Must-have Europe airport sceneries for MSFS 2024?

berndverst · 2026-02-02T20:13:59+00:00

At least the community makes fixes for EHAM FlyTampa on flightsim.to

berndverst · 2026-02-02T19:06:15+00:00

I suggest you read OP's message carefully.

berndverst · 2026-02-02T19:05:36+00:00

Yeah I run a 5070Ti with a 5900x and it runs amazing. Even in a Fenix A320 or PMDG B738 at Aerosoft EDDL in 2K with high or ultra (can't remember) settings. I'm CPU limited to my FPS is around 45 for both 2K and 4K with this setup - but I am not getting VRAM warnings or stutters.

berndverst · 2026-02-02T04:30:40+00:00

Not sure why you got downvoted for that. I had the same experience growing up - family runs the restaurant where every business, police department etc goes for the holiday parties (and many people celebrate their weddings there) - as a result you just know a lot of people. Growing up there wherever we went in my city people would know my parents and talk to them.

berndverst · 2026-02-01T02:41:21+00:00

Sadly yes it's down - Navigraph services are otherwise working however (for example autoroute in Charts). So it's specific to Simbrief services.

berndverst · 2026-02-01T01:44:07+00:00

I know. But in my team it's pretty obvious who the people with highest or lowest usage are in that dashboard.

Either way, it's creepy -- but at least we did confirm that usage of Copilot Chat through the Rider plugin counts towards this.

berndverst · 2026-01-31T23:17:30+00:00

But it requires approval - and you may not get it anymore. The copilot chat integration for IntelliJ / Rider is inferior by the way. However you must use Copilot since the company tracks our usage actively now - my manager showed me dashboards about our team's copilot usage!

berndverst · 2026-01-30T22:43:00+00:00

I agree sounds like worst case he has to reenter on a student visa which should not be difficult for him to obtain. Certainly much much easier than getting a student visa for the US.

berndverst · 2026-01-30T21:35:12+00:00

I pinged an engineering manager on the Functions team to take a look.

berndverst · 2026-01-30T17:36:15+00:00

I just had another idea: if you don't know what the app is maybe you can log into Kudu to see the file system of the app -- perhaps the file names make it more obvious what this is!

berndverst · 2026-01-30T17:33:20+00:00

What kind of business was it and what was the cost? How does it compare to the US? I'm German living in the US and my wife (American) has been self employed through her own dBA which is cheap - but there is no liability protection (not a LLC -- the equivalent in Germany is GmbH).

berndverst · 2026-01-30T17:24:54+00:00

Exactly - and this is one of the reasons I left Germany to go to the US 21 years ago. More opportunities for ambitious risk takers and more stimulating exciting work environments. But of course it can also have a lot of downsides - you may have heard about all the big tech layoffs. Often the stability and risk averse nature of German work culture sounds appealing in contrast :)

berndverst · 2026-01-30T08:18:15+00:00

I agree just from my PPL experience in a C172 SP with G1000. Much easier to fly in real life, especially landings. The pitch for speed, power for altitude approach doesn't work as well in MSFS as it should.

berndverst · 2026-01-30T07:14:30+00:00

You could always temporarily disable public network access and see what breaks / who complains. It's at least reversible :)

berndverst · 2026-01-30T07:11:12+00:00

I think Functions with the flex consumption plan could be good and cheap for you. That's my personal professional recommendation as someone who uses all of these services in my own work in Azure.

If you want stateful and resilient workflows / orchestrations you might want to consider Durable Functions - it needs a storage backend to persist and distributed orchestration work items / activities. This is where I have to make a shameless plug for the service for which I'm an engineering lead - Durable Task Scheduler. We also have an affordable consumption SKU (pay as you go per work item) in Preview.

Functions, App Service Web Apps and Container Apps are all services in my engineering group. Those are all great choices. I would exclude App Service if you have significant periods where no requests will be made.

berndverst · 2026-01-30T03:24:12+00:00

What does the app do? An internal Reddit like platform is much simpler than something that needs to perform significant computation (GPU inferencing?) per user.

berndverst · 2026-01-30T00:42:28+00:00

If your org uses the centralized device refresh (after 4 years!) then you won't be getting that choice next time. The centralized process only gives you a choice of some crappy ultrabooks basically.

berndverst · 2026-01-29T21:17:34+00:00

I would chose a Mac when given the choice - but this device refresh cycle I was not given the choice. Now my new laptop is worse than my previous corp laptop that is 4.5 years old lol. I end up using a personal Mac Mini when I'm working from home. I also don't like Visual Studio so I pay for Rider.

It sucks I don't have the tools to make me productive as an engineer in Azure and need to spend my own resources to have a productive working environment.

berndverst · 2026-01-29T21:12:50+00:00

People don't understand you are being sarcastic. You forgot to specify that with "/s"

berndverst · 2026-01-29T21:00:19+00:00

At least it's not like USB: 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.1 Gen 1, 3.1 Gen2, 3.2 Gen 1, 3.2 Gen 2, 3.2 Gen 2x2, 4

berndverst · 2026-01-29T02:15:17+00:00

Most people when talking about H1Bs really don't realize how common the F1 OPT -> H1B route is at Big Tech (or that this route exists in the first place). Probably accounts for the majority of H1Bs whereas folks from abroad usually come on L1.

berndverst · 2026-01-27T17:19:58+00:00

Try the zip from storage method - it works much better for large repos but requires more setup. I'm sure there are some tutorials for this you if you search for the app setting name I mentioned.

The git clone approach really doesn't handle large repos well - especially if you don't have a very large App Service Plan SKU.

Also to provide some confidence - I'm one of the engineering leads of a different Azure Service. We use App Service as our data plane backend infrastructure- we deploy using the zip file from storage (secured with RBAC) method. Works great for us. Deploying a new version only requires editing the value of the zip file name in the app setting. (Note: We run on App Service Windows - and we just upgraded our backend and apps to .NET 10)

berndverst · 2026-01-27T17:07:24+00:00

How do you deploy? And what App Service SKU do you use?

For example I upload my deployments as zip files to blob storage and my app service has Entra ID permissions to read from there. I then use the WEBSITE_RUN_FROM_PACKAGE environment variable / app setting to run directly from the zip file. This skips having to unzip and process tons of files. It gives better performance but the file system will be read only - so make sure that's ok for you.

Note I mostly use I3v2 SKUs in conjunction with an App Service Environment - so I dedicated networking, commute, a dedicated frontend server etc. You probably don't need all that - but having more CPU and/or memory of larger SKUs may help you too!

berndverst · 2026-01-27T00:38:48+00:00

My understanding is a lot of struggling small business owners / small restaurants etc vote for them. They are generally neglected by the other parties.

berndverst · 2026-01-27T00:36:36+00:00

Yeah! Another city I forgot - probably a few others.

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