Flight Simulator 2020

[Toxic T]

I can't seem to get active pause to work. I don't see the pause on the left. Is there something that I need to activate?

 

[AdrianH]

After the 25GB update that took forever, I played it. Decided to fly in East London and after 10 minutes the game crashed. Pun intended.

I've had a few crashes to the dashboard in around 7 hours play time. Probably be fixed soon

 

[AdrianH]

I can't seem to get active pause to work. I don't see the pause on the left. Is there something that I need to activate?

I also noticed some of the buttons on the toolbar missing initially. I don't remember what I did, but all showing Now including Pause. For some reason I keep thinking I cusomised that toolbar, but I don't recall. Maybe I just rebooted the XSX

 

[AdrianH]

Okay so tried this on my Series X today, took off from Lanseria and took a turn towards the Dome. Yeah it looks weird, the terrain looks weird like they literally plopped the satellite image on to a 3d ground.
The highway has no depth, the buildings are malformed. It's also outdated images of course.

Go fly around New York

 

[Toxic T]

I also noticed some of the buttons on the toolbar missing initially. I don't remember what I did, but all showing Now including Pause. For some reason I keep thinking I cusomised that toolbar, but I don't recall. Maybe I just rebooted the XSX

I think I figured it out. I have my wireless mouse and keyboard attached to the Series X. Started pressing buttons on the keyboard and W seems to have done the trick.

 

[Lupus]

Go fly around New York

Yeah granted they'll put more love into other areas, just funny how South Africa looks, then again we've never really gotten any love in the FS department. At least the uhm Dome is there.
Also I had it on easy flight model cause being on console and that's not easy. Planes feel twitchy, this auto stall thing keeps popping up that throttles down which makes it harder to get out of a stall. Climbing takes ages and speed drops easily. I couldn't get above 6000 feet, which in JHB is not very high.

 

[Hamster]

It's also outdated images of course.

I flew over my old house in Broadacres and the satellite image showed it still being built, very early stages in fact so 3-4 years old.

EFIT: Fourways Mall

 

[Lupus]

I flew over my old house in Broadacres and the satellite image showed it still being built, very early stages in fact so 3-4 years old.

Yup I flew over where there is now Curro School, which in 2016 was just a cleared ground, it still shows that in FS.

 

[VooDooC]

Yup I flew over where there is now Curro School, which in 2016 was just a cleared ground, it still shows that in FS.

Bing maps are very far behind in SA, Google Maps are much more up to date at least in the major city areas. Unfortunately one of the down sides of living in SA, we are always behind with everything.

 

[Lupus]

Bing maps are very far behind in SA, Google Maps are much more up to date at least in the major city areas. Unfortunately one of the down sides of living in SA, we are always behind with everything.

Even google maps seems to be about 2 maybe 3 years behind, I mean I only could navigate to the dome as I know it's roughly south from Lanseria, the roads are so badly depicted as well, but once I got to the dome I could navigate close to home which just looked sh%#$# to be honest.
Terrain is really disappointing for South Africa, maybe CPT would be better.

 

[Pegging]

I tried a flight from Stellenbosch today, my old airfield.

I found Arabella no problem using land marks. It's pretty well done as far as the shape of things go. The textures are a bit off. too much greenery and lots of water. The buildings look like warehouses at Arabella instead of houses.

The Airfield at Stellenbosch is pretty good, they got the plastic sheeting for the strawberry farm at RWY 19 spot on.

Down at Paarl Rock the mountain are very green, and the Taal monument is missing. I used to fly over there often.

There's also no ATC at Stellenbosh, but the flightsim reckons there is.

 

[ponder]

Down at Paarl Rock the mountain are very green, and the Taal monument is missing.

Lesufi would be happy

 

[Hamster]

The textures are a bit off

Same thing if you fly through/over Meiringspoort.

Tugela falls themselves are MIA just like the Angel Falls but the rivers and valleys in the area looks ok.

 

[Shake&Bake]

2nd time while I'm on a little cross country flight and the game just bombs out and crashes.

Getting my basic Autopilot skills together now and grasping trim, attitude and throttle control much better now.

That Squirrel dude from the UK really makes it easier to get to grips with.

 

[Pegging]

2nd time while I'm on a little cross country flight and the game just bombs out and crashes.

Getting my basic Autopilot skills together now and grasping trim, attitude and throttle control much better now.

That Squirrel dude from the UK really makes it easier to get to grips with.

In a Cessna 152 or similar...

You tend to want to use the flight stick to go up and down instead of throttling up and down.

You'll notice that when you are level and go full throttle, the nose goes up and you start to climb.

If you want to climb a few 1000 feet, then you can go full throttle, pull back slightly on the stick, then get keep your speed at 60 to 70 knots (depending on what rate of climb you want). Once your speed is on say 70 Knots then you trim to keep it there. Then you just hold the flight stick pretty much still.

1000 feet a minute is a decent climb rate.
I don't know if you need to worry about the air / fuel mixture or carb heat on this simulater, but that is easy enough to pick up.

In a 152, you ideally don't want to go over 12000 feet.
It'll probably take 20 minutes to get that high.

 

[Hamster]

That's right sonmabitches..


...off to the Vatican to go desecrate that!

 

[Pegging]

Tried Diego Garcia. It looks like the yanks are out bombing somewhere, no planes or ships in sight.

 

[Shake&Bake]

In a Cessna 152 or similar...

You tend to want to use the flight stick to go up and down instead of throttling up and down.

You'll notice that when you are level and go full throttle, the nose goes up and you start to climb.

If you want to climb a few 1000 feet, then you can go full throttle, pull back slightly on the stick, then get keep your speed at 60 to 70 knots (depending on what rate of climb you want). Once your speed is on say 70 Knots then you trim to keep it there. Then you just hold the flight stick pretty much still.

1000 feet a minute is a decent climb rate.
I don't know if you need to worry about the air / fuel mixture or carb heat on this simulater, but that is easy enough to pick up.

In a 152, you ideally don't want to go over 12000 feet.
It'll probably take 20 minutes to get that high.

Cheers for that.

Yeah, I may have to play around with the left stick on the console's sensitivity settings a bit too.
It's a bit knarly when making small adjustments, though I'm also getting the hang of it.

A yoke peripheral will really be the best option though.

But I'm really enjoying this sim for sure!

 

[AdrianH]

Just sight seeing

 

[Hamster]

Just a shame there are many sights which aren't buildings that don't render that great.

For example: buildings like the Colosseum, St. Peter's Basilica and even Hoover Dam render great, but the Stonehenge and Victoria Falls are more than useless.

Hopefully with time these are fixed.