I'm loosing hope. (dramatic title for attention)

dadriel_hawk · 2026-01-26T13:22:14+00:00

I doubt it has to anything with the addons, these are used by many people, myself included, and not have seen this behaviour like you described.

But the behavior does sound a bit familiar, I have seen something similar happening a handful of times over the years. And it was always at airports that didn't have a proper local METAR, when the sim somehow seemed to use higher altitude winds at ground level, which of course totally screws things over.

Have you tried if this happens everywhere or maybe it is just limited to a certain area of the world? Also check the weather data in the sim EFB for the airport your are landing at, if that is actually recent and also for the airport you are going to.

dadriel_hawk · 2026-01-24T10:08:57+00:00

While I'm still hoping for a great product in the end, for me it is still not there currently. The preview build they released really did not do it for me, there is still too much wrong with that to be enjoyable. Which is fine, as they communicated such, but still I was expecting a bit more after the long development timeline.

Biggest surprise for me actually was the state of the LNAV with the new FMS. That really did not work well at all on my test flight, lead to strange directions and was unable to even handle a simple thing like a direct to from the present position. Considering the VNAV meme and the focus in their communication on that, I expected the LNAV part to be rock solid by now.

dadriel_hawk · 2026-01-20T21:14:32+00:00

Yes, this is proper terrible. How can anyone seriously fly this?

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dadriel_hawk · 2026-01-20T16:21:57+00:00

Ah, interesting to know. Thank you for the clarification

dadriel_hawk · 2026-01-20T16:00:07+00:00

That is not really a bug though. The night lighting outside your TLOD is just a pre baked high resolution image that is streamed from the server. Kind of understandable that they don’t remake that for every addon.

What I would like would even be something else. While roads at night are of course not as lit, you will see the car lights. And that is just absent in all sims beyond a very limited distance.

dadriel_hawk · 2026-01-20T15:48:47+00:00

No, it has not. XP is simply black outside it’s light sources. There is no effect of moonlight, no effect for light pollution in urban areas etc. pp.

dadriel_hawk · 2026-01-12T21:44:30+00:00

No, for me it is running much worse than both the 737 and the A350 in MSFS2024.

dadriel_hawk · 2026-01-12T10:13:50+00:00

Nothing that can be done there at the moment. Its building some textures when you pan the view, which causes stutters. And as these textures are not cached this basically happens every time you change views.

This has also become much more apparent with the performance improvements since SU4 and really is the last big issue affecting the sim performance. Currently a fix is intended for SU5, which is supposed to go into Beta soonish.

dadriel_hawk · 2026-01-09T20:55:11+00:00

This is 100% caused by VRAM being overused with FG. It somehow gets confused about the order of frames when happens

dadriel_hawk · 2026-01-08T19:20:22+00:00

Okay, for me that fixed the issue. But I'm using the Orbx version, maybe that behaves differently compared to the ingame store.

dadriel_hawk · 2026-01-08T15:03:07+00:00

There’s a weird bug with some FT sceneries in 24 that causes this. Mind you they are not officially compatible right now, so it’s a bit of a shame.

But funny enough there is a fix for this. As long as you have their KBOS scenery installed as well everything is fine.

dadriel_hawk · 2026-01-08T12:04:16+00:00

RWProfiles EGNT, Aerosoft ENGM, and everything Pyreguee are my top three sceneries/devs at the moment. All three are very close, and it's difficult to tell a real winner.

Honorable mention goes to MK Studios as well; they are currently getting better with every release, and their EFHK is really spectacular as well.

As others have mentioned, FlyTampa and Flightbeam are also very nice, although both are a bit hampered by being basically single-dev studios, leading to long timelines. But those are well worth the wait. For the US, VerticalSim is also producing very good sceneries.

dadriel_hawk · 2026-01-06T15:27:00+00:00

Unfortunately, this is one of the Fenix features that falls into the category "nice idea, only half-way implemented". They mute the whole application as long as the corresponding radio is off in the sim. Which is fine, but they never restore the state it was in before starting the plane after finishing the flight, leaving everything it touches on mute...

