How much time do you guys spend flying the Sim?

I fly 1-1,5 hours after work, mostly GA all around the world. Even though I do enjoy managing a complex airliner, I find the long flights, frankly, quite boring.

I’m on the XSX and one of the lucky ones who have very little issues. I do get the occasional CTD but have never had the black screen issue. I have only one or two 3rd party airport, so maybe that’s why. No stutters either, and since I upgraded to a TV supporting VRR it’s been extremely smooth - VRR really does make a big difference.

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Hello from Lima, Peru. I’m currently playing MSFS2020 on XBox Series S. Sometimes I also play on PC. Actually, when I first found out about MSFS2020, the first thing I did was get Game Pass, then I got the game, then I got the console…
I usually play a couple times during weekdays, then I get to play a couple hours on weekends. I’d say 4-6 hours a week.

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Much less time than I spend troubleshooting and fixing it.

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Actually…it appears to be my daily ‘medicine’ I found out. :yum:
1111 Hours since release, which is exactly 1111 days ago today.


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:smirk:TLDR: 1 hour a day

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Wow what are the chances of that!! :exploding_head:
Also (mainly) that you checked it on exactly this day!

Weekends, about 8 or 9 hours a day, during the week, 2 at best. There’s a method to my madness though, I’ll usually set off on a long haul flight at weekends, get up to cruise level then go about my day. By the time all my weekend chores are done, it’s time to land. Thank God for AI co-pilot. In FSX days, you yourself had to respond to ATC, failure to do so resulted in the infamous, “flightplan cancelled, good day” lol.

I typically don’t do long sessions. 1 to 2 hours. As far as how often, it varies, sometimes I’m into FS and doing it everyday. Other times something like Baldurs Gate happens and I don’t fly at all for a few weeks.

16 hours / week fixing & troubleshooting
30 min / week flying.

Generally two hours a day. One in the morning and one late afternoon. Flights of no mor than an hour each time.

Flying as short as possible. Because I love sitting in the cockpit and program all the systems, and program a perfect flight route and my own constraints and stuff :slight_smile:
The flight is kinda boring because there is nothing interesting to do with all the cockpit systems and the MCDU but only change the altitude on the autopilot three times and press APPR.
That´s why the flight itself should not take longer than 20-40 minutes or so.

But it would be more exciting if I had a weather radar and becoming in need of quickly plan a complete new route in-flight in the MCDU because some intense red-marked thunderstorm appear on the weather radar screen.
Can I get a weather radar and a few local stationary supercell-thunderstorms please?

Enable random failures at the highest rate possible that should keep you more entertained. Or if that’s not enough you could always activate them manually.

Hmmm you are right! Normally I would never do this because almost every failure immediately disables the autopilot.
But the newest Fenix has a PERFECT flight dynamics, handflying is almost like having the autopilot on, completely stable and holding the flight path on it´s own with just tiny inputs necessary every few minutes… with the Fenix enabling failures would be possible, and a very interesting challenge.

I don’t know about perfect but I really do love hand flying the Fenix, it’s a joy to pilot and different from every other kind of plane due to the stick commanding rates of change and not deflections.

15 - 20 hours / week

I usually fly 1 to 2 hours, but I don’t fly everyday. Maybe 4 times a week.

It depends. And Volanta has the proof :slight_smile:

99% of my time in the sim is spent flying. the other 1% is either fiddling with controls in Spad.Next or doing silly stuff like playing with aircraft systems (for example, I wanted to check out how long it takes for the battery in the PMDG 737 to die and if there were alternative ways to start the engine when the battery is empty).

What happened between February - March?
Was the 737 grounded this month?

Since the release of Starfield (2023-09-01) my Flying time is reduced to zero

Usually 2 hours per day.
At the moment i am trying to get that 1000 flight hours achievement and let the Xbox fly with autopilot overnight. Sometimes i get an ctd and all flight hours are gone overnight.

5416 hours so far since I bought it.