u/Accomplished_Moose21

I had one of the smoothest experiences on VR yet. I’m not sure if it’s because I flew at 1AM when the servers must have been not busy, or if something has changed with the performance. But I had ZERO hitches in this landing — with the B737 I usually get just a twitch of a landing stutter most of the time. This time nothing. I am not expecting it to be like this every time, but man if it could be this smooth consistently…

Middle of last week I asked peoples opinions of No Man’s Sky and whether I should buy it or not. I had a lot of great input and I did end up buying it —- it was 60% off so it felt like a no brainer!

I am really enjoying it so far! Honestly I was kind of creeped out the first hour or so trying to figure out the alien world I was deserted on!

So far I’ve played through the tutorial, got my ship fixed up —- it walked me through building my base and upgrading items. Zapping things in VR with the laser is pretty fun. I had to power through some VR nausea the first 30 minutes or so, “walking around” in VR really got me feeling goofy, but I got used to it. Didn’t have any of this when I played today.

The Visuals are stunning in VR. It does feel arcardy, but I don’t mind it! it should with its theme and I don’t have any negative feelings toward that. A storm rolled in and the lighting and wind effects was pretty wild. On another note, I feel like this game helped me appreciate the realism that is provided by MSFS 2024, I did a flight today and the visuals just never get old.

I’ll be hoping on No Man’s Sky a few times more this week, I’ve got to figured out making money and unlocking more building blueprints!

Thanks for all your feedback last week!

Had my first real scare in this flight series. When I planned it, I knew it was gusty and would be turbulent over Ogden and Salt Lake City.. but the flight planning app indicated that the winds were much calmer in Nephi which is why I went a bit further on this flight.

I got to Nephi and it was 35 mph crosswind gusting to 40-45.. now I’ve done crosswind landings before and I’ve been able to manage a slip maneuver so I wasn’t scared.. but I haven’t done a move like that in a long time and not since I’ve been using my VR sense controllers for everything. Well I finally found a weakness in my setup. My rudders are the LT and RT, and the Left Stick is Yoke control. I learned that I can’t input LT and yoke control at the same time. When I went for the last minute slip to straighten out the Bonanza, I lost all control, I got on the gas and did a go around and then did a shabby crabbed landing just to get it down. After I got the plane down I think I ran the plane off the runway and taxiway just trying to troubleshoot my rudder and yoke controls! Lol.

Good news — I’ll have a set of actual rudder pedals and a yoke hopefully come the end of October!

Tonight I am going to attempt something I’ve never done yet on MSFS 2024. An overnight flight from New York to London in the 787. I’ve got it all planned out. Anyone got any advice on what I should expect?

What’s my performance going to be like after 6 hours of flying 😂

I spent some time figuring out how to properly program everything and start up the Boeing 737 from cold and dark. I’m finding it very enjoyable. Took me sometime to figure out how to smoothly allow the auto throttle to settle down as you float over the runway a bit on landings. I’m used to flying GA aircraft where you manually throttle back as you cross the threshold. I learned too you can’t just throw the throttle to full power as you turn onto the runway on take off. I learned that the hard way twice before I finally figured out you gotta gently raise the power. A lot of fun to fly. Below is the full flight, the cruise is sped up 2x and 4x speed.

Full Flight: Raleigh-Durham to Jacksonville

This one was sweet. On a whim I decided to fly from Jackson Hole to Afton, Wyoming. I flew the “Grand Canyon” of the Snake River Valley from Jackson all the way to Alpine, WY.

Beautiful country. Just incredible. Alpine, WY has a cool little Airpark that I almost decided to abandon my plan to go through to Afton because I wanted to land there instead. I did a double take at it as I flew by, but I kept with my original plan.

So, admittedly, I’ve got hundreds of hours into this game since its release on PS5. But I usually just stick to live weather conditions. But, one thing about my area of the world is that.. it’s usually pretty much the same weather most of the time — and when we do get weather I’m usually not at the PlayStation to check out what it would be like flying in it.

So, tonight I remember that I can use the custom weather deal to actually give myself something new. I went to Australia, made it dense fog from 3,000 ft to ground level — and then to add some spice, I made a layered cloud level with some higher clouds. It looked awesome on PSVR2.

And I did stick the landing, but my heart was racing — I was definitely below minimums before I saw the runway.

Been on a kick the last week or so, just trying out some different aircraft that I haven’t done in VR.

The King Air is quite a ride. The touchscreen avionics are pretty slick in VR. Was able to navigate and add in waypoints pretty easily, search for frequencies and weather information was very easily as well.

The only thing that I couldn’t figure out — if anyone else has more experience with this plane was that I couldn’t figure out how to add origins/destinations. Only waypoints I was able to add. I could easily just load a flight plan from external, but many times I just like to create it in the avionics itself. As a result, I also couldn’t load an approach. I had to pull up a chart and manually load the waypoints for the approach — which was fun. But, not all airports will have charts I can pull up.

Very easy to fly this plane.

There has been a lot of chatter about bugs and glitches with some of the airliners. Admittedly, I’ve never really tried it so I decided today to give it a go.

I didn’t start up cold and dark — PLENTY to learn. Holy cow.

Performance wise I was so surprised. The Boeing 737 is better in VR than the Citation Longitude by far. I get pretty bad stutters on takeoffs with the longitude. Zero stutters on takeoff and minimal stutters on landing, I think the moment of touchdown a small hiccup. I’ll be starting to learn cold and dark procedures + programming the flight computer.

I feel bad for those struggling to get the game to perform, I really hope it gets figured out. It just blows my mind the massive differences in our experiences.

Had to pick someone up from the airport late at night, had an energy drink and then couldn’t get to sleep. So, instead, I hopped on and flew a 70 minute leg.

I went VOR hopping to get near my destination and then GPS direct the rest of the way. Finished with a visual landing while circling at downtown St. Paul.

Low level fog could be seen throughout the flight in the wee hours on the night, was pretty cool to see. I speed up the cruise section 2x, would have gone higher but I feel like looking all over in the VR can get a bit wild if the video is sped up any faster.

Hopped over to Sheridan, WY on the front ranges of the Bighorn Mountains. This will put me in good position to hop over to Cody, WY next — the stepping stone to Yellowstone National Park. I am super excited to fly over the mountains. Flight was smooth, smooth takeoff and landing.

I continued west and flew from Custer, SD to Gillette, WY. I flew past the Crazy Horse Monument which is still being worked on. Otherwise a pretty clear and uneventful flight to Gillette. Originally I had planned to stop at New Castle, WY but I thought I could continue on and make it all the way to Gillette.

Next stop after Gillette is Sheridan, WY which will put me at the foothills of the Big Horn mountains and just a couple legs away from Yellowstone National Park.

Landing in MSFS 2024 is so much more manageable in VR. Really enjoying this experience. I’m not sure I can ever go back.

A lot of folks have been following along, that’s fun to see. I have been posting my takeoffs and landings on each leg as comments on the initial post. A bit of a northern wind the entire leg during this hop. Made for an interesting landing in Phillip.

Full Video Here: Pierre, SD (KPIR) to Phillip, SD (KPHP)

Next leg is Flight #6 — Phillip to Rapid City, SD