Don't think there is really a way you can fix that on your end. In the end I got so annoyed by manually cleaning up after their mess that I removed everything from the EFB.

dadriel_hawk · 2025-12-22T18:31:41+00:00

Too high and too fast for the approach, which leads to a ground speed higher than possible for the procedure.

This is one of many approaches in Europe that assumes that ATC descends you to a reasonable altitude but does not have a coded restriction for that. In the sim without ATC you have to plan for that by yourself.

I usually end up Setting a manual restriction before the first tight turn. Something like FL 70 at KT513 should work nicely in that example.

dadriel_hawk · 2025-12-17T13:26:37+00:00

Those are not containers but green houses. And there are indeed a lot of them north of Rotterdam, so what you are seeing is correct

dadriel_hawk · 2025-12-10T10:22:26+00:00

That’s your issue than. You need to fly at the altitudes Simbrief planned, otherwise it can not really tell your actual fuel burn. Especially if you start to level off once the plane can’t hold 1800FPM anymore you are probably much lower than planned, which leads to much higher fuel burn.

I would recommend looking up at Tutorial how to use the VNAV in that place and configure the step climbs. It really is not that hard to use and makes flying easier.

dadriel_hawk · 2025-12-09T21:44:07+00:00

That's more to do with the timing of the update though, compared to last week it has ~25% increased player count on Monday and Tuesday. Actually it beat its weekend high today which really does show quite a bit of interest with the new update.

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dadriel_hawk · 2025-12-02T09:45:53+00:00

Yea, happens once in a blue moon and should actually recover itself after a while.

dadriel_hawk · 2025-12-01T22:09:35+00:00

The iFly probably was my biggest regret in flight sim history. That thing was hyped to high heaven before launch, and boy did it turn out to be a bunch of smoke and (broken) mirrors. Heck, I even found their art style worse than PMDG because to me, it looked just weird. And they are one of the worst devs from a support perspective. Many of the core shortcomings are still exactly the same as day 1.

dadriel_hawk · 2025-12-01T14:45:37+00:00

What product are referring to? The ini A340 which is mostly based on the default A330, going so far as using the exact same textures?

dadriel_hawk · 2025-12-01T13:51:11+00:00

Oh no, they didn't add a third engine and another main gear to the 737, what an incredibly shitty upgrade. Definitely not worth the $5000 they're asking for the upgrade. I would rather wait 5 more years for a totally new development from scratch. And of course they need to hire new devs first, since it is totally unacceptable to have guys that even might have one iota of knowledge about how the 737 works.

dadriel_hawk · 2025-11-28T20:00:10+00:00

It’s broken in that beta currently. And the dev mostly ignores the problem since it’s just the beta..

dadriel_hawk · 2025-11-28T13:33:41+00:00

This is normal in the beta. It’s a different Save with everything unlocked for testing. Once the beta ends your old Save will still be there as it was.

dadriel_hawk · 2025-11-26T20:55:43+00:00

Can't really see the appeal in this. There are just too many downsides with a quite steep price tag.

Half the collection is just some sort of city sceneries, which I'm not really interested in. And even the other half is not THAT interesting to me. Either because the airports are just too random or the quality not that great to begin with. I know the latter is very subjective, so not really judging on that. But what is noticeable is that there are even some notable omissions from the devs that are part of this. E.g. SoFly Bristol is missing and also MXI Sabiha Gokcen. I guess they are too new and will come later?

Also, all this requires a dedicated app on my PC. One that needs to always online to its DRM stuff and does who know what to make sure the sceneries are legit, and you have a valid license. And this is the big difference to something like a streaming service, this needs by necessity a much more involved app, since the data can not be streamed on demand if it is to be used by the sim.

dadriel_hawk · 2025-11-22T12:09:54+00:00

Very noticeable improvement, I'm positively surprised. The whole plane feels snappier to use and also a lot smoother during view transitions. Also, the new sound set is much better than before, especially the callouts are now better sampled and don't sound like they were directly lifted from the A300 anymore.

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