Ability to save Aircraft to favorites list

[Seven7Tango]

None that I’m aware of. Since I never fly airliners, I’ve gone into the content manager and uninstalled the airliners. I’ve only got about a dozen A/C in my “hangar” right now. I figure why have them if I don’t fly them? As an added bonus, I think it saves loading time too…

[Kjaye767]

I think I’ll do the same. It might make it more exciting when I’m ready to try something new. I can redownload them and it will feel like I’m treating myself to some nice new DLC!

[Ephedrin87]

It absolutely does! I‘m at 6 planes only atm. There is just no point in having all the default aircraft installed that don‘t fly anyway.

[JollyGreen8206]

I definitely agree. I wish there was, at a minimum, an easier way to organize them. I currently have 88 aircraft, and it can be a huge pain trying to find the one I’m looking for.

[PZL104]

It was way better in FSX. Don’t know why they tried to reinvent the wheel.
The present method is clearly less suitable if you have more than a handful of aircraft.

[puffycumulus]

It is a valid point. I often felt the same but kept it to myself. A favorites tab would be of much help.

[ResetXPDR]

@puffycumulus

A favorites tab would be of much help.

I second that!

[MarcG888]

@NutmegSugar3892

really guys you have a BIG problem…

now… people complaining about the method of airplane selection.

omg

It’s someone’s job at Asobo to work on the UI, this is a valid point being made that things could be better (Favourites for example). It’s the little things that add up to a lot, regardless of your personal feelings on the subject.

[FlyingEd1959]

You are guit right it would be helpful if asobo added a favourites tab on the aircraft selection screen where users can place their most used planes.

[HICKSER337]

OK… agree but really sometimes seems that nobody speak about good features…

[MarcG888]

@Seven7Tango

Since I never fly airliners, I’ve gone into the content manager and uninstalled the airliners. I’ve only got about a dozen A/C in my “hangar” right now. I figure why have them if I don’t fly them? As an added bonus, I think it saves loading time too

Out of pure curiosity i just timed the start up of the Sim with everything installed, then I went back and deleted all the aircraft I never fly plus some landing challenges and Bush trips…I shaved a total of 5 seconds off the 2min+ loading time…

[Maki152]

It depends, if someone uses VATSIM (such as myself) then they have to. Most of my flying in MSFS is done in the 152 however if I didn’t have the others installed then vPilot will spam me with errors.

[Kjaye767]

It doesn’t seem much additional work to streamline the interface. For me, a favorites tab combined with the livery remaining what was previously selected for each plane by default would eliminate 90 percent of the problem.

It’s literally creating an additional tab and changing a value to remember livery rather than reset it.

[SPowell42]

Agree 100%, a simple “favorites” flag and the ability to sort the favorites first would be super helpful. Ditto on airports for that matter, I wish I could favorite airports in the world map to.

I’ll create a idea for this when I have a few seconds.

Thanks,
Scott

[Ephedrin87]

Never assume anything to be “not much work”. I wouldn’t be surprised if it wasn’t that easy for the devs the way they use addons for AI too. It could totally be that reorganising the airplanes list would affect other parts of the sim. It wouldn’t be our fault and I agree that this long and slow list is not the best solution but it could take a LOT of work to do that. At least we have a search bar above the aircraft list.

[Tjoeker]

I have a couple of topics for you to visit and vote if you’re interested

Fix Oversized Aircraft and Livery Selection UI

The aircraft and livery selection is oversized. The pictures don’t need to be as large as they are and it is a struggle looking though all the aircraft, even just the default as I only have 1 extra aircraft. I can’t imagine once people start adding aircraft and liveries in the future. All I am asking is for a scalable user interface on these two areas. Maybe even adding a detailed list view with a small picture. I think the Asobo team could really come up with a good solution to this, as this p…

Ability to save Aircraft to favorites list

When selecting aircraft for a flight we currently have filter categories for prop, turboprop, jets, and airliners. I’d really like the ability to save specific aircraft to a favorites filter list to make them easier to locate. This would be even handier in future as we accumulate more and more planes in our collection.

Save aircraft configuration from flight to flight

When I put in the tail number, it works for that flight only. I’d like it to work always, saving that setting to the aircraft configuration file and loaded next time I choose that aircraft. Same with the livery, when there are more than one, reselecting that same livery that was chosen the last time the aircraft was chosen. In fact, any configuration change made during the aircraft selection GUI should be retained for the next load of that aircraft.

Livery search or filter feature

Just a note I have filled a Zendesk report as well. Could we have a search or filter feature in the liveries menu to search for an airline name? I have the mega livery pack installed and trying to find a liverie in the menu takes forever scrolling through them all. A simple feature where we can type a company name would really helpful. Thanks

Aircraft management page

It would be great to have an aircraft management page, similar to the control assignments management page. This would allow you to change the tab under which a particular aircraft appears (i.e propellers, turboprops, airliners etc) It could also allow you to make new categories, Modern military, WWII etc. Looking at the aircraft selection page at the moment it looks like there is an intention to do this eventually, there is room for more tabs to be added. What do you think?

Save a different Callsign for each aircraft

Tail Number: Save it aircraft related. (i.e. for GER a c152 requires D-E…, a CJ4 requires D-C…) Flight Number: Save it aircraft related. People have their (real life) flights in mind.

New menu for aircraft submodels/variants

[AircraftSelection] Can you add a new menu for submodels? There are quite a number of aircraft with minimal differences between them. It would be good if you select DA40, and then in the next menu choose what submodel you want. This would make the list less cluttered. Bonus points if we can rearrange the models ourselves. I can see it becoming messy again if I buy the A319 from one dev and the A320 from another. I want to be able to categorize and adjust tags myself.

I guess a couple of these improvements will get you closer to what you want.
But I wouldn’t hold my breath. I don’t think they fullfilled any UI wish so far, and the amount of UI changes since launch has been very limited.

Either they don’t have a UI team (not a single dedicated UI dev? ) or for some reason they need to redo a lot of the UI for the Xbox release.

[Tjoeker]

If UI (front-end) development is interfering with anything back-end related I’d have no hope for the devs.
Luckily front-end and back-end code are usually clearly separated pieces of code.

[Ephedrin87]

@Tjoeker

If

@Tjoeker

usually

I mean… yeah…

[Tjoeker]

Seriously, they would not have been able to build this sim if they did not stick to this practice.
(and they would not have been able to graduate, get a job and stick to that job as a dev)

[Ephedrin87]

Normally a UI doesn’t come up just because you cut the engines. Normally a menu doesn’t appear every time you move the mouse. Normally the mouse wheel wouldn’t turn the rotary knob of the GPS when you left the screen to the right for your second screen and the knob is at the edge of the window where you left the screen. There is live traffic visible on the world map. There are way too many things that haven’t been thought to the end to assume anything as usual. Many things that seem to be little work are scheduled for the backlog. I don’t know how to develop such a game but I know from many developers that the expectation of “little work” doesn’t exist. So suggestions and complaints should be made but never expect it to be implemented quickly.

Edit: since WU4 which added in-game content ALL my airports have a third party content symbol. These things are connected so much that I wouldn’t be surprised if the layout had any impact.