Hi all, Firstly apologise if this is in the wrong place or need moving or has been repeated many times before.
I am pretty new to msfs 2020 but have been flying many times using FSX and Xplane, loved them both.
As Msfs 2020 will now be my goto sim, I would like to broaden my simming experience from being a lonely simmer to actually trying to make other sim friends and chatting online with them whilst flying..
My question to you all is how do you guys talk to each other when flying. In the hope that i make new friends to fly with it would be great to share a conversation whilst tearing up the skies..
Keep up the good work guys and girls.
Hope to hear from you all soon..
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I only know that during the Community Fly-in Events we (generally?) talk in the Official Discord. I’d say both are great places to start getting to know the community.
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Love this post! This is what the community is for! Well, so far I’m making friends trying onair company. We are all of varying levels of experience with sim/real world experience. Its great for the newbies and old time simmers alike to learn a little tidbit here and there from the real world pilots. Many of us will never be pilots for a variety of reasons, so for those folks that apply, this is a domain we tend to be passionate about. 
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Good question,
I have been doing multiplayer flights for years, and we use Skype to talk.
But it would be nice if there was a way to use a com radio frequency on the radio panel for realism.
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Thanks for the replies, well i had my first succesful multiplayer flight last night (GMT) and worked pretty well with discord. However I had one gripe.. I wasn’t able to open Discord and MSFS in separate windows on my PC so loaded discord onto my phone and used that instead to chat with the other simmers.
If anyone knows how to open MSFS and Discord seperately so i can reply on discord using only one screen this would be very helpful indead..
Agree about the frequency chat that would be super cool.
Thankyou for your replies earlier..
Paul
Are you having a frame loss in the sim while using onair airline manager? I’m having a critical 20fps loss while using onair manager. I have to relaunch the sim to be able getting a fresh fps by default without onair. Otherwise in any airport I got below 20 fps and worst case even drop to 6 fps which is unplayable. When I relaunch with fresh start without on air, I get 40+ fps at the same airport. Weird
Personally i don’t use Onair Airline Manager I don’t think.. This doesn’t really have anything to do with taking to other simmers does it? I have never spoke about FPS in my posts. Sorry cant help..
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No I haven’t noticed that. I can’t really use fsuipc right now…but onair is a ok.
I work from home and use MS Teams quite a lot. A co-worker and I flew together a few days ago and just used Teams chat to talk. It worked quite well.
So of you use teams or skype, how do you load both software into separate windows on the computer..
I do not know of a way to open MSFS in a separate window then Discord , or skype, teams..
So basically i would like to run MSFS behind and have the likes of discord in another window in front of MSFS.. Is that possible and how do I do this on Windows 10 with a single screen.
Any help would be appreciated..
I’m just using alt-tab to switch between windows. Once I’m chatting I have no need to switch back to Teams to do anything as the chat stays live (indefinitely)
Windows will always put the active window on top.
So, in your case, you would put MSFS in windowed mode by pressing Alt+Enter. then resize the window to leave space for Discord.
If you use Skype, you would not need to do that, as Skype will work in the background, allowing you to have MSFS on full screen.
Sounds like you are in need of a second screen. any graphics card nowadays has at least 2 connections for monitors. Or use Discord on your cell phone.
Hope above gives you some options.
Discord will also run in the background and was made for gaming so it uses minimal resources. Once in a voice chat channel, you can switch to MSFS and not have to worry about the discord side of things until you are ready to leave the voice chat channel. Initially, I had some problems switching to/from MSFS via Alt-Tab, often resulting in huge FPS loss and high system tax. I think the next update to MSFS planned to address some issues with Alt-Tab window switching, so maybe the update will help/resolve this issue. For now, I just launch discord and join the voice chat channel before I launch MSFS, no window switching required that way.
I have used discord successfully. I used the desktop app version of it and just run it in the background. Once you are in the channel, you shouldn’t need to go back and forth between MSFS and discord. I also set it up so that I use “Push to talk” and set one of the buttons on my yoke to activate the microphone. This is very handy and also just like IRL.
Thanks guys, You have made me realise that in my haste i forgot totally about Alt-Tab in windows..
That has made the difference between not being able to switch to being able to switch between software..
Thankyou so much.
Paul
You can try using virtual desktop…just switch by holding CTRL+WIN+LEFT and CTRL+WIN+RIGHT. Open FS2020 on one, open Discord on the other. This solution only needs one screen…works great for me, hope it’s what you’re looking for!
wtf this isnt even close to being on topic