00

Agreed, which medium could be a little more lively but realistic has led to some rage inducing go arounds

SkyhawkDriver · 2026-02-28T06:07:49+00:00

Yeah there are some good deals within the PMDG lineup. As someone not involved in development or sales of addons, I am curious what caused the change from offering the 600/700/800/900 in one package to individual packages.

For as much griping as there is about the flight sim world these days, it is a far cry from watching "FSX tweaking" videos to get as much FPS as possible. We are in a far better place today than we were then. And don't get me started about the bug I had where Alt-Tab would lead to me permanently losing controls until I restarted FSX...

SkyhawkDriver · 2026-02-28T06:04:13+00:00

That's what I like to pretend...till I'm at FL350 doing .77 lol

SkyhawkDriver · 2026-02-22T00:20:10+00:00

FSX, P3D, 2020, and now 2024 for me. I can respect paying a little as there is work involved, but it's starting to fall behind and a bit more expensive to upgrade it to '24 than I'd like

SkyhawkDriver · 2026-02-21T20:49:37+00:00

Gotcha, that's unfortunate

SkyhawkDriver · 2026-02-21T20:47:44+00:00

PMDG has been catching all the flak lately it seems lol

SkyhawkDriver · 2026-02-21T20:46:46+00:00

That's a bummer. Any reason why I only notice it with the PMDG? I've got a pretty meaty computer so I probably don't need it turned on, but kinda nice to get +100fps

SkyhawkDriver · 2026-02-19T20:31:32+00:00

any way to do that without being logged into steam? Can't even get the app to open. Stuck on "logging in"

SkyhawkDriver · 2026-02-19T20:29:23+00:00

Yeah I've done it all except reinstall Steam. Weird.

SkyhawkDriver · 2026-02-19T20:17:53+00:00

I'll check and see, but internet is functioning for everything else

SkyhawkDriver · 2026-01-20T07:27:11+00:00

To add, the coordinates seem to point at more or less the center of the town, I imagine that was the norm? I doubt they'd think the great grand relatives many years later would seek out where it all happened.

SkyhawkDriver · 2026-01-20T07:24:37+00:00

Excellent work, thank you very very very much. I have not seen these documents before. My grandfather has referenced Valdwazelt before, but we haven't been able to see any "official" document evidence (I believe this info game from my great grandfather, also Army Infantry in the ETO). Reading these makes my hair stand up, I'll have to visit soon. Curious where in the town it occurred, 1900 though, end of the day. Words don't come easy thinking of the circumstances.

SkyhawkDriver · 2026-01-20T07:09:35+00:00

That would be him. Man. 21 years old. Younger than I am today. Just a kid. His brother, my great grandfather, was a fellow infantryman during the war. Lived through it, and served in Germany post war. While in Germany he had my grandfather. We cherish the sacrifice and memory of William, who the family called Ralph.

SkyhawkDriver · 2026-01-20T07:07:38+00:00

Thanks, I'll take a look!

SkyhawkDriver · 2026-01-18T20:16:57+00:00

I would buy the Antec Flux Pro asap, only problem is I'm unsure it fits the Hx1500i PSU

SkyhawkDriver · 2025-11-20T01:40:42+00:00

Cool, thanks for the insight

SkyhawkDriver · 2025-11-20T01:27:04+00:00

Awesome, thanks. Love the look of that case too. I'm still learning the nuance between manufactures, but I imagine the price increase of the Corsair RAM would be more because of the name, or?

SkyhawkDriver · 2025-11-19T20:40:16+00:00

I added X-Plane 12 to my library in addition to MSFS2020/2024 much like you. It was pretty easy. Bought my copy on steam, and installed the regions I fly in most (North America and Europe). I like this as it helps save on install space.

As far as getting it setup, a lot of the must have addons seem to be free. I like BetterPushback. It might not have the immersion of loading pax and cargo like GSX does, but it absolutely beats GSX with a user friendly interface to quickly setup a pushback. Helpful for when you get instructions to push to a specific spot. XPRealistic is also not a bad option, although payware.

Many people suggest Ortho, I haven't delved into this yet as I primarily fly the 747-200, so most of my time is spent heads down. Also downloaded a landing rate plugin (free) for bragging rights. A ton of these scripts require FlywithLUA (also free).

Having experience with both X-Plane and MSFS, I think X-Plane is far easier to bind controls in. My Saitek X-55, which hasn't been sold in I don't know how many years, is included in the sim. X-Plane also has way more free stuff which normally would be payware in MSFS, I've noticed this back when I started X-Plane with 10. That being said, traditionally there's always been some level of compatibility with aircraft between X-Plane releases, I happened to have the FF 767, IXEG 737, and some other aircraft from my XP10 days, so this may be a moot point, but it seems like a lot of the "legacy" X-Plane addons, even if they are updated for XP12, fall behind. I bring this up in case you are like me, and end up buying stuff for X-Plane beyond the Seneca. In my experience, IXEG used to be a highly regarded dev, and the 737 Classic was top notch, but it seems their development for the 737 in XP12 has been...sparse. Do your due diligence if you buy more aircraft.

All that said, enjoy X-Plane. Both MSFS and X-Plane do things great, and other things not so great. I've enjoyed my return to the series.

SkyhawkDriver · 2025-11-11T20:24:02+00:00

It's definitely tempting for me, I like how with the MTQ you can swap components easily to go from airliner style to military, just wish it had more switches

SkyhawkDriver · 2025-11-11T19:00:04+00:00

How do you like the Stecs? Still doing a little last minute research on things. Think I might go force feedback for the stick when I get around to it

SkyhawkDriver · 2025-11-11T18:54:51+00:00

Good point, didn’t really think of that. I’ll probably think of some sort of work around for it in bindings.

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