I’m yet to see a SINGLE freaking person, who would say that this things really helping him/her in their flights
Just look at the problem they had getting both the toolbar and the EFB present in VR. It can’t be derived from a flat view because it is 3D - each knob, screen etc are at a different depth. These certainly do need extra work, and if you do use VR yourself you will see how much they get wrong. The mouse cursor has been inaccurate in many planes since the FS2024 launch.
Really worst idea in FS! Please, remove it urgently!!!
It doesn’t even work when I click on it. So what’s the point? Come on Asobo! Tidy up this sim.
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I hadn’t updated till this morning, so just had a quick flight to test. So it was on when on the ground, and it disappeared as I taxiing around, and took off. It re-appeared after I landed, and I came to a stop.
It’s a minor distraction at best, and certainly not going to cause me to uninstall. Yes, perhaps they could have held it back by 24 hours to remove this, but its hardly a show stopper.
Just for comparison, I’ve watched MSFS streams where they have the HUD elements on, and I think those people might not even notice this. I’m sure I saw one stream where those HUD elements were on inside the cockpit.
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Thank you very much for the sleuthing work to find the correct file, that was really helpful! Just one little addendum here. Instead of deleting the whole file, one can also edit the file and just remove the “Shortcutsbar_Middle” element. That not only keeps all the tooltips in the menus intact, but also has the benefit of getting rid of the walk-round tooltips that people wanted to be gone all along.
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Opening that file in Notepad++, and I haven’t tested this yet, it helps highlight the block to remove:
The other element is the left bar:
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I assume you are not in VR and not busy running the preflight preparation of an airliner then?
It’s blocking the view to essential instruments for cockpit preparation. In VR it is not at the bottom, it is in the center of your view.
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Yes, not VR.
I just tested this, and it works. No central hints, but the bottom left hints are still there.
No, when take a screenshot or record a video, it’s really annoying.
Thank you so much, this is really a great one! You made my weekend!
Obviously not a fan of this change… But…
The outpouring of vitriol over this is unhinged and makes me faintly embarrassed to be a member of the community. People who haven’t posted for years are coming in to accuse the devs of being drunk or declaring it’s time to uninstall over an unwanted tool tip.
If immersion killing is the issue, why are we not equally up in arms about the black seams on ocean tiles visible though clouds? I don’t understand this community, are there not many more pressing issues than something that will get reverted in the next build? (If it isn’t then I fear for some of your blood pressures).
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Please remove the messages at the bottom of the screen about entering the cockpit and exiting the plane.
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Mate, are you new to the internet? 
probably because this not only kills immersion but severely impacts basic usability of the sim. It’s like the “most basic” thing to do not to put this kind useless stuff right in where you’re supposed to use controls and feel like you’re in the aircraft. Because it makes 0 sense. Because it tellls something about the overall basic understanding of what makes or breaks a sim. That’s why.
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Yeah, this “feature” is simply not needed and i am wondering if this was requested by (many) users?
This is an awful decision. I was already annoyed that you couldn’t hide it when outside, but this is a whole new level. Maybe a name change to ‘Microsoft Flight Arcade’ is in order. Is this them catering to the Xbox and Playstation market?
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This thing should be deleted. Who the f come up with this idea??
Yeah or make it toggleable