r/MicrosoftFlightSim

70 year-old ex Pilot loves new pattern when learning new aircraft.

I learn new aircraft by doing pattern work and getting that down to get a few of the airplane. I am switching from the cub crafter cub to DA40. I found a new pattern to speed things up. Rather than touch and goes, which take time, I like to land and then quickly take the offramp and takeoff in the opposite direction on the taxi way. I can get in a lot more landings quicker doing that. If the FAA finds out I’m doing this on flight simulator, could they take my license away? And yes, it was after a few drinks. But please don’t tell the FAA.

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u/qsrise — 4 hours ago

RIP shiny Stratoliner

With the updated Statoliner model, it lost it’s beautiful Continental livery with the polished exterior (see 2nd image).
Although I love the new ones, like this TWA one, but they should’ve kept the chrome look where it’s not painted over. I don’t care what’s more realistic, it looked so incredibly elegant….

u/Me25ow — 5 hours ago

Are any of these worth buying?

I'm interested in buying either the Eurofighter, the SU-27 or the YF-23 from the marketplace. Im New to Flight simulator so i dont know which planed and devs are good to buy/to buy from. Can someone tell me if any of these 3 are worth it. I am playing on ps5 if this helps. Thx for every answer :)

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u/Nemesis4death — 12 hours ago

Career mode unplayable since new update.

Hello everyone.

Ever since the brand new update came out my career mode is unplayable, not because of random bugs happening, but because my fps are dropping to less than 1fps whenever i select a mission.

I play on a pc somewhere bewteen medium and high end.

Before the update everything worked just fine. I tried connecting my pc to the ethernet, cleared my rolling cache, Re-installed the game…
But nothing seems to help.

EDIT: Free Flight now has the same issue!

Any fixes for this?
Thanks in advance 🙏

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u/Noordzeegarnaal — 13 hours ago

A320 Neo - Autopilot off

I fly the A320 Neo in carreer mode with Velocity One Flightstick.

Autopilot is on, Autotrust is on. Lezer in Climb. Display shows everything is fine.

After 10 minutes in flight, the plane starts to 'wiggle" and autopilot1 turns off.

No interaction with a keyboard or the flightstick.

Very annyoing if you can't trust the autopilot with an increased simrate. Happens almost every time. Other airplanes like cesna or Cittation with same setup don't have the issue.

Anybody had the same experience or knows what could be the reason the autopilot1 turns off automatically, apparently without any reason?

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u/Appropriate_Resist28 — 10 hours ago

Missing First Star Constraint in the A320N

I was descending on the ROKIL 1A (attached) into EDDM's 08R and was at FL130 crossing ROKIL even though I began a managed descent right on T/D (the white arrow).

I want to start flying on VATSIM but don't want to cause issues with my descent. Is there something that I might be doing wrong here or should I just start my descent before the indicated T/D which I'd rather not do.

Thanks

u/Fun-Individual-3126 — 17 hours ago

Xbox users

Hello all, I’ve had MSFS 2024 for about a week on Xbox X. What setting does everyone run for air traffic and static planes? I’ve not really found an option I like.

Live online ai is cool but sometimes planes just cue on top of each other and destroys the immersion when I’m trying to line up for a runway. If I turn off that and just go with planes at the gate I obviously get a ton of GA planes parked at airline gates. And we all know the ai offline is broken.

What are your personal favorite settings?

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u/AirlineFan93 — 12 hours ago

PS5 737 Max is unplayable… After update

I no longer look forward to updates this is insane, every time I try to fly it this happens. Even deleted reinstalled and rebuild database. Give us a refund at this point it’s embarrassing.

u/itschabrah — 1 day ago

First time on since the marketplace update

It's my first time on msfs24 on ps5 since the marketplace update and god damn planes are expensive the game only set me back 80 euro the go on to marketplace to see an average plane cost 20 euro

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u/tgirlvalerie — 18 hours ago

Sim Rate = Skip?

Ever since the update, when I increase the sim rate speed it, I don't get the no skip bonus and get hit with skip costs. Has anyone found a work around?

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u/bACk_iN_MaDaY — 20 hours ago

Best small aircraft for MSFS 2024

I am looking for small propeller-driven or single-engine aircraft for MSFS 2024. (sorry if i speaked something wrong, im from brazil)

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u/FonsinnDG — 19 hours ago

Rule changes following community feedback

Hi!

Based on feedback on our recent community outreach, the moderators have made some changes to rule 3 and 5.

Rule 3 Now includes a line that disallows posts or content made outright with AI.

Rule 5 As we also have observed, there's been a significant number of posts promoting or self advertising products made by members of the community, often assisted by AI. While we appreciate the efforts with many tools are creative and helpful, the amount of such posts in general have been tiring for the community, while also the individual post arent doing that well as they are downvoted by users who are fed up with post in that genre.
We want to mitigate this by having mod creators post their pieces in the self promo thread, thus those who want to go finding "hidden gems" can do so there.

We hope this will alleviate tensions in the subreddit, and streamline the feed to be more about MSFS.

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u/EJNorth — 1 day ago

Please help me improve my landings - default 737 Max

Here’s a recent landing that I didn’t like. Floated more than I wanted and then just kinda fell onto the runway. What do you think I can do better?

(I’m on PS5 using gyro controls)

What I aim for: cut the throttle by holding O at around 20-30 feet and flare and let the plane gently touchdown.

Sometimes I get some great buttery landings and other times the plane kinda floats and then sinks down the last 5 feet or so.

Any and all feedback would be appreciated.

u/eskimobobseal — 1 day ago